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  • ...in separating the mountains of Wales from the Peak District of Derbyshire. In the Cheshire plain are fine oak woodlands and countless small lakes or mere Cheshire excels in dairy farming, resulting in Cheshire cheese.
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  • |county 3=Staffordshire ...portion accounts for 468,812; the Worcestershire portion, 435,033; and the Staffordshire portion 168,484.
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  • | county =Staffordshire '''Stafford''' is the county town of [[Staffordshire]]. It lies approximately 16 miles north of [[Wolverhampton]] and 18 miles s
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  • | county=Staffordshire '''Stoke-on-Trent''', often abbreviated to '''Stoke''' is a city in [[Staffordshire]], which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area
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  • | county = Staffordshire ...it stands towards the north; south of [[Tunstall]] and north of [[Hanley, Staffordshire|Hanley]].
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  • | county = Staffordshire| population = 12,194 ...] in [[Staffordshire]], in the south-east of the city, north of [[Longton, Staffordshire|Longton]] and south of [[Stoke-upon-Trent|Stoke]]. When the novelist Arnold
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  • | county = Staffordshire ...], is one of the six towns that joined together to form [[Stoke-on-Trent]] in 1910. Hanley now acts as the main city-centre for Stoke-on-Trent, and its c
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  • | county = Staffordshire ...e of the six towns joined together in 1910 to form [[Stoke-on-Trent]] in [[Staffordshire]]. Longton is the southernmost of the six towns and is known locally as th
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  • |county = Staffordshire ...ands in the centre, between [[Hanley, Staffordshire|Hanley]] and [[Fenton, Staffordshire|Fenton]]
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  • |county = Staffordshire ...ichfield''' is a city in [[Staffordshire]]. It lies in the midst of rural Staffordshire, 16 miles north of [[Birmingham]].
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  • '''Ashbourne''' is a small market town in western [[Derbyshire]]. The town stands on the banks of the [[River Dove, D Ashbourne is known for its annual two-day Royal Shrovetide Football Match, in which one half of the town plays the other at [[Royal Shrovetide Football|f
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  • |county=Staffordshire |picture caption=Canal boats in Walsall
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  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=East Staffordshire
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  • ...8 estimate puts it between 12,444, with another 5,000 dwelling round about in the outlying villages and farming districts. ...ngland-in-bloom-success/ Shropshire villages are proud of Heart of England in Bloom success « Shropshire Star]</ref>
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  • ...f the county deep within the [[Black Country]]. Dudley is the largest town in the Black Country and has been called its unofficial capital. ...onfines into [[Staffordshire]]. Dudley Castle and its hill lie outside in Staffordshire.
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  • '''Kidderminster''' is a town in [[Worcestershire]], fifteen miles north of [[Worcester]] city centre and so The [[River Stour, Worcestershire|River Stour]] and the [[Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal]] both pass through Kidderminster town centre.
    8 KB (1,176 words) - 20:18, 21 January 2012
  • '''Stourbridge''' is a town in [[Worcestershire]], a suburban town on the edge of the [[Black Country]] co ...ws through the town and here forms the border between Worcestershire and [[Staffordshire]].
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  • ...]] and parts of [[Staffordshire]] and northern [[Worcestershire]], serving in particular the City of [[Birmingham]] and its surrounding towns. ...lisation, Birmingham had grown from a village to one of the largest cities in the British Isles. Before the Diocese of Birmingham was created, the area h
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  • ...able town in north-western [[Warwickshire]], adjacent to the border with [[Staffordshire]]. Sutton is about eight miles from central Birmingham and close by are Bir ...n for some time and it was granted the style of "Royal Town" by Henry VIII in 1528.
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  • '''Poynton''' is a modest town in [[Cheshire]], at the easternmost fringe of the [[Cheshire Plain]], 7 miles ...ingham Railway in 1845 and the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway in 1869. By the late 20th century, Poynton had emerged as a commuter town, pa
    14 KB (2,223 words) - 15:53, 17 September 2012
  • |county=Staffordshire ...s a market town in [[Staffordshire]]. It is adjacent to The Potteries, the Staffordshire towns which became the City of [[Stoke on Trent]]. It is an old market town
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  • |county=Staffordshire |picture=The Greyhound and Punchbowl in Bilston, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 1796318.jpg
    10 KB (1,537 words) - 11:42, 6 June 2016
  • ...es (extending as the A4034 and A4099). Blackheath's High Street is on the Staffordshire side but with a modern shopping centre on the Worcestershire side. ...n June that year that allowed the sale of the [[Rowley Regis]] glebe lands in order to finance the building of a new vicarage.
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  • |county=Staffordshire '''Brierley Hill''' is a small town in [[Staffordshire]] within the [[Black Country]], sfound some 2½ miles south of central [[Du
    7 KB (1,091 words) - 11:44, 6 June 2016
  • |county=Staffordshire '''Brownhills''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]] within the [[Black Country]]. The town stands on the edge of [[Cannock Ch
    23 KB (3,545 words) - 14:25, 23 December 2018
  • |county=Staffordshire ...ll town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]]. Nearby, across in [[Worcestershire]] is [[Cradley, Worcestershire|Cradley]], though the two p
    7 KB (1,028 words) - 11:40, 1 August 2017
  • |county=Staffordshire '''Darlaston''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] and as with its neighbouring towns, Darlast
    7 KB (1,179 words) - 20:22, 6 June 2016
  • |county=Staffordshire '''Kingswinford''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]], at the very western edge of the Black Coun
    9 KB (1,417 words) - 10:44, 10 October 2019
  • ..., in the detached part of Worcestershire (surrounded by [[Staffordshire]]) in which [[Dudley]] also sits. Netherton is about a mile and a half south of ...the east and west, and an industrial area and the Dudley Southern By-Pass in the north. The southern border is formed by the Mousesweet Brook.
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  • |county=Staffordshire '''Old Hill''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] and contiguous with the surrounding towns o
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  • |county=Staffordshire '''Smethwick''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] and contiguous with the surrounding towns o
    12 KB (1,861 words) - 12:16, 23 June 2018
  • |county=Staffordshire '''Tipton''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] and contiguous with the surrounding towns o
    8 KB (1,353 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2016
  • |county=Staffordshire ...hire]], within the [[Black Country]], near the source of the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]].
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  • |county=Staffordshire '''West Bromwich''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] and contiguous with the surrounding towns o
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  • |county=Staffordshire |picture='High Noon' in the Market Place - geograph.org.uk - 250898.jpg
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  • '''Towns and village flags''' are rare in the [[United Kingdom]] but are a very colourful addition to national vexill ...tterned division of the field cleverly depicting ears of wheat. [[Flore]] in Northamptonshire has two motifs (a flower and a plum) but between them a gr
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  • '''Sandbach''' is a market town in [[Cheshire]]. The civil parish of the same name contains four settlements; ...original home of Foden and ERF lorries, though neither company now exists in the town, 12-times National Brass Band Championship winners, Foden's Band,
    17 KB (2,717 words) - 17:50, 16 February 2018
  • |picture=Boer War Memorial in Winsford Cross Shopping Centre - geograph.org.uk - 1711499.jpg ...]], and grew around the salt mining industry after the river was canalised in the eighteenth century, allowing freight to be conveyed northwards to the P
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  • ...51 and 1974. The series was then extended to the restr of the Britih Isles in the late 1970s. The Scottish and Irish guides were incomplete as of summer ...us Pevsner found that the study of architectural history had little status in academic circles, and that the amount of information available, especially
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  • '''Heywood''' is a town in [[Lancashire]], at tehe edge of the conurbation joining the South Lancashir ...became modern Heywood; an industrial town, until the decline of the mills in the mid-20th century.
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  • '''Stalybridge''' is a town in north-eastern [[Cheshire]], on the border with [[Lancashire]]. It lies at t ...ern low density housing in the post-war period, the town is now semi-rural in character.
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  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=Staffordshire Moorlands
    10 KB (1,669 words) - 21:07, 28 January 2016
  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=South Staffordshire
    13 KB (2,052 words) - 08:51, 19 September 2019
  • |county=Staffordshire ...724 (including the [[Brereton, Staffordshire|Brereton]] and [[Etchinghill, Staffordshire|Etchinghill]]).
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  • |county 1=Staffordshire ...treet and Holloway, and then following the old course of the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]] through the castle grounds.
    12 KB (1,860 words) - 11:27, 21 November 2019
  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=East Staffordshire
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  • |churches=284 ...ed over by the Bishop of Worcester, and its centre is Worcester Cathedral, in the city of [[Worcester]].
    28 KB (3,657 words) - 20:08, 16 October 2018
  • ...way]]. To the north of Castle Bromwich beyond the M6 is the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]] and then [[Castle Vale]] and [[Erdington]], both within the co ...away), but then after the Second World War several new estates were built in Castle Bromwich, rapidly increasing its population.
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  • ...r 6 miles to the north. The village sits on the bank of the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]]. The name "Kingsbury" is from the Old English ''Cyningesbyrig'' (recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Chinesburie'', the name meaning 'Kings F
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  • ..., though it is conventional to assign all beyond that county border to the Staffordshire Moorlands. ...ferent; the southern, rolling Derbyshire Dales are green and richly grazed in the south, the hills beginning at the very edge of the city of [[Derby]], a
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