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• Berkshire
  ...hire''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|Royal County]] in southern [[England]], lying along the south bank of the River [[Thames]]. It is usually regar ...ognised by the Queen in 1958, and letters patent were issued confirming it in 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/collectio
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• Berwickshire
  ...s separating Berwickshire from East Lothian. Lammermuir reaches 1,746 feet in Berwickshire, at Meikel Says Law on the border of East Lothian. ...ing the wasteful wars which rove this island during the Middle Ages, until in 1482 it was finally taken by the English, subsequently becoming attributed
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• Brecknockshire
  ...Brecknock''' or '''Brecon''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the mountains of Mid-Wales. ...is one of the most spectacular drives in the land. Of the many waterfalls in the county, Henrhyd Falls are particularly spectacular.
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• Dorset
  ...ng on the [[English Channel]] coast. The [[county town]] is [[Dorchester]] in the south of Dorset. It has borders with [[Devon]] to the west, [[Somerset] Dorset's long coast stretches from [[Poole]] in the east, and the great gulf of [[Poole Harbour]], around the [[Isle of Pur
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• County Durham
  ...sh county whose common name is prefixed with "County", as is more familiar in [[Ireland]], rather than being suffixed with "shire". ...nty is named after its [[county town]], the City of [[Durham]], which lies in the middle of the county. County Durham reaches from the [[North Sea]] coas
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• East Lothian
  ...outh-east is [[Berwickshire]]. The shire has a detached part in Midlothian in the vicinity of [[Fala]]. ...side the towns though the gentle hills provide fine farming. Other towns, in particular [[North Berwick]] and [[Dunbar]] are seaside resorts of the gent
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• Herefordshire
  ...of [[England]] entirely west of the [[River Severn]]. It is also possibly England's most rural county and one of the most sparsely populated with a populatio ...ortion to the small city itself; an impressive edifice to the glory of God in the midst of a land shaped by His hand.
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• Kincardineshire
  |picture caption=Craig of Garvock in the Howe O' the Mearns ...r farmstead by the burn, the name preserved in the Mill of Kincardine, and in the name of the shire.
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• Midlothian
  Edinburgh, Scotland's historic capital, is possibly the loveliest city in Britain. Its heart is the Castle, perched high on its immemorial rock, and In the midst of Edinburgh is [[Arthur's Seat]]; a solitary hill, precipitous a
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• Radnorshire
  ...nty: the least populous of any county in Wales and the 10th least populous in the United Kingdom. ...p of [[Litton and Cascob]] forms a detached part of Herefordshire, locally in Radnorshire.
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• Somerset
  |picture=Cows in Orchard - geograph.org.uk - 94917.jpg |biggest town=[[Bristol]] ''(partly in Gloucestershire)''
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• West Lothian
  West Lothian lies in the industrial and urban belt of the Central Lowlands, heavily affected by ...wlands and the [[Highlands]]; the lower ground where Forth is fordable and in modern days bridgeable: the Forth Bridges cross to Fife at [[South Queensfe
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• Wiltshire
  ...ss prehistoric barrows. The Plain is also the Army’s main training area in Britain. The county town is the City of [[Salisbury]] in the south of the county, built around its soaring mediæval cathedral and m
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• County Cork
  ...Statistic and Sex] Central Statistics Office. Retrieved: 2013-02-25.</ref> In common with [[County Tipperary]] it is split into two "Ridings", analogous ...g it the state's second-most populous county, although the peak population in 1841 was recorded as 854,118.
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• County Dublin
  ...'''County of Dublin''' is a [[Counties of the Republic of Ireland|shire]] in the Province of [[Leinster]], on the east coast of Ireland. It is the most ...1,270,603 according to the 2011 census, making it the most populous county in the country.
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• County Kilkenny
  ...urrow Demesne, Clonageera, Course, Durrow Townparks, Glebe and Knockanoran in the parish of Durrow: {{wmap|52.841599|-7.402759|zoom=14|base=outline_detac ...is the third largest of Leinster's 12 counties in size and seventh largest in terms of population.
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• Maidenhead
  '''Maidenhead''' is a prosperous town in eastern [[Berkshire]], standing on the south bank of the [[River Thames]]. ...rinting and telecommunications. Many Maidenhead residents commute to work in [[London]], or to the towns of [[Slough]] ([[Buckinghamshire]]) and [[Readi
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• Milton Keynes
  ...is situated mostly in the [[Newport Hundred]], with [[Shenley Brook End]] in [[Cottesloe Hundred]]. ...d [[Stony Stratford]] along with another fifteen villages and the farmland in between. The new town took its name from the existing [[Milton Keynes Vill
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• Southwell
  {{Hatnote|This article concerns Southwell in Nottinghamshire. For the village on Portland see [[Southwell, Dorset]]}} '''Southwell''' (pronounced {{IPA|ˈsʌðəl|}}) is a town in [[Nottinghamshire]]. It is best known as the site of Southwell Minster, th
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• Marlborough
  ...ath, Somerset|Bath]]. It is reputed to have one of the widest high-streets in Britain: second only to [[Stockton-on-Tees]]. ...the rebuilding the High Street became what is claimed to be the widest in England after Stockton's. This allows ample space for a local market which is held
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• Lydford
  '''Lydford''' is a village, once an important town, in [[Devon]] situated six miles north of [[Tavistock]] on the western fringe o ...f single span; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in an exquisite glen.
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• Uxbridge
  ...ed by early settlers. An archaeological excavation by the Museum of London in the 1990s found evidence of flint items shaped by Mesolithic hunters, as we ...e of the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Situated in RAF Uxbridge, the No. 11 Group Operations Room within the bunker played a c
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• Church of England
  [[File:Logo of the Church of England.svg|right|200px]] ...rope and beyond fall within the Church of England's [[Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe]].
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• Deddington
  '''Deddington''' is a small town and parish in [[Oxfordshire]] on the 'Old Road' between [[Banbury]] and [[Oxford]]. The t The parish's topography is alluded to in a local rhyme:
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• Crewe
  ...for many years a major railway engineering facility, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car pr ...after the ancient township of Crewe, today's Crewe is a new creation built in another parish, and so the town is named after the railway station.
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• Bermuda
  ...40 miles to the west-northwest, and it is about 850 miles south of Halifax in Nova Scotia. The territory's capital is [[Hamilton, Bermuda|Hamilton]], th ...his expedition to Virginia was shipwrecked here. St George's was settled in 1612.
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• Ulverston
  ...re]], on the western edge of the [[River Leven, Lancashire|Leven estuary]] in the [[Furness]] area. It lies close to the [[Lake District]], and just nor ...ine buildings. At its head is the war memorial to local soldiers who died in World War I.
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• Sanquhar
  '''Sanquhar''' is a town and royal burgh in [[Nithsdale]] in [[Dumfriesshire]]. The stands on the [[River Nith]], north of [[Thornhill, ...nouncing their allegiance to the King, an event commemorated by a monument in the main street. The church of St Brides contains a memorial to James Crich
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• Bermondsey
  ...It is deep within the metropolitan conurbation, having been swallowed up in London's growing urban spread from its earliest times, and is completely co ...ss, 1970, and Blair, J., 'Frithuwold's kingdom and the origins of Surrey', in Bassett, S. (ed.), ''The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms'', Leicester Unive
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• Stockton-on-Tees
  ...y but it has spread its urban area so that several suburbs of the town lie in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]]. ...in England.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42640 Parishes - Stockton on Tees | British History Online]</ref>
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• Haverfordwest
  ...brokeshire]], the county's most populous town, with a population of 13,367 in 2001. ...other notion is that Tudor period monarchs called it "Hereford or Hertford in the West", to distinguish it from either [[Hereford]] or [[Hertford]].
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• Bristol
  ...ghth most populous city and by far the most populous city in south-western England. ...yal charter in 1155 and was granted independence of the county authorities in 1373. From the 13th century, for half a millennium, it ranked amongst the t
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• Basingstoke
  '''Basingstoke''' is a modern town in north-eastern [[Hampshire]], spread across a valley at the head of the [[Ri ...ke began as an old market town lie any other in Hampshire, but it expanded in the 1960s as part of a tripartite agreement between London County Council,
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• Uffington
  '''Uffington''' is a village and parish in north-western [[Berkshire]], famous for the [[Uffington White Horse]] carve ...runs the [[River Ock]]. The village is four miles south of [[Faringdon]], in open country, amongst the [[Berkshire Downs]]. The parish forms part of Ber
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• Ewhurst, Surrey
  '''Ewhurst''' is a small village and parish in [[Surrey]], located between [[Cranleigh]] two miles away to the west and [[ ...a tile-[[kiln]] discovered and excavated in 1836 and from the villa itself in the 1960s, fragments of a glass goblet and an unusual vase decorated with a
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• Deptford
  ...''' is a town and ancient parish on the south bank of the [[River Thames]] in north-western [[Kent]], long since swallowed within the London conurbation. ...|url=http://wwp.greenwich2000.com/info/local/deptford.htm |title=Greenwich England: Deptford |publisher=Wwp.greenwich2000.com |date=2010-01-05 |accessdate=201
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• Baulking
  ...south, on the side of a slight rise of land bounded on two sides by a bend in the river. ...ing'' in the 13th century, ''Bauking'' in the 16th century and ''Bawlkin'' in the 17th century.<ref name=Page/>
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• Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
  '''Brightwell-cum-Sotwell''' is a twin village and civil parish in northern [[Berkshire]]. It lies between [[Didcot]] to the west and the hist ...iginally two separate villages, but were combined as a single civil parish in 1948.
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• Culham
  ...f_England_and_Wales_1871/BwYSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA89|title=Census of England and Wales 1871: Registration or Union Counties: Berkshire|date=1872}}</ref> ...ey and remained in its possession until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538.<ref name=Lobel>Lobel, Mary 1962, pp. 27-39</ref>
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• Dry Sandford
  ...]], four miles south west of [[Oxford]]. It is one of two villages in the civil parish of [[St Helen Without]]. The place was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] as Sandford. The "sandy ford" must have been across
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• Henwood
  ...let a little to the north of [[Wootton, Berkshire|Wootton]] and within its civil parish. ...e web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62737|title=Parishes: Cumnor |author=William Page and P.H. Ditchfield (eds) |publisher=Institute
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• Nottingham
  '''Nottingham''' is a city in [[Nottinghamshire]], of which it is the [[county town]]. It is one of the ...ttingham has a population of 667,000 and is the seventh-largest urban area in the [[United Kingdom]], ranking between those of [[Liverpool]] and [[Sheffi
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• Ordnance Survey
  ...y map at 1 inch to the mile scale from a New Popular Edition map published in 1946]] ...]], producing a wide variety of maps for government and private purposes. In Northern Ireland, the same task is undertaken by the [[Ordnance Survey of N
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• Hexhamshire
  ...a liberty belonging to the Archbishop of York, which liberty was abolished in 1572. ...ea using the suffix "shire" which is not a county, of which there are many in Northumberland and Yorkshire, each arising as a liberty within the county.
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• Putney
  '''Putney''' is a town in northern [[Surrey]], sitting on the [[River Thames]] and all absorbed withi ...ece | work=The Times | location=London | title=Its so wonderful to be here in Exeter Or is this Clapham | first=Valerie | last=Elliot | date=6 June 2005
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• Wimbledon
  '''Wimbledon''' is a distinctive town in [[Surrey]] within the metropolitan conurbation but bounded by the great gre ...is known too for Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in the conurbation.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=52
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• Haverhill
  ...runs through the southern part of the town, but both the ancient and civil parishes extend into both counties. The town centre lies at the base of a gentle dip in the chalk hills of the Newmarket Ridge; running through the town is the Sto
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• Warminster
  '''Warminster''' is a town in western [[Wiltshire]], by-passed by the [[A36 road|A36]], and near [[Frome] ...ever, the only evidence for the possible existence of a Saxon monastery is in the place-name.<ref name=daniell/> It has also been suggested that "Were" m
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• Beverley
  '''Beverley''' is a historic market town in the [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East Riding]] of [[Yorkshire]], standing bet ...erley Minster, which was once the church of one of the largest monasteries in the kingdom, and the town is also beautified along New Walk by buildings bu
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• Northallerton
  ...' is an affluent market town in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]]. It lies in the [[Vale of Mowbray]] and at the northern end of the [[Vale of York]], as ...tlefield">{{cite book |last=Clark |first=David |title=Battlefield Walks in Yorkshire |page=18 |publisher=Sigma Leisure |year=1999 |isbn=978-18505877
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