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• Scarborough
  a more pedestrian-friendly promenade, street lighting and seating. ...ugh North Yorkshire England 2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Scarborough from Cliff Street]]
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• Essex
  [[File:Ford Dagenham.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Dagenham Docks]] ...ughton]] is home to a printing facility for British and foreign banknotes. Ford Motor Company has its main plant at [[Dagenham]] and its European headquart
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• Hertfordshire
  [[File:Watford, Market Street and High Street - geograph.org.uk - 116645.jpg|thumb|250px|Watford]] ...Old English ''heort ford,'' literally meaning "hart ford", referring to a ford over the [[River Lea]] at that point. The name Hertfordshire first appears
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• Flag Institute
  ...ag information, in the [[United Kingdom]]. Its headquarters are at 38 Hill Street, Mayfair, London. * John Ford (Council Secretary)
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• Somerset
  ...ccessdate=2007-10-21 |last=Lewis |first=Brenda Ralph |coauthors=David Nash Ford |date=|work=Britannia |publisher=}}</ref> ...ished its headquarters in the town, though the shoes are no longer made in Street.
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• Surrey
  ...ear. The area of Surrey was traversed by [[Stane Street (Chichester)|Stane Street]] and other less well known Roman roads. There were Roman temples on [[Farl ...nd & Wales'', pp. 235-239.</ref> Only fragments of Stane Street and Ermine Street, the Roman roads which crossed the county, remain, though much of their cou
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• Belfast
  ...05-18}}</ref> The Farset is now a hidden river, conduited beneath the High Street. ...would thus translate literally as "mouth of the sandbar" or "mouth of the ford".<ref name="Logainm" /> The sandbar in question was formed at the confluenc
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• Chepstow
  ...from the time of the Silures. Later, there was probably a Roman bridge or ford over the Wye at Castleford about one mile upstream of the existing town bri ...of the A48 road. The Town Gate through the wall at the top end of the High Street was rebuilt in the 16th century and was used as a toll gate.
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• Manchester
  ...nion Congress was held in Manchester (at the Mechanics' Institute on David Street) from 2 to 6 June 1868. Manchester was also an important cradle of the Labo ...rd Park, engineers made the Avro Manchester and Avro Lancaster bombers and Ford built the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines to power them. Manchester was thus the
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• Reading
  ...id=FkYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA64}}</ref> or (less probably) the Celtic Rhydd-Inge, "Ford over the River". ...tional timber framed houses, a few examples of which still exist in Castle Street, Market Place and other places. Often the front ground floor of the house w
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• Maidenhead
  ...idenhead High St - geograph.org.uk - 137057.jpg|left|thumb|Maidenhead High Street]] ...point for coaches on the journeys between London and [[Bath]] and the High Street became populated with inns. The current [[Maidenhead Bridge,]] a local land
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• Biggleswade
  ...thought to be derived from ''Biceles wæd'' (or similar) meaning "Bicel's ford". The spelling ''Bykleswade'' and similar variations occur in Law records o ...ng the course of the present-day Drove Road), linking up with the [[Ermine Street|Ermine Way]] at [[Godmanchester]], then a Roman town.
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• Ashford, Kent
  |picture=Ashford Kent, North Street - geograph.org.uk - 1142576.jpg |picture caption=North Street, Ashford
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• Romford
  | picture =South Street, Romford - geograph.org.uk - 282571.jpg | picture caption= South Street, Romford
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• Burford
  |picture= Main Street in BurfordOxfordshire, UK.jpeg ...es from the Old English words ''burh'' (fortified town or hill town) and ''ford''.
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• Stafford
  ...ation opposite the Swan Hotel and near the Ancient High House on Greengate Street places it firmly on the heritage trail. It is often referred to as 'Staffor In the main shopping street, Greengate Street, lies the Elizabethan Ancient High House, the largest timber-framed town ho
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• Stirling
  ...ng's historic centre is known as the Top of the Town and consists of Broad Street, Castle Wynd, Ballengeich Pass, Lower Castle Hill Road, and St Mary's Walk. The Top of the Town from Broad Street upwards is renowned for its unique cobblestoned roads, and cars can be hear
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• St Ives, Huntingdonshire
  ...and runs over a flint bed. In former days St Ives was the lowest natural ford on the river, 50 miles from the sea, and thus the town had strategic value. ...cious Town Centre. Portions of this open space between Merryland and Crown Street were lost to market stalls that turned into permanent buildings. Some of th
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• Tiverton
  The town's name is thought to derive from 'Twy-ford-ton' meaning 'two fords town'. The town stands at the confluence of the riv ...t the foot of Phoenix Lane, close to the site of the old Starkey, Knight & Ford Brewery. The building incorporates a new public library.
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• Bow
  ...ne) in Essex across the river; both are named for old Roman street and the ford it crosses there. Bow was known in Anglo-Saxon days as ''Strætford''. Th ...Middlesex|Victoria Park]] and the [[Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park]]. [[Old Ford]] and [[Fish Island]] are localities within Bow, but [[Bromley-by-Bow]] (hi
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• Hampstead
  [[File:Ford Madox Brown - Work - artchive.com.jpg|right|thumb|200px| Ford Madox Brown]]'s painting ''Work'' (1865)]] ...jpg|right|thumb|200px|The artist's location today, on The Mount, off Heath Street]]
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• Burslem
  | picture= Brickhouse Street, Burslem - geograph.org.uk - 90878.jpg | picture caption = Brickhouse Street, Burslem
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• Athlone
  | picture =Main Street, Athlone - geograph-3758239-by-P-L-Chadwick.jpg | picture caption =Main Street, Athlone
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• Stratford-upon-Avon
  ...'strætford'' simply meaning "street-ford", referring to a ford carrying a street across the river, presumably the Avon. ===Henley Street===
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• Hampton-in-Arden
  |picture=The High Street Hampton in Arden.JPG |picture caption=Hampton in Arden, High Street
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• Knutsford
  |picture caption=King Street ...Bottom Street), form the "hub" of the town. At one end of the narrow King Street is an entrance to Tatton Park. The Tatton estate was home to the Egerton fa
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• Stockport
  ...Mersey, which forms the boundary, has been culverted and the main shopping street, ''Merseyway'', built above it. ...LS Lowry. Lowry often visited the Stockport War Memorial Gallery on Greek Street especially during the annual exhibition of paintings and sculpture.<ref>[ht
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• Redruth
  |picture caption= Fore Street, Redruth town centre ...ety.]</ref> is housed in the Town Council office at the bottom of the main street.
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• Penrith
  ...the ford" (equivalent to the Welsh ''Penrhyd''), presumably referring to a ford on the Eamont, and others "red head (hill)" (Welsh ''Penrhudd''), referring ...Penrith Methodist Church [http://www.penrithmethodist.co.uk] - Wordsworth Street
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• Godmanchester
  |picture=Godmanchester Post Street.jpg |picture caption=Post Street in Godmanchester
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• Derby
  The newer buildings along Ford Street and St Alkmund's Way include the Friargate Studios, The Joseph Wright Centr ...e in their names, such as Irongate and Friargate; "Gate" being Danish for "street", not "gate".
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• Ulverston
  |picture=Market Street, Ulverston.jpg |picture caption=Market Street, Ulverston
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• Newport Pagnell
  |picture=The High Street, Newport Pagnell - geograph.org.uk - 368877.jpg |picture caption=The High Street, Newport Pagnell
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• Sunderland
  ===Alphabetical street naming of suburbs=== ..., Sunderland suburbs have most streets systematically named such that each street in an area will begin with the same letter:
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• Haverfordwest
  The name of the town means "heifer ford" from Old English ''hæfar'' ("heifer").<ref>Charles, B. G, ''The Placename [[File:Haverfordwest Quay Street.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Quay Street]]
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• Chelmsford
  ...commuters live in Chelmsford and take the daily train journey to Liverpool Street Station in London to work in the City of London financial sector, though Ch ...ved from 'Ceolmaer's ford' which was close to the site of the present High Street stone bridge. In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 the town was called 'Celmere
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• Stratford, Essex
  ...s to the west of Broadway; much beyond the Broadway it is no longer a high street as such but the long dual carriageway of the A11 fronted by housing, some b The main road, the A11 out of London, is formed by the High Street before being thrown into a ring road around the town centre, Broadway carry
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• Watford
  ...originally a pre-Roman trackway, departed from the ancient Roman [[Watling Street]] at [[Stanmore]], heading for the [[River Gade|Gade]] valley and thence up The modern High Street follows the route of this road, as does the A41.<ref name="Lewis">{{cite bo
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• Hertford
  ...tford''), and means no more nor less than it says to the modern ear: "hart ford". ...r-framed buildings hidden under later frontages, particularly in St Andrew Street. Hertford suffers from traffic problems despite the building in the 1960s o
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• Bridgend
  Bridgend itself developed at a ford on the [[River Ogmore]], which was on the main route between east and west ...treatment works near [[Ogmore]]. Two major multinational corporations, the Ford Motor Company and Sony set factories up in, or on the outskirts of the new
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• Southampton
  ...igh treason and tried at what is now the Red Lion public house in the High Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/features/hants_facts/2 }}</ref> The area of Swaythling is home to Ford's Southampton Assembly Plant, where the majority of their Transit models ar
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• Basingstoke
  ...was May's Brewery, established by Thomas and William May in 1750 in Brook Street. ...:London Road, Basingstoke - geograph.org.uk - 22428.jpg|thumb|right|London Street with its mixed architecture]]
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• Hereford
  ...d" is said to come from the Old English "here ford" ("army ford"), and the ford certainly refers to a crossing of the [[River Wye]]. The Welsh name ''Henf ...Church Street.jpg|upright|thumb|left|200px|Hereford Cathedral, from Church Street]]
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• Lavenham
  |picture=Historic houses on Water Street - geograph.org.uk - 1598333.jpg |picture caption=Water Street, Lavenham
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• Deptford
  |picture caption=Deptford High Street ...], long since swallowed within the London conurbation. It is named after a ford of the [[River Ravensbourne]]. Part of the town spills over too into [[Sur
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• Harlech
  ...of the town is the high town by the castle. Here are the narrow shopping street, church, and castle. Houses have since grown up the hillside and since the ...nown in the early Welsh tradition as "The Assembly of the Noble Head."<ref>Ford, Patrick K. ''The Mabinogi and other Mediæval Welsh Tales''. Berkeley: U o
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• Guildford
  |picture caption=Town Hall clock, High Street [[File:Guildford high street 1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Guildford High Street]]
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• River Ver
  ...stead]], [[Redbourn]], [[St Albans]] and [[Park Street, Hertfordshire|Park Street]], and joins the [[River Colne, Hertfordshire|River Colne]] at [[Bricket Wo The bridge in St Michael's Street, adjacent to Kingsbury Mill, dates from 1765 and is believed to be the olde
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• Preston
  ...st's Town refers to a priory set up by St Wilfrid near the Ribble's lowest ford. This idea is supported by the similarity of the Paschal lamb on Preston's ...d troops corralled the demonstrators in front of the Corn Exchange on Lune Street. Shots were fired and four of the demonstrators were killed. A commemorat
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• Stamford
  |picture=High Street St Martin's, Stamford.jpg [[File:Broad Street - geograph.org.uk - 616752.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Broad Street]]
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