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  • |flag=Flag of Devon.svg ...] and [[Somerset]]. The centre of Devonshire has rolling hills, the south of the county dominated by [[Dartmoor]].
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  • |flag=Flag of Essex.svg ...es, stretching between the packed urban conurbation and the lonely marshes of the [[North Sea]] coast. The [[county town]] is [[Chelmsford]].
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  • |name=Kent |map image=Kent Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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  • |flag=Flag of Middlesex.svg ...ost populous, almost entirely forming part of the metropolitan conurbation of [[London]].
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  • ...e United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". ...Its southern border is with [[Sussex]] in the hills. To the east lies [[Kent]] and to the west [[Hampshire]] and [[Berkshire]]. The [[county town]] is
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  • ...bounded by [[Hampshire]] to the west; by [[Surrey]] to the north; and by [[Kent]] to the east. ...[[Bexhill-on-Sea]] and [[Hastings]] beyond Beachy Head. The easterly part of Sussex has many stately homes and castles such as [[Arundel Castle]] and [[
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  • | county 4 = Kent | picture caption = [[City of London]], Tower Bridge<br> London Eye, Palace of Westminster
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  • ...a prosperous, suburban town in northern [[Surrey]]. It stands on the bank of the [[River Thames]], the town constrained between the Thames to the west, Richmond now forms a significant local commercial centre with a number of parks and open spaces and has a developed retail and night-time economy.
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  • ...of Selborne'' by Rev Gilbert White described it, in ''The Natural History of Selborne'', letter xii, 4 November 1767</ref>, a sound judgment to this day ...open parkland. The northern section is ''Sunbury Common'' and houses many of Sunbury's businesses. The M3 and the large roundabout Sunbury Cross divides
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  • ...arried out at the orders of King William I. It is also known as "The Book of Winchester". ...Essex]], [[Norfolk]] and [[Suffolk]], while Great Domesday covers the rest of England. England's two major cities, [[Winchester]] and [[London]] are omi
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  • |county=Kent '''Greenwich''' is a town in [[Kent]] on the [[River Thames]], famous for seafaring and its naval tradition.
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  • '''Leicester''' is a city in the heart of [[Leicestershire]], of which it is the [[county town]]. It is major Midlands city, rooted in anci ...River Soar]], and on the coal fields of Leicestershire. It is at the edge of the National Forest.
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  • ...1th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom. ...ers the [[Norfolk Broads]], all at sea level. Norwich is thus at the edge of those flat lands for which Norfolk is rightly famous and the rivers, tidal
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  • [[File:Sussex Hundreds.svg|right|thumb|450px|Map of the Rapes and Hundreds of Sussex]] ...f its divisions. Neighbouring [[Kent]] has divisions known as [[Lathes of Kent|lathes]], likewise unique to their county.
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  • The '''River Stour''' is a river in [[Kent]] which flows into the [[English Channel]] at [[Pegwell Bay]]. Above Plucks ...section of the river, above its meeting with the East Stour at [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]] is sometimes known as the '''Upper Great Stour''' or '''West Stou
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  • |county=Kent ...la]] in [[Kent]]. The peninsula is a bleak, windswept place which lies on Kent's northern coast between the [[Thames Estuary]] and the [[River Medway]]'s
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  • |county=Kent ...aits of Dover]], eight miles north-east of [[Dover]] and eight miles south of [[Ramsgate]]. It is a former fishing, mining and garrison town.
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  • |county=Kent ...''' is a maritime town in [[Kent]]; one of the Medway Towns. It stands on Kent's north coast.
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  • ...is the estuary into which the [[River Thames]] opens out and becomes part of the [[North Sea]]. ...gical Survey of 1882-9 suggetsed a line drawn from [[North Foreland]] in [[Kent]] across the ''Kentish Knock lighthouse'' to [[Harwich]] in [[Essex]]. It i
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  • |county=Kent |picture caption=The Pantiles, the historic and tourist centre of the town
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  • |county=Kent ...is a small coastal market town on the south coast of [[Kent]], on the edge of [[Romney Marsh]]. Its name simply means "Haven" or "Landing Place".
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  • |county=Kent ...2011 Census the population included the hamlet of [[Ottinge]] and village of [[Wingmore]].
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  • '''Romney Marsh''' is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of [[Kent]] and [[Sussex]]. It covers about 100 square miles. William Camden wrote of the marsh:
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  • {{county|Kent}} ...g|thumb|250px|Wingham Hundred, shown within the Lathe of St Augustine and Kent]]
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  • {{county|Kent}} ...vg|thumb|250px|Eastry Hundred, shown within the Lathe of St Augustine and Kent]]
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  • {{county|Kent}} ...|thumb|250px|Ringslow Hundred, shown within the Lathe of St Augustine and Kent]]
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  • {{county|Kent}} ...g|thumb|250px|Preston Hundred, shown within the Lathe of St Augustine and Kent]]
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  • ...g of England.svg|right|thumb|180px|Saint George's Cross, the national flag of England]] ...Wight]] in [[Hampshire]] and the only substantial archipelago the [[Isles of Scilly]] in [[Cornwall]].
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  • ...as ''Godhelmia'', mainly because of the predominance of north/south routes of communication through the area that have existed since ancient times. As re ...en [[Wessex]] annexed the "south eastern provinces" of Surrey, the Sussex, Kent and Essex.
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  • ...of [[Brixton]]. It is the most populous of the hundreds, with a population of 1,081,419 in 2011. ...hames|Thames]] from [[East Sheen|Sheen]] to [[Rotherhithe]], contains some of the county's most wealthy areas and its most deprived.
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  • [[File:Ossulstone Hundred - Middlesex.svg|right|thumb|200px|The Hundred of Ossulton in Middlesex]] ...reds of Middlesex]</ref> Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London, as has virtually the entire county.
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  • ...s]], away from the river itself but forming a suburb of the riverside town of Grays. ...long the arterial roads and the railway running east along the north shore of the Thames. The total population was 145,523 in 2011.
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  • ..., and while the abbey was dissolved under King Henry VIII, a sizeable part of its structure survives. ...data/arch-906-1/dissemination/pdf/EUS_Texts/Malmesbury.pdf The Archaeology of Wiltshire"s Towns. An Extensive Urban Survey: MALMESBURY] (Wiltshire County
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  • |county=Kent ..., which includes [[St Peter's, Kent|St Peter's]], had a population in 2001 of about 24,000.
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  • ...se and its magnificent garden are owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and the house is a Gra ...mantle and rebuild the house in the United States, it was stripped of many of its fixtures and fittings and all but abandoned.
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  • [[File:Rayleigh Castle - Top of the motte - geograph.org.uk - 211114.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rayleigh Mount]] '''Rayleigh Mount''' is a castle motte in [[Essex]]; the site of Rayleigh Castle, which no longer stands.
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  • ...humb|250px|Codsheath Hundred, shown within the Lathe of Sutton-at-Hone and Kent]] ...Aylesford hundreds of [[Wrotham Hundred|Wrotham]] to the east, and [[Lowy of Tunbridge]] to the south-east.<ref name=AHAOKmaps/>
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  • [[File:Buckinghamshire Hundreds.svg|thumb|250px|Hundreds of Buckinghamshire]] [[File:Cumberland Wards.svg|thumb|250px|Wards of Cumberland]]
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  • |county=Kent ...astle''' is an Elizabethan artillery fort in the village of [[Upnor]] in [[Kent]]. Its purpose was to defend ships moored "in ordinary" on the [[River Medw
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  • ...dford]]. It is part of the [[North Downs]]. At Guildford, the eastern end of the Hog's Back comes into the town centre, where the [[River Wey]] breaks t The A31 road between the two towns runs along the top of the Hog's Back.
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  • |county=Kent ...e metropolitan conurbation. It lies east of [[Bexleyheath]] and north-west of [[Dartford]].
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  • ...anaged by the Royal British Legion. It was established as a national site of remembrance, giving its purpose as: ...ffordshire|River Tame]] with the [[River Trent]]. It is at the western end of the '[[National Forest]]', just off the A38 road.
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  • [[File:Wallington Hundred - Surrey.svg|right|thumb|220px|The Hundred of Wallington in Surrey]] ...ulous of the hundreds after [[Brixton Hundred|Brixton]], with a population of 656,760 in 2011.
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  • [[File:Blackheath Hundred - Surrey.svg|right|thumb|250px|The Hundred of Blackheath in Surrey]] ...ing Hundred]] to the west; and by Sussex to the south. It had a population of 34,276 in 2011.
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  • [[File:Tandridge Hundred - Surrey.svg|right|thumb|220px|The Hundred of Tandridge in Surrey]] ...ey and to the west the [[Reigate Hundred]]. It is named after the village of [[Tandridge]], where anciently the Hundred Moot gathered.
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  • ...sher]] in [[Surrey]], is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the 'English landscape garden' style, still featuring its Today is owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and opened to the publ
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  • ...ty's 'southern capital'. The parish spread along the dale had a population of just 95 in 2001. ...rough the reservoir. Access to this part of the valley is available by way of the [[Roman road]] known as [[High Street]], running today as a bridleway o
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  • |county=Kent ...lage and parish on the [[River Medway]] in [[Kent]], four miles north-west of [[Maidstone]].
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  • |county=Kent |picture caption=The twin towers of St Mary's Church
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  • ...thes and hundreds of Kent.svg|right|thumb|400px|The Lathes and Hundreds of Kent]] {{county|Kent}}
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