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  • ...f the long pleasure coast of Lancashire, and of a conurbation formed along the coast as far as [[Fleetwood]]. ...albeit leisure supplied to the mil owners and later to the mill workers. The town stands 17½ miles north-west of [[Preston]], 27 miles north of [[Liver
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  • ...tonshire]] and [[Leicestershire]]. The town had a population of 61,988 in the 2001 census. The town is most famous as the birthplace of rugby football, which came from the famous public school here.
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  • |picture caption=Cardiff Bay, the Millennium Stadium,<br />the ''Senedd'', Cardiff University ...tural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the Welsh Assembly.
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  • ...ee miles north of [[Didcot]], and 3½ miles south-east of [[Abingdon]], in the [[Ock Hundred]]. ...s formerly be known as Earl's Wittenham, after its owner Gilbert de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester<ref>"www.longwittenham.com/history.html"</ref>.
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  • |picture caption=The Royal Crescent in Bath ...is far older though: in the centre of the city is the Roman Bath built on the gushing hot water springs which are its origin and that of its name.
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  • ...January | year=1983 | accessdate=2007-08-12}}</ref> The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites and stalagmites. ...television programme ''Seven Natural Wonders'', Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by [[Dan yr Ogof]
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  • [[File:Bath 45.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Avon in Bath]] ...sv Matthew © Shawn Spencer-Smith.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge]]
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  • [[File:Ludlow_bridge.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The River Teme at Ludlow]] ...ales in four counties of the west, before joining its waters with those of the [[River Severn]].
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  • ...[[Preston]], standing on the [[Irish Sea]] coast, fringed to the north by the [[River Ribble|Ribble]] Estuary. ...19th century. Hesketh Park at the northern end of the town is named after the Hesketh family, having been built on land donated by Rev. Charles Hesketh.
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  • ...h of [[Manchester]] and 25 miles east of [[Preston]], at the confluence of the [[River Calder, Lancashire|River Calder]] and [[River Brun]]. ...pe, and is increasingly a dormitory town for [[Manchester]], [[Leeds]] and the [[M65 motorway]] corridor.
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  • |picture caption=The River Wharfe at Otley ...t of [[Leeds]]. Above the town overlooking the dale is a ridge known as [[The Chevin]].
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  • ...hbouring towns of '''Lytham''' and '''St-Anne's-on-Sea''' (or St-Anne's-on-the-Sea) have grown together. ...out over the Irish Sea, while Lytham is on the eastern side and looks over the Ribble Estuary.
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  • ...rate Ickenham from [[Ruislip]] to the north and [[Uxbridge]] to the south, the latter gap being Uxbridge Common. The heart of Ickenham is the original village, its high street somewhat brought up since early days, whi
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  • '''Coseley''' is a suburban town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] some three miles north of [[Dudley]]. Coseley railway station is on the West Coast Main Line.
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  • ...hich stands on the [[River Don, Yorkshire|River Don]], where the Don meets the [[River Rother, Yorkshire|River Rother]], between [[Sheffield]] and [[Donca The town is six miles from Sheffield City Centre and is almost contiguous with
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  • [[File:Irwell, Salford.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Irwell at Salford]] [[File:Map of River irwell.png|right|thumb|180px|Map of the river]]
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  • ...pe is dominated by residential tower blocks, forming a stark contrast with the surrounding Victorian terraced housing. Eccles cake was first made here, named after the town.
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  • |picture caption=St John the Baptist, Axbridge ...he southern edge of the [[Mendip Hills]]. The town population according to the 2001 was 2,024.
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  • ...of [[Nuneaton]] and [[Bedworth]], and nearly engulfed by the townscape of the latter. ...ll. She referred to it as ''Raveloe'' in her book ''Silas Marner'' (1861). The church of St James is where George Eliot's uncle and aunt are buried.
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  • [[File:The Downs, Bristol - DSC05706.JPG|right|thumb|300px|On the Downs]] ...t, and the generally more picturesque and more visited [[Clifton Down]] to the southwest. Both areas are open to public recreation.
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  • |name=Clifton |picture=Village scene, Clifton, Beds - geograph.org.uk - 53270.jpg
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  • {{Hatnote|Not to be confused with the [[Grand Union Canal]]}} ...ansport medium. It fell into slow commercial decline and became disused in the 1930s.
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  • ...county town, [[Bedford]]. It has a population of around 2,500. Nearby are the villages of [[Bromham, Bedfordshire|Bromham]], [[Milton Ernest]], [[Clapham ...rood screen with mediæval painting. The font is of the Middle Ages, and the church also holds an ancient wooden chest.
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  • ...s]], at the foot of the vast, dramatic [[Cheddar Gorge]]. This village is the first home of Cheddar cheese, which must be it greatest claim to internatio ...htm|publisher=Bristol-link | accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> It is also the site of several limestone quarry|quarries.
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  • {{Infobox football club |nickname=The Cannons
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  • [[File:Royal & Ancient Clubhouse.jpg|thumb|350px|The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews]] ...bhouse is situated. Courses in detached parts of counties are listed under the county in which they are locally situate and so noted.
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  • ...s a suburb of the city of Nottingham, and officially designated as part of the Nottingham Urban Area. ...rge campus just half a mile east of the centre of Beeston. To the south is the [[River Trent]], [[Attenborough, Nottinghamshire|Attenborough]] and its ext
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  • ...djoins the towns of [[Pendlebury]] and [[Clifton, Lancashire|Clifton]]. At the 2011 Census, Swinton had a population of 25,362.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// ..., with locals supplementing their incomes by hand-loom woollen weaving in the domestic system.<ref name="Salford137"/>
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  • ...wn population 2011|accessdate=8 January 2016}}</ref> It lies four miles to the north-west of Manchester city centre, 3½ miles north-west of [[Salford]], ...traction from several collieries until the closure of Agecroft Colliery in the 1990s.
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  • |picture caption=Church of St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich ...ern [[Lancashire]] within the [[Manchester]] conurbation. It lies close to the [[River Irwell]], three miles north of Manchester city centre, three miles
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  • |picture caption= All Saints church and the Angel Inn ...idential area of Leigh Woods (although most of the woods themselves are in the neighbouring parish of [[Abbots Leigh]]).
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  • |name=Clifton Suspension Bridge |picture=Clifton Suspension Bridge-9350.jpg
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  • |name=Clifton |picture=Clifton - Princess Victoria Street (750px).jpg
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  • |picture=Clifton Hampden Church.jpg ...&g=6459359&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1416916458708&enc=1|title=Area: Clifton Hampden (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics |work=Neighbo
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  • ...[Manchester]] conurbation running down to the [[River Mersey]] which marks the [[Cheshire]] border. ...housing built between 1852 and 1892 along tree-lined streets which follow the field patterns of a former agricultural economy.<ref name=caa>[http://www.s
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  • |name=Great Clifton |picture=Great Clifton - Old School.jpg
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  • |picture=Wilford Village, The Green - geograph.org.uk - 1218034.jpg ...The now-demolished Wilford Power Station was located on the north bank of the river.
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  • ...ies include woollens, engineering and building wagons for the railways but the area is now largely residential & retail. ...e Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004),
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  • ...he largest hills on [[Dartmoor]], in [[Devon]]. On its northern slope sit the villages of [[Sticklepath]] and [[South Zeal]]. Bleak and bare at the north edge of the high moor, Cosdon shows numerous traces of prehistoric occupation.
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  • |picture=Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland taken 1963 - geograph.org.uk - 803854.jpg |post town=Saltburn-by-the-Sea
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  • ...le:Top of Burrington Combe - geograph.org.uk - 74494.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The top of Burrington Combe]] ...r the village of [[Burrington, Somerset|Burrington]], on the north side of the [[Mendip Hills]] Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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  • ...umb|250px|The Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge, looking south from the Downs]] ...As Bristol was an important port, the gorge formed a defensive gateway to the city.
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  • |name=The Grove |picture caption=Grove Road with the Young Offenders Institution
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  • ...ent parish in [[Gloucestershire]] that forms a suburb of [[Bristol]], near the suburbs of [[Stoke Bishop]], Westbury Park, [[Henleaze]], [[Southmead]] and With a village atmosphere, the place is partly named after the [[River Trym]], which flows through it.
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  • ...he [[University of Nottingham]] has a 1,040-acre site just to the north of the village. ...earest town is [[Loughborough]], some five miles by road to the south, and the nearest village is [[Normanton on Soar]].
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  • ...n]] road, and is the newer and larger part. Lower Failand, a mile away, is the original village (shown as Fayland on old maps). Lower Failand can be reach In Failand is a post office with general store, and also a pub (The Failand Inn), an observatory, a church and a village hall.
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  • |name=Clifton |picture=Clifton Village - geograph.org.uk - 375099.jpg
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  • ...dthorpe]] to the south. The boundary to the west abuts the fields close to the A1237, York Outer Ring Road. Acomb was annexed to the City of York in 1934.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Acomb, in York and We
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  • ...Nottinghamshire's border. Lincoln, over the border in [[Lincolnshire]], is the nearest town to Harby. The 2011 census recorded a population of 336.
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  • ...e left bank of the [[River Foyle]],<ref name=l37>{{Samuel Lewis}}</ref> in the Barony of [[Raphoe North]].<ref name=l>{{logainm|16529|Baile Suingean / Sai ...along the R236 [[Lifford]]–[[Newtowncunningham]] road where it overlaps the R265 [[Carrigans, County Donegal|Carrigans]] to [[Raphoe]]) road, and about
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