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  • |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of London arms.svg
    23 KB (3,046 words) - 17:49, 23 May 2018
  • |flag=Flag of Middlesex.svg ...ost populous, almost entirely forming part of the metropolitan conurbation of [[London]].
    16 KB (2,522 words) - 17:27, 28 January 2023
  • |flag=County Flag of Wiltshire.svg |county town=[[Salisbury]]
    13 KB (1,870 words) - 13:20, 20 August 2020
  • ...[[Aberdeen]]. The ancient parish together with that of the nearby village of [[St Vigeans]] form a combined civil parish. ...A new harbour was built in 1839 and by the 1900s, Arbroath had become one of the larger fishing ports in Scotland.
    18 KB (2,717 words) - 17:38, 29 January 2016
  • ...t is seven miles east of [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] and 3½ miles west of [[Bracknell]]. ...t industry, brick-making, has given way to software development (like much of eastern Berkshire), light engineering and service industries. In 2007 Hali
    7 KB (1,104 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2016
  • ...le of the place (eye-zul) has no relation to any 'isle' and is an instance of a counterintuitive place name. However in this instance it can be argued th ...ff Thomas Brigge or Berigge, clerk, on a plea of debt, with Richard Beaupe of Thistelworth, Middx</ref>
    32 KB (5,049 words) - 12:42, 23 January 2020
  • ...s, as well as various animal bones and traces of charcoal from the remains of campfires.<ref name="Cotton p.8"/> ...l centre, and is the location of Brunel University and the Uxbridge campus of Buckinghamshire New University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bucks.ac.uk/abou
    32 KB (4,924 words) - 10:50, 28 July 2016
  • ...h is the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire. ...n centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth-century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older
    20 KB (3,101 words) - 23:18, 16 November 2018
  • ...iver Yeo and the A30 road, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, 6 miles east of [[Yeovil]]. Much of the town, including many mediæval and Georgian buildings, is built from di
    6 KB (884 words) - 12:12, 7 August 2014
  • |post town=Salisbury ...shire]] and [[Wiltshire]]. The village has formed part of the civil parish of [[Landford]] since 2017.
    2 KB (252 words) - 17:53, 11 August 2022
  • ...n in [[Pembrokeshire]], the county's most populous town, with a population of 13,367 in 2001. ...The Welsh language name is said by BG Charles to be "merely a corruption of the English name", and as such has no meaning in Welsh. Another notion is t
    11 KB (1,712 words) - 14:44, 19 May 2021
  • ...Henry VIII in 1539. The Old Town still remains and is the prettiest part of town. The biggest change for the town was after Second World War when Heme ...d Hemel Hempstead "The most attractive town in Herts".<ref>''The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire'' by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner</ref> This however was bef
    28 KB (4,392 words) - 11:47, 13 November 2020
  • ...s old origins but is also a new town and bears the development of that age of post-war enthusiasm. ...ce the days of Sir Robert Cecil, the First Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of King James I.
    7 KB (1,149 words) - 13:12, 3 August 2017
  • '''Christchurch''' is a town in [[Hampshire]] on the south coast of [[Great Britain]]. The town adjoins [[Bournemouth]] in the west and the [[N ...ally named Twynham but became known as Christchurch following the building of the priory in 1094.
    29 KB (4,437 words) - 09:29, 30 March 2017
  • ...lt on the banks of the [[River Wey]] and is a prosperous if far-flung part of the [[London commuter belt]]. ...alming Hundred. The estate of ''æt Godelmingum'' is mentioned in the will of King Alfred the Great, its name apparently from ''Godhelmingas'' meaning "G
    10 KB (1,588 words) - 22:44, 28 January 2016
  • |LG district=Vale of White Horse ...on]]. The parish includes the village of [[Bayworth]] and the eastern part of [[Boars Hill]].
    2 KB (337 words) - 17:18, 20 September 2011
  • ...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
    34 KB (5,393 words) - 12:57, 30 March 2016
  • ...to the north. It is 18 miles north of [[Brighton]] and 32 miles north-east of the [[county town]], [[Chichester]]. Crawley is a New Town, designated in Crawley is within the Rape of Lewes.
    24 KB (3,764 words) - 07:08, 19 September 2019
  • |name=Salisbury |picture=Salisbury Cathedral.jpg
    22 KB (3,618 words) - 15:30, 28 October 2022
  • ...hire]], found 13 miles east of [[Bath]]. In the 2001 census the population of the town was recorded as 28,065. ...r Avon, Somerset|River Avon]] and is believed to have existed as some form of settlement since before Roman times. It was a royal vill, and probably a ro
    20 KB (3,050 words) - 12:38, 14 October 2014

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