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• Cornwall
  ...ears from Hengistbury Head in Dorset, [[Hingston Down, Devon]] to Hingston Down in Cornwall). In 875, the last recorded king of Cornwall, Dumgarth, is said ...The Cornish flag is an exact reverse of the former Breton national flag; a black cross known as the "Kroaz Du".
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• Devon
  ...hannel]] its south coast. To the west lies [[Cornwall]], and to the east [[Dorset]] and [[Somerset]]. The centre of Devonshire has rolling hills, the south ...ached parts consisting of the parish of [[Thorncombe]], locally situate in Dorset,<ref>Parish of Thorncombe: {{wmap|50.826|-2.910|zoom=14|base=outline_detach
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• Dorset
  |name=Dorset |map image=Dorset Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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• County flags
  The criteria laid down for inclusion in the Register emphasise the authoritativeness of the record [[File:Saint Wite's Cross.svg|right|100px|Dorset]]
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• British flags
  ...raditional || {{UKFlagname|Buckinghamshire}} || A white swan on a field of black and red. ...{UKFlagname|Caithness}} || A Nordic Cross in blue, edged in gold against a black background, with a galley in the canton, adorned with a raven on its main s
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• Weymouth
  |county=Dorset |constituency=South Dorset
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• St Helena
  ...edle, Lower Black Rock, Upper Black Rock (south), Bird Island (southwest), Black Rock, Thompson's Valley Island, Peaked Island, Egg Island, Lady's Chair, Li ...y, and occasionally voyaging north to Tenerife and the Isle of Portland in Dorset. It berths in James Bay, St Helena about thirty times a year.<ref>[http://w
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• Isle of Wight
  ...ect of the Isle of Wight. The highest point on the island is [[St Boniface Down]]. ...quirrel is flourishing, with a stable population ([[Brownsea Island]] in [[Dorset]] is another). Unlike most of Britain, no grey squirrels are to be found on
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• Poole
  |county=Dorset |constituency=Poole<br>Mid Dorset & North Poole
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• Poole Harbour
  ...and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the [[River Frome, Dorset|Frome]]. The harbour has a long history of human settlement stretching to ...oole was a small fishing village. The port grew and in 1433 Poole was made Dorset's Staple Port for the export of wool. Mediæval In the Middle Ages trade t
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• Chertsey
  ...England (excluding Hampshire) by more than an innings in 1778. The Duke of Dorset, (who played cricket for Chertsey), was appointed Ambassador to France in 1 ...wright. <ref>[http://www.chertseymuseum.org.uk/ Chertsey Museum]</ref> The Black Cherry Fair is an annual event which the Museum hosts. It includes live mus
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• Llŷn
  ...its new bombing school after similar locations in [[Northumberland]] and [[Dorset]] were met with protests.<ref name="Davies">Davies, ''op cit'', page 592</r ...cted visitors from the industrial cities of South [[Lancashire]] and the [[Black Country]]. As car ownership increased, the tourist industry spread to the
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• County top
  | [[Black Hill, Peak District|Black Hill]] | [[Dorset]]
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• Bourton
  *Dorset: **[[Bourton, Dorset]]
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• Yeovil
  ...' is a town in [[Somerset]]. It stands hard by the county's border with [[Dorset]], which is formed at that point by the [[River Yeo (Parrett)|River Yeo]]. The Black Death exacted a heavy toll, killing approximately half the population.<ref
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• River Wey
  {{hatnote|For the river in Dorset, see [[River Wey, Dorset]]}} ...branch is at [[Alton, Hampshire]] and of the south branch at both [[Black Down, Sussex]] south of [[Haslemere]]. The Wey has a total catchment area of 35
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• Stonehenge
  ...les Warne at [[Long Bredy]] in Dorset.<ref>Warne, Charles, 1872, ''Ancient Dorset''</ref> *Legg, Rodney, "Stonehenge Antiquaries" (Dorset Publishing Company, 1986)
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• Town and village flags of the United Kingdom
  ...alls the origins of the town and black and white stripes are for the lead (black) and silver (white) which lie beneath the village. ===Dorset===
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• Diocese of Hereford
  |1539 to 1552||'''John Skypp'''<br>(John Skip)||Archdeacon of Dorset * ''Whitaker's Almanack'' 1883 to 2004, Joseph Whitaker and Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London
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• Dawlish
  ...n sanctuary on Dawlish Water.<ref>[http://www.dawlish.gov.uk/waterfowl.htm Black Swans and other waterfowl], Dawlish Town Council website</ref> ...would have been spoken in Devon until the early Dark Ages, and may mean ''black stream''. The name was first recorded in 1044 as ''Doflisc''. By 1086 it wa
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