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• Cumberland
  ...and by high mountain peaks and Ullswater, while the [[Furness Fells]] of [[Lancashire]] are to the west, divided from Cumberland by the [[River Duddon]]. ...anic auxiliaries were posted on the frontier. Ultimately Rome abandoned ''Britannia'' in 410 and left the native kings to look after their own.
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• Holyhead
  ...y waters on their way to [[Liverpool]] and the other industrial ports of [[Lancashire]]. Holyhead's sea heritage is remembered in a maritime museum. ...completed on the extension of the A55 "North Wales Expressway" from the [[Britannia Bridge]] to Holyhead, giving the town a dual carriageway connection to the
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• Workington
  ...mes to AD 1865'', Richard Byers Pub. Cockermouth</ref> William Camden's ''Britannia'' (late sixteenth century) describes ruins of the coastal defences at Worki ===William Camden's ''Britannia'' (1586)===
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• Pennines
  ...rm a substantial physical barrier between the towns of [[Yorkshire]] and [[Lancashire]]. The Pennines are separated from the Lakeland Fells of [[Cumberland]] an ...great rivers of northern England, including the [[River Calder, Lancashire|Lancashire Calder]] and [[River Calder, Yorkshire|Yorkshire Calder]], [[River Eden|Ede
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• British Isles
  ...p.&nbsp;68.</ref> The shift from the "P" of ''Pretannia'' to the "B" of ''Britannia'' by the Romans occurred during the time of Julius Caesar.<ref>#refSnyder20 ...t of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Great Britain, after which ''Britannia'' became the more common-place name for Great Britain. ''Great Britain'' wo
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• Lincoln
  ...as even the provincial capital of Flavia Caesariensis when the province of Britannia Inferior was subdivided in the early 4th century, but then it and its water ...ing transferred to the Ruston Diesels Division in [[Newton-le-Willows]], [[Lancashire]] of GEC at the former Vulcan Foundry, which was eventually bought by the G
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• Snowdonia
  ...derives from Snowdon. An earlier name was the Forest of Snowdon, in his ''Britannia'' of 1586, William Camden, who lavished unrestrained praise on the Snowdon William Camden in ''Britannia'' did not stint on praise for the Forest of Snowdon, but said that they are
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• England
  ...ocean that flows round the earth. In it are two very large islands called Britannia; these are Albion and Ierne [Ireland]".<ref name="massey"/> The word ''Albi ...k to raiding the eastern coats of Britain, and after the Roman abandoned ''Britannia'' the island was open to invasion. The ancestral English came in the next
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• Wigan
  |county=Lancashire ...ancashire]]. It stands in the south of the county, on the [[River Douglas, Lancashire|River Douglas]], eight miles south-west of [[Bolton]], 10 miles north of [[
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• Bacup
  |county=Lancashire '''Bacup''' is a town in [[Lancashire]], sitting amongst the southern [[Pennines]], close to the border with the
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• River Irwell
  The '''River Irwell''' is a river in in [[Lancashire]], 39 miles long from source to its outlet into the [[River Mersey]] and th ...ar [[Farnworth]] before turning southeast through [[Kearsley]], [[Clifton, Lancashire|Clifton]] and [[Agecroft]].
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• Glossop
  ...City of [[Manchester]], and near Derbyshire's borders with [[Cheshire]], [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]]. Glossop's transport links to Manchester make it a pop The American Civil War caused the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861–4. The mill owners met together and put in place a
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• Craven
  ...gna Britannia et Hibernia Antiqua Nova'" [http://www.onread.com/book/Magna-Britannia-Et-Hibernia-Antiqua-Nova-Or-a-New-Survey-of-Great-Britain-176118 read onlin ...man road linking two major centres: ''Bremetennacum'' at [[Ribchester]] in Lancashire and ''Olicana'' at [[Ilkley]] in Yorkshire. To the west of Craven another r
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• Preesall
  |county=Lancashire '''Preesall''' is a small town in [[Lancashire]] on the eastern bank of the estuary of the [[River Wyre]]. Its civil pari
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• Peak District
  ...ties of [[Manchester]] and [[Sheffield]] and other industrial centres of [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]], coupled with easy access by road and rail, have contri ...used, though locally it is also "The Peak". William Caden wrote in his ''Britannia'':
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• Huddersfield Narrow Canal
  ...with the [[Ashton Canal]] at Whitelands Basin in [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Lancashire]]. It crosses the [[Pennines]] by means of 74 locks and the Standedge Tunne ...ugh [[Saddleworth]] and thence across into Lancashire to the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] valley to the [[Ashton Canal]] near [[Ashton-under-Lyne]]. There wer
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• Edinburgh Castle
  ...al.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/scoteng.html#loth4 |chapter=Lauden or Lothien |title=Britannia}}</ref> According to the 17th-century antiquarian Father Richard Hay, the ...vy guns with which to respond, and by November they had marched south to [[Lancashire]], leaving Edinburgh to the castle garrison.<ref>Gibson, p.56</ref>
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• Helsby
  ...iginally built in the 1880s by the Telegraph Manufacturing Company, as the Britannia Telegraph Works, the factory was used to manufacture cables, and was most r ...visitors can see across [[Lancashire]], past [[Bolton]], to [[Winter Hill, Lancashire|Winter Hill]]; in mid-morning (when the sun is reflecting off it), it is of
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• East Midlands Airport
  ...ned airport operator, which is controlled by ten borough councils in South Lancashire and North Cheshire, the controlling stake held by Manchester City Council. [[File:G-BHWE-Boeing737-1197.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Britannia Airways Boeing 737 operating holiday charters in 1982]]
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• Wade's Causeway
  ...arv | last=Camden| first=William | editor=Edward Gibson| year=1722 | title=Britannia, or a Geographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland | publisher=Uni ...| ref=harv | last=Frere | first=Sheppard | year=1987 | edition=3rd | title=Britannia: A History of Roman Britain | publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul | isbn=0-710
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