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• Angus
  ...by sheep. To the south and east the land is of rolling hills bordering the sea, and here are several noteworthy and well-populated towns, the greatest of ...e Lee and Mark at [[Invermark]], and thence it flows 28 miles to the North Sea north of Montrose.
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• Argyll
  Argyllshire is a large county of breathtaking scenery. It is deeply cut by sea lochs, and divided into peninsulas and scattered islands stretching into th ...y were ruled by Norse-speaking Gall-Gaels.<ref>Woolf, Alex "The Age of the Sea-Kings: 900-1300" in Omand (2006) pp. 94-95</ref>
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• Banffshire
  ...re give way further north to more rolling country with fine glens and some areas of rich plains, running down at last to the coast. The county's main rivers ...rgest lochs are in the extreme south: [[Loch Avon]] (2,500 feet above the sea), [[Loch Builg]] (1,586 feet) and [[Loch Etchachan]] (3,100 feet).
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• Berwickshire
  ...outhern boundary with Northumberland. The county can be divided into three areas; the Merse being the fertile lands along the Tweed, Lauderdale in the weste ...d and its eastern edge is its 21-mile cliff-bound coastline on the [[North Sea]].
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• Caernarfonshire
  Caernarfonshire may be reckoned to have three distinctive areas: the coastal lands (Arfon and the coast to the [[River Conwy]]), [[Snowdon The county is bounded to the north by the [[Irish Sea]], to the east by [[Denbighshire]], to the south by [[Cardigan Bay]] and [[
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• Caithness
  ...eastern tip of [[Great Britain]], bounded to the north and the east by the sea and to the west by [[Sutherland]]. Caithness is bounded on two sides by the sea and on the third by [[Sutherland]], the only shire with which it has a bord
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• Cambridgeshire
  ...e village of [[Castle Camps]] at the edge of the county, at 413 feet above sea level. The county's only notable heights are [[Little Trees Hill]] and [[Wa ...l lines from the [[Great Ouse]] (at the [[Huntingdonshire]] border) to the sea are the [[Old Bedford River]] and [[New Bedford River]], two great, tidal d
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• Cardiganshire
  ...ast of Wales, bounded on the west by [[Cardigan Bay]], part of the [[Irish Sea]], but away from the county's narrow coastal plain Cardiganshire rises up i Cardiganshire curves along the coast of Cardigan Bay, part of the [[Irish Sea]], a coast marked by fine, sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. Inland it rise
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• Carmarthenshire
  Carmarthenshire lies on the sea where the [[Bristol Channel]] is opening onto the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic ...t the most populous town is [[Llanelli]], taken together with the suburban areas around it. About half of the county's population are Welsh-speakers.
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• Cheshire
  ...e [[River Mersey]], across which lies [[Lancashire]], all the way from the sea to the mountains. To the west lie [[Flintshire]] and [[Denbighshire]], to ...e [[Manchester]] conurbation. Chester too is a major town. Outside these areas, Cheshire is mostly rural, with a number of small towns and villages that s
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• Cornwall
  ...mile of dry boundary before the Marsland Water carries the boundary to the sea again. Cornwall's only neighbouring county, across the Tamar, is [[Devon]] The north coast on the "Celtic Sea", part of the Atlantic Ocean, is more exposed to the ocean. Here plunging
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• Cromartyshire
  ...nusual in form. Cromartyshire consists of a number of physically-separated areas scattered across Ross from the east to the west coast. As Cromartyshire and ...y]] is the [[county town]]. It stands on the [[Black Isle]] on the [[North Sea]] coast, while the county's largest town, the fishing village of [[Ullapool
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• Derbyshire
  ...arm}} at [[Coton in the Elms]], Derbyshire, as the furthest point from the sea in [[Great Britain]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/30 ...eering centre. The coming of the railways brought trade to the industrial areas, while Derby was where the locomotives were made.
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• Devon
  Though modest in population, Devon is one of the largest of the British counties in area, third-largest in England and sixth-largest in the UK, and ...re ''Defnascir''. In Welsh, Devon is known as ''Dyfnaint'' and across the sea the Bretons call it ''Devnent''.
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• Dorset
  ...g of the oil-bearing strata which sweep through Britain and into the North Sea; oil is extracted from shale on the Dorset coast. ...iewer_google/googleviewer.html |title=Geology of Britain Viewer |publisher=British Geological Survey |accessdate=14 February 2011}}</ref> These vales are prim
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• County Down
  The county bears in its narrow confines contrasts of sea, loughs, low plains and lofty mountains. The south of the county is taken The [[North Channel]] and [[Irish Sea]] wash Downshire’s eastern edge; to the north is [[Belfast Lough]]; and t
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• Dunbartonshire
  ...oy]] on the side of Ben Vorlich is a long, narrow lake, 812 feet above the sea amid wild scenery. From its name the Macfarlanes took their slogan or war-c [[Gareloch]] is a sea-loch 6½ m. long and a mile wide, whose shores became popular in Glasgow's
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• County Durham
  ...h lies in the middle of the county. County Durham reaches from the [[North Sea]] coast up into the [[Pennines]], separated from [[Northumberland]] to the ...m ancient days, "sea coal" has been collected where it is washed up on the sea coast,<ref>[http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/NewcastleCoal.html ''England
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• Fife
  At Fife's eastern edge, as it projects into the [[North Sea]], is [[St Andrews]], a former monastic and archiepiscopal centre. It is al ...-eastern shore towards St Andrews it becomes a large plain, going into the sea in a long, flat, sandy beach.
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• Glamorgan
  ...lands are geographically the best environment for agriculture of the three areas.<ref name="Newman19">Newman (1995), pg 19.</ref> Settlements in the area in ...y of Swansea: Gower - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]</ref> Of all the areas, the Gower was the least affected by heavy industry and the ancient landsca
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