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• Alnwick
  '''Alnwick''' (pronounced {{IPA|ænɪk}}) is a small market town in northern [[Northumberland]] of some 8,000 people, 32 miles south of [[Berwi ...at of the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland gave it a pre-eminence. In mediæval times the House of Percy, Earls of Northumberland, were the most
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• Fife
  ...e Royal Navy's major base and dockyard at [[Rosyth]]. Further up the coast in the waist of the shire is the county's largest town [[Kirkcaldy]], an ancie ...tern shore towards St Andrews it becomes a large plain, going into the sea in a long, flat, sandy beach.
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• Hertfordshire
  ...bation and indeed partly within it, has several large towns, in particular in the south of the county. Several major roads, including the M1 and M25 moto ...e west where the [[Chiltern Hills]] sweep across the county. The hills at in the north of the county have a steep chalk scarp which forms the boundary w
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• Midlothian
  |picture=Arthurs seat edinburgh.jpg |picture caption=Edinburgh and Arthur's Seat
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• Orkney
  ...lands’ capital is [[Kirkwall]] on Mainland.<ref>Lamb, Raymond "Kirkwall" in Omand (2003)</ref> In addition to the Mainland, most of the islands are in two groups, the North and South Isles, all of which have an underlying geo
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• Selkirkshire
  The '''County of Selkirk''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the Southern Uplands. The county borders [[Peeblesshire]] to the west, [[M Almost the whole of Selkirkshire is hillside and its only low ground is in the dales watered by its larger rivers.
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• Yell
  ...h Isles of [[Shetland]]: the most northly inhabited island after [[Unst]]. In the 2001 it had a usually resident population of 957. ...eries). Richmond. Crimson Publishing.</ref> and is the third most populous in the archipelago, coming after the Mainland and [[Whalsay]].<ref name=Smith/
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• Colinton
  {{county|Edinburgh}} [[File:Colinton village.jpg|thumb|275px|Bridge Street, Colinton in 2005]]
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• Surrey
  The '''County of Surrey''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". ...ckinghamshire]] to the north-west. Its southern border is with [[Sussex]] in the hills. To the east lies [[Kent]] and to the west [[Hampshire]] and [[B
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• Aberdeen
  ...The city has a long, sandy coastline. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the ''Oil Capital of Europe'' or the ' ...d textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. In consequence, Aberdeen has become a major world centre for engineering exper
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• Ecclesmachan
  |picture caption=Cottages in Ecclesmachan ...01, the population of the civil parish of Ecclesmachan was 529 and was 811 in 1991.
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• Inverurie
  '''Inverurie''' is a Royal Burgh and parish in [[Aberdeenshire]], approximately 16 miles north-west of [[Aberdeen]] on the ...angular and is dominated by the grand "Town Hall" built in the late 1800s. In the middle of the "square" (as it is known locally) is the Inverurie War Me
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• Dundee
  ...on the north bank of the [[Firth of Tay]]. It is the fourth-largest city in [[Scotland]]. .... The town developed into a burgh in Mediæval times, and expanded rapidly in the 19th century largely due to the jute industry. This, along with its oth
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• Chepstow
  '''Chepstow''' is a town in south-eastern [[Monmouthshire]], adjoining the border with [[Gloucestershir ...on the eastern bank of the Wye, [[Tutshill]] and [[Sedbury]], are located in Gloucestershire.
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• Manchester
  ...and contiguous towns, Manchester has highest population of any urban area in the United Kingdom after [[London]]. Manchester sits in the low ground of southern Lancashire drained by the [[River Mersey|Mersey]
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• Eyemouth
  ...hers). Many of the features of a traditional fishing village are preserved in the narrow streets and vennels - giving shelter from the sea and well suite ...rench troops. It was demolished again under the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis in 1559. Traces of the ramparts are still to be seen.
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• Lauder
  ...gh of '''Lauder''' is a town in [[Berwickshire]], 27 miles south-east of [[Edinburgh]]. It stands on the edge of the [[Lammermuir Hills]], on the Southern Upla ..., editor, ''Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland 1547-1603'', Edinburgh, 1969, vol. XIII, Part 1, number 156, pps: 205, 207-8</ref>
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• Bedford
  ...to estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town of [[Kempston]]. The wider borough, including a rural ar Bedford is the major residential and commercial town in northern Bedfordshire. It stands on the banks of the [[Great Ouse]], the h
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• Stromness
  ...inland, Orkney|Mainland]] where [[Scapa Flow]] opens to the Atlantic Ocean in Hoy Sound. ...ss the Hoy Sound from the Ness) and to [[Graemsay]], the island which lies in the middle of the Sound.
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• Birkenhead
  ...the west bank of the [[River Mersey]], opposite the city of [[Liverpool]] in [[Lancashire]]. Birkenhead is best known as a centre for ship building, as ...kenhead to [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]] with the ''MS Ben-my-Chree''. (In the summer the Manx service runs from Liverpool on faster craft, the heavie
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