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• Scarborough
  ...World War. Both bays have popular sandy beaches and numerous rock-pools at low tide. ...ll active, though only a shadow of its former self. The working harbour is home to a fish market including a shop and wooden stalls where fishermen sell fr
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• Derbyshire
  ...hills, culminating in the [[Peak District]], which merges into the Pennine chain. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derb [[File:Arbor low 274167 560a8cc3.jpg|thumb|250px|Arbor Low]]
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• Fife
  ...s the county's largest town [[Kirkcaldy]], an ancient trading port and the home town of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. ...o the seat of one of Britain's oldest universities. St Andrews is also the home of golf; the games was invented or here or took its shape here, at the Roya
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• Northumberland
  ...hat undisturbed rural Northumberland seacoast. The coastline is generally low-lying and rocky, with numerous little bays and modest villages. Inland, Northumberland is a county of fells and dales, part of the Pennine chain. The fells fill most of the county, bleak and beautiful and largely unpopu
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• Littleport
  ...of 1816 after war-weary veterans from the Battle of Waterloo had returned home, only to find that they could get no work and the grain prices had gone up. Thomas Peacock, who founded the gentlemen's tailoring chain Hope Brothers, was born in Littleport in 1829. The first Hope Brothers shir
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• Manchester
  Manchester sits in the low ground of southern Lancashire drained by the [[River Mersey|Mersey]] basin ...eams, Manchester United and Manchester City, and just outside the city the home ground of Lancashire County Cricket Club. Manchester was the host of the 2
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• Eyemouth
  ...<ref>Historic Manuscripts Commission, ''Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B.'', London, 1902: 26.</ref> All landowners (porti ...ry 17, 1629, Alexander Lauder of Gunsgreen, acting as bailie for Sir David Home of Wedderburn, gave a sasine to Andrew Gray in Eyemouth, of some land on th
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• Dunwich
  ...s |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=10 October 2005 |title=Low Tide Reveals Lost City Find}}</ref> ...Street near [[Darsham]]. The CH system was supplemented with [[Chain Home Low]] (CHL) stations which, though having a shorter range, could detect much lo
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• Twickenham
  ...y aphoristic poet Alexander Pope. Among these is the Neo-Gothic prototype home of Horace Walpole which has given its name to a whole district, Strawberry ...mell, which caused objections from local residents. The area was also soon home to the world's first industrial production facility for gunpowder, on a sit
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• Gibraltar
  ...of the Mediterranean. It is a peninsula of 2.6 square miles connceted by a low-lying isthmus to the north with the European mainland. Its only land front ...or landmark of the region. At its foot is the densely populated city area, home to almost 30,000 Gibraltarians and other nationalities. The city now spread
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• Ulverston
  The town is home to many shops and pubs, some of which are located on the main street, Marke ...reaching out to the Westmorland boundary. South of the town is relatively low land. To the north are hills such as [[Coniston Old Man]].
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• Tiree
  ...its neighbour, [[Coll]], and in contrast to mountainous [[Mull]], it is a low-lying island; its highest point is Ben Hynish in the south of the island, a ...heavin for heiland galayis".{{#tag:ref|English translation from Scots: "a low-lying fertile fruitful country... Its entirety is inhabited and manured and
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• Bridgend
  ...Crack Hill", a Roman road. The Vale of Glamorgan would have been a natural low-level route west to the Roman fort and harbour at [[Neath]] (''Nidum'') fro Bridgend played an important part during the Second World War. It was home to a prisoner of war camp at Island Farm and a large munitions factory (ROF
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• Christchurch
  ...(1995) ''intro''.</ref> The harbour is a protected wildlife refuge and is home to large populations of swans, waders and other bird life. On the south sid ...It contains areas of salt marsh and freshwater marsh with reed beds and is home to grazing horses, rare birds, and 14 species of rare or endangered plants.
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• Basingstoke
  Basingstoke is an economic centre with low unemployment, and is the location of the UK headquarters of several substan ...became famous after he invented Gabardine and Milward founded the Milwards chain of shoe shops, which could be found on almost every high street until the 1
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• Portsmouth
  '''Portsmouth''' in [[Hampshire]] is the home of the Royal Navy, for which it is the greatest and most famous port. Port ...s, Portsmouth is home to the world's oldest dry dock still in use and also home to some famous ships, including the HMS ''Warrior'' and Lord Nelson's flags
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• Woolwich
  ...until it started to become a leading military and industrial town. It was home to the Woolwich Dockyard (founded in 1512), the Royal Arsenal (dating back Woolwich was home to the experimental Auto Stacker car park. Built on the site of the Empire
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• Norwich
  ...y housing a Hanseatic warehouse. To organise and control its export to the Low Countries, [[Great Yarmouth]], as the port for Norwich, was designated one ...ssident minorities, notably the French Huguenots and the Walloons from the Low Countries in the 16th and 17th centuries. The merchant's house—now a muse
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• Durness
  ...pped by Cambrian Quartzite. Therefore the local area is generally flatter, low lying and more fertile than other areas in the North West Highlands due to ...ain Home radar station at Sango near Durness. There was also a Chain Home Low radar station at Sango. After the war there was also a ROTOR radar station
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• Helmsdale
  ...a fishing port at the estuary of the [[River Helmsdale]], and was once the home of one of the largest herring fleets in Europe. The river itself is well kn ...onan, who had spent 17 years in the goldfields of Australia. On his return home, he was given the permission by the Duke of Sutherland to pan the gravels o
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