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• Blackpool
  '''Blackpool''' is a large seaside town in [[Lancashire]]. It is stands on the sandy beaches of the [[Fylde]] peninsul In comparison with some Lancashire’s other great towns, Blackpool did not ri
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• Corstorphine
  [[File:Corstorphine signpost.jpg|thumb|280px|Signpost in Corstorphine]] '''Corstorphine''' is a village and ancient parish in [[Midlothian]], to the west of [[Edinburgh]] and now considered a suburb of
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• Morayshire
  ...nds, but two large, detached portions of Moray are inland, locally situate in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire interposes its ...leys, divided by low hills, producing crops and livestock. Further inland, in the detached portion, the fields rise to the mountains.
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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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• 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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• Dollar
  '''Dollar''' is a small town in [[Clackmannanshire]]. It is one of the [[Hillfoots Villages]], situated bet ..., and much information about the former Devon Valley Railway, which closed in the 1970s.
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• Alloa
  [[File:ALLOA TOWER MAIN ENTRANCE BUILT IN C14TH.JPG|thumb|250px|Alloa Tower 14th-century main entrance]] '''Alloa''' is a small town and parish in [[Clackmannanshire]], on the north bank of the [[River Forth]], seven miles
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• Irvine, Ayrshire
  ...[[Firth of Clyde]], in [[Ayrshire]]. It is however a very old new town: in the 12th century Irvine was Scotland's military capital and held the headqu ...roduce Royal Charters showing that the town had the right to control trade in the Baronies of Cunninghame and Largs. The dispute was resolved by Robert I
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• Kilmarnock
  | picture caption=Glasgow Road, Kilmarnock ...|Kilmarnock Water]] passes through it, whose riverbank names 'Bank Street' in the town.<ref name="Smellie">Smellie (1898).</ref>
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• Barrow-in-Furness
  | name= Barrow-in-Furness | post town= Barrow-in-Furness
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• Millport, Great Cumbrae
  ...e only town on the island of [[Great Cumbrae]], an island of [[Buteshire]] in the [[Firth of Clyde]]. The town is four miles south from the Caledonian Ma ...inds of visitors and residents. Millport has the smallest extant cathedral in the British Isles, belonging to the [[Scottish Episcopal Church]].<ref>[htt
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• Stonehaven
  ...and [[Garron Point]]. The harbour, consisting of two basins, was improved in the 1820s by the engineer Robert Stevenson and became an important centre o Stonehaven has grown rapidly since the oil boom in Aberdeen. The increasing demand for new, middle-class housing has seen four
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• Linlithgow
  ...as started (on an older site) in 1424 by James I of Scotland. It was burnt in 1746, and while unroofed is still largely complete although very few of the ...th modern traffic as there are only three places where each can be crossed in the town.
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• Liverpool
  '''Liverpool''' is a major city in southern Lancashire. It stands on the eastern side of the [[Mersey]] Estua ...pulation of 816,216.<ref>{{cite web |title= Key Statistics for urban areas in the North – Contents, Introduction, Tables KS01 – KS08 |publisher = Of
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• Longton, Staffordshire
  ...is one of the six towns joined together in 1910 to form [[Stoke-on-Trent]] in [[Staffordshire]]. Longton is the southernmost of the six towns and is kno The local novelist Arnold Bennett referred to Longton as ''Longshaw'' in his novels centred on the Potteries towns.
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• Edinburgh
  ...ian]], is the capital city of [[Scotland]], and the second largest after [[Glasgow]]. It is said to be Britain's most beautiful city. Edinburgh stands close t ...grand Georgian New Town, all together making Edinburgh a city magnificent in its bearing.
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• Crewe
  ...for many years a major railway engineering facility, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car pr ...after the ancient township of Crewe, today's Crewe is a new creation built in another parish, and so the town is named after the railway station.
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• Londonderry
  ...is the county town of [[County Londonderry]], and the second-biggest city in [[Northern Ireland]]. The city stands at the mouth of the [[River Foyle]] ...the city proper (the area defined by its 17th-century charter) was 83,652 in the 2001 Census, while the wider urban area had a population of 90,663.<ref
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• Corby
  ...eased in March 2010 revealed that Corby has the fastest growing population in England and Wales. ...out 24 miles north-east of the county town, [[Northampton]] and is located in what was once the Royal Hunting Forest of Rockingham Forest.
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• Clydebank
  ...is in wharfs and shipbuilding, serving the vast Clyde traffic generated by Glasgow, and received a name as a town when the Clydebank police burgh was incorpor ...nds of the county to become what it is today and to become contiguous with Glasgow.
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