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• Orkney
  ...as an area of 202 square miles making it the tenth-largest island in the [[British Isles]]. The largest town and the islands’ capital is [[Kirkwall]] on Mai ...islands a remarkable record of past ages. The islands have been inhabited for at least 8,500 years, as Mesolithic and Neolithic folk have left their mark
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• Somerset
  ...onal work in the wetlands is the cultivation of withies, or willow shoots, for basket weaving and fencing. ...monplace across the county. Consequent upon the apples, Somerset is known for the brewing of strong cider.
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• Wiltshire
  ...eets. Important country houses dot the landscape and many [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] properties. ...m.php?id=246|title=Wiltshire Community History: Wilton|publisher=Wiltshire Council|accessdate=13 December 2010}}</ref> itself named after the [[River Wylye]],
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• County Kilkenny
  | title = The geography of British history ...ith Laois. It is generally accompanied by culm, which was used extensively for burning lime.
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• Aberdeen
  ...erdeen's seaport. In consequence, Aberdeen has become a major world centre for engineering expertise. ...ith it was the nearby [[Forest of Stocket]], whose income formed the basis for the city's Common Good Fund, which still benefits Aberdonians.<ref name="ke
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• Arbroath
  ...m |title=A glimpse of old Arbroath |accessdate=2007-01-06 |publisher=Angus Council }}</ref> There is evidence for settlement of the area now occupied by the town that dates back to the Iron
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• Carrickfergus
  | LG district=Carrickfergus Borough Council ...y' well into the 17th century. Carrickfergus and the surrounding area was, for a time, administered separately from the rest of County Antrim as a county
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• Chepstow
  ...notable for its castle, the oldest surviving stone castle in Britain, and for Chepstow Racecourse which hosts the Welsh Grand National. The majority of ...ing market place. The Welsh name for the town, ''Cas-gwent'' (being short for ''Castell Gwent''), means "castle of Gwent", the name [[Gwent]] itself deri
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• Manchester
  ...– The State of the City|accessdate=2007-09-11|publisher=Manchester City Council|year=2007}}</ref> ...Latin ''castra''.<ref name="Place names">{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/pages/Subjects_and_Titles__2
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• National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
  ...ot operate in [[Scotland]], where there is an independent [[National Trust for Scotland]]. ...gest membership organisation in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest British charities by both income and assets.
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• Caerleon
  ...ortress of the legion"; the Romans themselves called it ''Isca'', a native British name referring apparently to the [[River Usk]]. ...s late as 380 AD.<ref>[http://www.caerleon.net/history/dig/2008/index.html Archaeology at Caerleon 2008]</ref> Roman remains have also been discovered at The Mynd
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• Oxford
  Noted for its dreaming spires, the city attracts vast numbers of tourists who visit t ...d indeed the largest town on the Thames above [[Middlesex]]. Though famed for scholarship, it is a town of industry too.
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• Liverpool
  ...orth – Contents, Introduction, Tables KS01 – KS08 |publisher = Office for National Statistics |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ ...mat=PDF|title=Report on the Nominations from the United Kingdom and Norway for the European Capital of Culture 2008|accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref>
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• Exeter
  ...o a wide flood plain and estuary. The Cathedral atop the ridge is visible for many miles around. ...History of the City of Exeter'', it is noted that the most likely reasons for the original settling of what would become modern Exeter was the "fertility
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• Brentford
  ...o Members of Parliament took place in Brentford from 1701.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22575 'Ealing and Brentford: Growth of Bren ...pronounced today), becoming ''Brentford'' by 1016. The root ''Bregent'', for the river is of unknown origin; some have suggested an origin in the name o
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• Ealing
  The Saxon name for Ealing was recorded around 700 as ''Gillingas'', the name of a small local ...o mean 'sons of Gilla'<ref>Room, Adrian: "Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles", Bloomsbury, 1988</ref> but such an origin or founding myth is dispu
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• Manhood
  ...r, its southern headland being [[Selsey Bill]].<ref>Peninsular Partnersip. Archaeology in the peninsula.</ref> ...The Domesday Hundreds of Sussex. pp.209-220. - notes and statistics given for the individual Sussex hundreds of Domesday Book.</ref> The area of each hun
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• Runcorn
  ...original village has grown to include what were outlying villages. Except for chemicals, all the old industries have disappeared, and there has been dive ...|title=Runcorn New Town |accessdate=28 June 2007 |publisher=Halton Borough Council}}</ref> The Central Expressway runs through the centre of the town in a nor
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• Stockport
  ...ntury was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, and known for the cultivation of hemp and rope manufacture and in the 18th century the to ...come from the banks of the Mersey at Daw Bank; these were possibly buried for safekeeping at the side of a road.<ref name=Arr18>{{Harvnb|Arrowsmith|1997|
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• Derby
  ...ine Georgian and Victorian town centre with vast swathes of industrial and council-built neighbourhoods, affluent neighbourhoods and poor neighbourhoods with ...r the road, a move still criticised today. Thus the 2nd edition of Pevsner for Derbyshire wrote:- '...the character and cohesion of the centre has been c
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