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• Manx National Heritage
  [[File:Man douglas 02.JPG|thumb|200px|Manx National Museum, Douglas]] [[File:Manx-museum.JPG|thumb|Sign at the museum]]
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• Buxton
  ...the capital of the Peak District, stands between the lower, pastured hills and the forbidding High Peak. The main shopping street is pedestrianised, and has an indoor shopping centre.
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• Liverpool
  ...e fourth largest city in the United Kingdom, with a population of 435,500, and lies at the centre of the wider "Liverpool Urban Area", which has a populat ...as a major port. By the 18th century, trade from the West Indies, Ireland and Europe coupled with the Atlantic slave trade furthered the economic expansi
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• Stoke-on-Trent
  ...rimarily industrial conurbation, it is now a centre for service industries and distribution centres. ...k its name from the town of [[Stoke-upon-Trent]], where the administration and chief mainline railway station were located. After the union, [[Hanley, Sta
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• Crewe
  |constituency=Crewe and Nantwich ...ad a population of 67,683. Crewe is best known as a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works, for many years a major railway engineering facility, b
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• Stockport
  ...vated ground on the [[River Mersey]], where the rivers [[River Goyt|Goyt]] and [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] meet to become the infant River Mersey, 6 m ...ntre of Stockport the Mersey, which forms the boundary, has been culverted and the main shopping street, ''Merseyway'', built above it.
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• Derby
  |name=Derby |picture=Riverside Gardens, Derby - geograph.org.uk - 279928.jpg
  18 KB (2,855 words) - 08:17, 10 July 2018
• Preston
  |constituency=Preston, Wyre and Preston North ...name Preston is derived from Old English words meaning "Priest settlement" and in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' appears as "Prestune".
  21 KB (3,338 words) - 08:41, 31 March 2016
• Warrington
  ...owley. It lies 16 miles east of [[Liverpool]], 19 miles west of Manchester and eight miles south of [[St Helens]]. The population of the town is 80,661. I ...market town at a bridging point of the river. A local tradition of textile and tool production dates from this time.
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• Bolton
  ...what became known as the Bolton Massacre, 1,600 residents were killed and 700 were taken prisoner. ...d. The British cotton industry declined sharply after the First World War, and by the 1980s cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in Bolton.
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• Loughborough
  ...ghborough''' is a town in [[Leicestershire]], the largest after Leicester, and a town famed for sport. ...k within the Queens Park in the town, Great Paul for St. Paul's Cathedral, and York Minster.
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• Nottingham
  ...ban area in the [[United Kingdom]], ranking between those of [[Liverpool]] and [[Sheffield]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/t ...rter as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1897 and has since been officially titled the "City of Nottingham".
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• Swindon
  |picture caption=Rooftops and the David Murray John Tower ...town in northern [[Wiltshire]], midway between [[Bristol]], 40 miles west and [[Reading]], 40 miles east. It is a modern, developed town, often assumed
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• Leigh, Lancashire
  |picture caption=Leigh Parish Church and the Boar's Head ...and to the north west of [[Chat Moss]], four miles southeast of [[Wigan]], and 12½ miles west of [[Manchester]].
  30 KB (4,552 words) - 08:23, 19 September 2019
• Salford
  |constituency=Salford and Eccles ...Salford Hundred or [[Salfordshire]], which encompasses Salford, Manchester and much of south-eastern Lancashire.
  45 KB (6,733 words) - 19:06, 22 October 2019
• Stretford
  |constituency=Stretford and Urmston ...the east, and the towns of [[Urmston]] to the west, Salford to the north, and [[Sale]] to the south. The [[Bridgewater Canal]] bisects the town.
  21 KB (3,167 words) - 10:37, 19 September 2019
• Chelsea
  |LG district=Kensington and Chelsea |constituency=Chelsea and Fulham
  24 KB (3,591 words) - 10:17, 30 January 2021
• Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
  ...nd 10 miles north-east of [[Derby]], on the border between Nottinghamshire and [[Derbyshire]]. ...dly during the Industrial Revolution. The Midland Railway was formed here, and it is the birthplace of D H Lawrence.
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• Peak District
  ...nines. The Peak itself trespasses outside it own county into [[Cheshire]] and [[Yorkshire]]. The [[County top|highest point]] of [[Staffordshire]] is in ...uncompromising fell country, high, steep, wind-blasted, unsullied by roads and unpeopled.
  44 KB (6,703 words) - 10:17, 24 December 2016
• Mentmore Towers
  ...1958) Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Pelican History of Art), London, Penguin Books, p.73</ref><ref>IoE|42105|Mentmore House}}</ref> ...om the Italian Renaissance, although the house also contains drawing rooms and cabinets decorated in the gilded styles of late 18th-century France.<ref>Cr
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