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  • '''Scarborough''' is a large town in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], a seaside holiday resort standing on the [[North Sea]] coast, ...eply 230 feet above the harbour onto limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by the rocky headland.
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  • ...ne of Durham''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the north of England. It is the only English county whose common name is prefixed with " ...to the north by the River Tyne and the Derwent and from the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]] by the River Tees from its source to its mouth.
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  • ...a small market town in [[Oxfordshire]], eight miles northwest of the City of [[Oxford]]. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population at 3,100. ...rthplace in 1874 of Winston Churchill (who is buried in the nearby village of [[Bladon]]).
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  • ...''' is a major city in southern Lancashire. It stands on the eastern side of the [[Mersey]] Estuary. ...at the centre of the wider "Liverpool Urban Area", which has a population of 816,216.<ref>{{cite web |title= Key Statistics for urban areas in the North
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  • '''Northwood''' is a town in the north-west of [[Middlesex]], on the county's border with [[Hertfordshire]]. ...its south-eastern neighbourhood Northwood Hills had a population (in 2001) of 10,833.<ref>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Office for National Sta
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  • ...hurnet]] by within the Staffordshire moorlands, and is known as the "Queen of the Moorlands". ...al charter in 1214, when King John granted Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester, the right to hold a weekly Wednesday market and an annual seven-day fair i
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  • ...market town in [[Cheshire]] with a population of some 50,688 souls. A man of Macclesfield is sometimes referred to as a "Maxonian". ...ht be from one of the old treacle mine" stories which abound in many parts of the land.
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  • ...ngton]] in [[Lancashire]], and downstream 16 miles to the west is the city of [[Liverpool]]. ...of private housing have been established; this has resulted in a doubling of the population from around 30,000 to its present level.
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  • |constituency=Vale of Clwyd ...] and to the south of [[St Asaph]], about 13 miles from the seaside resort of [[Rhyl]]. The town grew around the glove-making industry.
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  • ...miles north of [[Telford]] though a separate town, and some 12 miles west of [[Stafford]]. The 2001 census recorded 10,814 people living in the town's p ...-heart-of-england-in-bloom-success/ Shropshire villages are proud of Heart of England in Bloom success « Shropshire Star]</ref>
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  • ...to [[Cambridgeshire]]. It is found in the midst of rural life, at the edge of the Hertfordshire Chalk Downs as they suddenly drop to the Cambridgeshire p ...e crossroads. The A1198, known as the Old North Road follows the alignment of Ermine Street northwards.
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  • ...west of Manchester and eight miles south of [[St Helens]]. The population of the town is 80,661. Its population has more than doubled since its designat ...erged as a 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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  • ...rthwest of the city of [[Manchester]]. The town of Bolton has a population of 139,403,<ref name=TownsTablePop>{{cite web |url=http://www.lovemytown.co.uk ...sult Bolton was stormed by 3,000&nbsp;Royalist troops led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in 1644. In what became known as the Bolton Massacre, 1,600&nbsp;
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  • ...e days of King Henry II, and before then as the heart of the Norse Kingdom of Dublin, leaving the city with a vast historical heritage. ==Name of the city==
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  • ...p into a broad estuary between [[Flintshire]] and the [[Wirral]] peninsula of [[Cheshire]]. ==Natural course of the river==
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  • ...shire]]. Under its historic name of '''Aber Garth Celyn''' it was the seat of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, known as Llywelyn the Last. ...five miles east of [[Bangor, Caernarfonshire|Bangor]] and eight miles west of [[Conwy]]. The road separates the village from the sea, though beyond the
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  • [[File:Flag of Powys.svg|right|thumb|200px|Banner of the House of Mathrafal]] [[File:Medieval_Wales.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Mediaeval kingdoms of Wales]]
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  • [[File:Flag of Gwynedd.png|right|thumb|200px|Banner of the House of Aberffraw]] ...in", and in its last days the rulers of Gwynedd attained the title "Prince of Wales".
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  • {{county|Chester}} ...nd wooded and the river blue beneath, openining into the Longdendale Chain of man-made lakes.
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