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• Aberdeenshire
  The highest of the macadamized roads crossing the eastern Grampians rises to a point 2,200 feet above sea-level.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p Over the 20th century road and air communications were much improved. [[Aberdeen Airport]] is an inter
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• County Antrim
  ...nties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on [[Northern Ireland|Ulster's]] north-eastern coast. It is bounded almost all round by water; the sea to the north and ea From the eastern coast the hills rise instantly but less abruptly, and the indentations are
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• Ayrshire
  ...[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in Lowland [[Scotland]], along the eastern shore of the [[Firth of Clyde]] and inland to the hills. It is bounded by Antiquarian remains include cairns in Galston, Sorn and other localities; a road supposed to be a work of the Romans, which extended from Ayr, through Dalry
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• Berwickshire
  ...hian]]. The [[River Tweed]] forms the boundary with Northumberland and its eastern edge is its 21-mile cliff-bound coastline on the [[North Sea]]. ...the confluence of the Leet and Tweed near Coldstream gave access to south-eastern Scotland. Edward I crossed it with his army in 1296, encamping at Hutton t
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• Brecknockshire
  ...sterly direction through the central valley. The [[Gospel Pass]], the high road pass at the scarp edge of the mountains, at the head of the [[Vale of Ewyas ===Road===
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• Caernarfonshire
  ...nty is part of Vale of Conwy, with the [[River Conwy]] forming much of the eastern boundary. [[Llandudno]] and [[Creuddyn]] forms a small peninsula to the nor ...the Menai Strait was built from Anglesey to Caernarfonshire, and Telford's road. This was followed by the railway and a new bridge over the Strait, all of
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• Menai Strait
  ...it was rebuilt as a steel box girder bridge, and now carries both rail and road traffic. Much of the land on Anglesey at the eastern end of the strait is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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• Caithness
  ...It is a triangular [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] at the north-eastern tip of [[Great Britain]], bounded to the north and the east by the sea and ...ch two points lie 603 miles apart as the crow flies, and some 874 miles by road. North of Caithness across the [[Pentland Firth]] lie the islands of [[Ork
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• Cornwall
  ...mild air coming from the south west brings higher amounts of rainfall than eastern Great Britain, at 41.4 to 50.8 inches a year, however not as much as m ...est on the river was the stone "New Bridge" at [[Gunnislake]], bearing the road to [[Tavistock]].
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• Derbyshire
  North-eastern Derbyshire, dominated by the town of [[Chesterfield]], has long been an ind ...till a major industry: a lot of the stone is supplied as crushed stone for road building and concrete manufacture, and is moved by rail. The Limestone area
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• Devon
  ...reener, more rounded landscape. It is also found on the western, north and eastern borders of Dartmoor. [[File:Road climbing out of Lynmouth. - geograph.org.uk - 74169.jpg|thumb|230px|Near Ly
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• East Lothian
  ...ne series, shales, thin limestones and sandstones, is exposed on the south-eastern coast, but between Gifford and North Berwick and from Aberlady to Dunbar it ...ith the Kings of England caused by the ''Auld Alliance''. Its place on the road from England to Edinburgh brought armies this way time out of mind.
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• Essex
  ...follows the [[River Stour, Suffolk|River Stour]] to the sea. The county's eastern edge is the sea. Parts of Eastern Essex suffer from high levels of deprivation. The most highly deprived par
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• Fife
  At Fife's eastern edge, as it projects into the [[North Sea]], is [[St Andrews]], a former mo Fife's southern shore is rocky, but along the north-eastern shore towards St Andrews it becomes a large plain, going into the sea in a
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• Hampshire
  ...of Wight|Yarmouth]]. To distinguish them, they may be referred to as the ''Eastern'' and ''Western'' Yar. ...ween Hampshire and Berkshire which follows generally the line of the Roman road that ran east and west through Silchester, but it is deflected in the north
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• Hertfordshire
  ...Beds and eocene, London clay which occupy the remaining southern part. The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a sup ...st and [[Midlands|the Midlands]] and as a consequence it is well-served by road and rail routes and by canals.
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• Inverness-shire
  ...shire]]. [[Banffshire]] and [[Aberdeenshire]]. On Inverness-shire's south-eastern bounds is [[Perthshire]]; and the south [[Argyllshire]]. In the Outer Hebri ...The physical character of Inverness-shire greatly impedes transport links; road and rail (which have come on somewhat since Johnson's day) must follow moun
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• Kent
  ...unty of Kent''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] at the south-eastern corner of [[Great Britain]]. The north-western towns of Kent are within th ...across the Thames, a small meeting but enough to have a [[Blackwall Tunnel|road tunnel]] carrying the A102 between them. Kent has a nominal border with Fr
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• Whitstable
  '''Whitstable''' is a seaside town in north-eastern [[Kent]], to the east of the outlet of [[the Swale]] into the Thames Estuar ...began to be transported by ship between London and Whitstable, and a toll road was built to the cathedral city of Canterbury. These improvements in transp
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• Chartist Bridge
  ...irhowy River]] in western [[Monmouthshire]]. It forms part of the A4048, a road which runs from south of [[Blackwood, Monmouthshire|Blackwood]] up the Sirh Prior the opening of the bridge, the journey was made by road through the bottom of the valley known locally as the Rhiw.
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