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• Aberdeenshire
  ...rts of the county, and which is celebrated in John Imlah's song, ''O gin I war faur the Gadie rins,'' and Foudland, 1,529 feet. ...uarters for several months. Despite the seizure of Kildrummy Castle by the English in 1306, Bruce's prospects brightened from 1308, when he defeated John Comy
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• Berkshire
  During the Civil War there were two battles in [[Newbury]]. During the Glorious Revolution of 16 *{{i-MuseumNotFree}} Museum of English Rural Life
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• Buckinghamshire
  ...m its original county town, Buckingham, whose name in turn is form the Old English ''Buccingaham'' ("Bucca's kin's home"). The Mercian underkingdom of ''Cilt ...o treat Parliament seriously. Thus in these hills began the English Civil War.<ref name="Biography of John Hampden">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnhampden
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• Scarborough
  ...he German warships ''Derfflinger'' and ''Von der Tann'' in the First World War. Both bays have popular sandy beaches and numerous rock-pools at low tide. File:Scarborough, North Yorkshire - WWI poster.jpg|First World War recruitment poster depicting the German bombardment in 1915
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• Devon
  ...etween two seas, the [[Bristol Channel]] washing its north coast and the [[English Channel]] its south coast. To the west lies [[Cornwall]], and to the east [ ...ii'', thought to mean in the British tongue "deep valley dwellers". In Old English, the men of Devon were the ''Defnas'' and their shire ''Defnascir''. In We
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• Dorset
  ...nties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the [[West Country]] lying on the [[English Channel]] coast. The [[county town]] is [[Dorchester]] in the south of Dors ...l]] and the great defensive ditch, Bokerley Dyke, said to have delayed the English from advancing for up to 150 years. Along the Jurassic Coast the cliffs hav
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• County Durham
  ...ties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the north of England. It is the only English county whose common name is prefixed with "County", as is more familiar in ...Scammell, ''The Origin and Limitations of the Liberty of Durham'' in ''The English Historical Review'', Vol. 81, No. 320. (Jul., 1966), pp. 449-473.]</ref>
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• Essex
  ...sildon]] and [[Harlow]] were developed deliberately as new towns after the War, originally to resettle Londoners whose homes were lost in the Blitz, thoug Most English counties have nicknames for people from that county, such as a Tyke from [[
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• Gloucestershire
  ...was ended by Earl Edric Streona, joined to Gloucestershire.<ref>“A Lost English County; Winchcombeshire in the 10th and 11th Centuries”</ref>. ...rict were a West Saxon tribe but some scholars say they were a mixed Welsh-English people who apparently retained their British Christianity to the time of th
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• Herefordshire
  ...nd dialectical evidence suggests that these ''Magonsæte'' were not purely English but seem to have absorbed some native Britons (Welsh). The mixed nature of ...], which had been rebuilt in that year by King Edward. Trouble between the English and the Welsh kings resumed after the Viking threat had gone. King Edward
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• Midlothian
  ...y measure; the vast majority of the towns and villages bear names from Old English; the termination ''-ton'' is very frequent. ...a Pictish onslaught or the remaining Britons in the fortress faced with an English force. The Bernician and later Northumbrian kings held the Lothians until N
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• Morayshire
  ...ot side with the English king, and it was relatively untouched by the war: English armies penetrated Moray only three times, in 1296, 1303 and 1335. Robert t ...in vain for he came to reign effectively only at the Restoration in 1660. Civil strife in Moray continued until prelacy was abolished in 1689. Thus the bi
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• Norfolk
  ...he 9th century the Danes descended upon it and East Anglia became a Danish-English kingdom; Guthrum, whom Alfred defeated, became Christian, took the baptisma ...nty/norfolk%20history.htm Norfolk History].</ref> During the English Civil War Norfolk was largely Parliamentarian. The economy and agriculture of the reg
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• Northamptonshire
  After the Romans had retreated, the area was settled by the ancestral English and in time became part of the Kingdom of the [[Mercia]]ns. The first Chri ...onshire in 940 and devastated the area, until the shire was retaken by the English in 942.<ref>Wood, Michael (1986) ''The Domesday Quest'' p. 90, BBC Books, 1
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• Nottinghamshire
  ...n the county, for example at [[Mansfield]]. The county was settled by the English around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom of the [[Mercia]]ns, ...stle lies in ruins along the river, slighted by Parliament after the civil war.
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• Pembrokeshire
  ...umerous incomers from the [[West Country]]. The sharp boundary between the English and Welsh speakers was noted in the Victorian period and named the ''Landsk ===Civil communities===
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• Somerset
  ...book | last=Watts | first=Victor (Ed.) | title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=2004 | isbn=0-521 .../ref>. Another British-language name is [[Tarnock]], [[Pen Hill]] has both English and Welsh elements.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.takeourword.com/TOW110/p
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• Surrey
  ===The West Saxon and English shire=== ...78, and, according to later tradition, of other tenth-century Kings of the English too. The coronation stone still stands in Kingston. During the reign of Eth
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• Warwickshire
  ...ater variety. [[Coventry]] was devastated by bombs during the Second World War and by the city corporation before and after it. ...Road which in King Alfred's day was established as the border between the English and the Danelaw. Across Watling Street is [[Leicestershire]]. To the nort
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• West Lothian
  .../ref> The great majority of place-names in West Lothian today are from Old English or its descendant, Scots, but with a mixture of Old Welsh, Pictish and Gael ...s. On 4 September 1526, after James IV had been slain at Flodden, a civil war of the nobles was fought close by, the Battle of Linlithgow Bridge between
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