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• Buteshire
  ...[[Isle of Bute]] and the [[Isle of Arran]], and smaller islands such as [[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Little Cumbrae]]. Although Arran encompasses most of the sh ...r islands are inhabited ([[Isle of Bute|Bute]], [[Isle of Arran|Arran]], [[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Holy Isle, Buteshire|Holy Island]]) and only six are larger
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• Derbyshire
  ...[[Coton in the Elms]], Derbyshire, as the furthest point from the sea in [[Great Britain]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/3090539.stm B ...ed tombs were designed for collective burial and are mostly located in the central Derbyshire region.<ref name=pevsner22/> Tombs in Minning Low, and Five Well
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• Dorset
  Dorset's long coast stretches from [[Poole]] in the east, and the great gulf of [[Poole Harbour]], around the [[Isle of Purbeck]] and along a coast ...It has Iron Age hill forts of [[Maiden Castle]] and [[Hod Hill]] and the great defensive ditch, Bokerley Dyke, said to have delayed the English from advan
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• Leicestershire
  ...xon, Danish and Mediæval roots under a substantial modern city undergoing great social transformation. **[[Great Glen, Leicestershire|Great Glen]]
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• Northamptonshire
  ...rosperity in Northamptonshire; something shown by the remarkable number of great Anglo-Saxon churches which survive in the county, most notably those at [[B ...rth generation after Lawrence's days, John Washington (George Washington's great-grandfather) emigrated in 1656 from Northamptonshire to the colony of Virgi
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• Lancaster Canal
  ...them to continue paying dividends and to make investments. Eventually, the railway company offered to buy the canal, and this was formalised by an Act of Parl ...imestone fissures in the bed, and in 1939 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, who were by now owners of the canal, obtained an Act to close the first ha
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• Shropshire
  ...t attraction as well as the Iron Bridge itself. In addition, Telford Steam Railway runs from [[Horsehay]]. The county was a central part of the Welsh Marches during the Middle Ages and was often embroiled in
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• Somerset
  ...th are found the Georgian glories of [[Bath]] and the southern half of the great city of [[Bristol]]. ...commonly if more correctly known) are a sparsely populated wetland area of central Somerset, between the Quantock and Mendip hills. They consist of marine cla
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• Surrey
  ...ey''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". Beyond the urban sprawl of the northeast and curbing its onward spread, a great deal of Surrey's land is in the [[Metropolitan Green Belt]].
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• Wiltshire
  ...nnet & Avon Middle Thames: Pearson's Canal Companion |year=2003 |publisher=Central Waterways Supplies|location=Rugby |isbn=0-907864-97-X}}</ref> In 878 the Da ...from [[Bristol]] to [[London]] until the development of the Great Western Railway.
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• Todmorden
  Todmorden is served by two railway stations; Todmorden and Walsden. ...n the longest tunnel in the world, the 2,885 yard Summit Tunnel. A second railway, from Todmorden to Burnley, opened as a single line in 1849, being doubled
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• Manchester
  ...l waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at [[Worsley]] to central Manchester. The canal was extended to the Mersey at Runcorn by 1776. The co ...s concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and
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• Birkenhead
  During winter months, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company operates a service from Birkenhead to [[Douglas, Isle of Man In 1886 Birkenhead and [[Liverpool]] were linked by an underground railway system, which today is part of the Merseyrail network.
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• Elgin
  ...sons while the 13th century construction still remains. In 1506, the great central tower collapsed and although rebuilding work began the next year it was not ...between 1650 and 1660 by Cromwell's soldiers. On Easter Sunday, 1711, the central tower collapsed for the second time in its history but caused much more dam
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• Liverpool
  As a major British port, the docks in Liverpool have historically been central to the city's development. Several major docking firsts have occurred in th ...ollectively known as ''The Three Graces'', and stand as a testament to the great wealth in the city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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• Exeter
  ...f>Dun & Bradstreet, 2001</ref> The city has good transport links, with two railway stations, the M5 motorway and Exeter International Airport connecting the c ...0s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba65/feat2.shtml|title=Great Sites: Exeter Roman Baths|work=British Archaeology magazine|date=June 2002|
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• Brentford
  '''New Brentford''' has also been called West Brentford or Great Brentford, and lies to the west of Old Brentford, standing on each side of ..., accompanied with thunder and lightning, caused a sudden flood, which did great damage to the town of Brentford. Water covered the whole town; boats rowed
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• Ruislip
  ...ginal village square and are now Grade II listed. It originally featured a central water pump which was moved out of the road in the 1970s as a result of incr ...pulation, from 6,217 to 72,791, largely attributed to the extension of the railway.
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• Southall
  The southern part of Southall (roughly south of the railway) used to be known as Southall Green (and a section of the main north-south ...n a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to the establishment and growth of brick factories, flour
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• Twickenham
  ...d Distinction who often in an Evening Walk near that place, and desired so great a Nuisance might be removed,....}} ...is burned together with saltpetre (potassium nitrate), in the presence of steam. The process generates an extremely unpleasant smell, which caused objectio
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