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  • |post town=Sutton-in-Ashfield ...shops are now used as takeaway restaurants.<ref>[http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/sutton/huthwaite/index.htm Oldnotts.co.uk]</ref>
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  • ...cathedral city of some 55,700 inhabitants it is also the only town of any great size. Hereford, standing on the banks of the Wye, is dominated by its impos ...e, some standing at 2,000 feet. East of them the land rises in a number of great northwest-southeast folds, including the famous [[Golden Valley]]. The very
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  • ...[[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] at the south-eastern corner of [[Great Britain]]. The north-western towns of Kent are within the [[London]] subur Kent is in the south-easternmost corner of Great Britain, surrounded on three sides by water; the [[River Thames]] and the [
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  • The Lincolnshire Fens are a part of the Great Fen which spreads over the lands around [[the Wash]] in Lincolnshire and No ...into the nineteenth century when its port began to prove ill-suited to the great ships of the age.
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  • ...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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  • ...ur Norfolk is marked by the River [[Little Ouse]] from its source to the [[Great Ouse]] to the west; and by the [[River Waveney]] from its source to the sea The county is low-lying with few hills; the highest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the highest point of the Newmarket Ridge in the very west of the
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  • ...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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  • ...ing of the Birmingham conurbation, and eastward the bands of motorways and great roads cut through the middle of what would otherwise be rich farmland and c ...] sits on the north-western part of Warwickshire. It is the second largest great city in Britain. Birmingham was built on heavy industry; it was known in it
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  • County Donegal was one of the worst affected parts of Ulster during the Great Famine of the late 1840s in Ireland. Vast swathes of the county were devast * {{cite book | author=Seán Beattie | title=Donegal | location=Sutton | publisher=Printing Press | year=2004 | isbn=0-7509-3825-0}}(Ireland in O
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  • ...as Teffia, and the east as Bregia (Latinized from Gaelic Magh Breagh, "the great plain of Meath"). Bregia comprised five ''triocha-cheds'' (equivalent to ca *[[Sutton, Dublin|Sutton]]
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  • ...ing George IV Intituled "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain and of the Increase or Diminution thereof" Enumeration Abstract Vol ...="padding-left: 0.5em;"|'''[[Norwich]]''', [[Cromer]], [[East Dereham]], [[Great Yarmouth]] (part), [[Hunstanton]], [[King's Lynn]]
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  • ...nd spreads over both banks. Thus although the city centre is in Antrim, a great deal of it stands in [[County Down|Downshire]] also. ...te news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1269206.stm |title=Sutton Index of Deaths |publisher=CAIN |accessdate=2007-09-10 | date=2001-04-11}}<
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  • |post town=Sutton Coldfield ...ingham]] to the [[Black Country]]. It is midway between [[Walsall]] and [[Sutton Coldfield]] and in the fortunate position of remaining a semi-rural distric
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  • ...=Robert |last=Nicholls |title=Curiosities of Greater Manchester |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=0-750-93661-4}}</ref> ...s concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and
    62 KB (9,049 words) - 15:49, 1 October 2017
  • ...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. ...for shipping firms, insurance companies, banks and other large firms. The great wealth this brought, then allowed for the development of grand civic buildi
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  • ...London had made it a summer retreat for courtiers and lawyers. Sir Richard Sutton bought the seat at East Acton known later as Manor House in 1610 and Sir He ...Green also became increasingly popular, being near Chiswick High Road (the Great West Road). Fairlawn, substantial, on west side of the green, was the home
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  • ...ment seating. Being situated between the offices at the Golden Mile of the Great West Road and [[Hammersmith]], office developments and warehouse conversion ...on Church Street. The parish also included [[Strand-on-the-Green]], Little Sutton and [[Turnham Green]]. By the early nineteenth century the fishing industry
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  • ...g. The notorious deception of the "Cock Lane Ghost", in which Johnson took great interest, was perpetrated nearby. ...onasteries the Charterhouse became a private mansion and one owner, Thomas Sutton, subsequently left it with an endowment as a school and almshouse. The almh
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  • ...d Hills, Haste Hill Golf Club and most of Northwood now stand was once the Great Common Wood. This covered 860 acres in the 16th century, which residents wo ...07) ''Around Ruislip, Eastcote, Northwood, Ickenham & Harefield''. Stroud: Sutton Publishing ISBN 978-0-7509-4796-1
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  • ...Manor Farm Great Barn Ruislip - geograph-1872739.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Great Barn, built around 1280]] ...oyal Society of Arts to choose the buildings that should be conserved. The Great Barn and Little Barn were singled out from the site, together with the old
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