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  • ...s or the [[South Shetland Islands]], or the places between, Wikishire is a growing guide on all you need to know about the British and Irish lands. ...e. Each shire, from [[Kent]] to [[County Kerry|Kerry]] is here, with ever-growing detail; if your town or village is not in Wikishire, or if something import
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  • ...high days of the Ulster linen industry, the farms of Armagh were busy with growing, weaving and bleaching as a cottage industry, far different from the gloom
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  • ...of residential districts, business, fishing and service industries, and a growing digital and creative economy: in 2008 Scarborough was named the most enterp
    21 KB (3,356 words) - 12:12, 4 November 2019
  • ...make it unsuitable for growing many arable crops. However, it is ideal for growing the rich grass required for dairying, leading to the production of Cornwall
    37 KB (5,790 words) - 16:06, 1 November 2022
  • ...were built during the early part of the 20th century to supply the rapidly growing populations of [[Sheffield]], [[Derby]] and [[Leicester]] with drinking wat
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  • ...on which, according to the Geographers, is the first of all Britaine, and, growing straiter still and narrower, shooteth out farthest into the West, […] was
    20 KB (3,166 words) - 15:53, 10 April 2021
  • ...es were built throughout the county in the nineteenth century to house the growing workforce, which included large numbers of migrant workers from the rest of In agriculture, mustard-growing is a local speciality.
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  • ...y D'Abitot - geograph.org.uk - 368724.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Wild Daffodils growing in the Forest of Dean]] ...us minor industries sprang up in the 17th and 18th centuries, such as flax-growing and the manufacture of pins, buttons, lace, stockings, rope and sailcloth.
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  • ...Glorious Revolution in 1689 and the Union settled in 1707, bringing peace. Growing commercial prosperity was marked oddly by the extent of smuggling on the Ga
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  • ...Leicester and Loughborough. Birstall, with a population 11,400 in 2004 and growing claims to be the largest village in the county, or the largest in Britain o
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  • Lincolnshire is an agricultural area, growing large amounts of wheat, barley, sugar beet, and oilseed rape. In South Linc ...ices, activities and events. [[Sleaford]] is considered one of the fastest growing towns in the eastern Midlands, with many professional people moving there t
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  • ...since with the establishment of large fields for cereal and oil seed rape growing. Norfolk's low-lying land and easily eroded cliffs, many of which are chalk
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  • ...k-on-Trent]] is a bridging point of the [[Fosse Way]] and [[River Trent]], growing from an Anglo-Saxon market town. Newark Castle lies in ruins along the riv
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  • ...of the economy and the significant wind and marine energy resources are of growing importance. The local people are known as Orcadians and have a distinctive ...des of the 20th century there was a recovery and life in Orkney focused on growing prosperity and the emergence of a relatively classless society.<ref>Thomson
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  • There are pastoral and arable farms in the county; the growing crops are largely in the dales and the hillsides are green and grazed eager ...a north-easterly direction for 37 miles until it sheds its waters into the growing Tweed at [[Kelso]]. To the Teviot flow many lesser rivers and burns, includ
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  • ...any human habitation, that Oak, Scots Pine and Mediterranean heathers were growing here. The remains of these plants have been preserved in layers of ancient ...es include fishing, fish farming, farming (including commercial strawberry growing in polytunnels,<ref name=Blackadder/> mainly for the Shetland market), peat
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  • ...hills. The main habitat on these hills is calcareous grassland, with some growing crops. The Somerset coalfield stretches beneath these hills, part of a larg ...ntre for the smart set, who flocked to Bath in season. This time saw Bath growing from a modest town to whose spa resorted the sickly into one of the glories
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  • ...l. Agriculture improved over the last century. Leitrim now has the fastest growing population in Connaught. *Leitrim has the fastest growing population of any county in Connaught. As measured by census, the populatio
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  • ...thcoole, Dublin|Rathcoole]], and [[Tallaght]]. This is one of the fastest growing settlements in Ireland, showing a population increase of 46.1% between 2011
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  • ...The city is built on many hills, with the original beginnings of the city growing from Castle Hill, St Catherine's Hill and Windmill Hill.<ref>{{cite web|url There is also a dynamic and fast growing electronics design and development industry.
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