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• Cornwall
  ...[St Austell]], the area south of [[Camborne]], and the Penwith or [[Land's End]] peninsula. These intrusions are the central part of the granite outcrops ...ote>The inhabitants of that part of Britain called ''Belerion'' (or Land's End) from their intercourse with foreign merchants, are civilised in their mann
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• Hertfordshire
  ...town of 'Meryton' either as [[Hertford]] or [[Hemel Hempstead]], based on how far Mr Collins travels on the post from [[Watford]]. The former location pl The eponymous residence in E M Forster's novel, ''Howards End'' was based on Rooks Nest House just outside [[Stevenage]]. In the novel, F
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• Kent
  ...KentGeologyWealdenDome.svg|thumb|Geological cross section of Kent, showing how it relates to major towns]] {{div col end}}
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• Staffordshire
  ...Wall-by-Lichfield]] (''Caer Luitcoet'') in Staffordshire, which marked the end of Welsh rule in lowland Britain, confining the native Britons to the mount ...rt route. Charles Dickens in ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1841), described how the area's local factory chimneys ''"Poured out their plague of smoke, obsc
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• West Lothian
  ...a favourite resort of curlers and skaters. It is 10 feet deep at the east end and 48 feet at the west. ...escribes the Antonine Wall he gives the name of the village at its eastern end in two languages, called ''Penneltun'' but known in Pictish as ''Peanfahel'
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• Brackenthwaite, Buttermere
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• Little Wilbraham
  ...tretching westward, with separated farm houses beyond at Frog End and Mill End. ...alf of the crusader cross was lost. New windows were built in. Nearing the end of the century, five ornate windows were also added.
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• Reading
  It is not known exactly how badly Reading was affected by the Black Death that swept through England in Towards the end of the century, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, lived at Bulmershe
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• Lauder
  ...by Somerset, the Protector, and garrisoned by Sir Hugh Willoughby 'in the end of winter and beginning of spring'. After a minor siege with French cannon, ...ther it is needed or desirable - the location of a new primary school (and how soon one will be built), and the location and extent of wind farms on the s
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• Aylesbury
  ...the centre was built in 1877. Another thing lost to the Market Square at end of the 20th century was a twice-weekly sheep, pig and cattle market. ...uch as Castle Street, Temple Square and Parson's Fee give an indication of how Aylesbury may have appeared in the 18th century.
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• Cotswolds
  ...the home of the Arts and Crafts Movement, founded by William Morris at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.<ref>{{cite web| ...g.com/people/th/hauntedtv/long_remembered_hills.htm Long Remembered Hills] How the English composers Ivor Gurney and Herbert Howells were influenced by th
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• Horsham
  ...a public work of art has attracted widespread derision and distress. Just how long it will survive is the burning question of the moment.". At its openin ...ity and in continuous use for nearly eight centuries. It is located at the end of the Causeway, the oldest extant part of Horsham. It has a peal of ten be
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• Wigtown
  ...n the manufacture of their own wool. Despite this plea, it was only at the end of the century that the town appears to have adopted industry. The reporter ...Bishop Pococke in 1760 also noted the existence of thatched houses. By the end of the 19th century it was said that two houses in the town were hardly the
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• London Underground
  ....<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/help/faq.jsp#transport|title=How do I find out about transport in London? |publisher=Greater London Authorit ...don, emerging at the surface at its eastern and western ends. Its western end has two branches, terminating at ''West [[Ruislip]]'' and ''[[Ealing]] Broa
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• Lydford
  ...much evil by burning and slaughter, and afterwards they went about Land's End to the south and up into the Tamar's mouth and went up it until they came t :''How in the morn they hang and draw,''
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• St Ives, Cornwall
  ...rent sizes. The total number of crew was 17 or 18. However this came to an end in 1924. The bulk of the catch was exported to Italy: for example in 1830 6 ...in the town open up their private studios to allow visitors to see exactly how their art is produced. There is free music in many pubs in the town almost
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• Black Country
  ...th century saw a decline in coalmining and the industry finally came to an end in 1968 with the closure of Baggeridge coalpit near [[Sedgley]]. Clean air ...les Dickens's novel ''The Old Curiosity Shop'', written in 1841, described how the area's local factory chimneys ''"Poured out their plague of smoke, obsc
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• Acton, Middlesex
  ...Horn Lane, with only a few outlying farms. Friars Place Farm at the north end of Horn Lane and the moated site to the west, occupied until the 15th centu ...th Acton. These laundries would serve hotels and the rich in London's West End, leading to the nickname "Soapsuds Island" or "Soap Sud City". At least 600
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• Beachy Head
  ...was under the sea. During the Cenozoic Era the chalk was uplifted. At the end of the last Ice Age, sea levels rose dramatically and the [[English Channel ...rs separated by contiguous bands of flints, the physical structure affects how the cliffs erode. Wave action undermines the lower cliffs, causing frequent
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• Edinburgh
  ...ap.png|thumb|left|Map of the city, showing New Town, Old Town and the West End]] ...n has preserved its mediæval plan and many Reformation-era buildings. One end is closed by the castle and the main artery, the Royal Mile, leads away fro
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