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• Cheshire
  ...indswept Wirral peninsula up into the Peak District. The north encompasses industrial towns and the suburbs from [[Manchester]] and [[Liverpool]], fading into th ...le, Chester Cathedral and many parish churches. Occasional residential and industrial buildings, such as [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?
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• Cumberland
  Away from the industrial and post-industrial towns of the coast, Cumberland is predominantly rural. Its wild landscape o ...and in time the coming of the railway. The coastal towns grew into large industrial towns and Carlisle served as a railway hub for them.
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• Derbyshire
  ...rn Derbyshire, dominated by the town of [[Chesterfield]], has long been an industrial region and encompasses suburbs and outgrowth of the [[Yorkshire]] city of [ ...me an engineering centre. The coming of the railways brought trade to the industrial areas, while Derby was where the locomotives were made.
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• Dorset
  ...wnfall of James II. This meeting was effectively the start of the Glorious Revolution, which swiftly succeeded in its aims in 1688.<ref>Cullingford (p72)</ref> ...(p.91)</ref> The absence of coal however meant that during the Industrial Revolution Dorset was unable to compete and so remained largely rural.<ref>Cullingford
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• Dunbartonshire
  ...y industry took hold. [[Clydebank]], a new-created town of the industrial revolution grew with engineering works and shipyards, and at Dumbarton too. Less impre ...ise has struck at towns such as Clydebank, but the Clyde is today still an industrial river and the rebirth of Glasgow since the 1980s has had a lightening effec
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• County Durham
  ...he troubles of the Middle Ages before it became reshaped by the industrial revolution. The county was a county palatine under the rule of the Bishop of Durham f ===The Industrial Revolution===
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• Glamorgan
  ...mestone and millstone grit.<ref name="Conduit, p.9"/> In the 19th century, industrial and population growth in the coal-bearing valleys of the Rhymney, Taff, Dar ...as consumed by the rapid growth of the Cardiff Docks during the industrial revolution, but with the downturn in Glamorgan's iron and coal industries, the docks d
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• Hertfordshire
  ...y. However, the greatest boost to Hertfordshire came during the Industrial Revolution, after which the population rose dramatically. In 1903, [[Letchworth]] beca
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• Lanarkshire
  ==Industrial towns== ...ndustrial Revolution as much as [[Lancashire]] was, and remains an eminent industrial centre even now that the coal has declined.
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• Lancashire
  ...wept many of the great mills away nevertheless Lancashire is still home to industrial might, and the great towns and cities which grew up in the eighteenth and n ...rict in the north sits on the sea at [[Barrow-in-Furness]], a shipyard and industrial town. Behind Barrow though is a land of lakeland fells, forested and mounta
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• Lincolnshire
  ...flat land in the north of the county), the [[Lincolnshire Wolds]], and the industrial towns along the south bank of the [[Humber]] and the [[North Sea]] coast ar ...of rest, with only shops in Lincoln, larger market towns, and resorts and industrial towns of the North Sea coast generally remaining open. Some towns and villa
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• Middlesex
  ...try followed, and though Middlesex was left behind in the early industrial revolution, it overtook the heartlands of [[Lancashire]], [[Lanarkshire]] and [[Yorksh
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• Midlothian
  East and west of Edinburgh are dormitory towns, suburbs and industrial areas but to the south is a rural Midlothian still, with quieter towns and Coal mining began in Midlothian with the industrial revolution and though it was not as busy as in the great coalfields of the land, it ha
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• Norfolk
  ...and agriculture of the region declined somewhat, and during the industrial revolution Norfolk developed little industry except in Norwich and was a late addition
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• Northumberland
  The coast begins at Tynemouth, a major port and a busy industrial gateway to the Newcastle conurbation, built on the coal which made Newcastl ...erland, collieries stretched up the coast. The region's coalfields fuelled industrial expansion in other areas of the country, and the need to transport the coal
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• Nottinghamshire
  Northern Nottinghamshire is better known now for the coal mining villages and industrial development that came with the opening up of the Dukeries Coalfield. Never ...he county developed malting and woollen industries. During the industrial revolution canals and railways came to the county, and the lace and cotton industries
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• Renfrewshire
  ...of the shire, within Glasgow or close by. The largest town is Paisley, an industrial town west of Glasgow. Renfrew itself lies a few miles northward on the bank ...ard along the Firth of Clyde. The Firth of Clyde is a major commercial and industrial centre, and this coast is lined with shipyards, once the busiest in the Emp
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• Shropshire
  ...the [[Ironbridge]] Gorge where it once fuelled the start of the industrial revolution, then runs south through the county into [[Worcestershire]] on its long cou ...ropshire/features/2002/09/iarecordings.shtml BBC - Shropshire - Features - Industrial Archeology].</ref>
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• Somerset
  The 18th century was largely one of peace in Somerset, but the Industrial Revolution in the Midlands and Northern England spelled the end for most of Somerset's ...tol, Somerset has been allowed to remain largely rural and here it has few industrial centres. It does however have a variety of light industry and high technol
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• Staffordshire
  ...k Country]] have grown over the rich coal seams which drove the industrial revolution in these parts. ...and industrialised the industry. From here too the potters had the first industrial canal dug to take their wares safely and in bulk from the factories to the
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