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  • ...nating presence is [[Edinburgh]], from which it takes its alternative name of Edinburghshire. The county lies along the southern shore of the Firth of Forth between, as the name suggests, East Lothian and West Lothian. Midloth
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  • |name=Northumberland |map image=Northumberland Brit Isles Sect 3.svg
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  • '''County flags''' are attributed to a number of [[Counties of the United Kingdom]]. ...ers as wielded by territories like the state of California or the Republic of Kalmykia, have not required such expression.
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  • ...:Flag - Union Flag.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Union Jack, the national flag of the United Kingdom]] ...many variations for set purposes and several local flags. Below is a list of flags which have either been in use, or are currently used in the '''[[Unit
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  • [[File:Saint Tudwal's Islands.jpg|thumb|right|250px|St Tudwal's Islands from Mynytho]] ...s a place of timeless beauty of sea and land and is one of the strongholds of the Welsh language.
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  • |name=Isle of Man |picture=Maughold Village. Isle of Man. - geograph.org.uk - 31912.jpg
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  • ...ge or watershed. A few are on the border of the county and may be the top of two counties. ...s, the highest ground in the British Isles and consequently the county top of [[Inverness-shire]], and the lowest [[Bush Ground]] in [[Huntingdonshire]],
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  • ...ibuted to the shires which were under the jurisdiction of the Lord Wardens of the marches until King James's time. ...even after the Union of the Crowns in King James's person until the union of the two kingdoms themselves on 1 May 1707.
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  • |county=Falkland Islands |map=Falkland Islands - East Falkland.svg
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  • The '''River Tyne''' is a river of [[Northumberland]]; a mountain river which becomes a great industrial port river. ...Rock near [[Hexham]] in [[Northumberland]] at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'.
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  • ...part of the same geological unit.<ref>R. L. Cloet, "Hydrographic Analysis of the Goodwin Sands and the Brake Bank", ''The Geographical Journal'', '''120 ...ought nearby, including the Battle of Goodwin Sands in 1652 and the Battle of Dover Strait in 1917.
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  • ...particular for the Schools Council's national project to introduce the use of computers in British schools in the early 1970, and the "Chapman County Cod ...he Society of Genealogists published a list of abbreviations for the whole of the British Isles in 1973.<ref>Genealogists Magazine, Vol 17 No 6</ref>
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  • [[File:Fens-OMC.jpg|thumb|250px|Location of the Fens]] ...ble channels; slow-moving rivers and man-made lodes, from which occasional islands emerged on which stood the fenland villages.
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  • ...g of England.svg|right|thumb|180px|Saint George's Cross, the national flag of England]] ...Wight]] in [[Hampshire]] and the only substantial archipelago the [[Isles of Scilly]] in [[Cornwall]].
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  • [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|right|thumb|280px]] ...Olympiad since the modern games were founded in 1896 with the Athens Games of that year, although in 1980 the British Government boycotted the Moscow Gam
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  • The '''extreme points of the United Kingdom''' may be measured in a number of ways. The [[United Kingdom]] ...at Britain "from [[Land's End to John o' Groats]]" is not the full measure of the land.
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  • ...70s. The Scottish and Irish guides were incomplete as of summer 2012. Most of the English volumes have had second editions, chiefly by other authors. ...llen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, for whom he had written his ''Outline of European Architecture''.
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  • |county=Northumberland ...on the [[North Sea]] coast of [[Northumberland]]. It is famed as a place of history and for its bleak, isolated position, in which it stands cut off by
    22 KB (3,496 words) - 17:03, 4 October 2018
  • {{county|Northumberland}} ...rising [[Lindisfarne]] (or Holy Island), and parishes on the mainland of [[Northumberland]].
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  • |territory=Falkland Islands ...[[Falkland Islands]]. It is on the shore of [[Berkeley Sound]] at the head of Chabot Creek on a bay also named Johnson's Harbour. It has a small store bu
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