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• Aberdeenshire
  ...ah]], it also forms a detached part of Aberdeenshire's ancient parish of [[King Edward]]. ...parts of the county, and which is celebrated in John Imlah's song, ''O gin I war faur the Gadie rins,'' and Foudland, 1,529 feet.
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• Alnwick
  ...e to Bailiffgate, a tablet of stone marks the spot where William the Lion, King of Scotland, was captured in 1174, during the second Battle of Alnwick by a The accession of King James VI to the throne of England, and the effective union of the kingdoms
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• Diocese of London
  |<small>1044 to 1051||'''Robert of Jumièges'''||<small>Translated to [[Province of Canterbury|Canterbury]] |<small>1108 to 1128||'''Richard de Beaumis'''<br />(Richard de Belmis I)||<small>
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• County Antrim
  ...Gaelic power followed the campaign in 1315 of Edward Bruce (son of Robert I of Scotland), leaving [[Carrickfergus]] alone as the only significant Engli ..., who variously fought alongside and against the forces of Queen Elizabeth I. The story of Elizabethan Ulster is largely told in the shifting contest an
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• Ayrshire
  ...xed county, Ayrshire is known for its fertile plains, as the birthplace of Robert Burns and for heavy, black industry, driven by the coal mines of the shire. Robert Bruce was Earl of Carrick, a title now borne by the Prince of Wales.
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• Berwickshire
  The name of Berwickshire is first found in the Charters of King David I<ref>Brown, D (ed.): ''Early Scottish Charters''</ref> but it might have bee ...ieved to have been born in [[Lauderdale]]. In about 650, Ebba, daughter of King Æthelfrith of Northumbria, founded the nunnery at [[Coldingham]]. The adj
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• Clackmannanshire
  *[[King's Seat]] (2,111 feet) Legend has it that Robert the Bruce mislaid his glove while in the area and, on asking where it was,
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• Dumfriesshire
  ...ds were divided between the two in 1552; 51 years before King James VI and I made the border irrelevant. ...he factions of Bruce (who was lord of Annandale), John Comyn and King John I (John Baliol) were at constant feud.
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• County Durham
  ...nt's remains was established at Chester-le-Street and Guthfrith, the Norse King of York granted the community of St Cuthbert the area between the Tyne and ...of [[Durham]] in 1069. There was a rebellion against the new Norman earl, Robert de Comines, who was killed. However, County Durham largely missed the Harry
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• Gloucestershire
  ...ablished control over the area, a conquest which began with the victory of King Ceawlin at ''Deorham'' ([[Dyrham]]), swiftly followed by the capture of [[C ...reign, the cause of the Empress Matilda was supported by her half brother, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, who had rebuilt the castle at [[Bristol]]. The cas
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• Corstorphine
  ...n Cruickshank, the author. Corstorphine is also mentioned in the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, and is the birthplace of Alexander Thomson, a writer and p ...of David II, when it was forfeited by David le Mareschall and given by the King to Malcolm Ramsay. It was next held by William More of Abercorne, who left
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• Kirkcudbrightshire
  ...y wild around [[Loch Trool]], and more especially on its associations with Robert the Bruce. It was here that when most closely beset by his enemies, who had ...n of their country at length induced them to become lieges of the Scottish king.
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• Lanarkshire
  ...the model town built at the opening of the Industrial Age and modelled by Robert Owen, the reformer, for the families of workers at New Lanark Mills. ...945 the kingdom was conquered by Edmund, King of the English and ceded to King Malcolm of Scotland.<ref>{{ASC|Peterborough|945}} ''Her Eadmund cyning ofer
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• Leicestershire
  King Richard III was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field, in west Leicestersh Leicestershire has a long history of livestock farming which continues today. Robert Bakewell (farmer) (1725–1795) of Dishley, near Loughborough, was a revolu
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• Morayshire
  ...t flourished for a period until the Columban church was expelled in 717 by King Nectan. Thereafter the district was given over to internecine strife betwee ..., in which Thorfinn Earl of Orkney overthrew a strong force of Scots under King Duncan, the consolidation of the kingdom was being gradually accomplished.
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• Peeblesshire
  ...with such peaks as Mount Maw (1,753 feet), Byrehope Mount (1,752 feet) and King Seat (1,521 feet). The lowest point of the shire is on the Tweed as it leav ...Roman withdrawal from Britain, little is known for certain. Legend places King Arthur at here, fighting at Cademuir in 530, but nothing is known. Tweedda
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• Pembrokeshire
  ...castles where they came, notably at [[Newport, Pembrokeshire|Newport]] and Robert FitzMartin's stronghold [[Nevern]]. The Earldom of Pembroke and a County Pa ...s numerically superior army; the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. As King Henry VII he founded the Tudor dynasty which ruled England and Wales until
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• Perthshire
  ...o the English-speaking lands of the south. Nevertheless, up to the days of King Charles II, the Kings of Scots were crowned at Scone in Perthshire. Perth s ...rom Scone to Westminster in 1296. The shire has long been a battleground: Robert Bruce defeated at Methven in 1306, his son at Dupplin Moor in 1332, Dundee'
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• Renfrewshire
  ...ietly, for kings are recorded until the eleventh century. By the reign of King Malcolm III, the lands to become Renfrewshire became incorporated into Scot ...le of the Standard at [[Northallerton]] in 1138 under the command of David I's son, Prince Henry.
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• Selkirkshire
  ...oyal hunting forest populated by the oak, birch and hazel and by red deer. King James V, however, would forego the sport to let the land for grazing, earni ...Pembroke assumed the hereditary sheriffdom. Under and after King Robert I (Robert the Bruce), the Earls of Douglas, and later Earls of Angus administered the
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