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• Derbyshire
  ...n time, the whole area was given to the Duchy of Lancaster. Meanwhile, the Forest of East Derbyshire covered the whole county to the east of the [[River Derw ...o supply the rapidly growing populations of [[Sheffield]], [[Derby]] and [[Leicester]] with drinking water. The land around these is now extensively used for le
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• Leicestershire
  |county town=[[Leicester]] ...f the Midlands. It takes its name from its [[county town]], the City of [[Leicester]]. The county borders onto [[Derbyshire]] to the north-west, [[Nottinghamsh
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• Warwickshire
  ...f-timbered house in beautiful country. Outside the town once stretched the Forest of Arden, an enchanted place which many celebrated, and though little woodl ...-in-Arden]] and [[Tanworth-in-Arden]]. The remaining area, not part of the forest, was called the Felden.
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• Milton Keynes
  ...te was deliberately located equidistant from [[London]], [[Birmingham]], [[Leicester]], [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]] with the intention<ref name="ses2">''The So ==="City in the forest"===
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• New Radnor
  ...in [[Radnorshire]], and gives the county its name. It lies by the [[Radnor Forest]]. The population today is around 400. ...64 Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, allied with Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester took and again destroyed the castle. In all, the castle had changed hands
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• Corby
  ...n]] and is located in what was once the Royal Hunting Forest of Rockingham Forest. ...rter]</ref> A popular legend is that the Queen was hunting in [[Rockingham Forest]] when she (dependent on the legend) either fell from her horse or became t
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• Coventry
  ...It predates many of the large cities around it including Birmingham and [[Leicester]]. It is likely that Coventry grew from a settlement of the Bronze Age near ...historiccoventry.co.uk/main/history.php#arden Coventry's beginnings in the Forest of Arden] Retrieved 29 September 2008</ref> which could be said to be the t
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• Dulwich
  ...Camberwell]], [[Crystal Palace]], [[Denmark Hill]], [[Forest Hill, Surrey@|Forest Hill]], [[Gipsy Hill]], Knights Hill, [[Herne Hill]], [[Honor Oak]], [[Peck * Dyos, H J (Univ of Leicester, 1962) ''Victorian Suburb''
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• Knighton (disambiguation)
  *[[Knighton, Leicestershire]], a suburb of Leicester *Knighton Woods, part of [[Epping Forest]] near [[Buckhurst Hill]] in [[Essex]]
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• Leicester
  |name=Leicester |picture=Leicester landmarks montage.jpg
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• Coalville
  ...despite its own black reputation, it edges the upland area of [[Charnwood Forest]] which lies to the town's east. ...nt]] in 1845, placing Coalville on an important route between Burton and [[Leicester]]. Heavy coal traffic encouraged the construction of further railways linki
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• Scotland
  [[File:River Dee and the Ballochbuie Forest - geograph.org.uk - 359970.jpg|right|thumb|230px|The Dee and the Ballochbui ...Brown & C. A. Farr, (eds.), ''Mercia: an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe'', (Leicester, 2001), pp. 106–11.</ref> The identification of the Picts is uncertain a
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• Bardon Hill
  |range=Charnwood Forest ...ghest point]] in Leicestershire and the highest point too of the "National Forest", climbing to 912 feet above sea level.
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• Beacon Hill, Leicestershire
  |range=Charnwood Forest ...st hill in Leicestershire after [[Bardon Hill]], also within the Charnwood Forest.
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• The Great Fen
  ...| accessdate = 2011-03-17 | date = 2007-02-26 | publisher = University of Leicester Archaeological Services}}</ref> as well as Spalding Abbey. As major landown ===The Royal Forest===
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• Mardyke (river)
  ...itle=The Early Charters of Essex|first=Cyril|last=Hart|year=1971|publisher=Leicester University Press|isbn=0-7185-2000-9}}</ref> It has also been called "the Fl ...=9 Mardyke Valley]</ref> and which is a part of the Thames Chase Community Forest.<ref>[http://www.thameschase.org.uk/sites.html Thames Chase]</ref> The proj
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• Flitteris Park
  ...er found that "the wood is outside the said forest bordering the county of Leicester"<ref name=Squires>Squires, Anthony: ''Flitteris and Cold Overton: two medie
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• Ashby-de-la-Zouch
  ...is a small market town in [[Leicestershire]]. It is within the [[National Forest]]. ...ning and brickmaking. The town was served by Ashby Canal from 1804 and the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line of the Midland Railway from 1845.
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• Cleobury Mortimer
  ...important, and when Elizabeth I granted the town to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, his familiarity with modern ironworking technology led to the establishmen ...[[Clee Hills]], the highest hills in Shropshire, are nearby and the [[Wyre Forest]] lies between the town and [[Bewdley]]. The border with [[Worcestershire]]
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• M1 motorway
  ...ing [[East Midlands Airport]] and along the edge of the outer suburbs of [[Leicester]]) |Coventry M69<br>Leicester A5460
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