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• Cheshire
  |picture=Big Mere and church at Marbury - geograph.org.uk - 205379.jpg ...rth encompasses industrial towns and the suburbs from [[Manchester]] and [[Liverpool]], fading into the agricultural south of the county. The City of Chester re
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• Blackpool
  |picture caption=Blackpool Tower and beach |constituency=Blackpool North and Cleveleys<br>Blackpool South
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• Lancaster Canal
  ...as never completed, and much of the southern end leased to the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]], of which it is now generally considered part. ...on's Hillock to Wigan Top Lock, remains navigable as part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The planned continuation to Westhoughton was never built.
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• Somerset
  ...om the [[River Avon, Somerset|Avon]] to the borders of [[Devon]] on Exmoor and deep inland blessed with rich farmland. ...etween them, while in the north are found the Georgian glories of [[Bath]] and the southern half of the great city of [[Bristol]].
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• Yorkshire
  ...am]], [[Derbyshire|Derby]], [[Cheshire|Chester]], [[Lancashire|Lancaster]] and [[Westmorland]]. The [[county top]] is [[Mickle Fell]] at 2,585 ft. ..., [[Harthill Wapentake|Harthill]], [[Holderness]], [[Howdenshire]], [[Ouse and Derwent]].
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• Manchester
  | name = Manchester | picture = Montage of Manchester 2012.jpg
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• Leeds
  ...ntre for business, legal, and financial services in Britain outside London and according to the recent Office for National Statistics estimates, it is the ...ages to become by the opening of the 20th century a populous urban centre, and now a major regional city.
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• Liverpool
  | name = Liverpool | picture = Liverpool Montage.jpg
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• Rainford
  Rainford lies on a fertile agricultural plain and is effectively an urban island surrounded by large scale farming, mainly ar ...Rainford Junction, a smaller settlement which has grown up around Rainford railway station. The two parts of the village are separated by a band of farmland,
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• Crewe
  |constituency=Crewe and Nantwich ...s a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works, for many years a major railway engineering facility, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it
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• Runcorn
  ...]] in [[Lancashire]], and downstream 16 miles to the west is the city of [[Liverpool]]. ...ew town was built to the east of the existing town in the 1960s and 1970s, and farther to the east, areas of private housing have been established; this h
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• Walsall
  ...nd east of [[Wolverhampton]], and within the conurbation which joins these and the Black Country towns together. ...ty of a thousand trades".) It has historically been a manufacturing town, and was particularly known for leatherwork. (Walsall FC are known as "The Sadd
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• Hartlepool
  '''Hartlepool''' is a town and port in [[County Durham]] standing on the north bank of the [[River Tees]]. ...which served as the official port of the County Palatine of [[Durham]]. A railway link from the north was established from the South Durham coal fields to th
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• Garston, Lancashire
  |post town=Liverpool |LG district=Liverpool
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• Bristol
  ...ding urban zone, Bristol is the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city and by far the most populous city in south-western England. ...nked amongst the top three English cities after London, alongside [[York]] and [[Norwich]], on the basis of tax receipts,<ref>
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• Pennines
  ...h rise the [[Cheviots]]. The Pennines form the watershed between the west and the east. ...er Eden|Eden Valley]] but fill the eastern acres of both of those counties and much of [[County Durham]].
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• Preston
  |constituency=Preston, Wyre and Preston North ...name Preston is derived from Old English words meaning "Priest settlement" and in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' appears as "Prestune".
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• Warrington
  ...owley. It lies 16 miles east of [[Liverpool]], 19 miles west of Manchester and eight miles south of [[St Helens]]. The population of the town is 80,661. I ...market town at a bridging point of the river. A local tradition of textile and tool production dates from this time.
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• Bolton
  ...Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is 10 miles northwest of the city of [[Manchester]]. The town of Bolton has a population of 139,403,<ref name=TownsTablePop>{ ...what became known as the Bolton Massacre, 1,600&nbsp;residents were killed and 700 were taken prisoner.
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• River Mersey
  ...pool waterfront from Birkenhead 300809.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Mersey at Liverpool]] ...miles long, beginning in [[Stockport]], [[Cheshire]], and discharging in [[Liverpool Bay]] in the [[Irish Sea]].
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