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• Oxfordshire
  Oxfordshire borders five other counties: [[Berkshire]] to the south; [[Gloucestershire]] to the west; [[Warwickshire]] to the north-west; [[Northamptonshire]] to ...he hamlet of Boycott in the parish of Stowe and the hamlet of Ackhampstead in the parish of Lewknor. Additionally a detached part of the ancient parish o
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• Aberdeen
  ...The city has a long, sandy coastline. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the ''Oil Capital of Europe'' or the ' ...d textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. In consequence, Aberdeen has become a major world centre for engineering exper
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• Witney
  |picture caption= High Street in Witney '''Witney''' is a historic market town on the [[River Windrush]] in [[Oxfordshire]], 12 miles west of the [[county town]], [[Oxford]].
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• Crewe
  ...for many years a major railway engineering facility, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car pr ...after the ancient township of Crewe, today's Crewe is a new creation built in another parish, and so the town is named after the railway station.
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• Floating Harbour
  ...rset|River Avon]] in the city and marks the division of the city between [[Gloucestershire]] to the north and [[Somerset]] to the south. ...g lock gates on a tidal stretch of the [[River Avon, Somerset|River Avon]] in the centre of the city and providing a tidal by-pass for the river. It is c
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• Shropshire Canal
  ...s laid along parts of it, but a small section at the southern end remained in operation until 1912, and was not formally abandoned until 1944. The Hay in ...With his brother-in-law, he had set up a new ironworks at Donnington Wood in 1783. He developed a circle of friends from the engineers and manufacturers
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• Blaise Castle Estate
  ...on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. ...nd Art Gallery and holds a variety of collections. The Picture Room, added in the 1830s, is hung with paintings, mostly of the 19th century. There are se
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• Wentworth Woodhouse
  {{for|the similarly named country house in Yorkshire|Wentworth Castle}} ...worth Woodhouse - geograph.org.uk - 1039905.jpg|thumb|250px|The East Front in 2008]]
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• Poulton-le-Fylde
  ...ref>{{cite web|url=http://ukcensusdata.com|title=Data from the 2011 census in England and Wales - UK Census Data 2011|first=Good Stuff IT|last=Services|d ...ods were imported and exported through two harbours on the [[River Wyre]]. In 1837, the town was described as the "metropolis of the Fylde",<ref name=Tho
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• Littledean Jail
  |county=Gloucestershire ...' is a museum in [[Littledean]] in the [[Forest of Dean]] in the west of [[Gloucestershire]].
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• Beaulieu Abbey
  ...92-5|page=68}}</ref> populated by 30 monks sent from the abbey of Cîteaux in France, the mother house of the Cistercian order. The Mediæval Latin name |title=Two Records of Plate and Vestments Removed from Beaulieu Abbey in 1399.
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