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  • ...oped town which obtained city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ ...Preston is derived from Old English words meaning "Priest settlement" and in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' appears as "Prestune".
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  • ...eat Britain]] and its appurtenant islands. To the south lies [[England]]. In addition to the mainland, Scotland includes over 790 islands, of which the ...and effectively united Great Britain, though the legal union occurred only in 1707.
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  • |county=Inverness-shire '''Raasay''' is an island of [[Inverness-shire]] lying close by the Isle of [[Skye]], amongst the [[Inner Hebrides]]. It
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  • |picture=Side lane in Kinlochewe - geograph.org.uk - 913135.jpg ...hin the parish of [[Gairloch]]. It stands near the head of [[Loch Maree]] in the magnificent valley of that loch, and serves as a junction between the m
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  • |county=Inverness-shire South Kessock has featured in two novels by Alex Mabon: ''The Lads from the Ferry'' and ''War of the Ferr
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  • |county=Inverness-shire ...[Outer Hebrides]]. It is within the [[Sound of Harris]], and is part of [[Inverness-shire]].
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  • ...bernethy Forest]], a large area (adjacent to the loch) of which is an RSPB nature reserve. The loch is renowned for its breeding population of ospreys, which ...ding birds came to Garten completely of their own accord and set up a nest in the forest by the loch. Slowly the species recolonised Scotland, and the RS
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  • ...graph.org.uk - 55317.jpg|thumb|300px|Abernethy Forest, with the Cairngorms in the background.]] ...e=2018-10-02}}</ref> The forest forms part of the wider Abernethy National Nature Reserve.<ref name=nnr>{{cite web| url=https://gateway.snh.gov.uk/sitelink/s
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