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  • ...[[Gloucestershire]], with which Berkshire has a five-mile boundary at its north-western corner by [[Buscot]]. ...es into two clearly distinct sections with the boundary lying roughly on a north-south line through the centre of [[Reading]].
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  • ...st, [[Somerset]] to the north-west, [[Wiltshire]] to the north-east, and [[Hampshire]] to the east. Outside the “South East Dorset conurbation”, most of the ...ginning of the oil-bearing strata which sweep through Britain and into the North Sea; oil is extracted from shale on the Dorset coast.
    35 KB (5,395 words) - 10:01, 27 October 2018
  • |name=Hampshire |map image=Hampshire Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
    14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:48, 2 September 2020
  • ...with [[Sussex]] in the hills. To the east lies [[Kent]] and to the west [[Hampshire]] and [[Berkshire]]. The [[county town]] is [[Guildford]]. ...r for a while much of it has the nature of gentle rural life, the whole of north-eastern Surrey is within the metropolitan conurbation stretching out from [
    34 KB (5,328 words) - 17:09, 19 January 2021
  • ...hannel]]. It is bounded by [[Hampshire]] to the west; by [[Surrey]] to the north; and by [[Kent]] to the east. ...in between the [[South Downs]] and the [[English Channel]] until the South Downs punch their way to the sea at [[Beachy Head]], and [[Eastbourne]], [[Bexhil
    7 KB (1,125 words) - 14:56, 19 January 2021
  • ...erset]] to the west, [[Gloucestershire]] to the north, [[Berkshire]] and [[Hampshire]] to the east and [[Dorset]] to the south. ...k Formation that underlies large areas of Southern England from the Dorset Downs in the west to [[Dover]] in the east. The largest area of chalk in Wiltshir
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  • ...bury is surrounded on three sides (north, west and south) by the Berkshire Downs. The downland to the south rises steeply out of the river valley providing ...tance route by the M4 motorway which here runs parallel three miles to the north. The Newbury junction, at Chieveley, is Junction 13.
    4 KB (627 words) - 12:22, 25 October 2012
  • |picture=Ashford Kent, North Street - geograph.org.uk - 1142576.jpg |picture caption=North Street, Ashford
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  • ...settlement at Hamworthy, now the western half of Poole. A Roman Road ran north from Hamworthy to Badbury Rings, a Roman transport hub. ...hy. In the 18th century Poole was the principal British port trading with North America. At the start of the 19th century 90% of Poole's population's empl
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  • |county=Hampshire ...county town of [[Hampshire]]. It stands at the western end of the [[South Downs]], along the course of the [[River Itchen]].
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  • |county=Hampshire ...ad of the [[River Loddon]], 48 miles south-west of [[London]] and 19 miles north-east of the [[county town]], [[Winchester]].
    32 KB (4,917 words) - 09:28, 15 January 2017
  • ...at plain of the [[River Thames]], which river flows about two miles to the north of Didcot, and having turned south, five miles to the east of Didcot too, a ...the ditch that runs north through what is now known as the Ladygrove area north of the town near [[Long Wittenham]].
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  • '''Faringdon''' is a small market town in the north-western corner of [[Berkshire]]. It is on the edge of the Thames Valley, be ...ably on the site of Portwell House) but it soon moved to [[Beaulieu]] in [[Hampshire]].<ref name=VCH/>
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  • |county=Hampshire |picture=White Hart, Whitchurch, Hampshire.jpg
    14 KB (2,212 words) - 16:50, 27 May 2011
  • Eastbourne lies at the eastern end of the [[South Downs]] alongside the famous [[Beachy Head]] cliff. The sheltered position of the ...e and can be seen from most of the town. The hills run from the edge of [[Hampshire]] eastward separating the seaside strip of Sussex from the inland woods, un
    35 KB (5,481 words) - 07:14, 19 September 2019
  • ...is a sizable town in south-western [[Surrey]], close by the border with [[Hampshire]]. It was once a home of the [[Diocese of Winchester|Bishops of Winchester] ...is connected by the long ridge of the [[Hog's Back]]. [[Aldershot]] in [[Hampshire]] is 4 miles northeast. Winchester, from which much of the town's ancient
    27 KB (4,407 words) - 22:43, 28 January 2016
  • ...the A287, 13 miles south-west of [[Guildford]] but by nature it is on the Downs and woods. ...ver Wey]]. [[Farnham]] is the nearest main town and it is 3½ miles to the north. The majority of the land around Frensham is located within the [[Metropoli
    6 KB (925 words) - 14:48, 10 August 2022
  • | [[Dunstable Downs]] | [[Hampshire]]
    19 KB (2,178 words) - 15:25, 22 August 2021
  • |county=Hampshire ...ithin the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and to the north down the escarpment a fine view opens up across the farmland around [[East
    1 KB (172 words) - 08:05, 24 July 2017
  • ...of the county, a part almost wholly surrounded by Wiltshire fields. To the north of Oxenwood is the hamlet of Rivar. ...he west to the north and on into Hampshire, a ridge which become the North Downs. The Wayfarer's Path runs along this ridge (Berkshire's highest point, [[Wa
    4 KB (663 words) - 11:51, 11 June 2020

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