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  • ...shire]] to the east. Outside the “South East Dorset conurbation”, most of the county is largely rural and agricultural. ...here the remarkable [[Chesil Beach]] stretches for 18 miles to the cliffs of the “[[Jurassic Coast]]” as far as [[Lyme Regis]], close to the border
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  • |name=Hampshire |map image=Hampshire Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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  • ...f [[Great Britain]], lapped by the [[English Channel]]. It is bounded by [[Hampshire]] to the west; by [[Surrey]] to the north; and by [[Kent]] to the east. ...[[Bexhill-on-Sea]] and [[Hastings]] beyond Beachy Head. The easterly part of Sussex has many stately homes and castles such as [[Arundel Castle]] and [[
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  • [[File:EnglishChannel.jpg|thumb|300px|Satellite view of the English Channel]] ...ole southern shore of [[Great Britain]] and alone amongst the sea passages of these isles it is popularly known just as "the Channel".
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  • ...astern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most important in the county. ==Name of the town==
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  • ...vide shelter to many large ships and which is also blessed by a scattering of attractive islands. ...d War the town was one of the main departing points for the D-Day landings of the Normandy Invasion.
    29 KB (4,491 words) - 10:56, 6 May 2020
  • |county=Hampshire ...ommercial port in the United Kingdom, indeed one of the largest commercial ports in Europe.
    35 KB (5,320 words) - 14:22, 30 March 2016
  • |county=Hampshire ...est population of any island in the [[British Isles]], after the mainlands of [[Great Britain]] and [[Ireland]].
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  • ...[[Old Sarum]], the original site of Salisbury win a hill-fort to the north of today's city. ...val architecture remains, and yet more from later ages adding to the charm of the city.
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  • ...g of England.svg|right|thumb|180px|Saint George's Cross, the national flag of England]] ...Wight]] in [[Hampshire]] and the only substantial archipelago the [[Isles of Scilly]] in [[Cornwall]].
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  • [[File:050103 2353 calshot.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Calshot Castle at the mouth of Southampton Water]] ...t and west, and this have made Southampton the pre-eminent commercial port of the [[United Kingdom]].
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  • ...olent map (OS).jpg |right|thumb|300px|Map of the Solent and Isle of Wight, Hampshire]] ...it within [[Hampshire]] separating the [[Isle of Wight]] from the mainland of [[Great Britain]].
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  • ...onshire has two motifs (a flower and a plum) but between them a great deal of symbolism, for the flower is not only a cantling reference to the village n ...of local flags. A few city flags are included which are in truth banners of the city councils' arms, but town and village flags can be a world away fro
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  • ...It is a town known for seaside holidays and fossils; indeed in the shops of Lyme one is as likely to find an ammonite as a bucket and spade. ...The Devon border is at the edge of the town, just a third of a mile west of the harbour.
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  • ...[[Dorset]] to finish at [[Poole Harbour]]. It picks its way amongst some of the prettiest coasts in the land. ...has been calculated to be 114,931&nbsp;feet; almost four times the height of Mount Everest.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.swcp.org.uk/walk/reckoner.ht
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  • ...iver Medway]] between [[Rochester]] and [[Maidstone]]. It has a population of about 12,000 people. ...sp;miles south of the town allowing good access to London and the Channel Ports. The [[Medway Valley Line]] between [[Strood]] and [[Maidstone]] passes thr
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  • ...sport.jpg|right|thumb|220px|The lower end of Portsmouth harbour at the end of the 19th century]] {{county|Hampshire}}
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  • ...funding allocations, the numbers soon became used on maps and as a method of navigation. Two sub-schemes exist: one for motorways, and another for non-m ...an]], [[Jersey]], [[Guernsey]], and [[British overseas territories]]. All of these numbering schemes use identical basic conventions and road-sign desig
    22 KB (3,290 words) - 10:45, 27 July 2017
  • ...:Royal & Ancient Clubhouse.jpg|thumb|350px|The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews]] ...r the county in which the clubhouse is situated. Courses in detached parts of counties are listed under the county in which they are locally situate and
    119 KB (17,852 words) - 09:36, 16 December 2022
  • ...ber Castle was rebuilt and extended over the next year under the direction of the Moravian engineer, Stefan von Haschenperg. The results were considered ...ad been completed, and peace with France later in the century removed much of the requirement for the fort.
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