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• Scarborough
  ...The park still features a mock maritime battle (based on the Battle of the River Plate) re-enacted on the boating lake with large model boats and fireworks ...an ornamental lake known as Scarborough Mere. During the 20th century, the Mere was a popular park, with rowing boats, canoes and a miniature pirate ship &
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• Cheshire
  |picture=Big Mere and church at Marbury - geograph.org.uk - 205379.jpg |picture caption=Big Mere, Marbury
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• Blackpool
  ...he [[Fylde]] peninsula, which is between the [[River Ribble|Ribble]] and [[River Wyre|Wyre]] estuaries, washed by the [[Irish Sea]]. Blackpool is the heart ...eck. The name coming from "le pull" which was a stream that drained Marton Mere and Marton Moss into the sea close to what is now Manchester Square. The st
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• Essex
  ...mbridgeshire]] and [[Suffolk]] to the north, and [[Kent]] lying over the [[River Thames]] and its great estuary to the south. ...great contrast between town and country. From the county border on the [[River Lea]] out to [[Romford]], townscape stretches almost unbroken until curbed
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• Inverness-shire
  The county's islands are too many to list in a mere summary, but major islands are: ...g comparatively small and fertile tracts in the north on both sides of the river Ness, in several of the glens and on the shores of some of the sea lochs, t
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• Kincardineshire
  ...es from the Grampians to the picturesque and finely-wooded valley of the [[River Dee, Aberdeenshire|Dee]], and in the south it falls to the [[Howe o' the Me ...e, Aberdeenshire|River Dee]] for most of its northern border, although the river sweeps into Kincardineshire at [[Banchory]]. The summit of [[Mount Battock]
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• Wiltshire
  ...shire Council|accessdate=13 December 2010}}</ref> itself named after the [[River Wylye]], one of eight rivers which drain the county. ...re clay valleys and river-cut valleys. The largest of these vales is the [[River Avon, Somerset|Avon Vale]]. The Avon cuts diagonally through the north of t
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• Wicken Fen
  ...ted National Nature Reserve of 660 acres also includes the area around the Mere, to the south of Wicken Lode. These areas contain original peat fen with co ...idleway path across White Fen were opened. Upgrades to the crossing of the River Cam at Bottisham Lock and the bridge over Burwell Lode are planned as well
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• Whittlesey
  ...e Old English ''ieg'' (island or dry land in the fen) and ''ea'', meaning "river". ...borough]] and the town of [[March]]. It is bordered to the north by the [[River Nene]] and to the south by Whittlesey Dyke. Anciently it was connected to [
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• Littleport
  ...iles north of [[Ely]]. It lies on the Bedford Level South section of the [[River Great Ouse]], close to [[Burnt Fen]] and [[Mare Fen]]. ..., both of which were killed in the struggle. The local men threw into the mere the body of the friar but buried with honour the dog, which was said to hau
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• Todmorden
  ...ncashire is marked by the original course of the [[River Calder, Yorkshire|River Calder]] and its tributary, the Walsden Water, which run through the centre ...ople still lived in the uplands, Todmorden itself could be considered as a mere village. During the years 1800–1845 great changes took place in the comm
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• London
  ...largest city of [[England]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. Standing on the [[River Thames]] in south-east England, it has been a major settlement for two mill ===The River Thames===
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• Stoke-upon-Trent
  Stoke was located where the young River Trent meets the Fowlea Brook. The later Roman road through Stoke remained t ...000 bottle kilns in the heyday of the pottery industry, today reduced to a mere 46.
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• Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
  ...ge, lying on the south bank of the Forty Foot Drain near the loop of the [[River Nene]] Old Course, on the B1096 toward Benwick. ...ting of fisheries and fishing rights around Ramsey Mere and [[Whittlesey]] Mere, suggesting the importance of fisheries. Rents were often paid in eels.
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• St Austell
  ...south coast some ten miles south of [[Bodmin]] and 30 miles west of the [[River Tamar]]. The china clay industry now employs only just over 2,000 people, a mere fraction of the workforce in the early 20th century, but the industry still
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• Peterborough
  ...edral city in [[Northamptonshire]]. The city stands on the banks of the [[River Nene]], which enters the [[North Sea]] some 30 miles to the north-east. Pet ...lages whose names they have adopted and which have spread south across the River Nene into [[Huntingdonshire]]. The town has thus served to take London ove
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• Moffat
  ...fat''' is a town and burgh in [[Annandale]] in [[Dumfriesshire]], on the [[River Annan]], with a population of around 2,500. It developed as a spa town. ...is the Moffat House Hotel, designed by John Adam. The nearby Star Hotel, a mere 20&nbsp;feet wide, boasted a record in the Guinness Book of Records as the
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• Hartlepool
  ...s a town and port in [[County Durham]] standing on the north bank of the [[River Tees]]. ...obody dies but of drowning or old-age: nobody poor but from drunkenness or mere laziness.}}
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• Balham
  '''Balham''' is a town in [[Surrey]] which has long since been become a mere neighbourhood deep within the greater conurbation stretching out from [[Lon ...am''. Bal refers to 'rounded enclosure' and ham to a homestead, village or river enclosure. It was held by Geoffrey Orlateile. Its ''Domesday'' Assets were:
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• Windermere
  ...t has been better known as a holiday destination and the boats seen on the mere are more likely to be for leisure than labour. The water bobs with private ...late as "Vinandr's lake", from the Old Norse name ''Vinandr'' and English "mere".<ref>http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sw.rae/tarns.htm
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