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  • ...ah]], it also forms a detached part of Aberdeenshire's ancient parish of [[King Edward]]. ...t is mountainous, especially [[Braemar]], which contains the greatest mass of elevated land in the [[British Isles]]. The Dee valley has sandy soil, the
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  • | picture caption = The town of Alnwick, nestling behind Alnwick Castle ...t town in northern [[Northumberland]] of some 8,000 people, 32 miles south of [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] and 5 miles inland from the [[North Sea]] at [[Alnmo
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  • The '''County of Antrim''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on [[Northern Ireland|Ulster's]] north-eastern c ...also famed for natural treasures; the [[Glens of Antrim]] in the northeast of the county offer isolated rugged landscapes, while the [[Giant's Causeway]]
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  • ...om|shire]] in Lowland [[Scotland]], along the eastern shore of the [[Firth of Clyde]] and inland to the hills. It is bounded by [[Renfrewshire]] in the Within the Firth of Clyde, the conspicuous rock of [[Ailsa Craig]] belongs to Ayrshire, as do Lady Island (off [[Troon]]), and
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  • ...Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the [[River Tweed]]. It is part of the "[[Middle Shires]]". ...rmuir reaches 1,746 feet in Berwickshire, at Meikel Says Law on the border of East Lothian.
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  • |picture="Burn of Care" near Castle Campbell - geograph.org.uk - 1482415.jpg |picture caption=Burn of Care near Castle Campbell
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  • ...ow considered a suburb of that city.<ref>[CORSTORPHINE A Pictorial History of a Midolithian Village ISBN 1 85158 366 1]</ref> ...affic on the main street, St John's Road, is often heavy, as it forms part of the A8 main road between Edinburgh and [[Glasgow]]. The actual "High Street
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  • ...[[Solway Firth]]. With neighbouring [[Wigtownshire]] it forms the region of [[Galloway]]. ...its coast at the south. To Kirkcudbrightshire belong the wee islands too of [[Hestan Island|Hestan]] and [[Little Ross]].
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  • ...t of the Lowlands. It is [[Scotland]]'s most populous county, for the City of [[Glasgow]] and its eastern suburbs fill its northern parts. ...Lanarkshire, after which it leaves the county and widens into the [[Firth of Clyde]].
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  • ...town]] is [[Elgin]], which has also given the county its alternative name of Elginshire. ...y are inland, locally situate in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire interposes itself between coast Moray and its larger detach
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  • The '''County of Peebles''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] in southern Scotland. ...Peebles]], the [[county town]], and behind it [[Innerleithen]], while most of Peeblesshire's acres are taken up in the fair hills and dales that characte
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  • ...he land, its outlet to the sea is the [[River Tay|Firth of Tay]], and most of the towns lie near that river. The shire however extends far into the mount ...xtends from [[Strathmore, Perthshire|Strathmore]] in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, [[Rannoch Moor]] and [[Ben Lui]] in the west, and
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  • ...a small but populous [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the banks of the [[River Clyde]]. Its [[county town]] is [[Renfrew]], though Renfrew is ...mall detached portion of the parish of Renfrew stands on the northern bank of the Clyde, surrounded on the landward side by [[Dumbartonshire]].
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  • ...Campsie Fells]] to [[Loch Lomond]] and to within four miles of the [[Firth of Clyde]]. ...ced Stirlingshire in the heart of many dramatic and indeed bloody episodes of British history, in those long ages when war was known in these lands.
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  • |scots=Aiberdeen |LG district=City of Aberdeen
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  • ...d the largest town of [[Angus]], standing on the north bank of the [[Firth of Tay]]. It is the fourth-largest city in [[Scotland]]. ...along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jam, jute and journalism".
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  • ...[[county town]] of [[County Antrim]] and the capital and the largest city of [[Northern Ireland]]. It is a major urban and industrial centre. ...hold a population of 3 million, or half the total population of the island of Ireland.
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  • ...Clyde]]. It is the [[county town]] of [[Ayrshire]] and with a population of around 46,000 is its largest town. Ayr became a royal burgh in 1205. ...ettlements include [[Alloway]], known for its associations with the poet [[Robert Burns]].
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  • ...e Morville. It also served as the capital of [[Cunninghame]]. The poet [[Robert Burns]] lived here for a time, after whom Burns Street and Burns Crescent a ...nninghame and Largs. The dispute was resolved by Robert II's Royal Charter of 8 April 1372 conferring Royal Burgh status on Irvine.
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  • ...northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, opposite the [[Isle of Arran]]. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services — the P&O E Fullarton House was built by William Fullarton of that Ilk in 1745 and altered by his son, however it was demolished in 1966
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