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  • In the winter of 1424, much of the town was burnt by a Scottish raiding party. The accession of King James VI to the throne of England, and the effective union of the kingdoms this brought about, ended the reiver culture of Northumberl
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  • ...ands - see {{cite book| author=Haswell-Smith, Hamish| year=2004| title=The Scottish Islands| location=Edinburgh| publisher=Canongate| isbn=1-84195-454-3}} plus ...ain and Northern Ireland in international agreements e.g. Universal Postal Union and Road Traffic Convention, as well as in the ISO 3166 country codes (GB a
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  • |picture caption=Union Street, Aberdeen City Centre [[File:Aberdeen1.jpg|thumb|left|The Castlegate and Union Street (c.1900)]]
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  • The word "Inverurie" comes from the Scottish Gaelic language ''Inbhir Uraidh'' meaning "Mouth of the Ury" after the rive At the union of the United Free Church and The Church of Scotland in 1929 the “Auld Ki
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  • Strathmore Cricket Club [http://strathmorecc.intheteam.com/modules/page/page.aspx?type=home&mi Rugby Union is represented in the town by Strathmore Rugby Football Club, who play thei
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  • * [[Scottish Episcopal Church]]: St Mary the Virgin Church (Springfield Terrace) .../heritage.scotsman.com/traditions.cfm?id=2372812005 | title = ''A day when Scottish football scorched the record books''| publisher = The Scotsman | date = 200
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  • ...rnative etymological sources. Unfortunately in one of the earlier books on Scottish place names Buckie on the Moray Firth does not receive a mention although B * Scottish Episcopal Church
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  • ...n Street and Queensgate are cross streets parallel to High Street. Between Union Street and Queensgate is the Victorian Market, which contains a large numbe ...ifth out of 189 British cities for its quality of life, the highest of any Scottish city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml
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  • ...les/gazette/permanent_places/C_mfsgp/gazette_coatbridge.html|title=Frost's Scottish Gazette|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref> ...monks of Newbattle Abbey<ref name="RM Urqhuart. Heraldry Today 1973 P.188">Scottish Burgh and County Heraldry – RM Urqhuart. Heraldry Today (1973); pg. 188</
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  • ...ving rise to the Manx language, which remains closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic.<ref>[http://www.gov.im/mnh/collections/archaeology/ironage/ Manx Mu Trade takes place mostly with the United Kingdom. The island is in customs union with the United Kingdom, and related revenues are pooled and shared under t
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  • ...Europe. This allowed the King to plant Ulster with more loyal English and Scottish planters, a process which began in earnest in 1610. ...ation, Ulster was no longer a Gaelic redoubt but a land mainly English and Scottish and indeed the place where the two first mingled in earnest to be the first
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  • ...eam, while Cardigan Connor played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club and was 'chef de mission' (team manager) for Anguilla's Commonwealth G ...ERFC Ms Jacquie Ruan, and Canadian standout Scrumhalf Mark Harris (Toronto Scottish RFC). The club was lucky enough to host the HMS Iron Duke in September 2008
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  • |LG district=Scottish Borders [[File:Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders - geograph.org.uk - 662196.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Melrose Abbey]]
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  • ...otland, Scottish Episcopal Church, Methodist Church and the Congregational Union of Scotland (which subsequently united with the United Reformed Church). Th *Cricket: Livingston Cricket Club
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  • ..., Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), and the 2nd Duke of Hamilton (1616-1651), Scottish Royalist commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. *Cricket: Worcestershire County Cricket Club
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  • ...were defeated.<ref name="battle"/> This was the first major battle between Scottish and English arms since the Norman Conquest and one of the two major battles ...by Stephen of Blois. With Stephen fighting rebel barons in the south, the Scottish armies had already taken [[Cumberland]] and [[Northumberland]], the city of
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  • ...in the European Division 2, held in Guernsey during August 2008. The youth cricket teams have been promoted to play in the European Division 1 alongside Irela ...ination has 9 teams in its top division. The 2006/07 champions were Jersey Scottish where Ross Crick is the top scorer. The Jersey national football team plays
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  • Despite the lack of flat ground, the town has a golf club, a cricket club and a football club. It has two schools too. ...of 18th-century construction. Buried in the churchyard are soldiers of the Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton who marched south in support of King Charles I
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  • At the junction of Market Street and Union Street is the former Lurgan Town Hall, a listed building erected in 1868. I ...wn locally as 'Lurgan Castle', is a distinctive mansion built in 1833 with Scottish sandstone in an Elizabethan style with a lantern-shaped tower and prominent
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  • ...November 1641, Irish rebels forced between 100–300 captured English and Scottish settlers or planters, including women and children, off the Bann bridge and *Cricket: Portadown Cricket Club
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