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  • |county=Surrey ...thwark]] and to the east is [[Rotherhithe]]. To the south are [[Walworth, Surrey|Walworth]] and [[Peckham]].
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  • ...://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5409039.ece|title=Richmond, in Surrey, is the most widely copied British place name worldwide|date=29 December 20 ...outh. The Floating Harbour was created to eliminate the tides at the city docks and it is simply a stretch of the River Avon shut off with locks.
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  • ...rd of the [[River Ravensbourne]]. Part of the town spills over too into [[Surrey]]. ...attracted Peter the Great to come and study shipbuilding. Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I
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  • |county=Surrey '''Rotherhithe''' is a residential town in [[Surrey]], at the very north-east of the county, buried deep within the metropolita
    17 KB (2,740 words) - 12:08, 28 July 2017
  • |county=Surrey '''Tolworth''' is a mostly residential town in [[Surrey]], within the outer ringes of the metropolitan conurbation, contiguous with
    6 KB (896 words) - 11:18, 25 January 2016
  • ...emolished.<ref name="1958bbc">{{cite web | title=1958: Historic Sheerness docks to close | publisher=BBC | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/st ...first=and Mason, M T| last=Farries, K G| year=1966| title=The Windmills of Surrey and Inner London| pages=51| publisher=Charles Skilton Ltd.| location=London
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  • ...ing an intense period of severe weather throughout the United Kingdom. The commercial centre of the town and many residential areas were devastated. In a governm ...he town was granted a charter by King Stephen. The town became a port with docks along the [[River Ouse, Sussex|Ouse River]].
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  • ...in Millwall since 1910 when it moved across the River to [[Bermondsey]], [[Surrey]]. [[File:MillwallDock.jpg|thumb|250px|A March 2004 view of the Millwall Docks]]
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  • The '''Isle of Dogs''' lies in south-eastern [[Middlesex]] bordering [[Surrey]], [[Kent]] and [[Essex]] within the Greater London conurbation. It was for ...Wall'', the district became known as ''Millwall'' with the building of the docks, and from the number of windmills constructed along the top of the flood de
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  • |county=Surrey '''Peckham''' is a town in north-eastern [[Surrey]], deep within the metropolitan conurbation. It is contiguous with [[Dulwic
    12 KB (1,962 words) - 12:19, 23 June 2018
  • The '''Basingstoke Canal''' is a canal cutting through [[Hampshire]] and [[Surrey]]. It was completed in 1794, and served to connect [[Basingstoke]] with th ...[[Weybridge]]. Its intended purpose was to allow boats to travel from the docks in the East End of [[London]] to Basingstoke.
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  • |county=Surrey |picture caption=Greenland Dock, Surrey Quays, in the early 1990s
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  • {{county|Surrey}} ...ey]], but trespassed into [[Kent]] at [[Deptford]]. From Surrey Commercial Docks, it opened to the Old Kent Road in 1807, to [[Camberwell]] in 1810, and to
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  • Land in Surrey and Ireland were settled on the Rushbrookes from the estates of Earl Broder ...e mid 1980s with major job losses, and was subsequently redeveloped into a commercial and small industries park - while Cork Dockyard Holdings Ltd continues with
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