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  • |picture=Bindon hill from the east.jpg ...re]] to the east. Outside the “South East Dorset conurbation”, most of the county is largely rural and agricultural.
    35 KB (5,395 words) - 10:01, 27 October 2018
  • ...acked urban conurbation and the lonely marshes of the [[North Sea]] coast. The [[county town]] is [[Chelmsford]]. ...the East Saxons, and these East Saxons (''Eastseaxe'') give us the name of the county today.
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  • ...sles of [[Shetland]]: the most northly inhabited island after [[Unst]]. In the 2001 it had a usually resident population of 957. ...ing.</ref> and is the third most populous in the archipelago, coming after the Mainland and [[Whalsay]].<ref name=Smith/>
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  • ...G|thumb|right|240px|Pharaoh's Island from ''The Thames Court'' (taken when the river was red-boarded to navigation)]] '''Pharaoh's Island''' or '''Dog Ait''' is an island in the [[River Thames]], belonging to [[Middlesex]]. It is situated 300 yds upstre
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  • ...ht|Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire, one of many properties in the care of the charity]] ...nd for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty''', commonly known as the '''National Trust for Scotland''' describes itself as:
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  • ..., is at its core, with the vast conurbation surrounding it covering almost the rest of [[Middlesex]], much of north-eastern [[Surrey]], north-western [[Ke ...City of London, has been the seat of the British government, and before it the English government, for almost a thousand years.
    29 KB (4,342 words) - 22:23, 12 August 2023
  • ...tural Beauty surrounds the town, and the Cotswold Way path passes by it to the west. == The town ==
    14 KB (2,176 words) - 13:07, 8 November 2019
  • ...]". The town grew up where the ancient trackway ''Barton Street'' crosses the [[River Lud]] ...oint is marked with a plaque on the north side of the street, just east of the junction with ''Northgate''.
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  • ...and charm. Ludlow formerly served as the seat of the Council of Wales and the Marches; effectively Capital of Wales. ...Ludlow is the largest town in southern Shropshire and the local centre for the villages for many miles around.
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  • ...is a major city in southern Lancashire. It stands on the eastern side of the [[Mersey]] Estuary. ...ation of 816,216.<ref>{{cite web |title= Key Statistics for urban areas in the North – Contents, Introduction, Tables KS01 – KS08 |publisher = Office
    56 KB (8,428 words) - 11:13, 27 June 2016
  • ...hich well represents its comfy, prosperous residential character. It is in the [[Ossulstone]] Hundred of Middlesex. ...t once was, now its lower reached are culverted and drawn off for flushing the drains.
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  • ...The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in in the metropolitan conurbation.<ref name=london_plan_f08>{{cite web|url=http://ww ...as one of the last canals to carry significant commercial traffic (through the 1950s) and is still open to traffic and is used by pleasure craft.
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  • | picture caption = The Chimes and Uxbridge High Street ...ithic hunters, as well as various animal bones and traces of charcoal from the remains of campfires.<ref name="Cotton p.8"/>
    32 KB (4,924 words) - 10:50, 28 July 2016
  • |picture=The Royal Oak, Stokenchurch - geograph-3524119.jpg |picture caption=The Royal Oak, Stokenchurch
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  • ...its streets are and places of interest include the Royal Cornwall Museum, the Hall for Cornwall and Cornwall's Courts of Justice. ...portant centre of trade from its port, and then as a [[stannary town]] for the mining industry.
    15 KB (2,387 words) - 14:57, 30 March 2016
  • |picture caption=Wellingborough Embankment on the River Nene ...ods, the town was mostly built above the current level of the flood plain. The town is noted as a centre of high-performance engineering.
    11 KB (1,617 words) - 17:27, 12 June 2017
  • ...iconic architecture such as The Sage Gateshead, the Angel of the North and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. ==The town==
    14 KB (2,262 words) - 14:17, 7 July 2016
  • '''Chelmsford''' is the county town of [[Essex]]. It was granted Letters Patent in 2012 to become a ...e the daily train journey to Liverpool Street Station in London to work in the City of London financial sector, though Chelmsford is in itself a modern, w
    17 KB (2,639 words) - 10:20, 30 March 2016
  • ...yside and woodland; some penetrating to within only a few hundred yards of the town centre. ...of Essex (later [[Epping Forest]]) that would have covered the area, where the main occupation was charcoal burning.
    24 KB (3,735 words) - 16:55, 27 January 2016
  • ...derry]] and [[Tyrone]], its summit marking on the boundary line. Sawel is the highest point in both counties. ...untains|work=Encyclopaedia Britannica|accessdate=2009-01-19}}</ref> Around the peak, there is heathland with plant life including heather, bilberries and
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