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  • |picture=King's College Chapel and Clare College from across the river - geograph.org.uk - 67682.jpg The '''County of Cambridge''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] of [[East Anglia]].
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  • '''Corstorphine''' is a village and ancient parish in [[Midlothian]], to the west of [[Edinburgh]] and now considered a suburb of that city.<ref>[CORSTO ...en Edinburgh and [[Glasgow]]. The actual "High Street" itself is no longer the main street, an idiosyncrasy shared with central Edinburgh.
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  • ...dgeshire]] to the north; [[Buckinghamshire]] to the west; and [[Essex]] to the east. ...ounty. Several major roads, including the M1 and M25 motorways, the A1 and the A10, run through it, whose corridors are marked by urban growth.
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  • |picture caption=Farmland in the Vale of Belvoir ...shire]] to the south-east. The border with Warwickshire is Watling Street (the A5).
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  • ...[[Chiltern Hills]], stretching across the East, and the [[Cotswolds]] to the West and North. ...City of Oxford but also on the hills and charming honey-coloured towns of the Cotswolds, and on Oxfordshire's many delightful Thames-side towns and villa
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  • ...nited Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". ...o the east lies [[Kent]] and to the west [[Hampshire]] and [[Berkshire]]. The [[county town]] is [[Guildford]].
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  • ...ty Galway]] and with it facing the wild [[Atlantic Ocean]]. It is part of the Province of [[Connaught]]. ...3}}</ref> The boundaries of the county, which was formed in 1585, reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time.
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  • ...enshire]] and Scotland's third most populous city. It is a major centre of the North Sea oil industry. ...l in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the ''Oil Capital of Europe'' or the ''Energy Capital of Europe''.<ref name="uni-abdn">{{cite web |url=http://ww
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  • ...is served by Inverurie railway station on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport at [[Dyce]]. ...Don is actually called '''Port Elphinstone''' it is however common to hear the title "Inverurie" used to refer to both Inverurie and Port Elphinstone as a
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  • ...ange to the north and the [[River Devon, Clackmannanshire|River Devon]] to the south. ...nd much information about the former Devon Valley Railway, which closed in the 1970s.
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  • |picture caption=Chepstow Castle and 1816 road bridge across the Wye ...[[River Severn]], and close to the western end of the [[Severn Bridge]] on the [[M48 motorway]]. It is 16 miles east of [[Newport, Monmouthshire|Newport]
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  • ...d contiguous towns, Manchester has highest population of any urban area in the United Kingdom after [[London]]. ...ntre, the town's origin, is built on a sandstone bluff near the meeting of the rivers [[River Medlock|Medlock]] and [[River Irwell|Irwell]].
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  • ...esort and parish on the coast of [[Berwickshire]]. It is two miles east of the main north-south A1 road and just 8 miles north of [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]]. ...arrow streets and vennels - giving shelter from the sea and well suited to the smuggling tradition of old.
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  • ...ire portion accounts for 468,812; the Worcestershire portion, 435,033; and the Staffordshire portion 168,484. ...nurbation in Britain, with an overall population of 2,284,093 according to the 2001 census.<ref name="KSUA">{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/s
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  • ...and [[Buckinghamshire]] in Great Britain. Despite the name, about 55% of the network is above ground. ...lt first, but any such distinction has long been lost and in recent years "The Tube" has been used by London Underground Limited.<ref>For example: ''[http
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  • ...ffice for National Statistics estimates, it is the fastest growing city in the United Kingdom. ==The city==
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  • ...ish in western [[Middlesex]] beside the [[River Thames]], which here forms the border with [[Surrey]]. ...can be argued that the similar word is counterintuitively pronounced, and the place name is literal.
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  • ...trawberry Hill, and is linked with the oldest Roman Catholic university in the country, St Mary's University, Twickenham. ...ne 2015}}</ref> The charter, dated 13 June 704, is signed with 12 crosses. The signatories included Swaefred of Essex, Cenred of Mercia and Earl Paeogthat
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  • ...n-wa16/</ref> The big difference in house prices creates social divide in the town, a problem shared with nearby places such as [[Altrincham]], [[Wilmslo ...r. Today the town's location gives it easy access to [[Liverpool]] and all the other busy towns of southern [[Lancashire]].
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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.
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