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  • ...in the plain of the [[River Trent]] and its northern and western parts in the [[Peak District]] and its tributary hills. ...as long been an industrial region and encompasses suburbs and outgrowth of the [[Yorkshire]] city of [[Sheffield]].
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  • |flower=dog rose ...separated from the [[Isle of Wight]] by the [[Solent]] and [[Spithead]]. The [[county town]] is [[Winchester]], capital of [[Wessex]] and of [[England]]
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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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  • ...oast of the [[Solway Firth]]. With neighbouring [[Wigtownshire]] it forms the region of [[Galloway]]. ...[Solway Firth]] wash its coast at the south. To Kirkcudbrightshire belong the wee islands too of [[Hestan Island|Hestan]] and [[Little Ross]].
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  • ...[[Peterborough]]. In all, Northamptonshire has a mixture of the urban and the rural. ...e.co.uk/genuki/NTH/ Northamptonshire Genealogy: Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.</ref>
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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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  • |picture caption=The summit of Helm Crag ...st by [[Cumberland]], to the south and south-west by [[Lancashire]] and to the east by [[Yorkshire]] and [[County Durham]].
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  • |picture caption=Salts Mill at the World-heritage site<br />Saltaire, W.R. ...rby]], [[Cheshire|Chester]], [[Lancashire|Lancaster]] and [[Westmorland]]. The [[county top]] is [[Mickle Fell]] at 2,585 ft.
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  • ...ow Demesne, Clonageera, Course, Durrow Townparks, Glebe and Knockanoran in the parish of Durrow: {{wmap|52.841599|-7.402759|zoom=14|base=outline_detached} ...reland| year=2005| id= | pages=186–191| isbn=0-340-89695-7}}</ref> It is the third largest of Leinster's 12 counties in size and seventh largest in term
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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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  • ...d Kingdom.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7045651.stm ''Wokingham the 'best' city to live''] BBC news online, 17 October 2007</ref> ...hwest, Dowlesgreen, [[Norreys]], Keephatch and Bean Oak to the east and to the south Wescott and Eastheath.
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  • | picture caption=Kirkcaldy from the Firth of Forth ...ween the cities of [[Dundee]] and [[Edinburgh]]. It also forms a parish by the name of Kirkcaldy and Dysart.
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  • [[File:Black Country Flag.svg|right|thumb|300px|The flag of the Black Country, adopted in July 2012]] ...ww.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/uncovered/what_is.shtml |title=What and where is the Black Country? |publisher=BBC.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-07-27}}</ref>
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  • ...with [[Essex]]. It is thoroughly contiguous with the surrounding towns of the metropolitan conurbation. ...us theme to Tottenham High Road to the south. Fore Street is the heart of the town.
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  • [[File:Rock_of_Gibraltar_northwest.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Western face of The Rock of Gibraltar]] ...It stands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, commanding the Strait.
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  • ...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.
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  • ...[[Middlesex]] deep within the metropolitan conurbation, a little north of the [[City of London]]. Shoreditch is entirely contiguous with its surrounding ...ed in 1899 and gone by 1965. The Hall has been restored and is now run by the Shoreditch Town Hall Trust.
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  • ...others high on the fell slopes of [[Saddleworth Moor]] on the west side of the [[Pennines]]. ...Tame dale have in past days been industrial centres, which were served by the [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] passing through here.
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  • ...me the centre of a conurbation of its own, as well as being swallowed into the conurbation spreading outward from Manchester. ...ontaminated"/> Oldham's textile industry began to fall into decline during the mid-20th century, and its last mill closed in 1998.
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  • ...ed Kingdom|counties]] &mdash; of the remaining nine, three are formed from the surrounding archipelagoes, namely [[Anglesey]], [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] ...h Europe by way of the Channel Tunnel, the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world, completed in 1993.
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