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• Buckinghamshire
  ...reaches from the Salcey Forest in the north to the banks of the [[Thames]] in the south. ...landscape around Ivinghoe Beacon, and all full of pretty villages of flint and thatch. It provides fine walking country. The more gentle, pastoral [[Vale
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• Cambridgeshire
  |picture=King's College Chapel and Clare College from across the river - geograph.org.uk - 67682.jpg |picture caption=King's College Chapel and Clare College, Cambridge
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• Huntingdonshire
  ...the smaller counties in [[Great Britain]]; in [[England]] only [[Rutland]] and [[Middlesex]] are smaller. ...tonshire]] to the north and north-west, [[Bedfordshire]] to the south-west and [[Cambridgeshire]] to the east. The [[county town]], [[Huntingdon]], lies
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• Leicestershire
  |picture caption=Farmland in the Vale of Belvoir ..., [[Staffordshire]] to the west, [[Lincolnshire]] to the north-east, and [[Northamptonshire]] to the south-east. The border with Warwickshire is Watling Street (the A5
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• Lincolnshire
  ...England. It is a low-lying county with much drained fenland, particularly in the south-east. ...ings ([[North Riding of Lindsey|North]], [[South Riding of Lindsey|South]] and [[West Riding of Lindsey|West]]);
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• Northamptonshire
  |name=Northamptonshire |map image=Northamptonshire Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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• Oxfordshire
  ...rn Hills]], stretching across the East, and the [[Cotswolds]] to the West and North. ...the Cotswolds, and on Oxfordshire's many delightful Thames-side towns and villages.
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• Rutland
  ...stershire]], northeast by [[Lincolnshire]], and on the south and east by [[Northamptonshire]]. ...ge=318}}</ref> Rutland's length north to south is 18 miles at its longest, and its breadth east to west 17 miles.
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• Warwickshire
  ...nd city (albeit that [[Manchester]] in [[Lancashire]] contests the title), and [[Coventry]] to the east is another major centre. ...t of a vast conurbation spreading over much of Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire.
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• County flowers
  ...e United Kingdom after competitions run by PlantLife, a charity, beginning in 2002. ...ommemorate the Queen's Jubilee in 2002 by putting wild flowers on the map, and launched a campaign to ask every county to choose its own wild flower emble
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• Braunston
  {{Hatnote|Not to be confused with [[Braunston-in-Rutland]]}} | county=Northamptonshire
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• Milton Keynes
  ...is situated mostly in the [[Newport Hundred]], with [[Shenley Brook End]] in [[Cottesloe Hundred]]. ...d [[Stony Stratford]] along with another fifteen villages and the farmland in between. The new town took its name from the existing [[Milton Keynes Vill
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• British flags
  ...ow is a list of flags which have either been in use, or are currently used in the '''[[United Kingdom]]'''. ''See also: [[Flags of the British overseas territories]] and [[Flags of the British Empire]].''
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• Peterborough
  |county=Northamptonshire ...s the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire.
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• Wellingborough
  |county=Northamptonshire '''Wellingborough''' is a market town in [[Northamptonshire]], some 11 miles from the county town, [[Northampton]]. The town is on the
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• Rugby
  ...amptonshire]] and [[Leicestershire]]. The town had a population of 61,988 in the 2001 census. ...listed as ''Rocheberie''. The suffix ''-by'' is more familiar from names in northern England, coming from the Norse or Danish word for "town" or "farm"
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• Washington
  ...of three cities - [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Durham]] and [[Sunderland]] - and with close ties to all three. ...new town in 1964 and expanded dramatically by the creation of new villages and the absorption of areas of [[Chester-le-Street]] to house overspill populat
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• Walton
  '''Walton''' may be one of many towns and villages across Britain. ...es. However "forest town" (''weald tun'') and "wall town" (''weall tun'') and others have been suggested for some.
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• Grand Union Canal
  ...and Union Canal at Braunston.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The canal at Braunston, Northamptonshire]] ...the British canal system. At 286.3 miles, it is by far the longest canal in the United Kingdom.
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• Great Ouse
  ...ckinghamshire]], [[Bedfordshire]], [[Huntingdonshire]], [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Norfolk]], before entering the sea at [[the Wash]]. The river has been important for navigation, and for draining the low-lying region through which it flows.
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