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• Alnwick
  | picture caption = The town of Alnwick, nestling behind Alnwick Castle ...t town in northern [[Northumberland]] of some 8,000 people, 32 miles south of [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] and 5 miles inland from the [[North Sea]] at [[Alnmo
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• County Antrim
  ...Ireland|Ulster's]] north-eastern coast. It is bounded almost all round by water; the sea to the north and east, [[Lough Neagh]] and the [[River Bann]] to t ...also famed for natural treasures; the [[Glens of Antrim]] in the northeast of the county offer isolated rugged landscapes, while the [[Giant's Causeway]]
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• Somerton
  ..., reckoned the [[county town]], and around AD 900 was possibly the capital of [[Wessex]]. ...proximately 9 miles northwest of [[Yeovil]], and had a recorded population of 4,706 in 2001.
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• Berwickshire
  ...Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the [[River Tweed]]. It is part of the "[[Middle Shires]]". ...rmuir reaches 1,746 feet in Berwickshire, at Meikel Says Law on the border of East Lothian.
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• Scarborough
  '''Scarborough''' is a large town in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], a seaside holiday resort standing on the [[North Sea]] coast, ...eply 230 feet above the harbour onto limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by the rocky headland.
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• Menai Strait
  ...[[Caernarfonshire]] and the mainland of [[Great Britain]]. The shoreline of Caernarfonshire on the strait is known as ''Arfon'', which means "by Angles ...selves and cause small boats to founder on the rocks. This caused the loss of the training ship HMS ''Conway'' in 1953.
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• Cheshire
  ...a. The [[county town]], after which it takes its name, is the ancient City of [[Chester]]. ==The lie of the land==
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• Cornwall
  |flag=Flag of Cornwall.svg ...th-west of the mainland, are part of Cornwall and are the westernmost land of [[England]] and the southernmost land in the United Kingdom.
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• Cumberland
  ...ountains of the [[Lake District]] to the coast, stretching along the coast of the [[Solway Firth]] and the [[Irish Sea]]. ...[[Helvellyn]], and the summits of several, including Helvellyn, form part of the county boundary with Westmorland.
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• Dorset
  ...shire]] to the east. Outside the “South East Dorset conurbation”, most of the county is largely rural and agricultural. ...here the remarkable [[Chesil Beach]] stretches for 18 miles to the cliffs of the “[[Jurassic Coast]]” as far as [[Lyme Regis]], close to the border
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• Blackpool
  ...a]]. Blackpool is the heart of the long pleasure coast of Lancashire, and of a conurbation formed along the coast as far as [[Fleetwood]]. ...f [[Liverpool]], 30 miles north-west of [[Bolton]] and 40 miles north-west of [[Manchester]].
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• Dumfriesshire
  ...mfries''' is a [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the north shore of the [[Solway Firth]]. Its [[county town]] is [[Dumfries]]. ...[Selkirkshire]] to the north; and [[Roxburghshire]] to the east. The coast of the [[Solway Firth]] forms its southern edge.
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• Hampshire
  ...thead]]. The [[county town]] is [[Winchester]], capital of [[Wessex]] and of [[England]] until about 1100. Its place on the [[English Channel]] and the presence of several excellent natural harbours has given Hampshire a pre-eminent place
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• Hertfordshire
  |flag=County Flag of Hertfordshire.svg ...s an inland [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]], considered to be one of the [[Home Counties]]. Five counties surround it: [[Middlesex]] to the sou
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• Inverness-shire
  |motto=Air son Math na Siorrachd<br />(For the good of the county) ...t coast and includes many of the isles of the [[Hebrides]], including most of the Outer Hebrides.
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• Kent
  ...towns of Kent are within the [[London]] suburbs. Kent is considered is one of the [[home counties]]. ...Garden of England" for the richness of its agriculture, and the abundance of orchards and hop gardens.
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• Kincardineshire
  |picture=Craig of Garvock - geograph.org.uk - 197897.jpg |picture caption=Craig of Garvock in the Howe O' the Mearns
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• Lanarkshire
  ...t of the Lowlands. It is [[Scotland]]'s most populous county, for the City of [[Glasgow]] and its eastern suburbs fill its northern parts. ...Lanarkshire, after which it leaves the county and widens into the [[Firth of Clyde]].
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• Midlothian
  ...nating presence is [[Edinburgh]], from which it takes its alternative name of Edinburghshire. The county lies along the southern shore of the Firth of Forth between, as the name suggests, East Lothian and West Lothian. Midloth
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• Morayshire
  ...town]] is [[Elgin]], which has also given the county its alternative name of Elginshire. ...y are inland, locally situate in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire interposes itself between coast Moray and its larger detach
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