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  • ...[[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Little Cumbrae]]. Although Arran encompasses most of the shire's land, it has a sparse population and the main settlements are o ...the county, only four islands are inhabited ([[Isle of Bute|Bute]], [[Isle of Arran|Arran]], [[Great Cumbrae]] and [[Holy Isle, Buteshire|Holy Island]])
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  • ...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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  • ...ow considered a suburb of that city.<ref>[CORSTORPHINE A Pictorial History of a Midolithian Village ISBN 1 85158 366 1]</ref> ...often heavy, as it forms part of the A8 main road between Edinburgh and [[Glasgow]]. The actual "High Street" itself is no longer the main street, an idiosyn
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  • |flag=County Flag of Hertfordshire.svg ...ordshire]] and [[Cambridgeshire]] to the north; [[Buckinghamshire]] to the west; and [[Essex]] to the east.
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  • |biggest town=[[Glasgow]] ...the Lowlands. It is [[Scotland]]'s most populous county, for the City of [[Glasgow]] and its eastern suburbs fill its northern parts.
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  • ...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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  • ...s north of the coast of [[Caithness]]. Orkney has approximately 70 islands of which 20 are inhabited.<ref>Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 336-403.</ref><ref>Wic ...largest island, known as the [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] and has an area of 202 square miles making it the tenth-largest island in the [[British Isles]
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  • ...Campsie Fells]] to [[Loch Lomond]] and to within four miles of the [[Firth of Clyde]]. ...ced Stirlingshire in the heart of many dramatic and indeed bloody episodes of British history, in those long ages when war was known in these lands.
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  • |name=West Lothian |map image=West Lothian Brit Isles Sect 2.svg
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  • |LG district=City of Aberdeen ...rdeenshire]] and Scotland's third most populous city. It is a major centre of the North Sea oil industry.
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  • |constituency= Dundee East, Dundee West ...d the largest town of [[Angus]], standing on the north bank of the [[Firth of Tay]]. It is the fourth-largest city in [[Scotland]].
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  • ...gh Constable of Scotland, Hugh de Morville. It also served as the capital of [[Cunninghame]]. The poet [[Robert Burns]] lived here for a time, after wh ...nninghame and Largs. The dispute was resolved by Robert II's Royal Charter of 8 April 1372 conferring Royal Burgh status on Irvine.
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  • ...northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, opposite the [[Isle of Arran]]. Troon is also a port with freight and ferry services — the P&O E Fullarton House was built by William Fullarton of that Ilk in 1745 and altered by his son, however it was demolished in 1966
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  • ...rwickshire]], 27 miles south-east of [[Edinburgh]]. It stands on the edge of the [[Lammermuir Hills]], on the Southern Upland Way. ...ereditary baillies.<ref>Mackie, J.D., CBE., MC., LL.D., editor, ''Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland 1547-1603'', Edinburgh, 1969, vol. XI
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  • ...ashire's northernmost large town and the chief town of '''Lancashire North of the Sands'''. ...ow stands amidst the seas, washed on the east by [[Morecambe Bay]], to the west by the [[River Duddon|Duddon Estuary]] and all around by the [[Irish Sea]].
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  • | picture caption = Millport Bay across to the [[Isle of Arran]] ...the island of [[Great Cumbrae]], an island of [[Buteshire]] in the [[Firth of Clyde]]. The town is four miles south from the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry s
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  • | picture caption=Colquhoun Square and the West Kirk ...It lies on the north shore of the [[Firth of Clyde]] and the eastern shore of the entrance to the [[Gareloch]].
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  • | constituency = West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine '''Stonehaven''' is a town on the coast of [[Kincardineshire]], of which it is the county town.
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  • | name = Glasgow | picture = View of Glasgow from Queens Park.jpg
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  • ...It is known today as 'Scotland's National Book Town' with a concentration of second-hand book shops. The North Atlantic Drift of the Gulf Stream hitting the Galloway coast ensures the climate is mild, and
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