Main articles: Geography of the United Kingdom, Geography of England England comprises the central and southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain, plus offshore islands of which the largest is the Isle of Wight. It is bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales. It is closer to continental Europe than any other part of Britain, divided from France only by a 38 km (24 statu ...

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The area is extremely varied geographically. The Tees estuary is highly industrialised and urbanised. Much of the remainder of the lowland parts of Cleveland is farmland. East Cleveland marks the northern end of the chain of cliffs that runs along the North Yorkshire Heritage Coast. South Cleveland is extremely hilly, forming the escarpment of the North York Moors. One of the best known symbols of Cleveland is the distinctive hill of Roseberry Topping, which overlooks Newton-under-Roseberry on the Great Ayton to Guisborough road. Its origina ...

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England is a nation and the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom accounting for more than 83% of the total UK population. It occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and shares land borders with fellow home nations Scotland, to the north, and Wales, to the west. Elsewhere, it is bordered by the sea. England is named after the Angles, one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in Northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th ...

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Main article: Rivers of Great Britain Thames Severn Trent Humber Yorkshire Ouse Tyne Mersey Dee Avon The Severn is the longest English River, with the Thames and Trent second and third respectively. These are the three longest rivers in the United Kingdom. ...

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The two traditional centres of New England are Armidale and Tamworth. Armidale is the home of the University of New England, Australia's oldest regional university. Tamworth is now best known as the centre of Australia's country music industry. Today, however, the fast-growing coastal centres of Ballina, Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie are outstripping these inland centres. The inland region contains some of Australia's richest wool-growing areas. The coastal regions support semi-tropical agriculture such as sugarcane growing, and are also major tourist areas, particularly the far no ...

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East London England - Boundaries. The London boroughs that make up this area are Barking & Dagenham, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. The term is sometimes erroneously considered interchangeable with the East End of London; however, the East End covers only the innermost (western) parts of East London, centred on Tower Hamlets and part of Hackney. As no part of London south of the Thames is considered to be part of East London, North East London would be a ...

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The North Downs are confined chiefly to the counties of Surrey and Kent, and the South to Sussex. Each forms a well-defined long range springing from the chalk area of Dorset and Hampshire, to which, though broken up into a great number of short ranges and groups of hills, the general name of the Western Downs is given. The Downs enclose the rich district of the Weald, where the chalk has erroded to form a much flatter landscape. In Wiltshire is Salisbury Plain, the Wiltshire Downs and Cranborne Chase, all three famous for their archaeology, and it was on these downs that Augustus Pitt Rivers developed the me ...

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In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. Civil parishes in the modern sense were established in 1894, and although their origins are in the system of ecclesiastical parishes, they no longer have anything to do with the Church of England. Parishes previously also existed in Scotland and Wales. They still formally exist in Ireland, but are now largely obselete. Civil parish - Geography. Parishes do not ...

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The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States of America defined by the US Census Bureau. The Northeast is bordered to the north by Canada, to the west by the Midwest, to the south by the South, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Its largest city, New York City, is also the largest city and metropolitan area in the United States. As defined by the Census Bureau, the Northeast region of the United States covers nine states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania ...

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Northeastern United States - Economy Northeastern United States - Politics
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Between 1974 and 1996 most of Cleveland was incorporated into a non-metropolitan county of the same name, formed from parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire and County Durham. Unlike the traditional geographic area, the county was formed around the Tees estuary and included lands on both sides of the river. It excluded the southernmost parts of traditional Cleveland, including much of the Cleveland Hills, although the original proposal for this county w ...

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In geography a vale is a wide river valley, usually with a particularly wide flood plain or flat valley bottom. Vales commonly occur between the scarp slopes of pairs of chalk downs, where the chalk dome has been eroded, exposing less resistant underlying rock, usually clay. See also: dale. Vale - List of vales. Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England Castle Vale, Birmingham, England Maida Vale, London, England Trent Vale, Staffordshire, England Vale of Evesh ...

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Westport is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. As of the 2004 census, the town had a total population of 26,544. Westport borders Norwalk on the west, Weston to the north, Fairfield to the east and Long Island Sound to the south. Interstate 95 and US Route 1, as well as the Saugatuck River, run through Westport. Westport has two Metro North railroad stations, Westport and Green's Farms. Westport is a member of Westports of the World (WOW), along with Westports in Ireland, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Ontario ...

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The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field was fought in the county of Northumberland, in northern England on September 9, 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard. It ended in a bloody defeat for the Scots. Battle of Flodden Field - Background. This conflict began when King James declared war on England, to honour the Auld Alliance; namely, to divert Henry VIII's English troops from their campaign against the French king Louis XII. England w ...

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The name Cleveland has not been entirely eliminated; these bodies still exist: Cleveland Police Cleveland Fire Brigade BBC Radio Cleveland Cleveland Family History Society Cleveland is a Church of England archdeaconry, in the Diocese of York. It covers a large area including Middlesbrough, Thirsk, Pickering and Whitby. Cleveland was for many years also the name of a constituency for the House of Commons. This had been created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, by the division of the North Riding constituency, and was s ...

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New England has been the home of Australia's most persistent attempt to form a new state within the Australian commonwealth. Many New England people long resented being governed from Sydney, especially when, as is usually the case, there is a Labor government in New South Wales, dominated by urban interests. In the 1930s and again in the 1960s, the New England New State Movement campaigned for New England to be separated from New South Wales. The movement was closely allied with the Country Party, which cou ...

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The oldest parts of East London are Tower Hamlets and Hackney. These areas, originally in Middlesex officially became part of London with the creation of the County of London in 1888. The eastern limit of London at this time became the River Lea which was the traditional boundary between Middlesex and Essex. Because the strict planning laws of London were not in force on the eastern side of the river the area began to industrialise quickly in places such as Canning Town and Silvertown, now in the borough of Newham. This ...

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East London is today an area of regeneration, with a rising population. The redevelopment of the Docklands area began in the early 1980s, and the Thames Gateway project is now extending regeneration further east. London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics has kick started regeneration programmes in the area and is likely to have an impact on house prices. This has been evidenced in August 2005 where East London was one of only three places in England and Wales to have increases in property prices. [1] East London is also arguably today the centre of the UK's grime scene, with leading artists such as Dizze ...

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The Chalk Formation was laid down under the sea during the Upper Cretaceous period, and was later uplifted at around the same time as the Alps were formed. In south-east England, the chalk deposits were formed into an elongated dome, with the long axis in a roughly east-west direction. Erosion along the line of this axis removed the central part of the chalk and revealed the underlying Wealden deposits. The remaining chalk forms the characteristic escarpments of the North and South Downs. Stronger uplift and folding occurred in Dorset and the Isle of Wight, where the chalk str ...

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Parishes do not cover the whole of England, and mostly exist in rural areas and smaller urban areas. Civil parishes were abolished in London in 1965 and in other large urban areas in 1974. Civil parishes vary greatly in size, many cover tiny hamlets with populations of less than 100, whereas some large ones cover towns with populations of tens of thousands. The largest civil parish is Weston-super-Mare, which has a population of 71,758. In many cases, several ...

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