geography (brit)

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SOUTH WEST
1. Cornwall
2. Devon —> Plymouth, Exmouth, Exeter
3. Somerset
4. Dorset
5. Wiltshire -> Salisbury, Swindon
6. Gloucestershire -> Gloucester
Bristol
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Glastonbury
music festival in Somerset
the Glastonbury valley: connected to King Arthur
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Portsmouth
Hampshire
maritime heritage
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Stonehenge
Salisbury plain, Somerset
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Salisbury Cathedral
13century
tallest church spike in England
early English Gothic
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Jurassic coast
Devon, Dorset
WHS
154 km
fossils
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Mendip Hills
Somerset
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Bath
Roman baths
Next to Bristol
SOUTH WEST
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Dartmoor, Exmoor
Devon
nature
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Cornwall
-identity
-fishing, tourism, mining
-Celtic
-2nd homes for the rich
-cornish language
-ports
-pasty
-Eden Project (botanical garden)
-5mil
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SOUTH EAST
1) Kent (the garden of England) -> Canterbury, Dover
2) East Sussex -> Hastings, Brighton
3) West Sussex
4) Surrey
5) Hampshire -> Portsmouth
6) Isle of Wight
7) Berkshire
8) Oxfordshire -> Oxford
9) Buckinghampshire
8.5 mil
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The White cliffs of ...
of Dover
-chalk
-the symbol of England (arriving/departing)
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Canterbury Cathedral
-the final destination of all the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (24, 14century)
-WHS
-seat of archbishop
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Winchester Cathedral
-UK''s 2nd longest nave
-Jane Austen's place of burial
-longest medieval cathedral
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Windsor Castle
Gothic, Victorian, Georgian
Berkshire
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Highclere Castle
Hampshire
1679
Jeeve & Wooslw
Downton Abbey
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Royal Pavilion
Brighton
East Sussex
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Oxford University
first university in England
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1
96
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Blenheim Palace
Oxfordshire
Buried: John Churchill, Queen Anne
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Isle of Wight
-largest
- resort (Victoria, Osborne House)
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West Midlands: Industrial Revolution
- Iron Bridge (Shropshire) - the birthplace of Industrial Revolution 1781 WHS
- the Black Country
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Wolverhampton
Staffordshire
manufacturing
mining
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Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
Ceramics, pottery
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WEST MIDLANDS
(the kingdom of Mercia)
1) Shropshire -> Shrewsbury
2) Herefordshire -> Herefordshire
3) Worcestershire
4) Warwickshire -> Warwick, Coventry
5) Stradforshire
6) West Midlands -> Birmingham
7) Staffordshire -> Stoke-on-Trent
5,6mil
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Stratford-upon-Avon
West Midlands
Shakespeare's birthplace
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Warwick Castle
Warwickshire, WM
the living castle
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Coventry
WM, WM
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cathedral (remains, bombed by air raids in 194
)
19 century: silk, clocks, bicycles, motor cars
trade in Middle Ages
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Birmingham
brummies
WM, WM
manufacture
JRR Tolkien
St. Martins church, the Self ridges
birthplace of Cadbury chocolate
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EAST MIDLANDS
1) Derbyshire
2)Nottinghamshire -> Nottingham
3)Leicestershire -> Leicester
4)Rutland
5)Northamptonshire -> Northampton
6)Lincolnshire -> Lincoln
Robin Hood: Major Oak (Sherwood forest)
fox-hunting
fabrics, textiles
dr. Martens
"Lady Chatterley's lover" (c) D. H. Lawrence
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East of England
1)Cambridgeshire -> Cambridge
2)Norfolk -> Norwich
3)Suffolk -> Suffolk
4)Essex -> Colchester
5)Hertfordshire -> St. Albans
6)Bedfordshire
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Sandringham House
Norfolk
Royal residence
George VI died here
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Norwich Cathedral
Norfolk
11century
Norman, Gothic
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Northern England
1) Yorkshire and the Humber
2) North West
3) North East
Manchester(oasis), Liverpool(Beatles), Lancashire
leeds, York, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Kingston-upon-Hull
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Newcastle upon Tyne
cluster of bridges
university, students, night life
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Durham Cathedral
Romanesque
WHS
shrines of Bede and some others
library
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Yorkshire
Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Doncaster, Ripon, Watefileld, Kingston-upon-Hull
the angel of the north - gateshead, Tyne and Wear
York (capital), Whitby(beaches, Abbey, Count Dracula)< captain cook, scarborough(oldest seaside resort), Bronte sisters, Yorkminster=notre dame
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The lake district
the lake poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
Beatrix Potter
John Rudkin
Northern England
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SCOTLAND
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Alba
parliament
Edinborough, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Thurso (Lowlands)
pipes, Robert Burns, haggis, fish, whisky
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Skara Brae
neolithic
Scotland
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Holyroodhouse Palace
Scotland highlands
43
Balmoral castle
Scotland
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Edinburgh Castle
scotland
45
Stirling castle
scotland
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WALES (CYMRU)
Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Snowdonia, Snowdon(!
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Caernarfon Castle
Gwynedd
Edward 1
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