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Inverurie

Inverurie (; Inbhir Uraidh or Inbhir Uaraidh, "mouth of the River Ury") is a market town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about 16 mi north-west of Aberdeen. It had a population of 15,106 in 2022. I

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Coatbridge

Coatbridge (; Cotbrig or Coatbrig) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 8+1/2 mi east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. It had a population of 42,264 in 2022. Along with neighbouring town Airdrie, Coatbridge fo

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Rye, East Sussex

Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, 2 mi from the English Channel at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. In the mid-twelfth century, it was an important member

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Ingatestone

Ingatestone is a village in the civil parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It lies 5 miles north-east of Brentwood and 25 miles north-east of Charing Cross in central London. At the 2021 Census

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Welshpool

Welshpool (Y Trallwng) is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, historically in the county of Montgomeryshire. The town is 4 mi from the Wales–England border and low-lying on the River Severn. The community, which also includes Clodd

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Yate

Yate is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. It lies just to the southwest of the Cotswold Hills and is 12 mi northeast of Bristol and 12 mi from Bath. Developing from a small village into a town from the 1950s onward

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Withernsea

Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Its white inland lighthouse, rising around 127 ft above Hull Road, now houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall, who was born in the

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Pwllheli

Pwllheli (;) is a market town and community on the Llŷn Peninsula (Penrhyn Llŷn), in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011, which declined slightly to 3,947 in 2021; a large proportion (81%) were Welsh speaking. Pw

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Stoke Mandeville

Stoke Mandeville is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located three miles (5 km) from Aylesbury and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from the market town of Wendover. Although a separate civil parish,

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Melwood

AXA Melwood Training Centre, in West Derby, Liverpool is the training ground and academy for Liverpool Football Club's Women's first team, youth teams and academy. It was formerly the men's first team's training ground from the 1950s until

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Swanscombe

Swanscombe is a town in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is 4.4 miles west of Gravesend and 4.8 miles east of Dartford. It had a population of 6300. Bone fragments and tool

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Crediton

Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, 7 mi north west of Exeter and 14 mi from the M5 motorway. It h