England

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England

• Largest country of the British Isles
• Major industrial power
• About the size of Southern Ontario
• Population over 60 million
• divides into 5 physical regions

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South East England

• Includes the areas around and north of London
• Generally flat with some areas of hills
• warmest and relatively driest area of Britain
• most densely populated region with many cities
  and small towns

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Cambridge - in Southeast England Kings College
- Cambridge University

• One of the oldest universities in the world
• Cambridge is both a university and industrial
  city
• Typical of many European towns and cities,
  downtown streets are narrow, buildings are very
  old mixed with more modern structures

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The River Cam in Cambridge

• Part of the tourism and university scene is
  punting on flat-bottomed boats along the river
• Many parks, old buildings and pubs line the
  riverbank
• One form of British tourism involves renting
  barges to cruise the canals of England

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Trinity College, Cambridge

• Your teacher used to go here on Thursday nights
  for episodes of Star Trek and Tom and Jerry
  cartoons
• Cambridge lies in the flattest region of England

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Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire

• A typical small English village
• The attraction of living there involves being
  close to the countryside as well as the slower
  pace of life
• Many people commute via the extensive rail system
  to larger cities

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Kersey in Lincolnshire
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Stamford in Lincolnshire
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Poole Chain Ferry - Dorset
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Bournemouth Beach - Dorset
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Brighton Pier - Sussex
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South West England

• Relatively thinly populated
• Rolling hills with deep gorges and valleys
• Many medium to small towns with a few cities
• Largely a tourist region with some major ports
  such as Bristol and Portsmouth
• Local roads are often one-lane with passing places

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Lands End - Cornwall

• Lands End is the most south western point of
  mainland Britain
• It is approximately 1600km to the most north
  easterly point John O Groats in Scotland

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Launceton Steam Railway in Cornwall
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Sealock gates at Bude
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Ilfracombe Harbour -Devon
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Cheddar Gorge - Somerset
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Roman Baths at Bath, Somerset
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Axbridge Square - Somerset
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Taunton in Somerset
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Fleet Air Arm Museum - Somerset
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Wells Cathedral in Somerset
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Burnham-on-Sea - Somerset
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Kinder Downfall in Derbyshire
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The Midlands

• Central England stretching from Wales in the west
  to the North Sea on the east
• Region has many large industrial towns, small
  towns and villages
• Used to be regarded as the industrial heartland
  of England with many smoke industries England
  has transformed itself into an ultra-modern
  high-tech industrial giant
• Industries were based on a complex canal system
  and coal deposits

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Ladybower Dam in Derbyshire
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Peak Forest Canal - Derbyshire
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Stanage Edge - Derbyshire
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Sudbury Hall -Derbyshire
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Village of Compton Bishop
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Oxford High Street
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Honister Pass in the Lake District
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Tarn Hows in the Lake District
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Lake Windermere in the Lake District
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Grand Union Canal - Leicestershire
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Syston High Street - Leicestershire
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Tuxford - Nottinghamshire
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Ullesthorpe -Leicestershire
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Canal at Wanlip- Leicestershire
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Holy Austin Rock cave homes in Staffordshire
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More cave homes
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Church in Leigh - Staffordshire
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Lower Leigh
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Uttoxeter - Staffordshire
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Ann Hathaways cottage - Stratford in Warwickshire
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Shakespeares birthplace in Stratford
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Swan Theatre in Stratford
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Warwick Castle
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Warwick Doll Museum
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Warwick street scene
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Birmingham canal
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Birmingham City Council
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Birmingham Spaghetti junction
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Industry in Ashington- Northumbria
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Ashington mine - Northumbria
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Barnards Castle - Northumbria
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Berwick-upon-Tweed - Northumbria
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The Golden Lion at Corbridge - Northumbria
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Bridge to the Holy Isle
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Monastery on the Holy Isle - Northumbria
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Mall in Gateshead -Northumbria
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Old Durham - Northumbria
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Tynemouth Northumbria
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Arkengarthdale - Yorkshire
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Bradford - Yorkshire
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Bradford - Yorkshire
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Haworth in Yorkshire
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Hull fishing boat - Yorkshire
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Hull Harbour
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Skipton Canal - Yorkshire
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Whitby -Yorkshire
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Whitby - the harbour
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York Cathedral
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York - the train station
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York - the old Roman Wall
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London - Chinatown