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Blank map showing the historic counties of England and Wales, as defined by the Historic Counties Trust. Date: 25 June 2013: Source: Historic Counties Trust: County boundary data; Ordnance Survey OpenData: Coastline data for Great Britain (from Boundary-Line product) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Coastline data outside of Great ...
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[8] [9] [10] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history. Following a process of decolonisation in the 20th century, mainly caused by the weakening of Great Britain's power in the two World Wars; almost all of the empire's overseas territories became ...
none: makes the map sit on its own line of the page; left: puts the map to the left of the page text; right: puts the map to the right of the page text; ns= Namespace for the links, if not the default (article namespace). E.g. :Category: Must begin and end with a colon. prefix= Text to precede every county name when forming links. E.g. List of ...
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The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
Britain in Bloom divides England into 12 regions, bearing a mixture of government regions with some altered names. It also includes Cumbria , Thames-and-Chilterns ( Berkshire , Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire ) and part of south east and south west as South-and-South-West.