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There is a reference in Gildas to Caer Grawnt indicating an earlier Brythonic origin. The name of the city became Cambridge due to the Norman influence within the city in the 12th century. The name of the river Cam within Cambridge is a backwards derivation. Cheshire: CH Ancient Old English: Legeceasterscīr, later Ceasterscīr [1] Shire of ...
Chapman codes have no mapping, postal or administrative use. They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.
The county has formed the upper tier of local government over much of the United Kingdom at one time or another, [1] and has been used for a variety of other purposes, such as for Lord Lieutenants, land registration and postal delivery. This list of 184 counties is split by constituent country, time period and purpose.
He helped search for Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005. As a puppy, Jake was abandoned with a broken leg and dislocated hip, but as an adult became one of fewer than 200 U.S. government-certified rescue dogs, and described by a member of the 9/11 Federal search and rescue teams as "a world class rescue dog".
Foxford & District Search & Rescue Unit County Mayo [84] Kilkee Marine Rescue County Clare, Ireland: Established 1981. Killarney Water Rescue County Kerry [85] Lahinch Sea Rescue County Clare [86] Limerick City (River Shannon) (CRBI) Ireland: Lough Foyle Rescue Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland: Established 1993. Operates on the River ...
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By 1870 the name Labrador Retriever had become common in England. [8] The liver (now usually called chocolate) Labrador emerged in the late 1800s, with liver-coloured pups documented at the Buccleuch kennels in 1892; [ 9 ] the first yellow Labrador on record was born in 1899 (Ben of Hyde, kennels of Major C.J. Radclyffe). [ 10 ]
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