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In the romances, Arthur, like all medieval monarchs, moves around his kingdom. Caerleon-on-Usk in Newport, southern Wales. From Geoffrey of Monmouth. London, Geoffrey of Monmouth. Quimper, from the Lancelot-Grail romance. Carlisle, Cumberland, on the western edge of Hadrian's Wall (assuming Carlisle is really the Carduel of the romances).
Edge is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of No Man's Heath and District and Malpas, in the Cheshire West and Chester district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, [1] The parish included Edge Hall and Edge Green. The population at the 2011 census was 247. [2]
Derwent Edge is a Millstone Grit escarpment that lies above the Upper Derwent Valley in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire. An Ordnance Survey column marks the highest point of the Edge at Back Tor (538 metres, 1765 feet). [1] North of Back Tor the edge extends into Howden Edge and enters the county of South ...
An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs, office space, and retail space ...
Kucha or Kuche (also: Kuçar, Kuchar; Uyghur: كۇچار, Кучар; Chinese: 龜茲; pinyin: Qiūcí, Chinese: 庫車; pinyin: Kùchē; Sanskrit: 𑀓𑀽𑀘𑀻𑀦, written in Brahmi, romanized: Kūcīna) [1] was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat ...
Frodsham Hill is the location of an Iron Age promontory fort, the outline of which can still be seen. [6] The town is of Saxon origin; its 11th-century church is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Frodsham was an important manor of the medieval Earls of Chester and was created a borough in the early 13th century, probably by Earl Ranulf III.
For the purposes of local government, Edge is a constituent village of the Painswick civil parish, which also includes the neighbouring villages of Sheepscombe and Slad. [1] The civil parish forms part of the district of Stroud and the county of Gloucestershire. For parliamentary purposes, Edge is within the UK constituency of Stroud.
The United Kingdom This is part of the list of United Kingdom locations : a gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's locality and geographical coordinates . Pe