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The maps included the area of most civil parishes and their detached parts, as well as extra-parochial areas and townships. Originally the area of these places was given in acres, roods and perches. [4] After about 1879 this was changed to solely acres, with area given to three decimal places. As boundary changes occurred throughout the late ...
The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3] 1685: Jacob Richards' Survey of the City of York [4] 1694: Benedict Horsley's Iconography or Ground Plot of ye City of Yorke [1]
There are several islands scattered around the coastline of Cornwall. The majority are small islets , except the Isles of Scilly which is an inhabited archipelago situated 20 miles south-west of Lands End .
Cornwall was one of two UK areas designated as 'less developed regions' by the European Union, which, prior to Brexit, meant the area qualified for EU Cohesion Policy grants. [154] It was granted Objective 1 status by the European Commission for 2000 to 2006, [ 155 ] followed by further rounds of funding known as 'Convergence Funding' from 2007 ...
The geography of Cornwall (Cornish: Doronieth Kernow) describes the extreme southwestern peninsula of England west of the River Tamar.The population of Cornwall is greater in the less extensive west of the county than the east due to Bodmin Moor's location; however the larger part of the population live in rural areas.
The list of England's largest cities or urban areas is open to debate because, although the normal meaning of city is "a continuously built-up urban area", this can be hard to define, particularly because administrative areas in England often do not correspond with the limits of urban development, and many towns and cities have, over the ...
North east of this, outside the walls, is York St John University's Campus. Halfway down is Goodramgate with shops on the gate and on Monkgate, other streets in the area are for housing. The walls end at Layerthorpe, King's Fishpool formerly existed here, this meant that walls in the area were not needed. [4] Near the bridge is Fossgate.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cornwall: Cornwall – ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom. Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, [1] to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the ...