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Squirrelpox virus (SQPV) is a virus that causes the fatal disease squirrelpox in United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland red squirrels. The virus is often carried by grey squirrels from North America, [2] which rarely die from the disease. Elsewhere in the Red Squirrel's European range, either the grey squirrel does not occur or it lacks the ...
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 . Y
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.
List of places in England; Lists of places in Wales; List of places in Scotland; List of places in Northern Ireland; Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the study of place names; List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles; United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
Grey squirrels have been introduced either on purpose or by accident in many places throughout the world. They were first introduced into England, in a concerted way, in 1876, [3] and through rapidly growing population and further introductions they spread to the rest of Great Britain by the early to mid-20th century.
List of places in England; Mill towns in the United Kingdom; List of cities in the United Kingdom; List of post towns in the United Kingdom; List of United Kingdom locations; Category:Towns in England by county; Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), settlement areas in the pre-1974 reform governance structure which had town-equivalent ...
This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population at various points during history. Until the first modern census was conducted in 1801 there was no centrally conducted method of determining the populations of England's settlements at any one time, and so data has to be used from a number of other historical surveys.
It should not be confused with 'urban areas' or 'built-up areas' that are more rigorously defined by the Office for National Statistics – or even city status. Historically, the boundaries of cities within England and the United Kingdom as a whole have remained largely undefined, [citation needed] leading to difficulties in comparisons between ...