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  • 71Bletchley and Fenny Stratford — is a civil parish with a town council, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was formed in 2001 from the unparished area of Milton Keynes, and according to the 2001 census had a population of 13,971.The parish includes Brickfields… …

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  • 72Swindon — Swin·don (swĭnʹdən) A municipal borough of south central England east northeast of Bristol. It has an important locomotive industry. Population: 151,600. * * * ▪ town and unitary authority, England, United Kingdom       town and unitary authority …

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  • 73Cumbernauld — ▪ Scotland, United Kingdom       “new town,” North Lanarkshire council area, historic county of Dunbartonshire, central Scotland. Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1956 to accommodate overspill population from Glasgow. The town is 14 miles …

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  • 74Glasgow — Glaswegian redirects here. For the Scots dialect spoken in Glasgow, see Glasgow patter. This article is about the original Glasgow in Scotland. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). Coordinates: 55°51′29″N 4°15′32″W /  …

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  • 75Huyton — infobox UK place country= England latitude= 53.4126 longitude= 2.8388 official name= Huyton population= 54,766 (with Roby) (1991 Census) metropolitan borough= Knowsley metropolitan county= Merseyside region= North West England constituency… …

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  • 76Cheadle, Greater Manchester — Not to be confused with Cheadle Heath or Cheadle Hulme. Coordinates: 53°23′36″N 2°12′41″W / 53.3933°N 2.2113°W …

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  • 77Bonhill — ( Both an Uillt in Gaelic) is a town in the Vale of Leven area of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It sits on the Eastern bank of the River Leven opposite the larger town of Alexandria.The town rapidly expanded in the 1960s and 1970 s when many… …

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  • 78Dibden Purlieu — Coordinates: 50°51′07″N 1°24′54″W / 50.852°N 1.415°W / 50.852; 1.415 …

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  • 79Stevenage — /stee veuh nij/, n. a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England. 73,300. * * * ▪ district, England, United Kingdom       new town and borough (district) in the administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England. It lies along the Great… …

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  • 80city redevelopment —    The spate of urban riots in Britain in 1981 helped induce the perceptions that state policy towards cities up to that point had failed, and that the cities themselves were in ‘crisis’. The effect on public policy was probably greatest in the… …

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