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Felling

(Encyclopedia)Felling, town, Gateshead metropolitan district, NE England. Felling is an industrial suburb of Gateshead and part of the Newcastle upon Tyne industrial ...

Bodmin

(Encyclopedia)Bodmin, town, Cornwall, SW England. Bodmin was the county seat for Cornwall, but local government offices are now in Truro. Bodmin was formerly a busy m...

Bootle

(Encyclopedia)Bootle, town, Sefton metropolitan district, NW England, at the mouth of the Mersey River. It has extensive docks adjacent to those of Liverpool. Besides...

Glossop

(Encyclopedia)Glossop glŏsˈəp [key], town, Derbyshire, central England. It is a residential suburb of Ma...

Altrincham

(Encyclopedia)Altrincham ôlˈtrĭng-əm [key], town, Trafford metropolitan district, W central England. A suburb of Manchester, it has a textile-printing industry and engineering works...

Berwick-upon-Tweed

(Encyclopedia)Berwick-upon-Tweed bĕrˈĭk [key], former district, Northumberland, NE England, at the mouth of the Tweed River. The district included the Holy Islands and the Farne Islands and extended SW to the Ch...

Sully, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Sully, Thomas, 1783–1872, American painter, b. England. Having come to the United States as a child, he first studied with his brother Lawrence, a miniaturist, and later for a brief time with Gilber...

Chertsey

(Encyclopedia)Chertsey chûrtˈsē [key], town, Surrey, SE England. Its market gardens serve London. Varied ...

Farnworth

(Encyclopedia)Farnworth, town, Bolton metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. It has cotton and rayon mills and produces finis...

Swampscott

(Encyclopedia)Swampscott swŏmpˈskət [key], town (1990 pop. 13,650), Essex co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, formerly an exclusive summer resort, on Massachusetts Bay; settled 1629, set off from Lynn ...