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sandgate°

An area near the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank of the river. [CPB]

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sheerness¹

A town on the south bank of the Tames estuary. It was a popular resort for day trippers from London.

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Shir_Aberteifi°
gloss.caredigion.png Aberteifi is called Cardigan in English thus Shire Aberteifi is Cardiganshire. It was renamed Ceredigion in 1974

 

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southend¹

A major seaside holiday resort on the north bank of the Thames estuary.

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soveriegn²

Sovereign - Presumably a steam boat. No evidence has been found for a boat of that name on the Thames at that time.

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Synonyms - sovering²
Strathclyde¹

A native Briton kingdom that, from about the 6th century, had extended over the basin of the River Clyde and adjacent western coastal districts, the former county of Ayr. Its capital was Dumbarton, “fortress of the Britons,” then known as Alclut. The name Strathclyde was not used until the 9th or 10th century.

[Encyclopaedia Brittanica https://www.britannica.com/place/ accessed 09Oct2109]

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St_Helena°

An island in the middle of the southern Atlantic Ocean to which Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled from 1815 until his death in 1821

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