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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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tartary¹

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Map of independent Tartary (in yellow) and Chinese Tartary (in violet), in 1806.

Tartary was a blanket term used by Europeans for the areas of Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia unknown to European geography. It encompassed the vast region of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, the Volga-Urals, the Caucasus, Siberia, Inner Asia, Mongolia and Manchuria.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary

accessed 30Apr20

 

 

 

 

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the_Metropolisº

London

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the_Noreº

A sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, England. It marks the point where the River meets the North Sea.

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Thorley's_cutting

Location not identified. It is presumably somewhere on the Glasgow and South-western railway line.

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town¹

London

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tradestonº

An area of Glasgow on the south bank of the river Clyde.

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wallace_towerº

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waterloo²

The area around Waterloo railway station. On the south bank of the Thames more or less opposite the Houses of Parliament. Waterloo Pier stood at the eastern end of Westminster Bridge.

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Wedgeburyº

The name by which people living around Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the Black Country  would have referred to Wednesbury, a town between Birmingham and Wolverhampton

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Synonyms - wedgeburryº
westminster¹

The government district of central London

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woolwich¹

A town on the south bank of the Thames in south east London. An important centre of river boat traffic from the early 19th century onward.

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