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Caledonian MacBrayne run a ferry service between Canna and the mainland at Mallaig.

 

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Corpach in Scottish Highlands also lies on the route of the A830 road.

 

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Corpach Harbour marks the start of the Caledonian Canal, which runs in a North-Easterly direction via three lochs to enter the Moray Firth at Clachnaharry near Inverness.

 

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Largs in North Ayrshire was also the scene of a battle.

 

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Large has regular ferry services to the island of Great Cumbrae, the main settlement of which is Millport.

 

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Chelmsford also hosts a Country Music festival.

 

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The 21st World Scout Jamboree 2007 was held at Hylands Park, Chelmsford from 27 July to 8 August 2007. This was 50 years since the previous hosting by the UK, when The 9th World Scout Jamboree, also known as the Jubilee Jamboree, was held at Sutton Park, Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, from 1st to 12th August 1957.

 

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Wenvoe in Mid-Glamorgan is also the location of a major television transmitter.

 

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Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary.

 

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The last National Garden Festival was held in Ebbw Vale in 1992. The first was in Liverpool in 1984.

 

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Portsmouth also has an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

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Whereas there are no such notable religious edifices in the West Yorkshire settlement of Portsmouth

 

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Though it was historically part of Lancashire, the many boundary changes in the area have resulted in Portsmouth now being part of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The same changes have now resulted in Barnoldswick "moving" for local government terms from Yorkshire to Lancashire.

 

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Burnsall in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Staincliffe Wapentake.

 

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Burnsall Primary School, a Grade II listed building, is in the original 1602 grammar school building, a legacy of Sir William Craven (1548 – 1618). He
was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1610, and was born at Appletreewick, a village in the parish of Burnsall.

 

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Hubberholme in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Wharfe.

 

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Playwright, novelist and social commentor J.B.Priestley's ashes are interred in the churchyard of St Michael's and All Angels in Hubberholme. He was born in Manningham in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire.