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Jackfield

Jackfield is a village in Shropshire, England, bordering the small town of Broseley.-Location:It lies on the south bank of the River Severn, in the Ironbridge Gorge, and opposite the village of Coalport...

Jack Hayes

Jack J. Hayes was an American composer and orchestrator.He was twice nominated for an Academy Award, for The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964 and for The Color Purple in 1985....

Jacksdale

Jacksdale is a small village in the English county of Nottinghamshire that lies approximately 100 metres from the Derbyshire border. It is, in fact, the most western place within the county boundaries. Neighbouring villages include Selston, Brinsley, Pye Hill and Ironville...

Jackson Bridge

Jackson Bridge is a small village in the civil parish of Holme Valley in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England and within the postal district of Holmfirth.It is situated next to the A616, Huddersfield to Penistone, road....

Jacobstow

Jacobstow is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is located east of the A39 road approximately seven miles south of Bude....

Jacobstowe

Jacobstowe is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon in England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 118. The village is on the River Okement, about 5 miles north of Okehampton.-Trivia:...

Jacobs Well, Surrey

Jacobs Well is a village in the county of Surrey, England with a population of 1,171. The village is located on the northern outskirts of Guildford, in the parish of Worplesdon, the village which lies to the west...

Jamestown, West Dunbartonshire

Jamestown is a village in the Vale of Leven conurbation in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.Located on the east bank of the River Leven, it is sandwiched between Balloch to the north and Bonhill to the south....

Jarrow

Jarrow is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, located on the River Tyne, with a population of 27,526. From the middle of the 19th century until 1935, Jarrow was a centre for shipbuilding, and was the starting point of the Jarrow March against unemployment in 1936.-Foundation:The Angles re-occupied...

Jarvis Brook

Jarvis Brook is a village in Crowborough, near Rotherfield in East Sussex.It has a several football clubs - Jarvis Brook FC, Jarvis Brook Juniors FC and Jarvis Brook Girls FC - all based at the Limekiln Playing Fields in Palesgate Lane....

Jasper's Green

Jasper's Green is a hamlet near the village of Panfield and the town of Braintree, in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. Other nearby settlements include Shalford Green and Church End.- Further reading :*...

Jaw Hill

Jaw Hill is a hill in the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It is near Kirkhamgate in the City of Wakefield MBC.- History :A large square cropmark enclosure was investigated in 1995, when it was thought to be a possible Roman marching camp...

Jaywick

Jaywick is a small seaside village near Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex on the North Sea coast of England. It was originally intended as a holiday resort for Londoners. Many of the houses were poorly constructed and were only intended for short-term holiday use. As time has passed, more and more people...

| class="adr" | Essex
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Jealott's Hill

Jealott's Hill is a village in Berkshire, England, within the civil parish of Warfield.The settlement lies near on the A3095 road and is approximately north-east of Bracknell. It is home to Syngenta's largest R&D site in the world, and houses Europe's largest greenhouse at 4,000 square metres...

Jedburgh

Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.-Location:Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey...

Jed Water

The Jed Water is a river and a tributary of the River Teviot in the Borders region of Scotland.In total Jed Water is over 20 miles long, it flows into the Teviot near Jedfoot Bridge from a source in the Cheviot Hills....

Jeffreyston

Jeffreyston is a community in Pembrokeshire.Jeffreyston lies on the B4586 road about one mile west from the main A477 road; the nearest town is Tenby about six miles to the south and east.The parish church is dedicated to St Jeffrey and St Oswald....

Jemimaville

Jemimaville is a small village in the Highland region of Scotland. It sits on the northern coast of the Black Isle, overlooking the Cromarty Firth. The village is 7 km west of Cromarty and 3 km south of Invergordon on the opposite shore of the firth. It has 18 houses and around 50 inhabitants, and...

Jersey Marine

Jersey Marine is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, UK located about east of Swansea. It falls within the Coedffranc West ward....

Jesmond

Jesmond is a residential suburb and is split into two electoral wards just north of the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The population is about 12,000. It is adjacent to, and to the east of, the Town Moor, providing pedestrian and cycle paths to Spital Tongues and the city's two Universities...

| class="adr" | Newcastle Upon Tyne
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| class="fn org" | Jevington
| class="adr" | East Sussex
| class="note" | 50.78°N 00.21°E
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| class="fn org" | Jewell's Cross
| class="adr" | Devon
| class="note" | 50.80°N 04.47°W
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| class="fn org" | Jingle Street
| class="adr" | Monmouthshire
| class="note" | 51.78°N 02.76°W
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Jodrell Bank

The Jodrell Bank Observatory is a British observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester...

Johnby

Johnby is a hamlet in the Eden District, in the English county of Cumbria. It is about from the large town of Penrith and about from the village of Greystoke...

John O'Gaunt, Leicestershire

John O'Gaunt, is a locality in the English county of Leicestershire.- Etymology :The area takes its name from the former John O' Gaunt railway station which took its name from a covert known to local hunters some distance away....

John o' Groats

John o' Groats is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland. Part of the county of Caithness, John o' Groats is popular with tourists because it is usually regarded as the most northerly settlement of mainland Great Britain, although this is not a claim made by the inhabitants...

Johnshaven

Johnshaven is a coastal village along the North Sea located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is accessed off the A92 coast road that connects Fife and Stonehaven, where it joins the A90 and continues northward to Aberdeen and beyond...

Johnston, Pembrokeshire

Johnston is a community in the hundred of Roose, Pembrokeshire, Wales.It lies on the A4076 road approximately midway between Haverfordwest and the port of Milford Haven and is served by Johnston railway station. Until the end of the 19th century, anthracite was mined here...

Johnstone

Johnstone is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire and larger historic county of the same name in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.The town lies three miles west of neighbouring Paisley and twelve miles west of the centre of the city of Glasgow...

Johnstonebridge

Johnstonebridge is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.It is roughly halfway between Moffat and Lockerbie, and lies on the A74 motorway. The Annandale Water Services on the motorway are in Johnstonebridge; prior to the construction of the motorway there were services on the old A74 road...

Johnstown, Wrexham

Johnstown is a village in the county borough of Wrexham, Wales, and forms part of the old coal mining community of Rhosllannerchrugog.The disused coal mine at Hafod is situated to the east of the village and the mine's former coal tip has now been converted to a country park, Bonc yr Hafod...

Jolly's Bottom

Jolly's Bottom is in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately half-a-mile north of Chacewater and straddles the main line railway....

Joppa, Cornwall

Joppa is a farmstead settlement in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately one mile southeast of Hayle and is in Hayle civil parish....

Joppa, Edinburgh

Joppa is the easternmost suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello, to the south by the open area south of Milton Road and to the east by Musselburgh in East Lothian. The name "Joppa" appears in the late...

Jordanhill

Jordanhill is an affluent area of the West End of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The area consists largely of terraced housing dating from the early to mid 20th century, with some detached and semi-detached homes and some modern apartments....

| class="adr" | City of Glasgow
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| class="fn org" | Jordans
| class="adr" | Buckinghamshire
| class="note" | 51.60°N 00.60°W
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| class="fn org" | Jordanston
| class="adr" | Pembrokeshire
| class="note" | 51.94°N 05.04°W
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| class="fn org" | Jordanthorpe
| class="adr" | Sheffield
| class="note" | 53.32°N 01.47°W
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| class="fn org" | Jordon
| class="adr" | Sheffield
| class="note" | 53.42°N 01.39°W
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| class="fn org" | Joyford
| class="adr" | Gloucestershire
| class="note" | 51.81°N 02.62°W
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| class="fn org" | Joy's Green
| class="adr" | Gloucestershire
| class="note" | 51.84°N 02.58°W
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Jump, South Yorkshire

Jump is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.According to local legend, Jump village was named Jump after a small river that ran through the village and the local coal miners having to 'jump' over the river to gain access.Jump has a small selection of pubs...

Juniper Green

Juniper Green is a village on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland situated 9 kilometres south west of the city centre. It bridges the city bypass, and extends along the foothills of the Pentlands. It is bordered by Colinton to the east and Currie to the south-west. Administratively, Juniper Green...

Jura, Scotland

Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, situated adjacent and to the north-east of Islay. Part of the island is designated as a National Scenic Area. Until the twentieth century Jura was dominated - and most of it was eventually owned - by the Campbell clan of Inveraray Castle on Loch...

| class="adr" | Argyll and Bute
| class="note" | 55.93°N 05.95°W
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| class="fn org" | Jurby Head
| class="adr" | Isle of Man
| class="note" | 54.35°N 04.53°W
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| class="fn org" | Jurby West
| class="adr" | Isle of Man
| class="note" | 54.35°N 04.54°W
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| class="fn org" | Jurston
| class="adr" | Devon
| class="note" | 50.64°N 03.85°W
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| class="fn org" | Jury's Gap
| class="adr" | East Sussex
| class="note" | 50.92°N 00.81°E
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