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In southwest England, in Wales, and in the border areas between Scotland and England, " some couples ... agreed to marry verbally, without exchanging legal contracts .... thers jumped over broomsticks placed across their thresholds to officialize their union and create new households ", indicating that contractless weddings and jumping the broomstick were different kinds of marriage.
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Ultimately, the kingdom of Wessex occupied the southwest of England, but the initial stages in this expansion are not apparent from the sources.
The region is located northeast of New England, southeast of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, and southwest of the island of Newfoundland.
* Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England, situated on the Cranborne Chase plateau, five miles east of Blandford Forum
This is a carryover from West Country dialects and is still common in southwest England, particularly Bristol.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to as Kew Gardens, comprises 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England.
Speaking only langue d ' oïl and langue d ' oc and spending very little time in England ( he lived in his Duchy of Aquitaine in the southwest of France, preferring to use his kingdom as a source of revenue to support his armies ), he was seen as a pious hero by his subjects.
A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne.
Reports from southwest England indicated few troop sightings, when in reality many units were housed there.
Harold's sons were meanwhile raiding the southwest of England from a base in Ireland.
Another leading British geologist, Roderick Murchison, did some of his first field work in southwest England, including Lyme, accompanied by his wife, Charlotte.
In 1967, the oil tanker Torrey Canyon went aground off the southwest coast of England, and in 1969 oil spilled from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel.
With a Dutch army, William landed at Brixham in southwest England on 5 November 1688.
** Wimbledon Stadium, a dog racing track located in Earlsfield in southwest London, England
* Badgerline, a bus company in the southwest of England
Plymouth is a city in southwest England.
Other words used for the ass in English from this time include cuddy in Scotland, neddy in southwest England and dicky in the southeast ; moke is documented in the 19th century, and may be of Welsh or Gypsy origin.
The outbreak of hostilities with England in 1294 was the inevitable result of the competitive expansionist monarchies, triggered by a secret Franco-Scottish pact of mutual assistance against Edward I, who was Philip's brother-in-law, having married Philip's sister Margaret ; inconclusive campaigns for the control of Gascony to the southwest of France were fought in 1294 – 98 and 1300 – 03.
While most of the men of the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot ( 1 / 24 ) were recruited from the industrial towns and agricultural classes of England, principally from Birmingham and adjacent southwest counties, only 10 soldiers of the 1 / 24 that fought in the battle were Welsh.
In the 1830s, the United States government relocated Native Americans from New York State and New England to the southwest part of the county ; these included the Brothertown Indians, Oneida Indians, and Stockbridge-Munsee Indians.
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a borough southwest of London, England.
Belmont is a village in the London Borough of Sutton in southwest Greater London, England.
The London Borough of Merton () is a borough in southwest London, England.
The same website also states another theory behind the town's name — that it was named for Exmoor in Devon, southwest England.
southwest and Wales
The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), a western inspired by Asa Carter's 1972 novel of the same name, has lead character Josey Wales ( Eastwood ) as a pro-Confederate guerilla who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers.
Rhodri's grandson, Hywel Dda ( Hywel the Good ), formed the kingdom of Deheubarth by joining smaller kingdoms in the southwest and had extended his rule to most of Wales by 942.
It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester.
Cunedda, legendary founder of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales, is supposed to have been a Manaw Gododdin warlord who migrated southwest during the 5th century.
The River Afan ( generally anglicized as Avon, and sometimes historically as Avan ) is a river in southwest Wales whose river valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan.
To its southwest is North Wales.
In states other than South Australia, apricots are still grown, particularly in Tasmania and western Victoria and southwest New South Wales, but they are less common than in South Australia.
According to his Life of King Alfred, Asser was a monk at St David's in what was then the kingdom of Dyfed, in southwest Wales.
Brindabella National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 267 km southwest of Sydney in the Brindabella Ranges.
Budawang is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 200 km southwest of Sydney.
Budderoo is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 99 km southwest of Sydney, best known for the timber boardwalk through the Minnamurra rainforest.
Conjola is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 165 km southwest of Sydney.
Eurobodalla National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 268 km southwest of Sydney near the towns of Narooma and Moruya.
Georges River is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 18 km southwest of Sydney.
Heathcote is a national park in New South Wales ( Australia ), 34 km southwest of Sydney.
Macquarie Pass National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 90 km southwest of Sydney.
Mimosa Rocks is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 329 km southwest of Sydney near the towns of Tathra and Bermagui.
Morton is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 170 km southwest of Sydney.
Murramarang is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 206 km southwest of Sydney.
Nattai is a national park in New South Wales ( Australia ), 150 km southwest of Sydney.
Seven Mile Beach is a national park in New South Wales ( Australia ), 110 km southwest of Sydney.
South East Forest is a national park in New South Wales ( Australia ), 378 km southwest of Sydney.
Tarlo River is a national park in New South Wales ( Australia ), 134 km southwest of Sydney.
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