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* Battles Royal-Charles I and the Civil War in Cornwall and the West by H Miles Brown ( Libra Books, 1982 ) ISBN 0-9508009-0-2
* Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
The name " Cheddar " is not protected by the European Union, though the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar " has an EU Protected Designation of Origin, and may only be produced in Somerset, Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, using milk sourced from those counties.
* Cyclops, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British Celtic tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall in the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.
West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.
Cornwall ( Kernow ) was subject to West Saxon dominance, and the Welsh kingdoms recognised Alfred as their overlord.
* Mars, a West Cornwall Railway locomotive
A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention ( Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo ) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 12 December 2001.
Cornwall is part of the South West Regional Assembly and the South West Regional Development Agency ( SWRDA ) administrate economic development, housing and strategic planning.
Prior to the 19th century distinctive May day celebrations were widespread throughout West Cornwall, and are being revived in St. Ives and Penzance.
Many Newfoundland dialects are similar to the West Country dialects of West Country, England, particularly the city of Bristol and counties Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while others resemble dialects of Ireland's southeast, particularly Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork.
Every Corner was a Picture: A checklist compiled for the West Cornwall Art Archive of 50 artists from the early Newlyn School painters through to the present.
* Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset-the South West Peninsula ( western part of the West Country )
In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.
Two sets of accents are spoken in the West Country, Cornish ( primarily in South Cornwall ) and West Country ( the counties of Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Dorset ( Not so much in east Dorset ), Wiltshire ( again, less so in eastern Wiltshire ), and also in East Cornwall ).
Cornwall and West Devon's landscape is of rocky coastline and high moorland, notably at Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor National Park.
In the South West region the following transport authorities have published their LTP online: Bournemouth U. A., Cornwall U. A., Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Plymouth U. A., Somerset, Swindon U. A., Torbay U. A. and Wiltshire unitary authority.
Bus There are a number of bus services provided by Stagecoach South West, First Devon and Cornwall, and Beacon Bus:

West and Railway
Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.
* Shanghai: A BRT line running between Shanghai West Railway Station and Shanghai West Railway Station is on the way
Among its accomplishments, the United Province of Canada negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States, built the Grand Trunk Railway, improved the educational system in Canada West under Egerton Ryerson, reinstated French as an official language of the legislature and the courts, codified the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, and abolished the seigneurial system in Canada East.
The law and commerce and administration faculties are in the Pipitea Campus, near Parliament Buildings, which consists of Rutherford House, the restored Old Government Buildings, and the West Wing of the Wellington Railway Station.
* July 25 – The East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway in the North West of England, is opened between Bury and Ramsbottom.
* July 1 – The cable-operated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in Manhattan becomes the first elevated railway in the United States.
* April 9 – The world's first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line, from Paddington Station to West Drayton.
* March 31 – Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line opened up to Werneth in North West England.
A 4, 948 km long rail network criss-crosses the state, with Jabalpur serving as headquarters for the West Central Railway Zone of the Indian Railways.
Beyond Toledo, the planned route would have used the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad ( 1900 ), Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, Little Kanawha Railroad, West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway, Western Maryland Railroad and Philadelphia and Western Railway, but the Panic of 1907 strangled the plans before the Little Kanawha section in West Virginia could be finished.
With the development of the Birmingham West Suburban Railway along the path of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, they acquired the Bournbrook estate, comprising of countryside south of the outskirts of Birmingham.
In 1914 the U. S. Supreme Court set limits on price discrimination that were effectively interstate commerce in Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States.
:* " to construct a tube railway in continuation of the Central London Line from Liverpool Street eastwards to points where it will connect with the Loughton and Grange Hill lines ( probably near Leyton and Newbury Park so as to permit running through trains to stations in the West End of London and beyond without passing over the congested London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) lines at Stratford and "
* Apollo, a steam locomotive of the West Cornwall Railway

West and Act
He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.
* Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time ( British West Indies ):
* Arthur Lazarus, Jr. & W. Richard West, Jr., The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: A Flawed Victory, Law & Contemp.
By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.
Rather than a referendum of all residents of West Irian as had been agreed under Sukarno, an " Act of Free Choice " was conducted 1969 in which 1, 025 Papuan representatives of local councils were selected by the Indonesians.
* 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
After Indian Independence in 1947, the West Bengal State Legislature, with the concurrence of the Government of India, enacted the Jadavpur University Act, 1955 to convert the institute into Jadavpur University with full autonomy on ( December 24, 1955 ).
In early 1804, Congress passed the Mobile Act which recognized West Florida as being part of the United States.
Accordingly, the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union 1840, with the capital at Kingston, and Upper Canada becoming known as Canada West.
The two divisions were made separate administrative counties as East Suffolk and West Suffolk under the Local Government Act 1888, with Ipswich becoming a county borough.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, East Suffolk, West Suffolk and Ipswich were merged to form a unified county of Suffolk on 1 April 1974.
A vote was supposedly taken under the UN sponsored Act of Free Choice to allow West New Guineans to decide their fate, although many dispute its veracity.
The bill was later defeated in a filibuster in the Senate when Silver Republicans in the West traded it away for the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
Although there were initial scandals in his first term, Grant remained popular in the country and was re-elected a second term in 1872. Notable accomplishments as President include policies for the protection of African Americans in the Reconstruction states as well as Native Americans in the West, the Treaty of Washington in 1871, and the Specie Payment Resumption Act in 1875.
The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.
In the next general election in 1868, the South Lancashire constituency had been broken-up by the Second Reform Act into two: South East Lancashire and South West Lancashire.
** Act of Free Choice commenced in Merauke, West Irian.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, a proposal for Kidderminster to be part of the West Midlands metropolitan county was disbanded following a trimming of the county boundary back to Stourbridge.
* The 1976 Act for the Promotion of Urban Development and the 1977 Housing Modernisation Act, which ( together with the 1971 Act for the Promotion of Urban Development passed by the Brandt Administration ) by the end of the Seventies had enabled most West German cities to introduce programmes aimed at renovating their pre-war residential areas.
However, the remaining vast tracts of unsettled land were often used as a commons, or, in the American West, " open range " As degradation of habitat developed due to overgrazing and a tragedy of the commons situation arose, common areas began to either be allocated to individual landowners via mechanisms such as the Homestead Act and Desert Land Act and fenced in, or, if kept in public hands, leased to individual users for limited purposes, with fences built to separate tracts of public and private land.
Involved in logging in Central America, merchant shipping between the North American colonies and the West Indies, fishing the Grand Banks (' til forbidden to by the Palliser's Act of 1775 ), whaling, and privateering.

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