Swanley is a town inside the M25 motorway in Kent, England. In 2001 there were 20,986 people living in Swanley.
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks is a town near the M25 motorway in Kent, South East England. In 2001 there were 18,588 people living in Sevenoaks.
Needham Market
Needham Market is a town and civil parish in Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England. In 2001, there were 4,495 people living in Needham Market. The town is near the A14 road.
Wymondham
Wymondham is a town near the A11 road and Norwich in Norfolk, England. In 2001 there were 12,539 people living in Wymondham.
Biggleswade
Biggleswade is a town and civil parish near the A1 road in Bedfordshire, England. In 2012 there were 15,383 people living in Biggleswade. There is a train station that goes to London. The local upper school is called Stratton Upper School. Other famous people that have lived in Biggleswade are Pam Rhodes and Dan Albone. The town has lots of Cafés and Hair Dressers. Biggleswade has a parish church and the other churches are in Biggleswade Churches Together. Biggleswade has a radio station, Biggles FM.
Blandford Forum
Blandford Forum is a historic Georgian town in Dorset, England. In 2001 there were 8,745 people living in Blandford Forum. There is a church in the centre of the town. It is on the River Stour.
There are three Primary Schools: Archbishiopwake Primary School, Milldown Primary and Blandford St Mary. There is also a Secondary School called The Blandford School.
There is a large well known brewery Hall and Woodhouse who also own the Crown Hotel.
There is a leisure centre which has a 25m pool and children's water slide. A sauna and steam room are next to the pool. There is also a fully equipped gym and a cafe.
The famous annual Steam Fair is held nearby in Tarrant Hinton. and Blandford Forum is host to the rock festival every year, called Teddy Rocks which is charitable event to raise money for cancer awareness.
Annually there is a Georgian Fayre in the town centre and also a Yuletide Festival. The Blandford Carnival is well known celebration of the local community.
Dorchester
Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England. In 2001 there were 16,171 people living in Dorchester.
Hornsea
Hornsea is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 2001 there were 8,243 people living in Hornsea.
Bracknell
Bracknell is a town in Berkshire, England. In 2001 there were 50,131 people living in Bracknell.
Skipton
Skipton is a town in North Yorkshire, England. In 2001, 14,313 people lived in Skipton.
Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is a town in Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 4,042 people living in Grange-over-Sands. It is located near the A590 road.
Aylsham
Aylsham is a town near the A140 road in Norfolk, England. In 2001 there were 3,884 people living in Aylsham.
Maghull
Maghull is a town near the M58 motorway in Merseyside, England. In 2001 there were 22,225 people living in Maghull.
Withernsea
Withernsea is a town on the A1033 road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 2001 there were 5,980 people living in Withernsea.
Buntingford
Buntingford is a town near the A10 road in Hertfordshire, England. In 2001 there were 4,820 living in Buntingford.
Buckingham
Buckingham is a town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is to the west of Milton Keynes and to the north of Aylesbury. In 2001, 11,572 people were living in Buckingham.
Attleborough
Attleborough is a town near the A11 road in Breckland District, Norfolk, England. In 2001 there were 9,702 people living in Attleborough.
Eye, Suffolk
Eye is a town in Suffolk, England. In 2001, the town had a population of 2,000 people. Eye is near the A140 road.
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Brigg
Brigg is a small market town in North Lincolnshire, England. In 2001, it was shown that the population of Brigg was 5,076 in 2,213 households.
Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a town and civil parish in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. In 2001 there were 3,230 people living in Market Rasen.
Gainsborough
Gainsborough is a town and civil parish in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. In 2001 there were 16,869 people living in Gainsborough.
Tyldesley
Tyldesley is a village in Greater Manchester, England. Tyldesley has a library.
Basildon
Basildon is a large town in Essex, England. Basildon was recorded to have a population of 1,159 in 1931. It was then expanded when it became a new town in the late 1940s. It now has a population of over 100,000.
Wickford
Wickford is a town in Essex, England near Basildon. Wickford has a railway station.
Baldock
Baldock is a town near the A1 road in Hertfordshire, England. There is a service station on the A1 called Baldock service station.
Lymington
Lymington is a town on the A337 road in Hampshire, England. Lymington has a hospital.
Palearctic
The Palearctic (or 'Palaearctic') ecozone is one of the eight dividing the Earth's surface.
The Palearctic is by far the largest ecozone. It includes the terrestrial ecoregions of Europe, Asia north of the Himalayan foothills, northern Africa, and the northern and central parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Palearctic ecozone includes mostly boreal and temperate climate ecoregions, which run across Eurasia from western Europe to the Bering Strait.
The boreal and temperate Euro-Siberian region is the Palearctic's largest biogeographic region, which transitions from tundra in the northern reaches of Russia and Scandinavia to the vast taiga, the boreal coniferous forests which run across the continent. South of the taiga are a belt of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and temperate coniferous forests. This vast Euro-Siberian region has many shared plant and animal species, and many similarities with the temperate and boreal regions of the Nearctic of North America.
Eurasia and North America were often connected by the Bering land bridge, and have very similar mammal and bird fauna, with many Eurasian species having moved into North America, and fewer North American species having moved into Eurasia.
Many zoologists consider the Palearctic and Nearctic to be a single Holarctic ecozone. The Palearctic and Nearctic also share many plant species.
The lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe, north Africa, and western Asia are home to the Mediterranean basin ecoregions, which together constitute world's largest and most diverse mediterranean climate region of the world, with generally mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. The Mediterranean basin's mosaic of forests, woodlands, and scrub are home to 13,000 endemic species. "Conservation International" has designated the Mediterranean basin as one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.
A great belt of deserts, including the Sahara desert, and Arabian desert, separates the Palearctic and Afrotropic ecoregions. These desert ecoregions are included in the palearctic ecozone; other biogeographers identify the ecozone boundary as the transition zone between the desert ecoregions and the Mediterranean basin ecoregions to the north. This would place the deserts in the Afrotropic, while others place the boundary through the middle of the desert.
The Caucasus mountains, which run between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, are a particularly rich mix of coniferous, broadleaf, and mixed forests, and include some temperate rain forest.
Central Asia and the Iranian plateau are home to dry steppe grasslands and desert basins, with montane forests, woodlands, and grasslands in the region's high mountains and plateaux.
The middle altitude foothills of the Himalaya between about 2000–2500 m form the boundary between the Palearctic and Indomalaya ecoregions.
China, Korea and Japan are more humid and temperate than adjacent Siberia and Central Asia, and are home to rich temperate coniferous, broadleaf, and mixed forests. These are now mostly limited to mountainous areas, as the densely populated lowlands and river basins have been converted to intensive agricultural and urban use.