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This week, the BBC is exploring what it means to be English.As part of that, 20,000 people were asked to sum up their local area.So can you recognise the location from a selection of the respondents' descriptions?
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QuoteThis week, the BBC is exploring what it means to be English.As part of that, 20,000 people were asked to sum up their local area.So can you recognise the location from a selection of the respondents' descriptions?The English question: How well do you know England?
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