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February 18, 2012

Whitehaven Cumbria

Filed under: England,United Kingdom — Tags: , — needahand @ 4:14 pm

Whitehaven Cumbria: Whitehaven is a town in Cumbria in northwest England, United Kingdom. It is the seat of the Borough of Copeland. Whitehaven has some 25,500 inhabitants. Near the town is the nuclear complex at Sellafield. Whitehaven was attacked in 1778 in the American War of Independence of the United States Navy under the command of John Paul Jones. The rectangular map of Whitehaven (Georgian architecture) served as a model for the construction of Manhattan in New York.

See a map of Whitehaven here: http://www.my-towns.co.uk/whitehaven-map.html

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