Bordering County Antrim, County Armagh, County Louth, and the Irish Sea County Down is one of the provinces of Ulster. County Down takes its name from dún, the Irish word for dun or fort. In particular, the fort in question was in the historic town of Downpatrick, the "fort of the green side" or "fort of the two broken fetters." The Normans invaded the region in 1177, with waves of English and Scottish immigration from the 1180s - 1600s. With many places of interest and numerous notable people from the region, it is no surprise it draws large numbers of tourists.","Lancashire (Lancs) didn’t exist in 1086 for the Domesday Book but was first created in 1182, a historic, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Originally two separate parts which included Manchester and Liverpool along the northwestern edge of England.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","Scotland or Gaelic: Alba or Alban is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. As the northernmost country of the UK, its land mass covers more than a third of the island of Great Britain","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet.","Devon (Devonshire) is derived from Dummonia, it is located in the South West of England and borders Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. It has a large coast line with both cliffs and sandy shores.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_down.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lancashire England.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/scotland-med2.webp","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Devon England.webp?pos=floatRight",null],"mode":"f","s":"Lindon","sU":"LYNDEN","oC":"DU","o":"Dutch","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/LYNDEN/DU/Lindon/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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