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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey 00:02:15 1 Geography 00:04:53 2 Settlements 00:06:35 3 History 00:06:44 3.1 Ancient British and Roman periods 00:08:25 3.2 Formation of Surrey 00:11:41 3.2.1 Identified sub-kings of Surrey 00:12:05 3.3 West Saxon and English shire 00:16:53 3.3.1 Identified iealdormen/i of Surrey 00:17:17 3.4 Later Medieval Surrey 00:24:53 3.5 Early Modern Surrey 00:32:07 3.6 Modern history 00:39:38 4 Historic architecture and monuments 00:42:33 5 Literature 00:46:48 6 Arts and sciences 00:49:15 7 Popular music 00:51:01 8 Sport 00:54:49 8.1 Surrey football clubs 00:55:53 9 Local government 00:56:03 9.1 History 00:59:35 9.2 Today 01:00:08 10 Economy 01:01:23 11 Transport 01:01:32 11.1 Road 01:04:15 11.2 Rail 01:09:25 11.3 Long-distance national services 01:10:07 11.4 Air 01:10:51 12 Education 01:11:59 12.1 Higher education 01:12:26 13 Emergency services 01:12:43 14 Places of interest 01:15:19 15 In popular culture 01:18:29 16 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9384968373404474 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Surrey ( SURR-ee) is a county in South East England which borders Kent to the east, West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the north-west, and Greater London to the north-east. With about 1.2 million people, Surrey is the twelfth most populous English county, the third most populous home county, after Kent and Essex, and the third most populous in the South East, after Hampshire and Kent. Guildford is popularly regarded as the county town, although Surrey County Council is based extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames. Surrey is divided into eleven districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and Woking. The London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, and parts of Lewisham and Bromley were in Surrey until 1889, as were Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton and the part of Richmond upon Thames on the right bank of the River Thames until 1965, when they were absorbed into Greater London, and the county extended north of the Thames by the addition of Spelthorne, as a result of the dissolution of Middlesex. Surrey is a wealthy county due to economic, aesthetic, conservation and logistical factors. It has the highest GDP per capita of any English county, some of the highest property values outside Inner London, and also the highest cost of living outside of the capital. Surrey has the highest proportion of woodland of counties in England. It has large protected green spaces (such as the North Downs, Greensand Ridge and related Surrey Hills AONB and royal landscapes adjoin it — Windsor Great Park and Bushy Park near the River Thames). It has four horse racing courses, and golf courses including international competition venue Wentworth. Surrey is close to Heathrow and Gatwick airports and the M25, M3 and M23 motorways and has frequent rail services to central London. |