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| | Sunbury -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Located on the site of Shamokin, a Susquehanna Indian village, it was laid out in 1772 by John Lukens, surveyor general of Pennsylvania, and named for Sunbury, Middlesex, England. |
 | | The Aboriginal name for the area was Koora Kooracup, but, when a gold rush to Bendigo began in 1851, a hotel (built on Jacksons Creek to house travelers to the goldfield) was named Sunbury, after Sunbury, Middlesex,... |
 | | It includes Staines (the principal settlement and district headquarters), Ashford, Shepperton, Sunbury, and the southern edge of London's Heathrow Airport. |
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