Clearing Safari History still leaves URL auto-correct history

I tried deleting the browsing history on my iPad in order to purge the URL history. This only appears to have deleted the list of sites from the bookmarked history button though, and not the browser's address bar history. So, when I type just a single letter in the address bar of safari, it still displays all of the historical URLs I've been to in the past.
Is there any way of deleting the URL auto-correct history and starting fresh?
Also, I assume browsing in "private mode" does not save the URLs into that list?

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1) Go to Settings --> Safari
2) Change your search engine (switch from Google to Yahoo! or vice versa)
3) Tap Home button
4) Tap Safari
5) Go to Settings --> Safari
6) Tap the following sequentially: Clear History, Clear Cookies, Clear Cache
7) Change your search engine back to what it was originally
8) Tap Home button
9) Launch Safari and verify search history is gone.
Note: This will not clear bookmarked sites.

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