Help With LightRoom Aspect Ratio Settings

I have created some custom Aspect Ratio settings to the crop tool but I now want to delete them as I entered them wrong.
Can anyone tel me how I can delete the custom ones I have made or reset back to defaults.
I am guessing they are written out to a file somewhere.
Ian

Hi
Many thanks for all your help. (very useful information)
This is now fixed and although it did not affect the useage, it did bother me
Regards
Ian

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