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| 08='''Dubbyhole''' is a townland in [[Couty Londonderry]].
| 09='''Abingdon''' (or Abingdon-on-Thames) is a market town in [[Berkshire]], of which county it is the county town. Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously-occupied town, with people having lived there for at least 6,000 years.
Abingdon lies 5½ miles south of Oxford and five miles north of Didcot, in the flat valley of the Thames and is situated on the west (right) bank of that river, where the river Ock flows in from the Vale of White Horse. ''([[Abingdon|Read more]])''
| 10='''Caerleon''' is a suburban village on the River Usk in [[Monmouthshire]]. It is by the northern outskirts of the city of [[Newport, Monmouthshire|Newport]].
Caerleon is of great archaeological importance; it is most famous as the site a Roman legionary fortress known as ''Isca Augusta'' and an Iron Age hill fort. Caerleon also has strong literary associations. Geoffrey of Monmouth portrayed Caerleon one of the most important cities in Britain in his ''Historia Regum Britanniæ'', and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the ''Idylls of the King'' while staying in Caerleon. ''([[Caerleon|Read more]])''
| 11='''Richmond''' is a pretty market town on the [[River Swale]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]]. The town stands on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Richmond's picturesque appearance and historic buildings have made it a popular film and television location.
The town was named after the Norman Conquest when it and the surounding lands were granted by William the Conqueror to a Breton nobleman. It became the centre of a Liberty known as "Richmondshire".''([[Richmond, Yorkshire|Read more]])''
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Springhill House in County Londonderry
Springhill House
Springhill is a 17th-century plantation house in the townland of Ballindrum near Moneymore in County Londonderry. It has been the property of the National Trust since 1957.
The home of the Conyngham family (later Lennox-Conyngham) since the Plantation, the house today contains a vitally important and almost complete collection of one family's occupation for three hundred years. In the Gun Room can be found one of the largest surviving 18th century wallpaper schemes surviving in the United Kingdom, along with a "long gun" dating to about 1680 which was presented to Alderman James Lenox after the Siege of Derry. The Library contains one of the most important collections of 17th and 18th century books in Ireland and is composed of around 3000 volumes, the oldest of which is a small Latin psalter of 1541. (Read more)
