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- '''Lydford''' is a village, once an important town, in [[Devon]] situated six miles north of [[Tavistock]] on the western fringe o ...f single span; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in an exquisite glen.9 KB (1,465 words) - 21:13, 27 October 2010
- ...ed by early settlers. An archaeological excavation by the Museum of London in the 1990s found evidence of flint items shaped by Mesolithic hunters, as we ...e of the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Situated in RAF Uxbridge, the No. 11 Group Operations Room within the bunker played a c32 KB (4,924 words) - 10:50, 28 July 2016
- [[File:Logo of the Church of England.svg|right|200px]] ...rope and beyond fall within the Church of England's [[Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe]].7 KB (1,083 words) - 12:28, 12 December 2010
- '''Deddington''' is a small town and parish in [[Oxfordshire]] on the 'Old Road' between [[Banbury]] and [[Oxford]]. The t The parish's topography is alluded to in a local rhyme:27 KB (4,239 words) - 14:24, 29 December 2018
- ...for many years a major railway engineering facility, but now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002 it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car pr ...after the ancient township of Crewe, today's Crewe is a new creation built in another parish, and so the town is named after the railway station.15 KB (2,230 words) - 13:37, 27 January 2016
- ...40 miles to the west-northwest, and it is about 850 miles south of Halifax in Nova Scotia. The territory's capital is [[Hamilton, Bermuda|Hamilton]], th ...his expedition to Virginia was shipwrecked here. St George's was settled in 1612.20 KB (3,116 words) - 23:39, 5 April 2020
- ...re]], on the western edge of the [[River Leven, Lancashire|Leven estuary]] in the [[Furness]] area. It lies close to the [[Lake District]], and just nor ...ine buildings. At its head is the war memorial to local soldiers who died in World War I.9 KB (1,305 words) - 14:44, 24 October 2015
- '''Sanquhar''' is a town and royal burgh in [[Nithsdale]] in [[Dumfriesshire]]. The stands on the [[River Nith]], north of [[Thornhill, ...nouncing their allegiance to the King, an event commemorated by a monument in the main street. The church of St Brides contains a memorial to James Crich15 KB (2,545 words) - 14:30, 14 October 2014
- ...It is deep within the metropolitan conurbation, having been swallowed up in London's growing urban spread from its earliest times, and is completely co ...ss, 1970, and Blair, J., 'Frithuwold's kingdom and the origins of Surrey', in Bassett, S. (ed.), ''The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms'', Leicester Unive22 KB (3,382 words) - 09:21, 30 January 2021
- ...y but it has spread its urban area so that several suburbs of the town lie in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]]. ...in England.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42640 Parishes - Stockton on Tees | British History Online]</ref>8 KB (1,319 words) - 15:30, 27 January 2016
- ...brokeshire]], the county's most populous town, with a population of 13,367 in 2001. ...other notion is that Tudor period monarchs called it "Hereford or Hertford in the West", to distinguish it from either [[Hereford]] or [[Hertford]].11 KB (1,712 words) - 14:44, 19 May 2021
- ...ghth most populous city and by far the most populous city in south-western England. ...yal charter in 1155 and was granted independence of the county authorities in 1373. From the 13th century, for half a millennium, it ranked amongst the t23 KB (3,465 words) - 15:51, 25 May 2023
- '''Basingstoke''' is a modern town in north-eastern [[Hampshire]], spread across a valley at the head of the [[Ri ...ke began as an old market town lie any other in Hampshire, but it expanded in the 1960s as part of a tripartite agreement between London County Council,32 KB (4,917 words) - 09:28, 15 January 2017
- '''Uffington''' is a village and parish in north-western [[Berkshire]], famous for the [[Uffington White Horse]] carve ...runs the [[River Ock]]. The village is four miles south of [[Faringdon]], in open country, amongst the [[Berkshire Downs]]. The parish forms part of Ber8 KB (1,356 words) - 10:44, 16 February 2019
- '''Ewhurst''' is a small village and parish in [[Surrey]], located between [[Cranleigh]] two miles away to the west and [[ ...a tile-[[kiln]] discovered and excavated in 1836 and from the villa itself in the 1960s, fragments of a glass goblet and an unusual vase decorated with a9 KB (1,375 words) - 09:21, 30 January 2021
- ...''' is a town and ancient parish on the south bank of the [[River Thames]] in north-western [[Kent]], long since swallowed within the London conurbation. ...|url=http://wwp.greenwich2000.com/info/local/deptford.htm |title=Greenwich England: Deptford |publisher=Wwp.greenwich2000.com |date=2010-01-05 |accessdate=20128 KB (4,376 words) - 10:53, 25 October 2018
- ...south, on the side of a slight rise of land bounded on two sides by a bend in the river. ...ing'' in the 13th century, ''Bauking'' in the 16th century and ''Bawlkin'' in the 17th century.<ref name=Page/>4 KB (601 words) - 10:28, 27 July 2016
- '''Brightwell-cum-Sotwell''' is a twin village and civil parish in northern [[Berkshire]]. It lies between [[Didcot]] to the west and the hist ...iginally two separate villages, but were combined as a single civil parish in 1948.5 KB (771 words) - 13:45, 19 October 2020
- ...f_England_and_Wales_1871/BwYSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA89|title=Census of England and Wales 1871: Registration or Union Counties: Berkshire|date=1872}}</ref> ...ey and remained in its possession until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538.<ref name=Lobel>Lobel, Mary 1962, pp. 27-39</ref>8 KB (1,278 words) - 10:12, 16 July 2023
- ...]], four miles south west of [[Oxford]]. It is one of two villages in the civil parish of [[St Helen Without]]. The place was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] as Sandford. The "sandy ford" must have been across2 KB (383 words) - 13:02, 27 January 2016
