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• Arniston House
  ...western third of the house was added by John Adam, brother of Robert Adam, in 1753.<ref name=McWilliam>McWilliam, pp.79–82</ref> ...BR/> His son Robert, later the Lord President, continued the improvements, and built the present house.
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• Wade's Causeway
  ...h Riding of Yorkshire]]: probably a [[Roman road]], its origin is unknown and rival theories have extended from its being a mediæval causeway built by m ...ing over [[Wheeldale Moor]], it is known too as ‘Goathland Roman Road’ and ‘Wheeldale Roman Road’.
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• Corstorphine Hill
  ...]], in reference to the Seven hills of Rome, but this figure is debatable, and as the city has expanded, even more so. ...inburgh Zoo]]. Much housing has been built on the lower slopes, and houses in other parts of the city have been built using stone quarried from Corstorph
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• Huyton
  ...Area. It shares borders with the Liverpool suburbs of Dovecot, Knotty Ash, and Belle Vale. Huyton has close associations with the neighbouring village of The ancient parish contains Croxteth Park, Knowsley and Tarbock, in addition to the township of Huyton-with-Roby. It forms part of the [[West D
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• Grand Western Canal
  ...1955). "Chapter IX: The Schemes to Join the English and Bristol Channels". In: ''The Canals of Southern England''. London: Phoenix House Ltd.</ref> ...d plane and seven boat lifts, the earliest lifts to see commercial service in the UK. The lifts predated the [[Anderton Boat Lift]] by nearly 40 years.
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• Chelsea Bridge
  |designer=G. Topham Forrest and E. P. Wheeler ...connecting [[Chelsea]] in [[Middlesex]] on the north bank to [[Battersea]] in [[Surrey]] on the south bank. There have been two Chelsea Bridges, on the s
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• Richmond Bridge
  |piers in water =4 ...rey]] and East Twickenham in [[Middlesex]]. It was designed by James Paine and Kenton Couse.
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• Shannon Airport
  ...non, County Clare]], and mainly serves [[Limerick]], [[Ennis]], [[Galway]] and the south-west of Ireland. ...it was realised that changing technology would require a permanent runway and airport.
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• Vauxhall Gardens
  ...by Samuel Wale c1751.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A prospect of Vauxhall Gardens in 1751]] ...in [[Kennington]] in [[Surrey]] on the south bank of the [[River Thames]], and today the name of a much smaller public park, a pale shadow of the garden o
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• Rivington
  |picture=Rivington Village Green and stocks.JPG |picture caption= Rivington village green and stocks
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• Pollokshields
  ...Govan]] in [[Renfrewshire]]. It is a conservation area which was developed in Victorian times according to a plan promoted by the original landowners, th ...growing city of Glasgow. The Victorian and Edwardian architecture and the parks of this area have remained almost untouched, leaving the feeling of a leafy
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• Crystal Palace
  |constituency=Croydon North<br />Dulwich and West Norwood<br />Lewisham West and Penge ...[[Kent]] passes through the Crystal Palace Park, although most of it lies in Surrey.
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• Quenington
  ...oucestershire]], on the [[River Coln]] eight miles east of [[Cirencester]] and two miles north of [[Fairford]]. ...toric buildings include the late 11th century parish church, St Swithin's, and a large, mediæval dovecote above a gatehouse
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• Dublin Airport
  ...stown in [[County Dublin]], four and a half miles north of the city itself and two miles south of the town of [[Swords]]. ...busiest airport in the [[Republic of Ireland]] by total passenger traffic and traffic levels.
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• Aberdour Castle
  ...o oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with [[Castle Sween]] in [[Argyll]], which was built at around the same time.<ref>Tabraham, ''Scotla ...astle}}</ref> and offer extensive views across the [[Firth of Forth]] to [[Edinburgh]].
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• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  ...House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Palm House in the Royal Botanic Gardens]] ...versity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today the institutiopn is
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• Princes Street Gardens
  ...et Gardens from The Mound, with the Scott Monument (l), Balmoral Hotel (c) and Waverley Station (r)]] ...d Nor Loch and building of the [[New Town, Edinburgh|New Town]], beginning in the 1760s.
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