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  • ...from the village. The tidal range on this stretch of water is the highest in the UK. Before the construction of the bridge it was a ferry port from wher ...of the peninsula - now a tidal island known as Chapel Rock - traditionally in the 4th century by Tecla, a princess of [[Gwynedd]] who retired there as a
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  • ...stone, in somewhat similar manner to the warm springs at [[Bristol]] and [[Bath]]. It may be regarded as a spiritual site by various religious groups. Taff ...village and was the inspiration for the fictional "Ffynnon Garw", featured in the book, and film ''The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Moun
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  • '''Reculver''' is a village and coastal resort in [[Kent]], about three miles east of [[Herne Bay]]. Once and important plac ...one of the chain of [[Saxon Shore]] forts. The military connection resumed in the Second World War, when the sea off Reculver was used for testing Barnes
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  • ...It is a vast, ancient, mainly Gothic church which serves an important role in the religious, royal, parliamentary and judicial ceremonial of the nation. ...5/1245) on the south side, with St Margaret's Church (1486-1523) beside it in the Abbey grounds, the Palace of Westminster (1840-1870) on the east, the [
    30 KB (4,706 words) - 22:11, 20 May 2016
  • |churches=386 ...church of a monastery founded in AD 655 of which the church was built in its present form between 1118 and 1238.
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  • '''Kilkhampton''' is a village in the very northeast corner of [[Cornwall]]. ...[[Domesday Book]] as "Chilchetone". The population of the parish was 1,193 in the 2001 census, which increased to 1,368 at the 2011 census.
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  • |churches=847 ...e, and his seat is [[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford]], a unique cathedral in that it is within Christ Church College, part of the [[University of Oxford
    16 KB (1,987 words) - 19:41, 31 August 2016
  • |churches=582 ...covers [[Dorset]] and [[Wiltshire]] (excepting [[Swindon]] and other parts in the north of the county). The diocese is led by the Bishop of Salisbury, wh
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  • ...ruth]], and two and a half miles south of [[St Agnes, Cornwall|St Agnes]], in the [[Powdershire]] Hundred. The village is in a former mining area. It has a school,<ref>[http://www.mount-hawke.cornwall
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  • [[File:East Dundry 1962.jpg|thumb|220px|The west part of East Dundry in 1962]] ...of the [[Mendip Hills]], between [[Bristol]] and the [[Chew Valley Lake]], in [[Somerset]]. The parish includes the hamlets of Maiden Head and [[East Du
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  • |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset ...ur miles south of [[Bristol]] at the northern edge of the [[Chew Valley]]. In 1895 the civil parish of Norton Malreward was combined with that of neighbo
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  • ...oodlands of Nightingale Valley. Brislington houses the HTV West Studios on Bath Road and this is situated next to the historic Arnos Vale Cemetery. ...nasteries, a house called "St Ann's" was built at the site by Thomas Avery in the mid-17th century.<ref>Gertrude Euphemia Meredith, ''The descendants of
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  • ...|250px|Bath Forum Hundred (including the liberty of Hampton and Claverton) in Somerset]] ...the city itself.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davenport|first=Peter|title=Medieval Bath Uncovered |year=2002 |publisher=Tempus |location=Stroud |isbn=0-7524-1965-X
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  • |LG districy=Bath and North East Somerset '''Farrington Gurney''' is a village and parish in [[Somerset]]. The village lies on the junction of the A37 and the A362 road
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  • '''Atherton''' is a town in southern [[Lancashire]] which has become a suburb of [[Wigan]], five miles ...ail trade, although there is still some significant manufacturing industry in the town.
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  • |picture=Hulme Arch Beetham in sunset.jpg ...er of Danish names to the south and south-west of Manchester, unparalleled in the rest of Lancashire, pointed to a Danish colony on the north bank of the
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  • '''Shirehampton''' is a village in [[Gloucestershire]] that forms a suburb at the north-western edge of [[Bris ...and [[Somerset]] since it lies within easy reach of all the main motorways in the area, including the [[M5 motorway|M5]], the [[M4 motorway|M4]] [[Severn
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  • ...[Northamptonshire]] which forms the eastern part of [[Banbury]], otherwise in [[Oxfordshire]]. It is east of the [[River Cherwell]], which here forms the Grimsbury was first settled in the 6th century as a Saxon hamlet<ref name="information-britain.co.uk">{{ci
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  • ...the late Victorian period until 1978, the town had the second-longest pier in the United Kingdom.<ref name="2ndlongestpier">[http://www.theheritagetrail. ...oliday destination has declined over the past decades, due to the increase in foreign travel and to a lesser degree exposure to flooding that has prevent
    36 KB (5,580 words) - 13:13, 18 January 2017
  • '''Ribchester''' is a village in [[Lancashire]], on the banks of the [[River Ribble]] six miles north-west o ...perates, and the village is primarily a commuter village for those working in the cities of the county: [[Blackburn]], Preston and even [[Manchester]].
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