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  • '''Glenluce''' is a village in the Parish of Old Luce in [[Wigtownshire]]. It is to be found on the A75 road between [[ Each year around September, there is a vehicle show in the nearby Park of Glenluce Park where people show off anything from vintage tractors to the
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  • [[File:Plas Mawr.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The gatehouse of Plas Mawr]] ...and was constructed in three phases between 1576 and 1585 at a total cost of around £800.
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  • ...tle of St John, Stranraer.jpg|right|thumb|300px|From the top of the Castle of St John, Stranraer]] ...hamlets and villages. The parish is 10 miles long and in one part nearly of the same breadth, comprising 30,600 acres
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  • [[File:Fotheringhay motte, 2009.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The motte of Fotheringhay Castle]] ...that county. It was probably founded around 1100 by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton]] and stood at a defensive position by the [[River Nene]], clos
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  • ...ast, between [[Portballintrae]] and [[Portrush]], and is accessible by way of a bridge connecting it to the mainland. The castle is surrounded by extrem ...e is in the [[townland]] of [[Dunluce]]. It in the care of the Department of Communities and it is designated a 'Monument in State Care'.<ref>[https://w
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  • ...North Channel]], between the [[Portpatrick]] and [[Stranraer]]. The parish of Leswalt covers around 8 square miles. ...g "grass court", or perhaps the Irish Gaelic ''lios uillt'', meaning "fort of the glen", referring to [[Lochnaw Castle]].<ref>http://www.scotlandsplaces.
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  • |condition=Destroyed, part of motte remains ...h of the property. Today only part of the motte still stands, forming part of an archaeological park built on the site between 2007 and 2009.
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  • ...about 2 miles south of [[Stonehaven]]. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortifie ...acobite risings. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading arm
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  • ...small island on the east side of the [[Firth of Lorn]], 7 miles southwest of [[Oban]] in [[Argyllshire]], to which county the island belongs. Seil has b In 1792 the Clachan Bridge was built by engineer Robert Mylne, linking Seil to mainland Great Britain, and the bridge, still in use
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  • |ownership=Historic Scotland ...ons to wooden structures which have now since vanished.<ref name="historic-scotland"/>
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  • |builder=Duncan MacDougall of Lorn |ownership=Duke of Argyll
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  • ...rne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]] on the A151. It stands within a 3,000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown. ...e and martial – the towers and outlying pavilions recalling the bastions of a great fortress in classical dress.
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  • ...London]] residence and administrative headquarters of the reigning monarch of the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=royaluk>{{cite web|url=https://www.royal.u ...it was established as principal the royal palace, the ceremonial landscape of Westminster has shaped itself around Buckingham Palace and its park and gro
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  • ...s become an outer suburb of the City of [[Wakefield]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. The castle overlooks the [[River Calder, Yorkshire|River Cald Sandal was the site of royal intrigue and as such it has a place in one of [[William Shakespeare]]'s plays: in ''Henry VI Part III'', Act 1, Scene 2
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  • |ownership=The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ...ess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. It stands grand house beside the village of [[Glamis]] in [[Angus]]. It is opened to the public.
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  • |picture=Farmland south of Murroes.jpg |picture caption=Farmland south of Murroes
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  • ...gus]], found just half a mile northeast of [[Carnoustie]] and 6 miles west of [[Arbroath]]. ...er died at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332 and it is thought that David II conferred the barony (at least in part) to the Boyce family in 1341.<ref na
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  • |picture caption=Edinburgh Castle at the head of the Old Town ...h]]; a grand royal fortress steeped in history which dominates the skyline of the city from its position on the [[Castle Rock, Edinburgh|Castle Rock]].
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  • ...stle saw much action during the wars between the two kingdoms and in times of peace it was active in the struggle to keep down the [[Middle Shires#Reiver ...is part of [[Norhamshire]], deemed a detached part of the County Palatine of Durham, along with [[Islandshire]] and [[Bedlingtonshire]].
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  • ...45 pp. 425-439</ref> The civil parish also incorporates the ancient parish of [[Kirkton, Roxburghshire|Kirkton]]. ...able KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Oct 2016. See “Sta
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