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  • ...al country house set in a large park at the northern end of the urban area of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. The estate is eq ...ly holds the property on a long lease which will only expire in the middle of the 21st century.
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  • |church=Church of Ireland |arms=Diocese of Connor arms.svg
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  • ...wood became Siston Common but has recently been eroded by the construction of the Avon Ring Road and housing developments. In 1989 the village and enviro ...tps://books.google.com/books?id=XSE9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA378 The Agrarian history of England and Wales: 1042–1350].'' Edited by H.E. Hallam. Cambridge Univers
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  • |garden=Miriam Rothschild<br />Lady Salisbury<br />Rosemary Verey |ownership=Duchy of Cornwall
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  • ...corded a parish population (including [[Ansty, Dorset|Ansty]] to the west) of 477, in 231 dwellings. ...However the woods surrounding Hilton today are mostly post-war plantations of beech and ash as the hills were cleared during the Second World. Large area
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  • ...e]], in the south of [[Gloucestershire]], about two and a half miles north of [[Chipping Sodbury]]. The nearest settlement is [[Little Sodbury]], about a ...t on the slopes of a steep hill.<ref>{{cite book |title=Concise Road Atlas of Britain|year=2016 |publisher=AA Publishing |isbn=978-0-7495-7743-8 |page=30
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  • ...shire|Bampton]] hundred of [[Oxfordshire]]. The parish includes the hamlet of [[Brighthampton]]. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,49 ...and with its tributary Medley Brook it forms much of the eastern boundary of the parish. The western boundary has been subject to changes and disputes i
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  • |picture caption=The south-east of the parish forms this projection,<br />of Rodmead Farm and Rodmead Hill. ...mland, Maiden Bradley - geograph.org.uk - 539210.jpg|thumb|250px|The south of the parish including the [[Long Knoll]], a marilyn, and Little Knoll (backg
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  • ...pg|thumb|300px|Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (1910–1984) in front of his seat, Bradley House. All Saints Church is visible at left]] ...Bradley|url=http://www.duchyofsomerset.co.uk/maiden-bradley/|work=The Duke of Somerset's Estates|accessdate=19 July 2013}}</ref> The house is a plain sto
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  • [[File:Etoncollegearms.svg|thumb|120px|Arms of Eton College: Sable, three lily-flowers argent on a chief per pale azure an ...resses' Conference school. Eton's history and influence have made Eton one of the most prestigious schools in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.m
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  • ...isionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=21123 Pertwood] at Visions of Britain web site</ref> It ceased to be a civil parish in 1885, and now has ...four of woodland were recorded. Pertwood later became a manor of the Earls of Gloucester, which it remained until the early 15th century.<ref name=vch/>
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  • |picture caption=Church of the Ascension, Southam ...[[Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway]], which runs through the outskirts of the village.
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  • ...village straddles the A38 Bridgwater-Bristol Road, about eight miles south of the county's major city, [[Bristol]], and close to [[Bristol Airport]]. At the foot of Sutton Hill a brook rises nearby and flows past Lye Hole and Cowslip Green
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  • |picture=Parish Church of St Pancras - Alton Pancras - geograph.org.uk - 887132.jpg ...l village in [[Dorset]]; a place which at the 2011 census had a population of 175 across the whole civil parish.
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  • |name=Bishop's Caundle |picture=Bishop's Caundle - geograph.org.uk - 380051.jpg
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  • ...ear the villages of [[Affpuddle]] and [[Tolpuddle]] and about 8 miles east of the county town, [[Dorchester]]. ...name from Brian de Turberville, who was lord of the manor during the reign of King Edward III. It falls within the Piddle Valley Conservation Area. and c
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  • |full name=The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin |church=Church of England
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  • [[File:Wessex.png|thumb|400px|Locations in Wessex, from ''The Wessex of Thomas Hardy'' by Bertram Windle, 1902, based on correspondence with Hardy] ...The vast majority of places lay in 'South Wessex': his fictional version of Dorset.
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  • ...western end of [[Blackmore Vale]]. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 470. ...Holnest to John Fitzjames, who was already lord of the neighbouring manor of Leweston. The Fitzjames family lived at Redlynch near Bruton, [[Somerset]].
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  • ...n published for South Perrott parish combined with the neighbouring parish of [[Chedington]]; the population in these areas was 367. ...n|first=George P. R.|authorlink=George Philip Rigney Pulman|title=The Book of the Axe|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans|location=London|year=18
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