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  • ...ey]] and through and across [[the Weald]] deep into [[Sussex]]. Abandoned in the mid-19th Century, today the Wey and Arun is partially restored ...canal; it had a relatively short working life and was officially abandoned in 1871
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  • ...inghamshire]], some 2 miles south of [[Ollerton]], within the [[Dukeries]] in the north of the county. ...inally the site of a Cistercian abbey, it was converted to a country house in the 16th century after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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  • *[[Church of England]]: ...jor Walter Baskerville a Royalist cavalry officer was killed in a skirmish in Goldington.
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  • |picture caption=The Globe Inn in Linslade ...ly across the county border to join the two. The two towns form the joint civil parish of 'Leighton-Linslade', although they remain separate for ecclesiast
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  • |picture caption=The Baptist Chapel in Lower Stondon '''Stondon''' is civil parish and pair of villages in [[Bedfordshire]]. It contains of the hamlets of '''Lower Stondon''' and '''
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  • ...d 8 miles west of [[Wooler]] in Northumberland, 12 miles east of [[Kelso]] in Roxburghshire and 17 miles southwest of [[Berwick upon Tweed]]. The hamlet is on the northern edge of the Northumberland National Park in [[Glendale, Northumberland|Glendale]]. Kilham consists of a small group of
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  • '''Ruabon''' is a village and parish in [[Denbighshire]] located 4½ miles south of [[Wrexham]]. ...or stone urn containing cremated human remains dating from 2000 years BC. In 1917, the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow were discovered on the playi
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  • [[File:Roose Hundred - Pembrokeshire.svg|250px|thumb|The hundred of Roose in Pembrokeshire]] ...dary. It is the most populous of the hundreds, with a population of 42,398 in 2011.
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  • ...ed]]; and to the north by [[Cemais Hundred]]. It had a population of 7,746 in 2011. The hundred has its origins in the pre-Norman cantref of '''Deugleddyf'''.<ref>Charles, B. G., ''The Place
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  • ...red]] of [[Roose Hundred|Roose]], [[Pembrokeshire]]. The western part lies in the [[Pembrokeshire Coast]] National Park. Its population (2001) was 746. ...val times until 1905. Nolton Haven, on the border between the two ancient parishes, was a port from which the local anthracite was shipped. The area is now a
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  • '''Coley Park''' is a suburb of the town of [[Reading]] in [[Berkshire]]. It is largely built on the estate of a country house of the ...ishmap.php?x=-0.9791135787963867&y=51.44865812038599 | publisher=Church of England - A Church Near You | accessdate=2008-02-14}}</ref>
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  • ...ng]]. The village was described by Jerome K Jerome in his book ''Three Men in a Boat'' as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river". [[File:White Hart Hotel, Sonning-on-Thames, England-LCCN2002708106.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The Thames at Sonning]]
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  • ...Reading, and extends from the [[River Thames]] in the north to the A4 road in the south. ...and ''Tylehurst'' (16th century). The present spelling became commonplace in the 18th century.<ref name="BFHS" />
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  • '''Prestbury''' is a village in [[Cheshire]]. The parish of Prestbury is a long, narrow parish covering {{ At the time of the 2001 census, the civil parish had a population of 3,324.
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  • '''Bramhall''' is a village in northern [[Cheshire]] which has become a suburban village close by [[Stockp ...rl=http://menmedia.co.uk/stockportexpress/p/1083178|title=Happy to be home in Bramhall|work=Stockport Express|date=3 December 2008|last=Williams|first=Je
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  • '''Penrith Castle''' is a now-ruined mediæval castle in [[Penrith]], in [[Cumberland]]. It is a few miles to the west of the [[Lake District]] Nat ...tute of Historical Research |date=1848 |work=A Topographical Dictionary of England |accessdate=20 November 2014 }}</ref>
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  • ...ified river bridge in [[Great Britain]] with its gate tower still standing in place. It crosses the [[River Monnow]] some 500yds above its confluence wit [[File:Mona gate & bridge, Monmouthshire (3374979).jpg|thumb|Monnow Bridge in 1784]]
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  • ...ed for royal hunting before 1066, and remained the largest crown forest in England after [[New Forest]]. ...inderford]], [[Ruspidge]], and [[Drybrook]], together with a strip of land in the parish of [[English Bicknor]].<ref name=britishhistory>{{brithist|23264
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  • |picture caption=Bentworth in springtime ...h covers an area of 3,763 acres, of which about seven percent is woodland. In the 2011 census, Bentworth had a population of 553.
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  • '''Netley Marsh''' is a village in [[Hampshire]], at the head of [[Southampton Water]] close to the town of [[ ...en an invading Saxon army, under Cerdic and a British army under Natanleod in the year 508 and to have taken its name from the British prince.<ref>[http:
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