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  • ...ber, for one night, the village centre used to close to traffic to allow a Victorian Night & Christmas Market to take place, in 2010 this event moved to the Mar ...kridge parish, which was also the main unit of local government until late Victorian times.
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  • ...a variety of houses, from early timber-framed buildings to the remnants of Victorian prosperity. Former almshouses used to house the Halesworth & District Museu ...and restoration taking place in the late 19th century. At the time of the restoration, some evidence was uncovered of a round-tower church on the site. The carve
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  • ...ce previously had her ears cut off for likening queen Mary to Jezebel. The restoration of the reformation under Elizabeth I helped Woodbridge industries such as w **[http://www.stjohnswoodbridge.org.uk/ St John's], a Victorian church on St John's Hill
    8 KB (1,196 words) - 13:00, 3 May 2018
  • ...ich display evidence of antiquity. The houses are mainly [[Victorian house|Victorian]] in character with more modern residential developments around the origina ...s back to the early 15th century, but substantially rebuilt in a Victorian restoration
    12 KB (1,933 words) - 22:00, 15 August 2013
  • ...arrival of the railway in 1840 - prepared the way for Shoreham's rise as a Victorian sea port, with several shipyards and an active coasting trade. Shoreham Har ...he structure is now too weak to carry vehicles, but it underwent extensive restoration and was officially re-opened for pedestrians on 23 October 2008 by the Duke
    7 KB (1,175 words) - 20:27, 22 August 2013
  • ...e Baptist parish church is nearly 800 years old, but underwent a Victorian restoration in the 19th century.<ref name="Churches">{{cite web |url=http://www.parish.
    34 KB (5,282 words) - 13:16, 13 October 2016
  • ...was much restored after the Restoration in 1660, and in a major Victorian restoration from 1864-75.
    28 KB (3,657 words) - 20:08, 16 October 2018
  • ...tourist destination from the 18th century onwards, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir Walter Scott's novel ''Kenilworth'' ...airs to the castle and its grounds, including the planting of gardens, the restoration of fish-ponds and improvement to the game park.<ref>Westby-Gibson, p. 459</
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  • ...8, the mansion was closed to the public while the National Trust undertook restoration work, involving the dismantling of the façade to replace metal connectors ...astle Coole both prior to and following their four years in Australia, the Victorian Bedroom commemorates the connection.
    9 KB (1,518 words) - 17:49, 1 February 2016
  • ...ed gardens were created. The gardens are currently undergoing a process of restoration. ===Restoration===
    7 KB (1,156 words) - 19:08, 13 May 2019
  • {{quote|Behind a gloomy Victorian shrubbery there's a gloomy Victorian mansion, but behind that lurks one of the most extraordinary gardens in Bri Bateman bought specimens brought back by the great Victorian plant-hunters and became an expert on orchids.
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  • ...old for £995,000 and this paid for the restoration work on the house. The restoration was completed on 27 June 1977 when Charles, Prince of Wales officially open ...rdens in Britain. The gardens contain rare fruit trees, a canal, a pond, a Victorian era parterre, and are home to an a National Plant Collection of ''Hedera''
    7 KB (1,092 words) - 22:53, 29 January 2014
  • ...that a beacon may have adorned the roof. The present cross on the roof is Victorian.
    11 KB (1,858 words) - 10:50, 5 February 2019
  • ...0s, the architect Anthony Salvin was employed to remodel the castle to fit Victorian tastes; this work extensively changed the appearance of Dunster to make it ===Civil War and Restoration===
    24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:42, 9 August 2015
  • ...bought by the Victorian industrialist William Armstrong, who completed the restoration. ...s feature the Armstrong and Aviation Artefacts Museum, with exhibits about Victorian industrialist William Armstrong and Armstrong Whitworth, the manufacturing
    6 KB (896 words) - 21:54, 18 September 2019
  • ...tanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, bought it and immediately set about its restoration, filling it with furnishings and paintings from her ancestral home, Holme L ...d 'Making Faces: 18th century Style'. Outside the main building there is a Victorian laundry and a walled garden with vegetable planting, the produce from which
    4 KB (653 words) - 22:00, 18 September 2019
  • ...which became the church bell-tower. The church was heavily restored in the Victorian period. St Mary serves the local population and the army, and is the churc ===Neglect and restoration===
    17 KB (2,873 words) - 10:21, 30 January 2021
  • ...dian style and the Roman Cinquecento.<ref>Crathorne, 1995, p.29.</ref> The Victorian three-story mansion sits on a brick terrace or viewing platform 400 feet lo ...escribed by the architectural critic Nicholas Pevsner as "''the epitome of Victorian flamboyance and assertiveness''."<ref>Pevsner, N. ''The Buildings of Englan
    34 KB (5,529 words) - 07:05, 19 September 2019
  • ...only surviving mediæval battlements at the Tower of London (the rest are Victorian replacements).<ref>{{harvnb|Parnell|1993|pp=43–44}}</ref> A new {{convert ...red when Henry VI was captured at the Battle of Northampton. After a brief restoration, Henry was imprisoned in the Tower, where he was probably murdered.<ref nam
    70 KB (11,200 words) - 11:15, 10 December 2022
  • ===Georgian and Victorian Times=== The village grew considerably during the Georgian and Victorian times. As well as many houses and several farms, a new primary school (now
    24 KB (3,948 words) - 10:21, 30 January 2021

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