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• Hilston Park
  ...lose to the border with [[Herefordshire]]. The house and park are situated in the [[River Monnow|Monnow valley]], beside the B4347 road, eight miles by r ...sidential outdoor education centre run for the local education authorities in the county.
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• Aberthaw
  ...es not more than 50 ft. For a short distance east of Pleasant Harbour in East Aberthaw, there are wooded cliffs about 300 yards from the high-water The beach in front of the power station, The Leys, is near [[Gileston]] and West Abertha
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• Bolsover Castle
  ...tle]] in Derbyshire, and came under royal control in 1155. The site is now in the care of [[English Heritage]] and is a Grade I listed building and ...built by the Peverel family in the 12th century and became Crown property in 1155 when William Peverel the Younger died. The Ferrers family who were Ear
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• Cardiff Castle
  ...castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in Cardiff city centre in [[Glamorgan]]. ...ensive walls being erected. Further work was conducted by Richard de Clare in the second half of the 13th century.
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• Netley Abbey
  ...ate mediæval monastery in the village of [[Netley]] near [[Southampton]], in [[Hampshire]]. The abbey was founded in 1239 as a house for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Despite being a
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• Bristol Cathedral
  ...Church of England]] cathedral for the [[Diocese of Bristol]] and it stands in that city. ...Augustine's Abbey' but after the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became in 1542 the seat of the newly created Bishop of Bristol and the cathedral of t
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• Tintern Abbey
  ...hire and [[Gloucestershire]]. It was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain. Its ruins inspired William Wordsworth's poem "Lines written a few ...me, Tintern established two daughter houses, [[Kingswood Abbey|Kingswood]] in [[Gloucestershire]] (1139) and [[Tintern Abbey, County Wexford|Tintern Parv
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• Warkworth Castle
  ...le was considered "feeble", and was left undefended when the Scots invaded in 1173. ...arkworth, where he funded the strengthening of the garrison in 1319. Twice in 1327 the Scots besieged the castle without success.
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• Clun Castle
  ...the Norman conquest and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, with an extensive castle-guard system. ...after the Civil War Clun remained in poor condition until renovation work in the 1890s.
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• Compton Martin
  |county=Somerset |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset
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• Glastonbury Abbey
  {{county|Somerset}} ...he oldest, richest and most powerful of the abbeys in Britain, it now lies in ruins: the site and the ruins belong to a charitable trust, known as Glast
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• Bath Abbey
  |county=Somerset ...ch of the [[Church of England]] in the centre of the City of [[Bath]] in [[Somerset]]. Its origin, and the reason for its name, is as a mediæval Benedictine
  26 KB (4,143 words) - 18:20, 10 November 2019
• Wells Cathedral
  |county=Somerset '''Wells Cathedral''', which dominates the little city of [[Wells]] in [[Somerset]], is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells and cathedral of the [[Dioce
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• Chew Magna
  |county=Somerset |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset
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• Sandford, Devon
  '''Sandford''' is a village in [[Devon]], just a mile north of [[Crediton]], above the valley of the [[Riv ...Greek architecture and cob walls, thought to be the tallest of their kind in the country.<ref>http://www.devon.gov.uk/etched?url=etched/ixbin/hixclient.
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• Stanton Drew stone circles
  {{county|Somerset}} ...s not known but is thought to be between 3000 and 2000 BC, which places it in the Late Neolithic
  19 KB (3,009 words) - 22:53, 10 November 2015
• Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
  {{county|Somerset}} ...mbers in [[Somerset]], located near [[Wellow, Somerset|Wellow]], a village in the hills south of [[Bath]]. The barrow is an example of the Severn-Cotswo
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• Long Meg and Her Daughters
  ...circle north of [[Penrith]] in [[Cumberland]], close to [[Little Salkeld]] in the valley of the [[River Eden, Cumberland and Westmorland|River Eden]]. ...on Drew]] in Somerset, the [[Ring of Brodgar]] in Orkney and [[Newgrange]] in Meath.<ref name="Burl 2005 46"/>
  12 KB (1,976 words) - 17:46, 11 November 2015
• Hylton Castle
  ...'' is a ruined stone castle in the [[North Hylton]] area of [[Sunderland]] in [[County Durham]]. ...he principal seat of the Hylton family until the death of the last "baron" in 1746.<ref name="Fry">Fry, p.246</ref>
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• Holwell, Dorset
  |county 2=Somerset ...r=David Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2011|page=244}}</ref> In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 369<ref name=ONS/>
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