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• Bakewell
  ...l market town in the hills of [[Derbyshire]]. It is the only town included in the [[Peak District]] National Park, and is most famous for its local confe ...north of the [[county town]], [[Derby]], and thirteen miles southwest of [[Sheffield]]. Its fellow Peak Distruict town, [[Buxton]], stands to the west.
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• Dronfield
  ...ties of Dronfield, [[Dronfield Woodhouse]] and [[Coal Aston]]. It is sited in the valley of the small [[River Drone]], with easy access to the [[Peak Dis ...e before the 1086 [[Domesday Book]], and has a 12th-century parish church. In 1662 King Charles II granted the town a market, although this later ceased.
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• Woodseats
  |picture caption=Chesterfield Road in Woodseats |LG district=Sheffield
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• Glossop
  ...Peak District National Park". It had a total resident population of 32,428 in 2001 according to the census of that year. ...ing, Glossop rapidly expanded in the late 18th century when it specialised in the production and printing of calico, a coarse cotton. Under the benign pa
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• New Mills
  ...by the [[River Goyt]]; indeed Torr Vale Road and all of Newtown are across in Cheshire. New Mills is at the meeting of the rivers [[River Goyt|Goyt]] an ...three railway lines and the A6 trunk road. Redundant mills were bought up in the mid-twentieth century by a children's sweet manufacturer. New Mills was
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  ...gation route from the [[Bristol Channel]] in the west to the [[North Sea]] in the east. ...er decades of dereliction and much restoration work, it was fully reopened in 1990. The Kennet and Avon Canal has been developed as a popular heritage to
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• Pevsner Architectural Guides
  ...51 and 1974. The series was then extended to the restr of the Britih Isles in the late 1970s. The Scottish and Irish guides were incomplete as of summer ...us Pevsner found that the study of architectural history had little status in academic circles, and that the amount of information available, especially
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• Cape Cornwall
  ...Cape Cornwall Mine. British Mining No 79. Northern Mine Research Society. Sheffield. pp.111. ISBN – 13: 978-0-901450-60-9.</ref> the cartographers' careful m ...of only two capes in the [[British Isles]]; the other being [[Cape Wrath]] in [[Sutherland]].
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• Raise (fell)
  |picture=Ghostly sheep in the dawn - geograph.org.uk - 1081285.jpg ...[[Lake District]]. It stands on the main spine of the [[Helvellyn]] range in the Eastern Fells, between [[Thirlmere]] and [[Ullswater]].
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• Thaxted
  '''Thaxted''' is a town in the green heart of [[Essex]], a modest place of some 2,500 souls. ...entre of cutlery manufacture, Thaxted went into decline with the rise of [[Sheffield]] as a major industrial centre.
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• Shepshed
  '''Shepshed''' is a small town in [[Leicestershire]], with a population of around 14,000. ...ead'''. Its name in any form comes from the village's heavily involvement in the woollen industry.
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• Brigg
  |picture=Crowds in Wrawby Street, Brigg.jpg ...]] in the [[North Riding of Lindsey]]. The town had a population of 5,076 in 2,213 households recorded at the 2001 census.
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• River Don, Yorkshire
  ...k Street Bridge.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Don and the Block Street Bridge, Sheffield]] ...character; at first a bright river of the fine Yorkshire countryside, and in its lower stretches an industrial river; one that has supplied power and wa
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• Spalding
  '''Spalding''' is a market town on the [[River Welland]] in [[Holland]], [[Lincolnshire]]. It has a recorded population of 28,722 as at ...2013-05-29}}</ref> Since 2002 it has also held an annual Pumpkin Festival in October to celebrate its produce.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pumpkinpara
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• Blakeney Point
  ...comprises shingle and sand dunes, while the wider nature reserve and land in the National Trust's ownership include the coastal salt marshes, tidal mudf ...rbours, but land reclamation schemes starting in the 17th century resulted in the silting up of the river channels.
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• Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
  '''Eastwood''' is a former coal mining town in [[Nottinghamshire]], with a population of over 18,000. It is eight miles n Eastwood is listed in [[Domesday Book]]. It expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution. T
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• Harlington, Middlesex
  '''Harlington''' is a village in [[Middlesex]] that lies in the south-west of the Greater London conurbation. It lies to the south of [ The place-name ''Harlington'' is recorded in Anglo-Saxon as ''Hygereding tun'': "Hygerǣd's people's farmstead".
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• Orford Castle
  ...described by historian R. Allen Brown as "one of the most remarkable keeps in England", is of a unique design and probably based on Byzantine architectur ...rford]], near Framlingham, and construction work began in 1165, concluding in 1173.<ref>Brown (1962), pp.53, 191.</ref>The Orford site was around two mil
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• Dinnington, Yorkshire
  |post town=Sheffield ...f Yorkshire]], in the very south of the county, roughly equidistant from [[Sheffield]] and [[Rotherham]], and roughly five miles from [[Worksop]].
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• Normanton, Yorkshire
  '''Normanton''' is a town in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding]] of [[Yorkshire]], standing nor ...(land) 6 furlongs in length and 1 in breadth. The whole of this land lies in the soc of Wachefelt, except the Church. T.R.E. it was worth 12s: now (it i
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