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  • The '''Clent Hills''' are a range of modest hills in north-eastern [[Worcestershire]]. They lie 10 miles south-west of [[Birmin The main hills of the range, in order from north-west to south-east, are:
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  • ...of the southwest, along with [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]] and [[Bodmin Moor]] in [[Cornwall]]. ...Park is {{convert|692.8|km2|mi2|0|x}}, of which 71% is in Somerset and 29% in Devon.<ref name="exmoor-nationalpark1">{{cite web|url=http://www.exmoor-nat
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  • ...fort, Sustrans were aided by a £42.5&nbsp;million National Lottery grant. In 2005 it was used for over 230 million trips. ...s, disused railways, minor roads, canal towpaths and traffic-calmed routes in towns and cities.
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  • '''Badby''' is a village in [[Northamptonshire]]. It stands in the west of the county and is one of its highest villages, for close by is ...the {{brithist|113244#s2|Lutterworth-Daventry-Banbury turnpike}} approved in 1765. The parish is bisected west to east, at about {{convert|395|ft|m|x|0
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  • ...[[Great Ouse]], which rises within the parish. There are two small hamlets in the parish, [[Crowfield, Northamptonshire|Crowfield]] and [[Pimlico, Northa ...of the church which supplied the limestone for many of the older buildings in the village. There are the remains of a very large fish pond south of the c
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  • '''Hatley''' in [[Cambridgeshire]] consists of two hamlets barely half a mile apart: ...the southwest is [[Cockayne Hatley]], unlinked to its namesakes except by footpaths.
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  • ...d near the railway station after the Eastern Union Railway opened its line in 1846. ...at Ouse Catchment Board, locks at Barton Mills and Icklingham were rebuilt in the 1960s, but were isolated when the A11 road bridge was lowered soon afte
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  • ...le:Oxo Tower London 2.JPG|right|thumb|200px|The path beneath the OXO Tower in metropolitan Surrey]] ...n [[Gloucestershire]] to the Thames Barrier at [[Charlton, Kent|Charlton]] in [[Kent]]. It is about 184 miles long.
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  • ...r Cadley - geograph.org.uk - 1369331.jpg|right|thumb|300px|An old oak tree in the Savernake Forest]] ...avernake Forest - geograph.org.uk - 546149.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Young doe in the forest]]
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  • ...n where he acted and wrote his plays and his house, wife and children back in Stratford".<ref>[http://www.shakespearesway.org/ The Shakespeare's Way Asso ...railhead is Shakespeare's Birthplace; the house in which the Bard was born in the middle of Stratford.
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  • '''Carn Brea''' is a hill above [[Redruth]] and [[Camborne]] in [[Cornwall]], and also the name of a civil parish of 8,000 souls. The summ ...parish of [[St Keverne]]. This further suggests a complex economic network in the area.<ref>{{cite web|last=St. Keverne Local History Society|title=The P
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  • ...Mediæval pilgrim route between Winchester and the shrine of Thomas Becket in [[Canterbury]], but the reality is more modern, prosaic and eccentric. ...f the Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century and has become established in the public imagination since then.
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  • '''Welbeck Abbey''' in the [[Dukeries]] in northern [[Nottinghamshire]] is a grand country house, long the seat of the ...es sold to create the Welbeck Estate; one of four contiguous ducal estates in northern Nottinghamshire. The house is a grade I listed building.
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  • '''Long Melford''' is a large village of delightful aspect in [[Suffolk]], on the border with [[Essex]], which is marked by the [[River S ...[[Bury St Edmunds]] is about 14 miles to the north; [[Colchester]] across in Essex lies 16 miles to the south.
    12 KB (1,965 words) - 21:25, 18 July 2015
  • ...dshire]] and [[Northamptonshire]] with [[Stamford]] just across the border in [[Lincolnshire]].<ref>[http://www.welford.org/jurassicway.html jurassicway< ...d]] into Lincolnshire on the Town Meadows at the edge of the town, running in the latter county for a little under a mile.
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  • '''Bourton-on-the-Water''' is a village and parish in [[Gloucestershire]] that lies on a wide flat vale within the [[Cotswolds]] ...almost every building is now of 17th century origin. The houses and shops in the village are constructed of the yellow limestone characteristic of the [
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  • |picture caption=Footpaths near Iver '''Iver''' is a village in the south-east corner of [[Buckinghamshire]], at the edge of the [[Chiltern
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  • '''Cremyll''' is a small coastal village in south-east [[Cornwall]], on the [[Rame Peninsula]] facing [[Plymouth Sound] ...''Essays in Cornish History'', edited by A. L. Rowse and M. I. Henderson. Oxford: Clarendon Press; pp. 163-67</ref>
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  • '''South Luffenham''' is a village and parish in the hundred of [[Wrandike Hundred|Wrandike]], [[Rutland]]. The population o ...ely on the north side of the A6121 road from [[Uppingham]] to [[Stamford]] in neighbouring [[Lincolnshire]]. It is divided into two by a small stream, th
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  • '''Pendeen''' is a village on the [[Penwith]] peninsula in far western [[Cornwall]], three miles north-northeast of [[St Just]] and se ...ose to the [[South West Coast Path]] and in addition has a number of local footpaths for exploring the surroundings.
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