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• Chelsea
  ...ent town in [[Middlesex]] forming part of the metropolis south-west of the city of [[Westminster]]. It is bounded to the south by the [[River Thames]]. Its ...Even so, Chelsea remained rural and served London to the east as a market garden, a trade that continued until the 19th-century development boom which cause
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• Canning Town
  ...housing schemes followed the urban planning principles of the garden city movement. As demand for housing grew the first high rise buildings were built in Can
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• Shortstown
  ...verges, hedges and trees. The design was influenced by the arts and crafts movement, based on an 'ideal' English style cottage concept, with steeply pitched an
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• Kedleston Hall
  ...At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with ...ano nobile being the tallest. Adam's design for this facade contains huge "movement" and has a delicate almost fragile quality.
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• Brownsea Island
  ...ganised by Baden-Powell and which marked the visible birth of the scouting movement. Access is by public ferry or private boat; in 2002 the island received 105 ...and in 1654.<ref>Legg (p.33)</ref> Sir Robert Clayton, a Lord Mayor of the City of London and wealthy merchant became owner in the mid-1650s and after his
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• Tower of London
  ...er and its immediate vicinity were excluded from the authority of both the city and the county magistrates as "the Tower Liberties". ...rapher, William of Poitiers, "certain fortifications were completed in the city against the restlessness of the huge and brutal populace. For he [William]
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• University of Cambridge
  |city=Cambridge ...eges and six academic schools and attendant institutions in and around the City of [[Cambridge]], in [[Cambridgeshire]].
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• Rochester Castle
  ...It was during this conflict that the castle first saw military action; the city and castle were besieged after Odo made Rochester a headquarters for the re ...II. Rebel armies led by Simon de Montfort and Gilbert de Clare entered the city and set about trying to capture the castle. Again the castle's defenders re
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• Windsor Castle
  ...zon, an image of tall towers and battlements influenced by the picturesque movement of the late 18th century.<ref name=RobinsonP92>Robinson, p.92</ref> The cur ...se rooms take the fluid, playful aspects of this mid-18th-century artistic movement, including many original pieces of Louis XV decoration, but project them on
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• Auchterhouse
  ...ey Steading}}</ref><ref>{{britlist|6480|Balbeuchley House Including Walled Garden, Boundary Wall and Gateposts}}</ref> The farmhouse at Pitpointie, dated 18 ...e from local quarries provided building material for the rapidly expanding city. In addition, 31,000 passengers were being carried by 1833. In 1834 a loc
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• Blenheim Palace
  ...l, the true monument and home to a great warrior. Piercing the windowless, city-like curtain wall of the east court is the great East Gate, a monumental tr ...left|thumb|300px|Blenheim Palace, looking across the east facade's Italian garden to the orangery]]
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• Netley Abbey
  ...ttraction, and provided inspiration to poets and artists of the Romantic]] movement. ...ents%20in%20Southampton_tcm46-161791.pdf |format=PDF|publisher=Southampton City Council}}. Retrieved on 15&nbsp;July 2008.</ref>
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• Manchester Airport
  The terminals are {{convert|7.5|nmi|mi}} southwest of [[Manchester]] city centre. ...and a railway station which provides direct rail connections to Manchester city centre and to the cities of [[Yorkshire]] and the north.
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• Belgrave Hall
  |picture caption=Belgrave Hall: the garden front ...s merchant's country residence, it is today used as a museum, owned by the city council.
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• University of Oxford
  |city=Oxford ...d]], its colleges spread all across the heart of the city, and shaping the city around them. While having no known date of foundation, there is evidence of
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• Tyntesfield
  ...centuated the building's mediæval monastical air so beloved by the Oxford Movement's devotees. When completed, the ecclesiastical design was reinforced by a d ...the main central part of the Estate which comprises the house, the kitchen garden, and the park, and sold off additional lands. The resultant preserved house
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• Whiteabbey
  ...Road, remains undeveloped. It can be viewed from the adjacent Abbots Cross Garden Village. The {{map|J34978198|site of the abbey}} is designated as a Schedul ...st harbour was widened and straightened allowing larger ships to reach the city directly.
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• Red House, Bexleyheath
  |picture caption=Red House from the garden ...eflecting an early example of what came to be known as the Arts and Crafts movement.
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• Metro-Land
  ...the mainline railway termini at Paddington, Euston and King's Cross to the City, and when, on 10 January 1863, this line opened with gas-lit wooden carriag ...the Cedars Estate at [[Rickmansworth]] and create places such as [[Harrow Garden Village]].{{sfn|Green|1987|p=43}}{{sfn|Jackson|1986|pp=241–242}}
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• Chester Cathedral
  |city=Chester ...hedral church of the [[Diocese of Chester]]. It stands in the heart of the City of [[Chester]], county town of [[Cheshire]].
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