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• Frilford
  ...sner, 1966, page 144</ref> A further complex of remains, including a Roman shrine and amphitheatre, is often referred to as being in Frilford but lies to the
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• Marcham
  ...r stone building, possibly a shrine, was built on the site of the Iron Age shrine.<ref>Pevsner, 1966, page 147</ref> The temple seems to have remained in use
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• Tain
  ...uthac. He was an early Christian figure, perhaps 8th or 9th century, whose shrine had become so important by 1066 that it resulted in the royal charter. ...d a saint by the mediæval Church in 1419 and by the later Middle Ages his shrine was established as one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Scotla
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• Bath
  ...dence shows that the site of the Roman Baths' main spring was treated as a shrine by the Iron Age Britons.<ref name="somersettourguide">{{cite web |url=http: ...nd founded a town based upon the hot springs. The Britons dedicated their shrine to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Thus the to
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• Glastonbury
  ...nks|url=http://www.glastonburyshrine.co.uk/monks.htm|publisher=Glastonbury Shrine|accessdate=4 July 2010}}</ref> Sharpham Park passed to Edward Seymour, brot
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• Ipswich
  ...2.</ref><ref>Malster 2000, 43–47, 63–67.</ref> At the Reformation, the shrine was demolished and the idol was taken away to London to be burned.
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• Bury St Edmunds
  ...ains of an abbey, surrounded by the Abbey Gardens, a park. The abbey was a shrine to Saint Edmund, the King of the East Angles. The abbey was sacked by the ...owed most of its early celebrity to the reputed miracles performed at the shrine of the martyr king. The town grew around Bury St Edmunds Abbey, a site of p
  15 KB (2,401 words) - 13:35, 27 January 2016
• Chichester
  ...n as Chichester Cathedral, was founded in the 11th century. It contains a shrine to Saint Richard of Chichester, whose festival day has been adopted as the
  15 KB (2,377 words) - 10:28, 30 March 2016
• River Yeo (Lapford)
  ...r called the '''Nymet''', thought to be an Old Welsh word perhaps meaning 'shrine'. Several Nymet place-names remain in the area, including [[Nymet Tracey]]
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• Newton Stewart
  ...egend, Robert the Bruce forded the river here while on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Ninian at [[Whithorn]] in 1329. A bridge was built here in 1745 but
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• Whithorn
  ...ed aisleless nave and vaults at the former eastern end which once held the shrine of St Ninian, one of mediæval Scotland's major pilgrimage destinations. Ki The pilgrimages were forbidden at the Reformation and the shrine destroyed. The relics over which the superstitious pilgrims has prayed wer
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• St Michael's Mount
  ...idance of ships. Chapel Rock, on the beach, marks the site of a mediæval shrine that was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, where pilgrims paused to worship bef
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• St Helen's, Isles of Scilly
  ...covered decorated ridge-tiles and parts of the 12th century Purbeck Marble shrine that is thought to have once housed Saint Elidius relics.<ref>{{cite web|ur
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• Eastern Isles, Isles of Scilly
  ...trance graves are found there, and also Iron Age field systems and a Roman shrine on Nornour.<ref name=Ratcliffe>{{cite book|last=Ratcliffe|first=Jeanette|ti
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• Europa Point
  ...flat area and occupied by a few houses, a playing field, a Roman Catholic shrine and a mosque, with a lighthouse on the very headland. On a clear day, disti ...three notable buildings, the Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque, the Roman Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of Europe, and the Europe Point Lighthouse.
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• Brandon Mountain
  File:Shrine at the base of Brandon mountain - geograph.org.uk - 219278.jpg|Shrine at the foot of the mountain
  6 KB (978 words) - 22:54, 15 November 2017
• Stonehenge
  ...uth University have suggested that Stonehenge was a place of healing, or a shrine for healing. They argue that this accounts for the high number of burials i
  53 KB (8,161 words) - 12:19, 18 May 2016
• Hoddesdon
  ....<ref name=vch/> The chapel was used in the Middle Ages by pilgrims to the shrine at [[Little Walsingham]].<ref name=garside/>
  7 KB (1,141 words) - 10:11, 18 March 2016
• Park Street, Hertfordshire
  ...'s Rest", which was a series of places to house the pilgrims to St Alban's shrine in the 1600s.
  7 KB (1,239 words) - 18:47, 27 January 2016
• Diocese of Lichfield
  ...t a new church to house the bones of [[St Chad]] which had become a sacred shrine to many pilgrims when he died in 672. Starting in 1085 and continuing thro
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