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  • The parish stretches along the coast from 'The Coastguard Cottages' in [[Hele Bay]] toward the east and 4 miles along [[The Torrs]] to [[Lee Bay]] ...dominates the harbour and is the site of an Iron Age fortified settlement. In the built environment, the architectural-award-winning Landmark Theatre is
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  • ...n River]] about a mile northwest of [[Falmouth]]. The population was 7,166 in the 2001 census. ...erly overshadowed by nearby Falmouth, Penryn was once an important harbour in its own right throughout the mediæval period exporting granite and tin.
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  • |picture caption=Chesterfield Road in Woodseats ...ts''', is a village in [[Derbyshire]] that forms a suburb of [[Sheffield]] in neighbouring [[Yorkshire]]. The heart of the old village straddles Derbyshi
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  • ...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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  • ...tecture, the town having been rebuilt in the style after a disastrous fire in the eighteenth century.<ref>"[http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house ...ny dairy farms. The Latin word ''Forum'', meaning ''market'', was recorded in 1540.<ref>Mills, A. D., 1986. ''Dorset Place Names''. Ensign, Southampton.<
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  • '''Swanage''' is a coastal town in the south-east of [[Dorset]], stranding at the eastern end of the [[Isle of The town, originally a small port and fishing village flourished in the Victorian era, when it first became a significant quarrying port and la
    23 KB (3,764 words) - 11:05, 6 September 2018
  • '''Bishop Auckland''' is a historic market town in [[County Durham]], about 12 miles northwest of [[Darlington]] and 12 miles ...r sectors.<ref name="TNE200089" /> Today, the largest sector of employment in the town is manufacturing.
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  • '''Stonehouse''' is an industrial town in [[Gloucestershire]]. It is home to a number of factories, such as Dairy Cre Stonehouse was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] written in 1086. Its name is as it appears: a "stone house".
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  • ...is a town in western [[Wiltshire]], a fine place with traces of many ages in it back to a thousand years ago. It had a population of 9,326 at the 2001 The town bridge is an ancient bridge and has a rare bridge chapel on it. In later ages the chapel was used as the village lock-up, as an overnight cell
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  • |post town=Bath |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset
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  • |post town=Bath |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset
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  • |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset ...t]], found between [[Bristol]] and [[Bath]]. It had a population of 15,533 in 2001. It gives its name to the [[Keynsham Hundred]] of Somerset.
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  • '''Heywood''' is a town in [[Lancashire]], at tehe edge of the conurbation joining the South Lancashir ...became modern Heywood; an industrial town, until the decline of the mills in the mid-20th century.
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  • '''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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  • '''Heston''' is a village in [[Middlesex]] within the Greater London conurbation. It is contiguous with ...f [[Staines-upon-Thames|Staines]], between the ancient [[Roman road]] to [[Bath]], and the Uxbridge Road to [[Oxford]]. Another suggested etymology is Angl
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  • '''Calne''' is a small town in [[Wiltshire]], at the north-western extremity of the [[Marlborough Downs]]. ...r Marden]], the [[Wilts & Berks Canal]] and the A4 road 19 miles east of [[Bath]] and 6 miles east of [[Chippenham]]. According to the 2001, Calne's popula
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  • ...iles south of [[Bath]], 43 miles east of the [[county town]], [[Taunton]]. In the 2001 census, the population was given as 24,510. It gives its name to ...Every one of the true townsfolk must have fallen in the Leet at some point in their lives.
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  • '''Minehead''' is a seaside resort town in [[Somerset]], on the south bank of the [[Bristol Channel]], 21 miles north- ...as a port from pleasure steamers, and as a holiday resort, growing greatly in this form from the Edwardian era, and though the paddle steamers have gone,
    19 KB (3,060 words) - 08:34, 19 September 2019
  • '''Shepton Mallet''' is a small rural town in [[Somerset]], some 18 miles south of [[Bristol]] and 5 miles east of [[Well ...n Mallet Prison was Britain's oldest prison still in use until its closure in March 2013.
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  • ...]], 37 miles long and flowing through both Somerset and [[Dorset]], rising in the latter county. ...Parrett is in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around [[Chedington]] in Dorset. Flowing northwest through Somerset and the [[Somerset Levels]] to i
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