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  • ..., home to the Epsom Derby. It is its own village but the townscape of the great conurbation in north-eastern Surrey reaches this far, but if Tadworth can b ...[[Epsom]], [[Burgh Heath]], [[Banstead]], [[Reigate]] and [[Sutton, Surrey|Sutton]].
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  • ...town in [[Surrey]] within the metropolitan conurbation but bounded by the great green space of [[Wimbledon Common]] which, along with the village's own qua ...ng of a new railway branch line from Wimbledon to Sutton. The Wimbledon to Sutton line opened in 1930.
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  • ...he Ipswich Museum houses replicas of the Roman Mildenhall Treasure and the Sutton Hoo treasure, the latter taken from the ship burial believed to be Rædwald ...Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1630s and what has become known as the Great Migration.<ref>Thompson, Roger, Mobility & Migration, East Anglian Founders
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  • ...e=1 April 2008|publisher=Ian West and Tonya West|year=2008|work=Geology of Great Britain—an Introduction with Geological Maps (from the website of Southam ...uthor=Peter Allen|title=Crawley New Town in old photographs|publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing|location=Stroud|isbn=0-7509-0472-0|year=1993|ref=harv}}
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  • ...Brunel chose Swindon as the site for the railway works he planned for the Great Western Railway. Eastwards towards London, the line was gently graded, whil ...Life in a railway factory, first published 1915, 2007 edition published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 978-0-7509-4660-5</ref>
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  • |[[Sutton, Sussex|Sutton]] ...st days in the Downs, each of whom tells a tale out of Sussex folklore and great themes of British history, as seen from a Sussex perspective.
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  • ...the non-conformist denominations bursting from the Victorian Revival. The great Irish immigration of the nineteenth century brought Roman Catholic churches ...1,500 men in 1929.<ref name="GG">{{citation |title=The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter VI
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  • ...y''' is a island belonging to [[Devon]], lying 12 miles off the coast of [[Great Britain]] in the [[Bristol Channel]], approximately one third of the distan ...nment as a base for troops, and his son Sir Aubrey Thomas de Vere also had great difficult in securing any profit from the property. The tenants came from S
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  • |picture caption=North Hill from Great Malvern Priory The eastern flank of the hill lies directly behind Worcester road in [[Great Malvern]] from where its summit is a brisk 15 – 20 minutes steep walk fro
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  • ...[[Bluntisham]] and served as the inland port for the latter on the River [[Great Ouse]]. However Earith has grown and is now the equal of Bluntisham. The v ...to [[Denver|Denver Sluice]] near [[Downham Market]], where they rejoin the Great Ouse.
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  • ...stretch of the Cherwell between Hay's bridge and a ford at Slat Mill near Great Bourton. King Charles's forces beat the Parliamentarian army. On Cropredy B ...e river passes an industrial estate at Twyford Mill before reaching King's Sutton, a village noted for the splendid lofty spire on its church which overlooks
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  • ...aces of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] property at [[Sutton-at-Hone]], to the south of the town, is a remaining piece of that history. ...also had their place. Fulling was another: the cleansing of wool needed a great deal of water, which the river could provide. This led to other water-based
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  • ...past [[Eynsford]], [[Farningham]], [[Horton Kirby]], [[South Darenth]], [[Sutton-at-Hone]], [[Darenth]], and then to the large town of [[Dartford]]. *{{getmap|TQ559696|Frog Lane Mill}}, Sutton at Hone: Corn mill (19th C). Ceased working by 1914, the upper storeys demo
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  • |picture='Riverside Cottage', old Great North Road, Sibson - geograph.org.uk - 1563719.jpg ...mptonshire are broad meadows and the village of [[Sutton, Northamptonshire|Sutton]].
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  • The village was once on the Great North Road, but in place of that road now the A1M slices unforgivingly past ...ile east of the Great North Road near the ford by which one may cross to [[Sutton, Northamptonshire]].
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  • ...ft]] from the north. This tributary, the Yelvertoft Nene, is formed from a great many streams. The river now flows towards Northampton, passing through [[Fl ...ith flood plains, lakes, pools and mature gravel pits on either bank. At [[Great Billing]] is Billing Aquadrome, a popular caravan and camping park with lei
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  • [[File:Great Fen - geograph.org.uk - 491613.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Fen by Prickwillow ...ying area, much of it below sea level, a naturally marshy region. Once the Great Fen was a vast landscape of marshes, bogs and reeds, with seasonal fields a
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  • ...tafford]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]], [[Stourbridge]], [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[Category:Great Britain]]
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  • ...rt of the [[United Kingdom]] taking up the greater part of the island of [[Great Britain]], with 39 of the [[counties of the United Kingdom]] (not counting ...albeit nothing compared with the [[Highlands]], while in the southeast of Great Britain the geography is subsumed beneath urban development and its infrast
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  • '''East Anglia''' is a region of eastern [[Great Britain]], named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the E ...as, until the draining of the [[Great Fen]], separated physically, for the Great Fen marked its western edge, allowing entry to East Anglia only from the so
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