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  • '''Grotton''' is a relatively wealthy hamlet in [[Saddleworth]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Grotton is a suburb ...dings date from the 18th century, the urbanisation of Grotton broadly took place following the Industrial Revolution; Grotton effectively became an upmarket
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  • '''Heights''' is a hamlet in [[Saddleworth]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. It is directly nort It has remained a tiny Yorkshire hamlet with little more than a pub, the Royal Oak, a scattering of houses, the par
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  • '''Kitters Green''' developed as a separate hamlet by Manor House. The land between Kitters Green and Abbots Langley was bough The recent Katherine Place development has brought in some high class retailers to the centre and was
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  • |picture caption=Path to Harwell, just north of the hamlet ...gh only a small settlement, historically Harwell had a separate manor. The hamlet had a population of 112 people in the mid 19th century and the Corporation
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  • '''Steeple Gidding''' is a tiny hamlet in [[Huntingdonshire]], near [[Sawtry]] and about 10 miles northeast of [[H ...the chancel, nave and aisle were restored. Restoration of the tower took place in 1899.<ref>{{Citation | url =http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/Steeple
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  • ...charter it was given estates which included that of ''Ecga Ham'' ("Ecga's hamlet"), from which the name "Egham" comes. Egham at one time held horse races which took place at the Runnymede meadow, which interfered with the Inclosure Act of 1814 (5
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  • ...irectory of Monmouthshire, 1901]</ref> albeit that the Chronicle states no place nor outcome of the fight.<ref>{{ASC|Peterborough|743}} ''Her Æþelbald Myr Devauden and the nearby hamlet of Fedw or Veddw (from Welsh ''Y fedw'', birch grove) were originally clust
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  • ...007|url=http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/eastbourne/news/2007/october/sunniest-place|accessdate=5 May 2008}}</ref> ...g the sunniest place in Britain too, using different criteria of "sunniest place".
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  • ...anctuary to the land. The pool where the drowning is alleged to have taken place is still known locally as "The Droont Pool". However, it should be borne in ...t is referred to as "Henderleithen", and at this point it is recorded as a hamlet within the Parish of Traquair, which with its major baronial house, was cen
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  • ...19th century maps, although William Roy’s 1750 map notes "Cottbrig" as a hamlet in the Old Monkland area. One source states “Coatbridge” is either deri ...d by the Colt family, sometimes known as Coats, and their estate generated place-names such as Coatbridge, Coatdyke, Coathill and Coatbank. Drummond and Sm
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  • ...ds in around 1652, although the settlement was probably little more than a hamlet at that time. The town was a burgh from 1865 until it merged with the burg ...’s headquarters building. A number of pantomimes and musicals have taken place in the centre’s large concert hall.
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  • ...he north. Denton is but a hamlet, with approximately 12 houses; a peaceful place surrounded by farmland.
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  • ...e as ''Wolinstede''. This suggests an origin in the Old English 'Wolcen's place'', though this Wolcen, if the name is correct, is not otherwise known to hi ...to St Mary. The flèch-capped chapel and the gables compose a very pretty hamlet.
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  • ...village, is three and a half acres of open space where regular events take place throughout the summer months. Within a few minutes walk of the built-up are ...', probably derived from a lost original ''Hæferices ham'' ("Hæferick's Hamlet").
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  • '''Thrupp''' is a hamlet just north of [[Kidlington]] in [[Oxfordshire]]. It is beside the Oxford Ca ...demolished most of it, and built a row of cottages beside the canal in its place. They used to be called Salt Row, and one historian suggests that they serv
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  • In May 2007 Channel 4's Time Team came to the hamlet of [[Allasdale]] to investigate the exposed remains of Bronze Age burials a ...it has gone on to become a movement, now with 42 other ''feisean'' taking place every year throughout the land.
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  • ...eath in 934. The Halliman Skerries are named for him and his cave became a place of pilgrimage right up to the 16th Century. In the Middle Ages, Stotfield was primarily a farm hamlet with small scale fishing being carried out. The fishing gradually became m
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  • ...]] and [[Faringdon]], 9 miles southwest of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of [[Duxford, Berkshire|Duxford]]. ...Mills, A.D. |authorlink=|coauthors=Room, A. |title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=
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  • The hamlet of ‘’’Milton Hill’’’ is found a little south of Milton itself, .../dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Milton&DoveID=MILTON+++O |title=Place: Milton S Blaise |author=|date=|work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |
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  • ...tural Guides#Buildings of England|The Buildings of England]] |edition=2nd |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-0710-26-4 |page=167}}</re ...ilmed at Chilton Lodge which lies between Chilton Foliat and the Berkshire hamlet of [[Leverton, Berkshire|Leverton]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Harry Dodson, g
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