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  • ...ills, Anthony David (2001). ''Dictionary of London Place Names''. [[Oxford University Press]]. ISBN 0-19-280106-6</ref> ...ran south through Ruislip village as Bury Street and continued through the open fields as Down Barns Road (now West End Road) to West End in [[Northolt]].<
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  • ...ng's had wished to also present the wood as a gift but was required by the University and Colleges Act to receive payment as it was the trustee of the land. Midd ...working farm until the 1930s, the farm was let by King's College of the [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], the owners of the land from the Reformation until
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  • ...linked with the oldest Roman Catholic university in the country, St Mary's University, Twickenham. In the south, in Strawberry Hill, lies St Mary's University, historically specialising in sports studies, teacher training, religious s
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  • ...ttp://bucks.ac.uk/about_us/ |title=About us |publisher=Buckinghamshire New University |year=2013 |accessdate=31 March 2013}}.</ref> The town is close to the boun ...ecame subject to heavy vandalism.<ref>Sherwood 2007, p. 72.</ref> Uxbridge open-air pool was fully refurbished during 2009 and re-opened in May 2010. Added
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  • ...9. The Alexandra Palace was then used for the production of joint BBC/Open University programmes for a while, but all OU programmes are now produced in [[Milton *Middlesex University has a halls of residence for 161 students in Wood Green.<ref>[http://www.md
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  • '''St Andrews''' is a university town and royal burgh on the east coast of Fife. The town is named after Sai ...us links (acquired by the town in 1894) is the most frequent venue for The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships. Visitors trave
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  • ...d providing local militia and volunteer drafts for the army. When [[Oxford University]] formed a regiment in 1798, John Coker was elected Colonel. ...tps://data.bus-data.dft.gov.uk/timetable/category/dataset/1654/ |title=Bus Open Data |publisher=Department for Transport |access-date=10 January 2021}}</re
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  • ...rt of the name is derived from the Old English "feld", meaning 'field' or 'open country'. ...prises a mixture of natural deciduous woodland, coniferous plantations and open heathland. There are a number of visitor centres, museums and way-marked pa
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  • ...584.<ref name=vec/> Numbers increased, as were orchards often taken out of open fields, by 1616 in Crowchmans field, in 1680&ndash;1 in Popes field, and in ...e his home at Elm House. Up until that point, Ealing was mostly made up of open countryside and fields where, as in previous centuries, the main occupation
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  • ...of landscapes; the high moor is a wind-blasted, bleak highland of exposed open moorland which is the heart of the moor. Around the high moor though are t *The [[River Teign]], flowing east to open into a long estuary north of Tor Bay
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  • ...ael. (1970). ''The Draining of the Somerset Levels''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07486-X.</ref> The drain was upgraded in 1972, as part of ...20.shtml |title=Somerset Levels |accessdate=2007-06-10 |work=BBC Radio 4 - Open Country }}</ref>
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  • From the Saxon era onwards most of the land was farmed under an open-field system. The earliest and simplest such system had two arable common f ...or Castle]] that in Deddington parish he found "all the Grass Lands in the open Fields in a much worse state than most of the Commonable Land in the County
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  • ...r Queens Park. It is obvious that a rumour became mixed with a proposal to open a station on the present Chester line called Queens Park Halt. To further c ...Manchester Metropolitan University campus in Crewe. It relocated from the university's [[Alsager]] Campus when it closed. The centre has a programme of touring
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  • ...ailpop.php?placeno=11713 English Place Name Society database at Nottingham University]</ref> Others have suggested a derivation from an unknown "St Michael's fie
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  • ...o the south of the town is the [[River Weaver]] and the Weston Canal. Both open into the ship canal. To the southeast of the town run the M56 motorway, the The density of housing is generally high, but there are open green areas, in particular heathland on Runcorn Hill and the extensive Town
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  • ...United Kingdom]]. The city is well known for its charming cobbled streets, open spaces and Georgian architecture, and the cathedral in the centre of the to ...r valleys form a bowl surrounding the city on the north, east and west and open to the Truro River in the south. The fairly steep-sided bowl in which Truro
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  • ...an be seen in the basement of the ''Spudulike'' on Bridge Street, which is open to the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/direct ...on the River Dee and on the Shropshire Union Canal, and guided tours on an open-air bus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chester.gov.uk/PDF/Tourism_Chester_
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  • ...he North Atlantic Ocean, near the western edge of the Sargasso Sea, in the open ocean. It has 64&nbsp;miles of coastline. | publisher = Oxford University Press
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  • ...was dissolved by Henry III in 1265 apparently as it posed a threat to the University of Oxford. In the previous year King Henry's forces defeated those of Simo ...estored) and is his only major domestic commission outside Scotland. It is open to the public.
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  • ...''Middle English Literature'' (ed. and completed by Douglas Gray), Oxford University Press, 1986.</ref> ...nificent seventeenth century building, supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter and poultry markets which used to be held there
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