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• Sunderland
  ...d to be the first built of stone in Northumbria. He employed glaziers from France and in doing so he re-established glass making in Britain.<ref>{{cite web|u
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• Chertsey
  ...However, the team, on arriving at Dover, met the Ambassador returning from France at the outset of the French Revolution and the opportunity to extend civili
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• Selsey
  ...e=''The Shell Channel Pilot, The South Coast of England and North Coast of France'' 3rd Edition|year=2000|location=Cambridgeshire|isbn=0 85288421|publisher=I
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• Selsey Bill
  ...Saint Wilfrid who when appointed Archbishop of York went to Compiègne in France, to be consecrated. On his journey back home, in c.666, he was shipwrecked ...the ''"Channel Pilot for the South Coast of England and the North Coast of France"'', cautions sailors that Selsey Bill is difficult to locate in poor visibi
  8 KB (1,346 words) - 09:24, 24 March 2013
• Haddington
  ...ament convened in the Abbey and agreed to transport Mary Queen of Scots to France for her marriage to the French heir.<ref>Donaldson, Gordon, ''A Source Book
  11 KB (1,760 words) - 14:04, 2 August 2018
• Bridgwater
  ...while in 1651 Colonel Wyndham made arrangements for Charles II to flee to France following the Battle of Worcester.<ref name="bush"/>
  36 KB (5,545 words) - 13:16, 21 March 2011
• Oldham
  ...heweb.org.uk|date=|accessdate=2007-09-14}}</ref> spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined.<ref name="Contaminated"/> Oldham's textile industry b ...he world bar the United States, and in 1909, was spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined.<ref name="Contaminated">{{cite web|url=http://www.old
  38 KB (5,853 words) - 21:47, 5 April 2020
• Great Britain
  ...and. On 20 October 1604 he proclaimed himself as "King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland", a title that continued to be used by his successors.<ref>[htt ...oclaimed his assumption of the throne in the style "King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland&nbsp;..."<ref name=hay>[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdat
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• Hertford
  ...Barons' War, it was besieged and captured after 25 days by Prince Louis of France.<ref>[http://www.johnbarber.com/tunnels/castle.html Johnbarber.com]</ref> T
  7 KB (1,155 words) - 18:45, 27 January 2016
• Bristol
  ...from c.&nbsp;1760, the disruption of maritime commerce caused by wars with France (1793) and the abolition of the slave trade (1807) contributed to the city'
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• Cirencester
  ...Cirencester, during his escape after the Battle of Worcester on his way to France.
  16 KB (2,560 words) - 17:20, 27 January 2016
• Southampton
  In 1415, before King Henry's departure for France (the campaign culminating in the Battle of Agincourt), the ringleaders of t
  35 KB (5,320 words) - 14:22, 30 March 2016
• Portsmouth
  ...was commonly used by Henry III and Edward I as a base for attacks against France.
  35 KB (5,463 words) - 19:20, 1 November 2021
• Hereford
  ...England, Thomas Charlton. The city gave its name to two suburbs of Paris, France: Maisons-Alfort and Alfortville, because of a manor built there by Peter of
  10 KB (1,692 words) - 09:41, 30 March 2016
• Titley
  ...le-known Welsh saint which later became subordinate to the Tyrone Abbey in France.<ref>{{cite book|title=Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire|author=Litt
  3 KB (402 words) - 12:45, 23 January 2020
• Whitchurch, Hampshire
  In 1712, Henri de Portal, a Huguenot refugee from France, established a paper mill at Bere Mill in Whitchurch, producing exceptional
  14 KB (2,212 words) - 16:50, 27 May 2011
• Lavenham
  ...lsey's 'Amicable Grant', a tax being raised in England to pay for war with France, a tax being demanded without the consent of parliament. In 1525, 10,000 me
  10 KB (1,680 words) - 10:37, 17 June 2014
• Canterbury
  ...peaking Protestant Huguenots, who had begun fleeing persecution and war in France and the Spanish Netherlands in the mid-16th century. The Huguenots introduc
  38 KB (5,814 words) - 15:13, 7 November 2017
• Rochester
  ...ent his last night as king at a house in the High Street before fleeing to France, a house which became known as Abdication House.
  16 KB (2,489 words) - 19:01, 28 December 2019
• Tintern
  ...dation in Britain, and its monks came from a daughter house of Cîteaux in France.
  9 KB (1,435 words) - 22:44, 10 December 2014