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  • ...publisher=Harrap|location=Edinburgh, Scotland|isbn=9780550142504|page=1059|chapter=Some common elements of placenames}}</ref> ...s New Town) by Sir James Clerk of Penicuik, the builder of nearby Penicuik House, and by 1800 the population had risen to 1,700.
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  • ...ancashire its name. Lancaster has several unique ties to the monarchy; the House of Lancaster was a branch of the English royal family, and the Queen is the ...Lancaster is a red rose, the red rose of Lancaster, similar to that of the House of York, which is a white rose. These names derive from the emblems of the
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  • [[File:Maison natale de Margaret Thatcher, Grantham.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The house where Margaret Thatcher was born]] ...Hornsby in 1865, lived in by Richard Hornsby's son, and is now a private house. In 1944 (including D-Day), this was the headquarters for the United States
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  • |chapter= |publisher=Old House Books
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  • ...us Ptolemaeus, generally known as Ptolemy (c. 90 – c. 168), describes in chapter 2 of his ''Geographa'' entitled ''Albion Island of Britannia'' the mouth of ...tone was quarried from the east side of the town to accommodate this rapid house building project. When Lossiemouth and Branderburgh became a police burgh
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  • |chapter=Ellan Vannin (Isle of Man). Britonia. ...sles was created by Godred Crovan in 1079 after the Battle of Skyhill. The House of Godred ruled in the island for several generations after him, in time ac
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  • ...cade of the 16th century, Thoresby College was built by Thomas Thoresby to house priests of the Guild of The Holy Trinity in King's Lynn. The guild was inc | chapter=Guild of the Holy Trinity
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  • ...King James I of Scotland, grants the king's chaplain "Thomas Lauder of the House of God or Hospital lying in the burgh of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to be held to *{{cite book |chapter=vol. IX: 1480–1487 |title=The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland |first=George
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  • ...story. But when Olvir drew off, Sweyn and his men fared straight up to the house and plundered it of everything, but after that they burnt the homestead, an ...rchitects, 1600-1840 |publisher=Yale University Press|year=2008|pages=182|chapter=Burn, George|isbn=9780300125085|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CSya
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  • ...d grazing rights. Today, they largely collect kisses from each lady of the house. In the court, the town's officers are elected for the coming year and the ...elchester ([[Salisbury]]) and Christminster ([[Oxford]]).<ref>Paragraph 6, Chapter X, Part Third, Thomas Hardy, ''Jude the Obscure'' at http://www.gutenberg.o
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  • ...eputed to have been inhabited by a single family for longer than any other house in Scotland.<ref>[http://www.dunvegancastle.com/content/default.asp "Dunveg ...f>''Life of St Columba'', ed. Richard Sharpe, book I, chapter 26, book II, chapter 33 & note 151.</ref> The Irish annals record a number of events on Skye in
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  • This is a little place. It has a post office and general store, a public house, and a primary school with 144 pupils. ...e.<ref>Doble, G. H. (1960) The Saints of Cornwall: part 1. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 61–78</ref><ref>Doble, G. H. (1933) ''Saint Gudwal or Gurwal, bishop
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  • The village has a public house 'The Good Intent' which is popular with walkers as the village lies on the ...am Priory is a large house at the eastern end of the village. The original house dates from 1266. It was extended 1730 and again in 1762 by Thomas Parker, w
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  • ...of Wales: ''The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales'', Book II, Chapter XII: ''De transita per Album monasterium et Oswaldestreo; Powisiam quoque e *{{i-House}} Brogyntyn Hall, which belonged until recently to the Barons Harlech<ref>[
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  • ...was conferred on the Abbey by Prince John, and the Abbey held the park and house until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. ...Jane and later Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector to King Edward VI. The house is now a private residence and Grade II* listed building.<ref>{{cite web |
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  • ...ounds of the Bishop's Palace and cathedral.<ref>{{Cite web| title=The Well House | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/de ...isted building.<ref>{{NHLE|13316257|Cathedral Church of St Andrew, Chapter House and Cloisters|accessdate=24 August 2006}}</ref> It is known for its fine fa
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  • [[File:Ipswich Ancient House.jpg|right|thumb|220px|''Ancient House''; with a particularly fine example of pargeting]] ...now known as the Great White Horse Hotel. Dickens made the hotel famous in chapter XXI of ''The Pickwick Papers'', vividly describing the hotel's meandering c
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  • ...t Internet Archive (archive.org)</ref><ref name="Russell1760">{{cite book |chapter=A Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water in the Diseases of the Glands. Parti Brighton's art community is showcased once a year in an artists' open house event during the Brighton Festival. On the seafront between Brighton's two
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  • ...Mint |year=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521240260|chapter=The English and Norman Mints, c. 600–1158|pages=40}}</ref> [[File:Geograph-2000987-by-Oast-House-Archive.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hastings Borough Bonfire Society at the Old T
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  • ...captive within the walls of the citadel like the ark of God in the profane house of Baal". He made the appeal: ===Chapter House and Magna Carta===
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