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  • ...meandered in a north-easterly direction across the marshland of [[Hatfield Chase]] to enter the Trent just above its junction with the Ouse. A second channe ...andSpecialCollections/CollectionsInDepth/Water/HatfieldChase.aspx Hatfield Chase Corporation, 1538-1973 - Water Resources - Manuscripts & Special Collection
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  • ...e resulting chase, that she donated 13 acres of land on condition that the chase for the hood be re-enacted each year. ...d of the lady. This would date the Hood to about 1359 when a deed granting land to commoners was enacted by the baron. This would make the Hood around 650
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  • ...eograph.org.uk - 1286340.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Eye Brook near Beaumont Chase Farm]] Much of the land surrounding the brook is designated a ''Site of Special Scientific Interest
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  • ...r]] and Vale of Wardour. It is the largest settlement within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. .../10608 "A Victorian family house with excellent accommodation, gardens and land," Strutt & Parker], accessed 11 March 2013.</ref> As of early 2013, The Ga
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  • ...ull University Press. Pages 5-6</ref> to drain the marshland of [[Hatfield Chase]] at the behest of King Charles I. It made the lower Don navigable for barg ==Transport by land==
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  • ...were among the most accomplished 17th-century country house designs in the land.<ref>{{harvnb|Pevsner|1959|p=171}}</ref> ...o join the [[River Aire]]. The work was part of the drainage of [[Hatfield Chase]], and the river skirted the eastern edge of the village, to join the Aire
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  • The land which is now Thorne was once inhabited by Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Ag Bunting's Wood is a community woodland created from agricultural land by Thorne-Moorends Town Council, and The Peatlands Way, a circuitous walk a
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  • ==Lie of the land== ...hin its borders include the Home Park, Mote Park, Flemish Farm, Cranbourne Chase, Forest Lodge and South Forest.
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  • ...eams and the resulting fortifications proved able to withstand assaults by land and water in 1266. [[John of Gaunt]] spent lavishly in the late 14th centur ...entertainment, would have been very distinct from that of the surrounding chase, used primarily for hunting.<ref>Colvin, p.12.</ref> From the 16th century
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  • ...the name ''Hardintone'' and was in the possession of Peter. It had arable land for six ploughs, a mill and 5 acres of meadows and woodland. It was valued ...rs in [[Rutland]] belonging to Roger, Earl of Warwick. The forest became a chase and the laws placed on the woodland were relaxed.<ref name="DVJ" />
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  • ...untry until King James's days. The famous epic poem ''The Ballad of Chevy Chase'' is set amongst these hills, retelling the Battle of Otterburn. The land is all high here and in this landscape the hills generally have low relativ
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  • ...>, though most frequently the English sources refer to the people, not the land as such. The kings bore the title (with various spellings) ''Miercna cynin ...tle a reality in Northumbria, for according to chroniclers he ravaged that land as if to drive the English out and restore Britain to the Britons. At this
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  • ...acular building boom. Builders George Reed and Laing bought up much of the land for development and estates began to eat up the countryside along Bramley R ...building in the area was South Lodge - one of the four lodges of [[Enfield Chase]]. South Lodge was demolished in 1935; West Lodge Park, East Lodge Nursery,
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  • ...]]. It includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily populated south-east of Great Britain. ...lands: New Forrest for to make, In Beaulew tract, where whiles the King in chase Pursues the hart, just vengeance comes apace, And King pursues. Tirrell him
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  • [[File:Roman Road near Handley Hill Cranborne Chase Dorset - geograph.org.uk - 231554.jpg|right|thumb|350px|A Roman Road near H '''Cranborne Chase''' ({{map|ST970180}}) is a chalk plateau, running across the north of [[Dor
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  • Much of this land was "debated" between England and Scotland, but the Earldom of Northumbria ...lish 'Northumberland', which is from the Old English ''Norþhymbraland''; "Land of the Northhymbre people". The ''Norþhymbre'' or earlier ''Norþanhymbre
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  • Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries most of the land in and around Syresham passed to Magdalen College, Oxford. Much of the esta ...]] and Hazelborough wood near [[Silverstone]]. Further afield is [[Yardley Chase]] and Whittlebury Wood. They are mainly owned by the [[Forestry Commission]
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  • ...at the Thames-side edge of the [[Berkshire Downs]], separated from Lardon Chase and Lough Down by the B4009 road from Streatley to [[Newbury]]. The Holies ...siderable damage to the ground. Now the natural recolonisation of the bare land by chalk-loving plant species is being carefully nurtured and monitored.
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  • ...ooks the [[Goring Gap]]. The hill spur affords an outstanding area of open land, of downland and woodland with many attractive walks and views. The hills ==Lardon Chase==
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  • ..., and the little cathedral city of [[Ely]] was the nearest substantial dry land to the north, around 12 miles to the northeast. ...and 1877.<ref name="Stevens">Stevens, Peter, History of the National Hunt Chase 1860-2010. ISBN 978-0-9567250-0-4</ref>
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