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  • ...formerly the main turnpike road from [[London]] to [[Bristol]], between [[Bath]] (7.5 miles) and [[Chippenham]] (4.5 miles). ...quarry tunnels. The early 21st century saw some growth in Corsham's role in the film industry.
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  • '''Selby''' is a town in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], 14 miles south of the city of [[York]], d ...ious local bottleneck but since the opening of the Selby bypass congestion in the town has been relieved.
    12 KB (1,894 words) - 16:59, 29 January 2016
  • |churches= 292 ...he defensive hill at Durham and the bishopric became the Diocese of Durham in that year of around 1000, and this led to the founding of the city. Legend
    27 KB (3,551 words) - 10:19, 30 January 2021
  • |churches=284 ...ed over by the Bishop of Worcester, and its centre is Worcester Cathedral, in the city of [[Worcester]].
    28 KB (3,657 words) - 20:08, 16 October 2018
  • |churches=410 ...or bishoprics of the [[Church of England]]. Its seat is at [[Winchester]] in Hampshire and it forms part of the [[Province of Canterbury]].
    21 KB (2,823 words) - 12:47, 23 January 2020
  • |churches=625 ...t of the City of Exeter. The Cathedral Close provides a broad green space in the city centre surrounded by historic buildings and lanes. Although the L
    14 KB (1,854 words) - 21:16, 18 June 2015
  • ...d [[Yorkshire]]. The [[County top|highest point]] of [[Staffordshire]] is in the Peak District on the Derbyshire border, though it is conventional to as ...ferent; the southern, rolling Derbyshire Dales are green and richly grazed in the south, the hills beginning at the very edge of the city of [[Derby]], a
    44 KB (6,715 words) - 07:54, 12 May 2024
  • ...owed in the country. In accordance with this enactment the borough created in Cooletoodera (''Cúil an tSúdaire''), received the name of Port-Arlington, ...|text=Unique among the French Protestant colonies established or augmented in Ireland following the Treaty of Limerick (1691), the Portarlington settleme
    19 KB (2,675 words) - 13:34, 8 March 2016
  • |cap=The High Street in Midsomer Norton, Somerset ...y rural town near the Mendip Hills in [[Somerset]], ten miles southwest of Bath and ten miles northeast of Wells. It is a small town whose shape and nature
    675 B (111 words) - 08:35, 8 May 2021
  • ...16 July 2014}}</ref> The parish is in the Manordeifi group in the [[Church in Wales]] [[Diocese of St David's]]. The parish is named in some historical sources as Llangolman, but this is not to be confused with
    12 KB (1,883 words) - 12:08, 20 November 2014
  • ...k of Steill, was built by James IV]]'''Ladykirk''' is a village and parish in [[Berwickshire]], situated on the B6470 road just north of the [[River Twee Ladykirk stands directly opposite [[Norham Castle]] in [[Northumberland]].
    7 KB (1,075 words) - 09:11, 29 January 2019
  • ...h there has been an ongoing expansion of finance and industrial businesses in the area.<ref name="iomg01"> ...of Tynwald until the capital was moved to [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]] in 1869.
    9 KB (1,554 words) - 11:53, 2 August 2017
  • ...ached to the civil parish of [[Hurley]]. Knowl Green stands beside the A4 Bath Road, 5 miles west of [[Maidenhead]]. There are three fine pubs within the village, the ''Bird in Hand'', "The Old Devil Inn" and "The Royal Oak".
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  • |post town=Bath |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset
    6 KB (895 words) - 21:57, 18 September 2019
  • The '''Hwicce''' were a tribe and kingdom in the southwest [[Midlands]] during the Anglo-Saxon period. Their territory ...er]] and [[Bath]] from the Britons in 577, after the Battle of [[Dyrham]]. In 628 the [[Mercia]]ns defeated the West Saxons at the Battle of Cirencester
    12 KB (1,874 words) - 23:43, 17 December 2014
  • .... This is a lightly populated locality and the nearest town is [[Tadley]] in Hampshire. ...e lanes south of the Kennet and north of Grim's Bank; the parish church is in this area. Aldermaston Wharf is to the north and Padworth Common to the so
    6 KB (896 words) - 12:49, 24 November 2015
  • ...ng]]. The village was described by Jerome K Jerome in his book ''Three Men in a Boat'' as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river". ...Bath Road. It lies some three miles east of the major town of [[Reading]]. In other directions this would put it within the Reading suburban sprawl, but
    7 KB (1,049 words) - 14:14, 4 May 2017
  • |picture caption=Coronation Square in the centre of Southcote ==Churches==
    9 KB (1,425 words) - 20:39, 22 December 2014
  • '''Stratfield Mortimer''' is a village just south of [[Reading]] in [[Berkshire]]. ...line which is more than 40% on raised embankments but in the far south is in a cutting. The northeast of the parish is the most populated, at [[Mortime
    3 KB (471 words) - 09:34, 18 October 2022
  • ...roconium Cornoviorum]]'', which was the fourth largest ''civitas'' capital in Roman Britain. There are substantial visible remains of the city, dwarfing ...me that has been reconstructed as *''Uiroconion''. The same name is found in the remarkable hill nearby, the [[Wrekin]], a later Anglo-Saxon province na
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