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  • ...ship. The site has been vital in understanding the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia and the whole early Anglo-Saxon period. ...lcoming mouth of the Deben is believed to have formed a path of entry into East Anglia during the migration period that followed the end of Roman imperial
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  • ...pp.37–39; Emery, p.677; Garnet p.39.</ref> The new entrance lay at right-angles to the old and was three storeys high, built of imported Bristol red sandst ...e early 16th century his son, Sir Andrew Luttrell, built a new wall on the east side of the castle.<ref>Lyte (1909), p.364.</ref> Andrew's son Sir John Lut
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  • ...thers form a roughly rhomboidal or lozenge shape on the map with the acute angles to north and south. The range has river valleys along its boundaries to north east ([[Clydesdale]]) and south-west ([[Nithsdale]]) which carry the two largest
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  • ...on no great rivers, though a little to the north rises a brook that flows east to join the [[River Tove]], a tributary of the [[Great Ouse]]. ...es had the house rebuilt and enlarged by adding a north-east wing at right angles to the original Tudor building.<ref name=EH-manor/> It contains the Great K
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  • [[File:Stone-run.JPG|thumb|300px|Stone run at Mount Kent, East Falkland]] ...ne de Bougainville, which established the Port Saint Louis settlement on [[East Falkland]]. While crossing the neck between ''Baye Accaron'' ([[Berkeley S
    10 KB (1,591 words) - 16:32, 7 September 2015
  • |LG district=East Cambridgeshire ...e some of whom may have settled in Britain in the Dark Ages along with the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
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  • :"Ely is in the province of the East Angles, a country of about six hundred families, in the nature of an island, enclo ...assigned in 649 to saint Æthelthryth, daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles, as a dowry in her marriage with Tonbert of the South Girvii. After her sec
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  • |picture caption=Dunstaffnage Castle from the east ...ed to live here, moving to Dunstaffnage House, some 2&nbsp;km to the south-east, until this too burned down in 1940.<ref>Listed Building Report</ref> A ten
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  • |picture=Edinburgh Castle from the south east.JPG ...osion was resisted by the dolerite, which protected the softer rock to the east, leaving a crag and tail formation.<ref>McAdam, p.16</ref>
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  • ...illfoots Villages]]. The villages are on the A91 around three miles north-east of [[Dollar]] in Clackmannanshire. '''Yetts o' Muckhart''' is a hamlet about a quarter of a mile east of [[Pool of Muckhart]]. A tollhouse was established here in the early 19th
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  • ...place its name, was called Corus from its making round excavations in the angles of its banks." The name Corris is also shared with a small river in [[Denbi ...n [[Merionethshire]] and [[Montgomeryshire]], with the latter being to the east of the river. The [[Afon Deri]] (shown on early maps as the Afon Corris) ru
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  • ...ean/> A brick-built wing in the Jacobean style was added in 1661, at right angles to the Great Hall, and a third wing was added in the 1820s. ...lding;<ref name=NHLE1/> the hall's cottage, coach house and stables to the east are designated Grade II.<ref name=NHLE2/>
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  • ...he [[River Kennet]] and the water meadows of the Kennet Valley, and to the east by the railway line from Reading to [[Basingstoke]] bordering [[Coley Park] ...in the town which had belonged to the abbey. Grey died also seised of the east-of-town manor of Bulmershe. Grey settled his estates on his wife Agnes, wh
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  • ...e Isle of [[Skye]] belonging to [[Inverness-shire]]. It stands immediately east of [[Sligachan]]. At 2,543 feet, Glamaig is one of only two 'Corbetts' on S From many angles the hill resembles a perfect cone of scree, though it is linked to the rest
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  • ...s east and then south to [[Ripon]]. A little way below Ripon the Ure flows east again to [[Boroughbridge]]. To the east of Boroughbridge, the Ure is joined by the [[River Swale]], coming out of [
    11 KB (1,732 words) - 07:51, 1 February 2016
  • ...om, caught between the expanding influence of the English to the south and east and the Gaels from the north and west and from [[Ireland]]. ...this land was not worth fighting over. However, the lands to the south and east of this waste, were controlled by smaller, nameless British kingdoms. Power
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  • ...s valley, and so guard against incursions into the lowland areas south and east of the town by the Welsh from the hills to the north and west.<ref name="Ca ...ally utilitarian structure, enlivened only by thin polygonal shafts at the angles."<ref name=newman>John Newman, ''The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshir
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  • ...arvnb|Coventry|2006|p=10}}</ref> One wing runs north–south and the other east–west; they meet in the southwest corner. The simple 'L' shape is embellis File:MacLellan's Castle kitchen.png|The kitchens in the east part of the south wing
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  • ...e]]. It was located south of the other northern British kingdoms, and well east of present-day Wales, but managed to survive into the early 7th century.<re ...ttp://www.heroicage.org/issues/4/Matthews.html "What's in a name? Britons, Angles, ethnicity and material culture from the fourth to seventh centuries."] ''H
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  • ...591|Castle ruins (including 2 isolated towers at south east and south west angles of outer wall)}}</ref> and they are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.<ref>{{NHL
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