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• Ilfracombe
  ...ext of the number, size, and antiquity of many early Victorian jerry built hotels. A comprehensive display in the museum shows whilst the size of buildings m ...holiday patterns changed, and suffered further through the closure of the railway line in 1970.
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• Lynton
  ..., to which it is connected down the cliff by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. ...urch of St Mary, which stands overlooking the sea, surrounded by shops and hotels. The tower is mainly thirteenth century but the church itself has been enla
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• Seaton, Devon
  ...uary, and the shingle bank started to build up. In 1868 the arrival of the railway reduced the use of the harbour. ===Railway===
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• Marazion
  ...25</ref> For many years the site of the closed station was home to Pullman railway carriages which were used as camping coaches. The site, though not convenie ...h House and the Mount Haven Hotel next to it, once one of the most haunted hotels in Cornwall, with views of the mount from its terrace. Also of note is Mara
  10 KB (1,651 words) - 22:52, 9 February 2013
• St Mawes
  ...or sale from the butcher, the harbour office, the sailing club and several hotels and guest houses, to three beaches, much admired Lamorran Gardens and histo
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• Hendon
  The Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railways were built through Hendon in the 1860s, a w ...vide liquid refreshment for navvies working on the building of the Midland Railway, and many were Irish. The Irish connection with Hendon goes back at least t
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• Lyme Regis
  ...the harbour, with its own centre, the seafront between the two filled with hotels, B&Bs, holiday facilites and grand residences, while lining the top of the ...by aged Victorian locomotives, one of which is now used on the [[Bluebell Railway]] in [[Sussex]].
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• Swanage
  ...een fairly cut off due to its valley location, but the introduction of the railway made the town much more accessible to visitors, with direct services runnin ...line and steam and diesel locomotives to run along it, forming the Swanage Railway.
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• West Bay, Dorset
  ...ropes and nets, declined in the second half of the 19th century. When the railway arrived in 1884, attempts were made to provide the settlement with the faci ...vessels.<ref name=E11/> In addition, the Great Western Railway's Bridport Railway had reached Bridport in 1857, and started taking the harbour's trade. The a
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• Dún Laoghaire
  ...subsequently extended to the ferryport of [[Rosslare]]. The opening of the railway from Dublin saw Kingstown become a Victorian era seaside resort. ...ected to central Dublin by the Dublin Area Rapid Transit ("DART") suburban railway, and is also a stop on the mainline rail service from Dublin to Wexford and
  20 KB (3,227 words) - 16:38, 18 May 2016
• Frinton-on-Sea
  ...one which flowered suddenly in the Victorian period with the coming of the railway and throve in the early twentieth century, a growth matched by a decline af ...[[Walton-on-the-Naze]] in the north, and a level crossing adjacent to the railway station which replaced the older gated crossing in 2009. The only other way
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• Moreton-in-Marsh
  ...British Railways withdrew freight traffic and closed it in 1960. The OW&W Railway is now part of the Cotswold line. The line between Oxford (Wolverton Juncti ...st Saturday in September, is actually on part of the site of the fort. The railway line to Worcester runs alongside the show ground, and at Dorn reaches the h
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• Tetbury
  ...y Trouble House Halt railway station|Trouble House Halt, possibly the only railway "Halt" in England built specifically to serve a pub. Tetbury has bus services which serve local towns. The nearest railway station is at [[Kemble]]. The nearest major airport is [[Bristol Airport]]
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• Sandown
  ...island. Sandown railway station is still on the one remaining operational railway on the island, which now goes from Ryde Pier Head to [[Shanklin]]. Today Sandown esplanade boasts some fine Victorian and Edwardian hotels (many of which have been unsympathetically extended by breeze block annexes
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• Shanklin
  ...]], are its main attractions. The esplanade along the beach is occupied by hotels and restaurants for the most part, and is one of the most tourist-oriented ...klin railway station is the terminus of the Island Line from [[Ryde]]. The railway used to continue south to [[Ventnor]], but this section was closed in the 1
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• Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
  The parish was once served by its own railway station]], with services to [[Newport, Isle of Wight|Newport]]. Passenger s ...and although relatively small in size it still supports a number of shops, hotels, pubs and restaurants, supported partly by passing trade from the ferry ter
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• Penarth
  The railway connection to the valleys in 1878 brought day trippers; according to corres ..., The Washington Hotel and The Glendale and Lansdowne hotels, while lesser hotels and guesthouses throve. All have now closed with the exception of the Glend
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• Broadstairs
  ...accommodate the influx of all year round visitors. Although the number of hotels in recent years has declined because of the high land redevelopment values, *Crampton Tower by the railway station houses a museum. The museum contains Thomas Russell Crampton's work
  13 KB (2,154 words) - 18:38, 7 December 2018
• Coniston
  ...lway, which opened to passenger traffic in 1859 and terminated at Coniston railway station. The village is also home to a number of hotels and two Youth Hostels, one at the edge of the village, the other in the nea
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• Burgh-le-Marsh
  ...nn on the High Street.<ref>[http://www.burghlemarsh.info/goingout/pubs.htm Hotels and Public Houses]</ref><ref>[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/746686 High There was once a Burgh-le-Marsh railway station on the line between [[Boston]] and [[Louth, Lincolnshire|Louth]], b
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