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• Dorset
  ...ter]] in the south of Dorset. It has borders with [[Devon]] to the west, [[Somerset]] to the north-west, [[Wiltshire]] to the north-east, and [[Hampshire]] to Dorset's long coast stretches from [[Poole]] in the east, and the great gulf of [[Poole Harbour]], around the [[Isle of Pur
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• Somerset
  |name=Somerset |map image=Somerset Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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• Wansdyke
  ...the remains of the London to Bath Roman road. There is also some evidence in charters that it extended west from Maes Knoll to the coast of the [[Severn Wansdyke consists of two sections of 9 and 12 miles long with some gaps in between:
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• Salisbury Plain
  The plain is the largest known expanse of unimproved chalk downland in northwest Europe, and represents 41% of Britain's remaining area of this wi ...arsely populated and is the largest remaining area of calcareous grassland in north-west Europe. Additionally the plain has arable land, and a few small
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• Portishead
  |county=Somerset |LG district=North Somerset
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• Ewyas Harold Castle
  '''Ewyas Harold Castle''' is a castle ruin in the village of [[Ewyas Harold]] in [[Herefordshire]]. ...l castle was destroyed either on the orders of Earl Godwin or by the Welsh in a raid.
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• Castle Cary
  |county=Somerset |LG district=South Somerset
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• Corfe Castle
  ...tle dates back to the 11th century and commands the Corfe Gap - a gap in the [[Purbeck Hills]] on the route between [[Wareham, Dorset|Wareham]] and ...ilt with earth and timber. Corfe Castle underwent major structural changes in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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• Maiden Castle, Dorset
  ...r age, and must have caused the Romans to pause when they set to attack it in the first century. ...ite. It was occupied until at least the Roman period, by which time it was in the territory of the Durotriges tribe.
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• Exmoor
  {{county|Somerset}} ...of the southwest, along with [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]] and [[Bodmin Moor]] in [[Cornwall]].
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• Deal Castle
  ...al Castle''' is a 16th-century coastal artillery fort, located in [[Deal]] in [[Kent]], standing on the coast between [[Walmer Castle]] and the now lost ...cheme - Theme 3.4 – The Castles of the Downs: The Henrician Device Forts in Deal and Walmer]</ref> The architect at Deal was probably the Bohemian engi
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• Hereford Castle
  ...fordshire]], standing at {{map|SO511396}}. All that remains today are its earthworks. ...ain. Hereford Castle was probably destroyed when the Welsh sacked Hereford in 1055, but seems to have been replaced by the following decade. During the A
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• Huntingdon Castle
  ...[[Huntingdonshire]], but of it no trace remains apart from its impressive earthworks. Castle Hill, the motte and castle grounds, is now a public park. ...paid homage to King Stephen who in turn gave him the borough of Huntingdon in addition to the castle.
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• Elsdon Castle
  |condition=Earthworks only '''Elsdon Castle''' is a castle of [[Northumberland]], in the village of [[Elsdon, Northumberland|Elsdon]] about ten miles southwest
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• Alnwick Castle
  '''Alnwick Castle''' is a castle and stately home in [[Northumberland]], and the seat of the Duke of Northumberland. The castle stands in the [[Alnwick]]. The first castle here built following the Norman conquest
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• Clun Castle
  ...the Norman conquest and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, with an extensive castle-guard system. ...after the Civil War Clun remained in poor condition until renovation work in the 1890s.
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• Glastonbury Tor
  |county=Somerset ...tary hill rising to 518 feet out of the flat, once flooded, lands of the [[Somerset Levels]]. It is topped by a roofless tower built as a chapel, St Michael's
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• Norton Camp
  {{county|Somerset}} ...' is a Bronze Age hill fort at [[Norton Fitzwarren]] near [[Taunton]] in [[Somerset]].
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• Cadbury Castle, Somerset
  [[File:Somerset cadbury castle modified.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Cadbury Castle]] {{county|Somerset}}
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• Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
  |picture caption=''Falmouth Docks'' in full steam. ...d]], Suffolk. The line became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1924 and the last trains ran on 26 July 1952.
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• Brinklow Castle
  |picture caption=Earthworks of Brinklow Castle ...ly as '''the Tump''', is a mediæval castle in the village of [[Brinklow]] in [[Warwickshire]] between [[Coventry]] and [[Rugby]]. All that remain are s
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• Fiddleford Manor
  ...d to him in 1355.<ref name=EH-hist>{{EH hist link}}</ref> The house is now in the care of [[English Heritage]] and opened for the public to visit through ...ons of the west range and an extension of the hall are now visible only as earthworks.<ref name=nhle>{{NHLE|1013372|Fiddleford Manor}}</ref>
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• Harbottle
  '''Harbottle''' is a village in northern Northumberland, in Upper Coquetdale, nestled among the [[Cheviot Hills]]. The village is with ...nd the ruins of [[Harbottle Castle]], built by order of King Henry II. Now in ruins, the castle was constructed by the Umfraville family to protect again
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• Wambrook
  ...omerset%20Census%20Key%20Statistics%20-%20Summary%20Profiles.xls|publisher=Somerset Intelligence|accessdate=4 January 2014|format=Excel}}</ref> |LG district=South Somerset
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• Montacute
  |county=Somerset |LG district=South Somerset
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• Ham Hill, Somerset
  |county=Somerset ...Iron Age hill fort, Roman site, Local Nature Reserve and country park in [[Somerset]] to the west of [[Yeovil]].
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• Ilchester
  |county=Somerset ...omerset%20Census%20Key%20Statistics%20-%20Summary%20Profiles.xls|publisher=Somerset Intelligence|accessdate=4 January 2014|format=Excel}}</ref>
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• Sparkford
  |county=Somerset ...omerset%20Census%20Key%20Statistics%20-%20Summary%20Profiles.xls|publisher=Somerset Intelligence|accessdate=4 January 2014|format=Excel}}</ref>
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• Barrington Court
  |county=Somerset |village=[[Barrington, Somerset|Barrington]]
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• Grand Western Canal
  ...1955). "Chapter IX: The Schemes to Join the English and Bristol Channels". In: ''The Canals of Southern England''. London: Phoenix House Ltd.</ref> ...d plane and seven boat lifts, the earliest lifts to see commercial service in the UK. The lifts predated the [[Anderton Boat Lift]] by nearly 40 years.
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• Hewelsfield
  '''Hewelsfield''' is a village and parish in the [[Forest of Dean]] in [[Gloucestershire]]. It is located six miles south of [[Coleford, Gloucest ...er with the abbey grange at Brockweir, the manor was then granted to Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester.<ref name=bho>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/repo
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• Child Okeford
  '''Child Okeford''' (sometimes written '''Childe Okeford''') is a village in [[Dorset]], three miles east of the small town of [[Sturminster Newton]]. ...{{brithist|127844|Child Okeford', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3: Central}} (1970), pp. 79–83</ref>
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• Brandon Castle
  |condition=Only earthworks remain ...wickshire|Brandon]] and [[Wolston]], in [[Warwickshire]]. (These villages in turn lie between the towns of [[Rugby]] and [[Coventry]].)
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• Banwell
  |county=Somerset ...rl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104204530/http://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/Environment/Planning_policy_and-research/researchandmonitoring/Docum
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• Rowley, Wiltshire
  ...in the far west of [[Wiltshire]], adjacent to [[Farleigh Hungerford]] in [[Somerset]]. ...ok]] as ''Withenham'' where it was rated for 5 hides of land. It was named in 1315 as a vill of the [[Bradford Hundred]].
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• Blackdown Hills
  ...lackdown Hills''' are a range of hills along the border of [[Devon]] and [[Somerset]]. The highest point of the hills is [[Staple Hill, Somerset|Staple Hill]] in [[Somerset]], at 1,033 feet.
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• Wraxall, Somerset
  |county=Somerset |LG district=North Somerset
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• Brent Tor
  ...l rising to 1,100 feet above sea level on the western edge of [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]]. The Tor is surmounted by the Church of St Michael, a serving pa ...ron-A, or early -B, culture. There are three distinct consecutive ramparts in this sector, and traces of internal partitioning.
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• Castle Neroche
  |county=Somerset |picture caption=Eastern earthworks at Castle Neroche
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• Avon Gorge
  ...sided valley. In the distance is a suspension bridge supported by towers. In the left foreground is a handrail.|thumb|250px|The Avon Gorge and Clifton S ...von]] at [[Bristol]], forming the border between [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Somerset]]. The gorge runs south to north through a limestone ridge a mile and a hal
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• Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve
  {{county|Somerset}} [[File:uk_bristol_lw2.jpg|thumb|250px|The woods in early autumn]]
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• Stokeleigh Camp
  {{county|Somerset}} [[File:Stokeleigh Camp in Leigh Woods.jpg|thumb|250px|Stokeleigh Camp]]
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• Cow Castle
  |county=Somerset |picture=Cow Castle Iron Age fort,Simonsbath,Somerset. - geograph.org.uk - 266665.jpg
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• Berry Castle, Somerset
  |county=Somerset |village=[[Luccombe, Somerset|Luccombe]]
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• Embury Beacon
  [[File:Embury Beacon - geograph.org.uk - 1554809.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Earthworks of Embury Beacon]] {{county|Somerset}}
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• Totternhoe Castle
  |picture caption=Earthworks of Totternhoe Castle |condition=Earthworks
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• Montacute Priory
  |county=Somerset ...r monasteries by King Henry VIII and today little remains of its buildings in the village.
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• Brimpsfield Castle
  |picture caption=Earthworks of Brimpsfield Castle |condition=Earthworks remain
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• Englishcombe
  |county=Somerset |LG district=Bath and North East Somerset
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• Locking Castle
  |county=Somerset |village=[[Locking, Somerset|Locking]]
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• Mendip Way
  {{county|Somerset}} ...dip.html |archivedate=2008-10-05 }}</ref> across the [[Mendip Hills]] of [[Somerset]], from [[Weston-super-Mare]] to [[Frome]]. The trailheads are:
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• Puxton
  |county=Somerset |LG district=North Somerset
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• South Perrott
  ...sh combined with the neighbouring parish of [[Chedington]]; the population in these areas was 367. ...>{{cite book|last=Bush|first=Robin|authorlink=Robin Bush (historian)|title=Somerset: The complete guide|publisher=The Dovecote Press Ltd|location=Wimborne|year
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• Spetisbury
  ...t of [[Blandford Forum]]. The 2011 census noted a parish population of 555 in 224 households. ...The Iron Age port at [[Hengistbury Head]] forms a final Iron Age monument in this small chain of sites.
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• Grim's Ditch
  ...mongwell.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Grim's Ditch with bluebells, near Mongewell in Oxfordshire]] ...c bank and ditch earthworks in the south of [[Great Britain]]. Enigmatic in both their naming and original function, examples are found across the chal
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• Bourne Castle
  |condition=Earthworks remain ...stern part of [[Lincolnshire]]. Its remains can be seen in Well Head Park in the town.
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• Bytham Castle
  |condition=Earthworks ...h only the earthworks remain, stood by in the village of [[Castle Bytham]] in [[Lincolnshire]].
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• Carlton Castle
  |condition=Earthworks remain ...tle Hill''' is a manmade mound in [[Lincolnshire]] on which stood a castle in the Middle Ages. It was once a substantial motte and bailey, perhaps with
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• Sleaford Castle
  ...ord Castle earthworks - geograph.org.uk - 960260.jpg|right|thumb|Remaining earthworks of Sleaford Castle]] '''Sleaford Castle''' is a mediæval castle in [[Sleaford]], [[Lincolnshire]], the bare remains of which still stand.
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• Eaton Socon Castle
  ...ing across the river to [[Eynesbury]], the southern suburb of [[St Neots]] in [[Huntingdonshire]]. ...urrounded by moats filled with water diverted from the river. It was once in possession of the de Mandeville family but by 1156 was held by the Beaucham
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• Crumlin, County Dublin
  '''Crumlin''' is a southside suburb of [[Dublin]], in [[County Dublin]]. A densely populated residential area, with some industry ...nt past and is now bisected by the [[River Camac]]. The valley is situated in front of Drimnagh and is largely made up of good-quality houses with plenti
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• Sandsfoot Castle
  ...''', is an artillery fort constructed by King Henry VIII near [[Weymouth]] in [[Dorset]]. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect agains ...hwork defences were built around the landward side of the castle, probably in 1623.
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• Abinger Castle
  |condition=Earthworks remain ...s to be found in [[Abinger Common]], between [[Guildford]] and [[Dorking]] in [[Surrey]].
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• Bletchingley Castle
  ...[[Greensand Way]] below it to the south in the village of [[Bletchingley]] in [[Surrey]]. The are a schedule ancient monument.<ref name=s>{{NHLE|1013374 ...ut not foot or hoof-wearing east-west route.<ref name=fry>Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, ''The David & Charles Book of Castles'', David & Charles, 1980. {{ISBN|0-7
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• Brent Knoll Camp
  |county=Somerset ...distinctive, lone hill a mile and a half from from [[Burnham-on-Sea]] in [[Somerset]]
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• Cudworth, Somerset
  |county=Somerset |LG district=South Somerset
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• Ascot d'Oilly Castle
  |picture=Earthworks at Ascott d'Oyley - geograph.org.uk - 990323.jpg |picture caption=Earthworks of Ascot d'Oilly Castle
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