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• East Lothian
  ...[[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the south coast of the [[Firth of Forth]] and the [[North Sea]]. ...erwickshire]]. The shire has a detached part in Midlothian in the vicinity of [[Fala]].
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• Hampshire
  ...]]. The [[county town]] is [[Winchester]], capital of [[Wessex]] and of [[England]] until about 1100. Its place on the [[English Channel]] and the presence of several excellent natural harbours has given Hampshire a pre-eminent place
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• Herefordshire
  ...al county and one of the most sparsely populated with a population density of 212 a square mile; indeed it is said that outside [[Hereford]] and [[Leomin ...ins and the Midland plains and is itself a rich mixture of both. The land of Herefordshire is predominantly agricultural and the county is well known fo
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• Kent
  ...towns of Kent are within the [[London]] suburbs. Kent is considered is one of the [[home counties]]. ...Garden of England" for the richness of its agriculture, and the abundance of orchards and hop gardens.
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• Whitstable
  ...s north of the City of [[Canterbury]] and 2 miles west of the seaside town of [[Herne Bay]]. ...nce at least Roman times. The town itself dates back to before the writing of the [[Domesday Book]]. Whitstable's distinctive character is popular with t
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• Northamptonshire
  ...orthampton]] and [[Peterborough]]. In all, Northamptonshire has a mixture of the urban and the rural. ...ipse.co.uk/genuki/NTH/ Northamptonshire Genealogy: Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.</ref>
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• Shropshire
  ...and's most rural and sparsely populated counties with a population density of 337 a square mile according to the 2001 census. ...es; [[Bridgnorth]] above the [[River Severn|Severn]] guards the south-east of the county and [[Ludlow]] above the [[River Teme]] to the south. In norther
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• Surrey
  ...e United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". ...green areas but otherwise it is a vast, continuous urban sprawl, a mixture of poor neighbourhoods and wealthy.
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• Whittington Castle
  ...with buildings around a courtyard whose exterior wall was the curtain wall of the inner bailey. ...he historic fort of [[Old Oswestry]].<ref name=gallery>[http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlexq.htm Castle Photo Gallery: Whittington Castle] - Castle
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• Reading
  ...[[River Thames]], where the [[River Kennet]] enters it, some 40 miles west of [[London]]. Reading is well connected, by the [[M4 motorway]] and the [[Gre Reading was an important national centre in the mediæval period, the site of a monastery with strong royal connections. Today it remains a commercial ce
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• Windsor
  ...is a suburban town in eastern [[Berkshire]]. It is best known as the site of [[Windsor Castle]]. ...n]] in [[Buckinghamshire]]. Windsor and the surrounding areas contain some of the most expensive and desirable housing in the United Kingdom.
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• Tavistock
  ...west through the town. The heart of the town stands all on the north side of the river, the newer residential areas up the hills to its south. ...dford Square, was formerly the local residence of the Dukes of Bedford and of their local agent. Tavistock’s most famous son is Sir Francis Drake,<ref>
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• Aylesbury
  ...ry''' is the county town of [[Buckinghamshire]]. It stands on an outcrop of Portland limestone, giving it a prominent position in the surrounding marle ...ousing developments have been built to accommodate London overspill. Much of the town's historic town centre was demolished in the 1950s and 1960s to ma
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• Henley-on-Thames
  '''Henley-on-Thames''' is a prosperous town on the north bank of the [[River Thames]] in [[Oxfordshire]]. It lies some 10 miles downstream ...n market days. The town has attracted a wealthier class of individual and of visitors, reflected in the boutiques along the high street.
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• Buckingham
  ...hich the county takes its name. Buckingham was considered the county town of Buckinghamshire having been declared so in the year 888 by Alfred the Great ...and Saturday, and an additional farmers' market held on the first Tuesday of each month. The market place has several 18th century buildings giving cha
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• Southwell
  ...est known as the site of Southwell Minster, the cathedral of the [[Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham]], which covers Nottinghamshire. Its population is The town stands on the [[River Greet]], some 14 miles northeast of [[Nottingham]].
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• Selkirk
  ...Royal Burghs in Scotland. It stands on the [[Ettrick Water]], a tributary of the [[River Tweed]]. ...me to Scotland's oldest horse racing track, the Gala Rig, on the outskirts of the town.
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• Ludlow
  ...d as the seat of the Council of Wales and the Marches; effectively Capital of Wales. ..._General.html|title=Ludlow|accessdate=2007-09-10}}</ref> With a population of around 10,000, Ludlow is the largest town in southern Shropshire and the lo
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• Dunwich
  ...unwich''' (pronounced {{IPA|ˈdʌnɨtʃ}}) is a small village on the coast of [[Suffolk]] which was once a major town and seaport. ...s of the River Blyth and the River Dunwich. However, the harbour and most of the town has since been lost to coastal erosion.
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• Marlborough
  ...road from [[London]] to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]. It is reputed to have one of the widest high-streets in Britain: second only to [[Stockton-on-Tees]]. ...the rebuilding the High Street became what is claimed to be the widest in England after Stockton's. This allows ample space for a local market which is held
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• Esher
  Moore Place, on the outskirts of Esher is now a bar and restaurant. The Moore Place Estate remains a privat Esher lies within the hundred of Elmbridge. The local newspaper is the Esher News and Mail.<ref>[http://www.
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• Lydford
  ...[[Devon]] situated six miles north of [[Tavistock]] on the western fringe of [[Dartmoor]]. ...ch courses through a deep, narrow gorge. The gorge is crossed by a bridge of single span; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in
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• Brentford
  ...n 1769, a lively affair in which John Wilkes was elected, though the House of Commons rejected him (a scandal which has never been repeated). In 1795 New Brentford was considered as the county-town, but the justices of Middlesex met in [[Clerkenwell]]. Pevsner noted that Brentford possessed n
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• Hampton, Middlesex
  ...Thames at Hampton are a number of "eyots", river islands. The eastern end of the village is marked by the Green, beyond which is Hampton Court. ...mtun'' means "home village" or ''home estate'', a common place name across England and Scotland. In Middlesex it attaches not just to Hampton itself but to i
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• Inner Temple
  |ownership=The Honourable Society<br />of the Inner Temple ...elf governed by the Parliament of the inn and an executive council made up of the elected Benchers.
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• Isleworth
  ...le of the place (eye-zul) has no relation to any 'isle' and is an instance of a counterintuitive place name. However in this instance it can be argued th ...ff Thomas Brigge or Berigge, clerk, on a plea of debt, with Richard Beaupe of Thistelworth, Middx</ref>
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• Lichfield
  |picture caption=City of Lichfield ...ffordshire]]. It lies in the midst of rural Staffordshire, 16 miles north of [[Birmingham]].
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• Aberystwyth
  ...istics, 10 July 2009]</ref> but there is no reliable measure of the number of those students whose family residence is outside Aberystwyth. ...The town takes its name from the Ystwyth, though since the reconstruction of the harbour, the Ystwyth only skirts the town and leaves the Rheidol alone
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• Weymouth
  |picture caption=Weymouth, Wyke Regis and Portland Harbour<br />from the Isle of Portland ...is eight miles south of [[Dorchester]] and five miles north of the [[Isle of Portland]].
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• Manhood
  ...ndred of Manhood''' in the [[Rape of Chichester]] is the southernmost part of [[Sussex]] forming a peninsula into the English channel. It is bordered by ...map of 1587, ''Manhode'' on a map of 1663 and ''Manhope'' on Mordens map of 1695.<ref name="allen11">Heron-Allen. Selsey. p.11.</ref>
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• Falmouth
  ...atistics for urban areas in England and Wales | publisher =National Office of Statistics| url =http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_ua_ew The name Falmouth comes from the river Fal but the origin of the river's name is unknown.
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• Penzance
  ...ination, with beaches and within easy reach of the Lands End and the sites of the wild [[Penwith]] peninsula. Penzance is also the port for sailing to the [[Isles of Scilly]], and outside the town is also the heliport for Scilly.
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• Whitehaven
  |picture=King Street - geograph.org.uk - 470948.jpg |picture caption=King Street
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• Peterborough
  ...h is the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire. ...n centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth-century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older
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• Isle of Wight
  |name=Isle of Wight |picture=Isle of Wight coastline.jpg
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• Forest of Bowland
  ...Stone.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ward's Stone; the highest point in the Forest of Bowland]] ...estern [[Pennines]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. It is a moorland of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat beds. The hills are known as
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• Dorchester-on-Thames
  .... The greater river, the Thames, is to the west, separated from the body of the village by narrow farmland, a water-meadow and flooded gravel workings. ...est. From the Georgian period, Dorchester was a busy coaching centre, but of the ten original coaching inns, just two remain: The George and The White H
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• Durham
  |constituency=City of Durham ...Durham]], of which it is the county town. The city centre stands in a loop of the [[River Wear]], dominated by the vast Cathedral, atop a precipitous cli
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• Warwick
  ...rwickshire|River Avon]], 11 miles south of [[Coventry]] and 2½ miles west of [[Leamington Spa]], with which town it has grown together. The centre of Warwick stands on a hill which drops sharply down to the river. The Castle
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• Winchester
  ...]]. It stands at the western end of the [[South Downs]], along the course of the [[River Itchen]]. ...of Wessex and of the Kingdom of England. It developed from the Roman town of ''Venta Belgarum''.
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• Carshalton
  ...the village.<ref>{{cite web|title=London Biodiversity Partnership - audit of rivers document.|url=http://www.lbp.org.uk/02audit_pdfs/22_rivers.pdf|forma ...Carshalton Village Conservation Area.<ref>{{cite web|title=London Borough of Sutton Conservation Areas.|url=http://www.sutton.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6C0DF
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• Cheam
  ...des more retail shops and supermarkets, whilst Cheam Village and the south of Cheam are more residential. It is bordered by [[Worcester Park]] (to the n ...anterbury. Its Domesday assets were: 4 hides; 1 church, 17 ploughs, 1 acre of meadow, woodland worth 25 hogs. It rendered £14.<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.
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• Chertsey
  ...ter belt, and is served by Chertsey railway station on the Chertsey branch of the Waterloo to Reading Line. Egham today is somewhat hemmed in by the M3 *[[Church of England]]:
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• Boston
  ...ncolnshire]]. It is the major town of [[Holland]], the south-eastern part of that county. Boston lies astride the [[Greenwich Meridian]]. |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4403100.stm
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• Hitchin
  ...er that runs through the town, most picturesquely in front of the east end of St Mary's Church, the town's parish church. The river is named the [[River ===Parish church of St Mary===
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• Chelmsford
  ...in 2012 to become a city, in celebration of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee of that year. ...ly train journey to Liverpool Street Station in London to work in the City of London financial sector, though Chelmsford is in itself a modern, well plac
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• Brentwood
  ...ntryside and woodland; some penetrating to within only a few hundred yards of the town centre. ...maps. The suggestion was that men settled here in the part of the Forest of Essex (later [[Epping Forest]]) that would have covered the area, where the
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• Dulwich
  ...llage, lying in a valley between the neighbouring and contiguous districts of [[Camberwell]], [[Crystal Palace]], [[Denmark Hill]], [[Forest Hill, Surrey The name of Dulwich has been spelt in various ways in history; ''Dilwihs'', ''Dylways''
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• Bridgwater
  ...on the west the [[Quantock Hills]]. The town The town stands on the banks of the [[River Parrett]], 10 miles above its mouth at [[Highbridge]], which ri ...ton]] by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. It stands between two junctions of the M5 motorway. Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line be
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• Cardiff
  ...cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the Welsh Assembly. ...etropolitan area has a population of nearly 1.1 million, more than a third of the total Welsh population. Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the
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• Abbots Langley
  |picture=Abbots Langley - The Church of St Lawrence the Martyr - geograph.org.uk - 272827.jpg ...[Hertfordshire]]. It is an old settlement and is mentioned (under the name of '''Langelai''') in the [[Domesday Book]]. Economically the village is close
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• Hemel Hempstead
  ...Henry VIII in 1539. The Old Town still remains and is the prettiest part of town. The biggest change for the town was after Second World War when Heme ...emel Hempstead "The most attractive town in Herts".<ref>''The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire'' by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner</ref> This however was before the
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• St Albans
  ...Verulamium are still visible in Verulam Park, and its bricks in the tower of St Albans Cathedral. ...ot therefore built on the site of ancient Verulamium but on the other side of the river, albeit that the town has since spread to envelop Verulam and the
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• Hatfield, Hertfordshire
  ...s old origins but is also a new town and bears the development of that age of post-war enthusiasm. ...the days of Sir Robert Cecil, the First Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of King James I.
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• Royston, Hertfordshire
  ...to [[Cambridgeshire]]. It is found in the midst of rural life, at the edge of the Hertfordshire Chalk Downs as they suddenly drop to the Cambridgeshire p ...e crossroads. The A1198, known as the Old North Road follows the alignment of Ermine Street northwards.
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• Tewkesbury
  ...the rivers and is dominated by its main church, Tewkesbury Abbey, a relic of the town's past as a monastic centre. ...healings_chaceley/ThumbnailFrame.htm End of an Era - Healings Mill (photos of barges leaving Tewkesbury)]</ref>
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• Cirencester
  '''Cirencester''' is a market town in eastern [[Gloucestershire]] of ancient roots. ...ds on the [[River Churn]], a tributary of the [[River Thames]]. It is home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural college in the Engl
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• Southampton
  ...pshire]] and the busiest commercial port in the United Kingdom, indeed one of the largest commercial ports in Europe. ...y stands at the northernmost point of [[Southampton Water]] at the meeting of the [[River Test]] and [[River Itchen]]. Southampton Water provides a dee
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• East Cowes
  |island=Isle of Wight |LG district=Isle of Wight
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• Andover
  ...ciond World War and redeveloped after it, leaving little to be found there of any great charm. ...web |url=http://www.localhistories.org/andover.html |title=A Brief History of Andover, Hampshire |author=Tim Lambert |accessdate=7 March 2010}}</ref>
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• Christchurch
  '''Christchurch''' is a town in [[Hampshire]] on the south coast of [[Great Britain]]. The town adjoins [[Bournemouth]] in the west and the [[N ...ally named Twynham but became known as Christchurch following the building of the priory in 1094.
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• Portsmouth
  '''Portsmouth''' in [[Hampshire]] is the home of the Royal Navy, for which it is the greatest and most famous port. Portsmo The city stands on its own island, [[Portsea Island]], on the south coast of [[Great Britain]], facing the [[English Channel]] with a capacious, shelter
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• Lavenham
  ...d-style charm. It is an epitome of the pretty Suffolk villages so beloved of artists, its streets lined with ancient half-timbered and thatched.houses, ...les/2006/04/18/lavenham_feature.shtml |title=Lavenham: The man-made wonder of Suffolk |first=Corinne |last=Roper |publisher=BBC Suffolk |accessdate=2008-
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• Effingham
  ...(actually in the parish of [[East Horsley]]), at the point where a branch of the Sutton and Mole Valley Line joins the New Guildford Line, both routes b ...ports park (the King George V playing fields), and two schools; the Howard of Effingham School and St Teresa's School (a private girls' prep school).
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• Rochester
  ...athedral city in [[Kent]]. It has from ancient times long borne the status of a city, though this status was attached as property to a council abolished ...ring [[Chatham]], [[Gillingham, Kent|Gillingham]], [[Strood]] and a number of outlying villages have grown together to make a single conurbation standing
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• Deptford
  ...conurbation. It is named after a ford of the [[River Ravensbourne]]. Part of the town spills over too into [[Surrey]]. ...|url=http://wwp.greenwich2000.com/info/local/deptford.htm |title=Greenwich England: Deptford |publisher=Wwp.greenwich2000.com |date=2010-01-05 |accessdate=201
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• Farnham
  ...] and much favoured by them so that today the town has many fine buildings of historical interest. ...shot]] in [[Hampshire]] is 4 miles northeast. Winchester, from which much of the town's ancient prosperity came, is 28 miles away to the southwest.
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• Fetcham
  ...lage in [[Surrey]] lying to the west of [[Leatherhead]], on the other side of the [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]] and Mill Pond springs and the associa ...ing area. These springs even continued to supply water during the droughts of 1976 and 2006.
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• Milford Haven
  ...jor commercial port town in [[Pembrokeshire]]. It stands on the north side of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Midd ...in the United Kingdom's energy sector with several oil refineries and one of the biggest LNG terminals in the world.
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• Buckden, Huntingdonshire
  ...the A1, midway between [[Huntingdon]] and [[St Neots]], some 6 miles south of the former, and close by [[Brampton, Huntingdonshire|Brampton]]. It was on ...is Buckden Towers, once a favourite palace of the Bishops of Lincoln, once of the most powerful positions in the Middle Ages.
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• British Isles
  ...reland satellite image bright.png|300px|thumb|right|A satellite photograph of the British Isles, the island on the right being Great Britain and the smal ...h and east of the islands lies continental Europe, 21 miles from the coast of [[Kent]] at the nearest point. To the north is open sea until the Faroe Isl
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• Melton Mowbray
  ...es, being the home of the Melton Mowbray pork pie and one of the six homes of Stilton cheese. ...own is found 14½ miles northeast of [[Leicester]], and 18 miles southeast of [[Nottingham]]. Both the [[River Eye, Leicestershire|River Eye]] and the [
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• Lincoln
  ...n]] of [[Lincolnshire]]. It is a picturesque cathedral city at the centre of Lincolnshire and an ancient city, old when the Romans came and yet preservi Lincoln stands at the gap of the [[Lincoln Edge]], where the [[River Witham]] breaks through it. The Edg
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• Stamford
  ...lanes tumble to the meadows and the river is bridged here by a fine bridge of Barnack stone. The town is best known for its mediæval core of streets, lined with 17th-18th century stone buildings, older timber framed
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• Hatford
  |LG district=Vale of White Horse ...northern [[Berkshire]] in a parish of some 1,000 acres lying in the [[Vale of White Horse]].
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• Milton, Berkshire
  |LG district=Vale of White Horse |website=[http://www.milton-parish.co.uk/ Parish of Milton]
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• West Dereham
  |post town=King's Lynn |LG district=King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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• King's Lynn
  |name=King's Lynn |picture caption=King's Lynn
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• Wymondham
  ...first laid down by the Romans, though Wymondham is a somewhat more recent of foundation; nor more than 15 centuries old or so. ...engineering and all the enterprise of small-town Norfolk, it is a mixture of the calm and the industrious. It is also where the Norfolk Constabulary ha
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• Alderney
  |county=Bailiwick of Guernsey |map=Alderney - Bailiwick of Guernsey.svg
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• Lambourn
  '''Lambourn''' is a large village in western [[Berkshire]], on the dip slope of the [[Berkshire Downs|Lambourn Downs]]. It is most noted for its associati ...f [[Swindon]], seven miles south-west of [[Wantage]] and seven miles north of [[Hungerford]].
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• Woolstone, Berkshire
  |LG district=Vale of White Horse ...lage in [[Berkshire]] about 4½ miles south of [[Faringdon]] in the [[Vale of White Horse]].
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• Morpeth
  |picture caption=Aerial view of Morpeth Court House ...om the A1, which bypasses it. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 13,833. Nearby villages include [[Mitford, Northumberland|Mitford]] and [[P
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...[Nottinghamshire]]. It stands on the [[River Trent]], the A1 (on the route of the old Great North Road), and the [[East Coast Main Line]] railway. It ha ...s, and had to be relieved by Prince Rupert in a battle known as the Relief of Newark.
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• Kennington
  '''Kennington''' is an urban town of [[Surrey]] within the metropolitan conurbation spreading out from [[London] ...e Surrey Oval and of the Imperial War Museum. The Oval is the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club and serves too as an international cricket groun
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• Bayham Old Abbey
  |picture caption=The ruins of Bayham Abbey ...near [[Frant]] in [[Sussex]]. The ruins to be seen today are the remains of a mediæval abbey.
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• Putney
  In a 2005 New Economics Foundation survey of 27 London high streets, Putney's was deemed the fifth most "cloned", offeri ...ttp://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf | author=Mayor of London | publisher=Greater London Authority | title=London Plan (Consolidat
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• Reigate
  ...n commuter belt]]. It forms a continuous urban area with the adjacent town of [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]]. It is within the Reigate Hundred, to which it ...]] a mile north of the town (756 feet) and [[Reigate Hill]] 2½ miles east of that Colley Hill (723 feet).
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• Shrewsbury
  |picture=Old Shrewsbruy Market Hall -England.jpg ...hill in a bend of the [[River Severn]] in the midst of its county, a town of some 70,000 inhabitants,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.world-gazetteer.com
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• Bath
  ...Bath built on the gushing hot water springs which are its origin and that of its name. ...insignia.htm |title=Civic Insignia |accessdate=10 December 2007 |work=City of Bath }}</ref>
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• Thames Ditton
  ...and main road. Nevertheless, Thames Ditton manages to retain the character of a village, albeit a distinctly suburban one. ...ial housing, office and retail shops in about equal proportion. The growth of supermarket shopping has devastated a formerly thriving small retail sector
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• Weybridge
  ...008 it was calculated that of the ten most expensive streets in South East England (outside the conurbation), six were in Weybridge.<ref>[http://property.time ...it, referring to the monument to the Duchess of York erected at the bottom of the hill in 1820.
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• Wimbledon
  ...] within the metropolitan conurbation but bounded by the great green space of [[Wimbledon Common]] which, along with the village's own qualities, preserv ...c., of London and its suburbs, described and illustrated, for the guidance of strangers|author=Edward Kemp|page=29 |publisher=John Weale, 1851 |accessdat
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• Ipswich
  ...ary of the [[River Orwell]]. A little downstream is the complementary port of [[Felixstowe]]. Inland are [[Needham Market]] and [[Stowmarket]] in Suffol ...have a common origin with the River Gipping which is the non-tidal section of the River Orwell.
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• Bury St Edmunds
  ...of shopping streets. The cathedral is the episcopal seat of the [[Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich]]. ...ltural and retail centre for western Suffolk. Tourism is also a major part of the economy.
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• Worcester
  ...[[Diocese of Worcester]], one of the oldest bishoprics in the [[Church of England]] and in the Early Middle Ages, the richest. ...evern Valley, some 30 miles southwest of [[Birmingham]] and 29 miles north of [[Gloucester]].
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• Evesham
  ...am lies within the [[Vale of Evesham]], an area comprising the flood plain of the [[River Avon, Warwickshire|River Avon]], and which was once a major cen The town centre stands within a loop of the Avon and is regularly subject to severe flooding: those in 2007 were th
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• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  [[File:Peterborough.Chronicle.firstpage.jpg|right|thumb|230px|The first page of the ''Peterborough Chronicle'']] ...the last Chronicle was discontinued at the beginning of the reign of King Henry II.
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• Alcester
  ...]], and 8&nbsp;miles south of [[Redditch]]. The 2001 recorded a population of 6,214 in the town. In Roman times Alcester (''Alauna'') was a walled town and Roman fort of some importance, standing at a junction between the [[Ryknild Street]] Roma
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• Aberdaron
  |picture=A view of Aberdaron from the beach - geograph.org.uk - 1214708.jpg ...n of 1,019 in 2001. Aberdaron is sometimes referred to as the "Land's End of Wales" ({{lang|cy|Pendraw'r Byd}}).
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