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• Royal Air Force Museum
  ...v.uk}}</ref> but also a registered charity.<ref>{{charity|244708|Royal Air Force Museum}}</ref> *[[Royal Air Force Museum London]] in Hendon, Middlesex, opened 1972
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• Royal Air Force Museum London
  |name=Royal Air Force Museum London ...ve buildings and hangars showing the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force.
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• Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
  |name=Royal Air Force Museum Cosford ...hire]], is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular.
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• Aberdeenshire
  ...some 8½ miles south-west of [[Ballater]], and has [[Altnagiuthasach]], a royal shooting-box, near its south-western end. [[Loch Strathbeg]], 6&nbsp;miles Over the 20th century road and air communications were much improved. [[Aberdeen Airport]] is an international
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• Anglesey
  The Royal Air Force base RAF Valley is home to the RAF Fast Jet Training School and also 22 Sqn
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• Cheshire
  ...e county had given to King Richard II, in particular by his standing armed force of about 500 men called the "Cheshire Guard". The King's title was changed ...BAE Systems facility at Woodford Aerodrome, part of BAE System's Military Air Solutions division. The facility designed and constructed the Avro Lancaste
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• Cornwall
  ...outh-west peninsula of Great Britain, and is therefore exposed to the full force of the prevailing winds that blow in from the Atlantic Ocean. The coastline ...gif Annual average sunshine for the United Kingdom].</ref> The moist, mild air coming from the south west brings higher amounts of rainfall than eastern G
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• Hampshire
  ...first place in the defence of the realm; [[Portsmouth]] is the home of the Royal Navy, [[Aldershot]] is the Army's biggest fixed camp and [[Farnborough, Ham ...environment since the days of William the Conqueror when it was declared a royal forest, but after the removal of the brutal mediaeval forest laws, the New
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• County Londonderry
  ...the contribution of the London Livery Companies to the Irish Society. The royal charter is dated 29 March 1613,<ref name="Munn">''Notes on the Place Names ...[[Brixham]] to [[London]]. King James's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland sent a force to secure the garrison in Londonderry, but on 7 December the city's apprent
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• Norfolk
  ...growth of the Royal Air Force and the influx of the American USAAF 8th Air Force which operated from many Norfolk Airfields. During the Second World War agr
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• Northamptonshire
  ...com/ Rockingham Castle]. Retrieved 16 August 2009.</ref> and was used as a Royal fortress until Elizabethan times. In 1823 Northamptonshire was said to "[enjoy] a very pure and wholesome air" because of its dryness and distance from the sea. Its livestock were celeb
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• Surrey
  ...of 2,360 acres between [[Richmond, Surrey|Richmond]] and [[East Sheen]], a royal park grazed by herds of deer. Close by are the Old Deer Park, Richmond Hil In 851 an exceptionally large invasion force of Danes arrived in the mouth of the Thames on a fleet of about 350 ships.
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• Yorkshire
  ...| location=London}}</ref> The emblem of Yorkshire is the white rose of the royal House of York, which as displayed on a dark blue background forms the [[Fla ===Air===
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• Abingdon
  ...//www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/abingdon.html|title=Abingdon|publisher=Royal Berkshire History}}</ref>, with people having lived there for at least 6,00 ...gdon became the county town of [[Berkshire]] some time after receiving its Royal Charter in 1556<ref>[http://www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk/councils/abi
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• Edzell
  In 1861, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Edzell, as part of a Royal progress through Angus and [[Kincardineshire]], just weeks before Albert's A former Royal Air Force airfield RAF Edzell is situated four miles from Edzell by road, but only a
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• Peterhead
  Until April 2005, the Royal Air Force station RAF Buchan was located near the town.
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• Dundee
  ...er parts of Scotland due to the close proximity to the North Sea; the salt air and a range of protective hills at the back of the city, which are often sn ...since the Middle Stone Age.<ref name="Stannergate">{{ cite web | author = Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | title = Du
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• Manchester
  ...nchester was thus the target of bombing by the Luftwaffe, and by late 1940 air raids were taking place against non-military targets. The biggest took plac ...nd Alexander Goehr. Manchester is a centre for musical education, with the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music.<ref>{{cite book |
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• Luton
  ...'s major airports. During the Second World War it doubled as a [[Royal Air Force]] base. It was renamed "London Luton Airport" in 1990. ...9-2</ref> no major damage was caused. Luton Airport served as a Royal Air Force base during the war.
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• Barrow-in-Furness
  During World War II, Barrow was a target for the German air force looking to disable the town's shipbuilding capabilities.<ref>{{cite web|url ...s/FactsheetTheRoyalNavysFutureAircraftCarriers.htm |title= FACTSHEET: The Royal Navy's Future Aircraft Carriers | accessdate=23 September 2007 |date= 25 Ju
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• High Wycombe
  ...doc] ''barksdale.af.mil''</ref> Since 1968 all commands of the [[Royal Air Force]] are housed at RAF High Wycombe.
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• Lydd
  ....00 am. This suspicious behaviour at the time tipped off a local Royal Air Force officer, and the visitor failed to produce a required permit permitting him
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• Elgin
  ...in is first documented in the Cartulary of Moray in 1190. It was created a royal burgh in the 12th century by King David I and by that time had a castle on ...orres]] – [[Lossiemouth]] triangle is heavily dependent on the Royal Air Force stations for its employment of civilians. In 2005, RAF Lossiemouth along wi
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• Caerleon
  ...th those of Newport, Cardiff, Llandaff, Abergavenny, Caerphilly and Usk by force.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = The Bull Inn, Caerleon, June 2007 | url = htt ...ut on the other side, protected by meadow and woods, it was remarkable for royal palaces, so that it imitated Rome in the golden roofs of its buildings... F
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• Plymouth
  ...he Americas, while the neighbouring town of Devonport grew as an important Royal Naval shipbuilding and dockyard town. The city's naval importance later led The eastern part of the Hoe is dominated by the Royal Citadel, while the western part provides open space for the townsfolk. In
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• Northwood
  ...stbury Park, the estate purchased by David Carnegie in 1857. The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made us
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• Ruislip
  ...lly avoided demolition in January 1930, after the visit by a member of the Royal Society of Arts to choose the buildings that should be conserved. The Great ...me a college in 1948 and included plaques with the crests of all Royal Air Force squadrons involved in the Battle of Britain as a memorial.<ref>Bowlt 1994,
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• Uxbridge
  ...stands. Uxbridge also houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Sit ...ame="Cotton p.23"/> The town had been chosen as it was located between the Royal headquarters at [[Oxford]] and the Parliamentary stronghold of London.<ref>
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• Unst
  The Saxa Vord Royal Air Force radar station closed in 2006, with the loss of more than 100 jobs.<ref>{{ci
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• Carterton
  ...ir Force is still one of the main employers in the area. The link with the air base also means that the population of Carterton continually fluctuates. Th
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• British flags
  ...some organisations or territories associated with the UK and also used by Royal Navy Captain of Merchant Navy Ship || A blue field, with a Union Flag in th ...y, usually ships bearing the prefix ''HMS'' (but see blue ensign), and the Royal Yacht Squadron|| A red cross on a white field with the Union Flag in the ca
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• British overseas territory
  | align="center"|[[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg|40px]] ...nsion Island is used by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force.
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• Rottingdean
  ...thought to have died in the blaze. The next day the pirates were met by a force led by the Lewes Prior. During the action, two knights, Sir John Fallisle, ...s the oldest man in the world and the last founder member of the Royal Air Force when he died in July 2009.
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• Penzance
  Penzance was granted a number of Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614.<ref>Penzance Charter o ...V's Silver Jubilee.<ref>Janet Smith; ''Liquid Assets - the lidos and open air swimming pools of Britain'' ISBN 0-9547445-0-0</ref> Penzance promenade its
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• Gibraltar
  ...he Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It became an important base for the British Royal Navy, which for most of the colony's history drove the local economy and pr ...d who led the initial incursion into Iberia in advance of the main Moorish force in 711 under the command of Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I.
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• Brampton, Huntingdonshire
  ...rters was established here until the end of the War. Later, the Royal Air Force Technical Training Command billeted staff here (as 'Brampton Park'): the Co
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• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  ...Dependencies''' until 1 September 2009, when a new constitution came into force giving the three islands equal status within the territory.<ref>http://www. ...restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the East India Company received a Royal Charter giving it the sole right to fortify and colonise the island. The fo
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• Bermuda
  ...eb|last=Forbes|first=Keith|title=Bermuda Climate and Weather|publisher=The Royal Gazette|url=http://www.bermuda-online.org/climateweather.htm|accessdate=28 ...d VI to colonise Virginia after two previous failures. The King granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company and in 1609, a company fleet left England u
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• Ascension Island
  ...vel by flying boats and during Second World War was an important naval and air station, especially providing antisubmarine warfare bases in the Battle of ...d, a joint facility of the [[United States Air Force]] and the [[Royal Air Force]] and of the [[BBC]] World Service Atlantic Relay Station. The island was u
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• Tristan da Cunha
  ...north coast were noted, and the results of the survey were published by a Royal Navy hydrographer in 1781. The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert ...zabeth II, visited the islands in 1957 as part of a world tour onboard the royal yacht ''Britannia''.
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• British Indian Ocean Territory
  ...Diego Garcia to the American military for the purposes of building a large air and naval base on the Island. The strategic location of the island was also ...ary, although a British garrison is maintained at all times, and Royal Air Force long range patrol aircraft are deployed there.
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• United Kingdom
  [[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.svg|right|thumb|200px|The Royal Arms]] ...from the United Kingdom to create the Irish Free State, and so in 1927 the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 changed Parliament's title to "the Parlia
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• Isle of Wight
  The Lordship thereafter became a royal appointment, with a brief interruption when Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Henry VIII, who developed the Royal Navy and its permanent base at [[Portsmouth]], fortified the island at [[Ya
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• Wrexham
  Wrexham hosted the [[Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales|National Eisteddfod]] in 1888, 1912, 1933 and ...'s former police station on Regent Street, originally the barracks for the Royal Denbighshire Militia, is now home to Wrexham Museum. The Museum has two gal
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• Bangor, County Down
  Bangor is also host to the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the Ballyholme Yacht Club. Tourism is important, part ...e seekers who travelled on the new railway from Belfast to take in the sea air. The town has been the site of a monastery renowned throughout Europe for i
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• Tiree
  A large Royal Air Force airfield was built on Tiree during Second World War; this became the airpor
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• Christchurch
  ...ished on the town's airfield which manufactured aircraft for the Royal Air Force. ...ok the town in 1645 but was obliged to withdraw and returned with a larger force days later and laid siege to the castle. However, the Parliamentarians with
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• Hereford
  ...| url=http://www.herefordcitycouncil.gov.uk/html/charters.htm | title=The Royal Charters of the City of Hereford | work=Hereford City Council | accessdate= ...ng the famous Hereford breed. The city was the home of the British Special Air Service (SAS) for many years, although the Regiment relocated to nearby Cre
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• Didcot
  ...as since closed and the sites of the large British Army|Army and Royal Air Force ordnance depots that were built to serve these needs have disappeared benea
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• Wallingford
  ...hen it was an important fortified borough of Wessex with the right to mint Royal coinage. It was enclosed with substantial earthworks by King Alfred the Gre ...g the conflict was concluded here in November 1153. The town was granted a Royal Charter in 1155 by the new king, Henry II; only the second town in England
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• Egham
  [[File:Founder's Building, Royal Holloway, south quad.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Royal Holloway's world-famous ''Founder's'' building]] ...the hill in nearby [[Englefield Green]] commemorates all Commonwealth air force personnel killed in Second World War. It was the first new-built British bu
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• Englefield Green
  ...northern [[Surrey]], hard by the border with [[Berkshire]]. It is home to Royal Holloway, University of London, the south eastern corner of Windsor Great P ==Air Forces Memorial==
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• Sanday
  The novelist Eric Linklater described Sanday's shape seen from the air as being like that of a giant fossilised bat. During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a Chain Home radar station at Whale Head on Sanday.
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• Eastbourne
  ...nt which was given the go ahead in 1988. An Act of Parliament had to be in force to allow breaking through of the foreshore owned by the crown. A whole new ...period of growth and elegant development continued for several decades. A royal visit by King George V and Queen Mary in March 1935 is commemorated by a pl
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• Coatbridge
  .../ref> and the "Iron Burgh". Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry. By the time of the 1920s howe ...ef>''Lanarkshire - An Inventory Of The Prehistoric And Roman Monuments'' - Royal Commission On The Ancient And Historical Monuments Of Scotland. HMSO - RCHM
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• Milford Haven
  ...am Hamilton, to be a whaling centre, though by 1797 it was developing as a Royal Navy dockyard which it remained until the dockyard was transferred to Pembr ...Llangwm]], Milford Haven, [[Neyland]], [[Pembroke]] and [[Pembroke Dock]] (Royal Dockyard) Conservation Areas.<ref name="CCW"/>
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• Warrington
  During Second World War, RAF Burtonwood served as the largest US Army Air Force base outside the United States, and was visited by major celebrities like H There was a further RAF training camp at Padgate, a Royal Naval air base at Appleton Thorn (RNAS Stretton) and an army base at the Peninsula Ba
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• Falkland Islands
  ...and Islands : Locations] ''Welcome to the Learning Zone : Visit & Learn'' (Royal Navy)</ref> Artefacts including arrowheads and the remains of a canoe have ...he Imperial German Asiatic Fleet. During World War II, Stanley served as a Royal Navy station and serviced ships which took part in the 1939 Battle of the R
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• Grantham
  ...his was the headquarters for the United States Army Air Forces's Ninth Air Force's IX Troop Carrier Command, being known as Grantham Lodge.<ref>{{cite web|a RAF Spitalgate trained pilots during both world wars, initially as a Royal Flying Corps establishment, but has never been an operational fighter or bo
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• Llanishen, Cardiff
  ...ced in nearby fields, but this was strengthened in 1941 when the Royal Air Force established both a RAF Regiment base and a glider training facility. In 194
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• Culham
  ...upplies to the Royalist headquarters in Oxford. In January 1645 a Royalist force tried to recapture the bridge and destroy it. The skirmish, known as the Ba In 1941<ref name=Lobel/> the Fleet Air Arm opened Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Hornbill, between Culham railway station and Clifton Hampden v
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• Lossiemouth
  .... To the west of the town are a sandy beach, golf links and the Royal Air Force station, RAF Lossiemouth. Lossie Forest is a large pine forest that starts ...as a trading port that the Elgin Burgesses used as a counterbalance to the Royal Burgh of [[Forres]]'s trading port of [[Findhorn]]. The dispute with the Ea
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• Akrotiri
  RAF Akrotiri is a major Royal Air Force base on the north edge of the village. It was first built in the mid-1950s
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• Episkopi Cantonment
  ...C) is from the opposite service of the commander, either a Brigadier or an Air Commodore. The current CBF is Air Vice Marshall Graham Stacey and the DCBF is Brigadier Bill Kingdon.
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• Swirl How
  ...te of a wartime aircrash and bears the sad remains of a Royal Canadian Air Force Handley Page Halifax bomber. The undercarriage, together with a wooden cros
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• Montserrat
  ...s Federation from 1958 to 1962. In 1979, Beatles producer George Martin's AIR Studios Montserrat opened and the island attracted world-famous musicians w ...les an hour and damaging over 90 percent of the structures on the island. AIR Studios closed, and the tourist economy upon which the island depended was
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• Alderney
  ...o fewer than three Jurats (out of the six Jurats). Appeals are made to the Royal Court of Guernsey (which also exercises some original jurisdiction in crimi ...rganisation Todt and used slave labour to build bunkers, gun emplacements, air-raid shelters, and concrete fortifications. In 1942, the Lager Norderney c
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• Royal Wootton Bassett
  |name=Royal Wootton Bassett |picture caption=Royal Wootton Bassett
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• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  ...the South Sandwich Islands from 1976 until 1982 when it was closed by the Royal Navy. The Argentine claim over South Georgia contributed to the 1982 Falkla ...ich Islands.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The South Sandwich Islands conspire with air currents to make wave patterns in clouds]]
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• Lambourn
  ...tilda bequeathed Lambourn and [[Chippenham]] to Hugh de Plucket out of the Royal demesne in 1142 for his aid in The Anarchy of the civil wars against the us ...on, 492d Bombardment Group ("the Carpetbaggers") of the USAAF's Eighth Air Force was returning from an aborted mission. Berkoff maintained control of the pl
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• Morven, Caithness
  ...on a hillside near Morven on 25 August 1942 while serving in the Royal Air Force.
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• Bishop Wilton Wold
  ...RAF Rufforth<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s63.html Royal Air Force - RAF History Bomber Command (website accessed: 27 July 2010)]</ref> crashe
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• Shrivenham
  ...n the site of UK military colleges since 1946 and the establishment of the Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) on the Beckett Estate. This college is n ...g and education to experienced officers of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence Civil Service, and serving officers of other states.
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...he town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/ |title=Newark Air Museum |work=newarkairmuseum.org |year=2011 [last update] |accessdate=29 Au
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• Pembroke Dock
  ...own was greatly expanded from 1814 onwards following the construction of a Royal Naval Dockyard. It is the third largest town in Pembrokeshire, exceeded onl ...other Royal Navy vessels. The last ship launched from the dockyard was the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker ''Oleander'' on 26 April 1922.
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• Durness
  ...t is the local Balnakeil Craft Village, a rather picturesque old Royal Air Force radar base from the Cold War era. The villagers mainly live sustainably and ...Garvie Range used by aircraft of the RAF, Royal Navy and United States Air Force. A rocky islet resembling a ship is used for bombing practice. Although exp
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• Helmsdale
  ...o put this belief down but it lasted a remarkable time and one of the last force-fires was lit in Helmsdale was about 1818. During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built Loth Chain Home radar station at [[Crakaig]] a few miles South West o
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• Islay
  During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built an airfield at [[Glenegedale]] which later became the civil airport f Islay’s place, exposed to the full force of the North Atlantic, has led to its being the site of a pioneering wave p
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• Kennington
  Kennington is a primarily residential area. It is also a Royal manor. ...n 1389. He was paid 2 shillings. The manor house of Kennington remained a royal palace until the time of Henry VIII. Kennington was the occasional residen
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• Tain
  '''Tain''' is a royal burgh in [[Ross-shire]], in [[Easter Ross]]. ...was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making Tain Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh, an event commemorated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by
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• Belfast International Airport
  ...by that name still. The airfield was previously shared with the Royal Air Force base RAF Aldergrove, which closed in 2008; the base is now known as Joint H ...site for the airport was established in 1917 when it was selected to be a Royal Flying Corps training establishment during the First World War. The airport
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• St Kilda
  ...winds, especially strong in winter, are southerly and southwesterly. Gale force winds occur less than 2% of the time in any one year, but gusts of 115 mile <blockquote>"the air is infected by a stench almost insupportable – a compound of rotten fish,
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• Shrewsbury
  ...by up to 120 volunteers who trained on a weekly basis and wore a Royal Air Force style uniform. After the breakup of the communist bloc in 1989, the Royal Observer Corps was disbanded between September 1991 and December 1995. Howe
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• Weston-super-Mare
  ...irst hotel in the village started in 1808; it was called "Reeves" (now the Royal Hotel).<ref name="somharbours">{{cite book |title=Somerset harbours, includ ...story|publisher=Winter Gardens|accessdate=24 January 2010}}</ref> the open air pool, with its arched concrete diving board,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www
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• Bury St Edmunds
  Bury St Edmunds was one of the royal towns of [[East Anglia]]. Sigebert, King of the [[East Angles]], founded a ...arons of England are believed to have met in the Abbey Church and sworn to force King John to accept the Charter of Liberties, the document which influenced
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• Felixstowe
  ...Blitz. Benito Mussolini's airforce proved to be no match for the Royal Air Force, who shot down a fair number of Italian biplanes over the English Channel a ...rthur Balfour, Captain of the Golf Club in 1889, became Captain of the The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1894 and Prime Minister (in successi
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• Lowestoft
  ...name="edplow" /> Lowestoft's other museums include the Maritime Museum and Royal Naval Patrol Service Museum, both located in Sparrow's Nest park in the nor ...al Patrol Service, formed primarily from trawlermen and fishermen from the Royal Naval Reserve, was mobilised at Lowestoft in August 1939. The service had i
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• Crawley
  ...cern until the Second World War when it was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force. ...before her accessiojn to the throne, when she officially opened the Manor Royal industrial area. Building work continued throughout the 1950s in West Green
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• Rapes of Sussex
  ...he old German custom of defining the limits of the 'peace' of popular open-air courts by stakes and ropes,<ref name=EPNS-AMetc/> the ropes then giving a n ...e term may come from the old French ''raper'', meaning to seize or take by force,<ref name=castles>{{cite web|url=http://www.sussexcastles.com/sussex-timeli
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• Aberdaron
  ...of Gwynedd ordered that the fugitive prince be dragged from the church by force, but his soldiers were beaten back by the local clergy allowing Gruffydd to ...tp://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95305/details/CASTELL+ODO/ "Castell Odo"]. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 16 A
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• York
  |picture caption=York from the air ...Window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The roofs of the transepts are of wood. That
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• Whitby
  ...ing royal nunnery of the kingdom of [[Deira]], and the burial-place of its royal family. ...& Royal Cres.JPG|right|thumb|upright|Captain Cook's statue in front of the Royal Crescent]]
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• Guernsey
  .../ChannelIslands.aspx |title=Channel Islands |publisher=The Royal Household Royal.gov.uk |accessdate=31 May 2011}}</ref> ...ed in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parks
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• Bailiwick of Guernsey
  .../ChannelIslands.aspx |title=Channel Islands |publisher=The Royal Household Royal.gov.uk |accessdate=31 May 2011}}</ref> ...ed in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parks
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• Lundy
  ...plar by Henry II in 1160. The Templars were a major international maritime force at this time, with interests in North Devon, and almost certainly an import ...ing the death of Harman's son Albion in 1968,<ref>"Island owner dies after air lift" (source unknown). 24 June 1968</ref> Lundy was put up for sale in 196
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• North Killingholme
  ...1914 and closed 1919.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Birth of the Royal Air Force| first =Ian| last = Philpott| page = 265| year = 2013 | isbn = 97817815933
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• Ayios Nikolaos
  ...ormerly 9 Signal Regiment (2 Wireless Regiment pre-1959) and the Royal Air Force's 33 Signals Unit, is based at Ayios Nikolaos. This unit is believed to be ...ommanded by a Royal Signals Lieutenant Colonel, with a number of Royal Air Force and civilian contractors attached.
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• Jersey
  ...and which attracts many visitors for its fair beaches, little villages and air of peaceful contentment. It is also an offshore financial centre. On 6 January 1781, a French invasion force of 2,000 men (of whom half didn't arrive) landed to take over the island. T
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• Gravesend
  In 1401, a Royal Grant was issued, allowing the men of the town to operate boats between Lon ...t by General Gordon between 1865 and 1879: it is now a museum, partly open-air under the care of the Gravesend Local History Society.<ref>[http://www.grav
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• Crowmarsh Gifford
  In 1944 a Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax bomber with a full bomb load caught fire over Wallingford. Most of
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• Sheppey
  ...small fort. Garrison Fort was built in 1545. Samuel Pepys established the Royal Navy Dockyard in the 17th century. ...ships compelled the little "sandspit fort" there to surrender and landed a force which for a short while occupied the town. Samuel Pepys at [[Gravesend, Ken
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• Bovingdon
  ...e disused former Second World War, Eighth Air Force and post-war Royal Air Force airfield, RAF Bovingdon. ...ircraft was said to be based here, as Bovingdon was the closest Eighth Air Force base to London.
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• Longford River
  Responsibility for the maintenance of the river still resides with the Royal Parks Agency. ...arks/bushy_park/history.cfm |title=History and Architecture |publisher=The Royal Parks |accessdate=2012-02-01}}</ref> It was not universally popular, as it
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