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  • ...dustrial cities grew hungry for coal and the forges sought iron. Over the course of the nineteenth century the coal mines in particular multiplies and new p ...und of wooden flutes, bone flutes, panpipes, wooden drums and lyres (a six-string form of harp).<ref>{{cite book|author=Gething, Paul|title= Northumbria: The
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  • ...tropolitan Green Belt]]. Along the north shore of the Thames estuary is a string of towns given over to industry or leisure, as far as [[Shoebury]], and amo
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  • ...broad, flat peninsula whose inland parts are farmland but whose coast is a string of holiday resorts centred on the best known of them all; [[Blackpool]].
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  • ...th Wales. Further Norman adventurers penetrated further north and built a string of castles where they came, notably at [[Newport, Pembrokeshire|Newport]] a
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  • ...ns such as [[Bognor Regis]], [[Brighton]], [[Hove]] and [[Worthing]], in a string along the coastal plain between the [[South Downs]] and the [[English Chann
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  • ...tury when the Co-Operative Wholesale Society opened its vast and extensive string of factories along its main thoroughfare, Shields Road. Boutlands, Harrison
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  • ...of Wensleydale is [[Hawes]], a fine walking centre and just the first of a string of jewels on the Ure. Lower down are the haunting ruins of Jervaulx Abbey,
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  • ...ing as a public open space. There are fine views over London from here. A string of ponds on either side of the Heath are the twin sources of the [[River Fl
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  • ...oduction of goats and the introduction of new vegetation. As a result, the string tree (''Acalypha rubrinervis'') and the St&nbsp;Helena olive (''Nesiota ell ..., based on the cultivation and processing of New Zealand flax for rope and string. St&nbsp;Helena's economy is now very weak, and the island is almost entire
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  • In the Roman period, sea salt was extracted and a string of settlements were set up along the Polden Hills. The discovery at [[Shapw
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  • The town probably originated in Anglo-Saxon times as a string of houses on the northern side of this ford. It was located on the first dr
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  • ...[[Ascot]] Racecourse. It has two racetracks, The Rowley Mile and The July Course. [[File:A string of horses heads for the gallops - geograph.org.uk - 841213.jpg|left|200px]]
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  • ...1979, 1982, 1985, 1988 and 1991 the city was host to a major international string quartet competition. Later the competition moved to London.
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  • ...om ''Ebbanham'' ("Ebba's home"), after a presumed Anglo-Saxon landowner. A string of settlements ending in ''–ham'' lie along the northern slopes of the Do
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  • ...rn, the largest and lowest of a string of long, thin ponds formed from the course of a bourn running off the [[Hog's Back]] down to the Wey.
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  • ...the breakwater was being built in the 1850s, the island was fortified by a string of 13 forts, designed to protect the harbour of refuge. The accommodation q
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  • ...tennacum) (Ribchester), passing over Blacksnape, plunges on its unswerving course through Blackamoor, over the scarp at Whinney Heights, to pass across the B ...pendent on the cotton industry, warning of the dangers of "only having one string to their bow in Blackburn".<ref>Taylor (2000), p.&nbsp;11.</ref> The warnin
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  • ...g on the coast at the uttermost of the [[Solway Firth]]. It is one of the string of West Cumberland towns along A596 road, with [[Workington]] to the south. ...Club was formed on January 21, 1905 and is now a well established 18 hole course.<ref name="golf">[http://www.maryportgolfclub.co.uk], Maryport Golf Club We
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  • The church has a three-stage tower divided by string courses with clasping corner buttresses, a battlemented parapet with small
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  • ...he ideal village. It sits in the valley of the [[Tillingbourne]], one of a string of delightful villages in the valley of that brook beneath the scarp of the
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  • Joseph Nelson was the engineer and builder, but the heavy weathered string-course near the base and the blocked and hooded directional-light window show the
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  • ...main harbour at Balfour; it has a small lighthouse and a ruined broch. The String, a stretch of water that lies between Helliar Holm and the mainland, has st
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  • Until the end of the 18th century, the town consisted chiefly of a string of houses, shops and warehouses stretching along the coastal dunes either s
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  • ...e]] lying just to the southeast of [[Chipperfield]]. It is no more than a string of houses on the flank of the eponymous hill. [[Chandler's Cross]] lies so
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  • ...even times and the Champion Hurdle four. Her funeral procession included a string of race horses, whose jockeys included Gordon Richards.
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  • ...some famous rock concerts, including the major location for the ''Live 8'' string of benefit concerts. It is estimated that 150–200 thousand people turned
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  • The Bass is one of a small string of islands off part of the [[East Lothian]] coast, which in turn are consid
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  • ...est of the former mediæval settlement. It consists of a schoolhouse and a string of cottages, all in red sandstone.
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  • ...s point. The spread of cottages tentatively reaches across the brook in a string all the way to [[Haslemere]].
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  • '''Stone''', also known as '''Stone-next-Dartford''', is one of a string of villages lying along the [[Dartford]] to [[Gravesend]] road on the south
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  • Puckeridge is the name of a third-string theatre critic in Tom Stoppard's comic drama ''The Real Inspector Hound''.
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  • ...rically been a problem and the Irwell has seen much modification along its course in Salford with some bends being removed, channelisation, and the construct ...g trades, including rexine and sil dyeing, and fulling and bleaching, at a string of works in Salford.<ref name="McNev42"/>
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  • Beneath the ice sheet covering it, the Antarctic Peninsula consists of a string of bedrock islands that are separated by deep channels whose bottoms lie at ...rrestrial vegetation that occurred within the Antarctic Peninsula over the course of the past 37 million years.<ref name="Anderson2012a">Anderson, 2012</ref>
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  • There is a church, dedicated to St Peter, a pub, The Blacksmith's Arms, and a string of houses, the whole surrounded by farmland and pasture.
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  • ...n of the exterior consists of pilaster-strips, a broad frieze of two plain string-courses between which is a blind arcade of round-headed arches whose short
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  • ...r way in, and attract children fishing equipped with a piece of bacon on a string.
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  • ...association with the instrument. Folk harps are made here as well as a 20 string lap harp, and the whole manufacturing process takes place on the site.<ref>
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  • Crosby as an area has been drawn together out of a string of settlements along the [[Irish Sea]] coast.
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  • ...d the Mansion House on High Street, the Crown Hotel on West Street and the String of Horses on Boston Road South. The Station Inn, Red Lion and the Exchange
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  • The parish contained a string of agrarian villages and was part of [[Epping Forest]]. From about 1700 onw
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  • ...ege, and also holds an open workshop for full orchestra in September and a string workshop in May.
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  • ...s |location=|isbn=0-9526702-0-8 }}</ref> The three-stage tower has moulded string courses and an angle stair turret in the north-west corner. The church has
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  • ...with pierced stonework; those to the base are solid. The stair turret has string courses coinciding with those on the tower, and a spirelet with a weatherva
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  • '''Clare''' is a beautiful village in [[Suffolk]]; perhaps the finest of the string of chocolate-box villages in the south of the county. Clare is on the nort
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  • ==Course== ...[Domesday Book]] (1086), the Ouse valley was probably a tidal inlet with a string of settlements located at its margins. In later centuries the Ouse was drai
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  • ...as far afield as Egypt. Situated on Horsforth Beck (Oil Mill Beck) were a string of mills serving the textile trade, but a large area of the town still refl
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  • ==Course== ...valley, and runs down the Rhondda Valley. The river then passes through a string of mining towns and villages including [[Treherbert]], [[Treorchy]], [[Pent
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  • '''Gomshall''' is a little village in [[Surrey]], one of the string of pearls along the [[Tilling Bourne]]. The village stands on the A25 runni
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  • ...s to the north of [[Leith Hill]] at {{map|TQ143437}} and it runs through a string of delightfully pretty villages; [[Friday Street, Surrey|Friday Street]], [ ...es=1–3}}</ref> The river is classified as a subsequent stream, since its course is determined by the direction of the stratum of softer rock for the majori
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  • ....rte.ie/sport/racing/2008/0116/hri.html RTE - 2007 Irish Racing]</ref> The course held Ireland's first ever meeting under floodlights on September 27, 2007. ...ber-Orchestra/125405340857931 Fr. McNally Chamber Orchestra]</ref> It is a string chamber orchestra made of violins, violas, double basses and cellos and has
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  • ...al routes northwards into the west side of the Central Belt of Scotland. A string of small towns have long since developed along these routes.. For the hill walker the Lowther Hills would be taken to mean the string of tops lying between the Dalveen Pass and the Mennock Pass and running sou
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  • [[Part III of the Mathematical Tripos|Master of Advanced Study]] course in mathematics. * Fundamental contributions to string theory, by Michael Green
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  • After 1560, the rectory was held by a string of eminent clergymen. John Whitgift, later [[Province of Canterbury|Archbis
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  • ...with buff [[Forest of Dean]] stone dressings, walls battered below string course, and with steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs. It comprises aisleless nave, c
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  • ...ginning of the [[Ochil Hills]]. Blairlogie is thus the westernmost of the string of village beneath the scarp of the Ochil Hills which are collectively know
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  • ...the foot of the escarpment of the [[Ochil Hills]], and is one of the long string of such villages collectively known as the [[Hillfoots Villages]].
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  • The dominant Gaelic clans in this region were the McCarthys and O'Mahonys: a string of castles along the coastline bears testament to their struggles and to th
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  • ...Beta Island lies to the east of Alpha Island, and is the westernmost of a string of five sequentially named Greek-letter islands. Beta is southwest of [[Ne ''Ζ:'' Zeta Island is the easternmost of the string of Greek Letter Islands south of the main chain in the Great Sound, and the
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  • ...Bond is set in Borth and the surrounding countryside.<ref>Nancy Bond, ''A String in the Harp'', Atheneum, 1976</ref>
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  • ...index.html|title=Undiscovered Scotland}}</ref> Traquair House was one of a string of towers built along the line of the River Tweed as defence of the borderl
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  • Smailholm Tower, one in a string of Borders keeps guarding the [[River Tweed|Tweed]] valley, was built not l
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  • ...over the entrance, the windows of this elevation were gothicized. A string-course of moulded brick marked the level of the first floor. A hipped roof with an
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  • ...great gash of the [[Great Glen]] in [[Inverness-shire]]. It is one of the string of long lochs along the glen, the narrowest of the three, with [[Loch Ness] The loch provides part of the course of the [[Caledonian Canal]], of which it is the highest point.<ref name=Gaz
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  • ...from the early 16th century and the present Main Street was created from a string of farms and farmworkers' dwellings. ...:St Bees south head (Tomlin).JPG|View of south head (Tomlin) from the golf course
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  • ...at the harbour mouth, across which is [[Sandbanks]], the beginning of the string of owns leading up to [[Poole]]. A frequent ferry crosses the narrows and
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  • ...many archaeological recoveries have been made. This location is one of a string of marching camps that connected [[Angus]] to [[Moray]].
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  • ...nd 1849, it was the first major example of a wrought-iron tied-arch or bow-string girder bridge. It is a simple engineering solution to a difficult problem a
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  • ...The triforium is separated from the arcade by a single horizontal [[string course]] that runs unbroken the length of the nave. There are no vertical lines li ...front rises in three distinct stages, each clearly defined by a horizontal course. This horizontal emphasis is counteracted by six strongly projecting buttre
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  • ...water 3 feet 6 inches and tapering to 8 inches above which a 4-inch string course runs throughout the length of bridge. The bridge is thought to date from th
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  • ...nvenience. There are Views down to a Pond; of these Ponds there are 4 in a string, which make a mile in length.}}
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  • ...ted batter or talus. The top of the talus is marked by a decorative string-course of stone. The keep is a rare example of a cylindrical keep in the [[British
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  • ...itable staging post at this site between their major legionary bases and a string of forts in the interior, such as [[Y Gaer]] near [[Brecon]] and with links
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  • ...transepts. The side aisles are a Victorian restoration down to the string course.
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  • ...ange, from undressed stone, although the Ruthven Lodging is decorated with string courses, horizontal mouldings running around the walls. The large windows w
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  • ...beside [[Watling Street]] did, however, mean that there continued to be a string of notable visitors. Most famously, Queen Elizabeth I stayed in Rochester f ...ved head at each side. The line of the nave roof is delineated by a string course above which rises the crenelated parapet. Below the window is a blind arcad
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  • {{quote|It lies in the form of a bow bent whereof the bog is the string and the river the bow.}}
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  • ...The chancel has a Victorian arch to its organ chamber and a moulded sill string on east, stepped down at south end. Sill of south window lowered to form se
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  • ...shments that make Cotswold architecture so picturesque: projecting gables, string-courses, windows with stone mullions and dripmoulds and stone hoodmoulds ov
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  • ...3rd century AD. It was part of the system known as the [[Saxon Shore]], a string of forts maintained as a defence against Saxon raids on the coatss and rive
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  • ...s a four-storey square tower, 54&nbsp;ft high, built of rubble with ashlar string courses and a crenellated parapet. It is a category B listed building. The
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  • ...xterior displays numerous "double keyhole" gunloops, as well as decorative string courses and corbelling. Over the entrance are blank panels framed by carved
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  • ...sion under Claudius in AD 42, and in a later centurty it became one of the string of forts of the [[Saxon Shore]].
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  • ...and the original structure. The brickwork is in English bond with moulded string courses.<ref name=Rigold17/>
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  • ...mill as a speculative venture, Harrison and his successors let it out to a string of trustees.
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  • ...sings, these are slightly curved and ramped, with chamfered ashlar quoins, string courses, and moulded cornices.<ref name=EHD /> The structural cast-iron con
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  • Mitchell straddles the old course of the A30 road but a dual carriageway bypass now carries the traffic north ...ding Wizz Jones, Jacqui McShee, Clive Palmer (co-founder of The Incredible String Band), and Ralph McTell.<ref>Chris Hockenhull; ''Streets of London - The Of
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  • The bridge is a bow-string arch design, 650 ft long and forms part of the city's Southern Distributor
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  • ...primarily from local schools. The orchestra was set up in 1984. Triggshire String Orchestra has been established in its wake. ...an.org/worship/calendar-by-type.php?t=3&d=2009-07-11 Concert by Triggshire String Orchestra]
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  • Joseph Nelson was the engineer and builder, but the heavy weathered string-course near the base and the blocked and hooded directional-light window show the
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  • ...mmer's</ref> private island in the [[British Virgin Islands]], amongst the string of islands in the south of the territory known as the [[Little Sisters]]. I
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  • ...evelop into crocketed pinnacles at the top stage. The top displays moulded string courses and a trefoil-pierced triangular parapet with gargoyles and corner
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  • ...e="IoEchurch"/> The four-stage west tower has set back buttresses, moulded string courses and the north-east corner has a polygonal stair turret. Trefoil-hea
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  • ...t Band, Elphinstone Fiddlers, Flute Choir, New Music Ensemble, Steel Pans, String Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, Viol Consort.
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  • ...by BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny. Performers included the Carducci String Quartet, Philip Higham (cello), Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello with Iain
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  • ...ed "Melandra" in the 19th century by an amateur historian. It was one of a string of forts built along the route from [[Lincoln]] (Lindum Colonia) to [[Chest
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  • ...in ashlar stone separated from the old rubble walling by a moulded string course. The old floors were removed and the walls raised to 45 feet to the top of
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  • ...ted in the area since at least 1818, at which time it had converted from a string band to a reed band. Its founders were John, James and Joseph Clegg – thr
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  • |design=Bow and string '''Windsor Railway Bridge''' is a wrought iron 'bow and string' bridge near [[Windsor]], designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It carries
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  • ...rth: three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools, all within an enigmatic large-scale formal landscape.</blockquote
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