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• Oakham
  ...the largest man-made lakes in Europe. It is in the [[Vale of Catmose]] and the town itself is built on an incline, and varies from 325ft above sea level ( ...arket held in the town's market square every Wednesday and Saturday (near the ancient octagonal '''Buttercross''' with its pyramidal roof and wooden stoc
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• Chepstow
  |picture caption=Chepstow Castle and 1816 road bridge across the Wye ...[[River Severn]], and close to the western end of the [[Severn Bridge]] on the [[M48 motorway]]. It is 16 miles east of [[Newport, Monmouthshire|Newport]
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• Milton Keynes
  ...s incorporate pre-existing towns within its area. It is situated mostly in the [[Newport Hundred]], with [[Shenley Brook End]] in [[Cottesloe Hundred]]. ...[Milton Keynes Village]], lying a few miles east of Central Milton Keynes (the planned centre).
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• Filey
  ...s into both, with the 12th-century parish church of St Oswalds situated in the North. ...shire Wolds]]. Filey is the finishing point for Great Yorkshire Bike Ride. The 70 mile ride begins at Wetherby Racecourse.
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• Birmingham
  |name = Birmingham |picture = Birmingham -UK -Skyline.jpg
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• Glasgow
  ...lyde]], Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the [[United Kingdom]]. Glasgow has a distinctive dialect, the Glasgow "patter" giving Glaswegians (or "Weegies") a ready identity.
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• Inner Temple
  |picture caption=Hare Court within the Inner Temple |ownership=The Honourable Society<br />of the Inner Temple
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• Uxbridge
  | picture caption = The Chimes and Uxbridge High Street ...ithic hunters, as well as various animal bones and traces of charcoal from the remains of campfires.<ref name="Cotton p.8"/>
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• Hampton-in-Arden
  |picture=The High Street Hampton in Arden.JPG .../localhistory/16378.htm Solihull Council Web site]</ref> Its population in the 2001 census was 1,787.<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/diss
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• Crewe
  |picture caption=Crewe town centre looking towards the Market Hall ...of Rolls-Royce motor car production. The Pyms Lane factory on the west of the town now produces Bentley motor cars exclusively.
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• Derby
  ...he bridges and engulfed many of the villages and neighbourhoods all around the town. ...s came to the town in 1977, when the Queen presented the letters patent to the Mayor in person.
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• Great Britain
  ...ed Kingdom|counties]] &mdash; of the remaining nine, three are formed from the surrounding archipelagoes, namely [[Anglesey]], [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] ...h Europe by way of the Channel Tunnel, the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world, completed in 1993.
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• Cirencester
  ...home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world founded in 1840. ...co.uk |date=|accessdate=2011-03-03}}</ref> The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in AD 150.
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• Preston
  ...6 June 2006.</ref> The town itself has a population of some 114,300, while the wider area has a population of 132,000. ...eston is derived from Old English words meaning "Priest settlement" and in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' appears as "Prestune".
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• Tardebigge
  ...locks that raise the [[Worcester and Birmingham Canal]] over 220 feet over the [[Lickey Hills|Lickey Ridge]]. ==Name of the village==
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• Stonehenge
  ...orth of [[Salisbury]]. It is the most famous stone circle in the world and the heart of a World Heritage Site. ...Chadburn, Isabelle Bedu|page=18}}</ref> The reason for its construction in the distant past is unknown and will presumably never be known.
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• Berkhamsted
  |picture caption=The High Street, Berkhamsted ...zens against the new Dacorum Borough Council sitting in Hemel Hempstead in the 1970s.
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• Sutton Coldfield
  |LG district=Birmingham ...re]]. Sutton is about eight miles from central Birmingham and close by are Birmingham, [[Lichfield]], [[Erdington]], [[Kingstanding]] and [[Castle Vale]].
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• Cradley, Worcestershire
  ...radley was part of the ancient parish of [[Halesowen]], but unlike much of the rest of that parish, which was an exclave of [[Shropshire]] loacally situat ...st to its namesake, [[Cradley, Herefordshire]] 30 miles southwest, near to the [[Malvern Hills]].
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• Netherton, Black Country
  |picture caption=St Andrews, Netherton, and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre ...erton''' is a town in [[Worcestershire]], within the [[Black Country]], in the detached part of Worcestershire (surrounded by [[Staffordshire]]) in which
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• Willenhall
  |picture='High Noon' in the Market Place - geograph.org.uk - 250898.jpg ...0,000. It is found between [[Wolverhampton]] and [[Walsall]] and stands on the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]].
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• Town and village flags of the United Kingdom
  '''Towns and village flags''' are rare in the [[United Kingdom]] but are a very colourful addition to national vexillolog ...reat deal of symbolism, for the flower is not only a cantling reference to the village name but its stamen portray a maypole pattern.
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• Princes Risborough
  ...oads and the railway through the land here which could not so easily scale the hills above. ...est Wycombe]]: the A4010 road follows this route from West Wycombe through the town and then on to Aylesbury.
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• Stony Stratford
  ...ries before the New Town of Milton Keynes was created which engulfed it to the east and south. ...pp. 476-482.</ref> The town was granted a royal charter in 1194 permitting the holding of a market and it has been denoted a town since 1215.
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• Droitwich
  ...ich''' or '''Droitwich Spa''' is a town in [[Worcestershire]], standing on the [[River Salwarpe]]. ...; this is the result of the subsidence of the ground beneath the centre of the town due to salt extraction.
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• Coleshill, Warwickshire
  |post town=Birmingham ...[M42 motorway]], and the [[M6 motorway]] and [[M6 Toll]] cut the bottom of the town.
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• Stone, Staffordshire
  |picture=The Crown Hotel, Stone - geograph.org.uk - 962527.jpg ...les north of [[Stafford]] and south of [[Stoke-on-Trent]]. It is a town on the ancient main roads and river and long of importance as a hub of communicati
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• Monarch's Way
  [[File:The Royal Oak - geograph.org.uk - 1289763.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Royal Oak at Boscobel House]] '''The Monarch's Way''' is a long-distance footpath 615 miles long<ref name="milli
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• Bulkington
  ...of [[Nuneaton]] and [[Bedworth]], and nearly engulfed by the townscape of the latter. ...ll. She referred to it as ''Raveloe'' in her book ''Silas Marner'' (1861). The church of St James is where George Eliot's uncle and aunt are buried.
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• Polesworth
  ...the continuous villages of St Helena, [[Dordon]] and Hall End directly to the south. ...is four miles away, and the border with [[Derbyshire]] is six miles off to the north.
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• Mercia
  ...River Trent]], but spread in the seventh century to encompass the whole of the [[Midlands]]. Mercia's neighbours included [[Northumbria]], [[Powys]] and the southern [[Wales|Welsh]] kingdoms, [[Wessex]], [[Sussex]], [[Essex]] and [[
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• Temple Church, London
  ...) the Temple Church served as the royal treasury, supported by the role of the Knights Templars in international finance. ...ent Inns of Court whose precincts also take their name from the Knights of old.
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• Wheatley, Oxfordshire
  |picture=The Old Village Lock-up at Wheatley - geograph.org.uk - 361680.jpg |picture caption=The Old Village Lock-up in Wheatley
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• Digbeth
  |post town=Birmingham |LG district=Birmingham
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• Findern
  ...nd the A50 towards the [[M1 motorway]]. The [[River Trent]] is further to the south. ...also has a small Methodist chapel, built in 1835, close to the site of the old priory.
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• Broadway, Worcestershire
  |picture caption=The Church of St Eadburgha ...Worcestershire and close to the [[Gloucestershire]] border, midway between the towns of [[Evesham]] and [[Moreton-in-Marsh]].<ref>[http://www.broadwayvill
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• Bredon
  ...amous by the writer John Moore, whose descriptions of village life between the wars are widely celebrated.<ref>Moore, J. (1946). ''Brensham Village''.</re ...ish, and two of its tributaries, the Carrant Brook and Squitter Brook form the southern boundary.
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• Measham
  ...homestead on the [[River Mease]]''.<ref>Watts, Victor ''et al.,'' (2004) ''The Cambridge Dictionary of Place Names'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridg ...g a settlement on the [[River Mease]], suggests the village was founded in the Saxon period between AD 350-1000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Origins of Place Nam
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• The Grange, Northington
  |name=The Grange |picture caption=The Grange at Northington, East Elevation
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• Beeston, Nottinghamshire
  ...s a suburb of the city of Nottingham, and officially designated as part of the Nottingham Urban Area. ...rge campus just half a mile east of the centre of Beeston. To the south is the [[River Trent]], [[Attenborough, Nottinghamshire|Attenborough]] and its ext
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• Rowington
  [[File:Rowington Mill - geograph.org.uk - 40953.jpg|thumb|300px|The old Rowington windmill, now a house]] ...had a population of 925 according to the 2001 Census, increasing to 944 at the 2011 census.{{sfn|ONS|2001}}
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• Radcliffe, Lancashire
  ...d]] to the south. The disused [[Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal]] bisects the town. ...es formed a small parish and township centred on the Church of St Mary and the manorial [[Radcliffe Tower]], both of which are today Grade I listed buildi
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• Codsall
  ..., adjacent to the border with [[Shropshire]]. It is situated north-west of the city of [[Wolverhampton]]. ...village and even now the strip-field system of cultivation can be seen to the west and north-east of St Nicholas' church.
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• Gray's Inn
  |ownership=The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn ...ive precinct with almost 6 acres of gardens alone, all found just north of the bounds of [[City of London]], north of High Holborn and west of Gray's Inn
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• Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
  ...y]] and two miles north-east of [[Thame]] in neighbouring [[Oxfordshire]]. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 4,502.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://w ...at the Battle of Bedcanford in 571. The [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 records the manor as ''Hedreham''. In 1142 it was recorded as ''Hedenham''.
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• Napton-on-the-Hill
  |picture caption=The Oxford Canal viewed from Napton |website= [http://www.napton-on-the-hill.co.uk/ Napton-on-the-Hill]
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• Walton-on-Trent
  |picture caption=Walton is in the National Forest ...Hall house. Today the village is situated almost exactly midway between [[Birmingham]] and [[Derby]], and is very close to [[Burton upon Trent]].
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• Twyford, Buckinghamshire
  |picture caption= Parish church of the Assumption '''Twyford''' is a village and parish in the [[Buckingham Hundred]] of [[Buckinghamshire]]. It is about two miles west
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• Nether Whitacre
  |post town=Birmingham [[File:The Gate Pub - geograph.org.uk - 292679.jpg|thumb|250px|The Gate 'Pub']]
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• Severn Stoke
  |picture=Severn Stoke - church and old houses - geograph.org.uk - 938713.jpg |picture caption=Church and old houses
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• Harbury
  ...The parish includes the hamlet of Deppers Bridge. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,420.<ref name="2011 census">{{NOMIS2011 |id= 11702 ...ver Itchen]] to the east, [[Fosse Way]] to the north-west, a minor road to the south and field boundaries on its other sides. Adjoining parishes are [[Bis
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• Great Alne
  ...hich our ancestors used to call, and which is called to this day, Alwine." The Celtic word Alwine meaning bright or clear.</ref> ...nment.cfm?source=left Great Alne Parish Council]</ref> At the 2001 census, the population was 587.
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• Claverdon
  ...n the [[Barlichway]] hundred of [[Warwickshire]], about five miles west of the [[county town]] of [[Warwick]]. ...> It includes modern development along with historic buildings: the forge; The Stone Building; St Michael's Church; and 16th and 17th century half-timbere
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• Coughton, Warwickshire
  ...m]] on the Birmingham–Alcester A435 road, which here follows the line of the [[Roman roads|Roman]] [[Icknield Way]]. ...uncil – Census 2001 Parish Profile, Coughton]</ref> increasing to 157 in the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/
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• Earl's Court
  ...[[Kensington]] to the east, [[Chelsea]] to the south and [[Kensington]] to the north-east. ...Earls Court Exhibition Centre built before the Second World War as one of the country's largest indoor arenas and a popular concert venue, and which stoo
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• Blackthorn, Oxfordshire
  ...field boundaries to the west. The parish's eastern boundary forms part of the county's border with Buckinghamshire. ...the neighbouring village of [[Ambrosden]] is in the parish of Blackthorn. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 317.
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• Oriel College, Oxford
  ...rgin in Oxford, commonly called Oriel College, of the Foundation of Edward the Second of famous memory, sometime King of England |principal=The Lord Mendoza
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• Hanbury, Worcestershire
  |picture caption=St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury ...ry''' is a rural village in [[Worcestershire]], near [[Droitwich Spa]] and the [[M5 motorway]].
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