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  • |[[Chase End Hill]] || align="right"|625 ...The Malvern Hills form] an island of high ground surrounded by lower lying land, most noticeably to the east. As a result, the [h]ills are clearly visible
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  • Late Roman documents describe the land around today's Caernarfonshire as ''Venedotia'', which is a Latin form of t ...against King Edwin in Northumbria; the allies defeated Edwin at [[Hatfield Chase]] and Cadwallon, King of Britain, became the effective ruler of all north B
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  • Sir Aubrey Vere Hunt of [[Curragh Chase]] purchased the island from John Cleveland in 1802 for £5,270. Sir Vere Hu ...ish ship and one engine damaged by anti aircraft fire, forcing it to crash land. A few remains can be found on the crash site. Reportedly to avoid reprisal
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  • |name=Chase End Hill |picture=Chase End Hill - geograph.org.uk - 1086840.jpg
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  • ...e 1890s. Part of an Iron Age or Roman period stone quern has been found in land between North and South Killingholme. ...enclosed fields; there were two small woods, ''Burkinshaw's Covert'' and ''Chase Hill Wood'', north-east of the village.<ref>Ordnance Survey. 1:2500 1887</r
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  • ...Parish Council]</ref> Other parts of the Parish fall within the Cranbourne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, and are an "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty".< ...37, retrieved 12 October 2011]</ref> and one of the finest examples in the land. The building consists of a chancel and aisleless nave, separated by squar
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  • ...h of its existence, the town remained to the north of the river, since the land to the south was subject to extensive seasonal flooding.<ref name=Flood>{{c ...red car. Mr Arnold was eventually apprehended by a policeman who had given chase on his bicycle.
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  • The name is whimsical name for a dwelling or piece of land considered to be in a remote spot or situated on the boundary of the paris *Enfield Chase railway station
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  • ...e|year=1999}}</ref> There is ancient woodland on the valley slopes and the land close to the river was used for grazing. Pollen evidence from the Mardyke v ...VCH, volume 8]</ref> From about 1760, sluice gates protected the lowlying land through which the Mardyke flows from the tidal and saline Thames.
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  • ...endent.co.uk/environment/nature/rare-bird-sends-twitchers-on-a-wild-plover-chase-821129.html| accessdate=2009-07-24}}</ref> On June 6 a Citril Finch was fou Today about 60 crofters work the land on the island. It has 14 scheduled monuments, ranging from the earliest sig
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  • After the war, the land was returned to the local council which continued activity at the airport a ...as only one runway, 08/26. The 18/36 grass runway had disappeared under a land fill, while 06/24 had effectively become a taxiway. To remain a viable air
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  • ...ken10">{{cite book|last=Bracken |first=L. |title=History of the forest and chase of Sutton Coldfield |year=1860 |publisher=Benjamin Hall|pages=10}}</ref> Th ...ed into the possession of the King, then William the Conqueror, and Sutton Chase becoming a Royal Forest.<ref name="Salzman">{{cite book|last=Salzman |first
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  • ...the spread of the [[Black Country]] conurbation. To the north is [[Cannock Chase]]. ...long-standing rumour in the local area that the Clee Hills are the highest land eastwards until the Ural Mountains in Russia, hence the name of the pub in
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  • ...n 1944, Major Le G.G.W. Horton Fawkes of Farnley Hall donated 263 acres of land on the Chevin to the people of Otley. This has been expanded to 700 acres a ...he old Police Station. The town was the setting for the drama series ''The Chase'' and the ITV dramatisation of ''The Bad Mother's Handbook''.
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  • ...there. "Forest" in the historical sense of royal forest meant an area of land reserved for royal hunting, where the forest laws applied, and did not impl ...y commissioned a building, known as Great Standing, from which to view the chase at [[Chingford]]. The building was renovated in 1589 for Queen Elizabeth I
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  • In 1565, a land survey was completed which recorded 62 houses in Eastcote, of which four we ...possessions there. Lady Alice lived at Harefield Place, and purchased the land on which the hall was built from the Haydon family. The family appear in pa
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  • ...sic car rally and nearby Worcester Racecourse revived ''The Land O’Plums Chase'' from 72 years ago.<ref name="plum festival">[http://www.pershoreplumfesti
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  • ===Landscape and land use=== ...ng 2% includes a variety of uses, including communications, military, open land, recreation, utilities and water.<ref name=changelandscape/>
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  • ...e]] within the [[Black Country]]. The town stands on the edge of [[Cannock Chase]] near the large artificial lake [[Chasewater]], six miles north-east of [[ ...r, [[Chasewater]], which lies to the north, between Brownhills and Cannock Chase. The reservoir was constructed in the 18th century and reshaped by reclamat
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  • ...where a brook crossed the Baptist End Road, near the boundary of Pensnett Chase, a partially wooded common.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dudley.gov.uk/Ea ...the Enclosure Acts of the late 18th century, allowing building in Pensnett Chase, the present town centre took shape further up the hill than its original s
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