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• Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
  ...villages, hamlets and farmsteads across the fenland, of which the highest place is Ramsey Heights, at sea level. '''Ramsey Forty Foot''' is a hamlet lying due north of Ramsey on the road to Pondersbridge
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• Westonzoyland
  Including the hamlet of Andersea, the parish has a population of approximately 1,600 and is the ...g stationary steam engines and exhibits of land drainage history. Pride of place goes to the station's pumping engine, the Easton and Amos. It is still in t
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• Stratford-upon-Avon
  ...The Royal Shakespeare Rooms was built in the gardens of Shakespeare's New Place home in the early 19th century but became derelict by the 1860s. * '''Nash's House and New Place''': New Place was Shakespeare house, wherein he died. Thomas Nash was the first husband o
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• Ammanford
  ...trong representation of church and chapel members who perhaps resented the hamlet bearing the name of a public house. Another consideration appears to be tha ...Carmarthen, from this time forth, after the Right Hon. Baron, who owns the place, Dynevor.
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• Runcorn
  ...|p=73.}})</ref> Thus it remained for over a century; an isolated and poor hamlet. The only through traffic used the ferry which crossed from Runcorn to the ...ion |url=http://www.theheath.com/index.shtml |title=the heath... the best place for your business |accessdate=29 March 2007 |publisher=The Heath Business a
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• Wallasey
  Poulton was originally a small fishing and farming hamlet beside the Wallasey Pool (hence its name). It developed with the growth of ...d beach. His aim was to develop it as a desirable residential and watering place for the gentry, in a similar way to one of the most elegant seaside resorts
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• Seathwaite, Cumberland
  '''Seathwaite''' is a hamlet in the Borrowdale valley in [[Cumberland]]. It is found 8 miles southwest o The nearby Seathwaite Fell takes its name from the hamlet and lies about a mile to the south&ndash;southwest of it.
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• Moscow
  '''Moscow''' is a hamlet in [[Ayrshire]]. It has no direct connection with the Russian town which s ...lled the '''Volga Burn''' flows through the village, named in a nod to the hamlet's eastern namesake. The burn is a tributary of the [[River Irvine]].
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• Downpatrick
  ...Silurian shales and grits. It also has the distinction of being the lowest place on the island of [[Ireland]], with the marsh surrounding the north east of ...Cathedral Hill, within the grounds of Down Cathedral. His grave is still a place of pilgrimage on St Patrick's Day (17 March each year). The Saint Patrick V
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• Sanquhar
  ...claimed to be the oldest working post office in the world. It was also the place where the Covenanters, who opposed episcopalisation of the church, signed t A settlement by the ''Gall-Gael'' from Ireland is believed to have taken place in the 9th and 10th centuries. In the 12th century Nithsdale was brought wi
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• Nuneaton
  ...h means as 'river-town'. In the Domesday Book ''Etone'' appears as a small hamlet.<ref>[http://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/visiting/markettowns.asp Nuneat ...02) ''Nuneaton: A History'' ISBN 1860772153</ref> a few smaller raids took place on the town, most notably on 25 June 1942. As a result of the bombing, much
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• Denham, Buckinghamshire
  ...e - geograph.org.uk - 232248.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Misbourne at Denham Place Lake]] ...River Misbourne]] crosses the A-road and then on to Village Road at Denham Place.
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• Crowhurst, Surrey
  ...of [[South Godstone]]. It had a population of 349 at the 2001 census. The place-name 'Crowhurst', first recorded in 1189, means 'crow wood'. The hamlet of Crowhurst itself is beside the parish church, with farm and cottages lea
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• Traprain Law
  ...res and must have been a veritable town. Whether it was a seasonal meeting place or permanent settlement is a matter for speculation. The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC, and showed evidence of occupation and signs of
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• Zouch
  There is in the hamlet a single pub, the ''Rose and Crown''. ...term for poor ground.<ref>Poulton-Smith, Anthony (2009) ''Nottinghamshire Place Names''</ref>
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• Shoreditch
  ..., the mistress of King Edward IV, died in the ditch here. However, as the place is attested as 'Soersditch', long before this, a more plausible suggestion ...ditch too; he is believed to be the pattern for Shakespeare's Yorick, in ''Hamlet''. He is buried in Shoreditch church. Richard Burbage, a fellow actor of S
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• Burntisland
  ...docks.<ref>{{cite book |coauthors=Simon Taylor, Gilbert Márkus |title=The Place-Names of Fife, Volume One |publisher=Shaun Tyas |year=2006 |isbn=1 900289 7
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• Gamlingay
  ...d Little Heath and the hamlet of [[Woodbury, Cambridgeshire|Woodbury]]. | hamlet named Newton on the Heath had disappeared by 1279.<ref name=brithist/> '''Gamlingay Cirques''' is a hamlet to the northwest of Gamlingay, lying along the south of Drove Road, which h
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• Saddleworth
  ...area and at [[Castleshaw]] are the remains of a Roman fort. Saddleworth's place names derive from Welsh, English and Norse. ...orth was created. In 1872, nevertheless, Saddleworth was recorded to be "a hamlet, a chapelry, a township, and a district, in Rochdale parish and West Riding
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• Dobcross
  ...ry in the Quickmere division of Saddleworth. For centuries, Dobcross was a hamlet, sustained by domestic flannel and woollen cloth production. Many of the or ...st fulling mill in Saddleworth, Walk Mill would have been a common meeting place for the local clothiers.
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