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  • ...re archaic, for example "How art thee maid?". Laugharne is at the eastern end of the south Wales Englishry and only a minority of its inhabitants have ev
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  • ...ded by the Bishop of Truro, George Howard Wilkinson in 1883 and came to an end in 2008 with the death of the last nun.<ref>Article by Richard Savill "Last ...hops for national chain stores, the eroding of its identity, and also over how to accommodate future expected growth in the 21st century.
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  • ...ry (title track of the album) was written about the town of Corby, telling how many Scots went to work there, but found themselves unemployed when the ste ...9 the end of iron and steel making in Corby was formally announced. By the end of 1981 over 5,000 jobs had been lost from British Steel in Corby, and furt
    12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:06, 28 January 2016
  • ...ogether with "The Old Man", are known as the [[Furness Fells]]. [[Gummer's How]] is a prominent hill in the east of the region. ...he [[Irish Sea]] and marks the western edge of Morecambe Bay. The southern end of the peninsula is dominated by the bay's tidal mudflats.
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  • ...n as he wished to use it as a model for his vision; the shining example of how his new world would work. On the moors between Aycliffe and Middridge was a The second phase of building saw the end of roads, ways and crescents, instead whole areas were named after trees; B
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  • ...oleonic Wars.<ref>[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1649 How monkey murder brought British coastal towns together]</ref> According to le ...ttish folk song called "And the Boddamers hung the Monkey-O". It describes how a monkey survived a shipwreck off the village of [[Boddam, Aberdeenshire|Bo
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  • How Claygate got its name is clear to anyone who walks in the woods here, and f ...eral small farms in Claygate, the most known being Horringdon Farm, at the end of Vale road. Some of the farms are horseriding centres.
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  • ...he river side of the Exchange Building to the right, it is possible to see how the two ends of the building, founded on the natural levees of The Haven, h
    19 KB (3,202 words) - 10:35, 16 February 2019
  • ...river that runs through the town, most picturesquely in front of the east end of St Mary's Church, the town's parish church. The river is named the [[Riv ...rkably large for a town of its size. The size of the church is evidence of how Hitchin prospered from the wool trade. It is the largest parish church in [
    9 KB (1,489 words) - 13:09, 3 August 2017
  • ...the Sir Charles Napier pub for a bypass to the traffic lights at the west end of the High Street.<ref>[http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/news/Save-town-s ...omas Munn (d. 1750), 'gentleman brickmaker' of Brentwood, met a less noble end: he was hanged for robbing the Yarmouth mail and his body was exhibited in
    24 KB (3,735 words) - 16:55, 27 January 2016
  • ...e whole.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2001/sep/29/fashion ''How to wear clothes''] Jess Cartner Morley, ''The Guardian'', Saturday 29 Septe ...clubs and pubs which offer a variety of venues to rival those of the West End. Art galleries, bars, restaurants, media businesses and the building of the
    16 KB (2,436 words) - 13:49, 28 January 2016
  • There is an extensive RSPB reserve towards the west end of the island.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/c/ ...c on ground-dwelling bees, and is also flightless, begging the question of how it arrived on the island. It does not appear to be found on neighbouring Ti
    8 KB (1,381 words) - 18:44, 31 January 2017
  • ...athedral Church of St Nicholas, Newcastle Cathedral, was built towards the end of the twelfth century, replacing an earlier parish church of the same dedi ...ould be written in thwe south "dede", "coo", "hoos" and "strang", which is how they were pronounced in Old English. Other Geordie words with Anglo-Saxon
    32 KB (4,917 words) - 12:52, 30 March 2016
  • ...meaning "island in the stream" or "current". A lighthouse at the northern end of the island warns ships of the nearby Swilkie whirlpool. Once populous, ...lly, this was shortly after the construction of a new harbour at the south end of the island.
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  • ...eneficeoflangelei.org.uk/st-benedicts-bennetts-end/ St Benedict], Bennetts End **[http://beneficeoflangelei.org.uk/st-marys-apsley-end/ St Mary's], [[Apsley]]
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  • Eastbourne lies at the eastern end of the [[South Downs]] alongside the famous [[Beachy Head]] cliff. The shel ...ead]] cliff, to the west of the town is a towering chalk cliff marking the end of the South Downs.
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  • ...in 1997. One sequence shows the detonation of an anthrax bomb fixed at the end of a tall pole supported with guy ropes. When the bomb is detonated a brown ...hen being interrogated, the scientist briefly mentions Gruinard Island and how it will be uninhabitable for a century due to anthrax experiments.
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  • ...on Docklands can be seen, a distance of forty miles. One can only imagine how fine and far must have been the view before that fateful summer of 1637. The ''Battle of Goudhurst'' in 1747 led to the end of the Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers.<ref>Mary Waugh, ''Smuggling in Kent and
    8 KB (1,309 words) - 20:58, 27 January 2016
  • ...s Annals of Waverley, an important reference source for the period. By the end of the thirteenth century the abbey was becoming less important. By the tim ...of the dreamlike ''Never Never Land'' was based on the downs of Surrey and how much on the lonely hills of Angus.
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  • ...ep into Pembrokeshire. The Haven is a ria or drowned valley flooded at the end of the last Ice Age formed by the [[Pembroke River]] and the [[River Cledda How far 'tis thither.}}
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