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  • Moore Place, on the outskirts of Esher is now a bar and restaurant. The Moore Place Estate remains a privat Esher lies within the hundred of Elmbridge. The local newspaper is the Esher News and Mail.<ref>[http://www.
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  • ...[[Devon]] situated six miles north of [[Tavistock]] on the western fringe of [[Dartmoor]]. ...ch courses through a deep, narrow gorge. The gorge is crossed by a bridge of single span; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in
    9 KB (1,465 words) - 21:13, 27 October 2010
  • ...n 1769, a lively affair in which John Wilkes was elected, though the House of Commons rejected him (a scandal which has never been repeated). In 1795 New Brentford was considered as the county-town, but the justices of Middlesex met in [[Clerkenwell]]. Pevsner noted that Brentford possessed n
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  • ...Thames at Hampton are a number of "eyots", river islands. The eastern end of the village is marked by the Green, beyond which is Hampton Court. ...mtun'' means "home village" or ''home estate'', a common place name across England and Scotland. In Middlesex it attaches not just to Hampton itself but to i
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  • |ownership=The Honourable Society<br />of the Inner Temple ...elf governed by the Parliament of the inn and an executive council made up of the elected Benchers.
    35 KB (5,565 words) - 17:21, 25 October 2017
  • ...le of the place (eye-zul) has no relation to any 'isle' and is an instance of a counterintuitive place name. However in this instance it can be argued th ...ff Thomas Brigge or Berigge, clerk, on a plea of debt, with Richard Beaupe of Thistelworth, Middx</ref>
    32 KB (5,049 words) - 12:42, 23 January 2020
  • |picture caption=City of Lichfield ...ffordshire]]. It lies in the midst of rural Staffordshire, 16 miles north of [[Birmingham]].
    19 KB (3,067 words) - 13:17, 22 December 2018
  • ...istics, 10 July 2009]</ref> but there is no reliable measure of the number of those students whose family residence is outside Aberystwyth. ...The town takes its name from the Ystwyth, though since the reconstruction of the harbour, the Ystwyth only skirts the town and leaves the Rheidol alone
    13 KB (2,025 words) - 16:48, 19 June 2018
  • |picture caption=Weymouth, Wyke Regis and Portland Harbour<br />from the Isle of Portland ...is eight miles south of [[Dorchester]] and five miles north of the [[Isle of Portland]].
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  • ...ndred of Manhood''' in the [[Rape of Chichester]] is the southernmost part of [[Sussex]] forming a peninsula into the English channel. It is bordered by ...map of 1587, ''Manhode'' on a map of 1663 and ''Manhope'' on Mordens map of 1695.<ref name="allen11">Heron-Allen. Selsey. p.11.</ref>
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  • ...atistics for urban areas in England and Wales | publisher =National Office of Statistics| url =http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_ua_ew The name Falmouth comes from the river Fal but the origin of the river's name is unknown.
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  • ...ination, with beaches and within easy reach of the Lands End and the sites of the wild [[Penwith]] peninsula. Penzance is also the port for sailing to the [[Isles of Scilly]], and outside the town is also the heliport for Scilly.
    23 KB (3,808 words) - 13:57, 27 January 2016
  • |picture=King Street - geograph.org.uk - 470948.jpg |picture caption=King Street
    11 KB (1,851 words) - 10:17, 22 December 2018
  • ...h is the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire. ...n centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth-century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older
    20 KB (3,101 words) - 23:18, 16 November 2018
  • |name=Isle of Wight |picture=Isle of Wight coastline.jpg
    23 KB (3,704 words) - 17:07, 29 November 2016
  • ...Stone.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ward's Stone; the highest point in the Forest of Bowland]] ...estern [[Pennines]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. It is a moorland of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat beds. The hills are known as
    10 KB (1,562 words) - 23:32, 9 December 2016
  • .... The greater river, the Thames, is to the west, separated from the body of the village by narrow farmland, a water-meadow and flooded gravel workings. ...est. From the Georgian period, Dorchester was a busy coaching centre, but of the ten original coaching inns, just two remain: The George and The White H
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  • |constituency=City of Durham ...Durham]], of which it is the county town. The city centre stands in a loop of the [[River Wear]], dominated by the vast Cathedral, atop a precipitous cli
    31 KB (4,924 words) - 10:38, 30 March 2016
  • ...rwickshire|River Avon]], 11 miles south of [[Coventry]] and 2½ miles west of [[Leamington Spa]], with which town it has grown together. The centre of Warwick stands on a hill which drops sharply down to the river. The Castle
    10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:35, 29 January 2016
  • ...]]. It stands at the western end of the [[South Downs]], along the course of the [[River Itchen]]. ...of Wessex and of the Kingdom of England. It developed from the Roman town of ''Venta Belgarum''.
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