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• Caerleon
  ...th those of Newport, Cardiff, Llandaff, Abergavenny, Caerphilly and Usk by force.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = The Bull Inn, Caerleon, June 2007 | url = htt ...ut on the other side, protected by meadow and woods, it was remarkable for royal palaces, so that it imitated Rome in the golden roofs of its buildings... F
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• Plymouth
  ...he Americas, while the neighbouring town of Devonport grew as an important Royal Naval shipbuilding and dockyard town. The city's naval importance later led The eastern part of the Hoe is dominated by the Royal Citadel, while the western part provides open space for the townsfolk. In
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• Northwood
  ...stbury Park, the estate purchased by David Carnegie in 1857. The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made us
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• Ruislip
  ...lly avoided demolition in January 1930, after the visit by a member of the Royal Society of Arts to choose the buildings that should be conserved. The Great ...me a college in 1948 and included plaques with the crests of all Royal Air Force squadrons involved in the Battle of Britain as a memorial.<ref>Bowlt 1994,
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• Uxbridge
  ...stands. Uxbridge also houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Sit ...ame="Cotton p.23"/> The town had been chosen as it was located between the Royal headquarters at [[Oxford]] and the Parliamentary stronghold of London.<ref>
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• Unst
  The Saxa Vord Royal Air Force radar station closed in 2006, with the loss of more than 100 jobs.<ref>{{ci
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• Carterton
  ...ir Force is still one of the main employers in the area. The link with the air base also means that the population of Carterton continually fluctuates. Th
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• British flags
  ...some organisations or territories associated with the UK and also used by Royal Navy Captain of Merchant Navy Ship || A blue field, with a Union Flag in th ...y, usually ships bearing the prefix ''HMS'' (but see blue ensign), and the Royal Yacht Squadron|| A red cross on a white field with the Union Flag in the ca
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• British overseas territory
  | align="center"|[[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg|40px]] ...nsion Island is used by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force.
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• Rottingdean
  ...thought to have died in the blaze. The next day the pirates were met by a force led by the Lewes Prior. During the action, two knights, Sir John Fallisle, ...s the oldest man in the world and the last founder member of the Royal Air Force when he died in July 2009.
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• Penzance
  Penzance was granted a number of Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614.<ref>Penzance Charter o ...V's Silver Jubilee.<ref>Janet Smith; ''Liquid Assets - the lidos and open air swimming pools of Britain'' ISBN 0-9547445-0-0</ref> Penzance promenade its
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• Gibraltar
  ...he Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It became an important base for the British Royal Navy, which for most of the colony's history drove the local economy and pr ...d who led the initial incursion into Iberia in advance of the main Moorish force in 711 under the command of Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I.
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• Brampton, Huntingdonshire
  ...rters was established here until the end of the War. Later, the Royal Air Force Technical Training Command billeted staff here (as 'Brampton Park'): the Co
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• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  ...Dependencies''' until 1 September 2009, when a new constitution came into force giving the three islands equal status within the territory.<ref>http://www. ...restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the East India Company received a Royal Charter giving it the sole right to fortify and colonise the island. The fo
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• Bermuda
  ...eb|last=Forbes|first=Keith|title=Bermuda Climate and Weather|publisher=The Royal Gazette|url=http://www.bermuda-online.org/climateweather.htm|accessdate=28 ...d VI to colonise Virginia after two previous failures. The King granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company and in 1609, a company fleet left England u
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• Ascension Island
  ...vel by flying boats and during Second World War was an important naval and air station, especially providing antisubmarine warfare bases in the Battle of ...d, a joint facility of the [[United States Air Force]] and the [[Royal Air Force]] and of the [[BBC]] World Service Atlantic Relay Station. The island was u
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• Tristan da Cunha
  ...north coast were noted, and the results of the survey were published by a Royal Navy hydrographer in 1781. The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert ...zabeth II, visited the islands in 1957 as part of a world tour onboard the royal yacht ''Britannia''.
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• British Indian Ocean Territory
  ...Diego Garcia to the American military for the purposes of building a large air and naval base on the Island. The strategic location of the island was also ...ary, although a British garrison is maintained at all times, and Royal Air Force long range patrol aircraft are deployed there.
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• United Kingdom
  [[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.svg|right|thumb|200px|The Royal Arms]] ...from the United Kingdom to create the Irish Free State, and so in 1927 the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 changed Parliament's title to "the Parlia
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• Isle of Wight
  The Lordship thereafter became a royal appointment, with a brief interruption when Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Henry VIII, who developed the Royal Navy and its permanent base at [[Portsmouth]], fortified the island at [[Ya
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