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• Petty France, Gloucestershire
  |name=Petty France '''Petty France''' is a hamlet in [[Gloucestershire]], close to [[Hawkesbury, Gloucestershi
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• Aberdeenshire
  ...ded at Peterhead on 22 December, and in February 1716 he was back again in France. The collapse of the first rising ruined many of the lairds, and when the s
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• Cheshire
  ...the "Cheshire Guard". The King's title was changed to "King of England and France, Lord of Ireland, and Prince of Chester". On Richard's fall in 1399, the Pr
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• Cornwall
  ...ppropriated to religious houses within Cornwall or elsewhere in England or France.<ref>Oliver, George (1846) ''Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis: being a colle ...lets and secluded beaches, made it a prime location for landing goods from France and beyond the eyes of the customs men.
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• Dorset
  ...]] which was chosen because of its similarities to the beaches of Northern France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/articles/2009/05/18 ...ferry services operate out of [[Poole Harbour]], sailing for Cherbourg in France and to [[Jersey]] and [[Guernsey]] respectively. A service sails for St Ma
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• Blackpool
  ...y. The BBC ''Top Gear'' team had a race to see who could arrive first from France on a limited amount of fuel (James May who was last missed it), to activate ...Blackpool skyline since that time. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, it is 518 feet & 9&nbsp;inches in height. Beneath the tower is a complex o
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• Kent
  ...d tunnel]] carrying the A102 between them. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the [[Channel Tunnel]]. ...–20th centuries were of particular importance to the country's security. France can be seen clearly in fine weather from [[Folkestone]], and the famous [[W
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• Surrey
  ...rta. The next year Surrey was overrun by forces supporting Prince Louis of France, who passed through on their way from London to [[Winchester]] and back and
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• Flint Castle
  ...in France. Flint's keep has been compared to the donjon at Aigues-Mortes, France. Edward I would have been familiar with Aigues-Mortes having passed through
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• Wigtownshire
  ...ored, and John Gordon, recently consecrated Bishop of Galloway, retired to France.
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• Yorkshire
  ...event following the significant success of the visit of the 2014 ''Tour de France'' to the county. The first two stages of the 2014 Tour, from [[Leeds]] to [
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• County Clare
  ...ights with Great Britain and Continental European countries such as Spain, France, and Germany as the primary destinations.<ref>{{cite web | title=Flights fr
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• County Cork
  Since the late 1970s, there have been direct ferries from Cork to Roscoff, France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brittanyferries.ie/information/environment |
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• County Mayo
  ...ebellion. The French came to help the Irish cause. General Humbert, from France landed in [[Killala]] with over 1,000 officers where they started to march
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• County Wexford
  ...feat at the Battle of the Boyne, embarked for Kinsale and then to exile in France. ...ailings to Great Britain (Pembroke and Fishguard in [[Pembrokeshire]]) and France (Cherbourg and in the summer months to Roscoff) for passengers and vehicles
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• Terminology of the British Isles
  ...es formerly known as 'Little Britain' is a historical Duchy in the West of France, now a French region. ...ast to Brittany in modern-day France. A historical term for a peninsula in France that largely corresponds to the modern French province is ''Lesser'' or ''L
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• Aberdeen
  ...city, serves a number of domestic and international destinations including France, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Scandinavian countri
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• Whittington Castle
  ...habits in that age, in comparison with the known contemporary practices of France and Flanders. The "lavish" garden was installed by one of the FitzWarin fam
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• Cwmbran
  ...], established in 1949. It is twinned with Bruchsal, Germany and Carbonne, France.
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• Abergavenny
  ..."Gateway to Maine", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe ''département'' of France. He founded the Benedictine priory, now the Priory Church of St Mary, in th * Abergavenny is twinned with Östringen in Germany, Beaupréau in France and Sarno in Italy.
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• Chepstow
  ...t Chepstow ships sailed as far afield as Iceland and Turkey, as well as to France, Portugal and Ireland. Ships, including many built and launched in Chepsto Chepstow is twinned with Cormeilles, France.
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• Hawarden
  ...ny for equipping (A330/340 & A300 Wings) or Hamburg, Germany and Toulouse, France (A320 family wings) for final assembly of the complete aircraft. The wings
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• English Channel
  ...'''English Channel''' is the sea separating Europe from [[Great Britain]]; France lies all along its southern shore. It washes the whole southern shore of [[ ...uthwestern limit of the North Sea as "a line joining the Walde Lighthouse (France, 1°55'E) and Leathercoat Point (Kent, 51°10'N)".<ref name=IHO/> Leatherco
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• Blaenavon
  Blaenavon is town twinned with Coutras in France.
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• Aylesbury
  Hartwell, a nearby Jacobean mansion, was the residence of Louis XVIII of France during his exile, from 1810–1814, his court there a centre of intrigue fr
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• Stromness
  ...ecame important during the late 17th century, when England was at war with France and shipping was forced to avoid the [[English Channel]].
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• Template:Navbox/doc
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• Lydd
  ...fuel, having been confused in his bearings whilst attempting to return to France, by the use of recently invented equipment devised to interrupt the homing
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• Ashford, Kent
  ...rt]], though 17 miles from Ashford, and has regular flights to Le Touquet, France by Lydd Air. [[Gatwick Airport]], the nearest fully international airport
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• Stroud
  ...e seventeenth century many Huguenots fleeing persecution in Roman Catholic France settled in the town and formed a sizable community.<ref>[http://books.googl
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• Machynlleth
  ...three mediæval houses in town, in the presence of leaders from Scotland, France and Spain, and he held his own Parliament in the town. He held his last par
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• Richmond, Yorkshire
  ...m 1136 to 1399, and thus the Dukes of Brittany were vassals of both Valois France, in right of Brittany, and Plantagenet England, in right of Richmond. The
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• Jedburgh
  ...a priory between 1118 and 1138, housing Augustinian monks from Beauvais in France. The abbey itself was founded in 1147.
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• Dunwich
  ...mber from the Baltic and Iceland, cloth from the Netherlands and wine from France.
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• Exeter
  ...nd cloth industries, merchandise that was sold to "the West Indies, Spain, France and Italy".<ref>Gray 2000, p.18</ref> Celia Fiennes also visited Exeter dur
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• Plymouth
  ...base in Western Europe &ndash; HMNB Devonport. Plymouth has ferry links to France and Spain and an airport with European services.
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• Acton, Middlesex
  ...Royal]] and [[Harlesden]]. One of the most important firms was Renault of France, which made cars, including the 4CV and the Renault Dauphine, at a factory
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• British overseas territory
  ...suspending active claims, but Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and France mutually recognise each other's claims in Antarctica. ...d privateers, war and conquests followed as a struggle with Spain and with France for dominance, for sugar plantations and trade monopolies in the West Indie
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• Leith
  ...nces of Leith Fort were built in 1780, as much in response to threats from France and Spain. The fortress was designed by James Craig, architect of the Edin
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• Westonzoyland
  ...uties, including air combat and the transport of airborne ground troops to France during the Second World War.
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• Template:FP-Westonzoyland
  ...uties, including air combat and the transport of airborne ground troops to France during the Second World War. An older conflict for which the village is fa
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• Edinburgh
  ...uilt accommodation adjacent to the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary at Little France.
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• Gibraltar
  ...to occupy almost the whole of Iberia, and striking even into the heart of France. It is believed that Tariq, the Moorish commander, landed at Calpe and gave
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• Kettering
  ...he first bombing raid - targeting the marshalling yards at Rouen, northern France - was led by Major Paul W Tibbets who in 1945 piloted Enola Gay, the B-29 S
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• British Indian Ocean Territory
  ...Apr 2008</ref> In 1810, Mauritius was captured by the United Kingdom, and France ceded the territory in the Treaty of Paris.
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• United Kingdom
  ...the [[English Channel]] and the [[Irish Sea]]. Great Britain is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel. ...is a "blue-water navy, currently one of the few, along with the navies of France and the United States of America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henryjackso
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• Isle of Wight
  During the Second World War the island was frequently bombed. Looking toward France, the island had a number of observation stations and transmitters, and was
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• Dorchester
  ...though Prince Charles, the future King Charles II, on his hasty escape to France, narrowly escaped capture on his way to [[Bridport]] by hiding in Lee Lane.
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• Poole
  ...as a canteen and meeting room for American soldiers before the invasion of France. The building was converted for use as the town museum between 1971 and 199
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• Bangor, County Down
  ...by 700 AD, one hundred additional monasteries had been planted throughout France, Germany and Switzerland. Other famed missionary monks who went out from Ba
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• Dumbarton
  ...modern times, it was from here that Mary, Queen of Scots, was conveyed to France for safety as a child. Mary was trying to reach Dumbarton Castle when she s
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• Sunderland
  ...d to be the first built of stone in Northumbria. He employed glaziers from France and in doing so he re-established glass making in Britain.<ref>{{cite web|u
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• Chertsey
  ...However, the team, on arriving at Dover, met the Ambassador returning from France at the outset of the French Revolution and the opportunity to extend civili
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• Selsey
  ...e=''The Shell Channel Pilot, The South Coast of England and North Coast of France'' 3rd Edition|year=2000|location=Cambridgeshire|isbn=0 85288421|publisher=I
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• Selsey Bill
  ...Saint Wilfrid who when appointed Archbishop of York went to Compiègne in France, to be consecrated. On his journey back home, in c.666, he was shipwrecked ...the ''"Channel Pilot for the South Coast of England and the North Coast of France"'', cautions sailors that Selsey Bill is difficult to locate in poor visibi
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• Haddington
  ...ament convened in the Abbey and agreed to transport Mary Queen of Scots to France for her marriage to the French heir.<ref>Donaldson, Gordon, ''A Source Book
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• Bridgwater
  ...while in 1651 Colonel Wyndham made arrangements for Charles II to flee to France following the Battle of Worcester.<ref name="bush"/>
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• Oldham
  ...heweb.org.uk|date=|accessdate=2007-09-14}}</ref> spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined.<ref name="Contaminated"/> Oldham's textile industry b ...he world bar the United States, and in 1909, was spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined.<ref name="Contaminated">{{cite web|url=http://www.old
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• Great Britain
  ...and. On 20 October 1604 he proclaimed himself as "King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland", a title that continued to be used by his successors.<ref>[htt ...oclaimed his assumption of the throne in the style "King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland&nbsp;..."<ref name=hay>[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdat
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• Hertford
  ...Barons' War, it was besieged and captured after 25 days by Prince Louis of France.<ref>[http://www.johnbarber.com/tunnels/castle.html Johnbarber.com]</ref> T
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• Bristol
  ...from c.&nbsp;1760, the disruption of maritime commerce caused by wars with France (1793) and the abolition of the slave trade (1807) contributed to the city'
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• Cirencester
  ...Cirencester, during his escape after the Battle of Worcester on his way to France.
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• Southampton
  In 1415, before King Henry's departure for France (the campaign culminating in the Battle of Agincourt), the ringleaders of t
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• Portsmouth
  ...was commonly used by Henry III and Edward I as a base for attacks against France.
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• Hereford
  ...England, Thomas Charlton. The city gave its name to two suburbs of Paris, France: Maisons-Alfort and Alfortville, because of a manor built there by Peter of
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• Titley
  ...le-known Welsh saint which later became subordinate to the Tyrone Abbey in France.<ref>{{cite book|title=Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire|author=Litt
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• Whitchurch, Hampshire
  In 1712, Henri de Portal, a Huguenot refugee from France, established a paper mill at Bere Mill in Whitchurch, producing exceptional
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• Lavenham
  ...lsey's 'Amicable Grant', a tax being raised in England to pay for war with France, a tax being demanded without the consent of parliament. In 1525, 10,000 me
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• Canterbury
  ...peaking Protestant Huguenots, who had begun fleeing persecution and war in France and the Spanish Netherlands in the mid-16th century. The Huguenots introduc
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• Rochester
  ...ent his last night as king at a house in the High Street before fleeing to France, a house which became known as Abdication House.
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• Tintern
  ...dation in Britain, and its monks came from a daughter house of Cîteaux in France.
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• Eastbourne
  ...e 1943 with hit–and–run raids from fighter–bombers based in northern France.<ref name=HUMPHREY>{{Cite book|last=Humphrey|first=George|title=Wartime Eas
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• Dover
  ...anding at the very south-easternmost coast of [[Great Britain]] and facing France across the narrowest part of the [[English Channel]]. Dover has since anci Dover's history, because of its proximity to France, has always been of great strategic importance to Britain. Archaeological f
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• Folkestone
  ...start of the Tudor period it had become a town in its own right. Wars with France meant that defences had to be built here and soon plans for a Folkestone Ha ...he North Downs, with views of the surrounding countryside and the coast of France, a mere 24 miles away. The area is a magnet for passing migrating birds and
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• Mainland, Orkney
  ...ecame important during the late 17th century, when England was at war with France and shipping was forced to avoid the English Channel. Ships of the Hudson's
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• Scapa Flow
  ...ere located near the [[English Channel]] better to face the old enemies of France and Spain. In 1904, in response to the build-up of the German ''Kaiserlich
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• Littlehampton
  ...century, and soon a railway line and a cross-channel ferry to Honfleur in France were introduced. The population of the town grew tenfold over the century, ...mercial port, handling around 50-60 ships a year from Ireland, Holland and France with cargo including marine aggregates, stone, marble chippings and timber.
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• Guildford
  ...e Park which lasted until mid-summer. Unlike the ''soixante-huitards'' of France, the Guildford arts students have sunk into obscurity.
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• Milford Haven
  ...ht hundred knights and men-at-arms led by Jean II de Rieux, the Marshal of France, in order to support Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion. It was here that Henry Tud ...n, affected shores further south around southern [[Cornwall]] and northern France, was actually far more damaging.
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• Thankful Villages
  ...: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of
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• British Isles
  ...dencies, are accounted part of the British Isles though they lie closer to France than Great Britain. ...the island of Britain from the peninsula of Brittany, in northern-western France which had been settled by Britons, which was confusingly similar to the med
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• Lincoln
  ...of the battle, the town was pillaged for having sided with Prince Louis of France.
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• Lossiemouth
  ...ng advantage of King Edward II's preoccupation with matters in England and France, started capturing and usually destroying castles that were either English
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• Menteith
  ..., for a few months before her departure to [[Dumbarton]] Castle, and on to France in 1548. On Inch Talla stands the ruined tower of the Earls of Menteith, da
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• Rockall
  ...show an island 'Rookol' northwest of [[Ireland]] in the their ''Map of New France and the Northern Atlantic Ocean'' (Amsterdam, c. 1594). The name 'Rocabarra
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• Caldicot, Monmouthshire
  Caldicot is twinned with Waghäusel, Germany and Morières-lès-Avignon France.
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• Ulster
  ...and those of James II, the Jacobites. James was supported by Louis XIV of France, who could use Ireland as part of the greater War of the Grand Alliance the
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• Montserrat
  ...during the American Revolutionary War, Montserrat was briefly captured by France. It was returned to the [[United Kingdom]] the next year under the Treaty o
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• Norwich
  ...e loss of continental markets after Britain went to war with revolutionary France in 1793. The end of Norwich's pre-eminence was beginning.
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• British Antarctic Territory
  ...s of the world do not recognise territorial claims in Antarctica. Britain, France, Norway, New Zealand and Australia, all of whom have territorial claims on
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• King's Lynn
  In the late 17th century, imports of wine from Spain, Portugal and France into King's Lynn boomed, and there was still an important coastal trade: a
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• Berwick-upon-Tweed
  ...Berwick appended its signature to the treaty of King John of Scotland with France, England's old enemy, and on 30 March 1296, Edward I stormed Berwick after
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• Alderney
  ...south coast of [[Hampshire]]. It is the closest of the Channel Islands to France as well as being the closest to [[Great Britain]]. Alderney is separated fr .... After 1204, when mainland Normandy was incorporated into the kingdom of France, Alderney remained loyal to the English monarch in his dignity of Duke of N
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• Hexham
  ...n the Younger; but it has been established that Queen Margaret had fled to France by the time the battle took place.
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...rightful owner, leading to the Dauphin of France (later King Louis VIII of France) laying an eight day siege on behalf of the king, ended by an agreement to
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• Blyth
  ...Rotterdam, provides connections with the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France as well as South America and the Far East.<ref>{{cite web
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• Tenby
  ...ling along the coast to [[Bristol]] and [[Ireland]], and further afield to France, Spain and Portugal. Exports from Tenby included wool, skins, canvas, coal,
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• Perth
  ...metalworkers) and Glovers. Perth also carried out an extensive trade with France, The Low Countries and the Baltic Countries with luxury goods being brought
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• Normandy, Surrey
  ...f the Abbey of Waverley named the village after their homeland in northern France because it resembled Normandy's countryside, but the Abbey's lands did not
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• Ordnance Survey
  ...urpose during the Napoleonic Wars when there was a threat of invasion from France and maps of the coastal regions were required for defence planning; its log During the First World War, Ordnance Survey was involved in preparing maps of France and Belgium for its own use, and many more maps were created during Second
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• Scotland
  ...demands to serve in his army against the French and instead sent envoys to France to negotiate an alliance; the "Auld Alliance" as it became known. ...and peace thereafter was never for long as each clash between England and France placed a lash across Scotland too.
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• Port Glasgow
  ...ferred to the castle newly built there by the Maxwells. Trading ships from France and the Low Countries were unloaded at Newark and the cargo was brought up
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• Purley
  ...er to the UK, and a plaque at one end with the inscription "Aux soldats de France morts glorieusement pendant la Grande Guerre", as a memorial to the allianc
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• Putney
  ...presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in France in June 1915.<ref>Savage Messiah; H.S. Ede (1979) Gordon Frazer Gallery Lon
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• Roxburgh
  ...ce and the further wars provoked by the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France. It was first surrendered to England in 1174 after the capture of William I
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• Wincanton
  ...has more conventional twin-towns too in Gennes - Les Rosiers-sur-Loire in France and Lahnau in Germany.
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• Streatham
  ...ime Minister Lord Shelburne, and was the venue for early negotiations with France that lead to the Peace Treaty of 1783. Streatham Park was demolished in 186
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• Holme Moss
  ...enowned riders (many of them, such as Bjarne Riis, veterans of the Tour de France, hence the moniker ''Le Col de Moss'') tackling the climb. It has also been
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• Wanborough, Surrey
  ...Coldstream guards officer in First World War. Many agents in 'Section F' (France) passed through ''STS5'' and courses lasted 3 weeks. Each course was specif
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• Bury St Edmunds
  Among noteworthy buildings is St Mary's Church, where Mary Tudor, Queen of France and sister of King Henry VIII, was re-buried, six years after her death, ha
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• Template:FP-Alderney
  ...it the closest of the Channel Islands to Great Britain and the closest to France as well. Alderney is separated from Cap de la Hague by the dangerous Race o
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• Bognor Regis
  ...lace over Bognor Regis, but a flight delay caused it to occur over Metz in France instead.<ref>[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4209/ch11-3.htm NASA History: SP-4
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• Brighton
  ...was burnt to the ground by French raiders during a war between England and France. Only part of St Nicholas Church and the street pattern of the area now kno
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• Cork
  There are Direct services to France and to the [[United Kingdom]].
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• Whithorn
  ...from a casket said to contain a bone of Ninian, which was spirited away to France, and destroyed at the French Revolution.
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• Trowbridge
  ...tive.org/journals/llt/55/horn.html | title=Machine-breaking in England and France during the Age of Revolution | accessdate=2008-03-16}}</ref> Thomas Hellike
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• Worcester
  ...uise to Boscobel House in [[Shropshire]] whence he eventually escaped to [[France]]. Worcester was one of the cities loyal to the King in that war, for which
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• Aberdaron
  ...ary 1742"]. Rhiw. Retrieved 16 August 2009</ref> A ship claimed to be from France unloaded illicit tea and brandy at Aberdaron in 1767, and attempted to sell
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• Wales
  ...n was reputedly crowned Prince of Wales in the presence of emissaries from France, Spain and Scotland.<ref name="Wales Hist 194">Davies (1994) p. 194</ref> G
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• Fenny Stratford
  ...'Gallo-Belgic A' type) Roman, mid-2nd century BC Probably made in northern France or Belgium; found at Fenny Stratford near Milton Keynes, England".}}</ref>
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• York
  ...ring the course of the later Middle Ages York merchants imported wine from France, cloth, wax, canvas, and oats from the Low Countries, timber and furs from
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• Kingston upon Hull
  ...key trading areas for Hull's merchants. In addition, there was trade with France, Spain and Portugal. As sail power gave way to steam, Hull's trading links
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• Mansion House, York
  ...ter of the Knights of St George as part of King Henry V's alliance against France. He sent a sword to be hung over his stall in [[St George's Chapel, Windsor
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• Ripley, Derbyshire
  ...n officer in the Indian Army and was later knighted. He died in Pau, Nice, France on the 11 March 1863 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.
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• Bridlington
  Bridlington has lucrative export markets for shell fish to France, Spain and Italy, said to be worth several million pounds a year.<ref>FISHu
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• Gwynedd
  ...dependence from his overlord and even sought an alliance with Louis VII of France in 1168, which came to nothing. ...eace in upper Gwynedd and on Anglesey. Henry II ruled England and most of France and much of Wales outside Owain's domain, and the King of Scots served in h
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• Isles of Scilly
  ...l that in the event of a war breaking out between the kings of England and France, or between any of the other places mentioned, they would not have enough p
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• Sark
  In 1204, King John lost mainland Normandy to France, but the Channel Isles remained loyal to him. In the thirteenth century, Sa
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• Casquets
  ...tinctive appearance which would not be confused with lighthouses in nearby France.
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• Écréhous
  ...ds and rocks situated six miles north-east of [[Jersey]] (eight miles from France). They form part of the [[Bailiwick of Jersey]] and are administratively pa ...with flags and buoys. To settle the matter, in 1950 the United Kingdom and France went to the International Court of Justice for friendly discussions to deci
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• Guernsey
  ...</ref> and was also the focus of a failed invasion attempt by Louis XIV of France in 1704. During the wars with France and Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries, Guernsey ship-owners and sea
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• Bailiwick of Guernsey
  ...y of Normandy. In 1204, King John of England lost Normandy to the King of France, but Guernsey and [[Jersey]] remained loyal, and every after Guernsey and i ...</ref> and was also the focus of a failed invasion attempt by Louis XIV of France in 1704.
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• Ripon
  ...lfrid had brought over to help construct the Ripon monastery, from Lyon in France and from Rome (which was then under Byzantine rule).<ref>{{Cite web|url=htt
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• Crown dependency
  ...erritory was added to the grant of land given in settlement by the King of France in 911 to the Viking raiders who had sailed up the Seine almost to the wall ...the Hundred Years' War, during which they were definitively separated from France.
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• The Weald
  ...h-eastwards under the [[Straits of Dover]], and includes the Boulonnais of France.
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• North Sea
  ''On the Southwest.'' A line joining the Walde Lighthouse (France, 1°55'E) and [[Leathercoat Point]] (England, 51°10'N).<ref>Leathercoat Po
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• Doggerland
  ...across the present [[Strait of Dover]]; the modern Boulonnais landform in France is a remnant of its eastern end.
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• Straits of Dover
  ...heast of [[Dover]] in [[Kent]], to Cap Gris Nez, a headland near Calais in France. Between these two points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swi ...tern end of this old longer Weald is the Boulonnais chalk area in northern France.
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• Bailiwick of Jersey
  ...re taken and occupied for five hard years by the Germans after the fall of France. ...and, luxury goods have often been cheaper than in the United Kingdom or in France, providing an incentive for tourism from neighbouring countries. The absenc
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• Jersey
  ...hannel]], about 12 nautical miles from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France, and about 87 nautical miles south of [[Great Britain]]. Jersey is the larg ...tory is influenced by its strategic location between the northern coast of France and the southern coast of England; the island's recorded history extends ov
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• Channel Tunnel
  ...tunnel linking [[Folkestone]], Kent with Coquelles near Calais in northern France beneath the [[English Channel]] at the [[Straits of Dover]]. |'''January 1975''' || A UK–France government backed scheme that started in 1974 was cancelled
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• Deal
  ...eets and houses the only reminder of its fascinating history. The coast of France is approximately twenty-five miles from the town, and is visible on clear d From these activities news of the events unfolding in France would reach Britain quickly and regularly, with about 400 men making a livi
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• St Helier
  Continuing military threats from France spurred the construction of a citadel fortress, Fort Regent, on the Mont de From the 1820s, peace with France and better communications enabled by steamships and railways to coastal por
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• Dartford
  ...ry V]] marched through the town in November 1415 with his troops to invade France, leading to the victory at the Battle of Agincourt. In 1422 though Henry's
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• Dungeness
  ...rom Dungeness were part of a network called Dumbo and ran to Ambleteuse in France.
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• Breamore
  ...amore]</ref> In 1299 Edward I assigned the manor to his queen, Margaret of France, but in 1302 Breamore was delivered to Hugh de Courtenay.<ref name="victhis
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• Channel Islands
  ...ormandzkie.png|thumb|right|230px|The Channel Islands and adjacent coast of France]] ...ains in northern France, including mainland Normandy, to King Philip II of France, but he retained the islands. In 1259 John's son King Henry III surrendere
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• White Cliffs of Dover
  ...over.JPG|300px|thumb|The cliffs seen across the channel from Cap Gris Nez, France]] ...l of home to Britons abroad; the last place seen when sailing forth toward France, in peace and war, and the first to greet our return. The White Cliffs bla
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• Gravesend
  ...ns were run on the MV ''Royal Daffodil'' down the Thames from Gravesend to France, but they ceased in 1966. Cruises are now operated by the Lower Thames and ...Ridley Scott): Robin and his companions intend to return to England from France by boat to Gravesend.
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• Saint Saviour, Jersey
  |picture=Hotel de france.JPG |picture caption=Hotel de France, St Saviour
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• Overton-on-Dee
  ...pitch which is used for competition with its twinned town of La Murette in France. Overton is also an excellent rendezvous point for walkers as it finds its
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• New Romney
  ...he coast during the Pipe Line Under The Ocean, or PLUTO, oil was pumped to France under the [[English Channel]] for use by allied forces.
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• North Foreland
  ...cond World War, a number of radar stations were set up by German forces in France and Holland to detect allied aircraft flying across the [[English Channel]]
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• South Foreland
  ...unterpart of Cap Blanc Nez, at the northern extremity of the Boulonnais in France. The two are the landward ends of the Ice Age Straits of Dover land bridge
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• Sandwich
  On 21 May 1216, Prince Louis of France landed at Sandwich in support of the baron's war against King John.
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• River Nene
  ...and fleeing down the Nene to be sheltered by the miller before fleeing to France. The watermill ceased grinding flour after the Second World War, and its bu
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• Winchelsea
  ...y force, sent in an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve their King John II of France captured at the Battle of Poitiers four years earlier.<ref>Trial by Fire -
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• Thorney, Cambridgeshire
  ...Walloon refugees, originally from areas of Flanders that are now northern France, was settled here in 17th century with their own church and minister, emplo
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• England
  ...famed as a Crusader and John caused a rebellion and lost all his lands in France, but the result was Magna Carta and another rebellion, against Henry III, i ...lantagenet and Valois both claimed to be legitimate heirs to the throne of France and the result was bloody; the Hundred Years' War.<ref>{{harvnb|Fowler|1967
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• Stonehenge
  ...Antrobus family sold the site after their last heir was killed serving in France during the First World War; the auction by Knight Frank & Rutley estate age
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• Berkhamsted
  ...in 1353 that Edward brought his most celebrated prisoner, John II, King of France.<ref name=twenty/> As a royal prisoner he could not be taken to anything ot ...9</ref> During Second World War Charles de Gaulle, living exile from Vichy France, resided in Berkhamsted.<ref>Hastie, p. 107</ref> The de Gaulle family sett
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• Chipperfield
  ...s. Charles Blackwell was wounded at the second battle of Ypres and died in France in July, 1915. William Gordon Blackwell, the younger of the two brothers, w
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• Essendon
  ...olonel, he commanded the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front in France.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=31439|supp=yes|startpage=8589|date=8 July 1919|a
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• River Loddon
  ...pton School. The law changed to allow silk to be imported more freely from France, and only mills equipped with up-to-date equipment could compete. Thomas di
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• Great Offley
  ...the 21st Panzer Division which were located around the Manneville area in France.<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul44.html/ Royal Air Force Bombe
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• Box Hill
  ...y with both Benjamin Franklin (at that time the American representative in France) and the Long Island wax sculptor Patience Wright.<ref>{{harvnb|Lander|2000
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• Bonchurch
  ...exhumed and taken back to France in 1548 after the war between England and France had ceased.<ref name=Goodwin7/>
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• Erith
  In 2007, the Tour de France passed through Erith during the London leg of the Tour.
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• Stansted Airport
  ...nd modification of B-26s. After D-Day these activities were transferred to France, but the base was still used as a supply storage area for the support of ai
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• Lymington
  ...1995</ref> were raised to take part in the ill fated Quiberon Invasion of France (1795), from which few returned.
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• Southport
  ...ain thoroughfare of Southport, between 1846 and 1848. He left to return to France to become President and soon afterwards Emperor of the French, as Napoleon
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• Chorley
  ...ll their produce in the town, and Chorley's merchants return the favour in France. The market has a number of specialist cheesemongers who purvey the local L
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• Doncaster
  ...as the venue for an airshow, after the world's first air display in Reims, France in 1908. All the world's leading aviators were present. An American pilot n ...re ever seen. The Royal Flying Corps station trained pilots for the war in France. Within months of the war ending the entire station was put up for sale and
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• Exmouth
  ...Devon, visitors unable to visit Europe due to the revolutionary turmoil in France were attracted by the views and medicinal salt waters which were then very
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• West Mersea
  Edward the Confessor granted the island to the abbey of St Ouen in Rouen, France in 1046, and the Priory of West Mersea was established.
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• Mersea Island
  ...West Mersea and land at West Mersea was granted to the Abbey of St Ouen in France by Edward the Confessor in 1046.<ref>[http://cat.essex.ac.uk/reports/EAS-re
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• Inchkeith
  ...ge/> Seven English banners captured on the island were sent to Henri II of France. On 17 July 1549, he gave the soldiers who brought the banners lifetime pen ...blockade Leith to prevent Lord Seton bringing more munitions for Mary from France.<ref>''Calendar of State Papers Scotland'', vol.2 (1900), pp.197, 220-1: [h
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• Gillingham, Kent
  War with France began again in 1778, and once more it was necessary to strengthen the defen
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• Rum
  ...0s, and their interest in, and visits to Rum decreased. Sir George died in France in July 1939 — he was interred in the family mausoleum on Rum. His widow
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• Steep Holm
  ...and was fortified following a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to France, where they had been concerned at the strength of the French Navy. The Roya
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• Flat Holm
  ...axon king of England, stayed on the island before travelling to St Omer in France after the Norman Conquest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannia.com/hist ...fied in the 1860s following a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to France, where they had been concerned by the strength of the French Navy. The Roya
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• Bury
  ...4th Battalion of the British Expeditionary Force, the first force to enter France against the Germans. On 24 April 1915 the taking of W beach at Gallipoli si
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• Hammersmith
  ...eker Strasse 4 b 22303 Hamburg, Germany" and "France: Capcom Entertainment France 30 bis, rue du Viel Abreuvoir FR.78100 Saint Germain En Laye</ref><ref name ...on of New Office in London"]. Air France. Retrieved 17 May 2011.</ref> Air France had its UK and Ireland office in Colet Court in Hammersmith.
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• Farnborough, Hampshire
  In 1880 the widowed Empress Eugénie of France bought an estate here in order to build a religious establishment in memory
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• Lurgan
  ...xist in almost every European country, including Germany, the Netherlands, France, Scandinavia, Italy, England, Scotland, and Ireland. The story is also told
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• Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
  ...The title was lost to the {{RailGauge|12.25}} gauge Réseau Guerlédan in France in 1978<ref name=World>{{cite book | first=Brian| last=Hollingsworth| year=
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• Leeds and Liverpool Canal
  ...lackburn only 4 miles away. The long war with revolutionary and Napoleonic France increased taxes and interest rates which made it difficult for the company
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• Leeds Castle
  ...King had besieged Leeds after she had refused Edward's consort Isabella of France admittance in her husband's absence; when the latter had sought to force an ...atherine of Aragon. A painting commemorating his meeting with Francis I of France still hangs there.
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• Moorish Castle
  ...s therefore became the stepping-stone to the conquest of Spain and part of France over a stunning campaign of just twenty-two years, no mean task considering
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• Caerphilly Castle
  ...vnb|Newman|2001|p=169}}</ref> In 1326, however, Edward's wife, Isabella of France, overthrew his government, forcing the king and Hugh to flee west.<ref name ...y depicting the royal court in the 1320s, including Edward II, Isabella of France, Hugh Despenser and Eleanor de Clare.<ref>{{harvnb|Renn|2002|p=43}}</ref> T
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• Province of Canterbury
  |Translated from Belley in France
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• Cleator Moor
  ...walk on the Stations of the Cross and a replica of the Grotto at Lourdes, France.
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• Bideford
  ...World War the War Department requisitioned all of its equipment for use in France. Bideford's 13th century Long Bridge was temporarily converted into a railw
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• Brixham
  ...e removed when peace came in 1783. Just ten years later, during a war with France, guns were again deployed around the town. The major position was at Berry
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• Buckfastleigh
  ...er 1882, six Benedictine monks arrived at Buckfast having been exiled from France. The land had been leased by monks from the St. Augustine's Priory in [[Ram
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• Iona
  ...vavos'' is of similar origin, associated with the healing-well of Evaux in France.</ref> It is possible that the name is related to the mythological figure, ...es of many early Scottish Kings, as well as kings from Ireland, Norway and France. Iona became the burial site for the kings of [[Dál Riata]] and their succ
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• Ilfracombe
  ...sday Book as being built by a Norman knight Champernon (from Chambernon in France) who landed with William of Normandy. It is also said to be haunted.<ref>[h ...g programme it was reported 90% of the local maritime catch is exported to France and Spain. There are many private charter, sea cruise, and coastal tour boa
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• Seaton, Devon
  ...centuries, supplying ships and sailors for Edward I's wars in Scotland and France. In the 14th century heavy storms caused a landslip which partially blocked
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• Helston
  ...drowned terraces of the former river that flowed between Great Britain and France, and now under the [[English Channel]].<ref>May, V.J. "Loe Bar". In May, V.
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• Brodick Castle
  ...efforts, however, and was created Duke of Châtellerault in the Peerage of France. During Regent Arran's tenure at Brodick he continued to enlarge and expand
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• Berkhamsted Castle
  ...ce. It was successfully taken after Prince Louis, the future Louis VIII of France, attacked it with siege engines for twenty days, leading the garrison to su ...irst Barons' War broke out later that year and in May 1216 Prince Louis of France (later Louis VIII) crossed the [[English Channel]] and joined the rebel cau
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• Lanhydrock
  ...heir Thomas Agar-Robartes MP, who was killed during the Battle of Loos in France, trying to rescue a colleague from no-man's land. Only one descendant survi
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• Falkland Palace
  ...void the like fate, King Robert resolved to send his younger son James, to France, then about nine years old, who being sea-sick, and forced to land on the E ...ounding forests for hawking and for hunting deer. Wild boar, imported from France, were kept in the Park, within a fence made by the Laird of Fernie.<ref>''A
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• Glenfinnan
  Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, sailed from France to land on [[Eriskay]] in the [[Outer Hebrides]]. He then came to the mainl
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• Leith Hall
  ...tle of Culloden where he fought for the Young Pretender, later escaping to France.<ref name="aa">{{cite web|url=http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/leithhallghosts.
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• Pass of Killiecrankie
  ...laws until in 1688 William of Orange landed and in December James fled to France, the Parliaments of both realms offering the throne to William and Mary. T
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• Greensand Ridge
  ...Weald-Artois Anticline that runs from south-eastern Britain into northern France.
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  ...y for French warships and privateers during a succession of conflicts with France.<ref name="hist">{{cite web | title=Kennet & Avon Canal Trust | url=http://
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• Beaminster
  ...is twinned with the town of St James on the Brittany / Normandy border in France.
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• Lyme Regis
  Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end
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• Porthcurno
  ...nd World War being only about 100 miles from the port of Brest in occupied France.<ref>Foot</ref><ref name="Bell; p 6">Bell; p 6</ref> To improve security a
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• Coggeshall
  ...of Boulogne, founded a large Savigniac abbey with 12 monks from Savigny in France,<ref name=greatorex>Greatorex, Jane (1999). Coggeshall Abbey and Abbey Mill
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• Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
  ...raid on a French ship, when he seized an unfinished statue of Louis XIV of France and forced the sculptor to finish it with his own head rather than the king
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• South Charford
  ...ime before 1428 it was evidently sold it to Sir John Popham, who served in France under Henry V and the Duke of Bedford.<ref name="victhist"/> It then came i
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• Briton Ferry
  So important was Briton Ferry for trade with France that Mouchel was, from 1879 to his death, French Consular Agent to 'Briton
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• Llantrisant
  ...fic touring choir having sung in the USA, Italy, Cyprus, Slovakia, Poland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. They travel extensively in th
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• Wilton House
  ...of the king. Following a recommendation to King Henry by King Francis I of France, whom Herbert had served as a soldier of fortune, Herbert was granted arms
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• Queenborough
  ...d of King Edward III between 1361-1377, during the Hundred Years' War with France. It was built on the site of a much earlier, but smaller castle.<ref>{{cite
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• Accrington
  ...t day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France. It was part of the 'Big Push' (later known as the Battle of the Somme) tha
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• Cuerdale
  .... He also suggested that as so many of the coins were apparently minted in France, they were probably a contribution from Frankish churchmen to their less fo
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• Bourne, Lincolnshire
  ...d unsuccessful, by British Sugar Ltd. It had been developed in Germany and France in the early 19th century. Although Britain's demand for sugar was mostly f
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• Cley next the Sea
  ...e shall ''all'' have to fight',<ref>Hollis, Matthew: Now All Roads Lead to France - The Last Years of Edward Thomas, Faber & Faber, London, 2011</ref> as he
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• Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
  ...o on view is Lawrence's desk, and the headstone from his grave in Vence in France.
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• Biggar
  ...soldiers were stationed here, having been evacuated after the collapse of France. Later they moved to the east coast of Scotland to defend the coast and to
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• Minehead
  ...and Bristol, and others carrying salt and other cargo from La Rochelle in France. Other products included local wool and cloth which were traded for coal fr Privateers based at Minehead were involved in the war with Spain and France during 1625–1630 and again during the War of the Spanish Succession from
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• Shepton Mallet
  As the modern era began, Flemish and Huguenot craftsmen and merchants from France and the Low Countries brought new techniques in cloth-making which made She
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• Watchet
  ...iver, from 1564 onwards the port was used for import of salt and wine from France.<ref name="somharbours"/> ...ohnson |location=London |isbn=|pages=125–137 }}</ref> Rags imported from France were used in paper making at Watchet Paper Mill.<ref name=Portsorg>{{cite w
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• Orford Castle
  The castle was captured by Prince Louis of France who invaded England in 1216 at the invitation of the English barons who wer
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• Arundel
  ...olate, Basque, have actually been found outside its homelands in Spain and France.
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• Newhaven
  ...e]], on the [[English Channel]] coast, and is a ferry port for services to France.
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• Shoreham-by-Sea
  ...'s Way]] long-distance footpath, commemorating the flight of Charles II to France after the Battle of Worcester, follows the beach westwards from Hove past P
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• Monarch's Way
  ...s down to the Dorset coast where a ship had been found to take the King to France.
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• Amesbury
  ...remained in their hands until 1915 when, after the last heir was killed in France, Lord Antrobus sold the grounds–-including Stonehenge-–to private bidde
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• Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire
  Henry II granted land in the parish to the priory of Santingfeld in Picardy, France. It is possible that a hospital was founded on this land, although it is un
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• Wilton
  ...ing marble columns from Italy and 12th and 13th century stained glass from France.
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• Goole
  ...er services to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Morocco and South Africa. There is also trade by charter vessel to
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• Ilkley
  ...route is unveiled|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/17/tour-de-france-2014-olympic-park|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=17 January 2013}}</ref ...e-france-2014-yorkshire-to-london-a-royal-programme.html|publisher=Tour de France Official Website|accessdate=17 January 2013}}</ref>
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• Keighley
  ...95th Rifle Regiment and fought in ten battles against the French in Spain, France and Belgium including the Peninsula War and the Battle of Waterloo, for whi
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• Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe
  |archdeaconries=Eastern,<br/>France,<br/>Germany and Northern Europe,<br/>Gibraltar,<br/>Italy and Malta,<br/>N *'''Archdeaconry of France''' (including Monaco). The archdeacon is based in Nice.
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• Galway
  ...the Middle Ages, it was the principal Irish port for trade with Spain and France. The most famous reminder of those days is ''ceann an bhalla'' ("the head o
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• Clonmel
  .... The band has travelled widely abroad to the United Kingdom, Holland and France and represented Ireland at an International Festival in Cheb in the Czech R
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• Connaught
  ...families, The Tribes of Galway, traded within Ireland, as well as England, France and Spain till it was reckoned one of Ireland's most eminent towns. It was
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• Hayling Island
  ...Now in its 27th year, the event is moving from its established country of France to Holland, calling this year's event the 'Hayling to Holland Charity Cycle
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• Portsmouth Harbour
  ...s Channel Island Ferries, Hoverspeed and Truckline and new routes to Caen (France) and to Santander and Bilbao (Spain).
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• Ben Alder
  ...opes of Ben Alder, in a hiding place called 'the Cage', before escaping to France.<ref>''Oxford DNB'', 'Macpherson, Ewen, of Cluny (1706–1764)'; C. Duffy,
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• Sandhurst, Kent
  Sandhurst is twinned with the village of Heuringhem in northern France. There is an active Sandhurst Twinning Association.
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• Kenilworth Castle
  ...cated by the crown.<ref name=PoundsP137/> Edward and his wife, Isabella of France, spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations.<ref>Weir, p ...rowess; according to Strecche, the gift spurred Henry's decision to invade France, in a campaign culminating in Henry's overwhelming victory at Agincourt. T
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• Wilmcote
  ...gether with the other English lands of Normans for adhering to the King of France, Phillip II.<ref name="William Dugdale">William Dugdale, ''The Antiquities
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• Forest of Arden
  ...n "the Forest of Arden", and notwithstanding that the Bard set his play in France and clearly meant the forests of the Ardenne, it is his native Warwickshire
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• Coventry Airport
  ...d aircraft for holidays to Spain, Italy and Austria, flying to Beauvais in France and Ostend Airport, operating under the Janus Airways banner. The holiday b
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• Springhill House
  ...o the Front armed only with an ancient revolver. He is buried at Carnoy in France.
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