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• Buckinghamshire
  ...all full of pretty villages of flint and thatch. It provides fine walking country. The more gentle, pastoral [[Vale of Aylesbury]] lies north of the Chiltern Sections of the county closer to neighbouring [[Hertfordshire]] and to the influence of London are part of the [[Metropolitan Green Belt]
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• Essex
  ...ading out from [[London]]. The county has borders with [[Middlesex]] and [[Hertfordshire]] to the west, [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Suffolk]] to the north, and [[Kent] Essex is a county of great contrast between town and country. From the county border on the [[River Lea]] out to [[Romford]], townscape
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• Wembley
  Most of Wembley's housing consists of inter-war semi-detached houses and terraces and of modern apartment blocks, with a significant minority of * Fryent Country Park, 49 acres at Barn Hill,
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• Northwood
  ...s a town in the north-west of [[Middlesex]], on the county's border with [[Hertfordshire]]. ...ate, Northwood - geograph.org.uk - 111167.jpg|thumb|left|Late 20th-century houses in Northwood]]
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• Pinner
  ...ancient parish in north-western [[Middlesex]], close to the border with [[Hertfordshire]]. ...runitedfc.com. In addition to numerous restaurants and a number of public houses, Pinner also has a thriving amateur theatre group, Pinner Players, who have
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• Uxbridge
  ...the boundary with [[Buckinghamshire]], which is locally the [[River Colne, Hertfordshire|River Colne]]. The [[River Pinn]] runs through Uxbridge, joining the [[Fray ...hose events, since renamed the Crown & Treaty, still stands. Uxbridge also houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east
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• Watford
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Watford''' is a large town in [[Hertfordshire]] and the county's biggest commercial centre. Official estimates in 2006 pu
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• Hemel Hempstead
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Hemel Hempstead''' is a town in [[Hertfordshire]]. Though an ancient town, it was developed as a new town from 1946, which
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• Hertford
  |county=Hertfordshire |LG district=East Hertfordshire
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• Stevenage
  |county=Hertfordshire ...Towns, designated in 1946, and its character today is now not of the quiet country town of yesteryear but of an uncompromising, often brutal, modernist urban
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• Welwyn Garden City
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Welwyn Garden City''' is a town in [[Hertfordshire]]. It was the second "garden city" in Britain, founded in 1920, and one of
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• Aldenham
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Aldenham''' is a village in [[Hertfordshire]] some three miles northeast of [[Watford]] and two miles from [[Radlett]].
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• Apsley
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Apsley''' is a 19th-century mill town in [[Hertfordshire]]. It is a historic industrial site situated in a valley of the [[Chiltern
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• Ashridge
  '''Ashridge''' is an estate and house in [[Hertfordshire]] and [[Buckinghamshire]], close to the [[Bedfordshire]] border. It lies wi ...dlife. It also offers a good choice of waymarked walks through outstanding country. The estate is currently owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Histor
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• Bayford, Hertfordshire
  |county=Hertfordshire |LG district=East Hertfordshire
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• Bovingdon
  |county=Hertfordshire |constituency=South West Hertfordshire
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• Boxmoor
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Boxmoor''', or Boxmoor Village, is a village in [[Hertfordshire]] which has become a part of [[Hemel Hempstead]]. It is now a typical "new
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• Broxbourne
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Broxbourne''' is a commuter town in south-eastern [[Hertfordshire]]; a town of 13,298 in 2001. It is within the long conurbation along the w
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• Chaulden
  '''Chaulden''' is a residential district in [[Hemel Hempstead]], [[Hertfordshire]], found to the west of the town centre and bordering on open countryside. ...ulden House, Hemel Hempstead, 1766 onwards |date=September 2001|publisher=Hertfordshire Genealogy|accessdate=2 January 2010}}</ref>
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• Hertford Heath
  |county=Hertfordshire |LG district=East Hertfordshire
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• Letchworth
  |county=Hertfordshire |LG district=North Hertfordshire
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• Orpington
  ...ndustry (paper mills and bell foundry), whereas Orpington was just a small country village surrounded by soft fruit farms, hopfields and orchards. ...ng Places: A Gypsy History Of South London and Kent'' Simon Evans (Univ of Hertfordshire Press 2004) ISBN 1-902806-30-1</ref> In 1971, an international meeting of R
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• Waltham Abbey
  ...[Essex]]. It stands on the [[Greenwich Meridian]], close to where Essex, [[Hertfordshire]] and [[Middlesex]] meet. It is between the [[River Lea]] in the west and ...ltham Abbey being known as Waltham Holy Cross. The town across the Lea in Hertfordshire is [[Waltham Cross]].
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• Moor Park, Hertfordshire
  |county=Hertfordshire |picture= Houses in Astons Road, Moor Park, Northwood - geograph.org.uk - 116476.jpg
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• Much Hadham
  |county=Hertfordshire |picture=High Street, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire - geograph.org.uk - 144767.jpg
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• Radlett
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Radlett''' is a large affluent village in [[Hertfordshire]], strung along [[Watling Street]] between [[St Albans]] and [[Borehamwood]
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• St Paul's Walden
  |county=Hertfordshire |LG district=North Hertfordshire
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• Shenley
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Shenley''' is a village in [[Hertfordshire]], sitting between [[Barnet]] and [[St Albans]]. It is found just to the e
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• Chilterns
  ...the counties of [[Oxfordshire|Oxford]], [[Buckinghamshire|Buckingham]], [[Hertfordshire|Hertford]] and [[Bedfordshire|Bedford]]. The highest point of each of thes ...Downs]] and [[Deacon Hill]] in [[Bedfordshire]], to near [[Hitchin]] in [[Hertfordshire]].<ref name=changelandscape>[http://www.chilternsaonb.org/uploads/files/Abo
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• Whitwell, Hertfordshire
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Whitwell''' is a pretty village in [[Hertfordshire]], found about six miles south of [[Hitchin]]. The village is on a tablelan
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• Turnford
  |county=Hertfordshire |picture=Garden of New River Arms, with pub sign and houses in High Road, Turnford, in background - geograph.org.uk - 99087.jpg
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• Old Gorhambury House
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Leavesden
  |county=Hertfordshire '''Leavesden''' is a residential and commercial area in [[Hertfordshire]] contiguous with the northern suburbs of [[Watford]] and south of [[Abbots
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• Shaw's Corner
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Belton House
  |type=Country house '''Belton House''' is a Grade I listed country house in [[Lincolnshire]], at [[Belton, Lincolnshire|Belton]] near [[Granth
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• Ascott House
  '''Ascott House''', sometimes referred to as simply '''Ascott''', is a country house in [[Buckinghamshire]], in the hamlet of [[Ascott, Buckinghamshire|As ...nsformed it over the following decades into the substantial, but informal, country house it is today.
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• Ivinghoe
  ...vinghoe''' is a village in [[Buckinghamshire]] close to the borders with [[Hertfordshire]] and [[Bedfordshire]]. It is four miles north of [[Tring]] and six miles ...ignal point, which was used in times of crisis to send messages across the country and is now popular with walkers who just want to get exercise and see the v
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• Tredegar House
  ...rvnb|Newman|p=562}}</ref> in [[Monmouthshire]] and one of the "outstanding houses of the Restoration period in the whole of Britain",<ref name="harvnb|Newman ...anders, was wounded and in 1661 retired to his estate at [[Kynnersley]], [[Hertfordshire]]. Recalled in 1665 to become Governor of [[Jersey]], he died at [[St Helie
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• Burghley House
  |type=country mansion '''Burghley House''' is a grand 16th-century country house in standing just south of [[Stamford]] in Lincolnshire. The house and
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• Chequers
  |type=Country house ...Court''', is the official country retreat of the Prime Minister. It is a country house with its surroundin estate near [[Ellesborough]], to the south of [[A
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• Blenheim Palace
  ...]. It is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough, and the only country house in Britain not belonging to the Royal Family nor to a bishop to hold The palace, one of Britain's largest houses, was built between 1705 and circa 1722. Blenheim Palace was designated a UN
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• Hertford Castle
  |county=Hertfordshire ...the [[River Lea]] in the middle of [[Hertford]], the [[county town]] of [[Hertfordshire]]. It serves as sumptuous town hall for Hertford.
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• Luton Hoo
  ...ands between the towns of [[Luton]], [[Bedfordshire]] and [[Harpenden]], [[Hertfordshire]]. Most of the estate lies within the civil parish of [[Hyde, Bedfordshire] ...e family de Hoo, to the family Rotherham, to the family Napier. Successive houses on the site seem to have changed hands several times until in 1762 the then
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• Chiltern Open Air Museum
  ...es]] in the [[Chiltern Hills]] of [[Buckinghamshire]], running up to the [[Hertfordshire]] boundary. ...g many ages, from an Iron Age round house, early modern farm buildings and houses, an Edwardian public toilet and a post-war pre-fab. All around the site ar
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• Mentmore Towers
  |type=Country house ...lt for the banker and collector of fine art Baron Mayer de Rothschild as a country home, display case for his collection of fine art. It was designed by Josep
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• Cricklewood
  Cricklewood was once a small country village, a hamlet close to the [[Watling Street|Edgware Road]], the major R By the 1890s, houses and shops had been built along part of Cricklewood Lane. Cricklewood Broadw
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• Lochearnhead
  ...o tells us that in the spring the young men would go herding in the “low country” (around Stirling), where they would “have the advantage of acquiring t ...hotel, gave focus to the village centre, until then little more than a few houses at the junction between the old roads that ran along the routes of the curr
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• Iver
  Iver is in the [[River Colne, Hertfordshire|Colne]] Valley, the [[Middlesex]] boundary running immediately to the east, The village has retained a semblance of a country location notwithstanding its close proximirty to the [[Middlesex]] towns.
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• Metro-Land
  ...areas that were built to the north-west of [[London]], in [[Middlesex]], [[Hertfordshire]] and [[Buckinghamshire]], in the early part of the 20th century that were ...as developed for housing by the nominally independent Metropolitan Railway Country Estates Limited. The term "Metro-Land" was coined by the Met's marketing de
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• Moor Park Mansion
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Potton
  ...dedicated to St Mary. Potton's horse fairs were some of the largest in the country. ...tober.<ref name="genuki"/> The horse fairs were some of the largest in the country, but ended in 1932.<ref name="guide"/>
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• Forest Gate
  ...kingdom with a territory extending over Essex, [[Middlesex]] and half of [[Hertfordshire]]. Having been found as a single object, it is surmised that the bead was ...From the 18th century a number of wealthy city dwellers had large country houses in the area and many of them were Quakers, the best known of these were the
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• Lee Valley White Water Centre
  ...ark]] in [[Stratford, Essex|Stratford]]. It is in the heart of [[River Lee Country Park]] which is part of the 10,000-acre, 26-mile-long [[Lee Valley Park]].< ...rooks Landscapes|accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>). A new facility building houses reception, café, changing rooms, shop, offices, spectator viewing, equipme
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• Wrotham Park
  |type=country house ...5|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 January 2002}}</ref> is a neo-Palladian country house in the parish of [[South Mimms]] in [[Middlesex]]. It stands to the s
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• Cholesbury
  '''Cholesbury''' is a village in [[Buckinghamshire]], on the border with [[Hertfordshire]]. It is set around an extensive village common, and all within the Chilte The village is nestles in the fine walking country of the [[Chiltern Hills]], about four miles east of [[Wendover]], five mile
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• Ashridge House
  |county 2=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Carton House
  |type=Country house ...astle (originally Cassels) was also responsible for some other grand Irish houses, including [[Summerhill House]], [[Westport House]], [[Powerscourt House]]
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• Kineton, Warwickshire
  ..., the [[British Motor Museum]] at [[Gaydon]], the [[Burton Dassett Hills]] country park and the battlefield of Edgehill. Kineton, in the district historicall ...dred.<ref>Allen, Geoff (2000). ''Warwickshire Towns & Villages'', Watford, Hertfordshire: Sigma Leisure Ltd. {{ISBN|1-85058-642-X}}</ref>
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• Ashlyns Hall
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Champneys
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Balls Park
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Beechwood Park
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Childwickbury Manor
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Chorleywood House
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Gorhambury House
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Hanstead House
  |county=Hertfordshire |picture=Hanstead House, Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire.jpg
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• Homewood, Knebworth
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Hunsdon House
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Much Hadham Palace
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Pendley Manor
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Rye House, Hertfordshire
  |county=Hertfordshire ...' is the ruin of a former fortified manor house by the eastern border of [[Hertfordshire]], infamous in history.
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• Theobalds House
  |county=Hertfordshire ...d across the landscape in this part of the county, in the name of estates, houses, farms and even the local railway station.<ref>'[http://wildthinguk.co.uk/2
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• Tolmers Park
  |county=Hertfordshire |type=Country house
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• Wollaton Hall
  |type=Country house '''Wollaton Hall''' is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in [[Wollaton Par
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• Harrow Weald
  ...Weald''' is a town in the north of [[Middlesex]], close to the border of [[Hertfordshire]] to the north. It is formed from a leafy 1930s suburban development along The south of the village is a suburban development with houses, schools, small shops, supermarkets and pubs. The area expanded around the
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• Boston Manor
  It was traditional with grand houses of this time to consider the front side of the house to be that side which ...period, but with striking similarities to those at [[Hatfield House]] in [[Hertfordshire]].
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• Moor Park, Farnham
  |type=Country house '''Moor Park''' is a grand country house near [[Farnham]] in south-western [[Surrey]], and its 60-acre estate
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• Bordesley Green
  Kingfisher Country Park covers the [[River Cole, Warwickshire|River Cole]] recreation grounds Many late-Victorian and Edwardian houses remain in Bordesley Green and much of the area has physically changed littl
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• Camulodunum
  ...ea of 250 acres, much larger than the area enclosed by the [[Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire|Iron Age defences]] at [[Wheathampstead]] (86½ acres).<ref name=ca09>The C ...ents "the earliest substantial stone building of Roman date visible in the country".<ref name=wil82/> A monumental arch was built from tufa and Purbeck Marble
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• Shephall
  '''Shephall''' is an ancient parish in the [[Cashio Hundred]] of [[Hertfordshire]] that forms a neighbourhood of the new town of [[Stevenage]]. It was forme ...or 450 years. Shephall was closely associated with its neighbour, [[Aston, Hertfordshire|Aston]], which was larger and more prosperous than both Shephall and Steven
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