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• Huntingdon
  ...r and which stood until the Second World War, when it was scrapped for the war effort.
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• Muckle Flugga
  ...nd David Stevenson in 1854, originally to protect ships during the Crimean War. First lit on 1 January 1858, it stands 64 feet high, has 103 steps to the ...t location, nothing had been done by the start of 1854. During the Crimean War, the government urged the commissioners to set up a light on Muckle Flugga
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• Moscow
  Ayrshire County Council suggested that "during the Crimean war there were various refugees and prisoners located in the neighbourhood, and James Shaw records that "a generation ago Russian prisoners of war were located between Galston and Fenwick, at a place called Moscow".<ref>Sh
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• Hartlepool
  ...re decline in heavy industries and shipbuilding following the Second World War caused periods of high unemployment until the 1990s when major investment p During the English Civil War another Scottish army occupied Hartlepool, this time in support of the Parl
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• Chobham
  |picture caption=Chobham war memorial and cannon ...mp, which Queen Victoria visited before the men marched off to the Crimean War.
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• Southampton
  ...outhampton was designated No. 1 Military Embarkation port during the Great War<ref name=Rance/> and became a major centre for treating the returning wound In 1642, during the English Civil War, a Parliamentary garrison moved into Southampton.<ref name="RancePP71">{{ci
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• Wantage
  During the Civil War, Royalist troops were stationed in Wantage. ...a number of Victoria Crosses, including his own gained during the Crimean War.
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• Coatbridge
  ...s put to included armour plating for British ships fighting in the Crimean war.<ref name="Miller, Thomas Roland 1958 p.36">Miller, Thomas Roland (1958). '
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• Berwick-upon-Tweed
  ...wickshire]], from which womb it was untimely ripp'd. It was indeed before war and conquest separated it from its county, the [[county town]] of [[Berwick ...nglish kingdom of [[Northumbria]], the area was central to historic border war between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland for centuries; the last time i
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• Retford
  ...d on bronze plaques are the names of those who were killed in Second World War. ...from the Russians during the Siege of Sevastopol at the end of the Crimean War. A plaque on side states 'Captured 1855 Sevastopol'.
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• Royal Tunbridge Wells
  ...england-wiltshire-12757984 | title=Wootton Bassett to get 'Royal' title in war dead honour | date=16 March 2011 | accessdate=16 March 2011 | publisher=BBC ...ghty wound"; the town also received 150 Belgian refugees. The Second World War affected Tunbridge Wells in a different way – it became so swollen with r
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• Marlow
  ...people of Marlow, largely due to the efforts of local resident and Crimean War veteran General George Higginson, after whom Higginson Park is named.<ref>[
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• Aldershot
  In 1854, at the time of the Crimean War, the heath land around Aldershot was established as an army base with Alder ...zon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2BIAR1V0PWO27 Roger Kennedy]</ref> Its post-war format, the '''Army Show''', was an annual event until financial circumstan
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• Union Flag
  ...ed ensign. However the Treaty of Paris in 1856 (at the end of the Crimean War) required the abolition of privateering, a long and (occasionally) noble tr
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• Spennymoor
  ...et Ground was the victim of a rogue V1 flying bomb during the Second World War. The blast was powerful enough to make a crater in the cricket ground, and ...Shafto family. Until Second World War there was a cannon from the Crimean War on display in the park, this was taken away to be melted down for munitions
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• Romsey
  Romsey changed hands several times during the English Civil War. Both Royalist and Parliamentary or Roundhead troops occupied and plundered ...for her pioneering work as a nurse and sanitary reform during the Crimean war and for laying the foundation of modern nursing. Florence is said to have h
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• Ormskirk
  ...nley, the seventh Earl, who was beheaded at Bolton in 1651 after the Civil War. His body is buried in one coffin and his head in a separate casket. ...h Listed Buildings [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-386414-boer-war-memorial-in-victoria-park-ormsk] accessed 27 January 2012</ref> It is on th
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• Lewes
  ...between the forces of Henry III and Simon de Monfort in the Second Barons' War in 1264, at the end of which de Monfort's forces were victorious. The battl ...of [[Newhaven]] ended Lewes's period as a major port. During the [[Crimean War]], some 300 Finns serving in the Russian army captured at Bomarsund were im
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• Carlow
  ...linth. The basement contains cells and dungeons. A cannon from the Crimean War stands on the steps.<ref name="CarCou">{{cite web | title=Carlow Courthouse
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• Tralee
  ...nument of two cannons commemorating those Kerrymen who died in the Crimean War (1854–56) and the Indian Rebellion (1857). Tralee saw much violence during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War in 1919–1923. In November 1920, the Black and Tans besieged Tralee in rev
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• Peckham
  ...London until his horses were requisitioned for the Army in the First World War. ...ssociations with the stationing of British forces there during the Crimean War. Close by is the Aquarias Golf Club,<ref>[http://www.aquariusgolfclub.co.uk
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• Dudley Castle
  |battles=The Anarchy<br/>Civil War ...jpg|left|thumb|300px|The castle was slighted by Parliament after the Civil War]]
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• Farndon, Cheshire
  ...st. There is also a fine memorial window in the parish church to the Civil War Royalists. .../ref> The churchyard contains war graves of two British soldiers of World War I.<ref name=cwgc>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2096492/FARN
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• Slebech
  ...ŵr attached and held the Castle, and it was seized again during the Civil War in 1645 by Parliamentary forces.<ref name="Hull">{{cite book|last=Hull|firs ...g the Crimean War, was born at Slebech Hall.<ref>[http://www.pembrokeshire-war-memorial.co.uk/page2.htm Augustus Anson]</ref>
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• Haworth
  ...e band played at a celebration in Haworth at the conclusion of the Crimean War. Over the years the world of brass band music went from strength to strengt
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• Netley Hospital
  ...again in the Second World War. From D-Day in 1944 and until the end of the War, it became the 28th US General Hospital.<ref name=Hoare>Spike Island. Phili ...d'''. That term was subsequently used by wounded soldiers and prisoners of war to describe the hospital.
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• Netley
  ...er the Crimean War, and used extensively from 1863 through to Second World War and until its closure in 1979 when it was converted into a country park. It
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• Inveresk
  ...e Victoria Cross for his bravery at the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War.
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• Deene Park
  ...ng works by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Relics of the Crimean War include the uniforms of Lord Cardigan and the head and tail of his charger,
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• Inkerman
  ...ish military victory at the Battle of Inkerman in 1854, during the Crimean War. In particular there are:
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• Inkerman, Renfrewshire
  ...the Crimea in 1854. Other hamlets stand nearby also named from the Crimean War:
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• Moreton Corbet
  ...the 16th century, on the site of a previous castle; was burnt in the civil war of Charles I].; and is now a fine ruin. Several mills are on the [[River Ro ...moved.<ref name=swm1>{{cite book|last=Francis|first=Peter|title=Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance|year=2013|publisher=YouCaxton Publications|
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• Brecon Cathedral
  Charles Lumley (1824–1858), awarded the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War, was buried in the cathedral churchyard [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famo
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• Leicester Cathedral
  ...rying angels, Mary Magdalene, James, and St Martin of Tours. A First World War soldier can be found in this window. ...re the battle honours of the Regiment and the names of those killed in the Crimean, South African and two World Wars are recorded and remembered.<ref>[http://
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• Balmaclellan
  ...otland. It commemorates five men from Balmaclellan who died in the Crimean War. A sixth man, an officer who died at Sebastopol, is commemorated on gravest *[http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1921 Balmaclellan Crimean War Memorial]
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• Tilbury Fort
  During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, war was fought with Spain. The Spanish Armada sailed in the summer of 1588, an The fort was held for Parliament during the Civil War and despite suffering from neglect was never attacked by the Royalists.<ref
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• Yarmouth Castle
  For most of the Civil War of the 1640s it was held by Parliament. Following the Restoration, it was ..., and the castle remained in the control of Parliament for the rest of the war.<ref name=bhBYarm/> Early during the Interregnum it was decided to increase
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• Bomarsund
  ...a battle fought in that year, in one of the minor theatres of the Crimean War. In 1854 a British and French naval force attacked the Russian fortress of
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• Athy
  ...and and Athy – for a period of eight years – was one of the centres of war involving the Royalists, Parliamentarians and the Confederates. The town wa ...for centuries to soldiers, Athy gave more volunteer soldiers to the Great War of 1914–18 than any other of similar sized town in Ireland.
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• Sebastopol
  ...of Sevastopol (also spelled Sebastopol) that was taken during the Crimean War. It is a working-class area consisting of mainly privately owned terraced h
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• Newry Town Hall
  ...//www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44|title=Newry|publisher=Imperial War Museum|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
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• St Catherine's Castle
  |events=Civil War<br/>Napoleonic Wars<br/>Crimean War<br/>Second World War ...ns, but it soon became obsolete and was abandoned. During the Second World War the castle was refortified and used to house a battery of naval guns, prote
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• St Catherine's Down
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• Cefntilla Court
  ...rset, 1st Baron Raglan had commanded the British forces during the Crimean War. He died in 1855 and Richard succeeded him, his elder brother having died
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• Welling
  After World War I, Bexley Urban District Council built over 400 houses north of the railway ...uts at East Wickham were built as homes for munitions workers in the Great War.
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• Ribblehead Viaduct
  ...es and their families.<ref name=HR150/> They named the towns after Crimean War victories, well-to-do districts of London and biblical names.
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• Pettigo
  In June 1922, at the tail end of the Irish War of Independence, both Pettigo and [[Belleek]] (in Fermanagh) were occupied ...with 30 plaques with information on such things as Riverdance, the Crimean War Tree and the Pettigo Connection to "The Quiet Man" among many other tales o
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• Elphin, County Roscommon
  ...he Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War was born in Hillstreet, County Roscommon, very near to Elphin.
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• Royal Small Arms Factory
  ...n the instructions of the Board of Ordnance near the end of the Napoleonic War. The land was acquired in 1812 and the factory completed by 1816, the year ===The Crimean War===
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• Leeds Town Hall
  ...r were: changes in design and difficulties with the architect; the Crimean War, because army recruitment caused a shortage of workmen and a rise in wages; ...asement and from 1942 a British Restaurant, which proved popular after the war, being refurbished in 1960 before closing in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:
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• Rochdale Town Hall
  ..., to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_p ...om. Rochdale was broadly avoided by German bombers during the Second World War.<ref name=hit1>{{citation |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/rochdaleobserver/news/
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• Wilford
  ...ontains war graves of eight soldiers of World War I and an airman of World War II.<ref name=cwgc>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2069792/WIL ...e]] is Victoria Embankment, which hosts the annual Riverside Festival, the War Memorial and park, and a children's play-area and large paddling pool. The
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• Royal Surrey Gardens
  ...It was used to celebrate the return of soldiers at the end of the Crimean War in 1856, and for a four-day military festival from 27&nbsp;July to 30&nbsp;
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• Midland Main Line
  ...access to London via the Great Northern Railway from Hitchin. The Crimean War resulted in a shortage of labour and finance, and only £900,000 was availa
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• Ruperra Castle
  ...</ref><ref name=Mosely>{{cite book|author=Pat Moseley|title=Ruperra Castle War & Flames 1939–46|publisher=Tower Printing|asin=B001CBUX7G}}</ref><ref nam ...the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War, was born at Ruperra.<ref name=Mosely/><ref name=MoselyJJ/> It was during t
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• Gun Quarter
  ...er meeting the demand for the Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, American Civil War and the furthest outposts of the British Empire. During both the First and ...line. In the 1960s, a large part of the Gun Quarter was demolished by post-war town planners, with the area split in two by the construction of the Birmin
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• Hunton Park
  ...d Ensign and later commanded a division of the British army in the Crimean War.<ref name=fright/> Other notable owners include Admiral Ralph Cator from 18
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• Winchester College
  ===War Cloister=== [[Image:Winchester College War Cloister.jpg|thumb|250px|Winchester College War Cloister]]
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• Tullyhommon
  |picture=The Crimean War Tree in Tullyhommon - geograph-2072668.jpg |picture caption=The Crimean War Tree in Tullyhommon
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• Navestock
  ...scount Chewton, son of the 8th Earl, who died from injuries in the Crimean War.
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• St Catherine's Hill, Christchurch
  ...and both World Wars, and was the site of a nuclear bunker during the Cold War. Most visitors today use the hill as an area to exercise their dogs or for ...s made extensive use of the hill for training purposes. During the Crimean War, when a battalion of the Royal Horse Artillery was stationed at Christchurc
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• Southsea Castle
  |events=Civil War, Second World War ...castle remained in service and saw brief action at the start of the Civil War in 1642 when it was stormed by Parliamentary forces. Today it is a schedul
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• Stoodley Pike
  ...cal architect James Green, and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War. DECLARATION OF WAR WITH RUSSIA IN 1854.<br />
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• Fahan
  ...]], trained with Florence Nightingale and served as a nurse in the Crimean War.<ref>[http://www.fahanchurch.org/agnesjonesfahanvillage.htm Fahan Presbyter
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• Overstone
  ...nor and gave the window in memory of her husband who fought in the Crimean War, winning one of the first VC crosses to be awarded. He is also remembered a
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• Puckpool Battery
  [[File:Crimean siege mortar - geograph.org.uk - 989441.jpg|left|thumb|200px|13-inch mortar ...l the following year. It was brought back into use during the Second World War as HMS Medina to train men of the Fleet Air Arm.
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• Chobham Common
  ...> Queen Victoria reviewed troops encamped on the Common during the Crimean War in 1853, including the Light Brigade before their departure to the Crimea a During the First World War, trenching exercises were held in August 1915 in advance of Kitchener's Thi
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• Embley, Hampshire
  |title=Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
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• Embley Park
  ...ee in the grounds. She then stayed there after her return from the Crimean War for some time before returning for visits whilst living in London. After he
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• Mankinholes
  ...high, also known as "Stoodley Pike", commemorating the end of the Crimean War.
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