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• Kent
  ...il 2007 | accessdate=28 April 2007 | location=London | first=Amelia | last=Hill}}</ref> *[[Biggin Hill]]
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• Kincardineshire
  ...mer county town, [[Kincardine]], on the Devilly Burn below [[Strathfinella Hill]], in the Howe of the Mearns. Kincardine was a burgh with a Castle, but wh ...ve 1,500 feet. In the extreme north, on the confines of Aberdeenshire, the Hill of Fare, famous for its sheep walks, attains an altitude of 1,545 feet
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• Lanarkshire
  **[[Lowther Hill]] (2,377 feet) ...he division was made into three wards, [[Lower Ward|Lower]], [[Middle Ward|Middle]] and [[Upper Ward|Upper]], which persist to the present day.
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• Leicestershire
  ...Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The highest point of the county is [[Bardon Hill]] at 912 feet. .... The local manufacturing industry, which began with hand knitting in the Middle Ages, and was fully industrialized by the end of the 19th century, survived
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• Lincolnshire
  ...hey also built Lincoln Castle which still stands proud over the city. The Middle Ages were a time in which Lincoln became one of the most important cities o *[[Hill Hundred]]
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• Middlesex
  The name Middlesex is from the Old English ''Middelseaxe'', which means ''Middle Saxons'' and refers to the tribal origin of its inhabitants. The earliest s ...of [[Wessex]] and South Saxons of [[Sussex]]. It is not known whether the Middle Saxons were so named from the earliest days or whether they took their name
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• Midlothian
  In the midst of Edinburgh is [[Arthur's Seat]]; a solitary hill, precipitous and natural, surrounded but untouched by cityscape. ...Law]] (1,898 feet), Carnethy (1,881 feet), West Cairn Hill and East Cairn Hill (at 1,844 feet and 1,839 feet respectively), and West Kip (1,806 feet). The
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• Monmouthshire
  ...above [[Abergavenny]], and meanders gently through the rolling farmland in middle of the shire, eventually coming to [[Caerleon]] of the county's historic he * [[Stow Hill]]
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• Montgomeryshire
  ...ire, is [[Machynlleth]]. Although the county as such is a creation of the Middle Ages, it is of ancient origin, its borders corresponding roughly to the med ...ool]] in south [[Lancashire]]. The main industries are agriculture (mainly hill farming) and tourism.
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• Morayshire
  [[File:Buckie Harbour and Bin Hill.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Bin Hill behind Buckie Harbour]] *[[Larig Hill]] (1,783 feet)
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• Northumberland
  |picture=Cheviot Hill countryside - geograph.org.uk - 290451.jpg ...not a shire on the edge but the heart of the land King James called "the [[Middle Shires]]".
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• Nottinghamshire
  ...vice industries. ''Boots The Chemist'' is the largest employer. From the Middle Ages Nottingham was a weaving town and here Richard Arkwright brought his n ...ity, ''Tiguocobauc'', means "house of caves" and with justification as the hill on which Nottingham Castle is built has spacious caves beneath it and evide
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• Orkney
  ...gnus died for his Christian faith.<ref>Crawford, Barbara E. "Orkney in the Middle Ages" in Omand (2003) p. 69.</ref>|group="Notes"}}{{#tag:ref|"St Magnus Cat ...Haraldsson's murder in [[Thurso]].<ref>Crawford, Barbara E. "Orkney in the Middle Ages" in Omand (2003) pp. 72-73.</ref> The Earldom of Caithness was granted
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• Peeblesshire
  ...872 feet, Trahenna Hill at 1,792 feet, Penvalla at 1,764 feet) and Ladyurd Hill, 1,724 feet. ...demuir Hill Fort - geograph.org.uk - 758819.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cademuir Hill Fort]]
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• Renfrewshire
  [[File:Gourock from Lyle Hill.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Gourock from Lyle Hill]] ..., [[East Girt Hill]] (1,673 feet), [[Misty Law]] (1,663 feet) and [[Creuch Hill]] (1,446 feet). Much of the higher land in the centre is well wooded.
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• Ross-shire
  ...des. The summit ridges provide excellent scrambling, and are popular with hill walkers and mountaineers. However, like many ridge routes, there are few e ...Bay and Loch Maree. Between the last named and Gairloch, on both sides of middle Loch Torridon and at many other spots smaller patches appear. The Lewisian
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• Roxburghshire
  ...n inland [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]]; the middlemost of the [[Middle Shires]] it looks both west and east. Historically it was a lawless place ...Tweed, but the old town was destroyed repeatedly in the border wars of the Middle Ages and after the final fall of [[Berwick upon Tweed|Berwick]] in 1460 it
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• Selkirkshire
  This is gentle hill country, a green landscape, well wooded and well grazed on the open slopes The highest hill, the [[county top]] is [[Dun Rig]] amongst the [[Manor Hills]], its gentle
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• Yell
  |highest point=[[Hill of Arisdale]], 689 feet ...ous, and five or six ships. They arrived at Hjaltland [Shetland] about the middle of Summer, but heard nothing of Frákork. Strong and contrary winds sprung
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• Shropshire
  [[File:Lyth Hill 01.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Countryside of mid-Shropshire.]] ...lso struck with dramatic hills, such as the [[Long Mynd]] and an enigmatic hill on its own in the midst of the shire, [[the Wrekin]].
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• Somerset
  ...ld not fit Somerton well as it is not down in the Somerset Levels but on a hill. ...y |year=1885 }}</ref>. Another British-language name is [[Tarnock]], [[Pen Hill]] has both English and Welsh elements.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.takeo
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• Stirlingshire
  ...the lowest bridgeable point on the [[River Forth]]. Geologically, Castle Hill is an intrusive crag which forms part of the Stirling Sill. ...a lower limestone group with the Index, Calmy and Castle Gary limestones a middle group with coals and clay ironstones and an upper limestone group with the
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• Suffolk
  ...is low-lying with few hills; the highest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the highest point of the Newmarket Ridge in the very west of the county ne ...and later at the forefront of the Danish incursions, and during the later Middle Ages amongst these little towns a great deal of wealth was found from wool
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• Surrey
  [[File:Boxhill surrey viewfromtop.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Box Hill]] ...al park grazed by herds of deer. Close by are the Old Deer Park, Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens and Wimbledon Common. [[Wimbledon Common]] is 1,140 acres of
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• Sutherland
  ...denudation to form isolated sandstone peaks such as [[Foinaven]], [[Arkle (hill)|Arkle]], [[Cùl Mòr]], [[Suilven]] and [[Stac Pollaidh]]. These Sutherland mountains are attractive for hill walking and scrambling, despite their remote location. Together with simila
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• Tyrone
  ...the River Blackwater at Lough Neagh to the western point near Carrickaduff Hill is 34 miles. The breadth, from the southern corner, southeast of [[Fivemile *[[Dungannon Middle]]
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• Warwickshire
  ...ation, and eastward the bands of motorways and great roads cut through the middle of what would otherwise be rich farmland and countryside. At the other end ...The [[county top|highest point]] in the county, at 856 feet, is Ebrington Hill, again on the border with Gloucestershire, {{getmap|SP187426}} at the count
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• West Lothian
  ...ral hills, the highest being [[The Knock]] (1,017 feet), and [[Cairnpapple Hill]], or Cairnnaple (1,000 feet), Cocklerue (912 feet), Riccarton Hills (832 f ...s quarried at Blackburn for oven floors; it is known as "lakestone". Binns Hill is the site of one of the volcanic cones of the period.
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• Wiltshire
  |picture caption=Avebury Trusloe and Silbury Hill The highest point in the county is the Tan Hill–Milk Hill ridge in the [[Vale of Pewsey]], just to the north of [[Salisbury Plain]],
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• Worcestershire
  During the Middle Ages, much of the county's economy was based on the wool trade, and many ...was the inspiration for ''The Shire'', a region of JRR Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. Tolkien w
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• County Clare
  ...an Hill, Corofin, County Clare, Ireland.jpg|thumb|The Tau Cross at Roughan Hill near [[Corofin, County Clare|Corofin]], County Clare]] During the Early Middle Ages the area was part of the [[Connaught|Kingdom of Connacht]] ruled by th
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• County Kilkenny
  |picture caption=Brandon Hill above Graiguenamagh [[Image:BrandonHill116.jpg|thumb|left|Brandon Hill at [[Graiguenamanagh]]]]
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• Meath
  |picture caption=Lia Fáil on the Hill of Tara ...ic of Ireland]]. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Meath (meaning "middle"). The population of the county is 184,135 according to the 2011 census.<re
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• Westmeath
  ...as shired under ''The Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act'' of 1543. The [[Hill of Uisneach]] in the barony of Moycashel is sometimes regarded as the notio ...], the population of Westmeath declined dramatically. It stabilized in the middle of the 20th century, and has continued to grow. Westmeath's proximity to [[
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• Abingdon
  The site has been occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age defensive enclosure (or oppidum ...a hill. It is thought that the name was first given to a place on [[Boars Hill]] above [[Chilswell]], and the name was transferred to its present site whe
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• Aberdeen
  ...ngs of the city growing from Castle Hill, St Catherine's Hill and Windmill Hill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/councils/councilfirst1. * The Kirk of St Nicholas: in the Middle Ages this was the only burgh kirk and one of Scotland's largest parish chur
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• Counties of the United Kingdom
  ...tural areas. Most of the counties have an existence stretching back to the Middle Ages and almost all of the English counties have been established for over ...entford]], '''[[Westminster]]''', [[Ealing]], [[Enfield]], [[Harrow on the Hill|Harrow]], [[Potters Bar]], [[Staines]], [[Twickenham]]
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• Forfar
  ...luding Glen Doll, Glen Clova and Glen Prosen, and so a base for skiers and hill walkers. The area is notable for the beautiful scenery of the mountains an Forfar was granted its charter as a royal burgh in the Middle Ages, allowing it to grow as a trading town.
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• Dundee
  Evidence suggests Dundee has been continuously occupied since the middle stone age. The town developed into a burgh in Mediæval times, and expanded ...early Mediæval period, the area formed a demesne controlled from the Law Hill fort.<ref name = "BarrowDundee"/>
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• Belfast
  [[File:Cavehill, Belfast.jpg|thumb|right|Cavehill, a basaltic hill overlooking the city]] ...time.<ref>{{cite web | title = About the Cave Hill | publisher = The Cave Hill Conservation Campaign | year= 2007 | url = http://www.cavehill.freeuk.com/h
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• Upper Hambleton
  There is a wonderful view across to [[Burley-on-the-Hill|Burley House]] from the north side of the village and from the south one ca ==Nether Hambleton and Middle Hambleton==
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• Todmorden
  ...twood. With the exception of Todmorden station, all six closed during the middle third of the 20th century, though Walsden station reopened on 10 September ...nbsp;foot Stoodley Pike monument (built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854) atop the hill of the same name.
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• Manchester
  ...inisation of an original British Celtic name possibly meaning "breast-like hill" from ''mamm'' ("breast"). The Old English name ''Mameceaster'' derives fr ...is truly a child of the Lancastrian Industrial Revolution. Throughout the Middle Ages, Manchester remained a manorial township, but it began expanding at an
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• Usk
  The town's Welsh name ''Brynbuga'' ("Buga's Hill"), was first recorded in the 15th century.<ref>Hywel Wyn Owen, ''The Place- ===Middle Ages===
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• Windsor
  ...e that the combination of the navigable river and the strategically-placed hill point to the likelihood of continuous human settlement from early times. Ev ...), for example, was the largest secular building project in England of the Middle Ages, and many Windsor people worked in the castle on this building project
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• Bedford
  ...d was a market town for the surrounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages. King Offa of Mercia was buried in the town in 796.<ref name=BEASE_13 For much of the Middle Ages Bedford remained a small town focussed on industry from agriculture, w
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• Luton
  ...solithic (8000 BC) and neolithic (4500-2500 BC) settlements too (at Galley Hill in particular);<ref>Dyer ''ibid'', p 23</ref> [[Waulud's Bank]] is stone-ag ...Luton Castle only lasted 15 years|accessdate=2008-06-16}}</ref> During the Middle Ages Luton is recorded as being home to six watermills, which give Mill Str
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• Sandy
  ...an important trading centre and staging post in the Roman era. An ancient hill fort, now heavily wooded and known as "Caesar's Camp" although more commonl ...her down the river from the site where the mill once stood is Sandye Place Middle School where it is believed there was a Danish camp which was built to prot
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• Barrow-in-Furness
  In the Middle Ages, Barrow was a small fishing hamlet within the parish of Dalton-in-Furn ** Beacon Hill Methodist Church, Holyoake Avenue [http://www.swcumbriamethodists-urc.org.u
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• Manx National Heritage
  ...of Viking and Gaelic occupation (Peel Castle, House of Mannanán); to the Middle Ages (Rushen Abbey, Castle Rushen); life during the 19th century (Cregneash * [[Meayll Hill]]
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• Aylesbury
  ...local architects approved by no less than John Vanbrugh. It stands in the middle of town, still serving the administration of justice as home to the Aylesbu St Mary's Church, sited upon a hill surrounded by narrow streets and squares of substantial 18th century town h
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• Henley-on-Thames
  ...' is one of the highlights of the social calendar of the English upper and middle classes. The Regatta was first held in 1839 and has been held each year eve File:Henley on Thames Gravel Hill.JPG|Gravel Hill
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• Amersham
  Amersham is split into two distinct areas: Old Amersham and Amersham on the Hill, with Amersham Common as a smaller area In the middle of the High Street stands the Market Hall, built in 1682. The Hall is a we
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• Milton Keynes
  By the library is a small mound, an Anglo-Saxon moot hill named "Seclow Mound". This has inspired some of the new town's street name ...ton Keynes (interviews) |last=Kitchen |first=Roger |authorlink= |coauthors=Hill, Marion |year=2007 |publisher=Living Archive |location=Milton Keynes |isbn=
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• Ashford, Kent
  Ashford is listed in the [[Domesday Book]] with additional middle syllables, as "Essetesford". No form like ''*æscet'' is known in Old Engli [[File:Ashford, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 1149363.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Middle Row, Ashford]]
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• Slough
  ..., and areas including Brands Hill, Britwell, Huntercombe, Manor Park, Salt Hill, Upton Lea, and Windsor Meadows. ...le of the 17th century, stagecoaches began to pass through Slough and Salt Hill, which became locations for the second stage to change horses on the journe
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• Chesham
  ...sperous and respectable few to Lincolnshire to escape social stigma in the middle of the century. In 1532 Thomas Harding was burnt at the stake in the town f ...d reformers were active. Thomas Harding, a lollard, was martyred on White Hill near Dungrove Farm in 1532. The 17th, 18th and 19th centuries saw the rapi
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• North Berwick
  ...distinguish this Berwick from [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], which throughout the Middle Ages the Scots called South Berwick. It was recorded as Northberwyk in 1250 In the Middle Ages repeated invasions led to the construction of nearby Tantallon Castle.
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• London
  ...litan "[[green belt]]",<ref name=london_040>{{Cite book|last=Dilys|first=M Hill|title=Urban Policy and Politics in Britain|publisher=St. Martin's Press|yea ...rolling hills including Parliament Hill, the Addington Hills, and Primrose Hill, and the upland of Hampstead Heath. The Thames was once a much broader, sha
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• Newport, Isle of Wight
  Newport is in the middle of the island, at the head of the navigable section of the [[River Medina]] ...River Medina, that great cleft through the Isle of Wight, runs through the middle of the town, and is still tidal and navigable as high as Newport, allowing
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• Elgin
  ...King David I and by that time had a castle on top of the present day Lady Hill to the west of the city. ===The Middle Ages===
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• Glasgow
  ...on to derive the name ''Glasgow'' from the older Cumbric ''glas cau'' or a Middle Irish cognate, which would have meant ''green hollow''. The settlement prob To the western edge of the city centre, occupying the areas of Blythswood Hill and Anderston, lies Glasgow's financial district, known officially as the I
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• Huntingdon
  '''Huntingdon''' is the county town of [[Huntingdonshire]]. It stands in the middle of the county on the [[River Great Ouse]], one of the three towns in the co ...e. Away from the High Street and over the forbidding ring-road, is Castle Hill, where Huntingdon Castle once stood, now used for recreation and for severa
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• Southwell
  ...the Minster, remains of a [[fosse]] or ditch having been found on Burgage Hill in the 19th century and conjecture that there may be additional Roman remai ...ater translated to Southwell Minster, where her relics were revered in the Middle Ages - "There resteth St. Eadburh in the Minster of Southwell near the wate
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• Blairgowrie
  ...[Strathmore]]. Its western flank is formed by the Knockie, a round grassy hill which is popular walk from the town. Blairgowrie developed over the centur ...s main feature and centrepiece is the Wellmeadow, a grassy triangle in the middle of town which hosts regular markets and outdoor entertainment. Other parks
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• Caerleon
  ...site a Roman legionary fortress known as ''Isca Augusta'' and an Iron Age hill fort. ...stchurch, Newport|Christchurch]] and the upland region around Christchurch Hill.
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• Ludlow
  '''Ludlow''' is a beautiful market town in [[Shropshire]], built on a steep hill above a bend in the [[River Teme]]. It is a mediæval walled town, retaini At the crown of the hill stands Ludlow Castle and the market place beside it. The streets slope dow
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• Witney
  Witney Market began in the Middle Ages. Thursday is the traditional market day but there is also a market on Witney Workhouse was on Razor Hill (now Tower Hill). It was designed by the architect George Wilkinson and built in 1835–36.
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• Chipping Norton
  ...market town of western [[Oxfordshire]]. It stands is situated high up on a hill and rivals nearby [[Stow-on-the-Wold]], [[Gloucestershire]] for its weather The parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin was built on the town’s hill, next to the castle. Parts of the present building may date from the 12th c
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• Cotswolds
  ...the Cotwolds are characterised by rolling countryside of green, windswept hill slopes grazed by contented flocks, the well-watwered valleys with farms and The highest point in the Cotswolds is [[Cleeve Hill]] in Gloucestershire, at 1,083 feet, which is that shire's [[county top]].
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• Horsham
  ...include [[Crawley]] to the north-east and [[Haywards Heath]] and [[Burgess Hill]] to the south-east. ===Middle Ages===
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• Linlithgow
  .... Growth was restricted to the north by Linlithgow Loch, and by the steep hill to the south, but, in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, development beg Today the town is especially popular with middle classes and commuters, not only because of its excellent transport links wi
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• Leeds
  Leeds developed as a market town in the Middle Ages as part of the local agricultural economy. Prior to the Industrial Rev ...fe in Wartime Leeds, England, UK, 1943 D15678.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Quarry Hill flats]]
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• Liverpool
  ...s rising up to a height of around 230&nbsp;feet above sea-level at Everton Hill, which represents the southern boundary of the [[West Lancashire Coastal Pl ...King John announced the foundation of the borough of Liverpool, but by the middle of the 16th century the population was still only around 500. The original
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• Black Mountains
  ...Your thumb is Crin y Gath or the Cats Back. Your first finger is Hatterall Hill. Your second finger is Ffawyddog with Bal Mawr at the knuckle. Your third f The area is popular for hill-walking, mountain-biking and horse riding. The Offa's Dyke long-distance fo
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• Esher
  ...'' is a prosperous town or village in northern [[Surrey]]. It stands on a hill above the [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]]. Esher is largely suburban in c Esher has been presented in some parts of the media as a particularly middle class part of suburbia.
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• Exeter
  ...on a ridge of land which forms the backbone of the city backed by a steep hill where the Exe, joined by the [[River Creedy]], opens onto a wide flood plai Rougemont Castle stands on hill formed by a volcanic plug in the city centre.
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• Plymouth
  ...outh Hoe, built around Sutton Harbour. Plymouth Hoe is a large flat-topped hill between Sutton and the Tamar. It is dominated by The Citadel, a fortress w Plymouth Hoe is a flat hill of limestone cliffs<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Devonshire Association for th
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• Newton Abbot
  | picture caption= Newton Abbot from Wolborough Hill Newton Abbot was created in the Middle Ages from the villages of Highweek and Wolborough.
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• Black Country
  *[[Brierley Hill]] ''(Staffordshire)'' *[[Old Hill]] ''(Staffordshire)''
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• Acton, Middlesex
  ...Age burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron Age coins near Bollo Lane. In the Middle Ages the northern half of the parish was heavily wooded. Oaks and elms stil ...Lodge by Winter c. 1800, Mill Hill House by White, and Woodlands at Acton Hill soon afterwards. Acton Green also became increasingly popular, being near C
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• Edmonton
  ...730 terrace of linked Grade-II* Listed Buildings which were altered in the middle of the nineteenth century. 185, 187 and 189 were extensively restored in th .../anidea.co.uk/lower-edmonton/local/buryst.html |title=Bury Street and Bush Hill Park |website=Anidea.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-10-19}}</ref>
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• Ruislip
  ===Early Middle Ages=== ...p of the Harman's Brewery in Uxbridge. It had been built close to Primrose Hill Farm near the junction of the Ickenham Road and Kings End. Kings End was a
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• Twickenham
  ...of Horace Walpole which has given its name to a whole district, Strawberry Hill, and is linked with the oldest Roman Catholic university in the country, St There was also a watch house in the middle of the town, with stocks, a pillory and a whipping post whose owner was cha
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• Burslem
  ...eslyn;" and frequent mention is made of it in ancient documents during the Middle Ages.</blockquote> **Hill Top Methodist Sunday School
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• Headingley
  ===The Middle Ages=== ...efore 1829. Land hereabouts was generally cheaper than that at Headingley Hill the affluent villas which had sprung up elsewhere had not spread this far,
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• Wolverhampton
  ...ith a combination of Triassic and [[Carboniferous]] geology, and Upper and Middle coal measures. There is also an area of dolerite deposits, which fed the to ===Middle Ages===
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• Corbridge
  ...rd of armour and sundry other items. In Rudyard Kipling's ''Puck of Pook's Hill'', the town of Hunno on the Wall, is probably based on Corstopitum. ===The Early Middle Ages===
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• Ealing
  ...es at Little Ealing, Ealing Dean, Haven Green, Drayton Green and Castlebar Hill. ...ot more than 540 acres, a total increased before 1423 by land at Castlebar Hill.<ref name=vec>{{VCH|7|Ealing and Brentford: Economic history|pp=131-144}}</
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• Aberystwyth
  [[File:ClarachBayCeredigion.jpg|thumb|250px|Clarach Bay from Constitution Hill]] Aberystwyth has a pier and a fine seafront which stretches from Constitution Hill at the north end of the Promenade to the mouth of the harbour at the south,
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• Dartmoor
  ...ar scenery. It takes its name from the [[River Dart]], which rises in the middle of the high moor as two rivers, the East Dart and West Dart, though the moo ...ts name the outcrops "tors", though locally "tor" is simply the name for a hill, and more than 160 of the hills of Dartmoor have the word ''tor'' in their
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• Llantilio Crossenny
  ..., a fine example of the mediæval castle builder's art which stands on the hill overlooking the village. The Three Castles Walk passes close by. ...village or at least the locality is associated with a battle in the early Middle Ages between King Ynyr of [[Gwent]] and the incoming Saxons.
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• Rock of Gibraltar
  ...ble echinoid spines and belemnite fragments and infrequent Early Jurassic (Middle Lias) ammonites.<ref name= "RoseRosebaum1991"/> The Rock's central peak, [[Signal Hill, Gibraltar|Signal Hill]], stands at an elevation of 1,270 feet. The near-cliffs along the eastern
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• Edinburgh
  ...itself, a little outside the ancient centre, is [[Arthur's Seat]], a rocky hill of 823 feet. ...0px|Arthur's Seat viewed across southern parts of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill]]
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• Deddington
  <blockquote>Aynho on the Hill<br> ...arish, about a mile south of Hempton, is Ilbury Iron Age hill fort, atop a hill 430 feet high. Near the fort is the site of a deserted mediæval village, a
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• Stockport
  ...Hegginbotham reported (in 1892) the discovery of Roman mosaics at Castle Hill (the area around Stockport market) in the late 18th century, during the con ...dle of the 16th century, and in 1642 it was agreed to demolish it. Castle Hill, possibly the motte, was levelled in 1775 to make space for Warren's mill,
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• Bodmin
  ...house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages. It is a memorial to one "Duno[.]atus son of Me[.]cagnus" and has bee The '''''Bodmin Beacon Local Nature Reserve''''' is the hill overlooking the town. The reserve has 83 acres of public land and has at th
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• Chester
  **St Mary-on-the-Hill is an educational centre,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.or Chester developed as a wealthy merchant town in the Middle Ages.
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• Penzance
  ...in Penzance in a number of sites, including Lescudjack Castle, an Iron Age hill fort and settlement within the current Penzance parish boundaries. The tow ===Middle Ages===
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• Redruth
  [[Carn Brea, Redruth|Carn Brea]] rises above the town. It is a green hill with historical interest, a popular climb from Redruth and from Camborne up ...oded valley, with [[Carn Brea, Redruth|Carn Brea]] on one side and Bullers Hill on the other. The presence of shallow lodes of tin and copper lying east to
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• Ascension Island
  ...at anchor or shelling the cable station. A two-gun shore battery at Cross Hill, above Georgetown, fired on the submarine. The guns scored no hits but the # [[Cat Hill, Ascension Island|Cat Hill]] (the US base)
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• Isle of Wight
  ...ing from Early Cretaceous times (around 127&nbsp;million years ago) to the middle of the Palaeogene (around 30&nbsp;million years ago). All the rocks found o ===Early Middle Ages===
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• Forest of Bowland
  *White Hill (1,785 feet) ...self into adjoining areas including parts of [[Lancashire]] such as Pendle Hill near [[Clitheroe]].
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• Furness
  ...Man", are known as the [[Furness Fells]]. [[Gummer's How]] is a prominent hill in the east of the region. ...nd]]. Hougun (believed to derive from the Old Norse word ''haugr'' meaning hill or mound) was the name given to Furness.<ref> [http://www.domesdaybook.co.u
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• Matlock
  ...The road has many local landmark buildings along it. From the foot of the hill at Crown Square travelling north: ...first phase, in 1881, included the entrance hall and staircase, now in the middle section. In 1886, the eastern section was added by architect George Statha
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• Dorchester
  ...een found around [[Maiden Castle, Dorset|Maiden Castle]], a large Iron Age hill fort that was one of the most powerful settlements in pre-Roman Britain, wi ...the British language word for "fist", whether referring to the shape of a hill or, as others have suggested, fist-sized pebbles, but its name is similar t
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• Poole Harbour
  [[File:Poole harbour from hill less brownsea, tree in middel sunney.JPG|thumb|View across the harbour look ...le was made Dorset's Staple Port for the export of wool. Mediæval In the Middle Ages trade through Poole Harbour sailed to and from lands from the Baltic t
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• Shaftesbury
  |picture=Gold Hill, Shaftsbury, Dorset, England.JPG |picture caption=Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
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• Downpatrick
  ...c towns. It takes its name from a ''dún'' (fort), which once stood on the hill that dominates the town and on which Down Cathedral stands. Ptolemy, about Saint Patrick was reputedly buried here in 461 on Cathedral Hill, within the grounds of Down Cathedral. His grave is still a place of pilgri
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• Dumfries
  ...uggest that the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars’ Hill, perhaps suggesting a religious house near what is now the Friars’ Vennel ...ory, the town's name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars’ Hill; those who favour this idea alleging that St Ninian, by planting a religiou
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• Cupar
  During the middle of the 14th century, the burgh started to pay customs on taxable incomes, w [[File:Tarvit 1.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Hill of Tarvit]]
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• Durham
  ...rham]], founded in 1832; the first university founded in England since the Middle Ages and thus one of the oldest of Britain’s universities. The name "Durham" comes from the Old English "dun", meaning hill, and the Old Norse "holme", which translates to island.<ref name="Surtees">
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• Garrison, Fermanagh
  ...Garrison can enjoy a wide range of activities including golfing, fishing, hill-walking, water sports, horse-riding, cycling, camping and caving. The [http ...n Hotel, previously owned by the McGovern family, was blown up, during the middle of a wedding reception, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army reportedly
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• Beith
  ...ginally as the "''Hill o' Beith''" (hill of the birches) after its ''Court Hill''. ...ame of the feudal barony and was itself derived from the Court Hill near [[Hill of Beith Castle]].
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• Warwick
  The centre of Warwick stands on a hill which drops sharply down to the river. The Castle stands beside the river ===Later Middle Ages===
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• Coventry
  '''Coventry''' is a city in the middle of [[Warwickshire]]. It is reckoned the 11th largest city in the United Ki ...ntry had become an important centre of the cloth trade, and throughout the Middle Ages was one of the largest and most important cities in England. The bisho
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• Gateshead
  ...nues rising to a height of 525 feet at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sheriff Hill.<ref>http://online.gateshead.gov.uk/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-9876/Item+ During the Middle Ages Gateshead was under the palatine jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham.
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• Sunderland
  ...ea level. Sunderland is divided by the River Wear which passes through the middle of the city in a deeply incised valley, part of which is known as the Hylto * '''E''': Carley Hill
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• Clapham
  ...''cloppa ham'' (or ''hamm''), meaning homestead or meadow enclosure near a hill. ...h the upper classes. Many of their grand houses had been demolished by the middle of the twentieth century, though a number remain around the Common and in t
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• Claygate
  |picture caption=Claygate from Telegraph Hill ...ygate Common, Princes Covert, Winney Hill, Surbiton Golf Course, Telegraph Hill, Littleworth Common and Arbrook Common. Much of the intervening farmland is
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• Cobham, Surrey
  ...side of the A3 and Geoff Uren prepared the BMW team saloon cars and Graham Hill's Jägermeister sponsored Formula 2 car. ...larger complex. It stands on the site of earlier mills dating back to the Middle Ages. The mill was in use until 1928 when it became uneconomical to continu
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• Cranleigh
  ...ns the old drinking water fountain of 1874, that can still be found in the middle of the village in 'Fountain Square'. ...ts partly on the Greensand Ridge, where it rises to 700 feet at Winterfold Hill, but mainly on the clay and sandstone Lower [[Weald]].
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• Croydon
  ...y Andrew Coltee Ducarel, that the name came from the Old French for 'chalk hill', because the name was in use at least a century before the French language ...d a church, a mill and around 365 inhabitants. Croydon expanded during the Middle Ages as a market town and a centre for charcoal production, leather tanning
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• Croydon, Cambridgeshire
  ...wards [[Hatley, Cambridgeshire|Hatley]], while the current road up Croydon Hill to Hatley was first built in 1830.<ref name="britishhistory"/> The village started to decline in the later Middle Ages and was deserted for good in the early 16th century after inclosure, w
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• Haverfordwest
  **[http://www.hillpark.net/ Hill Park Evangelical Baptist Church] ===Middle Ages===
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• Chelmsford
  In the middle of Essex, Chelmsford is still part of the London commuter belt, equidistant ...ny of the ringleaders were executed on the gallows at what is now Primrose Hill.
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• Dunsfold
  ...on Sunday afternoons. It has a small Post Office and shop located in the middle of the village. ...nt's fold''. Alternatively it may be derived from the Old English ''dun'' (hill) and ''fold'' (sheep-fold).
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• Colchester
  ...when it was besieged and recaptured by the army of Edward the Elder<ref>D, Hill, ''An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon History'' (Blackwell: Oxford, 1981), pp. 47, 56- ===Middle Ages===
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• Dorking
  ...t or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and Britain's first Country Park. The hill has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, because of the l ...d Pitch Hill, as well as the nearby escarpment of the North Downs from Box Hill to Newlands Corner, the area is known as 'The Surrey Hills Area of Outstand
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• Harlow
  ...rial mound, later a Roman temple site on River Way, or again with Mulberry Hill though know ancient English pagan temple remains have been found. Often a ...haeological material survives in Harlow from the Stone Age right up to the Middle Ages, though most information is currently unpublished. The Museum of Harl
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• Newport, Shropshire
  ...wport. The village of [[Edgmond]] is just to the west, separated by Cheney Hill, [[Chetwynd Park]] and the [[Shrewsbury and Newport Canal]]. Burgage plots ran along either side and the church rising up in the middle, with the High Street with St Mary's Street splitting off and re-joining th
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• Bridgwater
  ...s, the River Parrett was used to transport hamstone from the quarry at Ham Hill. Bridgwater was part of the Port of Bristol until the Port of Bridgwater w
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• Ailsa Craig
  ...ble, except on the south-west side, by a stair cut out in the rock; in the middle of it there is a small tower of three stories high with the top. There is a ...08-01-28</ref> Ailsa Craig and its lighthouse feature extensively in Peter Hill's book ''Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper.''
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• Saddleworth
  ===Middle Ages=== ...The Obelisk on Alderman's Hill.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Obelisk on Alderman's Hill overlooking Greenfield]]
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• Oldham
  ...re Neolithic flint arrow-heads and workings found at [[Werneth]] and Besom Hill, implying habitation 7–10,000 years ago.<ref name="Oldham 100"/> The Rom ...the [[Domesday Book]], but Oldham does appear in legal documents from the Middle Ages, invariably recorded as territory under the control of minor ruling fa
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• Rickmansworth
  ...d supermarkets off at the fringes. The houses of the town surrounding the middle of town all around form a large belt from the modest to the very wealthy. At the east end of Rickmansworth High Street at the bottom of Scots Hill is situated the Rickmansworth Sports Club. Initially this was the home of R
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• St Albans
  ...St Albans is dominated by St Albans Catherdral, which stands on the steep hill above the [[River Ver]] and around which site the mediæval town grew. ...ng history of settlement. The Catuvellauni tribe had a settlement at Prae Hill a mile or so to the west and a major town, perhaps their capital at [[Wheat
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• Merthyr Tydfil
  No permanent settlement was formed until well into the Middle Ages. People continued to be self-sufficient, living by farming and later b ...after the death of Anthony Bacon (industrialist)|Anthony Bacon to Richard Hill in 1788. The fourth ironworks was Penydarren built by Francis Homfray and
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• Bristol
  ...h Woods and Clifton Down on the side of the Avon Gorge, and on Kingsweston Hill, near Henbury.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Le During the Middle Ages, Bristol became a centre of shipbuilding and manufacturing. Bristol wa
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• Royston, Hertfordshire
  ...around the centre. The High Street and King Street, Fish Hill and Market Hill form the knot of pedestrianised shopping streets around which the town revo ...uggestions that the cave is Roman in origin but reopened and reused in the Middle Ages.
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• Winchcombe
  ...souls. Now, Winchcombe is a modest town, pretty and well appointed, on a hill and visited more for Sudeley Castle than for itself. In the tenth century ...n Winchcombe made the town an important place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages.
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• Cheltenham
  ...of bells hung for change ringing. The first is at St Christopher's (Warden Hill), the lightest ring of church bells in the world.<ref>[http://www.stcwh.pwp ...cheltenham.racecourse.arp.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Racecourse from Cleeve Hill]]
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• Southampton
  ...h and the M27 motorway to the north. The [[River Itchen]] runs through the middle of the city and is bridged in several places. The northernmost bridge, and ...mtun) must have possessed considerable administrative importance as by the middle of the 8th century it had given its name to the shire - Hamtunscire.
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• Andover
  ...House, as is the Army Air Corps Centre and the Museum of Army Flying at [[Middle Wallop]]. ...e added in 1986 which houses the finds from excavations at nearby Danebury Hill Fort. In 2002 Andover received the first cango bus network. Leisure facilit
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• Christchurch
  ...ntly from the Old English ''betweoxn'' (between) and ''eam'' (rivers).<ref>Hill, Rumble (1996) p. 107 & 198.</ref> The town was known as Twynham until renamed "Christchurch" in the Middle Ages after the priory founded there in 1094.
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• Portsmouth
  ===Foundation and Middle Ages=== ...ortsmouth-from-PortsdownHill.jpg|thumb|View over Portsmouth from Portsdown Hill]]
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• Faringdon
  The name Faringdon means ''fern covered hill''. The Kings of the West Saxons are believed to have had an estate and hall ...s works were razed to the ground by Stephen. Oliver Cromwell fortified the hill in his unsuccessful campaign to defeat the Royalist garrison at Faringdon H
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• Uffington
  ...north again as the eastern boundary across Kingston Warren Down and Ram's Hill, almost to Fawler and partially along Stutfield Brook. ...ill - geograph.org.uk - 26019.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The White Horse on the hill]]
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• Kingussie
  ...e site of Ruthven Castle, the seat of the Comyns, Lords of Badenoch in the Middle Ages. ...s about 12 miles from Kingussie; a fair but rewarding 8-mile hike over the hill from the nearest parking.
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• Castle Douglas
  ...he Black Douglas line of the House of Douglas. It lies on an island in the middle of the River Dee, admission includes the short ferry journey. ...bird hide, from where further trails lead back to the town or on to Kelton Hill and Threave Gardens. There is a walk leading from the town to Threave Castl
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• Lavenham
  .... A circular walk will lead a visitor around the historic village. In the Middle Ages, Lavenham was among the 20 wealthiest settlements in England.<ref name ...vishly constructed parish church of St Peter and St Paul which stands on a hill top at the end of the main high street. The church is excessively large for
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• Effingham
  ...m East Court found a small camp of irrelgular form near Mare House, Dunley Hill in the south of Effingham parish. It is believed to be of Roman origin but ===Middle Ages===
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• Canterbury
  ...tiary sands overlain by London clay form St Thomas's Hill and St Stephen's Hill about a mile north-west of the city centre.<ref>Lyle, p. 15.</ref> ===Later Middle Ages===
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• Rochester
  ...an settlement provides us with the present High Street and Northgate/Boley Hill.<ref name=marsh/> A bridge was built. There is evidence that the Romans bri ===Middle Ages===
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• Maidstone
  ...et run up from the river crossing at Lockmeadow; Week Street and Gabriel's Hill bisect this route. ...iests. Today's suburb of Penenden Heath became a place of execution in the Middle Ages.
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• Eastbourne
  ...he same tectonic plate movements that formed the European Alps, during the middle Tertiary period.<ref name=BMA /> The chalk can be clearly seen along the er ...urne Local History Society|year=1987|isbn=0 9504560 7 1}}</ref> During the Middle Ages the town was visited by King Henry I and in 1324 by Edward&nbsp;II.<re
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• Leighton Bromswold
  ...h east of the church is the site of the Prebendal Manor House where in the Middle Ages the original village was located. The church is Grade I listed, and th
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• Folkestone
  ...be conquered and settled by the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the middle of the 5th century AD onwards, after the departure of the Romans, it was no ...-coast/towers/3.htm</ref> The Folkestone White Horse is carved on Cheriton Hill above the Channel Tunnel terminal.
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• Limavady
  ...tell of Saint Columba, who presided over a meeting of the Kings at Mullagh Hill near Limavady in 575 AD, a location which is now part of the Roe Park Golf In the Middle Ages, the ruling clan in the Limavady area was that of the O'Cahans. Their
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• Innerleithen
  ...ky" (1,191 feet) and its townward spur of Windy Knowe, also known as "Pirn Hill" (328 feet). To the south, beyond the Tweed, the extended of ridge of Plor ...round Roman hill fort, they are in fact typical of an indigenous Iron Age hill fort. Crop marks from aerial photographs of the 1950s suggest the existence
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• Mickle Fell
  {{Infobox hill ...hire]], in the [[Pennines]], the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England. It is 2,585&nbsp;feet high and lies slightly off the m
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• Coatbridge
  ...nkland area. One source states “Coatbridge” is either derived from the Middle English "cote" (cottage) or from the Old Welsh "coed" meaning "wood".<ref n ===Early history: from Bronze Age to Middle Ages===
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• Pennines
  ...ing at [[Kirk Yetholm]] in [[Roxburghshire]]. It winds for 267 miles over hill and dale, through 287 gates, over 249 timber stiles and 183 stone stiles, a ...several of the fells in ''our Appenine'', as [[Pen-y-ghent]] and [[Pendle Hill]]. Daniel Defoe, writing a hundred years later, writes of "the English Appe
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• Llŷn
  ...oughout the peninsula and to many some holy connotation was applied in the Middle Ages. They were important stops for pilgrims heading to the island. Of the short hill, eaten away
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• Wharfedale
  ...eighboring [[Wensleydale]]. The Romans mined lead in the hills on Greenhow Hill overlooking Appletreewick until AD&nbsp;410.<ref name="Wharfe-Litton"/> Aft In the Middle Ages low intensity methods were used to produce both crops and livestock bu
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• Farnham
  ...thumb|right|250px|St Andrew's Parish Church seen here from the junction of Middle Church Lane and Vicarage Lane Farnham]] ...bury Hill,<ref>[http://www.bvrunners.org.uk/crooksburyhill.aspx Crooksbury Hill], Farnham</ref> and further artefacts have been found, particularly at site
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• Godalming
  ===Early Middle Ages=== ...he mediæval "Old Market House" that had occupied the site since the early Middle Ages. It was in this Market House (and its predecessors) that the local Hun
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• Guildford
  ...elongings of victims from their houses and burning them on bonfires in the middle of the street. ...ght an end to the riots. Similar disorder surrounding the St Catherine’s Hill Fair, held just outside the town on the Pilgrims' Way, was suppressed aroun
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• Milford Haven
  ...of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Middle Ages. ...l and power industries. This industry reached its zenith in the 1970s when Middle Eastern supply difficulties forced oil transport to use ocean routes and Ve
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• Leicester
  ...reduced scale in the 5th and 6th centuries. The area became a town of the Middle Angles whose territory was subsequently absorbed into the kingdom of the Me Leicester became a town of considerable importance by the Middle Ages. It was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] as 'civitas' (city), but it
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• Melton Mowbray
  ...s. Many small village communities existed and strategic points at Burrough Hill and Belvoir Castle were fortified. There is also evidence to suggest that t ===Later Middle Ages===
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• Lincoln
  ...nd the suburbs to the south and south-west. The aptly named street ''Steep Hill'' connects the two (although it is too steep for vehicular traffic, which m ...(the modern Brayford Pool) in the [[River Witham]] at the foot of a large hill (on which the Normans later built Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle).
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• Grantham
  ...ished by History of Lincolnshire Committee</ref> It is however only in the Middle Ages that the town’s history is much known. ...ere green fields. Green Hill on the A52 was well named, but no longer; the hill is occupied by a housing estate.
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• Stamford
  ..., the county boundary with Northamptonshire, runs at the bottom of a steep hill down which narrow lanes tumble to the meadows and the river is bridged here ...m north to south, and its way reaches across Burghley Park and through the middle of the town. The original road forded the Welland, eventually reaching [[L
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• Rhiwbina
  ...[[Birchgrove, Cardiff|Birchgrove]] to the south. To the north is [[Wenallt Hill]], part of Cardiff's unofficial "green belt". The area is served by Rhiwbin ...Deri Stores, a family run shop on the corner of Wenallt Road and Rhiwbeina Hill. This used to be a post office, and before this a cafe.
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• Cumnor
  ...r village and [[Botley, Berkshire|Botley]]), Chawley (at the top of Cumnor Hill), the Dean Court area on the edge of Botley and the outlying settlements of In te Middle Ages, the parish was one of the largest in Berkshire, and included [[Wytham
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• Kingston upon Thames
  John Galsworthy the author was born on Kingston Hill. ...he Worlds'', cannons aimed against the Martians are positioned on Kingston Hill. In ''The Rainbow'' by D H Lawrence the youngest Brangwen dreams of a job
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• Lossiemouth
  ...new harbour with its two basins and eventually covered the entire Coulard Hill and providing the town's impressive profile when viewed from a distance. A large part of the town is built on the Coulard Hill which consists of pale grey and yellow sandstones and with these is associa
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• Isle of Man
  ...nglish Crown in 1399. The lordship belonged to the Stanley family from the Middle Ages until it was vested in the British Crown in 1764 under the Isle of Man The Isle of Man is located in the middle of the northern [[Irish Sea]], approximately equidistant from the islands o
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• Paps of Jura
  {{Infobox hill ...iver, in which case Beinn an Òir is the second peak to be climbed, as the middle mount. To climb Beinn an Òir alone, one would start from either of the bea
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• North Hinksey
  ...he Church of England diocese of Oxford (Diocesan Church House). [[Harcourt Hill]] and Raleigh Park lie to the southwest. ...at became of the road? Well, like a bad lecture it ended abruptly—in the middle of the swamp. Ruskin going away to Venice, when we came back for the next
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• Norwich
  [[File:ElmHill.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Elm Hill]] ...ritain. these little streets are a jumble of building from every age; the Middle Ages, the Tudor, the Georgian and indeed modern, all creating together a to
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• Skiddaw
  {{Infobox hill ...other proposed root is from Old Norse, the latter element from ''haugr'', "hill".
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• Berwick-upon-Tweed
  ===Middle Ages and Scottish rule=== *'''1333:''' Captured by the English, after the Battle of Halidon Hill
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• Nottingham
  ...Hall and Law Courts. A settlement also developed around the castle on the hill opposite and was the French borough supporting the Normans in the castle. E ...m has three notable historic parish churches all of which date back to the Middle Ages:
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• Moulsford
  ...ntific interest), Moulsford Bottom and by Kingstanding Hill. Kingstanding Hill is traditionally associated with King Alfred and the Battle of Ashdown. Lik In the Middle Ages Moulsford Manor was the English home of the powerful Carew family<ref>
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• The Cheviot
  {{Infobox hill |picture=The Cheviot from Broadhope Hill.jpg
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• Icknield Way
  .../wilbury_walk.pdf Circular Walk (Wilbury Hill, Ickleford, Cadwell, Wilbury Hill)]''.</ref><ref name="Bra">R. Bradley, [http://thehumanjourney.net/pdf_store ...es, Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the south. It is in the middle of Royston that the Icknield Way crosses Ermine Street.
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• Oxshott
  At the time it was first mentioned in the Middle Ages, Oxshott was a hamlet of about 200 people earning their living from fo ...itable for occupation by wealthy families. Examples of these include Danes Hill, Broom Hall and Bevendean. Subsequently the village has expanded to include
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• Skye
  ...hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula, which was further fortified in the Middle Ages and may have become the seat of Clan MacKinnon.<ref>Ritchie, Anna and
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• Blackburn
  A former mill town, textiles have been produced in Blackburn since the middle of the 13th century, when wool was woven in homes in the domestic system. F To the west, the wooded Billinge Hill in Witton Country Park is 804 feet high, while Royal Blackburn Hospital is
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• Meikle Says Law
  {{Infobox hill |picture=Newlands Hill - geograph.org.uk - 208805.jpg
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• Kilmacolm
  ...im. Feuding between the noble families of Kilmacolm was commonplace in the Middle Ages and in the 16th and 17th centuries the parish again came to the attent ...ts were built at nearby Whitemoss, with a more significant one on Barochan Hill outside of neighbouring [[Houston, Renfrewshire|Houston]]. The Romans' cont
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• Upnor
  ...d "atte Nore" in 1292. However then the meaning changed to "Upon the bank" Middle English "uppan ore" and by 1374 it was "Upnore".<ref name="Glover">{{cite b ...ill. This line was used to supply armaments from [[Chattenden]], the Lodge Hill Ammunition Depot and the standard gauge at Sharnal Street, to the Warships
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• Kennington
  ...rict; Kennington Park Road, for example, corresponds with the description "Middle class. Well-to-do". Most streets are classified as "Mixed. Some comfortable ...gentrification. Decline began in the early part of the twentieth century. Middle-class households ceased to employ servants and no longer sought the large h
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• Penge
  ...s to visit the Crystal Palace during the day and to take the tram down the hill to one of the 'twenty-five pubs to the square mile'<ref>Abbott, Peter (2002 ...s to visit the Crystal Palace during the day and to take the tram down the hill to one of the 'twenty-five pubs to the square mile' <ref>Abbott, Peter, p1
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• Maryport
  ===Middle Ages=== [[File:Geograph-2091900-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Maryport Castle Hill]]
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• St Kilda
  ...s, although the earliest written records of island life date from the Late Middle Ages. The mediæval village on Hirta was rebuilt in the 19th century, but t ...t is Oiseval ('east fell'), which reaches 951 feet, and Mullach Mòr ('big hill summit') at 1,185&nbsp;feet is due west of Conachair. Ruival ('red fell') 4
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• Kelso
  ...p standing high above the river. In Old English ''Cealchoh'' means "chalk hill", a description of the site. ...castle town, changing hands often and held by the English for much of the Middle Ages, and eventually rased to the ground. Kelso was spared.
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• Reigate
  ...of the town (756 feet) and [[Reigate Hill]] 2½ miles east of that Colley Hill (723 feet). **St Cross on Reigate Hill (a chapel of ease)
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• Cadair Idris
  {{Infobox hill | title=History of Merioneth Volume II: The Middle Ages
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• Leinster
  ...Cool, or Fionn mac Cumhaill, was reputed to have built a stronghold at the Hill of Allen, on the edge of the [[Bog of Allen]], which was then in Leinster. ...s today much of the counties of Meath and Westmeath. Another change in the Middle Ages was to [[County Louth]], which was formerly part of [[Ulster]] and now
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• Shrewsbury
  '''Shrewsbury''' is the [[county town]] of [[Shropshire]]. It stands on a hill in a bend of the [[River Severn]] in the midst of its county, a town of som ...wys and Shrewsbury its capital, then known as Pengwern, menaing "the alder hill".<ref name="VOB">{{cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descripti
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• Oswestry
  ...'Maserfelþ'', which is most likely to be beside Old Oswestry, an Iron Age hill fort beside today's town. The area has long been settled. Old Oswestry is the site of a large Iron Age hill fort with evidence of occupation dating back to the 550s BC.
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• Bath
  Bath was a chief city of the realm in the early Middle Ages; the grand coronation of King Edgar I took place here in 973, and at a ...bn=9780948975868|page=21}}</ref> Bathampton Camp may have been an Iron Age hill fort or stock enclosure.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=Rod|title=A Sacr
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• Glastonbury
  ...the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, around which the town grew from the Early Middle Ages to the Reformation. In the Middle Ages, Glastonbury was a place of pilgrimage, home to one of the richest abb
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• Wells
  ...the region, the Mendip UHF television transmitter, was installed on [[Pen Hill]] above Wells, reaching even higher at its tip that Somerset’s [[county t ...entury that enabled goods to be brought to within 3 miles of Wells. In the Middle Ages overseas trade was carried out from the port of [[Rackley]]. In the 14
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• Weston-super-Mare
  ...coast between the bounding high ground of [[Worlebury Hill]] and [[Bleadon Hill]]. It includes the suburbs of '''Oldmixon''', '''West Wick''' and [[Worle]] ...n Estuary and the start of the Bristol Channel. It is also the site of the Middle Hope biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. In the
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• Yeovil
  |picture=Middle Street, Yeovil.jpg |picture caption=Middle Street, Yeovil
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• Bridge of Allan
  ...Forth]], built largely on the well-wooded slopes of Westerton and Airthrey Hill, sheltered by the [[Ochil Hills]] from the north and east winds. By the middle of the seventeenth century the Airthrey Estate had passed to relatives of t
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• Kilsyth
  [[File:Croy4.jpg|left|thumb|800px|Broad wiew from Croy Hill and the [[Antonine Wall]], over Kilsyth to the Kilsyth Hills]] ...ill (NS 7091 7610) as well as the Antonine Wall forts of Bar Hill and Croy Hill which are clearly visible from the present-day town.
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• Streatham
  Streatham is a place of contrasts, with middle-class families occupying houses in leafy streets that fetch over £500,000 **[http://www.christchurchstreatham.org.uk/ Christ Church, Streatham Hill]
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• Thames Ditton
  ===Middle Ages=== ...dissolution in 1994 the Milk Marketing Board had its headquarters at Giggs Hill Green in Thames Ditton where it played a significant role in providing loca
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• Virginia Water
  ...om the recent Jacobite risings, who were encamped at the nearby Breakheart Hill, were involved. The original lake was much smaller than the current form, a ..., M4 and M3 motorways. The village has a four-track railway station in the middle of the village on the line between London Waterloo, [[Weybridge]] and [[Rea
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• Ipswich
  ...0), 174–77.</ref> and the largest Roman villa in Suffolk stood at Castle Hill in north-western Ipswich.<ref>The so-called 'Whitton' villa, see J. Fairclo During the Middle Ages the town had five large religious houses, including two Augustinian Pr
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• Lowestoft
  ...cts/summarys/html98_9/cc2313.htm A Roman and Saxon settlement at Bloodmoor Hill, Pakefield, Lowestoft]. Retrieved 2009-11-28.</ref><ref name="wavlandscapeh In the Middle Ages Lowestoft became an increasingly important fishing town. The industry
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• Sudbury, Suffolk
  |picture= Market Hill, Sudbury - geograph.org.uk - 900492.jpg |picture caption= Market Hill, Sudbury
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• Scafell
  {{Infobox hill |picture caption=Scafell (R) and the massif from Middle Fell
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• Helvellyn
  {{Infobox hill ...Lake District - June 09.jpg|center|thumb|1000px|A 360 degree view from the middle of striding edge. Helvellyn is the tallest summit just to the right of cent
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• Land Yeo
  The Land Yeo rises on [[Dundry Hill]] and supplies [[Barrow Gurney Reservoirs]] before flowing through various ...o has its origins at several small springs on the western edge of [[Dundry Hill]].<ref name="somrivers"/> It is one of the small streams which feed Barrow
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• Winter Hill, Lancashire
  {{Infobox hill |name=Winter Hill
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• Lomond Hills
  [[File:Falkland Hill 01.jpg|right|thumb|300px|East Lomond or Falkland Hill]] ...tain two prominent peaks, [[West Lomond]] and [[East Lomond]] (or Falkland Hill) (1,470 feet), which lie at either end of an escarpment roughly 4 miles lon
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• Crawley
  ...d by main roads and railway lines. The nearby communities of Ifield, Pound Hill and Three Bridges were absorbed into the new town at different stages of it ...aking over adjacent buildings. Eventually an annexe had to be built in the middle of the wide High Street; this survived until the 1930s.<ref name="George">{
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• Hastings
  In the Middle Ages, Hastings became one of the [[Cinque Ports]]. Hastings was, for centur ...1066; although the battle itself took place 8 miles to the north at Senlac Hill. All these events are pictured on the Bayeaux Tapestry; the words "<small>
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• Rapes of Sussex
  ...oundary between the Rapes of Lewes and Pevensey, since it cuts through the middle of Lewes, probably pre-dates the founding of Lewes in the late 9th or early ...ape also had a horse company which would meet at [[Bury Hill, Arundel|Bury Hill]] for the Rapes of Arundel, Bramber and Chichester, and at [[Piltdown]] for
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• Dollis Brook
  ...ares of land in the common field. The brook gives a name too to [[Dollish Hill]]. Dollis Brook rises on Moat Mount Open Space in [[Mill Hill]],<ref>Dollis Valley Greenwalk provides a more detailed description of its
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• Bathgate
  ...town stands two miles south of the Neolithic burial site at [[Cairnpapple Hill]] (which is the county's highest point) and so Bathgate and the surrounding ===Middle Ages===
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• Salisbury
  ...distinguishes it from [[Old Sarum]], the original site of Salisbury win a hill-fort to the north of today's city. ...ns called it ''Sorviodunum'' (in which 'dun' is the British for "hill" or "hill-fort")
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• Chippenham, Wiltshire
  ...roundabout on the A350 Malmesbury Road. There are also access points off Hill Corner Road (over fields) and Jacksom's Lane. ...railway promoted the growth of industrial agricultural businesses. In the middle of the 19th century Chippenham was a major centre for the dairy and pork pr
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• Devizes
  ...w.sjbnet.org.uk/index.html St John the Baptist, Devizes]</ref> It is now a middle-of-the-road Church of England Church with a notable interior. ...ajor legacy of this effort today os the remarkable flight of locks on Caen Hill.
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• Warminster
  .... The River Were runs through the town and can be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were. ...Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. There are indications that a Middle Iron Age settlement may also have been situated just west of the town.<ref
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• River Afan
  ...ommon with many in Glamorgan, runs south to the sea. To the east over the hill is that of the [[River Kenfig]] and then the [[River Llynfi]], a tributary The River passes the Afan Argoed Country Park in its middle reaches.
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• Worcester
  ...one of the oldest bishoprics in the [[Church of England]] and in the Early Middle Ages, the richest. ...Parks, which are located in the Blackpole area of the city, and the Shrub Hill Retail Park which is located immediately outside the city centre.
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• River Stour, Kent
  ...the, Kent|Hythe]], is to be found at Pledge’s Mill at the bottom of East Hill in Ashford. The town of [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]] marks the start of the middle section of the river, sited at a crossing point of the river and on ancient
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• Stourbridge
  ...ulation retain the region's accent and dialect, although there is a larger middle-class population than nearby towns such as Dudley or Halesowen. *Baptist: [http://www.hanburyhill.org.uk/ Hanbury Hill Baptist Church]
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• Halesowen
  ...t was created in 1925. Urbanisation continued and Halesowen became by the middle of the twentieth century a town engulfed in a wider conurbation. ...nded between Halesowen and Northfield as far back as 1919, and between Old Hill and Halesowen in 1927, though the workmen's trains continued to serve Longb
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• Redditch
  ...dditch is in 1348, the year of the outbreak of the Black Death. During the Middle Ages it became a centre of needle-making and later prominent industries wer ...atically from 32,000 to around 77,000. Housing developments such as Church Hill, Matchborough, Winyates, Lodge Park and Woodrow were created to accommodate
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• Lairig Ghru
  {{quote|As a place-name Lairig Ghru remains an enigma. Lairig means hill pass, and map-makers of the nineteenth century solved the problem to their ...ght of suggestion is - therefore - that ''Lairig Ghru'' is certainly ''the hill pass'' (of something) and that ''something'' is probably related to the wat
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• Snowdonia
  In the Middle Ages the title "Prince of Wales and Lord of Snowdonia" (''Tywysog Cymru ac ...1997) “The Welsh Three Thousand Foot Challenges: A Guide for Walkers and Hill Runners” Grey Stone Books, Darwen, Lancashire. ISBN 978-1902017020</ref
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• Abergwyngregyn
  Y Mŵd is an earthen mound on the valley floor in the middle of the village, at {{getmapecho|SH656726}}. The mound is circular, 22 feet This is a defensive enclosure, built on a hill that forms the western end of a spur overlooking the valley at {{getmapecho
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• Aberdaron
  [[File:Aberdaron - Islyn Bakery.JPG|left|thumb|upright|Running up the hill]] ...e y Grogbren (“Gallows Field”), near which is a large red rock. In the Middle Ages, the abbot from the monastery on Bardsey Island visited the rock to di
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• Blencathra
  {{Infobox hill ...hill top shaped like a chair", which perfectly describes the shape of the hill.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hawley |first=Robert |year=2008 |month=November/Dece
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• Wales
  ...as'.</ref> In Welsh literature, the word ''Cymry'' was used throughout the Middle Ages to describe the Welsh, though the older, more generic term ''Brythonia ...he Angles and laid waste Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi."<ref>{{cite book|last=Hill |first=David |title=Mercia: an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe |contribution=
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• Penmaenmawr
  ...road crosses this pass to Conwy) & Pen-sychnant at Capelulo. The rounded hill of Foel Lys, Gwddw Glas (Green Gorge), Bryn Derwydd and the head of Cwm Gra ...The summit area was crowned by Braich-y-Dinas, one of the largest Iron Age hill-forts in Wales and indeed Europe, comparable with Tre'r Ceiri near Trefor o
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• Castell y Gwynt
  {{Infobox hill |picture caption=Castell y Gwynt (middle-ground) from Glyder Fach
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• Carnedd Llewelyn
  {{Infobox hill ...onshire]]. It is the highest point of the Carneddau. The peak lies in the middle of the main north-east to south-west ridge of the Carneddau, between [[Carn
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• Trefriw
  ...om ''Tref Rhiw Las''; the name Tref Rhiw is normally rendered "Town of the Hill". Llywelyn Fawr donated a number of farms from the parish of Llanrhychwyn, ===The Middle Ages===
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• River Mole
  [[File:Stepping stones.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Mole at the foot of Box Hill]] ...tchment reaches a maximum elevation of 869 feet above sea level at [[Leith Hill]] to the southwest of [[Dorking]] (Surrey's [[county top]]).<ref name=CEH>{
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• Mendip Hills
  ...ill.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Mendip Hills from Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill]] The highest hill in the range is [[Black Down, Somerset|Beacon Batch]] on Black Down, which
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• Malvern Hills
  The name Malvern is from the ancient British language meaning 'Bare-Hill',<ref name=Smart2009>{{cite book ...5}}</ref> the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh ''moelfryn'' (bald hill).<ref>{{cite book
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