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• Caerleon
  ...th those of Newport, Cardiff, Llandaff, Abergavenny, Caerphilly and Usk by force.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = The Bull Inn, Caerleon, June 2007 | url = htt ...ut on the other side, protected by meadow and woods, it was remarkable for royal palaces, so that it imitated Rome in the golden roofs of its buildings... F
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• Plymouth
  ...he Americas, while the neighbouring town of Devonport grew as an important Royal Naval shipbuilding and dockyard town. The city's naval importance later led The eastern part of the Hoe is dominated by the Royal Citadel, while the western part provides open space for the townsfolk. In
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• Northwood
  ...stbury Park, the estate purchased by David Carnegie in 1857. The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made us
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• Ruislip
  ...lly avoided demolition in January 1930, after the visit by a member of the Royal Society of Arts to choose the buildings that should be conserved. The Great ...me a college in 1948 and included plaques with the crests of all Royal Air Force squadrons involved in the Battle of Britain as a memorial.<ref>Bowlt 1994,
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• Uxbridge
  ...stands. Uxbridge also houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Sit ...ame="Cotton p.23"/> The town had been chosen as it was located between the Royal headquarters at [[Oxford]] and the Parliamentary stronghold of London.<ref>
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• Unst
  The Saxa Vord Royal Air Force radar station closed in 2006, with the loss of more than 100 jobs.<ref>{{ci
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• Carterton
  ...ir Force is still one of the main employers in the area. The link with the air base also means that the population of Carterton continually fluctuates. Th
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• British flags
  ...some organisations or territories associated with the UK and also used by Royal Navy Captain of Merchant Navy Ship || A blue field, with a Union Flag in th ...y, usually ships bearing the prefix ''HMS'' (but see blue ensign), and the Royal Yacht Squadron|| A red cross on a white field with the Union Flag in the ca
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• British overseas territory
  | align="center"|[[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg|40px]] ...nsion Island is used by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force.
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• Rottingdean
  ...thought to have died in the blaze. The next day the pirates were met by a force led by the Lewes Prior. During the action, two knights, Sir John Fallisle, ...s the oldest man in the world and the last founder member of the Royal Air Force when he died in July 2009.
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• Penzance
  Penzance was granted a number of Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614.<ref>Penzance Charter o ...V's Silver Jubilee.<ref>Janet Smith; ''Liquid Assets - the lidos and open air swimming pools of Britain'' ISBN 0-9547445-0-0</ref> Penzance promenade its
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• Gibraltar
  ...he Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It became an important base for the British Royal Navy, which for most of the colony's history drove the local economy and pr ...d who led the initial incursion into Iberia in advance of the main Moorish force in 711 under the command of Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I.
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• Brampton, Huntingdonshire
  ...rters was established here until the end of the War. Later, the Royal Air Force Technical Training Command billeted staff here (as 'Brampton Park'): the Co
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• St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  ...Dependencies''' until 1 September 2009, when a new constitution came into force giving the three islands equal status within the territory.<ref>http://www. ...restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the East India Company received a Royal Charter giving it the sole right to fortify and colonise the island. The fo
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• Bermuda
  ...eb|last=Forbes|first=Keith|title=Bermuda Climate and Weather|publisher=The Royal Gazette|url=http://www.bermuda-online.org/climateweather.htm|accessdate=28 ...d VI to colonise Virginia after two previous failures. The King granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company and in 1609, a company fleet left England u
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• Ascension Island
  ...vel by flying boats and during Second World War was an important naval and air station, especially providing antisubmarine warfare bases in the Battle of ...d, a joint facility of the [[United States Air Force]] and the [[Royal Air Force]] and of the [[BBC]] World Service Atlantic Relay Station. The island was u
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• Tristan da Cunha
  ...north coast were noted, and the results of the survey were published by a Royal Navy hydrographer in 1781. The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert ...zabeth II, visited the islands in 1957 as part of a world tour onboard the royal yacht ''Britannia''.
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• British Indian Ocean Territory
  ...Diego Garcia to the American military for the purposes of building a large air and naval base on the Island. The strategic location of the island was also ...ary, although a British garrison is maintained at all times, and Royal Air Force long range patrol aircraft are deployed there.
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• United Kingdom
  [[File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.svg|right|thumb|200px|The Royal Arms]] ...from the United Kingdom to create the Irish Free State, and so in 1927 the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 changed Parliament's title to "the Parlia
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• Isle of Wight
  The Lordship thereafter became a royal appointment, with a brief interruption when Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Henry VIII, who developed the Royal Navy and its permanent base at [[Portsmouth]], fortified the island at [[Ya
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• Wrexham
  Wrexham hosted the [[Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales|National Eisteddfod]] in 1888, 1912, 1933 and ...'s former police station on Regent Street, originally the barracks for the Royal Denbighshire Militia, is now home to Wrexham Museum. The Museum has two gal
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• Bangor, County Down
  Bangor is also host to the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the Ballyholme Yacht Club. Tourism is important, part ...e seekers who travelled on the new railway from Belfast to take in the sea air. The town has been the site of a monastery renowned throughout Europe for i
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• Tiree
  A large Royal Air Force airfield was built on Tiree during Second World War; this became the airpor
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• Christchurch
  ...ished on the town's airfield which manufactured aircraft for the Royal Air Force. ...ok the town in 1645 but was obliged to withdraw and returned with a larger force days later and laid siege to the castle. However, the Parliamentarians with
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• Hereford
  ...| url=http://www.herefordcitycouncil.gov.uk/html/charters.htm | title=The Royal Charters of the City of Hereford | work=Hereford City Council | accessdate= ...ng the famous Hereford breed. The city was the home of the British Special Air Service (SAS) for many years, although the Regiment relocated to nearby Cre
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• Didcot
  ...as since closed and the sites of the large British Army|Army and Royal Air Force ordnance depots that were built to serve these needs have disappeared benea
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• Wallingford
  ...hen it was an important fortified borough of Wessex with the right to mint Royal coinage. It was enclosed with substantial earthworks by King Alfred the Gre ...g the conflict was concluded here in November 1153. The town was granted a Royal Charter in 1155 by the new king, Henry II; only the second town in England
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• Egham
  [[File:Founder's Building, Royal Holloway, south quad.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Royal Holloway's world-famous ''Founder's'' building]] ...the hill in nearby [[Englefield Green]] commemorates all Commonwealth air force personnel killed in Second World War. It was the first new-built British bu
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• Englefield Green
  ...northern [[Surrey]], hard by the border with [[Berkshire]]. It is home to Royal Holloway, University of London, the south eastern corner of Windsor Great P ==Air Forces Memorial==
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• Sanday
  The novelist Eric Linklater described Sanday's shape seen from the air as being like that of a giant fossilised bat. During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a Chain Home radar station at Whale Head on Sanday.
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• Eastbourne
  ...nt which was given the go ahead in 1988. An Act of Parliament had to be in force to allow breaking through of the foreshore owned by the crown. A whole new ...period of growth and elegant development continued for several decades. A royal visit by King George V and Queen Mary in March 1935 is commemorated by a pl
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• Coatbridge
  .../ref> and the "Iron Burgh". Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry. By the time of the 1920s howe ...ef>''Lanarkshire - An Inventory Of The Prehistoric And Roman Monuments'' - Royal Commission On The Ancient And Historical Monuments Of Scotland. HMSO - RCHM
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• Milford Haven
  ...am Hamilton, to be a whaling centre, though by 1797 it was developing as a Royal Navy dockyard which it remained until the dockyard was transferred to Pembr ...Llangwm]], Milford Haven, [[Neyland]], [[Pembroke]] and [[Pembroke Dock]] (Royal Dockyard) Conservation Areas.<ref name="CCW"/>
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• Warrington
  During Second World War, RAF Burtonwood served as the largest US Army Air Force base outside the United States, and was visited by major celebrities like H There was a further RAF training camp at Padgate, a Royal Naval air base at Appleton Thorn (RNAS Stretton) and an army base at the Peninsula Ba
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• Falkland Islands
  ...and Islands : Locations] ''Welcome to the Learning Zone : Visit & Learn'' (Royal Navy)</ref> Artefacts including arrowheads and the remains of a canoe have ...he Imperial German Asiatic Fleet. During World War II, Stanley served as a Royal Navy station and serviced ships which took part in the 1939 Battle of the R
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• Grantham
  ...his was the headquarters for the United States Army Air Forces's Ninth Air Force's IX Troop Carrier Command, being known as Grantham Lodge.<ref>{{cite web|a RAF Spitalgate trained pilots during both world wars, initially as a Royal Flying Corps establishment, but has never been an operational fighter or bo
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• Llanishen, Cardiff
  ...ced in nearby fields, but this was strengthened in 1941 when the Royal Air Force established both a RAF Regiment base and a glider training facility. In 194
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• Culham
  ...upplies to the Royalist headquarters in Oxford. In January 1645 a Royalist force tried to recapture the bridge and destroy it. The skirmish, known as the Ba In 1941<ref name=Lobel/> the Fleet Air Arm opened Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Hornbill, between Culham railway station and Clifton Hampden v
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• Lossiemouth
  .... To the west of the town are a sandy beach, golf links and the Royal Air Force station, RAF Lossiemouth. Lossie Forest is a large pine forest that starts ...as a trading port that the Elgin Burgesses used as a counterbalance to the Royal Burgh of [[Forres]]'s trading port of [[Findhorn]]. The dispute with the Ea
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• Akrotiri
  RAF Akrotiri is a major Royal Air Force base on the north edge of the village. It was first built in the mid-1950s
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• Episkopi Cantonment
  ...C) is from the opposite service of the commander, either a Brigadier or an Air Commodore. The current CBF is Air Vice Marshall Graham Stacey and the DCBF is Brigadier Bill Kingdon.
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• Swirl How
  ...te of a wartime aircrash and bears the sad remains of a Royal Canadian Air Force Handley Page Halifax bomber. The undercarriage, together with a wooden cros
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• Montserrat
  ...s Federation from 1958 to 1962. In 1979, Beatles producer George Martin's AIR Studios Montserrat opened and the island attracted world-famous musicians w ...les an hour and damaging over 90 percent of the structures on the island. AIR Studios closed, and the tourist economy upon which the island depended was
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• Alderney
  ...o fewer than three Jurats (out of the six Jurats). Appeals are made to the Royal Court of Guernsey (which also exercises some original jurisdiction in crimi ...rganisation Todt and used slave labour to build bunkers, gun emplacements, air-raid shelters, and concrete fortifications. In 1942, the Lager Norderney c
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• Royal Wootton Bassett
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• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  ...the South Sandwich Islands from 1976 until 1982 when it was closed by the Royal Navy. The Argentine claim over South Georgia contributed to the 1982 Falkla ...ich Islands.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The South Sandwich Islands conspire with air currents to make wave patterns in clouds]]
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• Lambourn
  ...tilda bequeathed Lambourn and [[Chippenham]] to Hugh de Plucket out of the Royal demesne in 1142 for his aid in The Anarchy of the civil wars against the us ...on, 492d Bombardment Group ("the Carpetbaggers") of the USAAF's Eighth Air Force was returning from an aborted mission. Berkoff maintained control of the pl
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• Morven, Caithness
  ...on a hillside near Morven on 25 August 1942 while serving in the Royal Air Force.
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• Bishop Wilton Wold
  ...RAF Rufforth<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s63.html Royal Air Force - RAF History Bomber Command (website accessed: 27 July 2010)]</ref> crashe
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• Shrivenham
  ...n the site of UK military colleges since 1946 and the establishment of the Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) on the Beckett Estate. This college is n ...g and education to experienced officers of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence Civil Service, and serving officers of other states.
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...he town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/ |title=Newark Air Museum |work=newarkairmuseum.org |year=2011 [last update] |accessdate=29 Au
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• Pembroke Dock
  ...own was greatly expanded from 1814 onwards following the construction of a Royal Naval Dockyard. It is the third largest town in Pembrokeshire, exceeded onl ...other Royal Navy vessels. The last ship launched from the dockyard was the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker ''Oleander'' on 26 April 1922.
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• Durness
  ...t is the local Balnakeil Craft Village, a rather picturesque old Royal Air Force radar base from the Cold War era. The villagers mainly live sustainably and ...Garvie Range used by aircraft of the RAF, Royal Navy and United States Air Force. A rocky islet resembling a ship is used for bombing practice. Although exp
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• Helmsdale
  ...o put this belief down but it lasted a remarkable time and one of the last force-fires was lit in Helmsdale was about 1818. During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built Loth Chain Home radar station at [[Crakaig]] a few miles South West o
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• Islay
  During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built an airfield at [[Glenegedale]] which later became the civil airport f Islay’s place, exposed to the full force of the North Atlantic, has led to its being the site of a pioneering wave p
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• Kennington
  Kennington is a primarily residential area. It is also a Royal manor. ...n 1389. He was paid 2 shillings. The manor house of Kennington remained a royal palace until the time of Henry VIII. Kennington was the occasional residen
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• Tain
  '''Tain''' is a royal burgh in [[Ross-shire]], in [[Easter Ross]]. ...was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making Tain Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh, an event commemorated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by
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• Belfast International Airport
  ...by that name still. The airfield was previously shared with the Royal Air Force base RAF Aldergrove, which closed in 2008; the base is now known as Joint H ...site for the airport was established in 1917 when it was selected to be a Royal Flying Corps training establishment during the First World War. The airport
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• St Kilda
  ...winds, especially strong in winter, are southerly and southwesterly. Gale force winds occur less than 2% of the time in any one year, but gusts of 115 mile <blockquote>"the air is infected by a stench almost insupportable – a compound of rotten fish,
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• Shrewsbury
  ...by up to 120 volunteers who trained on a weekly basis and wore a Royal Air Force style uniform. After the breakup of the communist bloc in 1989, the Royal Observer Corps was disbanded between September 1991 and December 1995. Howe
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• Weston-super-Mare
  ...irst hotel in the village started in 1808; it was called "Reeves" (now the Royal Hotel).<ref name="somharbours">{{cite book |title=Somerset harbours, includ ...story|publisher=Winter Gardens|accessdate=24 January 2010}}</ref> the open air pool, with its arched concrete diving board,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www
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• Bury St Edmunds
  Bury St Edmunds was one of the royal towns of [[East Anglia]]. Sigebert, King of the [[East Angles]], founded a ...arons of England are believed to have met in the Abbey Church and sworn to force King John to accept the Charter of Liberties, the document which influenced
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• Felixstowe
  ...Blitz. Benito Mussolini's airforce proved to be no match for the Royal Air Force, who shot down a fair number of Italian biplanes over the English Channel a ...rthur Balfour, Captain of the Golf Club in 1889, became Captain of the The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1894 and Prime Minister (in successi
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• Lowestoft
  ...name="edplow" /> Lowestoft's other museums include the Maritime Museum and Royal Naval Patrol Service Museum, both located in Sparrow's Nest park in the nor ...al Patrol Service, formed primarily from trawlermen and fishermen from the Royal Naval Reserve, was mobilised at Lowestoft in August 1939. The service had i
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• Crawley
  ...cern until the Second World War when it was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force. ...before her accessiojn to the throne, when she officially opened the Manor Royal industrial area. Building work continued throughout the 1950s in West Green
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• Rapes of Sussex
  ...he old German custom of defining the limits of the 'peace' of popular open-air courts by stakes and ropes,<ref name=EPNS-AMetc/> the ropes then giving a n ...e term may come from the old French ''raper'', meaning to seize or take by force,<ref name=castles>{{cite web|url=http://www.sussexcastles.com/sussex-timeli
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• Aberdaron
  ...of Gwynedd ordered that the fugitive prince be dragged from the church by force, but his soldiers were beaten back by the local clergy allowing Gruffydd to ...tp://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95305/details/CASTELL+ODO/ "Castell Odo"]. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 16 A
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• York
  |picture caption=York from the air ...Window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The roofs of the transepts are of wood. That
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• Whitby
  ...ing royal nunnery of the kingdom of [[Deira]], and the burial-place of its royal family. ...& Royal Cres.JPG|right|thumb|upright|Captain Cook's statue in front of the Royal Crescent]]
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• Guernsey
  .../ChannelIslands.aspx |title=Channel Islands |publisher=The Royal Household Royal.gov.uk |accessdate=31 May 2011}}</ref> ...ed in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parks
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• Bailiwick of Guernsey
  .../ChannelIslands.aspx |title=Channel Islands |publisher=The Royal Household Royal.gov.uk |accessdate=31 May 2011}}</ref> ...ed in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parks
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• Lundy
  ...plar by Henry II in 1160. The Templars were a major international maritime force at this time, with interests in North Devon, and almost certainly an import ...ing the death of Harman's son Albion in 1968,<ref>"Island owner dies after air lift" (source unknown). 24 June 1968</ref> Lundy was put up for sale in 196
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• North Killingholme
  ...1914 and closed 1919.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Birth of the Royal Air Force| first =Ian| last = Philpott| page = 265| year = 2013 | isbn = 97817815933
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• Ayios Nikolaos
  ...ormerly 9 Signal Regiment (2 Wireless Regiment pre-1959) and the Royal Air Force's 33 Signals Unit, is based at Ayios Nikolaos. This unit is believed to be ...ommanded by a Royal Signals Lieutenant Colonel, with a number of Royal Air Force and civilian contractors attached.
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• Jersey
  ...and which attracts many visitors for its fair beaches, little villages and air of peaceful contentment. It is also an offshore financial centre. On 6 January 1781, a French invasion force of 2,000 men (of whom half didn't arrive) landed to take over the island. T
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• Gravesend
  In 1401, a Royal Grant was issued, allowing the men of the town to operate boats between Lon ...t by General Gordon between 1865 and 1879: it is now a museum, partly open-air under the care of the Gravesend Local History Society.<ref>[http://www.grav
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• Crowmarsh Gifford
  In 1944 a Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax bomber with a full bomb load caught fire over Wallingford. Most of
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• Sheppey
  ...small fort. Garrison Fort was built in 1545. Samuel Pepys established the Royal Navy Dockyard in the 17th century. ...ships compelled the little "sandspit fort" there to surrender and landed a force which for a short while occupied the town. Samuel Pepys at [[Gravesend, Ken
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• Bovingdon
  ...e disused former Second World War, Eighth Air Force and post-war Royal Air Force airfield, RAF Bovingdon. ...ircraft was said to be based here, as Bovingdon was the closest Eighth Air Force base to London.
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• Longford River
  Responsibility for the maintenance of the river still resides with the Royal Parks Agency. ...arks/bushy_park/history.cfm |title=History and Architecture |publisher=The Royal Parks |accessdate=2012-02-01}}</ref> It was not universally popular, as it
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• Great Offley
  ...in France.<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/jul44.html/ Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary Campaign Diary, July 1944 (website accessed
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• Fair Isle
  During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a radar station on top of [[Ward Hill, Fair Isle|Ward Hill]] at 712 f
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• Saunders Island, Falkland Islands
  ...e Falkland Crisis of 1770, five Spanish frigates entered the small British force had to surrender. This edged Britain and Spain closer to war. In 1771, Sp ...also a small breeding area for Elephant Seals at Elephant Point. Royal Air Force Ornithological Society's members did a complete coastal survey in 1995 <ref
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• Luton Airport
  ...r Air, Kingsley Wood. During Second World War, it was a base for Royal Air Force fighters. Standing where the valley of the [[River Lea]] cuts its way throu ...to Britannia Airways and subsequent merger with First Choice Airways), Dan-Air and Monarch Airlines. In 1972, Luton Airport was the most profitable airpor
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• Stansted Airport
  ...departure gates are situated, one is connected to the main terminal by an air-bridge and the other two by the Stansted Airport Transit System people-move ...", which provides indirect uplighting illumination and is the location for air-conditioning, water, telecommunications and electrical outlets. The layout
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• Emsworth
  ...nearby [[Thorney Island, Sussex)|Thorney Island]] was used as a Royal Air Force base, playing a role in the Battle of Britain. The north of Emsworth at thi
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• Southport
  ...w.englandsgolfcoast.com/</ref> and has hosted The Open Championship at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. ...to try to rescue those aboard the vessel. The crews battled against storm-force winds as they rowed towards the casualty. The entire crew from the St. Anne
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• Doncaster
  ...rt of a tour of Yorkshire by King Charles III and Queen Camilla.<ref name="royal visit">{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-11-02/king-cha ...Racecourse was chosen as the venue for an airshow, after the world's first air display in Reims, France in 1908. All the world's leading aviators were pre
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• Newtownards
  ...orning of Pike Sunday, 10 June 1798, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, a force of United Irishmen, mainly from [[Bangor, County Down|Bangor]], [[Donaghade ...Ireland, with displays by the Red Arrows, Territorial Army and Royal Air Force.
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• South Shields
  ...ers, giving them control of the mouth of the Tyne and forcing the Royalist force to flee south, leading to the Battle of Boldon Hill.
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• Mount Batten
  ...er Commissioners who were responsible for shipping in the area. During the air-station years the breakwater was closed to the public and used, for a perio ===The air-station years (1913-1986)===
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• Inchkeith
  ...es, mainly Italian mercenaries, were ejected by a combined Franco-Scottish force under General D’Essé (André de Montalembert, Sieur de Essé) on June 19 ...rld Wars, like the other islands in the inner Firth of Forth. In 1878, the Royal Engineers built batteries on the three corners of the island, designed as s
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• Teignmouth
  ...gh it was not quite the last invasion of all, for in 1797 a rag-tag French force landed in [[Pembrokeshire]], at [[Carreg Gwastad]], near [[Fishguard]] befo During the Second World War Teignmouth suffered badly from "tip and run" air raids.<ref name="hosdev">{{Cite book
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• Lytham St Annes
  ...nowned for golf and has four courses and links, the most notable being the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, one of the host courses for the Open Champions ...Clifton Arms" Hotel. Also located there are "The County" and "The Ship and Royal" public houses. Some of the oldest buildings are found in Henry Street and
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• Bury
  Bury is regionally notable for its open-air market, Bury Market, and its popularity has been increased since the introd .... Since moving to Bury the Lancashire Fusiliers were part, in 1898, of the force that relieved Khartoum and fought in the Battle of Omdurman and in 1899–1
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• Rathlin Island
  ...rty bird families in total. It is a popular place for birdwatchers, with a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve offering spectacular vie ...ed the island. The massacre in July 1575, when the Earl of Essex ordered a force to the island, led by Francis Drake and John Norreys. The English killed hu
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• Ickenham
  ...p.<ref>Bowlt 1996, p.137</ref> Between 1955 and 1975 the United States Air Force was based at the Ruislip station,<ref>Skinner 2005, p.44</ref> before the U
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• Sale
  ...repaired the bridge upon reaching Manchester, and used it to send a small force into Sale and Altrincham. Their intention was to deceive the authorities in ...members of the Royal Australian Air Force and one member of the Royal Air Force, the pilot and the bomb-aimer were killed.
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• Rushden
  ...n) Squadron''. It is run by officers who are commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch), assisted by adult Senior NCO’s and c
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• Union Flag
  ...the Queen's badge flag or the flag of the United Kingdom,<ref>[http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Symbols/UnionJack.aspx Union Jack] - The British Monarchy ...e Commonwealth realms; for example, it is known by law in Canada as the '''Royal Union Flag'''.<ref name=ruf>[http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/infoCNtr/cdm-mc/ind
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• Portadown
  During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Obins Castle was captured by a force of dispossessed Irish led by the McCanns (Mac Cana), the Magennises (Mac Ao ...age.com – A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
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• Garforth
  ...irthplace of Second World War airman, Sir Augustus Walker of the Royal Air Force.<ref>{{Cite web|title = An ordinary house, an extraordinary hero|url = http
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• Sandhurst, Berkshire
  Sandhurst is known worldwide as the location of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (often referred to simply as '''Sandhurst'''). D ==The Royal Military Academy==
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• Bollington
  ...he Squadron had close links with 42(R) (formerly 236 OCU) of the Royal Air Force before the latter was disbanded in the government defence review in 2010. T
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• Sandbach
  ...iam Smith, William Webb, ''The history of Cheshire: containing King's Vale-Royal entire'', printed by John Poole, 1778</ref> Sandbach has been a market town since 1579 when it was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I at the petition of Sir John Radclyffe of Ordsall who
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• Southam
  Southam was a Royal manor until AD 998, when Ethelred the Unready granted it to Earl Leofwine.{ ...as 2028 (Southam) Squadron Air Training Corps, an RAF-sponsored (Royal Air Force) youth organisation for 13- to 20-year-olds. The squadron is based in Milla
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• Boscastle
  ...Royal Air Force Westland Sea King rescue helicopters from Chivenor, three Royal Navy Sea Kings from [[Culdrose]], one RAF Sea King from RAF [[St Mawgan]] a
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• Hendon
  ...useum.org.uk/ |title=RAF Museum in London & RAF Museum Cosford - Royal Air Force RAF Museum Aviation History - free family fun activities |publisher=Rafmuse
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• Ballyhalbert
  ...has a small harbour and large caravan site which was formerly a Royal Air Force airfield, RAF Ballyhalbert, during World War II. It had a population of 1,0 ...lifetime, Ballyhalbert was home to RAF, Army, Navy and United States Army Air Forces personnel. The airfield was sold to developers in March 1960, and i
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• History of Middlesex
  ...publisher=London School of Economics | title=Memorandum of Evidence to The Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London |date=July, 1959 | author= ...dges of the county have remained, while in the depth of the metropolis the royal parks and urban squares provide a weak echo of what once was.
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• Chipping Ongar
  ...n 1943, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force. During the war it was used primarily as a bomber airfield. After the war i
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• Southern Thule
  In November 1976, a party from the Argentine Air Force landed on Thule, and, without informing the British Government, constructed ...s/1491073/Secret-Falklands-task-force-revealed.html "Secret Falklands task force revealed"], ''Daily Telegraph''</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/45
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• Pucklechurch
  Behind Pucklechurch's Star Inn is the site of an ancient royal villa, where on 26 May 946, King Edmund I of England was murdered by Liofa ...Station Pucklechurch, 1945 to 1959]</ref> There was a non-flying Royal Air Force station called RAF Pucklechurch from 1952 to 1962, when the site was transf
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• Gosport
  The Rowner estate and HMS ''Sultan'' are on the former Royal Naval air station, first known as RAF Gosport and later as HMS Siskin and gives its n Royal Hospital Haslar, formally the last military hospital of the United Kingdom,
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• Kirkham, Lancashire
  ...Kirkham Prison, an open prison built on part of the site of the Royal Air Force base which closed in 1957.
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• Stalybridge
  ...fficially opened. In 1833 the Commissioners set up the 'Stalybridge Police Force', which was the first of its kind in the country. By this year the populati ...chester]], and subsequently to towns adjacent to Manchester, using as much force as was necessary to bring mills to a standstill. The movement remained, to
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• Great Carrs
  ==Air Crash== ...te of a wartime aircrash and bears the sad remains of a Royal Canadian Air Force Handley Page Halifax bomber. The undercarriage, together with a wooden cros
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• Iron Crag
  ...rashed on 26 June 1959, can be found close to the summit of Iron Crag <ref>Air Britain Historians ltd [http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1194991/], accessed 20
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• Holbeach
  The Royal Air Force maintains a bombing range, known officially as RAF Holbeach, on salt marshl
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• Sutton Bridge
  ...ational importance during the Second World War; it was home to a Royal Air Force (RAF) airfield and Prisoner-of-war camp.<ref name="AFSB">Airfield Focus 65: ...1932, Air Ministry Announcements, Page 43: The Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Intelligence, Reorganisation of the Armament and Gunnery School, from 1 Jan
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• Spilsby
  ...chibald Montgomery-Massingberd, personally appealed to King George VI. The Air Ministry relented, redrawing the plans that resulted in building RAF Spilsb ===The Royal Air Force in Spilsby===
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• Holt, Norfolk
  ===RAF mid-air collision (1968)=== On 19 August 1968, two Royal Air Force jet aircraft collided at 14,500 feet over the town of Holt. All 7 crew from
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• Blakeney Point
  ...has developed several times over the years, giving the impression from the air of a series of hooks along the south side of the spit.<ref name=Tansley848> ...n spring and autumn, sometimes in huge numbers when the weather conditions force them towards land.<ref>Elkins (1988) pp. 136–137.</ref><ref>Newton (2010)
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• Daventry
  ...sed him to keep heading north and warned him that he would not win through force of arms. ...miles south of the town. The town also gives its name to the busy Daventry air traffic control sector.
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• Hampstead Heath
  ...ng along its eastern perimeter are a chain of ponds - including three open-air public swimming pools - which were originally reservoirs built along the he ...on the southern slopes of Parliament Hill, is the Gospel Oak Lido, an open-air swimming pool, with a running track and fitness area to its north.
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• Prestwick
  ...August 1944, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster (42-72171) of the United States Army Air Forces, on approach into Glasgow Prestwick Airport in bad weather, crashed ...antic gateway for over half a century. During Second World War the US Air Force had a base at the airport. Though a period of sharp decline in the 1980s an
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• Prestwick Airport
  ...:Prestwick from the air 1.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Prestwick Airport from the air]] ...ce (RAF) facilities (the USAF Military Air Transport Service (MATS) 1631st Air Base Squadron), and in 1953 on the Monkton side of the airport, both used b
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• Sumburgh Airport
  ...e winter months runways were essential. This was taken up by the Royal Air Force after the obvious success of the Hatson (Orkney) experiment. *The Air Accidents Investigation Branch recommended a safety audit of City Star Airl
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• Burghead
  ...ld locally in Burghead Visitor Centre and Elgin Museum and one each in the Royal Museum, [[Edinburgh]], and the British Museum in [[London]]. Much of the fo ...the Morayshire coast in general are heavily dependent on the two Royal Air Force stations, RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Kinloss, which are located at roughly equ
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• Northolt
  ...barn constructed in the area in 1595 can now be seen in the Chiltern Open Air Museum. In the early part of the 18th century farmland was enclosed in orde ...ding in Ealing Road, opposite St Mary's church, which incorporates an open-air miniature railway.
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• Feltham
  ...il 2011 }}</ref> In 1440 Henry VI granted numerous privileges to his joint royal custodian of the two manors, including a daily income of up to 12 shillings While under total royal control following Henry VIII's full annexation of the manor into the Honour
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• Eccleshall
  ...prospered, the inns in particular. Until recently the large stables at the Royal Oak Hotel could be seen. ...Swynnerton. It is often used by the Air Training Corps and the Army Cadet Force.
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• Hednesford
  ...oldiers passed through destined for the Western Front. In 1938 a Royal Air Force training camp was established to train technicians in maintenance and repai
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• Mildenhall, Suffolk
  ...r is used by the United States Air Force, as the headquarters of its 100th Air Refueling Wing and 352nd Special Operations Group. ...hall Treasure. In 1934, Mildenhall was the start point of the MacRobertson Air Race to Melbourne, in Australia.
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• Burgess Hill
  On 12 July 1944 a Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire fighter crashed at Greenlands Farm, off the Keymer Roa
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• Wadhurst
  ...order seven miles east of [[Crowborough]] and about seven miles south of [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]]. Other nearby villages include [[Ticehurs ...ation is on the line from [[London]] (Charing Cross) to [[Hastings]] via [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]], and was opened in 1851 by the South East
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• Great Orme
  ...everal levels; a wild open space with interesting wildlife; as a breath of air off the sea away from the town; on the Marine Drive around its circumferenc ...ttp://www.llandudnochurches.org.uk/sainttudno.html Saint Tudno] where open-air services are held every Sunday Morning in summer. Nearby are several large
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• Thornaby-on-Tees
  ===Royal Air Force=== ...ng by Gustav Hamel, an early flying pioneer. The next known use was by the Royal Flying Corps who used the same fields between 1914 and 1918 as a staging po
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• Killadeas
  The Royal National Lifeboat Institution operates a lifeboat station on Lower Lough Er Near Killadeas, on Lower Lough Erne, is Gublusk Bay, a Royal Air Force base for Short Sunderland and PBY Catalina flying boats during Second World
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• Mazetown
  Maze was the site of HM Prison Maze, formerly a Royal Air Force station (RAF Long Kesh), named after neighbouring [[Long Kesh]]. The prison
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• Warwick Castle
  ...arl of Northampton, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire commanded the Royalist force. William Dugdale, acting as a herald, called for the garrison commander to ...pubacc/359/35905.htm |title=The Renegotiation of the PFI-type Deal for the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds |publisher=Parliament.co.uk |date=12 December 200
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• Coventry Airport
  ...rt was utilised as a fighter station, '''RAF Baginton''', by the Royal Air Force. It was damaged in the 1940 Coventry Blitz bombing raid by the Luftwaffe. ...idays. In the late-1980s, Coventry City Council sold the airport lease to Air Atlantique.
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• Belton House
  ...d.af.mil/DefChal/2002/dc_2002_fact_rafr.htm|title=History of the Royal Air Force Regiment|publisher=USAF Security Forces|accessdate=2009-05-05}}</ref> The R |title=Royal Feud
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• Bodiam Castle
  ...ancaster, and when Richard III of the House of York became king in 1483, a force was despatched to besiege Bodiam Castle. It is unrecorded whether the siege [[File:Aerial photo of Bodiam Castle.jpg|thumb|300px|Bodiam Castle from the air]]
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• Brownsea Island
  ...of 270 people on the island, the majority of residents providing a labour force for the pottery works.<ref>Legg (p.72)</ref> After his death, the island wa Since 1964 the island has been host to the Brownsea Open Air Theatre, annually performing the works of [[William Shakespeare]]. The isla
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• Stanley Airport
  ...thly supply ship to Montevideo, Uruguay, increasing the desirability of an air link to the South American mainland. In 1971, the Argentine Air Force broke the islands' isolation starting with amphibious flights from Comodoro
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• RAF Mount Pleasant
  |operator=Royal Air Force ...ground/acro.html Falkland Islands Information Portal]</ref> is a Royal Air Force station in the [[Falkland Islands]]. The airbase goes by the motto of "Defe
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• Beningbrough Hall
  ...e Lacy. During the Second World War the hall was occupied by the Royal Air Force.
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• Duxford
  ...uxford airfield later became a fighter airfield for the United States Army Air Forces operating P47 Thunderbolt aircraft. In 1972 the Ministry of Defence [[File:Duxford October 2011 Air Show - Flickr - p a h (7).jpg|right|thumb|200px|At the Duxford Airshow]]
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• Silverstone
  ...a mile south of the village is the Silverstone Circuit, a former Royal Air Force Second World War bomber base and now the traditional home of the British Gr
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• Dover Castle
  ...marched to Dover, which had been reported impregnable and held by a large force. The English, stricken with fear at his approach had confidence neither in ...ditional troops and their equipment. The solution adopted by Twiss and the Royal Engineers was to create a complex of barracks tunnels about 15 metres below
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• Kirkinner
  The flat carse lands by Bladnoch River were home to a Royal Air Force field of the Second World War. Lane Burn seems to have been diverted for th ...r Force War Graves - geograph.org.uk - 672629.jpg|Kirkinner Cemetery - Air Force war graves
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• Royal Commissions on Ancient and Historical Monuments
  '''The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments''' are, or were, three separ *The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Scotlan
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• Aldwych
  ...ne's, the latter now known formally as the Central Church of the Royal Air Force but popularly known by its old name; in the children's rhyme "''Oranges and *[http://www.raf.mod.uk/STCLEMENTDANES/ Central Church of the Royal Air Force]
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• Bassingbourn
  ...it was home to a USAF heavy bomber squadron, followed by a Royal Air Force air transport squadron, and between 1951 to 1969 by two RAF training squadrons.
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• Bourn
  ...mary school, a doctors' surgery, a golf club. There is a former Royal Air Force bomber airfield (RAF Station Bourn 1940-1945), which today is used for ligh
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• Little Gransden
  ...nsden Charity Air & Car Show]</ref> and Gransden Lodge, a former Royal Air Force station which saw active service in Second World War, but is now a gliding
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• Oakington
  ...age, Oakington Barracks lies empty. Created as RAF Oakington in 1939, the air base closed eventually in the 1970s and was handed over to the army as a ba From 1940 a Royal Air Force bomber airfield, RAF Oakington, was constructed at Oakington covering 540 a
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• Snailwell
  ...uadron and the Royal Belgian Air Force. Sections of the concrete track and air-raid shelters can still be seen.<ref name=victoria/>
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• Waterbeach
  ...and then RAF Fighter Command until 1966, when the site transferred to the Royal Engineers and became Waterbeach Barracks. The small Museum has now closed, Active community groups include the Scouts and Girl Guides, Army Cadet Force, several playgroups and a play scheme, as well as a Community Association.
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• M1 motorway (Northern Ireland)
  ...te journal| authorlink=Geoffrey Howard|title=Irish Alphabet: A look at the Royal Ulster Constabulary| journal=Autocar | volume=128 (nbr 3778)| pages=pages 1 ...at these were to be used as supplementary runways by the United States Air Force in the event of a major conflict with the Soviet Union.<ref name="nirs">[ht
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• Caerwent
  ...sed as a storage station for the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force; since that time it has been used as an army training facility and on occas
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• Grimsthorpe Castle
  ...orld War Grimsthorpe Park was used by the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force as an emergency landing ground. During the Second World War the central par
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• Clapham, Bedfordshire
  ...can soldiers based at the airfield (51 Operational Training Unit Royal Air Force was the main unit based at Twinwood Farm) and at Bedford Corn Exchange. The
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• Cardington, Bedfordshire
  The airships site was nationalised in April 1919, becoming known as the '''Royal Airship Works'''. ...7 MU. 217 MU, RAF Cardington, produced all the gases used by the Royal Air Force until its closure in April 2000; including gas cylinder filling and mainten
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• Greenham Common
  ...1942. The base was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force until 1993. ...for the rest of the Second World War. After the war, the United States Air Force stayed on during the Cold War.
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• Windsor Castle
  ...astle in the world. It is famed for its long association with the British royal family and also for its architecture. ...ng which Henry VIII and Elizabeth I made increasing use of the castle as a royal court and centre for diplomatic entertainment.
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• Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
  ...08</ref> While at the railway, the Duke travelled on a specially prepared "Royal Train", consisting of tank locomotive ''41241'', an LMS Class 2MT, pulling ...om called ''Yanks Go Home'' (set in 1942), in which a group of US Army Air Force pilots arrive by train and alight at the station (Haworth) and are statione
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• Eglinton, County Londonderry
  ...e North Atlantic, their tasks included searching for U-boats and acting as air cover for convoys. Several aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the village
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• Gibraltar Airport
  ...terminal. National Air Traffic Services hold the contract for provision of air navigation services at the airport. In 2004 the airport handled 314,375 pa ...F Gibraltar''', also formerly known as '''North Front''', is a [[Royal Air Force]] station on [[Gibraltar]]; the station is a joint civil-military facility
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• Rock Gun Battery
  ...at Middle Hill was closed in the early twenty-first century, and Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel responsible for rigging were no longer based at [[Gibraltar ...ialerectorschool/gallery/gibraltar.cfm|work=raf.mod.uk|publisher=Royal Air Force|accessdate=6 November 2012}}</ref>
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• Edinburgh Castle
  ...urgh Castle''' is the crowning glory of the City of [[Edinburgh]]; a grand royal fortress steeped in history which dominates the skyline of the city from it ...reign of King David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603. From the 15th century the
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• St George's Parish
  ...d States Air Force base, Kindley Air Force Base, then a United States Navy air station, NAS Bermuda, and is now what is now L F Wade International Airport
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• Pembrey
  ...ritain's defences as home to both fighter and bomber aircraft. Close by, a Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Pembrey, provided high explosives for Britain's war e Royal Air Force training continues to this day on a bombing range to the west of Pembrey Co
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• Angle
  ...ort. Their construction was at the behest of Lord Palmerston following the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. ...q=%22john%20mirehouse%22%20angle&f=false The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume, Marquis of Ruvigny, Reprinted by Heritage Books
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• Greenham
  The site of the former Royal Air Force airbase, RAF Greenham Common, is to the south-east of the village, surround * [http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/greenham.html Royal Berkshire History: Greenham]
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• Stormont
  ...til it was prorogued in 1972. The Senate chamber was used by the Royal Air Force as an operations room during Second World War. The building was used for th ...Kingdom for the use of this chamber as an operations room by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War."
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• Formby
  ...helicopter,<ref>[http://www.merseyside.police.uk/html/aboutus/departments/air-support/whereabouts/index.htm Merseyside Police]</ref> known as 'Mike One'. ...11.shtml Local] Pager Report</ref> However, the club, unlike its neighbour Royal Birkdale, does not have the capacity to host large events such as The Open
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• Cheadle Hulme
  ...unit, classed as a 'Universal stores' depot and had the official Royal Air Force name, "RAF Handforth No 61 M.U. (Maintenance unit)". The depot opened in 19
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• Carn Brea, St Just
  During the second world war the summit housed a Royal Air Force radar, a plaque, near the car park is dedicated to those that served there.
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• Durham Castle
  ...nally built in the 11th century by th new Norman kings, as a projection of royal power in the wild north of England. It is an example of the early motte and ...r, the chapel was used as a command and observation post for the Royal Air Force when its original use was recognised. It was re-consecrated shortly after t
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• North Weald Airfield
  ..., and is host to a wide range of events throughout the year, including the Air-Britain Classic Fly-in and smaller airshows. ...r Royal Air Force personnel. The airfield played an important part in the air defence strategy of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Initial
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• Cardiff Castle
  ...During the Civil War, Cardiff Castle was initially taken by Parliamentary force, but was regained by Royalist supporters in 1645. When fighting broke out a ...nd World War, little was left except the castle. During the war, extensive air raid shelters were built in the castle walls, able to hold up to 1,800 peop
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• Forest of Dean
  ...the surviving ancient woodlands in Britain. A large area was reserved for royal hunting before 1066, and remained the largest crown forest in England after ...boundary of the Hundred of St Briavels]</ref> and after 1668 comprised the royal demesne only. The Forest proper is within the civil parishes of [[West Dea
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• Brockworth
  ...tion was then switched to building 3,330 Hawker Typhoons for the Royal Air Force. On 8 April 1941 the first test flight of the Gloster E28/39 with a turbo-j *[http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/e281.html Royal Air Force History of the Gloster E28/39/Meteor]
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• Moody Brook
  ...t Stanley.jpg|right|thumb|300px|right|Stanley Harbour and Stanley from the air. Moody Brook in the distance]] When Argentina invaded the Falklnad islands in 1982, the Royal marine barracks at Moody Brook were a prime target. Lieutenant-Commander S
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• Odiham
  RAF Odiham, home of the Royal Air Force's Chinook heavy lift helicopter fleet, lies to the south of the village. ...m or Odiham, a small Market-Town, where was formerly a strong Castle and a Royal Palace. The Castle was straitly besieged, Anno 1216, the 18th of King John,
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• Manchester Airport
  ...e Second World War, it was called RAF Ringway, as a base for the Royal Air Force. From 1975 until 1986 it was Manchester International Airport'. During World War II it was the Royal Air Force's base RAF Ringway, and was important in military aircraft production and t
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• Glasgow Airport
  ...pened and the Royal Air Force 602 Squadron (City of Glasgow) Auxiliary Air Force moved its Wapiti IIA aircraft from nearby Renfrew in January 1933.<ref name ...0s, the airfield housed a large aircraft storage unit and squadrons of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
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• Strathaven
  The town was granted a Royal Charter in 1450, making the Town of Strathaven a burgh of barony. The town' ...known town centre names. There are two banks, Halifax Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland office in the Common Green.
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• East Midlands Airport
  The airport was originally a Royal Air Force station, ''RAF Castle Donington'', which was decommissioned in 1946. The si ...way was added to enable the airport to handle long-haul flights, and a new air traffic control tower was constructed, the second tallest in the UK at the
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• Coningsby
  ...mile to the south of the village lies RAF Coningsby, one of the Royal Air Force's most important stations, home of No. 3 Squadron, No. XI Squadron, No. 29 ..., two Hurricanes and a Dakota. These aircraft still fly and can be seen at air shows during summer.<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/ "Welcome to RAF BBMF"
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• Harlaxton Manor
  ...electricity. During Second World War it was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force as the officers' mess for RAF Harlaxton and later to house a company of the
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• Kirknewton, Midlothian
  The other burial enclosure was constructed by the Royal Society of Physicians as a memorial for an important founding member, Willi ...afterwards. In 1952 it became home to a number of small United States Air Force units tasked with providing mobile radio facilities to the USAF in Britain.
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• Yeavering
  ...rnicia]]. Archaeologists have interpreted the site as one of the seats of royal power in the 7th century. ...accompanied the Northumbrian king Edwin and his queen Æthelburg to their royal vill (the Latin term is ''villa regia''), ''Adgefrin'', where Paulinus spen
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• Stanton Harcourt
  In the Second World War there was a Royal Air Force airfield at Stanton Harcourt. It is notable for having been a transit point
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• Sullom Voe
  ...during Second World War both by the Royal Air Force and the Norwegian Air Force as a location for flying boats.<ref name="un">{{cite web| url=http://www.un
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• Skaw
  During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a Chain Home radar station at Skaw. A combined Coastal Defence U-Boa
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• Chew Magna
  ...orth Chew Farm and Manor Farm, North Wick was an area secured by Royal Air Force personnel, lit by fires, and with "automatic" guns to simulate anti-aircraf
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• Lakenheath
  ...pubs/place/184 Suffolk Camra]</ref> The other pub is the Brewer's Tap. The Royal British Legion was a members only club, but closed in April 2012.<ref>[http ...United Kingdom: RAF Lakenheath. The social impact of the United States Air Force fighter airbase and its nearby sister, RAF Mildenhall, on the economy of La
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• Halton House
  |ownership=Royal Air Force ...n the family's remarkable French-inspired style, but sold to the Royal Air Force in 1918.<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafhalton/aboutus/haltonhouseofficersme
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• Bletchley Park
  ...</ref> The formal posting of the many Wrens working there (of the Women's Royal Naval Reserve) was to 'HMS Pembroke V'. *''Hut 3'': Intelligence: translation and analysis of Army and Air Force decrypts<ref>{{Harvnb|Millward|1993|p=17}}</ref>
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• Methven
  There used to be a Royal Air Force station nearby called RAF Methven.
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• Great Massingham
  Royal Air Force Great Massingham is a former Royal Air Force station by Great Massingham, overspreading the fields on the east side of t
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• Titchfield Abbey
  ...ade France in 1415. On 23 April 1445, the abbey church was the venue for a royal wedding; the marriage of Henry VI to Margaret of Anjou was celebrated there ...chfield. It compares closely, for instance, with the holdings of the great royal foundation of Reading Abbey which had 228 volumes.<ref name="James">{{Harvn
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• Acklington
  ...dale, to the south-west of [[Amble]]. It was once the site of a Royal Air Force station, and now has two prisons.
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• Boulmer
  A major change came to the village with the arrival of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Otherwise Boulmer has changed little in over 1 ...ice was originally funded by the Duke of Northumberland and was run by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution between 1825 and 1967 when the RNLI decided t
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• Isle of Man Airport
  ...rations from Ronaldsway to the mainland UK were transferred to Isle of Man Air Services. In a 1936 expansion of the Ronaldsway Airport, workers discovered The airfield came under Royal Air Force control at the outbreak of the Second World War. Known as RAF Ronaldsway, i
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• St Helena Airport
  ...ow been laid down on the only suffient flat part of the island. Scheduled air services from Johannesburg were scheduled to commence in May 2016. The fir ...link-of-the-island-with-south-africa On St Helena Day, 21 May 2016, begins air link of the island with South Africa]' – Mercopress, Saturday May 23rd 20
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• Linton-on-Ouse
  Since 1937 RAF Linton-on-Ouse has been home to a Royal Air Force station, RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Since 1957 the main role of the airfield has
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• Sapper Hill
  ...rded, both from the sea by naval gunfire and from the air by the Royal Air Force Harriers. At 4.30 p.m., on 7 June, a British Harrier bombing positions held ...al gunfire from HMS ''Active'''s 4.5 inch gun. During the initial assault, Royal Marines from C company 9 troop 40 commando were dropped almost on top of t
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• Plymouth Sound
  ...water]] harbour between [[Mount Batten]] and the [[Royal Citadel, Plymouth|Royal Citadel]]. In addition to ships of the Royal Navy, large commercial vessels, including ferries to France and Spain use t
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• Leuchars
  ...5, the RAF base became an Army base, as the regimental headquarters of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who saw their return to Scotland after 20 years in Ge
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• Wick Airport
  The airport provides air travel connections for [[Caithness]], with scheduled services to [[Aberdeen Requisitioned by the Air Ministry during Second World War, the airfield was extended with hard runwa
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• Blaengarw
  ...e 1940s, playing club level rugby union for Maesteg RFC, and the Royal Air Force and playing representative level rugby league for Great Britain, and Wales, *Jeff Young, rugby player for Blaengarw RFC, the Royal Air Force, London Welsh RFC, Bridgend RFC, Harrogate RFC and Yorkshire
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• List of golf courses in the United Kingdom
  [[File:Royal & Ancient Clubhouse.jpg|thumb|350px|The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews]] *Royal Aberdeen Golf Club - [[Aberdeen]]
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• Camber Castle
  ...:Camber Castle from the air.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The castle seen from the air]] ...the pay of the Spanish, made plans to hand over the castle to an invading force of French and Spanish soldiers, although the conspiracy never came to fruit
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• Westminster Abbey
  |diocese=Royal Peculiar ...ent, mainly Gothic church which serves an important role in the religious, royal, parliamentary and judicial ceremonial of the nation.
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• Palace of Westminster
  ...en meeting there since the thirteenth century, and also as the seat of the Royal Courts of Justice, based in and around [[#Westminster Hall|Westminster Hall ...vation work has been carried out since, to reverse the effects of London's air pollution, and extensive repairs took place after the Second World War, inc
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• Traveller's Hill
  ...on and Tristan da Cunha]]. It serves mainly as a cantonment for Royal Air Force personnel.
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• British Museum
  ...y (the collection of the Earls of Oxford). They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various monarchs. Together these four "foundation col ...t=Richard|accessdate=May 2016}}</ref> In 1757, King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the coun
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• Dalton-on-Tees
  ...is" Squadrons who, during World War II, were based at the nearby RAF Croft air base (now the site of the Croft Circuit as described above).
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• St Paul's Cathedral
  ...wn to the north-east corner of the churchyard, St Paul's Cross, where open-air preaching took place. ...ess took several years, but a design was finally settled and attached to a royal warrant, with the proviso that Wren was permitted to make any further chang
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• Inverness Airport
  ...was discontinued in 1983 on the grounds of poor financial performance. Dan-Air inherited the service and offered a three-times daily service. The airline ...using lower capacity BAe 146 regional jets. The emergence of EasyJet as a force in UK aviation coincided with the launch of a daily service to [[Luton Airp
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• Leeds Bradford Airport
  ...ed to [[Edinburgh]] ([[Turnhouse]]). In June 1935 Blackpool and West Coast Air Services started a service to the [[Isle of Man]].<ref name=lb2>{{cite web| ...mouflaged and had dummy cows placed on top of the factory so that from the air it would look just like fields with cattle.<ref name=lb3 />
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• Urquhart Castle
  ...ayed a role in the wars of the 14th century. It was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross. ...the 7th-century form ''Airdchartdan'', itself apparently a mix of Gaelic ''air'' (by) and Old Welsh (or Pictish) ''cardden'' (thicket or wood).<ref>Tabrah
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• Polperro
  ...rro was a recognised fishing settlement and its first known record is in a royal document of 1303. ...ves were lost.<ref>Couch (1965); p. 12-13</ref> This storm, with hurricane-force winds, caused damage to property from Plymouth to [[Land's End]]; the fishi
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• St Eval
  ...during Second World War they too were taken over for use by the Royal Air Force: the church tower used as an observation post and navigation mark. ...539-40</ref> The churchyard contains the war graves of 23 Commonwealth air force personnel of Second World War.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cem
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• St Mawgan
  The nearby Royal Air Force station, RAF St. Mawgan, takes its name from the village. It is next to [[
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• St Merryn
  ...dfish.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Three rocket-armed Fairey Swordfish, 774 Naval Air Squadron]] ===St Merryn air field===
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• Letterkenny
  ...l]] near Lough Swilly. They were intercepted by a large British Royal Navy force, and finally surrendered after a three-hour battle without ever landing in ===Air===
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• Ballyshannon
  ...Ballyshannon, the "Donegal Corridor", which was used by British Royal Air Force flights from [[Northern Ireland]] into the Atlantic Ocean.<ref name=indy>{{ | title = Plaques mark secret wartime air corridor in Donegal
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• Portland Harbour
  ...reakwaters were built between 1849–72, while Portland Harbour occupied a Royal Navy base until 1995. ...nted until 1844. Construction of the modern harbour began in 1845 when the Royal Navy established a base at Portland for replenishment of the fleet. The new
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• Tolgus Mount
  ...mic geology of the region, and forming vol. XIV of the transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lqJBAAA ......: London, provinces, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, abroad, navy, army & air force|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IA4gAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=19 January 201
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• Trevellas
  ...ng Second World War the nearby Perranporth airport was used as a Royal Air Force base. ...r the nearby [[Perranporth Airfield]] was used as a base for the Royal Air Force. It became operational on 28 April 1941. At the height of the war over nine
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• Zeals
  ...Air Force, the United States Army Air Forces and the Royal Navy.<ref name="air">{{cite web|title=King Alfred's Tower - Zeals Airfield|url=http://www.alfre ...ction against Japan, and in April 1945 the airfield was transferred to the Royal Navy, and was commissioned HMS Heron using the airfield for aircraft carrie
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• Chaddesley Corbett
  ...war graves of four British Army soldiers of World War I and two Royal Air Force officers of World War II.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery
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• Snitterfield
  RAF Snitterfield, a former Royal Air Force station, is situated to the west of the village. The northern section of wh
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• Cotswold Airport
  |operator=Kemble Air Services Limited The airfield was built as a Royal Air Force station and was known as '''RAF Kemble'''. The Red Arrows aerobatics team w
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• Talacre
  Talacre was used by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, as an aircraft firing range. Fighters flew ove
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• Angle Peninsula Coast
  ...s and Hawker Hurricanes. For a short while in 1943 it was passed on to the Royal Navy. During this time a Sunderland flying boat landed at Angle airfield af
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• Marloes Sands
  ...essdate=13 February 2016}}</ref> There is a disused World War II Royal Air Force airfield RAF Dale, above the south-east cliffs of the beach. There are thre
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• Mellor, Derbyshire
  ...primary school, golf course, sports club, a riding school, three pubs, The Royal Oak, The Devonshire Arms and The Oddfellows Arms, and the late 17th-century ...he Industrial Revolution, coal-power supplanted water-power as the driving force and mineable coal seams were found in Mellor. Relatively recently, the Brit
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• Denton, Lancashire
  [[File:Denton greater manchester from the air.jpg|thumb|250px|Viewed from the air, looking west]] ...c gravestone belonging to a deceased Soldier named Samuel Bromley from the Royal Artillery.
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• Chadderton
  ...the Norman conquest, Chadderton was made a constituent manor of the wider Royal Estate of [[Tottington, Lancashire|Tottington]], an extensive fee held by t ...|McPhillips|1997|pp=22–23}}.</ref> A few days later, on 3&nbsp;August, a royal proclamation forbidding the practice of drilling was posted in Manchester.<
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• Blackpool Tower
  ...e crow's-nest was removed to allow the structure to be used as a Royal Air Force radar station known as ''RAF Tower'',<ref name=enjoy1 /> which proved unsuc [[File:Blackpool Tower from the air.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Blackpool from the air]]
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• Kencot
  ...ml Airfiends & Aviation Memorials website]</ref> and was used by Royal Air Force Transport Command.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.controltowers.co.uk/B/Br
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• Broadwell, Oxfordshire
  ...The airfield was in service from 1943 until 1947 and was used by Royal Air Force Transport Command.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.controltowers.co.uk/B/Br
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• Halton, Buckinghamshire
  The Parish also includes RAF Halton, a Royal Air Force (RAF) training station with a grass airfield used for glider training. ...- geograph.org.uk - 198188.jpg|The airfield at RAF Halton, taken from the air</gallery>
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• Somerford, Hampshire
  ...War by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces Ninth Air Force. After the war the airfield returned to civilian use and the airfield compl ...volt supply to the 110 volt they were using, and lighting transformers for air raid shelters. Gardner's also won contracts with the Telecommunications Res
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