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• Flag Institute
  ...Government departments, the [[BBC]], ITN, and many publishers, museums and libraries.<ref>[http://www.flaginstitute.org/index.php?location=0 Flag Institute hom ...g related volumes it is thought to be one of the largest vexillology-based libraries in the world. It publishes a quarterly 24 page full colour journal, ''Flag
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• Reading
  Reading was an important national centre in the mediæval period, the site of a monastery with strong royal c ...m Henry (1800–77), pioneering photographer | publisher = Reading Borough Libraries | url = http://www.readinglibraries.org.uk/services/local/foxtalbot.htm | a
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• London
  ...ower Bridge]], and the [[London Eye]]. London has many museums, galleries, libraries and cultural venues, including the [[British Museum]], and numerous [[West ...pulation: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas|publisher=Office for National Statistics|accessdate=2008-06-06}}</ref>
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• Oxford
  ...Examination results in state-run Oxford schools are consistently below the national average and regional average. However, results in the city are improving wi ...l = https://www.webcitation.org/6CxjD4pNq?url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/libraries/index.html | deadurl = yes | df = dmy-all }}</ref> and, with over 11&nbsp;m
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• Edinburgh
  ...>{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=178 |title=National Statistics Online - International Visits |accessdate=2009-07-19 |publisher= ...e royal court from Stirling to Holyrood in Edinburgh, making Edinburgh the national capital. Edinburgh continued to flourish economically and culturally throu
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• Deddington
  ...ensus: Key Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=3 September 2015}}</ref> ...hire.gov.uk/cms/content/deddington-library |title=Deddington Library |work=Libraries |publisher=Oxfordshire County Council |accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref>
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• Bermuda
  ...tp://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/bermuda.htm Bermuda] from ''UCB Libraries GovPubs'' * [http://www.bnt.bm/ Home page] of the [[Bermuda National Trust]]
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• United Kingdom
  ===Devolved national administrations=== Wales has a Welsh National Assembly primarily with executive powers. It also has authority to enact s
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• Oldham
  ...sses.<ref name="Events"/> Whenever possible, local people who had attained national celebrity status were invited to join the cavalcade.<ref name="Events"/> Th ...ldham's natural history|last=Kidd|first=Leonard|year=1977|publisher=Oldham Libraries, Art Galleries and Museums|isbn=}}
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• Pontypridd
  Pontypridd hosted the [[National Eisteddfod]] in 1893. ...pters in the story of Pontypridd|year=1991 |publisher=Mid Glamorgan County Libraries |location=Bridgend |isbn=1872430058}}
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• Milford Haven
  Parts of the Haven are within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The northern side is within the Preseli Environmentally Sensitive Are ...lapsed in 1810.<ref>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ThomasPhilipps.html National Library of Wales Journal. 1977, Summer Volume XX/1 (from GENUKI.org)] Ret
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• Dublin
  ===National government=== The national parliament of Ireland, the ''Oireachtas'', consists of the President of Ire
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• Ordnance Survey
  The '''Ordnance Survey''' is a British government body which serves as the national mapping agency for [[Great Britain]] and for the [[Isle of Man]], producing ...arnest in 1790 under Roy's supervision, when the Board of Ordnance began a national military survey starting with the south coast of [[England]].
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• Brighton
  ...imothy (1990). ''The Encyclopaedia of Brighton''. S.127 East Sussex County Libraries. ISBN 0-86147-315-9</ref> ...rowserefine&query=place%3dbrighton&catid=24&pagenumber=1&querytype=1|title=National Archives: Domesday Book: Brighton|accessdate=13 December 2009}}</ref> and a
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• Bradford
  ...Bradford has emerged as a tourist destination with attractions such as the National Media Museum and Cartwright Hall. However, Bradford has faced similar chall ...sp;— described by David Puttnam as the best cinema in Britain.<ref name="National Media Museum">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/FilmAndI
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• Sheffield
  ...e.<ref>{{cite book|last=Phillips|first=Helen L.|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|edition=online|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|chapte ...ory of the air raids of 12th & 15th December 1940|publisher=Sheffield City Libraries|year=1980|isbn=0900660554|oclc=7273086|accessdate=17 July 2010}}</ref>
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• Wakefield
  ...accessdate=2009-11-20}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Galloway|1971|p=76}}</ref> The National Coal Board eventually became Wakefield's largest employer with Manor Collie ...|title=Carnegie Library|url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/Libraries/Services/LocalStudies/CarnegieLibraries/DruryLaneLibrary/1904_1949.htm| acc
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• Lundy
  ...of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. ...title=Lundy Community Page |accessdate=6 September 2007 |work=Devon County Libraries }}</ref>
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• Pillgwenlly
  ...and he based his ships in this area.<ref>Robin Gwyndaf, Welsh Folk Tales (National Museum of Wales, 1989), p. 96</ref> The opening line 'Libraries gave us power' of the 1996 song ''A Design for Life'', by [[Blackwood, Monm
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• Preston-by-Wingham
  ...cated 10 miles east of [[Canterbury]], and a mile south of the [[Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve]]. The village is fairly scattered, but it still retains a l ...|title=The English Parish Library: A Celebration of Diversity|url=|journal=Libraries and Culture: A Journal of Library History|volume=|pages=414–433|via=}}</r
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• Teignmouth
  ...le online at the [http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110638/1.html Devon Libraries Local Studies Service.]) ...ete general hospital in the country to be built after the formation of the National Health Service.<ref>{{cite web
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• Canvey Island
  ...(November 15, 2005): 7. InfoTrac Full Text Newspaper Database. Gale. Essex Libraries. 28 August 2008</ref> ...ldren ages 4 and upwards from beginners to competitive swimming through to National standard.
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• Salford
  ...mayor/index.html |archivedate=14 October 2007}}</ref> preceding the Public Libraries Act 1850. ...ads_club_is_a_national_icon.html Manchester Evening News] - Lads club is a national icon</ref>
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• Hayle
  The Royal National Lifeboat Institution stationed a lifeboat at Hayle in 1866. A boat house wa In 1888, the National Explosive works were established on Upton Towans (giving it the alternative
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• Floating Harbour
  ...in 1845.<ref>Farr, Graeme (1977). ''Shipbuilding in the Port of Bristol'' National Maritime Museum Maritime Monographs and Reports. p3</ref> ...inness''.<ref>Farr, Graeme (1977). ''Shipbuilding in the Port of Bristol'' National Maritime Museum Maritime Monographs and Reports. p56</ref> Part of the yard
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• Harringay
  ...roduction to the Early Records of Harringay alias Hornsey|publisher=Public Libraries Committee Hornsey|year=1936}}</ref> National and international sporting were once held in the Harringay Stadium and the
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• Govanhill
  ...Road at its junction with Calder Street.<ref>http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/your-local-library/govanhill-library/Pages/home.aspx</ref> ...reported to be a venue for the Big Huge Poetry Splash in 2012, as part of National Poetry Day.<ref name="stv provan 2012">{{cite news|last=Provan|first=Gillia
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• Much Wenlock
  ...lso instrumental in setting up the Shropshire Games and later in 1866, the National Olympian Games. Dr Brookes is credited as a founding father of the Modern O ...An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire|year=1987|publisher=Shropshire Libraries|pages=74, 104|isbn=0-903802-37-6}}</ref>
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• Wellington, Shropshire
  ...ments to the town. Critics feel this it is not about new Bus Stations and Libraries but a need for more commercial and viable shopping stunted mainly by high r ...continues to try and find its place in the local economy but losing large national stores to Telford Centre only makes the challenge harder.
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• Corsham
  ...iltshire]], at the southwestern edge of the [[Cotswolds]], just off the A4 national route, which was formerly the main turnpike road from [[London]] to [[Brist ...arate from the town festival) in 2004, which included a performance by the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. The event however was not as successful as the organi
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• Rhondda Valley
  ...an coal miners' strike, and by 1924, unemployment for miners was below the national average, but the Great Depression struck, and the Rhondda experienced a mas The Rhondda has hosted the [[Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales|National Eisteddfod]] on only one occasion, in 1928 at [[Treorchy]]. The Gorsedd sto
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• University of Cambridge
  ...kpga/Vict/19-20/88/contents|title=Cambridge University Act 1856|editor=The National Archives|accessdate=2 May 2012}}</ref> Resources necessary for new courses ...mas Eve by the BBC on radio and television. The radio broadcast has been a national Christmas tradition since it was first transmitted in 1928; this is carried
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• Harlington, Bedfordshire
  year=2005|work=Besfordshire Libraries|accessdate=19 August 2006}}</ref> *1830: the first English National Steeplechase on record was run from Bury Orchard to Wrest Park Obelisk.<ref
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• Whipple Museum of the History of Science
  ...ef>[http://www.mla.gov.uk/website/programmes/designation/00desig/ Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Designation]</ref> *[http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/libmuseums/ University of Cambridge libraries and museums information]
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• Camuston
  | work=National Libraries of Scotland
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• Chatsworth House
  .../release?id=16624 |title=Chatsworth Receives Top Honour in Prestigious NPI National Heritage Awards |publisher=Prnewswire.co.uk |date=|accessdate=21 June 2012} ...t Duke, into a library. He was a great lover of books and purchased entire libraries. The Ante-Library in the adjoining room was originally used by the 1st Duke
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• Portchester Castle
  ...e=Southwick and Norman Court Estates|work=Access to Archives|publisher=The National Archives|accessdate=2009-11-04}}</ref> but is managed by [[English Heritage ...Trading Past|last=Prudames|first=David|date=24 June 2004|publisher=Museums Libraries Archives Council|accessdate=2009-11-04}}</ref> It was one of several forts
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• Newtongrange
  ...and a shaft over 1600 feet deep. This closed in 1981 but today houses the National Mining Museum. The National Mining Museum in Newtongrange stands on the site of the old Lady Victoria C
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• Parliament House
  ==Libraries== ...and in 1925 the non-legal books in their collection were gifted to the new National Library of Scotland, which is located next to the library, on George IV Bri
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• University of Oxford
  ...ral university (the Bodleian), by the departments (individual departmental libraries, such as the English Faculty Library), and by colleges (each of which maint ===Libraries===
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• Giffnock
  ...to suburbia : a history of Giffnock.|year=1988|publisher=Eastwood District Libraries|location=[Eastwood]|isbn=1-871215-00-5|page=2}}</ref> Giffnock was primaril ...to suburbia : a history of Giffnock.|year=1988|publisher=Eastwood District Libraries|location=[Eastwood]|isbn=1-871215-00-5|page=5}}</ref>
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• Stiperstones
  ...diversity/englands/sites/local_ID75.aspx |title=The Stiperstones (SSSI and National Nature Reserve) |publisher=Natural England |accessdate=4 September 2013}}</ ...An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire|year=1987|publisher=Shropshire Libraries|page=116|isbn=0-903802-37-6}}</ref> of children's author Malcolm Saville, a
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• Tyntesfield
  ...by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], who bought it in June 2002, after a fundraising campaign. ==National Trust purchase==
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• Croome Court
  ...to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. The Park and Court are both open to the public for most of the yea ...m the private owner by The Croome Heritage Trust who have leased it to the National Trust for 10 years who will manage it whilst raising funds for its restorat
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• Worcester Cathedral
  ...Ker205">{{cite book | author=N. R. Ker (Ed.) | year=1964 | title=Mediæval Libraries of Great Britain | publisher=Royal Historical Society | pages=205–215}}</ .../www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N03607|publisher=National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)|accessdate=2007-12-27}}</ref>
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• West Kilbride
  ...e="brooch">{{cite web|url=http://www.nms.ac.uk/hunterstonbrooch.aspx|title=National Museums Scotland - Hunterston Brooch|accessdate=2007-09-01}}</ref> the Hunt ...age. A campaign to save Portencross Castle from private ownership received national publicity in July 2004 when it was featured on the [[BBC]]'s ''Restoration'
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• Hereford Cathedral
  ...allowed the construction of a new library to house the map and the chained libraries from the Cathedral and All Saints' Church. The centre was opened on 3 May 1
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• Rochester Cathedral
  ...cholars were appearing and cutting documents out of books in the cathedral libraries.<ref>MacKean p 11 and other sources</ref> Leland was able to save some manu | work=National Pipe Organ Register
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• Digbeth
  The amount of manufacturing in Digbeth made it of national importance.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gary McCulloch|title=The Routledge-Falme ...bition space. It is the only building of the original five free Birmingham libraries still standing.
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• Aston, Birmingham
  ...o.uk/news/four-birmingham-libraries-facing-closure-6556612 Four Birmingham libraries facing closure because of budget cuts]</ref> ...l at the Olympics, became 'World Amateur Sprint Champion' and the 'British National Quarter-mile Champion'.
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