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• Berkshire
  ...mount of low-lying riverine land in the area. Beyond the flood plains, the land rises gently to the county boundaries with [[Surrey]] and [[Hampshire]]. Mu ...opes on each side delineate the river's flat floodplain. To the south, the land rises steeply to the boundary with [[Hampshire]], and here are found the hi
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• Dorset
  ...building stone used for facing and beautifying the great buildings of the land: Portland Stone is quarried on the [[Isle of Portland]], which has for cent ...h crosses the county from south-west to north-east incorporating Cranborne Chase, the Dorset Downs and Purbeck Hills.<ref name="Chaffey 43">Chaffey (p.43)</
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• Northumberland
  ...Northumberland became in 1603 not a shire on the edge but the heart of the land King James called "the [[Middle Shires]]". ...he Emperor Hadrian built his frontier line, [[Hadrian's Wall]], across the land here from sea to sea, so that most of what became Northumberland was outsid
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• Rutland
  * [[Beaumont Chase]] ...Gwash. Several villages lie drowned beneath its waters. A spur of higher land in the midst of the water splits it into two arms, on which spur is [[Upper
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• Staffordshire
  ...ising high into the [[Peak District]], and in the south is found [[Cannock Chase]] an area of natural beauty, famed for its hunting. The middle of the coun ...lised rgion in Britain in the nineteenth century. Coal seams underlie the land all across Staffordshire and it has rich iron ore deposits in the south too
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• Worcestershire
  ...was Urse d'Abetot who built the castle of Worcester and seized much church land. ...on the wool trade, and many areas of its dense forests, such as Malvern Chase, were royal hunting grounds. In the nineteenth century, Worcester was a cen
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• County Kilkenny
  ...ands, hedgerows, and diverse landscapes and geological features. The main land use is grassland, dairy farming and tillage farming especially around Kilke ...except along the left bank of the river Suir. Here there is a rich area of land between the river and the hills.
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• Black Country
  ...which divides the South Staffordshire coalfield from the adjoining Cannock Chase coalfield. Near [[Halesowen]] and [[Stourbridge]], the coal seams broke the ...he Elvish "Sindarin" language, ''Mor-Dor'' means ''Dark'' (or ''Black'') ''Land'', and is sometimes even referred to within the novel as "The Black Country
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• Enfield
  ...'' or similar, meaning "open land belonging to a man called Eana" or "open land for lambs". In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 it is recorded as ''Enefelde' * [[Enfield Chase]]
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• Lichfield
  ...field is situated on Keuper sandstone between the high ground on [[Cannock Chase]] on the west and the valleys of the Rivers [[River Trent|Trent]] and [[Riv ...ns in 669. The first Christian king of the Mercians, King Wulfhere donated land at Lichfield for Chad to build a monastery. It was because of this that the
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• Dartmoor
  '''Dartmoor''' is a vast moorland in south [[Devon]]. A rough, infertile land, grazed by hardy beasts, it provides spectacular scenery. It takes its nam ...depends on the type and location. Blanket bog, which forms on the highest land where the rainfall exceeds 80&nbsp;inches a year, consists mainly of cotton
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• Bournemouth
  ...During the Tudor period the area was used as a hunting estate, 'Stourfield Chase', but by the late 18th century only a few small parts of it were maintained ...ad purchased from Sir George Ivison Tapps. Tregonwell began developing his land for holiday letting by building a series of sea villas.<ref name="EE"/> In
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• Lambourn
  ...was known as Bockhampton, but it was destroyed in the 16th century as the land was absorbed into the Bockhampton Manor House estate.<ref>http://www.berksh In 2006 the Jockey Club Estates Ltd bought 500 acres of land in the valley, its first such venture outside Newmarket, including Mandown
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• Streatley
  ...laces of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] land: Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down. You gaze across rich pasture-land;
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• Blyth
  ...s Radclyffe, was executed for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, the land was forfeit to the crown.<ref name="Communities Blyth"/> On 11 July 1723, Ridley Park was created on land handed over by Viscount Matthew White Ridley and was opened on 27 July 1904
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• Merton, Surrey
  ...e, for £9,000. Nelson expanded the estate with the purchase of additional land south of his house until his Merton property covered most of the area west ...housing and became known as Nelson's Fields. North of the High Street the land remained undeveloped until the end of the century.
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• Bath
  ...}}</ref> Nennius, a ninth-century historian, mentions a "Hot Lake" in the land of the Hwicce, which was along the Severn, and adds "It is surrounded by a ...two houses in the crescent to form his residence. Having acquired all the land between his home and the top of Lansdown Hill, he created a garden over hal
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• Thames Ditton
  ...to Æthelweard, and bequeathed by Æthelweard to his son, Æthelmær); and land at Thames Ditton among sundry other items. ...; but by that time the manor of Thames Ditton amounted to little by way of land and to all effects Thames Ditton comprised mainly the manors of Imworth and
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• Wimbledon
  ...town is known too for Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in the conurbation.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id ...Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until Cromwell was executed in 1540 and the land was again confiscated. The manor was next held by Henry VIII's last wife an
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• Beacon Hill
  ...y wrote of the beacon chain spreading the message of the Armada across the land, in his poem "The Armada":'' O'er Longleat's towers, o'er [[Cranborne Chase|Cranbourne]]'s oaks, the fiery herald flew
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• Malvern Hills
  |[[Chase End Hill]] || align="right"|625 ...The Malvern Hills form] an island of high ground surrounded by lower lying land, most noticeably to the east. As a result, the [h]ills are clearly visible
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• Gwynedd
  Late Roman documents describe the land around today's Caernarfonshire as ''Venedotia'', which is a Latin form of t ...against King Edwin in Northumbria; the allies defeated Edwin at [[Hatfield Chase]] and Cadwallon, King of Britain, became the effective ruler of all north B
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• Lundy
  Sir Aubrey Vere Hunt of [[Curragh Chase]] purchased the island from John Cleveland in 1802 for £5,270. Sir Vere Hu ...ish ship and one engine damaged by anti aircraft fire, forcing it to crash land. A few remains can be found on the crash site. Reportedly to avoid reprisal
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• Chase End Hill
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• North Killingholme
  ...e 1890s. Part of an Iron Age or Roman period stone quern has been found in land between North and South Killingholme. ...enclosed fields; there were two small woods, ''Burkinshaw's Covert'' and ''Chase Hill Wood'', north-east of the village.<ref>Ordnance Survey. 1:2500 1887</r
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• Breamore
  ...Parish Council]</ref> Other parts of the Parish fall within the Cranbourne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, and are an "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty".< ...37, retrieved 12 October 2011]</ref> and one of the finest examples in the land. The building consists of a chancel and aisleless nave, separated by squar
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• Tonbridge
  ...h of its existence, the town remained to the north of the river, since the land to the south was subject to extensive seasonal flooding.<ref name=Flood>{{c ...red car. Mr Arnold was eventually apprehended by a policeman who had given chase on his bicycle.
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• World's End, Middlesex
  The name is whimsical name for a dwelling or piece of land considered to be in a remote spot or situated on the boundary of the paris *Enfield Chase railway station
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• Mardyke (river)
  ...e|year=1999}}</ref> There is ancient woodland on the valley slopes and the land close to the river was used for grazing. Pollen evidence from the Mardyke v ...VCH, volume 8]</ref> From about 1760, sluice gates protected the lowlying land through which the Mardyke flows from the tidal and saline Thames.
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• Fair Isle
  ...endent.co.uk/environment/nature/rare-bird-sends-twitchers-on-a-wild-plover-chase-821129.html| accessdate=2009-07-24}}</ref> On June 6 a Citril Finch was fou Today about 60 crofters work the land on the island. It has 14 scheduled monuments, ranging from the earliest sig
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• Luton Airport
  After the war, the land was returned to the local council which continued activity at the airport a ...as only one runway, 08/26. The 18/36 grass runway had disappeared under a land fill, while 06/24 had effectively become a taxiway. To remain a viable air
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• Sutton Coldfield
  ...ken10">{{cite book|last=Bracken |first=L. |title=History of the forest and chase of Sutton Coldfield |year=1860 |publisher=Benjamin Hall|pages=10}}</ref> Th ...ed into the possession of the King, then William the Conqueror, and Sutton Chase becoming a Royal Forest.<ref name="Salzman">{{cite book|last=Salzman |first
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• Clee Hills
  ...the spread of the [[Black Country]] conurbation. To the north is [[Cannock Chase]]. ...long-standing rumour in the local area that the Clee Hills are the highest land eastwards until the Ural Mountains in Russia, hence the name of the pub in
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• Otley
  ...n 1944, Major Le G.G.W. Horton Fawkes of Farnley Hall donated 263 acres of land on the Chevin to the people of Otley. This has been expanded to 700 acres a ...he old Police Station. The town was the setting for the drama series ''The Chase'' and the ITV dramatisation of ''The Bad Mother's Handbook''.
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• Epping Forest
  ...there. "Forest" in the historical sense of royal forest meant an area of land reserved for royal hunting, where the forest laws applied, and did not impl ...y commissioned a building, known as Great Standing, from which to view the chase at [[Chingford]]. The building was renovated in 1589 for Queen Elizabeth I
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• Eastcote
  In 1565, a land survey was completed which recorded 62 houses in Eastcote, of which four we ...possessions there. Lady Alice lived at Harefield Place, and purchased the land on which the hall was built from the Haydon family. The family appear in pa
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• Pershore
  ...sic car rally and nearby Worcester Racecourse revived ''The Land O’Plums Chase'' from 72 years ago.<ref name="plum festival">[http://www.pershoreplumfesti
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• Chilterns
  ===Landscape and land use=== ...ng 2% includes a variety of uses, including communications, military, open land, recreation, utilities and water.<ref name=changelandscape/>
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• Brownhills
  ...e]] within the [[Black Country]]. The town stands on the edge of [[Cannock Chase]] near the large artificial lake [[Chasewater]], six miles north-east of [[ ...r, [[Chasewater]], which lies to the north, between Brownhills and Cannock Chase. The reservoir was constructed in the 18th century and reshaped by reclamat
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• Netherton, Black Country
  ...where a brook crossed the Baptist End Road, near the boundary of Pensnett Chase, a partially wooded common.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dudley.gov.uk/Ea ...the Enclosure Acts of the late 18th century, allowing building in Pensnett Chase, the present town centre took shape further up the hill than its original s
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• Sedgley
  ...built to rehouse families from the slum clearances in central Dudley. More land was transferred in the 1950s for the construction of the Old Park Farm esta ...s granted country park status. On 12 January 1981, full reclamation of the land commenced.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sstaffs.gov.uk/PDF/History%20of%2
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• Willenhall
  The northern border of Willenhall has always been adjoining green belt land, although Willenhall has expanded so much in the last 100 years that its no ...d English word ''halh'' meaning "a nook or corner of land, ''often used of land in a hollow or river bend''."<ref>Mills, AD., ''A dictionary of English pla
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• List of King George's Fields
  ...emory of King George V, providing playing fields in communities across the land. The fields are typically named "King George V Playing Field" of "King Geo | [[Whickham]] || The Chase <small>NE16 4PE</small> || {{map|}} || align="right"| 13.25
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• Egremont, Cumberland
  ...with stone from the castle. In 1683, Edward Benn and his heirs were given land with the provision that they rebuild the stone bridge and maintain it for e ...y a wolf on a hunting trip; this tale is recounted in the poem "The Woeful Chase". Again leaving no male heir, Richard died and the superstition began that
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• Kenilworth
  ...y grounds next to the castle, were made common land in exchange for common land that Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester used to enlarge the castle. Only ...boundary between Chase Wood and the farm road and bridleway between Little Chase Farm and Warrior's Lodge Farm.
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• List of Queen Elizabeth II Fields
  ...ourage the provision of protected playing fields in communities across the land, and takes inspiration from the [[King George V Playing Field]]s, provided | [[Stockton Heath]] || Mill Lane Land || Mill Lane <small>WA4 2AW</small> || {{map|}} || 5.5
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• Tottenham
  ...ves rather than be captured. Fourteen other people were wounded during the chase. The incident later became the subject of a silent film.<ref>[http://www.ci ...metery – A large cemetery, which makes up part of an open access area of land and habitat, along with Bruce Castle Park and All Hallows Churchyard.
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• Salisbury Plain
  ...lcareous grassland in north-west Europe. Additionally the plain has arable land, and a few small areas of beech trees and small coniferous woods. Its highe ...ast and north of Salisbury Plain, and the [[Dorset Downs]] and [[Cranborne Chase]] are to the south west. In the west and northwest the geology is mainly of
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• Bishop's Waltham
  The land comprises some {{convert|34|ha|0|x}} mainly of hydrologically sensitive fen ...charge into the Waltham Mill Pond. Water from the mill pond passes through Chase Mill and then downstream as The Moors Stream tributary to join the Northbro
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• Horwich
  Horwich emerged in the Middle Ages as a hunting chase. Streams flowing from the moors were harnessed to provide power for bleachw ...h baron prosecuted Martin de [[Rumworth]] for carrying off deer in Horwich Chase<ref>{{Harvnb|Harland|1861|p=70}}</ref> which was described in 1322 as being
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