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• Stafford
  ...lies approximately 16 miles north of [[Wolverhampton]] and 18 miles south of [[Stoke-on-Trent]]. Stafford is part of the ancient Pyrehill hundred.
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• Princetown
  .... Princetown is the highest town on the moor and is best known as the site of Dartmoor Prison. ...anite quarrying, which proved more successful, and in 1804 to the building of a prison.
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• Hertford
  ...to a survey commissioned by Channel 4. The 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hertsdirect.org/in The name of the town is Old English (''Heortford''), and means no more nor less than it
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• Eastbourne
  ...primarily known as a seaside resort, its long beaches lapped by the waters of the [[English Channel]]. ...de resort and still is today. It had an estimated population of 97,992 as of 2009.
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• Penge
  ...alace]] for 82 years, having been moved here after the Great Exhibition of 1851. ==Name of the town==
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• Holme, Huntingdonshire
  ...ses through the farmland not fat west of Holme, it barely shakes the peace of the village. Within the parish is [[Holme Fen]], which has the lowest point in Great Britain, nine feet below sea level. The Home Fen posts mark the lowest poi
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• Holme Fen
  ...rained fenland on [[Huntingdonshire]]. It lies to the west of the village of [[Holme, Huntingdonshire|Holme]]. ...which mark the lowest land point in [[Great Britain]] and indeed the whole of the [[United Kingdom]]; the ground here is nine feet below sea level.<ref n
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• Hyde Park
  [[File:Aerial view of Hyde Park.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hyde Park (foreground) and Kensington Garde ...'' is a large Royal Park in [[Middlesex]], and is one of the largest parks of [[London]], extending over 350 acres. It is famous for its history and for
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• Townland
  ...inmneacha na hÉireann]</ref> both [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[Republic of Ireland|Irish Republic]]. ...ty and the townland in Northern Ireland |quote=The first official evidence of their existence occurs in church records from before the twelfth century.}}
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• Coggeshall
  ...the drainage aqueducts of the ancient road are still visible in the cellar of the Chapel Inn today) ...me a legally licensed premises in 1554) have been established for hundreds of years. A market has been run every week on Market Hill since 1256, when a c
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• Penarth
  |LG district=Vale of Glamorgan ...seaside resort in [[Glamorgan]] and the largest town in the southern bulge of Glamorgan after [[Barry]].
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• Stretford
  ...guous with the suburb of [[Chorlton-cum-Hardy]] to the east, and the towns of [[Urmston]] to the west, Salford to the north, and [[Sale]] to the south. T ...trialisation that had begun in the late 19th century. By 2001 less than 1% of Stretford's population was employed in agriculture.
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• Batley
  ...mile north of [[Dewsbury]], near the [[M62 motorway]]. It had a population of 49,448 (including Birstall) in 2001. Other nearby towns include: [[Morley, ...d and its mining closed, Batley has become a poor town, with the indignity of being designated a European Union "transformation zone".
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• Hardwick Hall
  ...Ownership of the house was transferred to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] in 1959. Today, it is ...by Robert Smythson in the late 16th century and remained in the ownership of her descendants until the mid-twentieth century.
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• Balmoral Castle
  |picture caption=South front of Balmoral Castle ...illage of [[Crathie]], six miles west of [[Ballater]] and seven miles east of [[Braemar]].
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• Wells Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of St Andrew, Wells |church=Church of England
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• Pantasaph
  '''Pantasaph''' is a small village in [[Flintshire]], two miles south of [[Holywell, Flintshire|Holywell]]. Its name means “Asaph's Hollow”. ...riary|accessdate = 9 January 2014}} </ref> The graveyard holds the remains of three British soldiers shot for cowardice during World War I.
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• Sydenham
  ...as relocated in 1854. Today Sydenham is a diverse suburb with a population of 28,378 in 2011<ref name="Sydenham population 2"/> ...en, which continued production until 1969; a retail park now occupies most of the site.
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• Llwydcoed
  ...l village to north of the [[Cynon Valley]] in [[Glamorgan]], near the town of [[Aberdare]]. ...reets betray their early origins; the Scale family were among the founders of the works and remained partners until 1846.
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• Down House
  |website={{EH link|Home of Charles Darwin Down House}} ...family. It was in this house and garden that Darwin worked on his theories of evolution by natural selection which he had conceived in London before movi
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• Lamorna
  ...hin the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (though almost a third of Cornwall has such a designation.) The [[South West Coast Path]] passes thro ...our wall. The cove lies at the foot of the Lamorna Valley and the village of Lamorna just half a mile inland.
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• British Museum
  |address=Great Russell Street, London ...dicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of [[London]].
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• Winchester Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity |church=Church of England
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• Wherrytown
  ...''The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance.'' Penzance: Corporation of Penzance.</ref> ...hich most of the buildings of the village were destroyed and nearly a mile of the seafront from the [[Battery Rocks]] to [[Newlyn|Tolcarne]] were heavily
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• Wotton House, Buckinghamshire
  ...version of [[Buckingham Palace|Buckingham House]]. The house is an example of English Baroque and a Grade I listed building. ...der and Capability Brown improved the landscape, creating pleasure grounds of 200 acres incorporating two lakes.
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• Chelsea Bridge
  ...rrey]] on the south bank. There have been two Chelsea Bridges, on the site of what was an ancient ford. It is today a Grade II listed structure.<ref>{{NH ...|Albert Bridge]] nearby. The bridge was acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1877, and the tolls were abolished in 1879.
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• Victoria and Albert Museum
  ...rgest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5&nbsp;million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...nsington]], in an area that has become known as "[[Albertopolis]]" because of its association with Prince Albert, the [[Albert Memorial]] and the major c
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• Albertopolis
  ...d Natural History Museum at the lower end; Imperial College, Royal College of Music, and Science Museum lying in between]] ...at the inspiration of Prince Albert the Prince Consort or named in memory of him. The site is in South [[Kensington]], in an area bordered by Cromwell R
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• Royal Albert Hall
  |client=Provisional Committee for the<br />Central Hall of Arts and Sciences |ownership=The Corporation of the<br />Hall of Arts and Sciences
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• Thames Tunnel
  [[File:Thamestunnel.jpg|thumb|300px|Interior of the Thames Tunnel, mid-19th century]] ...wide by 20&nbsp;feet high and is 1,300&nbsp;feet long, running at a depth of 75&nbsp;feet below the river surface measured at high tide. It was the firs
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• Vauxhall Gardens
  [[File:Vauxhall Gardens by Samuel Wale c1751.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A prospect of Vauxhall Gardens in 1751]] ...today the name of a much smaller public park, a pale shadow of the garden of old.
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• Moate
  ...om the term motte-and-bailey, as the Normans built an example of this type of fortification here. The earthwork is still visible behind the buildings on ...tant examples of Quaker houses on the main street, which itself is typical of an Irish marketplace.
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• West Bergholt
  ...Essex]], lying near the border with [[Suffolk]], close to the ancient town of [[Colchester]]. Formerly known as '''Bergholt Sackville''', it has a histor ...y walks exist through the wood, and a migrant population of various breeds of deer can sometimes be seen.
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• Lismore Castle
  |picture=Castles of Munster, Lismore, Waterford-geograph-3038250.jpg |built=to 1851
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• Royal Surrey Gardens
  ...nington Park Road, including a lake of about three acres. It was the site of '''Surrey Zoological Gardens''' and '''Surrey Music Hall'''. ...built in the gardens, 300 ft in circumference with more than 6,000 sq. ft of glass, to contain separate cages for lions, tigers, a rhinoceros, and giraf
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• The Crystal Palace
  |built=1851, 1854 |type=Exhibition palace
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• Crystal Palace
  |picture caption=View of Crystal Palace from the park. ...urrey]] and [[Kent]] passes through the Crystal Palace Park, although most of it lies in Surrey.
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• Upper Norwood
  '''Upper Norwood''' is an area of Metropolitan [[Surrey]], to the north of [[Croydon]]. It is synonymous with the [[Crystal Palace]] area. ...hed and terraced dwellings on the slopes. There are some more modern areas of social housing that date from the 1970s. The hill offers panoramic views no
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• Cutlers' Hall
  |client=The Company of Cutlers<br />in Hallamshire |ownership=The Company of Cutlers<br />in Hallamshire
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• University of Exeter
  |name=University of Exeter |arms=University of Exeter arms.svg
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• Kent and East Sussex Railway
  ...ex]], as well as a heritage railway currently running on part of the route of the historical company. ...astern Railway opened its line from Ashford to [[Hastings]] on 13 February 1851.<ref name=Kidner/>
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• National Gallery of Ireland
  |name=National Gallery of Ireland |picture caption=The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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• Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
  ...oint complex on Curzon Street, [[Digbeth]]. It opened in 2001, and is part of ‘Birmingham Museums Trust’. ...as entire collections, that were related to local industry and the history of science and technology.<ref name=col />
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• Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
  ...rrett]] in [[Somerset]], deep within the [[Somerset Levels]], to the south of [[Westonzoyland]]. ...useum is housed in an 1830 brick-built pumping station which was the first of several similar pumping stations to be built on the Somerset Levels which a
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• Walker Art Gallery
  ...ional Museums Liverpool group and is promoted as "the [[National Gallery]] of the North". The gallery is funded directly by the government. ==History of Gallery and origins of the collection==
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• National Museum of Ireland
  [[File:National Museum of Ireland.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, Dublin]] ...l Museum of Ireland''' is the leading museum institution in the [[Republic of Ireland]], with a strong emphasis on national and some international archae
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• Alexandra Park, Middlesex
  ...dra Palace]] in [[Middlesex]]. It is bordered by the contiguous townscape of the metropolitan conurbation, by [[Hornsey]], [[Muswell Hill]] and [[Wood G ...ed in 1863, the year of the marriage of Alexandra of Denmark to the Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VII.<ref>{{Placenames|Mills|page=6}}</ref>
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• World Museum
  ...Centre and a planetarium. Entry to the museum is free. The museum is part of [[National Museums Liverpool]]. ...omprised the 13th Earl of Derby's natural history collection. It opened in 1851, sharing two rooms on Duke Street with a library. However, the museum prove
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• Strawberry Hill House
  ...rom 1749 onward. It is the archetype of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture,<ref name=G0910>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/ ...aborate decoration inside to create "gloomth" to suit Walpole's collection of antiquarian objects, contrasting with the more cheerful or "riant" garden.
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• Brompton, Middlesex
  ...m Turnpike, the main road westward out of [[London]] to the ancient parish of [[Fulham]] and on to [[Putney]] and across the river to [[Surrey]]. It saw ...including Knightsbridge, South Kensington and Gloucester Road as the names of stops during accelerated urbanisation, but lacking any cogent reference to
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