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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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• River Don, Yorkshire
  ...meandered in a north-easterly direction across the marshland of [[Hatfield Chase]] to enter the Trent just above its junction with the Ouse. A second channe ...andSpecialCollections/CollectionsInDepth/Water/HatfieldChase.aspx Hatfield Chase Corporation, 1538-1973 - Water Resources - Manuscripts & Special Collection
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• Haxey
  ...e resulting chase, that she donated 13 acres of land on condition that the chase for the hood be re-enacted each year. ...d of the lady. This would date the Hood to about 1359 when a deed granting land to commoners was enacted by the baron. This would make the Hood around 650
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• Eye Brook
  ...eograph.org.uk - 1286340.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Eye Brook near Beaumont Chase Farm]] Much of the land surrounding the brook is designated a ''Site of Special Scientific Interest
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• Tisbury
  ...r]] and Vale of Wardour. It is the largest settlement within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. .../10608 "A Victorian family house with excellent accommodation, gardens and land," Strutt & Parker], accessed 11 March 2013.</ref> As of early 2013, The Ga
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• Goole
  ...ull University Press. Pages 5-6</ref> to drain the marshland of [[Hatfield Chase]] at the behest of King Charles I. It made the lower Don navigable for barg ==Transport by land==
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• East Cowick
  ...were among the most accomplished 17th-century country house designs in the land.<ref>{{harvnb|Pevsner|1959|p=171}}</ref> ...o join the [[River Aire]]. The work was part of the drainage of [[Hatfield Chase]], and the river skirted the eastern edge of the village, to join the Aire
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• Thorne
  The land which is now Thorne was once inhabited by Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Ag Bunting's Wood is a community woodland created from agricultural land by Thorne-Moorends Town Council, and The Peatlands Way, a circuitous walk a
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• Windsor Great Park
  ==Lie of the land== ...hin its borders include the Home Park, Mote Park, Flemish Farm, Cranbourne Chase, Forest Lodge and South Forest.
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• Kenilworth Castle
  ...eams and the resulting fortifications proved able to withstand assaults by land and water in 1266. [[John of Gaunt]] spent lavishly in the late 14th centur ...entertainment, would have been very distinct from that of the surrounding chase, used primarily for hunting.<ref>Colvin, p.12.</ref> From the 16th century
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• Erdington
  ...the name ''Hardintone'' and was in the possession of Peter. It had arable land for six ploughs, a mill and 5 acres of meadows and woodland. It was valued ...rs in [[Rutland]] belonging to Roger, Earl of Warwick. The forest became a chase and the laws placed on the woodland were relaxed.<ref name="DVJ" />
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• Cheviot Hills
  ...untry until King James's days. The famous epic poem ''The Ballad of Chevy Chase'' is set amongst these hills, retelling the Battle of Otterburn. The land is all high here and in this landscape the hills generally have low relativ
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• Mercia
  ...>, though most frequently the English sources refer to the people, not the land as such. The kings bore the title (with various spellings) ''Miercna cynin ...tle a reality in Northumbria, for according to chroniclers he ravaged that land as if to drive the English out and restore Britain to the Britons. At this
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• Oakwood
  ...acular building boom. Builders George Reed and Laing bought up much of the land for development and estates began to eat up the countryside along Bramley R ...building in the area was South Lodge - one of the four lodges of [[Enfield Chase]]. South Lodge was demolished in 1935; West Lodge Park, East Lodge Nursery,
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• New Forest
  ...]]. It includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily populated south-east of Great Britain. ...lands: New Forrest for to make, In Beaulew tract, where whiles the King in chase Pursues the hart, just vengeance comes apace, And King pursues. Tirrell him
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• Cranborne Chase
  [[File:Roman Road near Handley Hill Cranborne Chase Dorset - geograph.org.uk - 231554.jpg|right|thumb|350px|A Roman Road near H '''Cranborne Chase''' ({{map|ST970180}}) is a chalk plateau, running across the north of [[Dor
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• Northumbria
  Much of this land was "debated" between England and Scotland, but the Earldom of Northumbria ...lish 'Northumberland', which is from the Old English ''Norþhymbraland''; "Land of the Northhymbre people". The ''Norþhymbre'' or earlier ''Norþanhymbre
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• Syresham
  Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries most of the land in and around Syresham passed to Magdalen College, Oxford. Much of the esta ...]] and Hazelborough wood near [[Silverstone]]. Further afield is [[Yardley Chase]] and Whittlebury Wood. They are mainly owned by the [[Forestry Commission]
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• The Holies
  ...at the Thames-side edge of the [[Berkshire Downs]], separated from Lardon Chase and Lough Down by the B4009 road from Streatley to [[Newbury]]. The Holies ...siderable damage to the ground. Now the natural recolonisation of the bare land by chalk-loving plant species is being carefully nurtured and monitored.
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• Lough Down
  ...ooks the [[Goring Gap]]. The hill spur affords an outstanding area of open land, of downland and woodland with many attractive walks and views. The hills ==Lardon Chase==
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• Cottenham
  ..., and the little cathedral city of [[Ely]] was the nearest substantial dry land to the north, around 12 miles to the northeast. ...and 1877.<ref name="Stevens">Stevens, Peter, History of the National Hunt Chase 1860-2010. ISBN 978-0-9567250-0-4</ref>
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• Diocese of Ely
  ...ame a cathedral in 1109, after a new [[Diocese of Ely]] was created out of land taken from the [[Diocese of Lincoln]]. From that time, the line of bishops |align="center"| 1905 ||align="center"| 1924 || '''Frederic Chase''' ||
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• Hambledon Hill
  |range=Cranborne Chase .... The hill is a chalk outcrop, on the south-western corner of [[Cranborne Chase]], separated from the [[Dorset Downs]] by the [[River Stour, Dorset|River S
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• Alport Height
  ...Lickey Hills]] just beyond Birmingham. The Pye Green BT Tower on [[Cannock Chase]] can also be seen. ...associated buildings in a compound on the summit, not part of the Trust's land.
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• Henderson Island
  ...affected by human contact. Ten of its 51 flowering plants, all four of its land birds and about a third of the identified insects and gastropods are endemi ...90">{{cite book|author=Thomas Farel Heffernan|title=Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qgaD97DaxfQC&pg=PA84|acc
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• Ducie Island
  ...Reef at 29° South, if the latter can be called an atoll). Ducie Island's land area is 170 acres and its maximum elevation, occurring on the Westward isle ...ived in HMS ''Blossom'' during November 1825. Beechey's expedition did not land in the atoll, but members of the crew navigated around it in small boats.<r
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• Cranbourne, Berkshire
  [[Cranbourne Chase, Berkshire|Cranbourne Chase]] overspreads much of the land to the north, east and south, dividing Cranbourne from Windsor Great Park.
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• Woodland Trust
  ...ancient woodland of which 70 per cent is semi-natural ancient woodland – land which has been under tree cover since at least 1600. It also manages over 1 ...mi2|-1|x}} have been created, including 250 new community woods across the land. Its largest current projects include the {{convert|41.7|km2|mi|0|x}} [[Gle
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• Dorset Downs
  ...larger chalk formation which also includes (from west to east) [[Cranborne Chase]], [[Salisbury Plain]], the [[Hampshire Downs]], the [[Chilterns|Chiltern H ...st, the Downs were once, thousands of years ago, continuous with Cranborne Chase, but the [[River Stour, Dorset|River Stour]] now cuts a valley between them
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• Reay
  ...d the men of Caithness at Sandside Bay in the battle known as the Sandside Chase, turning there on the pursuers that had chased them away from an attempted ...review in the Court of Session proving radioactive damage to the estate's land and the UKAEA to be in breach of its statutory duty under the Nuclear Insta
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• Crich
  ...y, Derbyshire|Smalley]], [[Ingleby, Derbyshire|Ingleby]] and Kidsley. This land was then given to Morcar, the King's chief minister, and he was given exten Chase Cliffe is a Tudor Revival house on the road from Crich to [[Whatstandwell]]
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• Blackmore Vale
  ...in the southeast, a town sandwiched between the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase. ...ubtle variations in topography and appearance, and which have an impact on land use.
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• Great Central Railway
  To purchase the land and track, Great Central Railway (1976) plc issued shares, and the MLPG tra Charnwood Borough Council agreed to purchase the land from BR and lease it to the railway for 99 years. However this still left t
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• River Idle
  ...r flowed northwards from Idle Stop to meet the [[River Don]] on [[Hatfield Chase]], but was diverted eastwards by drainage engineers in 1628. Most of the land surrounding the river is a broad flood plain. Between Retford and Bawtry, t
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• Primrose Hill
  ...e again became Crown property and in 1842 an Act of Parliament secured the land as public open space. The built up part of Primrose Hill consists mainly of
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• Three Choirs Way
  ...ugg|Lugg]], and ranges of the distinctinve hills found in this part of the land, such as the [[Malvern Hills]], the [[Marcle Ridge]] and the [[Suckley Hill ...[[Black Mountains]], is opened up. The ridge is followed all the way to [[Chase End Hill]] at the very southernmost point of the Malverns, and thus it ente
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• Dudley Canal
  ...nated at two basins at Great Ox Leasow and Little Ox Leasow, both built on land owned by T. T. Foley, one of the main shareholders.<ref>{{harvnb |Hadfield ...the Park Head end of the Tunnel would be landscaped as part of a derelict land regeneration scheme.<ref>{{harvnb |Squires |2008 |p=78}}</ref> Some 50,000
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• Shugborough Hall
  The estate is on the edge of [[Cannock Chase]], about 4 miles from [[Stafford]]. The estate was owned by the Bishops of ...Thomas Anson took a keen interest in the landscaping of his parkland. The land around Shugborough was largely flat which ensured that tress, follies and w
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• Richmond Park
  ...London | page=234}}</ref> Charles's decision, also in 1637, to enclose the land<ref group="nb"> An Ordnance Survey map, published in 1949 and now held at T ...a Neolithic burial barrow,<ref name="Myths">{{cite journal | title='Sheene Chase' and 'King Henry VIII's Mound': two incorrect myths concerning Richmond Par
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• Ashdown Forest
  ...orest was taken into private hands, with the remainder set aside as common land. The latter today covers 9½ square miles and is the largest area with open ...treat the forest as synonymous and co-terminous with this residual common land but it is a wider area:
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• Ashcombe House, Wiltshire
  ...n manor house in [[Wiltshire]], set in 1,134 acres of land, on [[Cranborne Chase]], in the parish of [[Berwick St John]], near [[Salisbury]]. The house is a ...tchie for the creation of a sporting lake on the estate. It is situated on land to the north west of Lower Ashgrove Farm.
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• Bernicia
  ...neth H. Jackson, which gives the meaning "Land of the Mountain Passes" or "Land of the Gaps".<ref>Jackson, ''Language and History in Early Britain'', pp. 7 The English presence in the land predates the accepted "Coming of the English": Germanic mercenaries were e
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• High Seat, Cumberland
  ...hern end of the ridge. High Seat is the next fell to the south, before the land falls to [[High Tove]]. ...ed somewhat fatigued he did not complain, and the hunters, absorbed in the chase did not look behind. When his absence from home was known a number of willi
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• Great Malvern Priory
  ...515 0</ref> The monastery was in what was then the wilderness of [[Malvern Chase]]. According to the Worcester Monastic Annals this work began in 1085.<ref The Priory was built for thirty [[monk]]s on land belonging to [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/A-Short-Acco
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• Okehampton Castle
  ...erge at the end of the 13th.<ref>{{harvnb|Endacott|1999|pp=28–29}}</ref> Land near the castle, later called Kennel Field, was used to hold required the p ...The park was effectively fused with the south side of the castle, with the chase running right up to the property.<ref>{{harvnb|Pluskowski|2007|p=77}}</ref>
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• Corse, Gloucestershire
  ...stershire|Staunton]], [[Worcestershire]]. The parish lies on the tongue of land between the [[River Severn]] and the [[River Leadon]]. It is six miles nort ...of a settlement for industrial workers under the auspices of the National Land Company in 1847.
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• Whitsbury
  ...Whitsbury is part of the group of villages on the edge of the [[Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs]] Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The border b ...page315.html Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest) Page 315]</ref> The land rises generally from south to north, reaching a height of 120 metres at Whi
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• Edlington
  ==The Edlington (Yorkshire) Land and Development Company Limited== The Edlington (Yorkshire) Land and Development Company Limited, and the partnership which preceded it, was
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• Firth of Lorn
  :”Logh-Aber. a Lake that insinuates it self so far into the Land out of the Western Sea, that it would meet [[Loch Ness|the Lake of Ness]], The Firth of Lorne featured as the location for the boat chase near the end of the second James Bond film From Russia with Love, released
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• Castle Rising Castle
  ...y|Gurney|1997|p=1}}</ref><ref name=Brown4/> After the Norman conquest, the land had been granted to Bishop Odo, the Earl of Kent, who may have used it as a ...he castle was often combined with that of the surveyor or ranger of Rising Chase, the parkland around the castle.<ref name=Brown24>{{harvnb|Brown|1988|p=24}
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• Loxley, Yorkshire
  .... Loxley developed over the following centuries as agricultural and common land with a few scattered farms.<ref name="geneajourney">{{cite web|url=http://w [[File:Loxley Chase from Stannington 4.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Loxley Chase]]
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• Eastoft
  ...in Crowle and Eastoft, crops were normally grown for three years, and the land was left fallow for the fourth.<ref>{{harvnb |Cory |1985 |pp=36–37}}</ref ...1898 by William Halkon of Eastoft Hall, the chairman of the directors, on land which was part of Boltgate Farm and belonged to Mr. Bramhill. Following the
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• Garthorpe, Lincolnshire
  Garthorpe is located on low-lying land about a mile to the west of the [[River Trent]]. Fockerby is immediately to ...Vermuyden re-routed all three rivers as part of the drainage of [[Hatfield Chase]].<ref>{{harvnb |Cory |1985 |pp=48-50}}</ref>
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• Luddington, Lincolnshire
  ...but since the diversion of the river as part of the drainage of [[Hatfield Chase]], effectively one community. Just to the north of the village, a track lea
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• Hatfield Chase
  ...as not wholly successful, but changed the whole nature of a wide swathe of land including the [[Isle of Axholme]] and caused legal disputes for the rest of ...smaller installations managed by the Corporation of the Level of Hatfield Chase Internal Drainage Board. Some of the pumping stations are reversible, allow
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• Cannock Extension Canal
  ...54, before the Cannock Extension Canal had been built, and the cost of the land for the Churchbridge Branch was shared, but when the locks were built in 18 ...e collieries in the area, including the East Cannock Colliery, the Cannock Chase Colliery, and the Cannock and Wimblebury Colliery.<ref name=os1888/>
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• Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  ...established drainage scheme. Thorne Moors lie to the north and [[Hatfield Chase]] lies to the south. Until its demise in 1966, the canal was crossed by the ...work of the Dutch drainage engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to drain Hatfield Chase, the Adlingfleet outlet was closed off, and the channel to the River Aire,
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• Wroot
  ...om ''wrot'', Old English for ''snout'', probably in reference to a spur of land.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Lincolnshire/ ...ere wheat and potatoes. One of the principal landowners was the [[Hatfield Chase]] Corporation. There were eighteen farmers, a wheelwright, shopkeeper, blac
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• River Torne
  ...s engineered, as it plays a significant role in the drainage of [[Hatfield Chase]], which it crosses. ...ver system was quite different. The [[River Don]] flowed across [[Hatfield Chase]] from [[Stainforth, Yorkshire|Stainforth]] to [[Adlingfleet]]. The [[River
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• Leighfield
  ...[[Stockerston]] and from [[Skeffington]] to [[Ridlington]], a triangle of land roughly four miles in each direction.<ref>[http://www.leics.gov.uk/leighfie ...bailiwicks: [[Braunston-in-Rutland|Braunston]], Ridlington and [[Beaumont Chase|Beaumont]]. 33 individual woods are named in an inquisition of 1566, totall
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• Essington
  ...the mines, however when the M6 and M54 Motorways were built the large open land areas at the Motorway junction were drained by engineers of the Agriculture ...at view of the West Midlands conurbation, and overlooking nearby [[Cannock Chase]].
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• Hampshire Basin
  ...t is the chalk of the [[South Downs]], [[Salisbury Plain]] and [[Cranborne Chase]]. The basin at its widest is around 30 miles from north to south between [ ...icline during the Eocene. By the Oligocene the London Basin was wholly dry land, and only a small part of the Hampshire Basin, centred on the modern Solent
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• The Convent, Gibraltar
  ...r during the reign of King Charles I of Spain. They were granted a plot of land in the area known at the time as ''La Turba'' where the poorer people of Gi ...oat was waiting for them. However, the alarm was raised and in the ensuing chase the lover fell into the water and drowned. The bride was arrested for break
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• Tutshill
  Tutshill was once common land in Bishton tithing to the south of Tidenham Chase.<ref name="vch-ti">[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=157
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• Woodcroft
  ...oft was originally common land in Bishton tithing to the south of Tidenham Chase. Powder House Farm standing east of the road between Tutshill and Woodcroft ...lt along the road running northwards from Woodcroft and up onto the former chase, their owners attracted by the views over the [[River Severn]] to the east
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• Fethard
  ...own on one and a half acres of land; the Friars had actually acquired this land without the king's permission, but following an investigation they were for ...utline of the settlement founded by William de Braose. Clearly much of the land on the north and west sides of the present walled area was only taken into
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• Brewood
  ...J8808|brewood|Brewood}}</ref> The bishop had twenty slaves cultivating his land in the village. The rest of the population consisted of 24 villagers, 18 sm ...ot part of Brewood Forest, but belonged to the Forest of Cank or [[Cannock Chase]]. It was not deforested until about a century later.<ref>[http://www.briti
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• Barr Beacon
  The site is on green belt land and is denoted as being of local importance for nature conservation, and in ...n has panoramic views: visible landmarks include [[The Wrekin]], [[Cannock Chase]], the [[Lickey Hills]], [[Lichfield Cathedral]], [[Walsall Aerodrome|Aldri
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• Gentleshaw Common
  '''Gentleshaw Common''' is an area of common land situated in [[Gentleshaw]] on the northern side of [[Burntwood]] in [[Staff ...e south (and within the parish of [[Longdon, Staffordshire|Longdon]]). The land slopes down from 676 feet above sea level in the north-east to 490 feet on
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• Sixpenny Handley
  ...Handley Hundred]] in north-east [[Dorset]]. It is situated on [[Cranborne Chase]], ten miles north-east of [[Blandford Forum]]. In the 2011 census the pari ...in places the chalk is overlain by deposits of clay with flint. The lowest land, at 200 ft, is in the south.<ref name=inventory/>
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• Wardour
  The land was an estate of [[Wilton Abbey]] by the 11th century.<ref name="victoria"> ...was long the home of the Lords Arundell of Wardour and later of Cranborne Chase School.<ref name="Hussey1955">{{cite book|last=Hussey|first=Christopher|tit
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• Melbury Abbas
  ...between [[Shaftesbury]] and [[Blandford Forum]] on the edge of [[Cranborne Chase]], close to [[Melbury Down]]. In the 2011 census the civil parish—which i ...rther than preliminary stages as the village is surrounded by conservation land.
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• Compton Abbas
  ...a narrow valley', plus "abbas" which refers to [[Shaftesbury Abbey]] (the land was owned by the abbess). The church, St Mary's, was built in 1866 to repla
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• Grayshott
  ...order=0&thold=0|title=Grayshott Village Archive – The murder at Hindhead Chase|accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> ...ts origins to the 19th century. The National School was founded in 1871 on land provided by the architect Edward I'Anson, who had moved to the village ten
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• Great Baddow
  ...Road (near what is now Hollywood Close)<ref name=bristow85 /> and off Pitt Chase. The area is overlain with head, while the lower levels of the sand and gra
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• Forest of Dartmoor
  ...s required because Richard had been in dispute with four knights who owned land adjoining the forest. The perambulation (known ever since as "the 1240 Pera
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• Whitton, Middlesex
  ...1609). Sir John later replaced his first house with a grander residence on land adjoining today's Warren Road. ...k, the estate of the third Duke of Argyll, which he established in 1722 on land that had been enclosed some years earlier from [[Hounslow Heath]]. The Duke
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• Great Horwood
  ...rom ancient times on the periphery of the [[Whaddon Chase]]: royal hunting land that stretched across the north part of the [[Aylesbury Vale]]. In 1447 th
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• Sturry
  ...o help them fight against invading Picts and Scots, and rewarded them with land. Some of them settled near Sturry: their cemetery was found at [[Hersden]]. ...then re-interred in the late 1960s into the German war cemetery at Cannock Chase.
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• Wyre Forest
  .... Legally, only the crown could have a forest; a subject could only have a chase. ...Parks, which were in [[Rock, Worcestershire|Rock]] parish. Most rights to land in the forest belonged to these mediæval manors.
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• Tarrant Hinton
  ...llage's name appears in mediæval sources. In 935, King Æthelstan granted land at Tarrant Hinton to the nuns of [[Shaftesbury Abbey]] under condition that In 2001 the parish was grouped with nine neighbouring parishes to form the Chase Benefice in the [[Diocese of Salisbury]].
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• Bedford Purlieus
  ...ears the woods were part of the Wansford Estate, itself a part of the vast land holdings of the Russell family, Earls, and later Dukes of Bedford. It is th ...t 1639 sets out definitively that the woods are now ''purlieus'', that is, land that was once part of a [[Royal Forest]] but has been legally disafforested
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• Maiden Bradley
  ...cs: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005]</ref> The parish is in the [[Cranborne Chase]] and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and was one o
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• Alvediston
  ...he area is the source of the [[River Ebble]] and is within the [[Cranborne Chase]] and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Much of the land was granted to the nuns of [[Wilton Abbey]] in 955.<ref name="vch" /> Fragm
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• Bowerchalke
  Bowerchalke is in the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is part ...f name="Broad">''Broad Chalke, A History of a South Wiltshire Village, its Land & People Over 2,000 years''. By 'The People of the Village', 1999</ref><ref
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• Sutton Park
  ...ow by the paved street";<ref>W. Midgley, ''A Short History of the Town and Chase of Sutton Coldfield'' 1904:6ff.</ref> it is still possible to walk the road ...the early 12th century, it was in use as a Norman mediæval deer park. The land was given to the people of Sutton Coldfield by King Henry VIII in 1528 afte
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• Gedney
  ...then rejoins Fleet Haven just south of Wards Farm. Fleet Haven runs out of land and [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1379460 meets] the [https://www.geog ...9 Boat Mere Farm] then along [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/657547 The Chase]. It crosses Roman Bank at [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/602707 Sutton
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• RAF Little Rissington
  *''Die Another Day'' (part of the ice chase) and ...and a grass airfield. During 1942, three asphalt runways were laid. Extra land was added to accommodate Sites A to E. Later in the war, the main runway 05
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• Ashmore
  ...just yards from the border of [[Wiltshire]]. The village is in [[Cranborne Chase]], with [[Fonthill Magna]] three miles to the west of Ashmore and [[Tollard ...eb|url=http://www.ccwwdaonb.org.uk/docs/General_MapSW.pdf |title=Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |publisher=ccwwda
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• Stonehouse, Lanarkshire
  ...milton of Catcastell, passed to the one-mark of Woodland and the half-merk land of Brownland, lying in the barony of Stanehouse and the sheriffdom of Lanar ...orchestrated a victory against the English near "the dykes" and was given land upon which he built Dykes Castle around 1350. It is situated about two mile
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• Farnham, Dorset
  '''Farnham''' is a village in [[Dorset]], on [[Cranborne Chase]] seven miles north-east of [[Blandford Forum]], in the east of the county. ...The county's sheriff at the time, Aiulf the chamberlain, owned some of the land.<ref name=opc/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST9515/fa
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• Fontmell Magna
  ...rset]], in the [[Blackmore Vale]], close to the chalk hills of [[Cranborne Chase]]. It may be found along the A350 road five miles south of [[Shaftesbury]] ...tate's lord and tenant-in-chief was [[Shaftesbury Abbey]].<ref name=dd/> A land survey made by the abbey in about 1130–35 shows that the Fontmell Magna e
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• Moor Crichel
  '''Moor Crichel''' is a village in eastern [[Dorset]], on [[Cranborne Chase]] five miles east of [[Blandford Forum]]. Close by is an associated hamlet, ...r Crichel was made up of two original settlements with different pieces of land attached to them. These two settlements were Little Crichel towards the nor
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• Pentridge
  ...set]], in the north-east of the county, sitting on the edge of [[Cranborne Chase]] down a dead-end minor lane just south of the A354 road between the towns ...idge Hill]], formed by a band of more resistant chalk than the surrounding land.
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• Woodcutts
  ...nated an 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'). The estate and much of the land and several of the properties were bought and amalgamated with the neighbou
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• Kinson
  ...Howe Farm. Since 1933 the local authority purchased a number of parcels of land (mostly from Viscount Wimborne) for the purposes of a cemetery and as publi ...traband up from The Chines in [[Poole Bay]] and take it across [[Cranborne Chase]] to be distributed to patrons all over Southern England. Gulliver had seve
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• Alderwasley Hall
  The earliest owners of the land were the Le Fownes in the thirteenth century. No description remains of the ...re responsible for building two other country homes on the estate, being [[Chase Cliffe]] and [[Oakhurst House]].
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• Osidge
  ...sidge Arms pub. South and west of this roundabout is an area of green belt land, crossed by Pymmes Brook and leading down to New Southgate Cemetery; an adj ...2#h3-0012</ref><ref>https://archive.org/details/eastbarnet00cass</ref> The land was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and a large house was bui
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• Calverton, Nottinghamshire
  ...n as Thorney Wood Chase, with a rural economy limited by a lack of grazing land.<ref>J. Thirsk, (ed.), ''The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol.IV, ...0% of the parish had already been enclosed.<ref>W.E. Tate, ''Parliamentary Land Enclosures in the county of Nottingham during the 18th and 19th Centuries (
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• Misson
  ...the churchyard. It was granted an income of £5 per year, raised from some land in the parish, and was to teach six children at a time to read. In 1745, th ...a result of the enclosures. To the north of them, the area remained common land, and was used for the grazing of animals, the production of hay, and probab
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• Great Brickhill
  ...was inclosed by an act of parliament, passed in 1776, when an allotment of land was assigned to the rector, in lieu of tithes, and an allotment to the poor
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• Bramshott
  ...tt Manor and was recorded as being held by the king, with four tenants and land for two ploughs, worth fifty three shillings.<ref>{{cite web|title=Open Dom ...ds.org.uk/en/visit-woods/pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=27337&site=bramshott-chase|archive-date=2014-04-18}}</ref>
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• North Baddesley
  ...dern village (south of Botley Road), was built on open farmland and common-land belonging formerly to the Willis Fleming family of [[North Stoneham Park]], ...ral and purple emperor butterflies glide through the woods and dragonflies chase over the bog and ponds. Several hundred different species of moth have been
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• Shedfield
  The wider civil parish includes the neighbouring villages of [[Waltham Chase]] and [[Shirrell Heath]]. ...ds, along with five more detailed archaeological studies, suggest that the land around Shedfield has been occupied continually since the Mesolithic period.
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• Woolton Hill
  [[File:The Chase, National Trust - geograph.org.uk - 57270.jpg|thumb|The Chase]] ...a small lake in the north-eastern end. There is an asphalted car-park. The chase is bounded by the A34 (Newbury bypass) to the north-east.
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• St Leonard's Forest
  ...could ride round on a donkey in a day. He established a monastery on this land at Noblac near Limoges, and became its abbot. In his old age he became a fo Later the forest was surrounded by a pale or fence and was technically a chase rather than a forest (used for hunting but not under forest law). There wer
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• Broad Chalke
  ...llage itself stands on the banks of the Ebble. It is all in the 'Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'. ...<ref name=broad>'Broad Chalke, A History of a South Wiltshire Village, its Land & People Over 2,000 years'; by 'The People of the Village', 1999</ref>
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• Aston, Yorkshire
  ...first element of the name is uncertain, while '-ton' is, as throughout the land, the Old English for 'estate', 'village' or 'farmstead'. The name is record ...amed "The Chase" suggests that the surrounding housing estate now occupies land that formed the traditional hunting grounds attached to the hall.
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• Fulwood, Yorkshire
  ...Fulwood"'', Muriel Hall, J.W. Northend (1974), No ISBN, Etymology/Rivelin Chase.</ref> ..."'', J. Edward Vickers, Self Published (1971), No ISBN, Page 26/27 Rivelin Chase/Fulwood Spa.</ref> In another document of that time the Canons of Beauchief
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• Malvern Link
  ...lvern Link and Great Malvern are separated by Link Common, an area of open land that is statutorily protected by the Malvern Hills Conservators. In 1900 th ...n which it is situated, from the Middle English "hlinc" meaning a ridge of land,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bahs.org.uk/15n2a4.pdf |title=British Agricu
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• Micklefield
  ...Blands Arms, and two local convenience stores, in addition to a stretch of land known locally as the "Mickie Rec" (recreation ground) which contains a foot ...gan on a larger expansion to the village, which will eventually infill the land between the existing Great North Road and adjacent motorway. It will also t
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• Carlton, County Durham
  ..., with houses facing each other across the main street, and with strips of land in front and behind. This layout had been identified as Norman, probably da ...miller, and that William, son of Orm of Carlton, had to come to the great chase of the Lord Bishop with one greyhound whenever required. Towards the end of
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• Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor
  ...,200 feet above the sea. Anciently [the moor] formed part of the forest or chase of [[Tottington, Lancashire|Tottington]], belonging to the Earl of Lancaste ...route of pilgrims travelling from the northern shires to southern shrines. Land in Holcombe Forest was left in that year to Bretton Priory, including "thre
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