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• East Lothian
  ...[[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] on the south coast of the [[Firth of Forth]] and the [[North Sea]]. ...erwickshire]]. The shire has a detached part in Midlothian in the vicinity of [[Fala]].
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• Hampshire
  ...]]. The [[county town]] is [[Winchester]], capital of [[Wessex]] and of [[England]] until about 1100. Its place on the [[English Channel]] and the presence of several excellent natural harbours has given Hampshire a pre-eminent place
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• Herefordshire
  ...al county and one of the most sparsely populated with a population density of 212 a square mile; indeed it is said that outside [[Hereford]] and [[Leomin ...ins and the Midland plains and is itself a rich mixture of both. The land of Herefordshire is predominantly agricultural and the county is well known fo
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• Kent
  ...towns of Kent are within the [[London]] suburbs. Kent is considered is one of the [[home counties]]. ...Garden of England" for the richness of its agriculture, and the abundance of orchards and hop gardens.
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• Whitstable
  ...s north of the City of [[Canterbury]] and 2 miles west of the seaside town of [[Herne Bay]]. ...nce at least Roman times. The town itself dates back to before the writing of the [[Domesday Book]]. Whitstable's distinctive character is popular with t
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• Northamptonshire
  ...orthampton]] and [[Peterborough]]. In all, Northamptonshire has a mixture of the urban and the rural. ...ipse.co.uk/genuki/NTH/ Northamptonshire Genealogy: Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.</ref>
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• Shropshire
  ...and's most rural and sparsely populated counties with a population density of 337 a square mile according to the 2001 census. ...es; [[Bridgnorth]] above the [[River Severn|Severn]] guards the south-east of the county and [[Ludlow]] above the [[River Teme]] to the south. In norther
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• Surrey
  ...e United Kingdom|shire]] in the south-east of [[Great Britain]]. It is one of the "Home Counties". ...green areas but otherwise it is a vast, continuous urban sprawl, a mixture of poor neighbourhoods and wealthy.
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• Whittington Castle
  ...with buildings around a courtyard whose exterior wall was the curtain wall of the inner bailey. ...he historic fort of [[Old Oswestry]].<ref name=gallery>[http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlexq.htm Castle Photo Gallery: Whittington Castle] - Castle
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• Reading
  ...[[River Thames]], where the [[River Kennet]] enters it, some 40 miles west of [[London]]. Reading is well connected, by the [[M4 motorway]] and the [[Gre Reading was an important national centre in the mediæval period, the site of a monastery with strong royal connections. Today it remains a commercial ce
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• Windsor
  ...is a suburban town in eastern [[Berkshire]]. It is best known as the site of [[Windsor Castle]]. ...n]] in [[Buckinghamshire]]. Windsor and the surrounding areas contain some of the most expensive and desirable housing in the United Kingdom.
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• Tavistock
  ...west through the town. The heart of the town stands all on the north side of the river, the newer residential areas up the hills to its south. ...dford Square, was formerly the local residence of the Dukes of Bedford and of their local agent. Tavistock’s most famous son is Sir Francis Drake,<ref>
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• Aylesbury
  ...ry''' is the county town of [[Buckinghamshire]]. It stands on an outcrop of Portland limestone, giving it a prominent position in the surrounding marle ...ousing developments have been built to accommodate London overspill. Much of the town's historic town centre was demolished in the 1950s and 1960s to ma
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• Henley-on-Thames
  '''Henley-on-Thames''' is a prosperous town on the north bank of the [[River Thames]] in [[Oxfordshire]]. It lies some 10 miles downstream ...n market days. The town has attracted a wealthier class of individual and of visitors, reflected in the boutiques along the high street.
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• Buckingham
  ...hich the county takes its name. Buckingham was considered the county town of Buckinghamshire having been declared so in the year 888 by Alfred the Great ...and Saturday, and an additional farmers' market held on the first Tuesday of each month. The market place has several 18th century buildings giving cha
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• Southwell
  ...est known as the site of Southwell Minster, the cathedral of the [[Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham]], which covers Nottinghamshire. Its population is The town stands on the [[River Greet]], some 14 miles northeast of [[Nottingham]].
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• Selkirk
  ...Royal Burghs in Scotland. It stands on the [[Ettrick Water]], a tributary of the [[River Tweed]]. ...me to Scotland's oldest horse racing track, the Gala Rig, on the outskirts of the town.
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• Ludlow
  ...d as the seat of the Council of Wales and the Marches; effectively Capital of Wales. ..._General.html|title=Ludlow|accessdate=2007-09-10}}</ref> With a population of around 10,000, Ludlow is the largest town in southern Shropshire and the lo
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• Dunwich
  ...unwich''' (pronounced {{IPA|ˈdʌnɨtʃ}}) is a small village on the coast of [[Suffolk]] which was once a major town and seaport. ...s of the River Blyth and the River Dunwich. However, the harbour and most of the town has since been lost to coastal erosion.
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• Marlborough
  ...road from [[London]] to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]. It is reputed to have one of the widest high-streets in Britain: second only to [[Stockton-on-Tees]]. ...the rebuilding the High Street became what is claimed to be the widest in England after Stockton's. This allows ample space for a local market which is held
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• Esher
  Moore Place, on the outskirts of Esher is now a bar and restaurant. The Moore Place Estate remains a privat Esher lies within the hundred of Elmbridge. The local newspaper is the Esher News and Mail.<ref>[http://www.
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• Lydford
  ...[[Devon]] situated six miles north of [[Tavistock]] on the western fringe of [[Dartmoor]]. ...ch courses through a deep, narrow gorge. The gorge is crossed by a bridge of single span; and at a little distance a tributary stream forms a cascade in
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• Brentford
  ...n 1769, a lively affair in which John Wilkes was elected, though the House of Commons rejected him (a scandal which has never been repeated). In 1795 New Brentford was considered as the county-town, but the justices of Middlesex met in [[Clerkenwell]]. Pevsner noted that Brentford possessed n
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• Hampton, Middlesex
  ...Thames at Hampton are a number of "eyots", river islands. The eastern end of the village is marked by the Green, beyond which is Hampton Court. ...mtun'' means "home village" or ''home estate'', a common place name across England and Scotland. In Middlesex it attaches not just to Hampton itself but to i
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• Inner Temple
  |ownership=The Honourable Society<br />of the Inner Temple ...elf governed by the Parliament of the inn and an executive council made up of the elected Benchers.
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• Isleworth
  ...le of the place (eye-zul) has no relation to any 'isle' and is an instance of a counterintuitive place name. However in this instance it can be argued th ...ff Thomas Brigge or Berigge, clerk, on a plea of debt, with Richard Beaupe of Thistelworth, Middx</ref>
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• Lichfield
  |picture caption=City of Lichfield ...ffordshire]]. It lies in the midst of rural Staffordshire, 16 miles north of [[Birmingham]].
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• Aberystwyth
  ...istics, 10 July 2009]</ref> but there is no reliable measure of the number of those students whose family residence is outside Aberystwyth. ...The town takes its name from the Ystwyth, though since the reconstruction of the harbour, the Ystwyth only skirts the town and leaves the Rheidol alone
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• Weymouth
  |picture caption=Weymouth, Wyke Regis and Portland Harbour<br />from the Isle of Portland ...is eight miles south of [[Dorchester]] and five miles north of the [[Isle of Portland]].
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• Manhood
  ...ndred of Manhood''' in the [[Rape of Chichester]] is the southernmost part of [[Sussex]] forming a peninsula into the English channel. It is bordered by ...map of 1587, ''Manhode'' on a map of 1663 and ''Manhope'' on Mordens map of 1695.<ref name="allen11">Heron-Allen. Selsey. p.11.</ref>
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• Falmouth
  ...atistics for urban areas in England and Wales | publisher =National Office of Statistics| url =http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_ua_ew The name Falmouth comes from the river Fal but the origin of the river's name is unknown.
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• Penzance
  ...ination, with beaches and within easy reach of the Lands End and the sites of the wild [[Penwith]] peninsula. Penzance is also the port for sailing to the [[Isles of Scilly]], and outside the town is also the heliport for Scilly.
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• Whitehaven
  |picture=King Street - geograph.org.uk - 470948.jpg |picture caption=King Street
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• Peterborough
  ...h is the heart of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], the north-easternmost part of Northamptonshire. ...n centre has been greatly redeveloped and is surrounded but a great number of twentieth-century residential neighbourhoods, many entirely replacing older
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• Isle of Wight
  |name=Isle of Wight |picture=Isle of Wight coastline.jpg
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• Forest of Bowland
  ...Stone.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ward's Stone; the highest point in the Forest of Bowland]] ...estern [[Pennines]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. It is a moorland of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat beds. The hills are known as
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• Dorchester-on-Thames
  .... The greater river, the Thames, is to the west, separated from the body of the village by narrow farmland, a water-meadow and flooded gravel workings. ...est. From the Georgian period, Dorchester was a busy coaching centre, but of the ten original coaching inns, just two remain: The George and The White H
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• Durham
  |constituency=City of Durham ...Durham]], of which it is the county town. The city centre stands in a loop of the [[River Wear]], dominated by the vast Cathedral, atop a precipitous cli
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• Warwick
  ...rwickshire|River Avon]], 11 miles south of [[Coventry]] and 2½ miles west of [[Leamington Spa]], with which town it has grown together. The centre of Warwick stands on a hill which drops sharply down to the river. The Castle
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• Winchester
  ...]]. It stands at the western end of the [[South Downs]], along the course of the [[River Itchen]]. ...of Wessex and of the Kingdom of England. It developed from the Roman town of ''Venta Belgarum''.
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• Carshalton
  ...the village.<ref>{{cite web|title=London Biodiversity Partnership - audit of rivers document.|url=http://www.lbp.org.uk/02audit_pdfs/22_rivers.pdf|forma ...Carshalton Village Conservation Area.<ref>{{cite web|title=London Borough of Sutton Conservation Areas.|url=http://www.sutton.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6C0DF
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• Cheam
  ...des more retail shops and supermarkets, whilst Cheam Village and the south of Cheam are more residential. It is bordered by [[Worcester Park]] (to the n ...anterbury. Its Domesday assets were: 4 hides; 1 church, 17 ploughs, 1 acre of meadow, woodland worth 25 hogs. It rendered £14.<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.
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• Chertsey
  ...ter belt, and is served by Chertsey railway station on the Chertsey branch of the Waterloo to Reading Line. Egham today is somewhat hemmed in by the M3 *[[Church of England]]:
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• Boston
  ...ncolnshire]]. It is the major town of [[Holland]], the south-eastern part of that county. Boston lies astride the [[Greenwich Meridian]]. |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4403100.stm
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• Hitchin
  ...er that runs through the town, most picturesquely in front of the east end of St Mary's Church, the town's parish church. The river is named the [[River ===Parish church of St Mary===
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• Chelmsford
  ...in 2012 to become a city, in celebration of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee of that year. ...ly train journey to Liverpool Street Station in London to work in the City of London financial sector, though Chelmsford is in itself a modern, well plac
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• Brentwood
  ...ntryside and woodland; some penetrating to within only a few hundred yards of the town centre. ...maps. The suggestion was that men settled here in the part of the Forest of Essex (later [[Epping Forest]]) that would have covered the area, where the
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• Dulwich
  ...llage, lying in a valley between the neighbouring and contiguous districts of [[Camberwell]], [[Crystal Palace]], [[Denmark Hill]], [[Forest Hill, Surrey The name of Dulwich has been spelt in various ways in history; ''Dilwihs'', ''Dylways''
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• Bridgwater
  ...on the west the [[Quantock Hills]]. The town The town stands on the banks of the [[River Parrett]], 10 miles above its mouth at [[Highbridge]], which ri ...ton]] by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. It stands between two junctions of the M5 motorway. Bridgwater railway station is on the main railway line be
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• Cardiff
  ...cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the Welsh Assembly. ...etropolitan area has a population of nearly 1.1 million, more than a third of the total Welsh population. Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the
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• Abbots Langley
  |picture=Abbots Langley - The Church of St Lawrence the Martyr - geograph.org.uk - 272827.jpg ...[Hertfordshire]]. It is an old settlement and is mentioned (under the name of '''Langelai''') in the [[Domesday Book]]. Economically the village is close
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• Hemel Hempstead
  ...Henry VIII in 1539. The Old Town still remains and is the prettiest part of town. The biggest change for the town was after Second World War when Heme ...emel Hempstead "The most attractive town in Herts".<ref>''The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire'' by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner</ref> This however was before the
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• St Albans
  ...Verulamium are still visible in Verulam Park, and its bricks in the tower of St Albans Cathedral. ...ot therefore built on the site of ancient Verulamium but on the other side of the river, albeit that the town has since spread to envelop Verulam and the
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• Hatfield, Hertfordshire
  ...s old origins but is also a new town and bears the development of that age of post-war enthusiasm. ...the days of Sir Robert Cecil, the First Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of King James I.
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• Royston, Hertfordshire
  ...to [[Cambridgeshire]]. It is found in the midst of rural life, at the edge of the Hertfordshire Chalk Downs as they suddenly drop to the Cambridgeshire p ...e crossroads. The A1198, known as the Old North Road follows the alignment of Ermine Street northwards.
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• Tewkesbury
  ...the rivers and is dominated by its main church, Tewkesbury Abbey, a relic of the town's past as a monastic centre. ...healings_chaceley/ThumbnailFrame.htm End of an Era - Healings Mill (photos of barges leaving Tewkesbury)]</ref>
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• Cirencester
  '''Cirencester''' is a market town in eastern [[Gloucestershire]] of ancient roots. ...ds on the [[River Churn]], a tributary of the [[River Thames]]. It is home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural college in the Engl
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• Southampton
  ...pshire]] and the busiest commercial port in the United Kingdom, indeed one of the largest commercial ports in Europe. ...y stands at the northernmost point of [[Southampton Water]] at the meeting of the [[River Test]] and [[River Itchen]]. Southampton Water provides a dee
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• East Cowes
  |island=Isle of Wight |LG district=Isle of Wight
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• Andover
  ...ciond World War and redeveloped after it, leaving little to be found there of any great charm. ...web |url=http://www.localhistories.org/andover.html |title=A Brief History of Andover, Hampshire |author=Tim Lambert |accessdate=7 March 2010}}</ref>
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• Christchurch
  '''Christchurch''' is a town in [[Hampshire]] on the south coast of [[Great Britain]]. The town adjoins [[Bournemouth]] in the west and the [[N ...ally named Twynham but became known as Christchurch following the building of the priory in 1094.
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• Portsmouth
  '''Portsmouth''' in [[Hampshire]] is the home of the Royal Navy, for which it is the greatest and most famous port. Portsmo The city stands on its own island, [[Portsea Island]], on the south coast of [[Great Britain]], facing the [[English Channel]] with a capacious, shelter
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• Lavenham
  ...d-style charm. It is an epitome of the pretty Suffolk villages so beloved of artists, its streets lined with ancient half-timbered and thatched.houses, ...les/2006/04/18/lavenham_feature.shtml |title=Lavenham: The man-made wonder of Suffolk |first=Corinne |last=Roper |publisher=BBC Suffolk |accessdate=2008-
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• Effingham
  ...(actually in the parish of [[East Horsley]]), at the point where a branch of the Sutton and Mole Valley Line joins the New Guildford Line, both routes b ...ports park (the King George V playing fields), and two schools; the Howard of Effingham School and St Teresa's School (a private girls' prep school).
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• Rochester
  ...athedral city in [[Kent]]. It has from ancient times long borne the status of a city, though this status was attached as property to a council abolished ...ring [[Chatham]], [[Gillingham, Kent|Gillingham]], [[Strood]] and a number of outlying villages have grown together to make a single conurbation standing
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• Deptford
  ...conurbation. It is named after a ford of the [[River Ravensbourne]]. Part of the town spills over too into [[Surrey]]. ...|url=http://wwp.greenwich2000.com/info/local/deptford.htm |title=Greenwich England: Deptford |publisher=Wwp.greenwich2000.com |date=2010-01-05 |accessdate=201
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• Farnham
  ...] and much favoured by them so that today the town has many fine buildings of historical interest. ...shot]] in [[Hampshire]] is 4 miles northeast. Winchester, from which much of the town's ancient prosperity came, is 28 miles away to the southwest.
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• Fetcham
  ...lage in [[Surrey]] lying to the west of [[Leatherhead]], on the other side of the [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]] and Mill Pond springs and the associa ...ing area. These springs even continued to supply water during the droughts of 1976 and 2006.
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• Milford Haven
  ...jor commercial port town in [[Pembrokeshire]]. It stands on the north side of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Midd ...in the United Kingdom's energy sector with several oil refineries and one of the biggest LNG terminals in the world.
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• Buckden, Huntingdonshire
  ...the A1, midway between [[Huntingdon]] and [[St Neots]], some 6 miles south of the former, and close by [[Brampton, Huntingdonshire|Brampton]]. It was on ...is Buckden Towers, once a favourite palace of the Bishops of Lincoln, once of the most powerful positions in the Middle Ages.
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• British Isles
  ...reland satellite image bright.png|300px|thumb|right|A satellite photograph of the British Isles, the island on the right being Great Britain and the smal ...h and east of the islands lies continental Europe, 21 miles from the coast of [[Kent]] at the nearest point. To the north is open sea until the Faroe Isl
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• Melton Mowbray
  ...es, being the home of the Melton Mowbray pork pie and one of the six homes of Stilton cheese. ...own is found 14½ miles northeast of [[Leicester]], and 18 miles southeast of [[Nottingham]]. Both the [[River Eye, Leicestershire|River Eye]] and the [
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• Lincoln
  ...n]] of [[Lincolnshire]]. It is a picturesque cathedral city at the centre of Lincolnshire and an ancient city, old when the Romans came and yet preservi Lincoln stands at the gap of the [[Lincoln Edge]], where the [[River Witham]] breaks through it. The Edg
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• Stamford
  ...lanes tumble to the meadows and the river is bridged here by a fine bridge of Barnack stone. The town is best known for its mediæval core of streets, lined with 17th-18th century stone buildings, older timber framed
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• Hatford
  |LG district=Vale of White Horse ...northern [[Berkshire]] in a parish of some 1,000 acres lying in the [[Vale of White Horse]].
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• Milton, Berkshire
  |LG district=Vale of White Horse |website=[http://www.milton-parish.co.uk/ Parish of Milton]
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• West Dereham
  |post town=King's Lynn |LG district=King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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• King's Lynn
  |name=King's Lynn |picture caption=King's Lynn
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• Wymondham
  ...first laid down by the Romans, though Wymondham is a somewhat more recent of foundation; nor more than 15 centuries old or so. ...engineering and all the enterprise of small-town Norfolk, it is a mixture of the calm and the industrious. It is also where the Norfolk Constabulary ha
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• Alderney
  |county=Bailiwick of Guernsey |map=Alderney - Bailiwick of Guernsey.svg
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• Lambourn
  '''Lambourn''' is a large village in western [[Berkshire]], on the dip slope of the [[Berkshire Downs|Lambourn Downs]]. It is most noted for its associati ...f [[Swindon]], seven miles south-west of [[Wantage]] and seven miles north of [[Hungerford]].
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• Woolstone, Berkshire
  |LG district=Vale of White Horse ...lage in [[Berkshire]] about 4½ miles south of [[Faringdon]] in the [[Vale of White Horse]].
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• Morpeth
  |picture caption=Aerial view of Morpeth Court House ...om the A1, which bypasses it. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 13,833. Nearby villages include [[Mitford, Northumberland|Mitford]] and [[P
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• Newark-on-Trent
  ...[Nottinghamshire]]. It stands on the [[River Trent]], the A1 (on the route of the old Great North Road), and the [[East Coast Main Line]] railway. It ha ...s, and had to be relieved by Prince Rupert in a battle known as the Relief of Newark.
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• Kennington
  '''Kennington''' is an urban town of [[Surrey]] within the metropolitan conurbation spreading out from [[London] ...e Surrey Oval and of the Imperial War Museum. The Oval is the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club and serves too as an international cricket groun
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• Bayham Old Abbey
  |picture caption=The ruins of Bayham Abbey ...near [[Frant]] in [[Sussex]]. The ruins to be seen today are the remains of a mediæval abbey.
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• Putney
  In a 2005 New Economics Foundation survey of 27 London high streets, Putney's was deemed the fifth most "cloned", offeri ...ttp://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf | author=Mayor of London | publisher=Greater London Authority | title=London Plan (Consolidat
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• Reigate
  ...n commuter belt]]. It forms a continuous urban area with the adjacent town of [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]]. It is within the Reigate Hundred, to which it ...]] a mile north of the town (756 feet) and [[Reigate Hill]] 2½ miles east of that Colley Hill (723 feet).
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• Shrewsbury
  |picture=Old Shrewsbruy Market Hall -England.jpg ...hill in a bend of the [[River Severn]] in the midst of its county, a town of some 70,000 inhabitants,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.world-gazetteer.com
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• Bath
  ...Bath built on the gushing hot water springs which are its origin and that of its name. ...insignia.htm |title=Civic Insignia |accessdate=10 December 2007 |work=City of Bath }}</ref>
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• Thames Ditton
  ...and main road. Nevertheless, Thames Ditton manages to retain the character of a village, albeit a distinctly suburban one. ...ial housing, office and retail shops in about equal proportion. The growth of supermarket shopping has devastated a formerly thriving small retail sector
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• Weybridge
  ...008 it was calculated that of the ten most expensive streets in South East England (outside the conurbation), six were in Weybridge.<ref>[http://property.time ...it, referring to the monument to the Duchess of York erected at the bottom of the hill in 1820.
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• Wimbledon
  ...] within the metropolitan conurbation but bounded by the great green space of [[Wimbledon Common]] which, along with the village's own qualities, preserv ...c., of London and its suburbs, described and illustrated, for the guidance of strangers|author=Edward Kemp|page=29 |publisher=John Weale, 1851 |accessdat
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• Ipswich
  ...ary of the [[River Orwell]]. A little downstream is the complementary port of [[Felixstowe]]. Inland are [[Needham Market]] and [[Stowmarket]] in Suffol ...have a common origin with the River Gipping which is the non-tidal section of the River Orwell.
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• Bury St Edmunds
  ...of shopping streets. The cathedral is the episcopal seat of the [[Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich]]. ...ltural and retail centre for western Suffolk. Tourism is also a major part of the economy.
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• Worcester
  ...[[Diocese of Worcester]], one of the oldest bishoprics in the [[Church of England]] and in the Early Middle Ages, the richest. ...evern Valley, some 30 miles southwest of [[Birmingham]] and 29 miles north of [[Gloucester]].
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• Evesham
  ...am lies within the [[Vale of Evesham]], an area comprising the flood plain of the [[River Avon, Warwickshire|River Avon]], and which was once a major cen The town centre stands within a loop of the Avon and is regularly subject to severe flooding: those in 2007 were th
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• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  [[File:Peterborough.Chronicle.firstpage.jpg|right|thumb|230px|The first page of the ''Peterborough Chronicle'']] ...the last Chronicle was discontinued at the beginning of the reign of King Henry II.
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• Alcester
  ...]], and 8&nbsp;miles south of [[Redditch]]. The 2001 recorded a population of 6,214 in the town. In Roman times Alcester (''Alauna'') was a walled town and Roman fort of some importance, standing at a junction between the [[Ryknild Street]] Roma
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• Aberdaron
  |picture=A view of Aberdaron from the beach - geograph.org.uk - 1214708.jpg ...n of 1,019 in 2001. Aberdaron is sometimes referred to as the "Land's End of Wales" ({{lang|cy|Pendraw'r Byd}}).
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• Wales
  [[File:Flag of Wales 2.svg|right|thumb|350px|The flag of Wales]] '''Wales''' ({{lang|cy|Cymru}}) is a mountainous land on the west of [[Great Britain]], with the [[Irish Sea]] to the west and north, the [[Celt
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• York
  ...ing of Yorkshire|West]] Ridings of Yorkshire converge to meet at the walls of York. ...ttractions, of which [[York Minster]] is the most prominent, and a variety of cultural and sporting activities.
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• Holderness
  ...umber]]. It is the easternmost part of [[Yorkshire]]. It forms a wapentake of Yorkshire, its main towns including [[Withernsea]], [[Hornsea]] and [[Hedon ...rness is said to have more in common with the Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the [[Yorkshire Wolds]].
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• Middlesbrough
  ...rial town in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], standing on the south bank of the [[River Tees]]. ...ry]], approximately six miles away. A few miles to the south lies the edge of the [[North York Moors]] National Park.
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• Whitby
  ...and port town. It stands on the east coast of [[Yorkshire]] at the mouth of the [[River Esk, Yorkshire|River Esk]], and climbing up precipitous slopes ...itage, and is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, founded in the early days of Christianity amongst the English. The fishing port emerged during the Middl
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• Ripon
  ...of the smallest cities in Britain; at the 2001 Census it had a population of 15,922. ...hides a more ancient foundation; its undercroft is from the earliest days of English Christianity. Also in the town centre is its other focus; the mark
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• Buckland Monachorum
  ...Buckland", because before the Reformation the manor belonged to the monks of Buckland Abbey. ...n southern [[Devon]] as a tenant-in-chief of the King, making him a person of local, if not national or regional, significance.
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• East Grinstead
  ...f [[Chichester]]. The civil parish covers 6,035 acres and had a population of 23,942 at the 2001 census. ...is located in [[the Weald]], and the [[Ashdown Forest]] lies to the south of the town. The town itself is not overall famed for its beauty, but it has
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• Deal
  ...aits of Dover]], eight miles north-east of [[Dover]] and eight miles south of [[Ramsgate]]. It is a former fishing, mining and garrison town. Closely associated with Deal are the villages of [[Kingsdown, Kent|Kingsdown]], [[Sholden]] and [[Walmer]]; Walmer may be wh
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• Soke of Peterborough
  ...was once a Liberty under the control first of Peterborough Abbey and later of secular jurisdiction. ({{kml}}) ...astle.homeip.net/northampton/Books/beauties/beauties.htm ''The Beauties of England and Wales''] J. Harris, London, 1818</ref>
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• Dartford
  ...ay it is principally a commuter town for [[London]], it has a long history of religious, industrial and cultural importance. It is an important rail hub; ...r archaeological investigations have revealed a good picture of occupation of the district with important finds from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and th
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• Gravesend
  ...has always had an important role to play in the history and communications of south-eastern Britain. ...ver. The opening of the Eurostar railway station at Ebbsfleet, the arrival of the High Speed service at Gravesend station itself and the fact that it lie
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• Tonbridge
  ...of [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]] and 12&nbsp;miles south west of [[Maidstone]]. ==Name of the town==
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• Hythe, Kent
  ...is a small coastal market town on the south coast of [[Kent]], on the edge of [[Romney Marsh]]. Its name simply means "Haven" or "Landing Place". ...iling clubs. Lord Deedes was patron of Hythe Civic Society, and the hounds of The East Kent Hunt are kennelled in nearby Elham.
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• Sittingbourne
  ...the Roman [[Watling Street]], The town is growing rapidly due to a number of large residential developments, and its train line links to London Victoria The town is off a creek in [[the Swale]], the channel separating the [[Isle of Sheppey]] from mainland Kent, which gives the town its name.
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• Thurning, Norfolk
  ...y]], seven miles south of [[Holt, Norfolk|Holt]], and nine miles northwest of [[Aylsham]]. ...is mixed, the subsoil clay and sand. The parish includes the small hamlet of Craymere Beck.
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• Gwent
  [[File:Coat of arms of Gwent.svg|right|thumb|150px|The arms of Gwent]] [[File:Medieval_Wales.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Mediæval kingdoms of Wales; Gwent in the south-east]]
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• Sheppey
  ...f the northern coast of [[Kent]] in the [[Thames Estuary]]. It has an area of 36 square miles. ...p a considerable proportion of the island provide grazing for large flocks of sheep.
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• Diocese of St Asaph
  |arms=Coat of arms of the Diocese of St Asaph.svg |website=[http://www.dioceseofstasaph.org.uk/ Diocese of St Asaph]
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• Diocese of Sodor and Man
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Sodor and Man arms.svg
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• Ashridge
  ...tern Hills]], an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, about two miles north of [[Berkhamsted]]. ...country. The estate is currently owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]].
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• England
  ...f England.svg|right|thumb|180px|Saint George's Cross, the national flag of England]] [[File:England hill regions.jpg|right|thumb|180px|England highlighted]]
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• Stonehenge
  ...Salisbury]]. It is the most famous stone circle in the world and the heart of a World Heritage Site. ...tones set within earthworks. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in Britain, including several hundred bu
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• Hatfield Broad Oak
  |picture=Hatfield Broad Oak - The Church of St Mary the Virgin - geograph.org.uk - 655238.jpg ...time: Local history overview]</ref>, and locally as "HBO". Near the church of St Mary the Virgin is former Benedictine priory Hatfield Regis Priory.
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• Finchampstead
  ..., and part of development grown out of the latter town is regarded as part of Finchampstead, with Wokingham. ...nchampstead Bridge is further east, just above Eversley Cross. To the east of the parish is [[Sandhurst, Berkshire|Sandhurst]] and, to the west, [[Swallo
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• Erith
  ...f the metropolitan conurbation. Erith's town centre has undergone a series of modernisations since 1961. Erith is a poorer town than many Kentish places, ...es/siteSummariesDetailsAll.asp?year=summaries1996 Museum of London summary of archaeological work carried out in 1996] accessed 6 April 2008</ref>
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• Waltham Abbey
  '''Waltham Abbey''' is a market town of about 20,400 people in the south-west of [[Essex]]. It stands on the [[Greenwich Meridian]], close to where Essex, [ ...y Church of Waltham Holy Cross]], which was prominent in the early history of the town &mdash; the ancient parish covering Waltham Abbey being known as W
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• Tilbury
  |picture caption=Port of Tilbury ...sex]]. Its name and fame are ancient, though the actual town of Tilbury is of relatively recent foundation.
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• Isle of Portland
  ...glish Channel]] and joined to mainland [[Great Britain]] by a narrow strip of land which extends 18 miles parallel to the coast as [[Chesil Beach]] and b ...|SY690721}} and forms the southernmost point of the county. The population of the Isle is almost 13,000.
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• Sutton Coldfield
  ...Crown for some time and it was granted the style of "Royal Town" by Henry VIII in 1528. ==Name of the town==
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• Middleton, Lancashire
  ...[[Manchester]] city centre. It is a town now subsumed into the conurbation of the south Lancashire towns centred on Manchester. ...ring the 18th and 19th centuries it grew into a thriving and populous seat of textile manufacture, so much so that Middleton was granted borough status i
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• Teddington
  ...dington''' is a suburban town in [[Middlesex]], standing on the north bank of the [[River Thames]], between [[Hampton Wick]] and [[Twickenham]]. It stret ...Teddington Studios and Haymarket Group form a media hub whilst on the edge of Bushy Park the National Physical Laboratory, UK, National Measurement Offic
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• Kimberley, Nottinghamshire
  |picture=Kimberley Chapel of Rest Small.jpg |picture caption=Kimberley Chapel of Rest on Knowle Hill
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• Epping Forest
  ...nd in [[Essex]]. It is a former royal forest, and is managed by the [[City of London]] Corporation. ...publisher=City of London |accessdate=2010-03-13}}</ref> and contains areas of woodland, grassland, heath, rivers, bogs and ponds.
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• Inchcolm
  |group=Firth of Forth ...m the Gaelic "Innis Choluim", meaning Columba's Island, as it was the site of early heritages and later a monastery inspired by St Columba.
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• Flat Holm
  ...]. As such, Flat Holm is the most southerly point of Glamorgan and indeed of [[Wales]]. ...st wireless signals over open sea from Flat Holm to [[Lavernock]]. Because of frequent shipwrecks a lighthouse was built on the island, which was replace
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• Royal Leamington Spa
  ...the 19th century, the town experienced one of the most rapid expansions in England.<ref name="courrier"/> The [[River Leam]] flows through the town. The town was first mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Lamintone''. It was formerly known as Leamington Priors, because
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• Manhood Peninsula
  ...the south coast to east and to west, the Manhood Peninsula remains a land of farmland and blessed calm. ...iar to Sussex).<ref>Salzman. The History of the County of Sussex. The Rape of Chichester. Introduction. pp. 1-2 .</ref>
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• Solent
  [[File:Solent map (OS).jpg |right|thumb|300px|Map of the Solent and Isle of Wight, Hampshire]] ...it within [[Hampshire]] separating the [[Isle of Wight]] from the mainland of [[Great Britain]].
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• Diocese of Bath and Wells
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Bath and Wells arms.svg
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• Leeds Castle
  ...n islands in a lake formed by the [[River Len]] to the east of the village of [[Leeds, Kent|Leeds]]. ...on]] and [[Windsor Castle]]. The activity at Leeds Castle during the reign of Edward I is a notable exception to this pattern.<ref>{{harvnb|Emery|2006|p=
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• Ampthill
  ...]], sitting between [[Bedford]] and [[Luton]]. It has a modest population of about 6,000. A regular market has taken place on Thursdays for centuries. The name 'Ampthill' is of Old English origin and the town appears to have first named ''Æmethyll'',
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• Province of Canterbury
  ...Archbishop of Canterbury, who as Primate of All England is the most senior of the Church’s clergy. ...land Islands]] is an extra-diocesan parish also overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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• Province of York
  .../doc/1O110-Yorkmetropolitandioceseof.html|title=York, metropolitan diocese of|last=Cannon|first=John|year=2002|work=The Oxford Companion to British Histo ...is York Minster, formally known as The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York.
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• Sandhurst, Berkshire
  ..., close to the borders of [[Hampshire]] and [[Surrey]], a little northwest of [[Camberley]] in the latter county. ...oximity to Camberley, Sandhurst is also home to a large and well-known out-of-town mercantile development, named "The Meadows".
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• Princes Risborough
  ...rp slope of the [[Chilterns]], where the land flattens out into the [[Vale of Aylesbury]], a place where the landscape changes dramatically from the roug Princes Risborough is one of a pair with neighbouring [[Monks Risborough]].
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• Kenilworth
  ...st of the centre of the town. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 23,219. ...] on Coventry's southern outskirts, it has only a small student population of mostly postgraduate students, although many staff at the university choose
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• Brixham
  ...outheast coast of [[Devon]]. It is at the southern end of [[Tor Bay]] and of the little [[Torbay]] conurbation. Brixham stands across the bay from [[To ...e fishing and tourism. At the time of the 2001 Census it had a population of 17,457.
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• Hartland
  ...t of hard shale projecting into the sea that forms the most westerly point of the county. ...minor tourist traffic. The town's harbour, Hartland Quay, is to the south of Hartland Point. The quay was originally built in the late 16th century but
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• Ottery St Mary
  ...le]], [[Alfington]], [[Tipton St John]] and [[Wiggaton]]) had a population of 7,692. The town was the birthplace of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, where his father, the Reverend J
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• Brodick Castle
  ...Arran]], an island of [[Buteshire]]. It was previously a seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, but is now owned by the [[National Trust for Scotland]]. ...f relative importance, on account of its strategic position on the [[Firth of Clyde]].
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• Penryn
  ...small town in [[Cornwall]] on the [[Penryn River]] about a mile northwest of [[Falmouth]]. The population was 7,166 in the 2001 census. ...wealth of history. These lands appear in [[Domesday Book]] under the name of "Trelivel".
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• Berkhamsted Castle
  |builder=Robert, Count of Mortain |ownership=Duchy of Cornwall
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• Belper
  |picture caption=King Street, Belper ...town in [[Derbyshire]], found eight miles north of [[Derby]] in the valley of the [[River Derwent, Derbyshire|River Derwent]].
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• Shroton
  ...hills of [[Cranborne Chase]] to the east. In the 2001 it had a population of 400. Hambledon Hill dominates the village and was the site of an Iron Age settlement, its earthworks an ancient fortification.
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• Chertsey Abbey
  ...iæval stained-glass with the arms of the abbey,<br />a sword and the keys of St Peter ...abbey at Chertsey, Erkenwald founded [[Barking Abbey]], on the Thames east of London, where his sister Saint Ethelburga was the first abbess.
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• Lindisfarne
  ...on the [[North Sea]] coast of [[Northumberland]]. It is famed as a place of history and for its bleak, isolated position, in which it stands cut off by ...ce of learning, a training school for saints and as the seat of the bishop of Northumbria.
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• Hume Castle
  ...ants of a late 12th or early 13th century castle of enceinte at the hamlet of [[Hume]] in [[Berwickshire]], between [[Greenlaw]] and [[Kelso]], ...arliest times the castle was a beacon station for warning of invasion from England and the only castle in these shires not destroyed in Robert the Bruce's sco
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• Rayleigh
  |picture caption=Rayleigh High Street from the top of Holy Trinity Church ...miles to the east of central [[London]]. It has a population of 30,196 as of 2001, having expanded rapidly in the 1960s.
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• Rochford
  ...the town proper, Stroud Green, and [[Southend Airport]], had a population of 7,610. ...lly called the Walfleet and its current name is a back-formation from that of the town.
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• Malmesbury
  ..., and while the abbey was dissolved under King Henry VIII, a sizeable part of its structure survives. ...ltshire County Archaeology Service, 2004</ref> it is the oldest borough in England, created around 880&nbsp;AD by charter from Alfred the Great.<ref name=BBCH
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• Thornbury, Gloucestershire
  ...approximately 12 miles north of the city of [[Bristol]], with a population of 12,342 at the 2001 census. It lies close to the [[Severn Estuary]]. ...hic and Bronze Ages, but Roman presence is limited to the Thornbury hoard, of 11,460 Roman coins dating from 260 to 348 AD, which were found in 2004 whil
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• Romsey
  ...n [[Hampshire]]. A large Norman abbey, Romsey Abbey, dominates the centre of the town. The town stands on the [[River Test]], which is famous for fly f ...mpton]] and 11 miles southwest of [[Winchester]], neighbouring the village of [[North Baddesley]]. Just over 15,000 people live in Romsey.
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• Llanthony
  ...ack Mountains|Black Mountain]]) are found close to the village at the peak of the mountains to west and east respectively. The main focus of the village is found in the haunting ruins of Llanthony Priory.
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• Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
  |island=Isle of Wight |picture=Yarmouth isle of wight.jpg
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• Strood
  '''Strood''' is a town in [[Kent]], on the northwest bank of the [[River Medway]] at its lowest bridging point, with [[Rochester]] on th ...he road and rail links they carried. It is now a mainly residential suburb of Rochester, and a commuter town for London.
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• Crowland
  ...]. Historically is has been known as '''Croyland''', this earlier version of its name attaches to the parish and the famous Croyland Abbey, around which Crowland has two sites of particular historical interest: Croyland Abbey and Trinity Bridge, a 14th-
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• Chelsea
  ...hat the area north of King's Road as far north-west as Fulham Road is part of Chelsea. ...istorical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of that Capital: Interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes
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• Daventry
  ...s a sizable market town in western [[Northamptonshire]], with a population of 25,026 at the 2011 census. ...town centre is the popular Daventry Country Park and reservoir, just east of the A425.
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• Tynemouth
  ...[[Cullercoats]] (on the coast to the North). It had a recorded population of 17,056 at the 2001 census.<ref>[http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expod ..., taken at 1917, which was a major coastal fortress and the control centre of the Tyne defences, which stretched from Sunderland to Blyth.]]
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• Bedlington
  '''Bedlington''' is a town in [[Northumberland]], ten miles north of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], which is just sufficiently north to avoid being sw ...Bishop of Durham called [[Bedlingtonshire]] and therefore a detached part of [[County Durham]] though locally situate in Northumberland.
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• Names of Kings and Queens
  *King Robert III was christened John; *King Edward VII was christened "Albert Edward"
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• Feltham
  ...se and carriages and other goods and chattels should not be seized for the king's use".<ref name=Page/> ...aments" was granted under his daughter Elizabeth I to the Killigrew family of Kempton Park, for 80 years.<ref name=Page/>
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• Ellesmere
  ...hip of [[Penley]] lying in the latter county. The town stands on the banks of a vast lake, from which its takes its name, though Ellesmere the lake is kn ...different from those in the Lake District in that they do not have a flow of water into them to maintain the level.
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• Much Wenlock
  ...in venues across Shropshire: Dr Brookes is credited as a founding father of the Modern Olympic Games, as Baron De Coubertin visited the Olympian Games The population of the town's parish, according to the 2001 census, was 2,605.
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• Shepton Mallet
  ...and 5 miles east of [[Wells]]. The town is estimated to have a population of 9,700. ...ttlement. The town contains a fine parish church and a considerable number of listed buildings. Shepton Mallet Prison was Britain's oldest prison still i
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• Framlingham Castle
  |events=Revolt of 1173–1174,<br />First Barons' War ...ided shape, providing a long curtain wall walk. The castle is in the care of [[English Heritage]].
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• Woodbridge
  ...it opens into the [[North Sea]]. Woodbridge stands on the southern shore of the River Deben, while across the river is the most important Anglo-Saxon s With 1,400 years of recorded history, the town has retained a variety of historical architecture, and there are facilities for boating and riverside
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• Clare, Suffolk
  ...olate-box villages in the south of the county. Clare is on the north bank of the [[River Stour, Suffolk|River Stour]] which divides Suffolk from [[Essex ...d nine miles from [[Sudbury, Suffolk|Sudbury]]. As a cloth town, it is one of Suffolk's "threads".<ref>[http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/member_view.cfm?I
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• Lewes
  ...ons hub and tourist-oriented town. At the 2001 census it had a population of 15,988.<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewF ...e Old English ''Hlawas'', which means "hills", perhaps refers to the hills of the [[South Downs]] or to ancient burial mounds in the area.
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• Steyning
  ...eeding]] constitute, with Steyning, a built-up area at this crossing-point of the river. ...houses, four estate agents and three banks. Furthermore, there is a state-of-the-art leisure centre.
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• Howden
  |LG district=East Riding of Yorkshire ...the A614 road about three miles north of [[Goole]] and 17 miles south-east of [[York]]. The [[M62 motorway]] runs to the south.
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• Normanton, Yorkshire
  ...north-east of [[Wakefield]] and south-west of [[Castleford]]. At the time of the 2011 Census, the population was 20,872. ...he Church. T.R.E. it was worth 12s: now (it is worth) 10s.<ref>''A History of Normanton & District'', R.H. Pestell, 1973</ref></blockquote>
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• Selby
  ...], 14 miles south of the city of [[York]], downstream of York on the banks of the [[River Ouse, Yorkshire|River Ouse]]. The Ouse was long the source of Selby's prosperity, as from the banks of the tidal river Selby became an important port and once had a large shipbui
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• Trim
  ...at honour is claimed by [[Navan]]. St Patrick's Cathedral is located north of the river; reputedly Ireland's oldest. ...s from the Irish language ''Baile Átha Troim'', meaning "Town at the ford of elderflowers".
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• Diocese of Durham
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Durham arms.svg
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• Diocese of Worcester
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Worcester arms.svg
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• Kenilworth Castle
  |ownership=Town of [[Kenilworth]] ...lace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship".<ref name=Emery2000P402/>
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• Warwick Castle
  ...own]] of [[Warwickshire]], one of the most complete and impressive castles of its age, ad now open as a paying tourist attraction. ...to a country house. It was owned by the Greville family, who became earls of Warwick in 1759, until 1978 when it was bought by the Tussauds Group and an
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• Hatfield Forest
  ...tansted Airport]]. The forest is owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and is open to the pub The Forest is not particularly near, nor related to the town of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]] in Hertfordshire. Rather, in common w
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• Dunster Castle
  ...n the village of [[Dunster]] in [[Somerset]]. The castle stands on the top of a steep hill called the Tor, and has been fortified since the late Anglo-Sa ...castle survived a siege during the early years of the Anarchy. At the end of the 14th century the de Mohuns sold the castle to the Luttrell family, who
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• Lindisfarne Castle
  ...for Edward Hudson. Today it has fallen to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. The island is accessible from the mainland at low tide by means of a causeway.
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• Caernarfon Castle
  ...aernarfon is a jewel of the castle-building of King Edward I, begun at the King's orders in 1283. The castle belongs to the Crown, and is cared for by [[C ...astle stood on this site, from Norman days, which was entirely replaced by King Edward's Castle; the earlier castle was built in the eleventh century as mo
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• Conwy Castle
  |builder=James of St. George |events=Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn (1294–95)<br> Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr (1400–09) <br> Civil War (1642–46)
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• Cranborne Chase
  ...rn [[Wiltshire]]. The plateau is part of the chalk formation covering much of southern Britain and is close by [[Salisbury Plain]] and the [[West Wiltshi ...se faces the [[Blackmore Vale]] to the west, and to some extent the [[Vale of Wardour]] to the north. The chalk gently slopes south and dips under clays
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• Great Bedwyn
  ...erford]] and six miles south-east of [[Marlborough]]. The smaller village of [[Little Bedwyn]] is found to the north. ...ilway station. Bedwyn is the terminus of the rail commuter service by way of Reading and London Paddington. It is a railhead for Marlborough which is se
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• Old Sarum
  ...n city, ''Searoburg'', and a mediæval cathedral city until the foundation of New Sarum, today's [[Salisbury]], in 1219. ...iest records in the country. It is located on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury next to the A345 road.
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• Plas Mawr
  [[File:Plas Mawr.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The gatehouse of Plas Mawr]] ...and was constructed in three phases between 1576 and 1585 at a total cost of around £800.
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• Badby
  ...its highest villages, for close by is [[Arbury Hill]], the [[county top]] of Northamptonshire. ...l, by the upper reaches of the [[River Nene]]. The village is mainly south of the river, where the land rises to Badby Down at {{convert|610|ft|m|0|x}}.
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• Dover Castle
  |picture=Keep and entrance of Dover Castle, 2007.jpg |builder=Henry II
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• Raglan Castle
  |picture caption=The front of Raglan Castle and the main gatehouse |battles=Siege of 1646 (Civil War)
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• Buckingham Chantry Chapel
  ...chapel in [[Buckingham]]. It is owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. ...Buckingham date to before the 18th century, as a large fire destroyed much of the town in 1725. The chapel is a Grade II* listed building, listed in 1952
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• Tower of London
  |name=Tower of London |picture=Tower of London viewed from the River Thames.jpg
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• University of Cambridge
  |name=University of Cambridge |picture=King's College, Cambridge2.jpg
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• Horseheath
  '''Horseheath''' is a village in the very south-eastern corner of [[Cambridgeshire]], standing between [[Linton, Cambridgeshire]] and [[Haver '''Cardinal's Geen''' is a tiny hamlet of Horseheath, on a loop of lane south of the village.
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• Laugharne Castle
  ...augharne]] in southern [[Carmarthenshire]]. It stands guarding the estuary of the [[River Tâf]]. ...ong with [[St Clears]] and [[Llansteffan]] were seized by Rhys ap Gruffudd of [[Deheubarth]] in 1189, Laugharne Castle may have been burnt down at this t
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• Grimsthorpe Castle
  ...rne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]] on the A151. It stands within a 3,000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown. ...e and martial – the towers and outlying pavilions recalling the bastions of a great fortress in classical dress.
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• Temple Church, London
  |city=City of London |church=Church of England
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• Buckingham Palace
  ...London]] residence and administrative headquarters of the reigning monarch of the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=royaluk>{{cite web|url=https://www.royal.u ...it was established as principal the royal palace, the ceremonial landscape of Westminster has shaped itself around Buckingham Palace and its park and gro
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• Windsor Castle
  |ownership=The King ...Castle''' is The King's principal residence; a castle standing in the town of [[Windsor]] in [[Berkshire]], a town which owes its existence and prosperit
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• Donnington Castle
  ...onnington, Berkshire|Donnington]] in [[Berkshire]], just north of the town of [[Newbury]]. It was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and The site is under the care of English Heritage and is protected from unauthorised change as a scheduled a
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• Datchet
  '''Datchet''' is a village on the north bank of the [[River Thames]] in [[Buckinghamshire]], close to [[Windsor]], which is The village developed because of its close proximity to Windsor and the ferry service which connected it to
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• Newport Castle
  ...r Usk]]. The castle was used as administrative offices for the collection of rent and dues from local tenants, and was also a residence and a garrison. ...6 July 2013 }}</ref> and the neighbouring railway bridge, on the west bank of the River Usk.<ref name="Newport City Council" /><ref name=BLB /> It is adj
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• Chepstow Castle
  |materials=Various forms of limestone and sandstone '''Chepstow Castle''', located in [[Chepstow]], [[Monmouthshire]] on top of cliffs overlooking the [[River Wye]], is the oldest surviving post-Roman st
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• Canonbie
  ...re]]. The village lies six miles south of [[Langholm]] and two miles north of the boundary with Cumberland. It is on the A7 road from [[Carlisle]] to [[E ...h by the Bruntshiell Moor and Tarras Moss, and on the south by the estuary of the Esk.<ref name="Mack85">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books
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• Edinburgh Castle
  |picture caption=Edinburgh Castle at the head of the Old Town ...h]]; a grand royal fortress steeped in history which dominates the skyline of the city from its position on the [[Castle Rock, Edinburgh|Castle Rock]].
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• Norham Castle
  ...stle saw much action during the wars between the two kingdoms and in times of peace it was active in the struggle to keep down the [[Middle Shires#Reiver ...is part of [[Norhamshire]], deemed a detached part of the County Palatine of Durham, along with [[Islandshire]] and [[Bedlingtonshire]].
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• Brimpton
  '''Brimpton''' is a pretty, rural village in [[Berkshire]], a place of some 600 souls. The village is to be found between the [[River Kennet]] and ...rimpton stands on a hill, and the name comes from an Old English borrowing of an Old Welsh word for "hill" (the Modern Welsh ''bryn'') and hence "Hill to
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• Burghley House
  |picture=Front of Burghley House 2009.jpg |picture caption=The façade of Burghley House
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• Runnymede
  ...:Runnymede-meadow-eghamend.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Runnymede from south-east of the National Trust land]] ...e in the establishment of Magna Carta and the freedoms it represents, much of the meadow was bought by Sir Urban Broughton MP for its preservation, and p
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• Savernake Forest
  ...ged by the [[Forestry Commission]] on a 999-year lease. The private status of Savernake, Britain's only privately owned forest, is maintained by shutting ...damp heavy soils suited to dense cover of oak and beech. There are patches of poor drainage and wet soil.
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• Mortimer Common
  |picture caption=Church of St.John the Evangelist, Mortimer ...e county close to the [[Hampshire]] border. It lies seven miles southwest of [[Reading]].
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• Tilehurst
  ...hich has become a suburb of [[Reading]]. It lies to the west of the centre of Reading, and extends from the [[River Thames]] in the north to the A4 road ...name="Weekley 110">{{cite book|last=Weekley|first=Ernest|title=The romance of names|year=2003|publisher=Kessinger|location=Whitefish, MT|isbn=0766153452|
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• Kelso Abbey
  |founder=King David I of Scotland ...Kelso thus became the seat of a pre-eminently powerful abbacy in the heart of the border country.
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• Dryburgh Abbey
  |diocese=Diocese of St Andrews ...in an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Lord of Lauderdale and Constable of Scotland, and the Premonstratensian canons regular from [[Alnwick Abbey]] i
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• Fast Castle
  |builder=1: unknown<br/>2: Earl of Dunbar<br/> 3: George Home, 4th Lord Home ...tands 4 miles northwest of the village of [[Coldingham]], and just outside of the [[St Abb's Head]] National Nature Reserve.
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• Thirlestane Castle
  ...castle was substantially extended in the 1670s by the first and only Duke of Lauderdale. Further additions were made in the 19th century. ...Thirlestane Castle Trust, a charitable trust established by the 15th Earl of Lauderdale,<ref>{{charity|SC011491|The Thirlestane Castle Trust}}</ref> and
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• Malpas, Cheshire
  ...s on the borders with [[Shropshire]] and [[Flintshire]], with its chapelry of [[Iscoed]] lying in the latter county. The name of the village is from Old French and means "bad [or poor] passage [or way]".
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• Carlisle Castle
  ...arlisle to the border between England and Scotland, it has been the centre of many wars and invasions. Today the castle is managed by [[English Heritage] ...ormer King's Own Royal Border Regiment now county headquarters to the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and a museum to the regiment is within the castle wall
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• Restormel Castle
  ...ar [[Lostwithiel]] in Cornwall. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being [[Launceston Castle|Launceston]], [[Tintagel Cas ...stle became ruined in the years after the Civil War and is now in the care of [[English Heritage]] and is opened to the public.
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• Pendennis Castle
  ...stles built for King Henry VIII as a defensive chain along the south coast of Great Britain. ...und tower and gate enclosed by a lower curtain wall. It is now in the care of [[English Heritage]].
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• Dumbarton Castle
  ...ton]], county town of [[Dunbartonshire]], standing on a 240-foot high plug of volcanic basalt known as '''Dumbarton Rock'''. ...settlement is first recorded in a letter St Patrick wrote to King Ceretic of Alt Clut in the late 5th century.
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• Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey
  ...umbria]]. Jarrow became the centre of Anglo-Saxon learning in the north of England, producing the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede. [[File:Jarrow.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Monastery remains at Jarrow in front of St Paul's Church]]
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• Durham Cathedral
  ...athedral Church of Christ,<br/>Blessed Mary the Virgin<br/>and St Cuthbert of Durham |church=Church of England
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• Dunbar Castle
  |type=Castle of enceinte |builder=Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria
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• Ingatestone
  ...t has a population of about 4,500. To the immediate north lies the village of [[Fryerning]]. Ingatestone sits within an area of Metropolitan Green Belt land, northeast of the conurbation spreading from [[London]]. The built-up area is largely sit
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• Cardiff Castle
  |picture caption=The Norman keep of Cardiff Castle ...erected. Further work was conducted by Richard de Clare in the second half of the 13th century.
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• Calshot Castle
  ..., Calshot was built as part of Henry's chain of coastal defences to defend England's coast from foreign invasion especially during the turbulent times after h ...er of alterations in 1584.<ref name=Drummond88>{{cite book |title=The book of The Solent |last=Drummond |first=Maldwin |last2=McInnes |first2=Robin |year
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• Portchester Castle
  ...e north of [[Portsmouth]] in [[Hampshire]]. It stands at the northern end of [[Portsmouth Harbour]]. ...ed the castle for several centuries and it was a favoured hunting lodge of King John. It was besieged and captured by the French in 1216 before permanently
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• Hurst Castle
  |picture=Hurst Castle, near Milford on Sea, Hampshire, England-2Oct2010.jpg ...'s chain of coastal defences to protect England during the turbulent times of his reign.
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• Netley Abbey
  |full name=The Abbey Church of St Mary<br/>of Edwardstow |picture caption=Ruins of the church at Netley Abbey
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• Odiham
  '''Odiham''' is a large historic village in [[Hampshire]], a place of 4,406 souls at the 2011 census. ...to the [[Odiham Hundred]] of the county.<ref>{{brithist|56748|The Hundred of Odiham}}</ref>
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• Buckden Towers
  ..., and later the place where Catherine of Aragon was detained by King Henry VIII after their marriage was dissolved. ...late 12th century, when records show it as being used to house the Bishops of Lincoln. Subsequently the wooden structure was replaced by more substantial
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• Bristol Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of the<br/>Holy and Undivided Trinity |church=Church of England
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• Furness Abbey
  |founder=Stephen, Count of Blois |mother=Congregation of Savigny
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• Threave Castle
  ...glas]] in [[Kirkcudbrightshire]]. It was the home of 'Black' Douglas Earls of Douglas from the late 14th century until their fall in 1455. ...from the Old Welsh ''Tref'', meaning homestead. It is possible that Fergus of Galloway built a timber castle on the island after 1000, but it was burned
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• Ayscoughfee Hall
  ...t the house was built in one phase, with a completion date of the majority of the present building in 1451.<ref name=SHL/><ref name=SH>{{cite web |url=ht ..., Sir Nicholas Ailwyn, a member of the Mercers' Company, became Lord Mayor of London in 1499.<ref name=SHL/><ref name=AP/>
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• Gainsborough Old Hall
  ...sborough]] in [[Lincolnshire]]. It is over five hundred years old and one of the best preserved mediæval manor houses in Britain.<ref name=PS>{{pastsca ...s of Britain; the architectural, cultural, historical and natural heritage of Britain''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. p. 262.</ref>
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• Tintern Abbey
  ....uk/wa-24037-abbey-church-of-st-mary-tintern-abbey-inc |title=Abbey Church of St Mary (Tintern Abbey) including monastic buildings - Tintern - Monmouthsh ...ershire]] (1139) and [[Tintern Abbey, County Wexford|Tintern Parva]], west of [[Wexford]] (1203).
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• Boughton House
  |ownership=The Duke of Buccleugh ...[Kettering]] off the A43 road near [[Geddington]]. It belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch.
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• Delapré Abbey
  |ownership=Borough of Northampton ...nshire]] near the [[county town]], [[Northampton]]. It stands on the site of a mediæval monastery, hence its name, which after the Dissolution passed t
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• Peterborough Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew |church=Church of England
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• Etal Castle
  |picture caption=The exterior of the gatehouse ...t was briefly captured by King James IV of Scotland during his invasion of England.
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• Tynemouth Castle and Priory
  ...e early kings of [[Northumbria]] were buried. The coat of arms of the town of Tynemouth still includes three crowns commemorating the tradition that the ==Origins of the Priory==
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• Welbeck Abbey
  ...n [[Nottinghamshire]] is a grand country house, long the seat of the Dukes of Portland (a title now extinct). ...t fell to the Crown and its estates sold to create the Welbeck Estate; one of four contiguous ducal estates in northern Nottinghamshire. The house is a
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• Nottingham Castle
  William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle ...rvives, but sufficient portions remain to give an impression of the layout of the site.
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• Newstead Abbey
  ...converted to a domestic home. It is now best known as the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron. ...ewstead Abbey}}</ref> as one of many penances he paid following the murder of Thomas Becket.<ref name="Irving1835">{{cite book|author=Washington Irving|t
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• Boscobel House
  ...t is most famous for its role in the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Today it is a Grade II* listed building and managed by [ ...es Priory in the Middle Ages and at the dissolution of the priory by Henry VIII, the land first came to the Crown and was later sold to the Giffard family,
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• Shrewsbury Abbey
  |full name=The Abbey Church of Saint Peter<br />and Saint Paul, Shrewsbury |church=Church of England
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• Glastonbury Abbey
  ...tonbury]], [[Somerset]]: once one of the oldest, richest and most powerful of the abbeys in Britain, it now lies in ruins: the site and the ruins belong ...was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. The last abbot, Richard Whiting (Whyting), was hanged, drawn and quartered
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• Montacute House
  ...f whom was Lord Curzon, it was acquired by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] in 1927. ...was moving from the mediæval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical, and one of few fine houses to survive almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era,{{sfnp
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• Stirling Castle
  |picture caption=Stirling Castle, from the "King's Knot" gardens |commander=James Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar
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• Snape, Yorkshire
  ...es south of [[Bedale]] and three miles west of the A1, it has a population of 350. Nearby is [[Thorp Perrow Arboretum]]. The name is Old Norse for a boggy tract of uncultivated land. <ref> {{cite web| url=http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/S
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• Richmond Park
  ...a vast expanse of green parkland otherwise surrounded by the urban growth of the metropolis. ...Special Area of Conservation and is included, at Grade I, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Its landscapes have inspired many famous artist
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• Loseley Park
  ...irect ancestors of the current owners, the More-Molyneux, at the beginning of the 16th century. It is a Grade I listed building. <ref> {{NHLE|1029573|Los ....htm Surrey Domesday Book]</ref> The papers of Sir Thomas Cawarden, Master of the Revels were formerly preserved in the house.
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• Southwark Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral and Collegiate Church of<br />St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark |church=Church of England
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• Herstmonceux Castle
  ...ch Observatory]]. Today it is used by the Bader International Study Centre of Queen's University, Canada. ...nding in Britain; brick was an unusual material for the time. The builders of Herstmonceux Castle concentrated more on grandeur and comfort than on defen
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• Ashdown Forest
  ...en heathland in northern [[Sussex]], occupying the highest sandy ridge-top of the [[The Weald|High Weald]]. ...stas across the heavily wooded hills of the Weald to the chalk escarpments of the [[North Downs]] and [[South Downs]] on the horizon.
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• Compton Verney House
  The house is set in more than 120 acres of parkland landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in 1769. ...agnate Joseph Watson who was elevated to the peerage as ''1st Baron Manton of Compton Verney'' only two months before his death in March 1922 from a hear
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• Compton Wynyates
  ...re for over five hundred years, a story inextricably linked to the history of the house as both have prospered, declined and prospered simultaneously. ...4. The family continued to live in the manor house as knights and squires of the county until Sir Edmund Compton (who died circa 1493) decided, circa 14
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• Diocese of Leicester
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Leicester arms.svg
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• Littlecote House
  ...n country house and estate in eastern [[Wiltshire]], standing on the banks of the [[River Kennet]] between [[Ramsbury]] and [[Chilton Foliat]], close to The house is in the heart of the [[North Wessex Downs]] Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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• Malmesbury Abbey
  |church=Church of England ...of the Monasteries.<ref>{{cite book|first=Susan|last=Kelly|title=Charters of Malmesbury Abbey|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxfor
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• Worcester Cathedral
  |fullname=The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin, of Worcester |church=Church of England
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• York Castle
  |picture caption=Clifford's Tower, the keep of York Castle |battles=Siege of York in 1644
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• Rievaulx Abbey
  |founder=Walter l'Espec and Thurstan of York ..., near [[Helmsley]] on the [[North York Moors]], within the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]].
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• Diocese of Chester
  |church=Church of England |suffragans=Bishop of Birkenhead,<br />Bishop of Stockport
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• Reading Abbey
  |picture caption=The chapter house, from the site of the monks' dormitory ...ading Museum and Art Gallery | title=Reading Abbey Rediscovered: a summary of the Abbey's history and recent archaeological excavations | publisher=Trust
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• Ely Cathedral
  |full name=The Cathedral Church of the<br>Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely |church=Church of England
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• Bisham Abbey
  ...ham Priory', and was the traditional resting place of many mediæval Earls of Salisbury. ...uildings is now one of five National Sports Centres run on behalf of Sport England and is used as a residential training camp base for athletes and teams and
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• Bushmead Priory
  ...of [[Huntingdonshire]]. It is a Grade I listed building, today in the care of English Heritage. ...thing survives of the priory church, and all but the refectory and kitchen of the claustral buildings have disappeared.
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• Hadleigh Castle
  |picture=Aerial view of Hadleigh Castle and Country Park - geograph.org.uk - 1563595.jpg |picture caption=Aerial view of Hadleigh Castle
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• Waltham Abbey Church
  |full name=The Abbey Church of Waltham<br />Holy Cross and St Lawrence |church=Church of England
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• Tantallon Castle
  |type=Castle of ''enceinte'' |builder=William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
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• Gloucester Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of St Peter<br/>and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity |church=Church of England
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• Sudeley Castle
  |picture=Aerial photo of Sudeley Castle.jpg ...structure was built in the 15th&nbsp;century and may have been on the site of a 12th-century castle.
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• Tewkesbury Abbey
  |full name=Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin |church=Church of England
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• Hatfield House
  |ownership=The Earl of Salisbury ...es of Salisbury, and before then the Earls of Salisbury, since the days of King James I.
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• Hever Castle
  |picture=Front view of Hever Castle, Kent.jpg ...ountry house, built in the 13th century. From 1462 to 1539 it was the seat of the Boleyn, originally 'Bullen', family.<ref name="Reader's">Jenkins, Simon
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• Canterbury Cathedral
  |full name=The Cathedral and Metropolitical<br />Church of Christ at Canterbury |church=Church of England
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• Rochester Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of Christ<br />and the Blessed Virgin Mary |church=Church of England
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• St Augustine's Abbey
  ...ion, its buildings were gradually dismantled until 1848: since 1848, part of the site has been used for educational purposes and the abbey ruins have be ...monks: The abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury' in ''A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2'' (1926), {{brithist|38191 126-133] at British History Onlin
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• Launde Abbey
  |ownership=Diocese of Leicester ...about 14 miles east of the city of [[Leicester]] and six miles south-west of [[Oakham]] in neighbouring [[Rutland]].
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• Leicester Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of St Martin at Leicester |church=Church of England
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• Wymondham Abbey
  |church=Church of England ...a remarkable church, for its size (in a very modest town) and the richness of its decoration.
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• Castle Acre Priory
  |picture caption=The extant remains of Castle Acre Priory church |ownership=The Earl of Leicester
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• Lilford Hall
  |picture caption=South facade of Lilford Hall |architect=Henry Flitcroft
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• Bury St Edmunds Abbey
  ...mong the richest Benedictine monasteries in England, until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. ...the Anglo-Saxon martyr-king Saint Edmund, killed by the Great Heathen Army of Danes in 869.
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• St Olave's Priory
  ...st part of [[Suffolk]]. The priory was dissolved in 1536 under King Henry VIII. ...|title=The east coast of England from the Thames to the Tweed: descriptive of natural scenery, historical, archæological, and legendary |url=http://book
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• Scarborough Castle
  ...century enclosure castle and 18th-century battery, is a scheduled monument of national importance.<ref name="EH">{{NHLE|1011374|desc=Scarborough Castle|a ...Middle Ages, though the union of England with Scotland and the conclusion of civil and continental wars in the 17th&nbsp;century led to its decline in i
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• Syon House
  |picture caption=West Aspect of Syon House c.2010 |ownership=The Duke of Northumberland
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• St Winefride's Well
  The well is one of the few locations mentioned by name in the anonymous mediæval alliterative ...der">Alexander, Marc (2002) ''A Companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain'', Sutton Publishing, p.264-265</ref>
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• Pershore Abbey
  |church=Church of England .... Once it was the church of an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now a [[Church of England]] parish church.
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• Hughenden Valley
  |picture caption=The rear of Hughenden Manor ...illage in [[Buckinghamshire]], within the [[Chilterns]], just to the north of [[High Wycombe]]. Its parish with surrounding hamlets is almost 8,000 acre
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• Gisborough Priory
  |full name=Priory of St Mary of Gisborough |founder=Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
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• Okehampton Castle
  |picture caption=Keep of Okehampton Castle ...he late 13th century, when its owners, the de Courtenays, became the Earls of Devon. With their new wealth, they redeveloped the castle as a luxurious hu
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• Titchfield Abbey
  ...der, and became neither wealthy nor influential during its three centuries of monastic life; the inhabitants were devoted to scholarship, as shown by the ...n was home to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, who was a patron of William Shakespeare.
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• Yarmouth Castle
  |town=[[Yarmouth, Isle of Wight|Yarmouth]] |island=Isle of Wight
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• Bredon Hill
  ...caption = The top of Bredon Hill, with Parsons Folly and the inner rampart of Kemerton Camp ...ult of erosion over millions of years it now stands isolated in the [[Vale of Evesham]]
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• Charlton Horethorne
  ...sher=GENUKI|accessdate=9 October 2011}}</ref> The village has a population of 591.<ref name="popn"/> ...route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qlhs.org.uk/oracle/monarchs-way/mo
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• King Charles's Castle
  |name=King Charles's Castle |picture=King Charles Castle - exterior.jpg
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• Portland Castle
  ...le of Portland]], [[Dorset]], between 1539 and 1541. It formed part of the King's Device programme (the 'Device forts') to protect against invasion from Fr ...ge. During the Civil War, Portland was taken by the Royalist supporters of King Charles I, and then survived two sieges before finally surrendering to Parl
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• Eltham Palace
  ...oyal Household| accessdate=3 January 2012}}</ref> It is today in the care of the successor charity, also called English Heritage It has been said that the internally Art Deco house is a "masterpiece of modern design".<ref name="londontown">{{cite web| title=Eltham Palace| url=
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• Maison Dieu, Dover
  ...nt mediæval building in [[Dover]] in [[Kent]], and which today forms part of the Old Town Hall buildings. ...ed as a hostelry under monastic government, and was known as 'The Hospital of St Mary, Domus Dei, or Maison Dieu'
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• Waverley Abbey
  |full name=The Abbey of the Blessed Mary of Waverley |picture caption=The ruins of Waverley Abbey
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• Lambley, Northumberland
  ...-14}}</ref> is a village in [[Northumberland]] about four miles south-west of [[Haltwhistle]].The village lies adjacent to the [[River South Tyne]]. |title=Waters of Tyne
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• Bolton Castle
  |client=Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton '''Bolton Castle''' is a 14th-century castle in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], at [[Castle Bolton]], a village which takes its name from the
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• Conisbrough Castle
  ...zed several times by the Crown. The fortification was then given to Edmund of Langley, passing back into royal ownership in 1461. ...d become a tourist attraction, despite the increasing industrial character of the area.
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• Pontefract Castle
  ...Castle''' is a castle in the town of [[Pontefract]], in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. It is also known, notably in Shakespeare, as '''Pomfret Castle ...rd&nbsp;II is thought to have died at Pomfret. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th century Civil War.
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• Old Blockhouse
  |events=1651 invasion of the Scilly Isles ...y]], [[Cornwall]]. It was built between 1548 and 1551 by the government of King Edward VI to protect the islands against French attack.
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• St Catherine's Castle
  |picture caption=The blockhouse of St Catherine's Castle ...at some time between 1538 and 1540, in response to fears of an invasion of England by France and the Holy Roman Empire.
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• Port Isaac
  |picture caption=A view of Port Isaac ...rt of Port Isaac, is a nearby hamlet that has its own history. The meaning of the Cornish name is "corn port", indicating a trade in corn from the arable
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• Sutton Scarsdale Hall
  |picture caption=View of the hall from the eastern lawn '''Sutton Scarsdale Hall''' is a Georgian country house, built in the style of that time, standing in ruin outside [[Sutton Scarsdale]] in [[Derbyshire]].
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• Abbotsbury Abbey
  ...of [[Abbotsbury]] in [[Dorset]], and which now lies in ruin: the remains of one building, possibly the Abbot's house, stand, and a tithe barn. ...e Ages, the abbey suffered much misfortune. In the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the last abbot surrendered the abbey and the site was give
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• St John's Abbey, Colchester
  |picture caption=Gatehouse of St. John's Abbey ...1095.<ref name=Crummy1997>Crummy, Philip (1997) City of Victory; the story of Colchester - Britain's first Roman town. Published by Colchester Archaeolog
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• Swingfield Preceptory
  ...several preceptories which supplied the Order with funds for its holy work of protecting pilgrims in the Holy Land and slaying Saracens and Turks. ...f the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. Today the commandery in the care of [[English Heritage]].
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• Walmer Castle
  ...VIII in [[Walmer]], [[Kent]], between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Rom ...rk defences. The original invasion threat passed, but during the Civil War of 1648–49, Walmer was seized by pro-Royalist insurgents and was only retake
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• Castle Rising Castle
  |events=Revolt of 1173–1174 |ownership=Lord Howard of Rising
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• Apethorpe Palace
  ...tain, and was for many generations the main seat of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland. ...ourt Masques written by Ben Jonson for King James were performed while the King was in residence at Apethorpe.<ref name=archive/><ref>E. K. Chambers, The E
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• Roche Abbey
  ...headwater valley (alongside Maltby Dyke known locally as Maltby Beck) and King's Wood. The abbey ruins and the wood belong today to [[English Heritage]]. ...cs/Learning/Archives/Local+Towns+and+Villages/EDSWickersley.htm FitzTurgis of Roche Abbey]
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• Sawley Abbey
  ...s in the village of [[Sawley, Ribble Valley|Sawley]], in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. ...last Abbot of [[Whalley Abbey]], for alleged involvement in the Pilgrimage of Grace.
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• Lilleshall Abbey
  ...'' was an Augustinian abbey in [[Shropshire]], today located 6 miles north of [[Telford]]. It was founded between 1145 and 1148. ...inians, which and followed the austere customs and observance of the Abbey of Arrouaise in northern France.
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• Cleeve Abbey
  |full name=The Abbey Church of St Mary, Cleeve,<br />Vallis Florida |founder=William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln
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• Battle Abbey
  |full name=The Abbey of St Martin of Battle |founder=King William I
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• Camber Castle
  ...s a 16th-century Device Fort, built near [[Rye, Sussex|Rye]] by King Henry VIII to protect the [[Sussex]] coast against French attack. ...ber Castle was rebuilt and extended over the next year under the direction of the Moravian engineer, Stefan von Haschenperg. The results were considered
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• Fountains Abbey
  ...th-west of [[Ripon]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], near the village of [[Aldfield]]. It stands within [[Studley Royal Park]], providing a romanti ...s, until 1539, when Parliament and King Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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• Westminster Abbey
  |full name=The Collegiate Church of St Peter<br />at Westminster |church=Church of England
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• Palace of Westminster
  |name=Palace of Westminster |picture caption=The Palace of Westminster from across the Thames
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• St Margaret's, Westminster
  |church=Church of England ...arets-church St Margaret's, Westminster]</ref> It is dedicated to Margaret of Antioch.<ref>{{Pevsner|London 6}}</ref>
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• Tiverton Castle
  |picture caption=The solar tower of Tiverton Castle ...ury into a country house. It occupies a defensive position above the banks of the [[River Exe]].
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• Hampton Court Palace
  ...he 18th century but remains a Royal palace and it is on occasion the venue of state function. Today it is a popular visitor attraction. ...ng with [[St James's Palace]], it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many he owned.
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• Carlton in Lindrick
  ...Worksop]] in Nottinghamshire. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 5,623, including [[Wallingwells]].<ref name=ONS/> ...English for "kings' town" or "freemen's town". "[[Lindrick]]" is the name of the ancient district.<ref>{{harvnb|Hey|2003|p=}}{{page needed|date=October
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• Werrington, Devon
  ...and the same distance north of [[Launceston]], [[Cornwall]]. It forms part of Devonshire's [[Black Torrington Hundred]]. ...on as being near the River Tamar and the [[Bude Canal]] and having an area of c. 5,000 acres. Hamlets in the parish were listed as [[Yeolmbridge]], Druxt
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• Diocese of Peterborough
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Peterborough arms.svg
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• Flushing
  ...south of [[Truro]]. It faces [[Falmouth]] across the Penryn River, an arm of the [[Carrick Roads]]. ...in the 'Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty', as is almost a third of the county.
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• Hastings Castle
  |picture caption=View of Hastings Castle ...ruin on a cliff above the main street in [[Hastings]], on the south coast of [[Sussex]].
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• St Machar's Cathedral
  |name=Cathedral of St Machar |full name=High Kirk of Aberdeen
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• Chester Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of Christ<br/>and the Blessed Virgin Mary |church=Church of England
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• Coventry Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of St Michael |church=Church of England
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• Derby Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of All Saints |picture caption=East view of the cathedral
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• Exeter Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of Saint Peter |church=Church of England
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• Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
  |full name=Cathedral Church of Christ |church=Church of England
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• St Paul's Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle |city=[[City of London|London]]
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• Winchester Cathedral
  |full name=Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity |church=Church of England
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• Diocese of Oxford
  |church=Church of England |arms=Diocese of Oxford arms.svg
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• Barton-under-Needwood
  ...road between [[Burton upon Trent]] and [[Lichfield]]. It has a population of approximately 5,000 and serves as a commuter centre for many residents work ...l, which serves Barton and the surrounding villages.It has seven pubs, six of which are owned by Marstons. Barton also has a large marina complex on the
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• Polperro
  ...seven miles east of [[Fowey]] and four miles west of the neighbouring town of [[Looe]]. It is a noted tourist destination, particularly in the summer mo ...rd|year=1996|page=261|isbn=0-19-283131-3}}</ref> or ''Polpyra'', for 'Cove of Piran'. Ekwall however suggests that "Pyra" or "Pira" may not be a personal
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• Caerhays Castle
  ...e''' is a semi-castellated manor house<ref name=Jones /> half a mile south of [[St Michael Caerhays]] in [[Cornwall]]. It overlooks Porthluney Cove on th ...ollections under the auspices of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.
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• List of place names with royal patronage
  ...or suffixes such as "King's" or "Regis" that relate to historic ownership of the area by the Crown. The following places have been explicitly granted or confirmed the use of the title "royal" by royal charter, letters patent or similar instrument is
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• Trinity House
  ...d Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent'. It is a private corporation governed under a Royal Charter and it h ...Islands]] and [[Gibraltar]], responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids, such as lighthouses, lightvessels, buoys, and maritime r
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• Grafton Regis
  |picture caption=Church of St Mary, Grafton Regis ...e. It is ''ca.'' eight miles south of [[Northampton]] and nine miles north of [[Milton Keynes]].
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• Temple, Cornwall
  ...re suppressed by King Henry VIII.<ref>Bernardi, Stella: ''Templar Sites in England'': [http://www.ancientquest.com/templarsites/engl-sw/cornwall/001-about1.ht ...ef> The church is dedicated to St Catherine.<ref>{{pastscape|433953|Church of St Catherine}}</ref>
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• Doom Bar
  ...[[River Camel]], where it meets the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the north coast of [[Cornwall]]. The bar has also been known in earlier generations as '''Dun ...tuary has been sought for hundreds of years: an estimated 10 million tons of sand or more has been removed from the estuary since the early nineteenth c
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• Eltham
  ...of Eltham North, South and West had a total population at the 2011 Census of 35,459. ...[Blackheath Hundred, Kent|Blackheath]]) because it had become the location of the annual or more frequent hundred gathering.
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• Queen Charlton
  |picture caption=Church of St Margaret ...earest town is [[Keynsham]], which lies approximately two miles north-east of the village.
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• East Harptree
  ...[[Wells]] and 15 miles south of [[Bristol]]. It lies on the northern slope of the [[Mendip Hills]] overlooking the [[Chew Valley]] in the [[Winterstoke]] ...has a population of 644.<ref name="popn"/> The parish includes the hamlet of '''Coley'''.
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• Crookhaven
  ...about forty swells in the summer to about four hundred with the occupants of the many holiday homes arriving. ...and heir Sir Samuel.<ref>Burke, John ''Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Scotland and Ireland'' 2nd Edition London 1841</ref>
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• University of Durham
  |name=University of Durham |arms=University of Durham arms.svg
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• Mountsorrel
  ...]] on the [[River Soar]], just south of [[Loughborough]] with a population of 8,223 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.stati [[File:Mountsorrel view.jpg|thumb|upright|Part of Mountsorrel Castle]]
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• Temple Grafton
  ...was named ''Inferior''<ref name=Dugdale>William Dugdale, ''The Antiquities of Warwickshire'', 1656</ref> ...then recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] as part of the lands of Osbern son of Richard, having been given to him by Odo,<ref name="Victoria County History
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• Rowington
  ...Lowsonford]], Pinley and Mousley End,{{sfn|Barker|2012a}} had a population of 925 according to the 2001 Census, increasing to 944 at the 2011 census.{{sf ...sibly the most famous building however is Shakespeare Hall, where a branch of [[William Shakespeare]]'s family is reputed to have lived at the same time
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• Shustoke
  '''Shustoke''' is a village and parish in [[Warwickshire]]. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 549.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www. [[File:Sandstone Barn, Shustoke.jpg|thumb|250px|Old barn, made of typical Shustoke red sandstone]]
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• Bangor Cathedral
  ...Cathedral''' is an ancient place of Christian worship situated in the city of [[Bangor, Caernarfonshire|Bangor]], [[Caernarfonshire]]. It is dedicated to ...hic-style building on the hill is the cathedral, but this is actually part of the university.
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• Alderton, Northamptonshire
  ...//www.foamm.co.uk/|accessdate = 5 April 2009}}</ref> which was the subject of an investigation by the Channel 4 programme ''Time Team''.<ref>[http://www. Alderton is on the southern ridge of the valley of the [[River Tove]] which flows east between the village and [[Stoke Bruerne
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• Buckland Abbey
  ...is Drake. Today it is in the ownership of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. ...ost of the remaining monastic complex was demolished, which was a reversal of the normal way in which dissolved abbeys were converted into country mansio
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• Cranborne
  [[File:Cranborne, parish church of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew - geograph.org.uk - 504055.jpg|thumb|250px|Cra ...ated on chalk downland called [[Cranborne Chase]], part of a large expanse of chalk which includes the nearby [[Salisbury Plain]] and [[Dorset Downs]].
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• Blyth, Nottinghamshire
  ...' is a village in northern [[Nottinghamshire]]; it may be found north-west of [[East Retford]], on the [[River Ryton]]. The parish population was recorde The village is on the A1 road, at the southern end of the fifteen-mile [[A1(M) motorway|A1(M)]] [[Doncaster]] bypass, which opene
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• Barrow upon Humber
  ...mber]], about three miles east from [[Barton-upon-Humber]]. The small port of [[Barrow Haven]], a mile and a half north, on the railway line from [[Cleet ...is now built over, but is marked by a plaque in the village. King Wulfhere of [[Mercia]] gave land to Caedda (Saint Chad) in the 7th century at ''Ad Barv
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• Milford on Sea
  ...e]] coast. With a population of 4,660 (2011 census), Milford has a variety of shops, restaurants and pubs in its high street, which borders the village g ...learly visible. On the coast to the west on a clear night, the conurbation of [[Christchurch]], [[Bournemouth]] and [[Poole]] can clearly be seen, togeth
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• Aylburton
  |LG district=Forest of Dean |constituency=Forest of Dean
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• Titchfield
  ...ith strong associations with [[Shakespeare]], through his patron, the Earl of Southampton. To the east of Titchfield lies the town of [[Fareham]], to the south are [[Stubbington]], [[Hill Head]] and the [[Sole
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• Sandford-on-Thames
  ...]] in [[Oxfordshire]], just south of [[Oxford]]. The village is just west of the A4074 road between [[Oxford]] and [[Henley-on-Thames|Henley]]. ...village had barely doubled, and it was still under 200 people at the start of the 19th century. Today the population numbers more than 1,000.
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• Nuneham Courtenay
  ...outh-east of [[Oxford]]. It occupies a pronounced section of the left bank of the [[River Thames]]. ...along the Thames which follows the line of the central eminent land. Most of the nature reserve Bluebell Wood is on the eastern slopes, across [[Marsh B
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• Guy's Cliffe
  The name 'Guy's Cliffe' originates from the name of the country house and estate that the land belonged to, which in turn was n ...torehouses still remain. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII the site passed into private hands.
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• Iron Ring
  ...ge. The success of the system is demonstrated by the scarcity and brevity of rebellions following the conquest, until the Glyndwr rebellion by which tim ...b | url=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/374| title=Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd| accessdate=15 November 2012 | publisher= UNESCO}}</ref>.
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• Cartmel Priory
  |church=Church of England ...h of [[Cartmel]] in [[Lancashire]]. It was originally the monastic church of the Priory whose name it still uses, surviving the priory's dissolution at
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• Shillingford Bridge
  ...he bridge provides access between Shillingford in Oxfordshire to the north of the river and [[Wallingford]] in [[Berkshire]] to the south. The bridge is ...on both the ferry and the subsequent bridges until 1874 when the Councils of Berkshire and Oxfordshire joined to buy the bridge from its private trustee
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• St Mary's Abbey, York
  |picture caption=Ruins of St Mary's Abbey Church |founder=Stephen of Whitby, Alan Rufus,<br />King William II, William the Conqueror
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• Calder Abbey
  ...] was a Savigniac monastery founded in 1134 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, and moved to this site following a refoundation in 1142. It became The ruins of the abbey are to be found near the village of [[Calder Bridge|Calderbridge]]. They are a scheduled ancient monument.<ref
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• Moresby Hall
  ...Castle|grade=I}}</ref> and has been cited by Historic England as being one of the most important buildings in Cumberland. The Hall adjoins a church and ...tains many of the people who lived and died at Moresby Hall and the hamlet of Low Moresby.
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• Brewood
  ...les south of the county town of [[Stafford]]. Some three miles to the west of Brewood is the county border with [[Shropshire]]. ...ocumented the village as 'Breude'. The name is probably a compound made up of a Celtic, Brythonic word with an Anglo Saxon, Old English word.<ref>Cameron
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• Stapleton, Cumberland
  ...rom [[Carlisle]], in the north of the county. It is to be found just east of the B6318, its nearest main road. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 249.
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• Inglewood Forest
  '''Inglewood Forest''' is a large tract of mainly arable and dairy farm land with a few small woodland areas between [ ...n this sense means a hunting reserve, not a woodland, though several areas of Inglewood were heavily wooded). The animals that were hunted in this area w
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• Regent's Park
  ...suggests, during the Regency Period and named for the Prince Regent (later King George IV). ...he 'Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England'.<ref name=NHLE>{{NHLE|1000246|Regents Park}}</ref>
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• Lincoln's Inn
  |ownership=The Honourable Society<br />of Lincoln's Inn ...bodies of judges and lawyers. It is governed by '''The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn'''.
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• Kemerton Court
  '''Kemerton Court''' is the principal manor house of the village of [[Kemerton]], near [[Tewkesbury]] in [[Gloucestershire]]. ...was added by the squire, John Parsons III (1649&ndash;1722). Thomas White of Worcester has been suggested as the architect. It is a Grade-II* listed bui
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• Westwood, Wiltshire
  |picture caption=Church of St Mary the Virgin ...Wiltshire]]. The village is about a mile and a half south-west of the town of [[Bradford on Avon]].
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• Cranbourne
  [[File:Cranborne, parish church of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew - geograph.org.uk - 504055.jpg|thumb|250px|Cra ...ated on chalk downland called [[Cranborne Chase]], part of a large expanse of chalk in southern Britain which includes the nearby [[Salisbury Plain]] and
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• Bushy Park
  ...] and [[Hampton Court Park]] and is a few minutes' walk from the west side of [[Kingston Bridge]]. It is surrounded by Hampton to the west; [[Teddington] ...iblePerson=|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|accessdate= 13 December 2014}}</ref>
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• Beckley, Oxfordshire
  |picture caption= Parish church of the<br>Assumption of the Blesséd Virgin Mary ...amshire. For civil purposes Beckley village forms part of the civil parish of Beckley and Stowood. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 60
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• Burnham, Buckinghamshire
  ...ondon Paddington and Reading. The [[M4 motorway]] passes through the south of the parish. It was first recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Burneham'', when the [[manor]] was held by Walter FitzOther.
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• Temple Ewell
  ...Ewell''' is a village in [[Kent]], three miles north-west of the port town of [[Dover]]. The village stands in the valley of the [[River Dour]], by the source of the river. It is surrounded by nature reserves and conservation areas. The
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• Boreham
  |picture=15th-century house, 'Babylon', at Boreham, Essex, England.jpg ...]. The village is approximately four miles north-east from the county town of [[Chelmsford]].
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• Peldon
  ...e Virgin and is a Grade-I listed building. The population of the parish as of the 2011 census is 559.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statist In 1870-72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Peldon as:
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• Priory of Douglas
  |name=Priory of Douglas ...aldr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles, and survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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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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• Leaden Roding
  |picture=Church of St Michael, Leaden Roding, Essex, England - from south-west.jpg ...Rodings]]. Leaden Roding is eight miles north-west of the [[county town]] of [[Chelmsford]].
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• Diocese of Clogher
  |church=Church of Ireland |arms=Diocese of Clogher arms.svg
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• Diocese of Connor
  |church=Church of Ireland |arms=Diocese of Connor arms.svg
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• Pleshey
  ...s|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref> includes the separate civil parish of [[Mashbury]]. ...the king. Later, his grandson, another Geoffrey, was made Earl of Essex by King Stephen.
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• Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
  |church=Church of Ireland ...the centre of the historic heart of the City of [[Dublin]], at the centre of [[County Dublin]].
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• Arlington, Devon
  ...includes the villages of Arlington and Arlington Beccott. The population of the parish was recorded as just 98 at the 2001 census. ...rest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and home to the Trust's collection of over 50 historic horse-drawn carriages.
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• Lyng, Somerset
  |picture caption=View of East Lyng across the levels ...erset]], comprising the villages of West Lyng and East Lyng and the hamlet of Bankland.
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• The Crystal Palace
  ..., the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 ft long, with an interior height of 128 ft.<ref name="oregon">{{cite web |title = The Crystal Palace of Hyde Park
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• Torre Abbey
  ...for the formal gardens, for the third largest art collection in the county of Devon and for regular exhibitions by contemporary artists. ...nnual income made it the wealthiest of all the Premonstratensian houses in England.<ref>''Valor Ecclesiasticus'', ii, p. 362</ref>
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• Shaftesbury Abbey
  ...le='Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Barking', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2|year=1907|pages=115-122|url=http://www.british-history.ac.u ...aphy | title= Alfred [Ælfred] (848/9–899), king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons| year = 2004 | url =http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/
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• Barking Abbey
  ...d in [[Barking]], in Metropolitan [[Essex]]. It has been described as "one of the most important nunneries in the country".<ref name=BLB/> ...t the time of the dissolution it was still the third wealthiest nunnery in England.<ref name=BH/>
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• Petrockstowe
  ...population recorded at just 379 in 2001; hardly different from the figure of 385 recorded in 1901.<ref name=H>{{Cite book |title=A Handbook of Devon Parishes
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• Sutton Valence
  ...which only the ruins of the 12th century keep remain, under the ownership of [[English Heritage]]. ...tp://www.suttonvalence.org.uk/his/framehistsummary.html |title=The history of Sutton Valence and its buildings, History's hand on Sutton Valence |publish
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• Frittenden
  ...ls. The village is three miles south of [[Headcorn]], in a very rural part of Kent. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. ...4, and the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' of 839 relate that King Ethelwulf of Wessex gave the village land to St Augustines in [[Canterbury]].
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• University of Exeter
  |name=University of Exeter |arms=University of Exeter arms.svg
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• Swimbridge
  ...ding some four miles south-east of [[Barnstaple]]. Historically, the name of the village was spelled 'Swymbridge'. This village was the home of the Rev. John Russell, who first bred the Jack Russell Terrier, a breed bea
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• Weston Green
  ...llage forms a rough triangle of land along the west side of the midsection of the Hampton Court Branch Line next to Thames Ditton railway station and dow The name is derived from Westun, a farmstead covering land in the west of Thames Ditton.
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• Radnage
  ...out two miles north-east of [[Stokenchurch]] and six miles west-north-west of [[High Wycombe]]. The parish is set in folds of the [[Chiltern Hills]] to the south of [[Bledlow Ridge]] next to the border with [[Oxfordshire]]. Although not a l
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• Whitchurch, Herefordshire
  ...en it was taken over by [[Mercia]], this area was within the Welsh kingdom of [[Ergyng]]. ...f> The Welsh name for the village is ''Llandywynnog'', which means "Church of Tywynnog".<ref>[http://www.kimkat.org/amryw/1_clawdd_offa/22_cymru_dros_gla
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• Beachampton
  |picture=Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Beachampton. - geograph.org.uk - 881491.jpg |picture caption= Parish church of the Assumption
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• Monks Risborough
  ...th of the [[county town]] of [[Aylesbury]] and nine and a half miles north of [[High Wycombe]], on the A4010 road. ...ion of [[Meadle]] and [[Owlswick]], which are both now in the civil parish of Longwick-cum-Ilmer.
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• Long Crendon
  ...west of [[Haddenham, Buckinghamshire|Haddenham]] and two miles north-west of [[Thame]] in neighbouring [[Oxfordshire]]. ...h>Birch, 1975, page not cited</ref> The "Long" prefix refers to the length of the village at that time, and was added to differentiate it from nearby [[G
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• Craigmillar Castle
  ...h-east of the city centre, on a low hill to the south of the modern suburb of [[Craigmillar]]. ...1660 the castle was sold to Sir John Gilmour, Lord President of the Court of Session, who made further alterations. The Gilmours left Craigmillar in the
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• Winchester Castle
  |picture caption=The Great Hall, built by Henry III |events=Trial of Walter Raleigh<br />Bloody Assizes
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• Siston
  ...wood became Siston Common but has recently been eroded by the construction of the Avon Ring Road and housing developments. In 1989 the village and enviro ...://books.google.com/books?id=XSE9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA378 The Agrarian history of England and Wales: 1042–1350].'' Edited by H.E. Hallam. Cambridge University Pres
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• Monks Kirby
  ...nd parish in the [[Knightlow]] hundred of [[Warwickshire]]. The population of the parish is 445.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.g ...Lutterworth]]. One of the largest and most important villages in this part of Warwickshire from the Anglo-Saxon to the early modern period, by the ninete
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• Offchurch
  |picture caption=Parish church of St Gregory ...the [[River Leam]], three miles east of [[Leamington Spa]]. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 250.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.
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• The Pale
  ...f> The inland boundary went to [[Naas]] and [[Leixlip]] around the Earldom of Kildare, towards [[Trim, Meath|Trim]] and north towards [[Kells, Meath|Kell ...de'', is derived from the same root. From this came the figurative meaning of "boundary".
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• Kilkenny Castle
  ...the town with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch, part of which can still be seen today on the Parade. ...ng ceremonies of the graduates of "Kilkenny Campus" of National University of Ireland, Maynooth have been held there since 2002.
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• Great Budworth
  ...and south-east of [[Budworth Heath]]. Until 1948, Great Budworth was part of the [[Arley Hall]] estate. ...rd, its traditions and history: with reminiscences, anecdotes, and notices of the neighbourhood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hI4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1
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• Kilburn, Middlesex
  ...http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |author=Mayor of London |publisher=Greater London Authority |title=London Plan (Consolidated ...b|url= http://hampstead.rootschat.net/kilburn.htm |title= The Virtual Tour of Kilburn |accessdate= 7 December 2014 |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web
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• Chilworth Manor, Surrey
  ...[[St Martha's Hill]] to the north.<ref>Leaflet published by manor as part of National Garden Scheme open day May 2008.</ref> The manor is a Grade II lis ...[Domesday Book]] as a monastery. The monastery was dissolved by King Henry VIII and by 1580 was owned by William Morgan. William's son, John was knighted a
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• Chilworth, Surrey
  ...n both sides of the [[River Tillingbourne|Tillingbourne]] between outcrops of the Greensand Ridge, including [[St Martha's Hill]]. Footpaths lead through fields and woodlands along the ranges of hills.
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• Fort Belvedere
  |picture caption=Postcard of Fort Belvedere in the early 1900s. ...country house on Shrubs Hill in [[Windsor Great Park]], within the portion of the park that lies in [[Surrey]]. The fort was predominantly constructed by
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• Nonsuch Park
  ...as [[Worcester Park]] after the 4th Earl of Worcester was appointed Keeper of the Great Park in 1606. [[File:Gardens of Nonsuch Mansion.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The gardens of Nonsuch Mansion]]
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• Sutton Place, Burpham
  ...he north-east of [[Burpham]] in south-western [[Surrey]], and to the south of [[Woking]]. ...f>Guinness Book of Records, 1966, p. 229</ref> who spent the last 17 years of his life there. Its current owner is the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmano
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• Layer Marney Tower
  |client=Henry 1st Lord Marney ...of a palace of that age. It was built in 1520 and its grounds, from those of the palace, have buildings, gardens and parkland. It stands in [[Layer Mar
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• Woking Palace
  |picture caption=The ruins of Woking Palace ...rrey]]. It stands near the village of [[Old Woking]] and on the outskirts of modern [[Woking]].
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• Beechwood Park
  ...is a mansion, near [[Markyate]] in [[Hertfordshire]], close to the borders of [[Bedfordshire]] and [[Buckinghamshire]]. It now houses Beechwood Park Scho ...Dissolution of the Monasteries resulted in the destruction of the nunnery of St Giles in 1537.
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• Hanbury Manor
  ...otel, with an adjoining golf course. It is found in [[Thundridge]], north of [[Ware]], [[Hertfordshire]]. The hotel is part of a leisure retreat and country club owned by Marriott Hotels.
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• Hunsdon House
  ...House''' is a historic house in [[Hunsdon]], [[Hertfordshire]], north-west of [[Harlow]]. ...l times since then, and no longer has anything like the grandeur that King Henry gave the house.
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• Rye House, Hertfordshire
  |picture caption=The gatehouse of Rye House ...use''' is the ruin of a former fortified manor house by the eastern border of [[Hertfordshire]], infamous in history.
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• Tring Park Mansion
  ...to marry Stephen of Blois, who later seized the throne as King Stephen of England. ...the abbey. It was later exchanged for other properties with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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• Otford
  ...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724093114/http://wikikent.co.uk/history-of-Otford-Kent.shtml |archivedate=24 July 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>In the vill .../story-12005165-detail/story.html|title=The 'rich and fascinating' history of Otford|newspaper=Kent and Sussex Courier|accessdate=18 March 2016|ref=Otfor
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• Yarnton
  ...mpare=E04008094 |title=Yarnton Parish |work=Local Area Report for areas in England and Wales |publisher=nomis |accessdate=8 December 2019}}</ref> A series of irregular late Iron Age to early Roman enclosures in the parish are known f
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• Clattercote
  ...h of [[Banbury]] itself. Since 1932 it has formed part of the civil parish of ''Claydon with Clattercot''. ...the Dissolution of the Monasteries.<ref name=Crossley/> In 1551 King Henry VIII granted the former priory and its lands to [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. The c
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• Iron Acton
  ..., about two miles west of [[Yate]] and nine miles north-east of the centre of [[Bristol]], the county's great city, at its southern border. The B4058 roa The name of the village bear s the prefix "iron" from the iron that used to be mined ne
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• Bainton, Oxfordshire
  ...rms in the parish of [[Stoke Lyne]], about three miles north of the centre of [[Bicester]]. The Name of the place comes from the Old English ''Badan tun'' meaning "Bada's farm".<r
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• Bedford Purlieus
  ...o be found six miles south of [[Stamford]] and eight and a half miles west of [[Peterborough]]. ...ore their days. The woodland may have the richest range of vascular plants of any English lowland wood. It acquired particular significance in the 1970s
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• Tackley
  ...of [[Bicester]] and ½ miles north of [[Kidlington]]. The village consists of two neighbourhoods: Tackley itself, and Nethercott. The 2011 Census recorde ...e of [[Akeman Street]] [[Roman road]] passes through the parish just south of the village.
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• Ashleworth
  ...of [[Gloucester]]. It has a riverside pub, the Boat Inn. The oldest part of the village is Ashleworth Quay, on the riverbank. ...tlement go back at least to the Roman occupation; in recent years a number of Romano-British artefacts have been excavated in the area around the Quay da
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• Bradley House, Wiltshire
  ...pg|thumb|300px|Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (1910–1984) in front of his seat, Bradley House. All Saints Church is visible at left]] ...Bradley|url=http://www.duchyofsomerset.co.uk/maiden-bradley/|work=The Duke of Somerset's Estates|accessdate=19 July 2013}}</ref> The house is a plain sto
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• Eton College
  [[File:Etoncollegearms.svg|thumb|120px|Arms of Eton College: Sable, three lily-flowers argent on a chief per pale azure an ...resses' Conference school. Eton's history and influence have made Eton one of the most prestigious schools in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.m
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• Barnsley, Gloucestershire
  '''Barnsley''' is a village in [[Gloucestershire]], four miles north-east of [[Cirencester]]. The 2011 census recorded a population of 209.
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• Godstow Abbey
  ...the [[River Thames]] at [[Godstow]] in [[Oxfordshire]], to the north-west of [[Oxford]]. .... It was created for a community of Benedictine nuns. With a further gift of land, the site was later enlarged.
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• Bowerchalke
  ...d two miles from that with [[Hampshire]]. The parish includes the hamlets of '''Mead End''', '''Misselfore''' and '''Woodminton'''. ...on Down, Marleycombe Down and Knowle Down, were defined as a 318-acre Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971.
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• Sutton Park
  ...g charge for cars on Saturdays and Sundays during the summer. A wide range of leisure activities are undertaken in the park including dog walking, pony t ...ear Blackroot Pool are the earthworks of an ancient encampment, the origin of this is not known&nbsp;– possibly it was a hunting lodge and it may have
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• Buckland, Gloucestershire
  |picture=North wing of Buckland Manor - geograph.org.uk - 1549448.jpg ...ershire|Broadway]] in a southward finger of the latter county. To the east of the village is the Burhill iron age hillfort.
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• St Magnus-the-Martyr
  |full name=Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Magnus the Martyr |picture=St Magnus the Martyr and Adelaide House from the top of The Monument.JPG
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• St Clement's Eastcheap
  |church=Church of England ...ewick Ward of the [[City of London]]. It is located on Clement's Lane, off King William Street and close to [[London Bridge]] and the [[River Thames]].
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• St Botolph's, Aldersgate
  |church=Church of England ...e''') is a [[Church of England]] church on Aldersgate Street in the [[City of London]], [[Middlesex]].
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• St Bartholomew-the-Less
  |picture caption=Church of St Bartholomew the Less |church=Church of England
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• Dutch Church, Austin Friars
  ...don]], [[Middlesex]]. It stands on the site of the 13th-century monastery of Augustinian friars ('Austin friars') ...tch Literature)</ref> and is known in the Netherlands as the mother church of all Dutch reformed churches.
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• Hardwicke, Stroud
  ...ardwicke''' is a village on the A38 road some four miles south of the city of [[Gloucester]], in [[Gloucestershire]]. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 3,901.
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• Bolton Abbey
  [[File:Kite aerial photo of Bolton Abbey.jpg|thumb|250px|Kite aerial photo of Bolton Priory]] ...red by King Henry VIII, is in the [[Yorkshire Dales]], next to the village of [[Bolton Abbey Village|Bolton Abbey]].
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• Sherborne Abbey
  |full name=The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin |church=Church of England
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• Marnhull
  |picture=england dorset marnhull.JPG |picture caption=Parish church of St Gregory
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• Walker Art Gallery
  |architect=Cornelius Sherlock, Henry Hill Vale ...ional Museums Liverpool group and is promoted as "the [[National Gallery]] of the North". The gallery is funded directly by the government.
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• Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  |client=King Charles II ...e: noon GMT is when it is exactly noon at the cross-hairs of the telescope of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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• Bardney
  ...the [[River Witham]] and nine miles east of the [[county town]]; the City of [[Lincoln]]. The name of the village is Old English in origin, and means "Bearda's island", after an
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• Broadholme
  ...almost surrounded by its neighbour. The 2001 census recorded a population of 88. ...ry}}</ref> The priory was one of only two female priories of that order in England (the other being [[Orford Priory]]).
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• Wallingford Castle
  |picture caption=Ruins of Wallingford Caste ...site was subsequently left relatively undeveloped, and the limited remains of the castle walls and the considerable earthworks are now open to the public
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• Nocton
  ...02 road, seven miles south-east of [[Lincoln]] city centre. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 819. ...e remains of [[Nocton Hall]], and a mile to the east the earthwork remains of Nocton Park Priory.<ref name=ps>{{pastscape|349405|Nocton Park Priory}}</re
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• Temple Bruer Preceptory
  ...arm-yard in [[Temple Bruer]], in [[Kesteven]], [[Lincolnshire]]. It is one of the few Knights Templar sites left in Britain where any ruins remain standi ...wnership by the Order of the Knight Templar and its position in the middle of the [[Lincoln Heath]]: ''bruyère'', meant 'heather' in the French language
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• Tupholme Abbey
  |picture caption=Ruins of Tupholme Abbey |ownership=Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire
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• Sleaford Castle
  |picture=Aerial view of Sleaford Castle location.jpg |picture caption=Aerial view of Sleaford Castle
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• Artane
  |LG district=City of Dublin ...rony of Coolock]].<ref>[http://www.logainm.ie/897.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland] - Artaine civil parish</Ref> Neighbouring districts include Kilmor
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• Great Wolford
  ...wickshire]]. With the neighbouring parish of [[Little Wolford]] it is part of 'The Wolfords'. ...ef name=Ekwall>Ekwall, Eilert (1936); ''The Concise Oxfordshire Dictionary of English Place-names'', Oxford University Press, 4th ed. (1960), p.529 {{ISB
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• Handforth
  ...parish in [[Cheshire]], nine miles south of [[Manchester]]. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 6,266.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww ...://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=521 |title=History of Handforth, in Macclesfield and Cheshire &#124; Map and description |publish
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• Sandown Castle, Isle of Wight
  |island=Isle of Wight |picture caption=1559 plan of Sandown Castle
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• Sandown Castle, Kent
  |picture=The site of Sandown Castle - geograph.org.uk - 585517.jpg ...France and the Holy Roman Empire, which had allied against him after King Henry's breach with the Papacy. The new forts were built in accordance with a roy
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• Sandgate Castle
  ...Kent|Sandgate]] in [[Kent]], originally built at the orders of King Henry VIII, between 1539 and 1540. ...ehouse. It could hold four tiers of artillery, and was fitted with a total of 142 firing points for cannon and handguns.
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• Southsea Castle
  .... The Cowdray engraving of the Battle of the Solent in 1545 depicted Henry VIII visiting the castle. ...us fires, the castle remained in service and saw brief action at the start of the Civil War in 1642 when it was stormed by Parliamentary forces. Today i
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• St Andrew's Castle, Hampshire
  |picture caption=The remains of St Andrew's Castle ...n the coast of [[Hampshire]], between 1542 and 1543. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Rom
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• St Andrew's Castle
  |picture=General view of castle from SE.jpg ...lace, signing, "apud Palatium nostrum."<ref>Charles Jobson Lyon, ''History of St Andrews'', vol.2, (1843), p.244</ref>
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• Sandsfoot Castle
  ...by King Henry VIII near [[Weymouth]] in [[Dorset]]. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Rom ...a cost of £3,887. Earthwork defences were built around the landward side of the castle, probably in 1623.
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• Cowes Castle
  |island=Isle of Wight ...wn as '''West Cowes Castle''', is a Device Fort in [[Cowes]] on the [[Isle of Wight]] in [[Hampshire]].
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• East and West Blockhouses
  |picture caption=Remains of the East Blockhouse ...re positioned on either side of the Milford Haven Waterway in the villages of [[Angle, Pembrokeshire|Angle]] and [[Dale, Pembrokeshire|Dale]] respectivel
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• Paston, Norfolk
  ...[[Cromer]], and nineteen miles north-east of the [[county town]], the City of [[Norwich]]. ...by Paston & Knapton railway station on the North Walsham to Cromer section of the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway from 1881 until 1964.
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• Heath, Derbyshire
  ...orth-easter [[Derbyshire]]. It stands immediately adjacent to junction 29 of the [[M1 motorway]] and the A617 dual carriageway into [[Chesterfield]]. ...] and [[Temple Normanton]]. The village is also near to [[Stainsby]], host of the annual Stainsby Festival, and to [[Duckmanton]].
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• Misson
  ...ly accessible from the rest of Nottinghamshire, as it is on the north bank of the [[River Idle]] and the roads beyond cross Nottinghamshire's northern ti ...ernmost village of the county after [[Finningley]]: the northernmost point of the county is on Ninescores Farm four miles to the north.
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• Shireoaks Hall
  ...]] in the north of [[Nottinghamshire]], two and a quarter miles north-west of [[Worksop]]. It is a Grade II* listed building.<ref name=nh>{{NHLE|1370408 ...2 and 1617 for Thomas Hewett, probably by the architect John Smythson (son of Robert Smythson). It was remodelled around 1700 and further restored in 181
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• Bramshill House
  ...partly destroyed by fire a few years later. The design shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance, which became popular in Britain during the late 16 Interior features include a great hall displaying 92 coats of arms on a Jacobean screen, an ornate drawing room, and a gallery 126½ feet
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• Ossory
  [[File:Kingdom of Osraige-900.svg|right|thumb|220px|A map of Ireland showing Osraige in the 10th century]] ...people: it existed from around the first century until the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. Ossory was ruled by the Dál Birn dynasty, who
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