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  • |picture=Chepstow Castle and Bridge from Tutshill.jpg |picture caption=Chepstow Castle and 1816 road bridge across the Wye
    19 KB (3,086 words) - 09:14, 8 April 2017
  • ...est town in [[Bedfordshire]]. Luton and its near neighbours, [[Dunstable]] and [[Houghton Regis]], form the Luton-Dunstable urban area with a population o ...nomy based on light industry, services (particularly in the retail sector) and industry related to its airport.
    14 KB (2,215 words) - 12:51, 27 January 2016
  • | constituency= Holborn and St Pancras At Camden Town a knot of railway lines, A-roads and a branch of the [[Grand Union Canal]] meet, creating a very busy urban cent
    12 KB (1,782 words) - 18:11, 3 July 2022
  • ...ding urban zone, Bristol is the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city and by far the most populous city in south-western England. ...nked amongst the top three English cities after London, alongside [[York]] and [[Norwich]], on the basis of tax receipts,<ref>
    23 KB (3,465 words) - 15:51, 25 May 2023
  • ...m the ancient British language spoken by the ''Dobunni'' tribe hereabouts, and as having the same root word as the River Churn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// ...n, which flows roughly north to south through the eastern side of the town and joins the Thames near [[Cricklade]] a little to the south. The Thames itsel
    16 KB (2,560 words) - 17:20, 27 January 2016
  • ...crossings of the [[River Severn]]''', including bridges, tunnels, ferries and fords, in order from source to mouth. ...are listed building|listed as grade I structures, including Bewdley Bridge and the Severn Bridge, which was opened in 1966. The lowest bridge is the Secon
    34 KB (4,742 words) - 09:24, 30 January 2021
  • ...ap.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Tributaries (light blue) and major settlements on and near the Severn]] ...t to carve a broad estuary in [[Gloucestershire]] and between [[Somerset]] and [[Monmouthshire]] which becomes the [[Bristol Channel]].
    18 KB (2,856 words) - 13:16, 23 April 2020
  • |picture caption=Rooftops and the David Murray John Tower ...town in northern [[Wiltshire]], midway between [[Bristol]], 40 miles west and [[Reading]], 40 miles east. It is a modern, developed town, often assumed
    18 KB (2,760 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2016
  • ...re the New Town of Milton Keynes was created which engulfed it to the east and south. ...own was granted a royal charter in 1194 permitting the holding of a market and it has been denoted a town since 1215.
    8 KB (1,245 words) - 13:19, 27 January 2016
  • |post town=Birmingham |LG district=Birmingham
    11 KB (1,756 words) - 15:16, 30 August 2017
  • |constituency=Thornbury and Yate ...ted on the main Bristol to Birmingham line between Bristol Parkway and Cam and Dursley.
    11 KB (1,780 words) - 11:06, 4 January 2019
  • ...a primary school, a village hall, a village club, one small hotel, a shop and a pub. Visitors are attracted to Mary Arden's House the home of [[William S ...ides in Wilmcote. Land for 4 ploughs. In lordship 2; 2 slaves; 2 villagers and 2 smallholders with 2 ploughs. Meadow, 24 acres. The value was 30s; now 60s
    8 KB (1,314 words) - 07:36, 29 January 2016
  • [[File:Bristol-Bath Cyclepath 08.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Bristol & Bath Railway Path]] ...d railways, minor roads, canal towpaths and traffic-calmed routes in towns and cities.
    20 KB (2,523 words) - 14:00, 6 April 2017
  • ...connects to the [[Stroudwater Navigation]] at Wallbridge near [[Stroud]], and thence to the [[River Severn]]. It also has one short arm from Siddington t ...railways took much of the canal's traffic by the end of the 19th century, and most of the canal was abandoned in 1927, the remainder in 1941.
    20 KB (3,111 words) - 18:01, 7 January 2020
  • The town is in the [[Vale of Berkeley]], and just to the south lies the town of [[Berkeley, Gloucestershire|Berkeley]]. Sharpness docks began as a basin giving access to the [[Gloucester and Sharpness Canal]].<ref name="Sharpness Docks" >{{Cite web
    7 KB (1,137 words) - 15:17, 5 February 2019
  • ...be village are impressive local landmarks, visually dominating the village and local landscape for miles surrounding. ...id-18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the Dilettanti Society and co-founder of the notorious Hellfire Club, from which the West Wycombe Cave
    7 KB (1,137 words) - 21:28, 5 August 2014
  • |name=Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway |picture caption=Toddington railway station
    20 KB (2,813 words) - 23:21, 29 February 2020
  • ...the cityscape of [[Leicester]].<ref>{{NHLE|1074030|Belgrave Hall, railings and gates in front of Belgrave Hall, Church Road}}</ref> Once a prosperous merc ...omas Morley for 13 years. In 1936 it was bought by Leicester City Council, and has been a museum ever since.
    14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:20, 27 November 2016
  • |picture caption= Blockley village including Saints' Peter and Paul Church ...f Draycott, Paxford and Aston Magna, and the deserted hamlets of Northwick and Upper Ditchford.
    6 KB (958 words) - 21:42, 26 August 2015
  • ...urch'', due to its position east of the parish and town of [[Tewkesbury]], and had a population of 6,064 at the 2001 UK census. ...states run directly into Tewkesbury itself to the west: Tewkesbury School, and a number of factories whose postal addresses read Tewkesbury were actually
    6 KB (942 words) - 21:17, 19 November 2015

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