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• Berkshire
  ...mount of low-lying riverine land in the area. Beyond the flood plains, the land rises gently to the county boundaries with [[Surrey]] and [[Hampshire]]. Mu ...opes on each side delineate the river's flat floodplain. To the south, the land rises steeply to the boundary with [[Hampshire]], and here are found the hi
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• Dorset
  ...building stone used for facing and beautifying the great buildings of the land: Portland Stone is quarried on the [[Isle of Portland]], which has for cent ...h crosses the county from south-west to north-east incorporating Cranborne Chase, the Dorset Downs and Purbeck Hills.<ref name="Chaffey 43">Chaffey (p.43)</
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• Northumberland
  ...Northumberland became in 1603 not a shire on the edge but the heart of the land King James called "the [[Middle Shires]]". ...he Emperor Hadrian built his frontier line, [[Hadrian's Wall]], across the land here from sea to sea, so that most of what became Northumberland was outsid
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• Rutland
  * [[Beaumont Chase]] ...Gwash. Several villages lie drowned beneath its waters. A spur of higher land in the midst of the water splits it into two arms, on which spur is [[Upper
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• Staffordshire
  ...ising high into the [[Peak District]], and in the south is found [[Cannock Chase]] an area of natural beauty, famed for its hunting. The middle of the coun ...lised rgion in Britain in the nineteenth century. Coal seams underlie the land all across Staffordshire and it has rich iron ore deposits in the south too
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• Worcestershire
  ...was Urse d'Abetot who built the castle of Worcester and seized much church land. ...on the wool trade, and many areas of its dense forests, such as Malvern Chase, were royal hunting grounds. In the nineteenth century, Worcester was a cen
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• County Kilkenny
  ...ands, hedgerows, and diverse landscapes and geological features. The main land use is grassland, dairy farming and tillage farming especially around Kilke ...except along the left bank of the river Suir. Here there is a rich area of land between the river and the hills.
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• Black Country
  ...which divides the South Staffordshire coalfield from the adjoining Cannock Chase coalfield. Near [[Halesowen]] and [[Stourbridge]], the coal seams broke the ...he Elvish "Sindarin" language, ''Mor-Dor'' means ''Dark'' (or ''Black'') ''Land'', and is sometimes even referred to within the novel as "The Black Country
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• Enfield
  ...'' or similar, meaning "open land belonging to a man called Eana" or "open land for lambs". In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 it is recorded as ''Enefelde' * [[Enfield Chase]]
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• Lichfield
  ...field is situated on Keuper sandstone between the high ground on [[Cannock Chase]] on the west and the valleys of the Rivers [[River Trent|Trent]] and [[Riv ...ns in 669. The first Christian king of the Mercians, King Wulfhere donated land at Lichfield for Chad to build a monastery. It was because of this that the
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• Dartmoor
  '''Dartmoor''' is a vast moorland in south [[Devon]]. A rough, infertile land, grazed by hardy beasts, it provides spectacular scenery. It takes its nam ...depends on the type and location. Blanket bog, which forms on the highest land where the rainfall exceeds 80&nbsp;inches a year, consists mainly of cotton
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• Bournemouth
  ...During the Tudor period the area was used as a hunting estate, 'Stourfield Chase', but by the late 18th century only a few small parts of it were maintained ...ad purchased from Sir George Ivison Tapps. Tregonwell began developing his land for holiday letting by building a series of sea villas.<ref name="EE"/> In
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• Lambourn
  ...was known as Bockhampton, but it was destroyed in the 16th century as the land was absorbed into the Bockhampton Manor House estate.<ref>http://www.berksh In 2006 the Jockey Club Estates Ltd bought 500 acres of land in the valley, its first such venture outside Newmarket, including Mandown
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• Streatley
  ...laces of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] land: Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down. You gaze across rich pasture-land;
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• Blyth
  ...s Radclyffe, was executed for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, the land was forfeit to the crown.<ref name="Communities Blyth"/> On 11 July 1723, Ridley Park was created on land handed over by Viscount Matthew White Ridley and was opened on 27 July 1904
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• Merton, Surrey
  ...e, for £9,000. Nelson expanded the estate with the purchase of additional land south of his house until his Merton property covered most of the area west ...housing and became known as Nelson's Fields. North of the High Street the land remained undeveloped until the end of the century.
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• Bath
  ...}}</ref> Nennius, a ninth-century historian, mentions a "Hot Lake" in the land of the Hwicce, which was along the Severn, and adds "It is surrounded by a ...two houses in the crescent to form his residence. Having acquired all the land between his home and the top of Lansdown Hill, he created a garden over hal
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• Thames Ditton
  ...to Æthelweard, and bequeathed by Æthelweard to his son, Æthelmær); and land at Thames Ditton among sundry other items. ...; but by that time the manor of Thames Ditton amounted to little by way of land and to all effects Thames Ditton comprised mainly the manors of Imworth and
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• Wimbledon
  ...town is known too for Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in the conurbation.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id ...Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until Cromwell was executed in 1540 and the land was again confiscated. The manor was next held by Henry VIII's last wife an
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• Beacon Hill
  ...y wrote of the beacon chain spreading the message of the Armada across the land, in his poem "The Armada":'' O'er Longleat's towers, o'er [[Cranborne Chase|Cranbourne]]'s oaks, the fiery herald flew
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