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• Dorset
  ...ter]] in the south of Dorset. It has borders with [[Devon]] to the west, [[Somerset]] to the north-west, [[Wiltshire]] to the north-east, and [[Hampshire]] to Dorset's long coast stretches from [[Poole]] in the east, and the great gulf of [[Poole Harbour]], around the [[Isle of Pur
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• Somerset
  |name=Somerset |map image=Somerset Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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• Wansdyke
  ...the remains of the London to Bath Roman road. There is also some evidence in charters that it extended west from Maes Knoll to the coast of the [[Severn Wansdyke consists of two sections of 9 and 12 miles long with some gaps in between:
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• Salisbury Plain
  The plain is the largest known expanse of unimproved chalk downland in northwest Europe, and represents 41% of Britain's remaining area of this wi ...arsely populated and is the largest remaining area of calcareous grassland in north-west Europe. Additionally the plain has arable land, and a few small
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• Portishead
  |county=Somerset |LG district=North Somerset
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• Ewyas Harold Castle
  '''Ewyas Harold Castle''' is a castle ruin in the village of [[Ewyas Harold]] in [[Herefordshire]]. ...l castle was destroyed either on the orders of Earl Godwin or by the Welsh in a raid.
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• Castle Cary
  |county=Somerset |LG district=South Somerset
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• Corfe Castle
  ...tle dates back to the 11th century and commands the Corfe Gap - a gap in the [[Purbeck Hills]] on the route between [[Wareham, Dorset|Wareham]] and ...ilt with earth and timber. Corfe Castle underwent major structural changes in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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• Maiden Castle, Dorset
  ...r age, and must have caused the Romans to pause when they set to attack it in the first century. ...ite. It was occupied until at least the Roman period, by which time it was in the territory of the Durotriges tribe.
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• Exmoor
  {{county|Somerset}} ...of the southwest, along with [[Dartmoor]] in [[Devon]] and [[Bodmin Moor]] in [[Cornwall]].
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• Deal Castle
  ...al Castle''' is a 16th-century coastal artillery fort, located in [[Deal]] in [[Kent]], standing on the coast between [[Walmer Castle]] and the now lost ...cheme - Theme 3.4 – The Castles of the Downs: The Henrician Device Forts in Deal and Walmer]</ref> The architect at Deal was probably the Bohemian engi
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• Hereford Castle
  ...fordshire]], standing at {{map|SO511396}}. All that remains today are its earthworks. ...ain. Hereford Castle was probably destroyed when the Welsh sacked Hereford in 1055, but seems to have been replaced by the following decade. During the A
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• Huntingdon Castle
  ...[[Huntingdonshire]], but of it no trace remains apart from its impressive earthworks. Castle Hill, the motte and castle grounds, is now a public park. ...paid homage to King Stephen who in turn gave him the borough of Huntingdon in addition to the castle.
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• Elsdon Castle
  |condition=Earthworks only '''Elsdon Castle''' is a castle of [[Northumberland]], in the village of [[Elsdon, Northumberland|Elsdon]] about ten miles southwest
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• Alnwick Castle
  '''Alnwick Castle''' is a castle and stately home in [[Northumberland]], and the seat of the Duke of Northumberland. The castle stands in the [[Alnwick]]. The first castle here built following the Norman conquest
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• Clun Castle
  ...the Norman conquest and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, with an extensive castle-guard system. ...after the Civil War Clun remained in poor condition until renovation work in the 1890s.
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• Glastonbury Tor
  |county=Somerset ...tary hill rising to 518 feet out of the flat, once flooded, lands of the [[Somerset Levels]]. It is topped by a roofless tower built as a chapel, St Michael's
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• Norton Camp
  {{county|Somerset}} ...' is a Bronze Age hill fort at [[Norton Fitzwarren]] near [[Taunton]] in [[Somerset]].
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• Cadbury Castle, Somerset
  [[File:Somerset cadbury castle modified.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Cadbury Castle]] {{county|Somerset}}
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• Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
  |picture caption=''Falmouth Docks'' in full steam. ...d]], Suffolk. The line became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1924 and the last trains ran on 26 July 1952.
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