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• Croxley Green
  ...e 5,000 homes and 12,000 people, between [[Watford]] and [[Rickmansworth]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. ...ounded by some of its oldest buildings. On the Green are held many events in the summer, most famously "Revels on The Green", an annual village fair. Ot
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• Milton Keynes
  ...is situated mostly in the [[Newport Hundred]], with [[Shenley Brook End]] in [[Cottesloe Hundred]]. ...d [[Stony Stratford]] along with another fifteen villages and the farmland in between. The new town took its name from the existing [[Milton Keynes Vill
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• Furness
  ...on]], [[Broughton-in-Furness]], Cartmel, [[Dalton-in-Furness]] and [[Askam-in-Furness]]. The population of Furness stands at around 100,000. ..., are known as the [[Furness Fells]]. [[Gummer's How]] is a prominent hill in the east of the region.
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• Bournemouth
  '''Bournemouth''' is a large coastal resort town in [[Hampshire]], with suburbs spilling over into [[Dorset]]. It stands on the ...n [[Dorset]] has spread to meet Bournemouth at the border. 24 Herbert Road in Bournemouth forms the westernmost point of Hampshire.
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• Basingstoke
  '''Basingstoke''' is a modern town in north-eastern [[Hampshire]], spread across a valley at the head of the [[Ri ...ke began as an old market town lie any other in Hampshire, but it expanded in the 1960s as part of a tripartite agreement between London County Council,
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• Folkestone
  ...t town on the eastern coast of [[Kent]]. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to Europe ...hat the town's name be standardised; this tendency towards standardisation in the 19th century is true of British place names generally.
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• Leatherhead
  '''Leatherhead''' is a town in [[Surrey]] on the [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]]. It is a sizable town w ...Later the Swan Hotel provided 300 years of service to horse-drawn coaches. In the late 20th century the M25 motorway was built nearby.
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• The Ridgeway
  [[File:Ridgeway mongwell.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Ridgeway in Grim's Ditch near Mongewell]] ...ancient Icknield Way through the [[Chiltern Hills]] to [[Ivinghoe Beacon]] in [[Buckinghamshire]]. The National Trail is 87 miles long.
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• Mendip Hills
  The '''Mendip Hills''' are a range of limestone hills in [[Somerset]], to the south of [[Bristol]] and [[Bath]]. Running east to wes The highest hill in the range is [[Black Down, Somerset|Beacon Batch]] on Black Down, which rea
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• Oxfordshire Way
  ...ordshire Way''' is a long-distance walk in [[Oxfordshire]], with six miles in [[Gloucestershire]]. The path links with the [[Heart of England Way]] and t ...Chiltern Hills]], with hilly sections towards each end and gentler country in the middle sections. It is reckoned that the walk should take between four
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• Sleaford
  '''Sleaford''' is a town in the [[Kesteven]] part of [[Lincolnshire]]. It is located 13 miles nort ...n as the Sleaford Navigation, it operated until superseded by the railways in the mid 1850s.
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• Chilterns
  ...f each of these counties is found along the ridge of the Chilterns, almost in the straight line above the scarp. At Goring, the Thames bursts through the hills, in what is known as the Goring Gap. South of the river are the [[Berkshire Do
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• Godrevy
  '''Godrevy''' is a headland and coastal district in western [[Cornwall]]. Much of it belongs to the [[National Trust for Place ...of Gwithian, followed by a further 19 acres of land adjoining Godrevy Farm in 1962 by Nicholas and Charles Thomas.<ref name=thomas/>
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• Porthcurno
  '''Porthcurno''' is a small village in the parish of [[St Levan]] in a valley on the south coast of [[Cornwall]]. It is approximately 9 miles we ...ehicles which may have provided access to the beach, visible on one of the footpaths near the south side of the car park ascending the east side of the valley.
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• Hanslope
  '''Hanslope''' is a pretty village in northern [[Buckinghamshire]], close by the [[Northamptonshire]] border. The ...its meadows well grazed and knotted with footpaths to allow much wandering in this northern march of Buckinghamshire.
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• Shanklin
  ...nt Street and High Street, which together comprise the largest retail area in the south of the Isle of Wight; significant for tourists but also as an ame In Regent Street are many local shops, including two arts and crafts shops, se
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• Church Stretton
  ...iles north of [[Ludlow]]. The population of the town was recorded as 2,789 in 2001, whilst the population of the wider parish (including the adjacent vil ...o main streets of the town centre are the High Street and Sandford Avenue. In the later decades of the 20th century a number of shops on the southern end
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• Clevedon
  ...wn the coast south of [[Bristol]]. It has a recorded population of 21,957 in 2001. ...ill which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Clevedon was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] but did not really grow until the Victorian era when
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• Monarch's Way
  ...so it shows off an eclectic mixture of some of the finest lowland scenery in southern [[Great Britain]]. ...m-by-Sea]] in [[Sussex]] where the King embarked for his nine years' exile in Europe. Most of the footpath is waymarked. The waymark shows a picture of
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• Talyllyn Railway
  The '''Talyllyn Railway''' is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in [[Merionethshire]], running on a single line for 7.25 miles from [[Tywyn]] ...e 50</ref> the line remained open, and in 1951 it became the first railway in the world to be preserved as a heritage railway by volunteers.<ref>Thomas 2
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