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• Warwickshire
  ...nd around Stratford connected with William Shakespeare, all within an easy walk of the town: [[File:Oxford Canal from Napton.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Oxford Canal at Napton-on-the-Hill]]
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• Leeds
  ...ding of the Aire and Calder Navigation in 1699 and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816. The railway network constructed around Leeds, starting with the Le ...Harehills, Hyde Park and parts of Beeston. The largest mosque is the Leeds Grand Mosque in Hyde Park.
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• Uxbridge
  ...of its residents "They will steal the very teeth out of your mouth as you walk through the streets. I know it from experience." For about 200 years most o The [[Grand Junction Canal]] opened in 1794, linking Uxbridge with [[Birmingham]]. By 1800 Uxbridge ha
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• Ealing
  ...ed travel (the Great Western Railway and two branches of the [[Grand Union Canal]]), villages began to grow into towns and merged into unbroken residential ...wnloads/EalingQueenofthesuburbswalk1986v2.pdf Ealing: Queen of the suburbs walk]. Ealing Civic Society (2009 Ed). Accessed 7 November 2010</ref>
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• Land's End to John o' Groats
  ...The record for running the route is nine days. Off-road walkers typically walk 1,200 miles and take two or three months for the expedition. Two much-phot ...ken many times, more particularly since 1960, after a well-publicised road walk by Dr Barbara Moore. In 1960 the entrepreneur Billy Butlin organised a roa
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• Watford
  Theories include the Old English words ''wæt'' (wet), ''wadan'' (walk, wade), ''watul'' (wattle, a fence) or ''wath'' (hunter), Watling Street, a ...h to the Cassiobury and Grove estates. Consequently, although the road and canal follow the easier valley route, the railway company was forced to build an
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• Leicester
  The construction of the [[Grand Union Canal]] in the 1790s linked Leicester to [[London]] and [[Birmingham]] and by 183 ...Victoria (1837–1901). Factories began to appear, particularly along the canal and the River Soar. Between 1861 and 1901 Leicester's population increased
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• Wendover
  ...Wendover Arm Trust]</ref> Remote and rural for almost all its length, the canal attracts much local wildlife. ...mpressive monument to the Buckinghamshire men who died in the Boer War, or walk to the pretty hamlet of Dunsmore in the spring and enjoy the carpet of blue
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• River Brent
  ...r" and was created to supply the Paddington Canal, now an arm of the Grand Union. Welsh Harp has since its creation been is a popular place for leisuretime ...e [[Grand Union Canal#Paddington Arm|Paddington Arm]] of the [[Grand Union Canal]]. From Stonebridge Park the river can be followed westward, under the A40
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• Wakefield
  ...ef> The Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations and the Barnsley Canal were instrumental in the development of Wakefield as an important market f ...kefieldPrison/History/default.htm| accessdate=2009-11-25}}</ref> Wakefield Union workhouse<ref name="workhouses">{{citation|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk
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• New River
  ...the end of the 19th century),<ref>''Guide to the Waterways 1 London,Grand Union,Oxford&Lee'' Published by Nicholson& [[Ordnance Survey]] (1997) p.104 ISBN ...ref><cite>[http://shelford.org/walks/newriver.pdf The New River Path – a walk linking Hertford with Islington] accessed 27 October 2011</ref>
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• Ickenham
  ..., a 12-mile walk along the River Pinn from [[Pinner]] to the [[Grand Union Canal]] at [[Cowley, Middlesex|Cowley]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hillingdo
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• Pimlico
  ...], to which it was built as a southern extension, Pimlico is known for its grand garden squares and impressive Regency architecture. ...]] to the south, Vauxhall Bridge Road to the east and the former Grosvenor Canal to the west.
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• Royal Leamington Spa
  ...le=Warwickshire Towns & Villages|year=2000|isbn=1-85058-642-X}}</ref> This grand structure attracted many visitors, expecting cures by bathing in pools of s The original parish church is All Saints Leamington Priors, a grand, gothic church. The town also has churches of other denominations.
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• Portadown
  In 1741, Anthony Obins was involved with the development of the [[Newry Canal]].<ref name="RiseOfPortadown"/> He was succeeded by Michael Obins in 1750. }}</ref> This, and subsequent events like the setting up of a 'provisional' Grand Lodge in the town after the 'voluntary' dissolution of the Order in 1825, l
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• Daventry
  ...Street. Grade II listed buildings include several in Market Place, Church Walk, New Street, High Street, Sheaf Street and the United Reformed Church, the ...he Wash]]. There is no river in the town itself. Nearby the [[Grand Union Canal]] that swings from [[Watford Gap]] into the western Midlands through the 2,
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• Oxford Canal
  [[File:Oxford Canal from Napton.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Oxford Canal from Napton-on-the-Hill, Warwickshire]] ...ptonshire|Braunston]] and [[Napton-on-the-Hill]], and on to the [[Coventry Canal]] at Hawkesbury Junction in [[Bedworth]] just north of Coventry.
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• Shakespeare's Way
  ...[[Thames Path]] from [[London]] westwards to Kew and up the [[Grand Union Canal]] and the Thames Path again to Marlow. Thence it heads over the [[Chiltern ...8/shakespeare_way_feature.shtml BBC Coventry & Warwickshire article on the walk]
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• Ratho
  ...othian|Newbridge]] and [[Kirkliston]] are other nearby villages. The Union Canal passes through Ratho. [[Edinburgh Airport]] is situated only four miles awa ...12th century doorway is still visible. Generally the church has never been grand, but it bears the hallmarks of centuries of evolutionary change. The interi
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• Jurassic Way
  The trail goes near to the [[Oxford Canal|Oxford]] and [[Grand Union Canal]]s, past the Great Central Railway's Catesby Tunnel and viaduct, the [[Rive ...anbury]], [[Oxfordshire]]<br>{{wmap|52.057|-1.330|zoom=14}}, by the Oxford Canal and the county border
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