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  • ...lies approximately 16 miles north of [[Wolverhampton]] and 18 miles south of [[Stoke-on-Trent]]. Stafford is part of the ancient Pyrehill hundred.
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  • .... Princetown is the highest town on the moor and is best known as the site of Dartmoor Prison. ...anite quarrying, which proved more successful, and in 1804 to the building of a prison.
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  • ...to a survey commissioned by Channel 4. The 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hertsdirect.org/in The name of the town is Old English (''Heortford''), and means no more nor less than it
    7 KB (1,155 words) - 18:45, 27 January 2016
  • ...primarily known as a seaside resort, its long beaches lapped by the waters of the [[English Channel]]. ...de resort and still is today. It had an estimated population of 97,992 as of 2009.
    35 KB (5,481 words) - 07:14, 19 September 2019
  • ...alace]] for 82 years, having been moved here after the Great Exhibition of 1851. ==Name of the town==
    17 KB (2,670 words) - 11:38, 23 June 2018
  • ...ses through the farmland not fat west of Holme, it barely shakes the peace of the village. Within the parish is [[Holme Fen]], which has the lowest point in Great Britain, nine feet below sea level. The Home Fen posts mark the lowest poi
    5 KB (908 words) - 09:35, 18 November 2018
  • ...rained fenland on [[Huntingdonshire]]. It lies to the west of the village of [[Holme, Huntingdonshire|Holme]]. ...which mark the lowest land point in [[Great Britain]] and indeed the whole of the [[United Kingdom]]; the ground here is nine feet below sea level.<ref n
    5 KB (832 words) - 12:14, 23 June 2018
  • [[File:Aerial view of Hyde Park.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hyde Park (foreground) and Kensington Garde ...'' is a large Royal Park in [[Middlesex]], and is one of the largest parks of [[London]], extending over 350 acres. It is famous for its history and for
    13 KB (2,029 words) - 12:15, 23 June 2018
  • ...inmneacha na hÉireann]</ref> both [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[Republic of Ireland|Irish Republic]]. ...ty and the townland in Northern Ireland |quote=The first official evidence of their existence occurs in church records from before the twelfth century.}}
    20 KB (3,062 words) - 07:53, 23 June 2017
  • ...the drainage aqueducts of the ancient road are still visible in the cellar of the Chapel Inn today) ...me a legally licensed premises in 1554) have been established for hundreds of years. A market has been run every week on Market Hill since 1256, when a c
    28 KB (4,551 words) - 16:56, 27 January 2016
  • |LG district=Vale of Glamorgan ...seaside resort in [[Glamorgan]] and the largest town in the southern bulge of Glamorgan after [[Barry]].
    28 KB (4,486 words) - 17:17, 27 January 2016
  • ...guous with the suburb of [[Chorlton-cum-Hardy]] to the east, and the towns of [[Urmston]] to the west, Salford to the north, and [[Sale]] to the south. T ...trialisation that had begun in the late 19th century. By 2001 less than 1% of Stretford's population was employed in agriculture.
    21 KB (3,167 words) - 10:37, 19 September 2019
  • ...mile north of [[Dewsbury]], near the [[M62 motorway]]. It had a population of 49,448 (including Birstall) in 2001. Other nearby towns include: [[Morley, ...d and its mining closed, Batley has become a poor town, with the indignity of being designated a European Union "transformation zone".
    10 KB (1,610 words) - 16:46, 29 January 2016
  • ...Ownership of the house was transferred to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] in 1959. Today, it is ...by Robert Smythson in the late 16th century and remained in the ownership of her descendants until the mid-twentieth century.
    8 KB (1,315 words) - 08:04, 19 September 2019
  • |picture caption=South front of Balmoral Castle ...illage of [[Crathie]], six miles west of [[Ballater]] and seven miles east of [[Braemar]].
    20 KB (3,157 words) - 20:23, 6 June 2019
  • |full name=Cathedral Church of St Andrew, Wells |church=Church of England
    48 KB (7,454 words) - 17:41, 16 October 2022
  • '''Pantasaph''' is a small village in [[Flintshire]], two miles south of [[Holywell, Flintshire|Holywell]]. Its name means “Asaph's Hollow”. ...riary|accessdate = 9 January 2014}} </ref> The graveyard holds the remains of three British soldiers shot for cowardice during World War I.
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  • ...as relocated in 1854. Today Sydenham is a diverse suburb with a population of 28,378 in 2011<ref name="Sydenham population 2"/> ...en, which continued production until 1969; a retail park now occupies most of the site.
    16 KB (2,409 words) - 18:24, 22 February 2019
  • ...l village to north of the [[Cynon Valley]] in [[Glamorgan]], near the town of [[Aberdare]]. ...reets betray their early origins; the Scale family were among the founders of the works and remained partners until 1846.
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  • |website={{EH link|Home of Charles Darwin Down House}} ...family. It was in this house and garden that Darwin worked on his theories of evolution by natural selection which he had conceived in London before movi
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