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• Blackpool
  Throughout the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, Blackpool was a coastal hamlet in Lancashire's [[Amounderness]] Hundred, and remained such until the mid-1 ...}.</ref> By 1901 the population of Blackpool was 47,000, by which time its place was cemented as "the archetypal British seaside resort".<ref name=Rough597/
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• Kincardineshire
  ...royed the town decayed and vanished all but the ruin of the castle and the hamlet or farmstead by the burn, the name preserved in the Mill of Kincardine, and ...t of their peaks is Mount Battock (2,552 feet), the [[county top]] and the place where three counties meet; [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Angus]] and Kincardineshire
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• Blakesley
  ...ance Survey]]. North-west of Blakesley, and now contiguous with it, is the hamlet of Quinbury End. ...pn/detailpop.php?placeno=10903 University of Nottingham - guide to English place names]</ref> Over time the name contracted to the present form. The name of
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• Oxfordshire
  ...illingstone Lovell]], the hamlet of Boycott in the parish of Stowe and the hamlet of Ackhampstead in the parish of Lewknor. Additionally a detached part of t *Gelling, M. (1953) ''Place Names of Oxfordshire'' Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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• Whittlesey
  ...ok|first=Eilert|last=Ekwall|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names|year=1960|edition=4th|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> ==Place in the fens==
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• Grinsdale
  ...d Grinsdale. Linen manufacture and weaving once provided employment in the hamlet. This place gave name to a family who held Grinsdale under the Barony of Burgh.<ref nam
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• Zennor
  ...nnor includes the villages of Zennor, [[Boswednack]] and Porthmeor and the hamlet of [[Treen (Zennor)|Treen]]. ...nvolved in a mock seaborne raid codenamed "Exercise Brandyball" which took place on the 300 foot cliffs near Zennor known as the 'Brandys'. The training exe
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• Tavistock
  A Farmers' Market takes place in Bedford Square each fortnight and has been voted Best Farmer's Market in ...archaeological remains from the Bronze and Iron Ages and it is believed a hamlet existed on the site of the present town long before the town's official his
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• Barrow-in-Furness
  In the Middle Ages, Barrow was a small fishing hamlet within the parish of Dalton-in-Furness. Furness Abbey, on the outskirts of ...se ''ey'' ("island").<ref>{{cite book |last= Mills|first= David|title= The Place Names of Lancashire|year= 1976|publisher= Batsford Books|location= London|i
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• Henley-on-Thames
  The Henley Festival of Music and Arts takes place on the river too each year attracting top entertainers to perform on a floa ...nd in 1234 the bridge is first mentioned. In 1278 Henley is described as a hamlet of Benson with a Chapel. It is probable that the street plan was establishe
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• Birmingham
  ...eveloped into a national commercial centre, being named as the second-best place in the United Kingdom to locate a business.<ref name=cushman>{{cite web |ur In the early 7th century Birmingham was an Anglo-Saxon farming hamlet on the banks of the [[River Rea]].<ref name=name /> It is commonly believed
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• Stroud
  Stroud was once a hamlet within the parish of [[Bisley, Gloucestershire|Bisley]], and only began to .... In November 2008 it was confirmed that Stroud has become only the second place in Britain to save one of its Post Offices.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi
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• Acton, Middlesex
  ...h century, swamped and replaced by suburban growth. Acton remains an urban place. Its town centre is along the High Street. It has spawned its own contigu ...rche Acton'', ''Churche Acton'', etc.) to distinguish it from the separate hamlet of East Acton.
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• Bow
  ...g of ''paved way to a ford''.<ref>Mills, D., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names,'' (2000)</ref> The ford originally lay on a pre-Roman trackway at [[ ...St Mary's Church, Bow]] as a chapel of ease to allow the residents a local place of worship. The land was granted by Edward III, on the King's highway, thus
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• Chiswick
  ...around 1000 as ''Ceswican.''<ref name=room>Room, Adrian: “Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles”, Bloomsbury, 1988</ref> ...h of the A4, close to Chiswick Station) and Strand-on-the-Green, a fishing hamlet until the late 18th century.<ref>''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report
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• Inner Temple
  ...e system of legal education fell apart. The common lawyers migrated to the hamlet of Holborn, as it was easy to get to the law courts at [[Westminster Hall]] ...repaired in 1737.<ref>Ringrose (1909) p.16</ref> Some further repairs took place in 1811, but the main restoration happened in 1837, when Robert Smirke rest
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• Northwood
  ...on to [[Ruislip]].<ref>Mills, Anthony David (2001). ''Dictionary of London Place Names''. [[Oxford University Press]]. ISBN 0-19-280106-6</ref> ...any importance of which Ducks Hill Road was the only one in the Northwood hamlet. This followed the course of the modern road from its junction with the Ri
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• Pinner
  Pinner Village was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as ''Pinnora'',<ref name="Clarke, p.11">Clarke, ''A ...It was consecrated in 1321, but built on the site of an earlier Christian place of worship. The west tower and south porch date from the 15th century.<ref
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• Ruislip
  ...hought to be the Old English 'rysc hlyp', to mean 'Rush leap' (or "leaping place where rushes grow", in reference to the [[River Pinn]].<ref>Mills 2001, p.1 ...Farm near the junction of the Ickenham Road and Kings End. Kings End was a hamlet, with one building dating back to the 16th century. It was named after a fa
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• Burslem
  The [[Domesday Book]] shows that Burslem was a small farming hamlet; strategically sited above a vital ford at Longport, part of the major pack ...ckquote>In the Doomsday Survey - for even in that early date Burslem was a place of some importance - the town appears, as "Burwardeslyn;" and frequent ment
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