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• Cornwall
  ...arch suggests Welsh Celtic roots lie in Spain and Portugal|last=Koch|first=John|accessdate=10 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cunliffe, Karl, Guerra, The first account of Cornwall comes from the Sicilian Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (c. 90 BC – c. 30 BC), supposedly quoting or paraphrasin
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• Manchester
  ...trade of woollens and linen, and by about 1540, had expanded to become, in John Leland's words, "The fairest, best builded, quickest, and most populous tow ...ty, it also brought poverty and squalor to a large part of the population. Historian Simon Schama has noted that "Manchester was the very best and the very wors
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• Deddington
  The architectural historian Sir Howard Colvin (1919–2007) spent much of his later life in Deddington. ...n Deddington from about 1723.{{sfn|Beeson|Simcock|1989|p=96}} His only son John Fardon (II) (1736–86) was only 10 years old when his father died and seem
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• Cardiff
  ...ref name="Wales Hist 1">{{cite book|last=Davies|first=John|authorlink=John Davies|title=A History of Wales|publisher=Penguin|year=1994|location=London|pages= ...e period between the Roman departure from Britain and the Norman Conquest. Historian William Rees suggests that the settlement probably shrank in size and may e
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• Eastbourne
  ...a corruption of North Way,<ref name=ORIGINS>{{Cite book|last=Milton|first=John T.|title=Origins of Eastbourne's Street Names|place=Eastbourne|publisher=Ea ...ond World War by Canadian artillery.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Surtees|first=Dr John|year=1997|title=Beachy Head|place=Seaford|publisher=SB Publications|isbn=18
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• Welshpool
  ...te book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| ed
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• Lambourn
  ...the good of the many manors in the parish, including an excellent brass to John Estbury (1508), who founded the almshouses outside, and fine effigies of Si ...nowden (one of the few trainers to be buried at St Michaels graveyard) and John Drinkald, who went insane when his horse was disqualified after winning a r
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• Gwynedd
  ...enedotia'', which is derived from the Welsh name now written ''Gwynedd''. John Koch and several other historians<ref>{{cite book | author=Christopher A. S ...the male line in 825 on the death of Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog and, as Sir John Edward Lloyd put it, "a stranger possessed the throne of Gwynedd",<ref>Lloy
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• City of London
  ...o-Saxon settlement was known as Lundenburh ("London Fort", a borough). The historian Asser stated that "Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, restored the city of L ...above the city's coat of arms in the frontispiece to the fourth edition of John Stow's ''Survey of London''. It has been speculated that the use of a peer'
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• Rhymney
  ...f the song "The Bells of Rhymney", a musical adaptation of a poem by Idris Davies. ...returned to Rhymney in 1947 and died of cancer on 6 April 1953.<ref name="davies"/>
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• Benllech
  ...te book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| ed
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• Llandegfan
  ...te book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| ed
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• Tref Alaw
  ...te book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| ed
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• Berkhamsted
  ...film and television archives in the world, which was generously endowed by John Paul Getty. ...and epithets since the [[Domesday Book]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Cobb|first=John Wolstenhol |title=Two Lectures on the History and Antiquities of Berkhamste
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• Caerphilly Castle
  ...the Welsh princes. Surrounded by extensive artificial lakes, considered by historian Allen Brown to be "the most elaborate water defences in all Britain", it oc ...rings of walls inspired Edward I's castles in North Wales, and proved what historian Norman Pounds has termed "a turning point in the history of the castle in B
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• Glossop
  ...y. The site of this fort was rediscovered in 1771 by an amateur historian, John Watson and it subsequently acquired the name "Melandra Castle". The extens ...moors; this is known as Doctor's Gate.<ref name="Annals">{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Peggy|title=Annals of Glossop|publisher=Glossop Heritage Centre|locat
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• Boho
  ...Ll. |last2=Burns |first2=Gaby |last3=Fogg |first3=Tim |last4=Kelly |first4=John |title=The Caves of Fermanagh and Cavan (2nd Ed.) |publisher=Lough Nilly Pr The dispute was recounted by McGuires historian as follows:
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• Penarth
  ...te book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| ed ...neer Harrison Hayter and implementing the design of renowned architect Sir John Hawkshaw . At the Welsh coal trade's zenith in 1913 ships carried 4,660,648
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• Harlech Castle
  ...>{{harvnb|Lilley|2010|pp=100–104}}; {{harvnb|Taylor|2007|p=7}}</ref> Sir John Bonvillars was appointed the constable of the castle in 1285; after his dea [[File:Harlech castle, 1610.png|right|thumb|200px|Harlech Castle by John Speede, 1610]]
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• Chigwell
  ...e county of Essex'', published in 1910. The proposal by 18th-century local historian Nathaniel Salmon that the "-well" element in the name derives from Anglo-Sa </ref> The diarist John Aubrey recorded that it was at Chigwell School that Penn had a mystical vis
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