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• Worcestershire
  ...ls]] is a subject in itself, producing the distinctive, surprising, sharp, linear ridge of those hills. The village of [[Broadheath, Worcestershire|Broadheath]], about six miles north-west of
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• Buckie
  The town is, broadly speaking, laid out in a [[linear]] fashion, following the coastline. There is a lower shore area and an uppe ...[http://www.buckpoolgolf.com/] which reaches a good part of the way to the village of Portgordon.
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• Milton Keynes
  ...in between. The new town took its name from the existing [[Milton Keynes Village]], lying a few miles east of Central Milton Keynes (the planned centre). ...e=2008-04-10}}</ref> The name "Milton Keynes" was taken from the existing village of Milton Keynes on the site.<ref name="llewelyn-david">Llewelyn-David et a
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• Ashford, Kent
  ...blished in 893 by inhabitants escaping a Viking raid on the nearby ancient village of [[Great Chart]] (recorded as ''Seleberhtes Cert'' in 762). Old habitati The Ashford Green Corridor is a linear park alongside the two main rivers through the town.
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• Stoke-on-Trent
  ...n abbreviated to '''Stoke''' is a city in [[Staffordshire]], which forms a linear conurbation almost 12&nbsp;miles long, with an area of 36 square miles. Tog ...AD 670. The affix ''upon Trent'' was adopted much later to distinguish the village from the countless other places names 'Stoke'.
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• Grotton
  ...mer railway line to Oldham Mumps railway station has been converted into a linear country park, providing a largely traffic free walk for most of the way int ...ic house, the Grotton Hotel. There are also a small number of shops in the village including a newsagent, a sandwich shop, a greengrocery, a butcher and a bea
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• John o' Groats
  '''John o' Groats''' is a village in [[Caithness]], famous as the end of [[Great Britain]]. John o' Groats is The village is dispersed but has a linear centre with council housing, sports park, and a shop which is on the main r
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• Sarratt
  ...in [[Hertfordshire]], a long village built on either side of a long, broad village green. The village lies in the beginnings of the [[Chiltern Hills]] north of [[Chorleywood]] a
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• Kings Langley
  '''Kings Langley''' is a village in [[Hertfordshire]] on the southern edge of the [[Chiltern Hills]] and now A Roman villa has been excavated just south of the village.<ref name="UKArch">[http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/UKArchaeologyMap/UK
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• West Hendred
  ...y about ½ mile wide at the widest point. This is an example of a downland linear parish encompassing a wide variety of land types - chalk downland, greensan ...ame the Lord of the Manor. The college still owns considerable land in the village and surrounding area.
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• River Devon, Nottinghamshire
  ....<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.granthamcanal.com/leisure/lin5.htm |title=Linear Walk 5 |publisher=Grantham Canal |accessdate=2011-06-15}}</ref> ..., on the eastern bank of the river. An unnamed tributary flows through the village to join the river, after which it enters woodland, where it is joined by a
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• East Grinstead
  ...edhill]] and [[Reigate]] to the northwest. The town is contiguous with the village of [[Felbridge]] to the north-west. ...y Ashdown Forest, East Grinstead is served by the Forest Way and Worth Way linear Country Parks which follow the disused railway line from [[Three Bridges]]
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• Yelling
  ...odland valley close to the county's south-eastern boundary. It is a linear village with attractive thatched and half-timbered cottages and an air of peace. The village's name was in Anglo-Saxon days, named ''Gelling'', pronounced the same as t
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• Llanddeusant, Anglesey
  ...ear village on [[Anglesey]] about 10 miles north east of [[Holyhead]]. The village takes it names from its parish church which is dedicated to St Marcellus an ...y school, Ysgol Gynradd Llanddeusant closed in July 2011 after serving the village for 160 years.
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• Epping
  ...]] and [[River Lea]] valleys. A little to the south of Epping is the small village of [[Theydon Bois]]. ...Street (B1393) and Station Road. About a thousand people live in the small village of Coopersale which, while physically separated from Epping by forest land,
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• Gillingham, Kent
  ...ose by was the road along the shore line, linking The Strand, and the tiny village of Gillingham Green. Later, communiites developed along the top road, [[Wat Gillingham was still only a small village; eventually it, too, was swallowed up, and the name of the whole became Gil
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• Hengoed, Glamorgan
  '''Hengoed''' is a village on the west side of the [[Rhymney River|Rhymney Valley]] in [[Glamorgan]]. ==The village==
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• Ashton-under-Lyne
  "Ashton" is the Old English ''æsc tun'', meaning "Ash (tree) village". The {{getmap|SJ909980|eastern terminus}} of the early mediæval linear earthwork Nico Ditch is in Ashton Moss. It dates from the 8th or 9th&nbsp;
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• Nelson, Glamorgan
  '''Nelson''' is a village in [[Glamorgan]], found ten miles north of [[Cardiff]], the county town, at ...s and surrounding fields are quite atypical of the steep sided valleys and linear villages associated with the area. To the south the land rises gently to th
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• Longtown, Herefordshire
  ...scley Brook]] and the waters of all three join together at the foot of the village, a point once guarded by a castle whose motte remains by the Olchon bridge. The parish church is in the neighbouring village of Codock; St Clydog's. The Parish of Clodock and Longtown is in the [[Dioc
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