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• Oxfordshire
  Oxfordshire borders five other counties: [[Berkshire]] to the south; [[Gloucestershire]] to the west; [[Warwickshire]] to the no ...off from the rest of Oxfordshire by the intervention of a detached part of Berkshire.
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• Oxford
  ...pes the city centre. The [[University of Oxford]] is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...who visit the University and many sites of interest. The Royalist capital in the Civil War, Oxford has had many notable roles and seen countless notable
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• Royal Wootton Bassett
  ...t''', is a small market town in [[Wiltshire]], with a population of 11,043 in 2001. It lies six miles to the south-west of the major town of north Wiltsh ...le "Royal" in October 2011 by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of the way in which the townsfolk spontaneously joined together to honour the fallen sold
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• Hastings
  ...wn, but it was at Hastings that William the Bastard built his first castle in England. ...est beach-based fishing fleet in England. The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.
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• University of Oxford
  ...ry] - The University of Oxford</ref></ref> making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the world's second-oldest surviving univers ....<ref name="OxHist"/> After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled northeast to [[Cambridge]], where they establishe
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• Museum of English Rural Life
  |county=Berkshire ...if|University of Reading}}, and found on Redlands Road in [[Reading]] in [[Berkshire]].
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• Sulhamstead House
  |county=Berkshire ...lley Police Museum''' is found outside the village of [[Sulhamstead]] in [[Berkshire]].
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• Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  ...Greenwich Park]], overlooking the [[River Thames]]. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and defined the prime meridian of ...ory list, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich has the code '000': the first in the list.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Observatory Codes|url=http://www.min
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• Strawberry Hill House
  |picture=Strawberry Hill House from garden in 2012 after restoration.jpg ...d simply '''Strawberry Hill''', is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in [[Twickenham]], [[Middlesex]], by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 on
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• Sir John Soane's Museum
  ...e museum, located next to [[Lincoln's Inn Fields]] in [[Holborn]], London, in [[Middlesex]], which was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect, ...the nation, and that they would be preserved as nearly as possible exactly in the state they were at his death.
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• Beaulieu Abbey
  ...92-5|page=68}}</ref> populated by 30 monks sent from the abbey of Cîteaux in France, the mother house of the Cistercian order. The Mediæval Latin name |title=Two Records of Plate and Vestments Removed from Beaulieu Abbey in 1399.
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