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• Cornwall
  ===Norman period=== ...most of the land was seized and transferred into the hands of a new Breton-Norman aristocracy, with the lion's share going to Robert, Count of Mortain, half-
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• Essex
  ...riod seeing that heraldry only evolved in the 12th century, well after the Norman conquest. John Speed in his ''Historie of Great Britaine'' (1611) follows V The first Earl of Essex after the Norman Conquest was Geoffrey de Mandeville, a man who received extraordinary autho
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• Oxfordshire
  *St Mary's, [[Iffley]] (unspoilt Norman architecture) [http://www.iffley.co.uk/]
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• Somerset
  ...port of Excavations in 1960–62 | accessdate=2008-03-31}}</ref> After the Norman Conquest, the county was divided into 700 fiefs, and large areas were owned ...''. Bath: Adams & Dart. ISBN 0-239-00066-8</ref><ref name=bezzant>Bezzant, Norman (1980). ''Out of the Rock..''. London: William Heinemann Ltd. ISBN 0-434-06
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• Surrey
  ...rd the Confessor, who came to the throne in 1042 and indirectly led to the Norman invasion in 1066. ...ts Movement. Its influence was driven in particular by the work of Richard Norman Shaw, and would continue to shape domestic building through the 20th centur
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• County Dublin
  ...of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John in the century after the Norman invasion of Ireland. The population of the county is 1,270,603 according to ===After the Anglo-Norman invasion===
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• County Kilkenny
  ...urke. MacMurrough looked for help from Henry II and got help from a Cambro-Norman lord notable Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known to history as St The Lordship of Ireland was a lordship created in the wake of the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169—71. Kilkenny formed part of the lordship of
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• Beaumaris
  ...er castle towns in North Wales and intended to invest only the English and Norman-French residents with civic rights. Native Welsh residents of Beaumaris wer ==Architecture==
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• Chepstow
  ...ith the River Severn. The location was named Striguil (or Estrighoiel) in Norman times &ndash; from the Welsh word ''ystraigyl'' meaning a bend in the river ...It became an Augustinian priory but was eventually superseded by the later Norman priory in the town centre.<ref name=gch/>
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• Youghal
  ==History and architecture== .... The church was rebuilt in Irish Romanesque style around 750, and a great Norman nave was erected in about 1220. It is one of the few remaining mediæval ch
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• Manchester
  ...must be presumed to have stood on the old Roman site. By the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, the focus of the town had shifted to the meeting of the r ...cture. The widespread use of red brick characterises the city. Much of the architecture in the city harks back to its days as a global centre for the cotton trade.
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• Aylesbury
  Many little streets in Aylesbury bear the jaunty architecture typifying the market towns of southern England. County Hall was built in th ...Saxon times, and a pilgrimage place for its shrine of Saint Osyth. At the Norman Conquest, the King took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is liste
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• Milton Keynes
  ...Derek Walker, as the "father of the city".<ref name="walker2">Walker ''The Architecture and Planning of Milton Keynes'', Architectural Press, London 1981. Accessed ...England. There is evidence of Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Mediæval and Industrial Revolution settlements. Collections [http://clutc
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• Birkenhead
  ...t the three entrances, each with a different style of architecture; Gothic Norman and Italianate. There are also two lakes and an ornate 'Swiss Bridge'. ...tp://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100009/200064/10054/content_0002083.html|title=Architecture: Hamilton Square|publisher=Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|accessdate=14 Jan
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• Glasgow
  ...aris and Berlin.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Visitors/Architecture/Bridges| title=Visiting Glasgow: Clyde Bridges| accessdate=9 July 2007 |pub ...tre for Contemporary Arts, McLellan Galleries and The Lighthouse Museum of Architecture. The world's tallest cinema, the eighteen-screen Cineworld is situated on R
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• Southwell
  ...cathedral is considered an outstanding example of Norman and Early English architecture. The distinctive pyramidal spires of lead (or Rhenish caps or "pepperpot" s ...stones of this earlier Saxon church were reused in the construction of the Norman one. The tessellated floor and late 11th century tympanum in the North Tran
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• Richmond, Yorkshire
  ...m and granted them to Alan of Brittany, who named his new capital from the Norman town. The lands of the "Honour of Richmond" in the North Riding became kno ...kengarthdale]]. It is from this period that the town's attractive Georgian architecture originates, the most notable examples of which are to be found on Newbiggin
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• Liverpool
  ...itecture">{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Quentin |title=Liverpool City of Architecture |publisher=The Bluecoat Press |year=1999}}</ref> ...bers,<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_pQPhVWNTY Manchester School of Architecture video] YouTube</ref> which is considered to be one of the earliest Modernis
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• Exeter
  ...sferred into Norman hands, and on the death of Bishop Leofric in 1072, the Norman Osbern FitzOsbern was appointed his successor.<ref>Hoskins 2004, pp.26–27 ...city church; font") - originally by the West Gate of the city. The font is Norman, and there is a remarkable early clock
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• Chiswick
  ...); it is considered to be among the finest surviving examples of Palladian architecture in Britain, with superb collections of paintings and furniture. ...rs of Chiswick and Acton, in 1875: the latter, designed largely by Richard Norman Shaw, was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as the first place "where the relax
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