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  • ...etrieved 15 August 2009.</ref> The highest point in the county is [[Arbury Hill]] at 738 feet.<ref>[http://www.kellner.eclipse.co.uk/genuki/NTH/ Northampto ...all, [[Hunsbury Hill]]. There are two more possible hill-forts at [[Arbury Hill]] (by [[Badby]]) and [[Thenford]].<ref>Greenall p.20</ref> In the 1st centu
    23 KB (3,176 words) - 19:27, 20 March 2024
  • ...|Elan]] and the [[River Ithon|Ithon]]. The main industries are tourism and hill farming. *[[Presteigne and Norton]]
    9 KB (1,210 words) - 11:22, 23 February 2022
  • ...ld not fit Somerton well as it is not down in the Somerset Levels but on a hill. ...y |year=1885 }}</ref>. Another British-language name is [[Tarnock]], [[Pen Hill]] has both English and Welsh elements.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.takeo
    42 KB (6,548 words) - 10:39, 3 November 2016
  • {{for|the suburb of Birmingham|Kings Norton}} |name=King's Norton
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  • The Trust was founded on 12 January 1895 by Octavia Hill (1838–1912), Robert Hunter (1844–1913) and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley (18 ...emary, "The National Trust Guide to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland", Norton, 1973. ISBN 0-393-01876-8.
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  • .../>Birmingham, Erdington<br />Birmingham, Hall Green<br />Birmingham, Hodge Hill<br />Birmingham, Ladywood<br />Birmingham, Northfield<br />Birmingham, Perr ...est of the city lie the [[Lickey Hills]], the [[Clent Hills]] and [[Walton Hill]], which reach 1,033 feet high and have extensive views over the city.
    34 KB (4,887 words) - 11:07, 10 February 2023
  • ...wings radiating from an octagonal central building, similar to [[Chipping Norton]] workhouse, which also was built by Wilkinson. His younger brother William
    16 KB (2,469 words) - 12:48, 29 December 2018
  • |name = Chipping Norton |picture = Alms houses, Chipping Norton.JPG
    8 KB (1,218 words) - 21:19, 14 November 2010
  • ...tow-on-the-Wold is situated high up on a hill and rivals nearby [[Chipping Norton]], [[Oxfordshire]] for its weather. These two [[Cotswolds|Cotswold]] towns ...ved, the somewhat-ineffective station was sited at the bottom of the steep hill to the south and became defunct when the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct was
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  • ...the Cotwolds are characterised by rolling countryside of green, windswept hill slopes grazed by contented flocks, the well-watwered valleys with farms and The highest point in the Cotswolds is [[Cleeve Hill]] in Gloucestershire, at 1,083 feet, which is that shire's [[county top]].
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  • <blockquote>Aynho on the Hill<br> ...arish, about a mile south of Hempton, is Ilbury Iron Age hill fort, atop a hill 430 feet high. Near the fort is the site of a deserted mediæval village, a
    27 KB (4,239 words) - 14:24, 29 December 2018
  • ...d Stockham, and the new town areas of Castlefields, Palacefields, Windmill Hill, Murdishaw, Brookvale, and Hallwood Park. ...y high, but there are open green areas, in particular heathland on Runcorn Hill and the extensive Town Park created as part of the new town. The older ind
    20 KB (3,117 words) - 22:58, 17 December 2010
  • **St Helena of the Cross, Blue Hill **St Martin's in the Hills, Thompsons Hill
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  • ...at anchor or shelling the cable station. A two-gun shore battery at Cross Hill, above Georgetown, fired on the submarine. The guns scored no hits but the ...nd providing a refuelling stop for the regular airlink between RAF [[Brize Norton]] in [[Oxfordshire]], and RAF Mount Pleasant in the [[Falkland Islands]].
    21 KB (3,264 words) - 22:13, 2 January 2011
  • ...e-Wold]] (the latter in Gloucestershire) and five miles west of [[Chipping Norton]] (in Oxfordshire). ...on of stones (possibly a Neolithic monument) found on the top of Adelstrop Hill nearby.
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  • ...ern edge of Shirley, and it is possible to walk along the canal to [[Kings Norton]] 4 miles away, or Stratford upon Avon, further in the other direction. ...in Solihull Lodge, part of West Shirley, which was the site of an Iron Age Hill Fort, a fortified village protected by earth banks, dating back to the fir
    5 KB (802 words) - 07:34, 29 January 2016
  • ...atists of the Elzabethan age, and Shakespeare' contemporary with, lived in Norton Folgate, the southern continuation of Shoreditch High Street. His plays we ...1864–1936), was destroyed by fire in 1896, then rebuilt in 1897 by Finch Hill, architect of the Britannia Theatre, in nearby Hoxton. The Builder of Decem
    16 KB (2,436 words) - 13:49, 28 January 2016
  • ...echesberie'', perhaps from an Old English ''Þeodricesbeorg'' ("Theodric's hill"). ...en to it in Dinah Craik's novel ''John Halifax, Gentleman'', whose setting Norton Bury is based on Tewkesbury (see the ''Tewkesbury in Literature'' section b
    15 KB (2,451 words) - 17:26, 27 January 2016
  • ...ith Sheep Street branching off to the north east to Duck End, and Leighton Hill to the south. The church stands at the south-east end of the village, with ...d, but this is the last reference we have found to the chapel. From Thomas Norton's map of about 1660 we can see it was at the south-western angle of Salome
    7 KB (1,103 words) - 18:57, 27 January 2016
  • ...rd Resolution,<ref>''Captain James Cook'', pp 273-294, Richard Hough, W.W. Norton (17 Aug 1996), ISBN 0-393-31519-3</ref> and the murder of Christopher Marlo ...:Tanners Hill3.jpg|thumb|Grade II listed 18th century buildings on Tanners Hill]]
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