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• Elgin
  ...4 when he granted the land for a new cathedral to Andrew, Bishop of Moray. This finally settled the episcopal see which had been at various times at [[Kinn ...the building was completely destroyed by fire in 1270 but the reasons for this are unrecorded. The buildings which now remain as ruins date from the recon
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• Aberystwyth
  ...uch of the finest scenery in Mid-Wales lies within easy reach of the town. This includes the wilderness of the [[Cambrian Mountains]], whose valleys contai ...ringfort believed to be the castle from which Princess Nest was abducted. This rare survival is now on private land and can only be accessed by arrangemen
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• Knighton
  ...e border with Shropshire. There is but one bridge, on the A488, and across this bridge in Shropshire lie some of the town's houses and its station. ...ghton.<ref name="Knighton on-line">{{cite web | author=| title=Knighton On Line |url=http://www.knightononline.netfirms.com/castles.htm
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• Milford Haven
  The water of Milford Haven has long been known as a safe port and this quality was the foundation of the town, for while the town itself is an eig ...amed "Milford" after the waterway, and it assumed the word Haven later, in this case around 1868, when the railway terminus was built.<ref>{{cite book|coau
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• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  ...ame=MS_xxi>Swanton, ''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', pp. xxi–xxviii.</ref> This appears to place the composition of the chronicle at no later than 892; fur ...ts are often called [G], [H] and [I]. The surviving manuscripts are listed below.
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• Mendip Hills
  ...eservoirs for filtration and then on to Bristol and the surrounding areas. This collection and conveyance of water from the [[Chewton Mendip]] and [[East H ...[[Black Down, Somerset|Black Down]] and Crook Peak. Elsewhere in Britain, this species is usually associated with lowland heath. The woodlands at [[Stock
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• Gwynedd
  ...ar=2003 | title=The Britons| publisher=Blackwell Publishing}}</ref> reckon this to be is derived from the Irish word "Feni", referring at one time to a spe ...eat ruler appeared to reform and develop his lands, but as often as not at this death the kingdom was divided and cast into strife.
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• Box Hill
  ...owned and run by the National Trust. Details of footpaths are available in this area. There are a number of public footpaths, but they are not necessarily ...r test of fitness for cyclists. There is another small car park halfway up this road, with room for only around 10 cars. The Zig-zag is part of the 2012 O
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• Whitechapel
  ...ia County History]])</ref> In later times travellers to and from London on this route were accommodated at the many coaching inns which lined Whitechapel H ...ding. Whitechapel Road itself was not particularly squalid through most of this period—it was the warrens of small dark streets branching from it that co
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• Buckfastleigh
  This little town is a centre of tourism. The main points of interest in and aro ...he swimming pool. The new primary school was built in 1875 and the railway line from Buckfastleigh and Ashburton to Totnes was opened.
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• The Georgian House, Edinburgh
  ...won the competition to design a layout for Edinburgh's first New Town. By this time in the mid-18th century Edinburgh had become extremely overcrowded and ...George III), right at the centre of the development running east to west, this was the only main street to have houses constructed on both sides. Princes
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• Coggeshall
  ...me), corresponding to Coggeshall's sunken position in the 150-foot contour line.<ref>Margaret Gelling: Obituary, ''The Economist'', 16 May 2009.</ref> ...camp may have had a hall, therefore Coggershall. Beaumont largely rejects this.
  28 KB (4,551 words) - 16:56, 27 January 2016
• Keynsham
  ...a south-facing slope running alongside the [[Bristol]] to [[Bath]] railway line. It consists of open patches of grassland and bare rock, interspersed with .../article.html|title=Doing the Keynsham pools|work=Bath Chronicle|publisher=This is Bath|accessdate=2 February 2009}}</ref>
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• Salfordshire
  ...nto the control of a great landowner, be in single control as a manor, but this appears to have been the case in Salford from Anglo-Saxon times. According ...the kingdoms of [[Northumbria]] and [[Mercia]] and there is no doubt that this was the real boundary.}}</ref>
  13 KB (1,895 words) - 17:27, 25 March 2022
• Stoke Newington
  ...treet retains the distinct village character which led Nikolaus Pevsner to write in 1953 that he found it hard to see the district as being in London at all ...o east across Stoke Newington on its way to the [[River Lea]]. In flood at this point, the brook was known to span 10 metres. The two lakes are not fed fro
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• Cheadle
  ...new church was built in the village replacing a 12th-century structure and this church remained in use until 1837. ...s built at Monkhouse and was active until 1917. The endowment continues to this day.
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• Aira Force
  ...bank, and Old Norse ''á'', a river, hence 'The river at the gravel bank'; this is presumably a reference to Aira Point, a gravelly spit where the river en ...tm www.visitcumbria.com.] Details that Wordsworth was probably inspired to write daffodils at Glencoyne Bay.</ref> The falls themselves are mentioned in thr
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• Aran Islands
  ...nty Clare]] (to the east), not the granites of [[Connemara]] to the north. This is most obvious in the construction of the walls around the fields. ...e Midlandian) are most in evidence, with the islands overrun by ice during this glaciation. The impact of earlier Karstification (solutional erosion) has b
  21 KB (3,306 words) - 23:49, 9 January 2018
• Tilehurst
  ...Tilehurst was enclosed common land during the 18th and 19th centuries; as this land was developed with housing the commons were lost. Arthur Newbery Park ...tself), to the east by Reading, and to the south by the Reading to Taunton line, the [[M4 motorway]] and the [[River Kennet]].
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• Netley Hospital
  <blockquote>''This stone was laid on the 19th day of May in the year of our Lord 1856, by Her ...0-946184-09-7. p41</ref><ref>Southampton Times. 23 December 1899</ref> the line was extended into the grounds of the hospital on 18 April 1900.<ref name=Fa
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