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  • ...'' is the county town of [[Buckinghamshire]]. It stands on an outcrop of Portland limestone, giving it a prominent position in the surrounding marled landsca ...County Museum (with a Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery), and the Prebendal House of 18th century, once home to the famous and infamous member of Parliament,
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  • ...bridge over the [[River Stour, Kent|River Stour]] where it acted as a toll house.<ref name="IoE|177439|The Barbican">{{NHLE|1069655|The Barbican}}</ref> ...o the town by many Dutch settlers, who were granted the right to settle by Queen Elizabeth I in 1560. These settlers, brought with them techniques of market
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  • **St. Anne's ...High Street - geograph.org.uk - 255204.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Ann of Cleves House]]
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  • The house is set in a wooded estate of 1200 acres, and the whole is owned and managed The site of a 17th-century house and bawn and formal garden at Castle Coole are Scheduled Historic Monuments
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  • ...eth, sent here by her sister 'Bloody Mary' before Elizabeth herself became queen. This use as a prison has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower". ...although little of the original material survives as it was replaced with Portland stone in the 17th&nbsp;and 18th&nbsp;centuries. As most of the Tower's wind
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  • ...ennedy family at [[Windsor Castle]]. The memorial consists of a garden and Portland stone memorial tablet inscribed with the famous quote from his Inaugural Ad ===Cooper's Hill House===
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  • ...ow known as Old Deer Park. In 1637 he appointed Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland as keeper of the new park, for life, with a fee of 12 pence a day, pasture In 1736 the Queen's Ride was cut through existing woodland to create a grand avenue through t
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  • ...be buried alongside him).<ref>Pauline Stafford, 'Edith, Edward's Wife and Queen', in Mortimer ed., ''Edward the Confessor'', p. 137</ref> His successor, Ha ...ften was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, wh
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  • {{Infobox house ...tain Court; '''F''': East Front; '''G''': South Front; '''H''': Banqueting House; '''J''': Great Hall; '''K''': River Thames; '''M''': East Gardens; '''O'''
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  • {{Infobox house |name=Pynes House
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  • |LG district=Weymouth and Portland |post town=Portland
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  • ...n Merrion Square, also with an entrance on Clare Street, beside [[Leinster House]], the Irish Parliament building. ...seum of Ireland which was already planned for the facing flank of Leinster House. The building itself was designed by Francis Fowke, based on early plans by
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  • {{Infobox house |name=Fetcham Park House
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  • ...Earl of Derby and a large company of nobles joined the funeral procession. Anne Boleyn passed through the Bar on 31 May 1534, the day before her coronation In 1554, Thomas Wyatt led an uprising in opposition to Queen Mary I's proposed marriage to Philip of Spain. When he had fought his way d
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  • {{Infobox house |name=Chandos House
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  • ...The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper |first=Adam |last=Sisman |publisher=Random House |year=2011 |isbn=9780679604730 |page=562}}</ref> ...HKG2|title=[Porterhouse Blue]|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Arrow Books/Random House}}</ref>
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