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  • [[File:Royal Small Arms Factory.jpg|right|thumb|300px|RSAF machine shop overlooking basin]] The '''Royal Small Arms Factory''' was a government-owned rifle factory near [[Enfield]], though ju
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  • |arms=Diocese of London arms.svg * [[Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster|Westminster Abbey]] is a Royal peculiar, and under the Queen and the Dean of Westminster.
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  • The Royal Air Force base RAF Valley is home to the RAF Fast Jet Training School and a ...ished in 2014 after a successful web-based campaign to see a banner of the arms ascribed by later mediƦval heralds to the earlier, locally celebrated rule
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  • ...s first cousin, Aidan, founder of the Dalriada kingdom and ancestor of the royal house of Scotland. This Dalriada was the first Kingdom of the Scots. ...liament required the pacification of the Highlands and the confiscation of arms and the banning of Highland dress were equally applied to loyal areas as to
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  • ...knall Colliery, a drift mine at the bottom of Blackwell Road. The "Miners Arms" public house is believed to have been the manager's cottage. This mine wa ...bomb hit it and went down through some five floors into the basement. The Royal Navy took the new wing of the factory over to be the headquarters of their
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  • ...by the fourteenth century Durham was accepted as a liberty which received royal mandates direct. In effect it was a private shire, with the bishop appointi [[File:Angl-Ebor-Durham-Arms.svg|right|thumb|180px|Arms of the Bishops of Durham]]
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  • *[[Becontree Hundred|Becontree]] (including [[Royal Liberty of Havering|Havering liberty]]) The County's flag is a banner of the ancient arms attributed to Essex, and which has been granted to Essex County Council. T
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  • *[[Royal Tunbridge Wells]] ''(partly in [[Sussex]])'' ...yrd to oppose him independently and made a separate peace without clash of arms. This legend is the origin of the county motto ''Invicta'', meaning "uncon
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  • A Royal Charter of 1155 established the ports to maintain ships ready for the Crown ...on]], [[Gravesend]], [[Southampton]], [[Chichester]], [[Plymouth]] and the royal dockyards of [[Chatham]], [[Portsmouth]], [[Greenwich]], [[Woolwich]] and [
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  • ...of Lancaster, was made a Duke and was also granted Palatinate powers - the royal powers, or the powers belonging to the palace. ...d, as the heart of the manufacturing revolution. An inland city, its civic arms show a ship and the crest shows the world covered in bees; Manchester's ind
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  • ...]] is magnet for Shakespeareans; [[Forres]] where the Bard placed Duncan's royal palace. [[File:Blason Murray (Moray) (selon Gelre).svg|right|thumb|120px|Arms of the Earldom of Moray]]
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  • ...com/ Rockingham Castle]. Retrieved 16 August 2009.</ref> and was used as a Royal fortress until Elizabethan times. ...g ago as 1665. When the first Northamptonshire County Council was granted arms in 1939, a Lancastrian red rose was made the prominent charge, but with two
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  • ...lish People'', Book III, Ch. 11: "And to furnish a lasting memorial of the royal saint, they hung the King's banner of purple and gold over his tomb."</ref> The current arms were granted to the former county council in 1951, and adopted as the flag
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  • ...rshire Arms, Presteigne (geograph 2469033).jpg|thumb|250px|The Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne]] ...and around the shield a ''bordure compony or and azure'' from the Mortimer arms.
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  • ...the top of the cross in Nigg churchyard are two figures with outstretched arms in the act of supplication; the dove descends between them, and below are t ...ir original seat; and [[Eilean Donan]] in Loch Alsh, which was blown up by Royal Navy warships during the abortive Jacobite rising in 1719.
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  • The West Saxon royal palace in [[Cheddar]] was used several times in the 10th century to host th Somerset is an important supplier of defence equipment and technology. A Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Bridgwater was built at the start of the Second World
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  • Sussex has a traditional shield of arms, blue with six martlets; arms which heralds anachronistically attributed to the Kingdom of Sussex. ...ne Redoubt Fortress Military Museum] Eastbourne Redoubt is the home of the Royal Sussex Regimental Museum</ref> [[Battle, Sussex|Battle Abbey]], built to co
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  • ...trade, and many areas of its dense forests, such as Malvern Chase, were royal hunting grounds. In the nineteenth century, Worcester was a centre for the ..., where orchards a re still worked on a commercial scale. Worcester City's arms include three black pears, representing a now rare local pear variety, the
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  • ...itzGerald dynasty, who became the Earls of Desmond. Cork City was given a Royal Charter in 1318 and for many centuries was an outpost for Old English cultu ...la fighting until the Anti-Treaty side called a ceasefire and dumped their arms in May 1923. Michael Collins, a key figure in the War of Independence, was
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  • ...the old O'Donnell royal arms. The ''County Arms'' are the official coat of arms of both County Donegal and Donegal County Council.
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  • ...Independence, the Irish Republican Army fought a guerrilla war against the Royal Irish Constabulary, and British military. One of the more prominent inciden ...of IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch, and the order by Frank Aiken to dump all arms.
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