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  • ...rict National Park lies within Derbyshire. The [[Pennine Way]]'s southern end is at [[Edale]] in Derbyshire. *Georgette Heyer's novel ''The Toll-Gate'' is set in 1817 around a fictional toll-gate in Derbyshire.
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  • ...t from the south-east in AD 47 and Roman influence remained until the end of Roman government in Britain. Roman remains in the county include Pagans ...the Industrial Revolution in the Midlands and Northern England spelled the end for most of Somerset's cottage industries. Farming continued to flourish, h
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  • ...dle of what would otherwise be rich farmland and countryside. At the other end of the roads, at the centre of the county, is Coventry, once the centre of ...the names of a number of places in the north-western part of Warwickshire end with the phrase "-in-Arden", such as [[Henley-in-Arden]], [[Hampton-in-Arde
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  • ...ed in Ringsend are the south side of the Dublin Docklands, and at the west end is the area of South Lotts and part of the [[Grand Canal Dock]] area. Neigh ...lbeg Lighthouse]] to the mainland. The lighthouse lies at the extreme east end of the wall and was constructed in 1767. The stone wall that now stands was
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  • ...s 'Tandem Bona Causa Triumphat.' This means the Good Cause Triumphs in the end. ...round the town and passes through [[Kilwinning]], [[Bourtreehill]], Girdle Toll and [[Dreghorn]] and passes through the town centre of Irvine.
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  • ...lose to its confluence with the [[River Severn]], and close to the western end of the [[Severn Bridge]] on the [[M48 motorway]]. It is 16 miles east of [ ...s human occupation from the Mesolithic period of around 5,000 BC until the end of the Roman period, about AD 400. There are also Iron Age fortified camps
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  • ...on a major road (now the A697). Notable buildings in the town include the toll house where marriages were conducted, and [[The Hirsel]], which is the fami ...es Marjoribanks, Member of Parliament for Berwickshire, stands at the east end of the town, close to the Coldstream Bridge.
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  • ...pular tourist destination. It has easy access to [[Snowdonia]] and is the end of the [[Ffestiniog Railway]].<ref name="gateway">[http://www.porthmadog.co ...press2003/713902/?lang=en Welsh Assembly Government : ''Assembly Abolishes Toll on Porthmadog Cob'']</ref>
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  • ...lways made Kent a strong influence on the capital, and vice versa. By the end of the 16th century Jack Cade (of Cade’s Rebellion) was said by [[William ...and market town was confirmed in 1243 when it was incorporated, and by the end of the 16th century it had risen to become an important market town, primar
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  • ...who controlled the church at North Leith built at the same time. It was a toll bridge, the income supplementing the church's income. The bridge was demoli ...iege were at Leith Mount, at the north end of Ferry Road, and at the north end of Bangor Road.
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  • In 1842, one of the local toll gates was destroyed in the Rebecca Riots. ...ay passed about 2 miles north of the castle, and new building at the north end of the high street spread eastwards along Pentre Road, and then northwards
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  • ...of the plant) with the loss of 420 jobs. With this final closure came the end of the Beith reputation for being one of the main furniture manufacturing c ...ngs]]</ref> giving it a most unusual appearance; in earlier years it was a Toll House. A deaf-and-dumb young man lived in the cottage in earlier times, he
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  • ...eneficeoflangelei.org.uk/st-benedicts-bennetts-end/ St Benedict], Bennetts End **[http://beneficeoflangelei.org.uk/st-marys-apsley-end/ St Mary's], [[Apsley]]
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  • ...nd, though inscriptions are scarce. Evidence for some civic life after the end of Roman Britain includes the claim in the ''Historia Brittonum'' that Vort ...tly extended by the charter of King John in 1200, who granted freedom from toll throughout the kingdom and from pleading outside the borough.
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  • ...the Southampton Water, a deep water estuary, which is a ria formed at the end of the last Ice Age. Here, the rivers Test and Itchen converge.<ref name="s ...e bridge (it was originally named the Cobden Free Bridge), and was never a toll bridge. Downstream of the Cobden Bridge is the Northam Railway Bridge, then
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  • ...enry V in 1415 during the French Wars. Neglect over the centuries took its toll, but in 1907 the church was restored to its full glory. Its most striking f ...of Christ the King College in the lower part of the field, which is at the end of Purdy Road. The bank is all that remains of the old line.
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  • ...ty boundary-line dividing Berkshire and Oxfordshire, and consequently each end of the bar is officially in a different county. File:Whitchurch toll bridge - Pangbourne - over the Thames.jpg|Whitchurch Bridge
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  • Eastbourne lies at the eastern end of the [[South Downs]] alongside the famous [[Beachy Head]] cliff. The shel ...ead]] cliff, to the west of the town is a towering chalk cliff marking the end of the South Downs.
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  • ...ry and the town. A footbridge is incorporated on the upstream side, with a toll of 70 pence.
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  • |Toll road bridge ...s Memorial Bridge, opened in 1909 by public subscription, it was the first toll-free crossing of the Ironbridge Gorge. The bridge was the first bridge in E
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