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• Ealing
  ...Ealing parish. Improvement in communications with [[London]], culminating with the opening of the railway station in 1838, shifted the local economy to ma ...ed in May 1901. The town is now a significant commercial and retail centre with a developed night-time economy. Ealing has the characteristics of both leaf
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• Scotland
  ...red with suspicion or hostility by the Lowlanders. Today the Lowlands are broken in two; the industrialised and urbanised Central Belt in the valleys of the ...ymology of 7500 Places in These Islands | publisher=WN | date=| location=| pages=| url=| doi=| isbn=030435385X }}</ref> seems to be an early word for the Hi
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• St Kilda
  ...ed buildings that the native St Kildans left behind. They share the island with a small military base established in 1957.<ref>Steel (1988) page 273.</ref> ...ined to Hirta by a natural arch. MacLean (1972) suggests that the arch was broken when struck by a galleon fleeing the defeat of the Spanish Armada, but othe
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• Glastonbury
  ...y. The town has been described as a New Age community; it attracts people with New Age and Neopagan beliefs, drawn by myths ancient and newly made, concer Glastonbury is a busting small town of the [[Somerset Levels]]. As with many towns of similar size, the centre is not as thriving as it once was bu
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• Darlaston
  ...ton''' is a town in [[Staffordshire]], within the [[Black Country]] and as with its neighbouring towns, Darlaston was caught up and remade by the Industria ...s=Geraldine Beech, Rose Mitchell |year=2004 |publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd. |pages=101 |isbn=1-55002-506-6}}</ref>
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• Queenborough
  ...ing skills in these waters, and also shared a house near the small harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. | pages=623–627}}; Isaac Taylor, ''Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Histo
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• Windsor Great Park
  Areas associated with or attached to the Great Park, but not officially within its borders includ ...st Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was the last private person to be entrusted with the Lodge. It was in his time, in 1936, that the Prime Minister, Stanley Ba
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• Marble Arch Caves
  |access=Show cave. Accessible beyond with permission. ...Journal| volume=3| issue=9| publisher=Yorkshire Ramblers' Club| year=1909| pages=49–65| location=Leeds| url=http://www.yrc.org.uk/yrcweb/index.php/journal
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• Llanwrthwl
  ...thwl''' is a village in northern [[Brecknockshire]] adjacent to the border with [[Radnorshire]]. Llanwrthwl lies off the A470 road, north by road from [[Bu ...=6XwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA250|accessdate=3 July 2011|year=1845|publisher=S. Lewis|pages=250–}}</ref>
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• Pennine Way
  At its northern end, [[Kirk Yetholm]], the trail connects with the [[Scottish National Trail]], which leads on to [[Cape Wrath]]. The Pennine Way has long been popular with walkers, and in 1990 the Countryside Commission reported that 12,000 long-d
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• Savernake Forest
  ...four, are all dry valleys, and the presence of Cretaceous deposits of clay-with-flints creates the damp heavy soils suited to dense cover of oak and beech. ...for his [the king's] use"''. The open spaces were found to be ''"infested with heath, furze, fern [bracken]"'' and had ''"coarse turfe"''.<ref>Bruce., 194
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• Yeavering
  ...cted on the [[Yeavering Bell]]; the largest of its kind in Northumberland, with dry stone walls around both of the Bell's peaks.<ref name="Hope-Taylor 1977 ...al areas of Bernicia, where trade and other links would have been going on with other Anglo-Saxon populations elsewhere in Britain. He argued that this was
  38 KB (5,979 words) - 16:04, 16 May 2015
• The Trundle
  ...l about 3300 BC, characterized by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. Their purpose is not kn ...f the hillfort. Causewayed enclosures were new to archaeology at the time, with only five known by 1930, and the photograph persuaded archaeologist E. Ceci
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• Lady Isle
  ...The nearby ''Half tide'', ''Scart rocks'' and ''Seal rock'' are associated with Lady Isle. ===Evidence from old maps===
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• British Museum
  ...enviable collection of curiosities and, not wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to King George II, for the nation, for a s ...e British Museum: A History|city=London|publisher=The British Museum Press|pages=25}}</ref>
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• Reddish
  ...'' is a suburban area of south-east [[Lancashire]], adjacent to the border with [[Cheshire]]. It is two miles north of [[Stockport]] in the latter county a ...egends, Traditions | publisher = Llanerch Press | location= | year= 1993 | pages = 26–9 |isbn = 1-897853-06-8 | origyear = 1873}}</ref><ref name=Higson>{{
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• Tuam
  ...ent to Shop Street was used as a burial ground. The name Tuam is a cognate with the Latin term tumulus (burial mound). The town's ancient name was ''Tuaim ...around them. Likewise, Tuam grew up around the monastery and has kept the broken chariot wheel as its heraldic symbol.
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• Dunlop
  '''Dunlop''' is a village and parish in [[Ayrshire]], adjacent to the border with [[Renfrewshire]]. Some 1,100 acres of the parish extend into the latter cou ...r her death. The cheese became World famous and created a cottage industry with cheese merchants from Kirktoun buying up the cheeses and taking them to Gla
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• Iron Ring
  ...f the 17th century, however, the castles were ruinous. They became popular with visiting artists during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and visitor ...the Welsh princes. The castles incorporated luxury apartments and gardens, with the intention of supporting large royal courts in splendour. Caernarfon's c
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• Horton-cum-Studley
  ...Norreys from 1572 and Earl of Abingdon from 1682. Beckley and Horton were broken up into lots and sold by Viscount Bertie, son of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl o ...ed in 1642, leaving his estates to his wife for the remainder of her life, with reversion to their son Thomas and thence to other members of their immediat
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