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Baldock High St, Hertfordshire

Baldock

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Marylebone

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Warton Rectory, Lancashire

Warton

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Gloucestershire Historical Facts

13 Interesting and historical facts about Gloucestershire.

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The drystone walls of the Cotswolds

The Cotswolds has a network of drystone walls equivalent in length to the Great Wall of China!

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Largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

The Cotswolds is the largest 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' (AONB) in the UK.

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The Cotswolds Dead Mans Acre

There is an area of Selsley Common (A Cotswold beauty spot) known locally as 'Dead Mans Acre'. It is said that a man was told that he could have as much land of the common that he could enclose in one day. The effort though, proved too much for the man and killed him.

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