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Fingringhoe, Essex

Delightful Fingringhoe is home to one of the most outstanding Nature Reserves in the country. It was formed out of a disused gravel pit near the estuary of the beautiful River Colne and today it is the premier flagship of the Essex Wildlife Trust.

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Fishbourne, West Sussex

This is a large village, it is a combination of Old Fishbourne and New Fishbourne. The discovery of the Roman Villa here confirms that this was a settlement during Roman times, if not before.

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Fittleworth, West Sussex

This picturesque little village is dominated by the Church of St.Mary, which stands proudly on top of a hill.

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Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire

Sea, sand and solitude, or rather sea, rocks and solitude can be found in the grandeur of this picture postcard stretch of chalky cliffs where a retreating sea reveals picturesque little coves and sea caves.

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Flatford, Suffolk

On arrival in Flatford there is little to prepare you for its overwhelming beauty, but you should not be surprised, for this after all is Constable Country, an area made famous by the great landscape painter and which features in so many of his pictures.

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Fleetwood, Lancashire

Fleetwood was once famous as a fishing port, but now it is more likely the visitor will see yachts and leisure boats lined up at the pretty quayside.

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Fletching, East Sussex

The village grew out of a Saxon settlement, near the spot of one of the entrances to Sheffield Park, now owned by the National Trust.

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Folkestone, Kent

The recent building of the Channel Tunnel made Folkestone the scene of one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe.

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Fontmell Magna, Dorset

A picturesque village in the county of Dorset, situated between the historic market towns of Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum. The village has a church which in 1905 was described...

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Ford, Northumberland

Ford lies in an area of great natural beauty. It is in close proximity to the beautiful coastline of Linisfarne and Holy Island and is surrounded by old and pretty villages

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Fordingbridge, Hampshire

Fordingbridge is a historic market town in Hampshire

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Foremark, Derbyshire

Foremark lies in spacious open coutryside close to the banks of the River Trent in a hilly, well wooded area of mainly pastureland.

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Forest-in-Teesdale, County Durham

It's landscape, possessed of a wild untamed beauty, highlighted by the meandering River Tees, has a few ancient farmhouses and old stone cottages.

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Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire

The lantern tower of the Church of St. Mary and All Saints at Fotheringhay shines through the deepening shadows of the great trees that frame it, shadows matched in darkness by those less visible that haunt the village where the final tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots was enacted.

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Foulridge, Lancashire

Lovely village which was once independent but since the middle of the last century has been part of the larger village of its near neighbour, Colne. Like Colne, for hundred's of...

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Fovant, Wiltshire

Fovant is most noted for its dramatic hillside where huge regimental badges are carved into the chalk downs and clearly seen from the road.

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