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Sidmouth, Devon   (Seaside Town)

Early in the 19th-century the Duke and Duchess of Kent moved to Sidmouth with their daughter, Princess Victoria, the future Queen of England.....(more)

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Newtown Linford, Leicestershire   (Picturesque Village)

This picturesque village is situated in the Charnwood Forest area of Leicestershire.....(more)

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Bolsterstone, South Yorkshire

Bolsterstone is a hilltop village, about 1.000 feet above sea level, situated about 8 miles North west of Sheffield, Yorkshire. It has Anglo Saxon roots and lies on a Salt Route.......(more)

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Golcar, West Yorkshire

Sturdily built of stone, this small hill town is perched north of the River Colne and the now restored Huddersfield Narrow Canal.....(more)

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Hoghton, Lancashire

It was here that James I created "Sirloin" when he supposedly knighted his beef!....(more)

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Metheringham, Lincolnshire

Metheringham is an old Lincolnshire village with a history stretching back to the Doomsday Book of 1086.....(more)

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Rowston, Lincolnshire

The village of Rowston is perhaps best known for its historic church. The church, dedicated to St.Clement has church records dating back to 1566.....(more)

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Staunton Harold, Leicestershire

Staunton was mentioned in the Doomsday Book when it was held by Henry de Ferrers.....(more)

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Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Wakefield was the capital of Yorkshire's woollen industry for more than 700 years, it was an important weaving and dying centre as far back as the 13th century.....(more)

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Hunstanton, Norfolk   (Seaside Town)

Hunstanton was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1087 when it would have been little more than a settlement.....(more)

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Notgrove, Gloucestershire   (Picturesque Village)

A small picturesque village in the Cotswolds region of England. The village contains around 30 stone cottages, with the Notgrove Estate first mentioned in the Doomsday book, now a.......(more)

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Chiswick, Greater London

Chiswick was the home and the haunt of prosperous and fashionable folk in the romantic, heady days of the 17th and 18th-centuries.....(more)

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Northwich, Cheshire

The fortunes of this exceedingly attractive town have for centuries been founded on the production of salt. Northwich sits above Cheshire's vast rock-salt beds, appropriately the.......(more)

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Beesands, Devon

Here in Beesands narrow lanes rise swiftly up steep cliffs from a small beach-side fishing village showing a delightful mix match of old cottages fronted by a strip of softly shelving sand and shingle.....(more)

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