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Dover, Kent   (Seaside Town)

The white cliffs of Dover, the view that has stirred the hearts of English travellers for centuries.....(more)

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Grassington, North Yorkshire   (Historic Market Town)

This is Upper Wharfdale's principle village. It is a place of quiet charm with a lovely old bridge spanning the River Wharfe and cobbled lanes with pretty stone cottages descending towards the attractive village square.....(more)

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Durham, County Durham   (Historic City)

Durham as a town reflects the long history of its magnificent castle and cathedral with its winding streets, ancient market place and alleyways and other old churches to discover.......(more)

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Ledbury, Herefordshire   (Historic Market Town)

Ledbury is an attractive town whose centre has changed very little over the years. The Old Grammer School and Butchers Row cottage are but two of Ledbury's beautifully preserved Medieval buildings to be seen in the cobbled street, known as Church Lane.....(more)

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Beeston, Nottinghamshire

Beeston is mostly remarkable for being the place where the Ist Lord Trent started work in his mother's herbal shop at the age of 14.....(more)

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Lavenham, Suffolk   (Picturesque Village)

Considered to be Britain's best preserved medieval village, Lavenham, with its wonderful clusters of fine Tudor houses offering the visitor a glimpse of just how a prosperous wool.......(more)

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Kensington, Greater London

The attractive Royal borough of Kensington has many special places. Most prominent is Kensington Palace, birthplace of Queen Victoria.....(more)

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Amesbury, Wiltshire

Amesbury is a town near to stonehenge and is one of Wiltshire's most attractive little towns.....(more)

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Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire   (Picturesque Village)

Minster Lovell, in its beautiful dream-like setting against the gently rising Cotswold landscape, has a history stretching back to Saxon times.....(more)

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Woodstock, Oxfordshire   (Historic Market Town)

Woodstock will be forever inextricably linked with the great Palace of Blenheim and as birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, one of the greatest Englishmen ever.....(more)

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Birling Gap, East Sussex

The Birling Gap is a coastal hamlet on the South Downs in East Sussex, situated on the more)

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Horsham, West Sussex

A feature of the town is St.Mark's Church in North Street, this was built in 1839 but was considerably altered during restoration work of around 1869.....(more)

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Colchester, Essex   (Historic City)

Fascinating historic Essex town in which there was probably a settlement in both the 5th-century BC, and the Ist-century AD. The invading Roman's occupied Colchester in AD 43, and.......(more)

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Rochester, Kent

This is a spacious town that has much to offer the visitor. It is a lively place where picturesque past and present sit comfortably side by side.....(more)

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Marazion, Cornwall   (Seaside Town)

The picturesque village of Marazion with its quaint cottages, shops and pubs, is in a sublime position on the west Cornwall peninsula....(more)

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Thame, Oxfordshire   (Historic Market Town)

Thame is an ancient market town whose charter was granted by Wulfhere, King of Mercia. It was later mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1087 and has a parish church built during.......(more)

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Carlisle, Cumbria

For over 1700 years this town occupied an important position on the Scottish-English border, few town's have experienced such turbulent times, but strangely Carlisle has little.......(more)

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St Ives, Cambridgeshire   (Historic Market Town)

This attractive market town has one of the most highly picturesque river bridges in the country. The bridge dates to the 15th century and is famous for the chapel in its centre bay, it is one of only four medieval bridge chapel's surviving in England.....(more)

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Blandford Forum, Dorset   (Historic Market Town)

Utterly delightful, a town of matchless elegance, of quintessentially English beauty, are but a few of the attributes to the fine Market town on the River Stour.....(more)

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Windermere, Cumbria

Lake Windermere is England's largest lake, and one of it's most popular with visitors. It is 10.5 miles long and approx 1 mile wide. The water of the lake reaches a depth of.......(more)

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