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Sandbach, Cheshire   (Historic Market Town)

Sandbach is a market town in Cheshire....(more)

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Coxwold, North Yorkshire

Coxwold is one of those villages that appear to have changed very little with the passing of the centuries.....(more)

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Ipswich, Suffolk

This is a town that can trace its history back to the Stone-Age, it has been a successive settlement throughout the ages and has been populated by settlers from the Iron-Age,.......(more)

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Brockenhurst, Hampshire   (Picturesque Village)

Gloriously set, like a jewel in a crown, between woodland and heathland, is the picturesque place called Brockenhurst.....(more)

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Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire

Driffield makes an ideal base from which to explore the spacious Wolds and the glorious sandy bays of the lovely coastline of East Yorkshire.....(more)

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Bungay, Suffolk   (Historic Market Town)

A market town in Suffolk known for its medieval architecture and scenic location along the River Waveney.....(more)

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Fairford, Gloucestershire   (Historic Market Town)

Fairford was granted a market charter in the year 1135 but it is believed that village has its origins way back in the Bronze Age. Its beautiful church is world famous for having the most complete set of Medieval stained glass windows of any parish church in the United Kingdom....(more)

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Sandwich, Kent   (Seaside Town)

The town had prospered from its natural harbour for centuries, and by the 13th-century Sandwich had become a major port.....(more)

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Alston, Cumbria   (Historic Market Town)

At a height of over 1,000 feet in the far reaches of the Pennines, this is one of England's highest market towns. Alston is a lively bustling place of steeply rising narrow.......(more)

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Tintagel, Cornwall

Legendry seat of King Arthur, graced with spectacular cliff scenery and the ruins of a castle built for the Earl of Cornwall in 1145, and of a Celtic Monastery. King Arthur's.......(more)

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Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire   (Picturesque Village)

This is a delightful village set beside the River Thames at a point where the historic river is joined by the lesser known River Thame. The village is renowned for its Abbey.......(more)

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Oare, Somerset   (Picturesque Village)

Thus, it was unsurprising to learn that this was the setting for R.D.Blackmore's famous novel, Lorna Doone.....(more)

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Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire   (Historic Market Town)

The delightful market town of Moreton has welcomed visitors for many centuries.....(more)

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Reading, Berkshire

This town lies on the extremities of the Berkshire Downs and the Chiltern Hills at a point where the waters of the rivers Thames and Kennet meet making the River Thames a major river for the rest of its journey to the sea.....(more)

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Lichfield, Staffordshire   (Historic City)

The Lichfield Markets have been held on the historic Market Square since King Stephen granted the first charter for a market in 1153. In the past martyrs were burnt at the.......(more)

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Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire   (Seaside Town)

So settled is this coastal town that it is difficult to imagine that the Middle Ages saw the first parish of Mablethorpe swallowed up by the sea.....(more)

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Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire   (Historic Market Town)

Whittlesey is an old area of Cambridge, it is mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086.....(more)

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Portloe, Cornwall   (Picturesque Village)

"One of the least spoiled and most impressive of Cornish fishing villages" - Sir John Betjeman (famous poet 1906-1984)....(more)

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Aldeburgh, Suffolk   (Seaside Town)

Aldeburgh is a seaside retreat with boundless charm. The history of the resort quite possibly reaches back to Saxon times, certainly during the Middle Ages it was a prosperous port and later it became known as a fishing centre.....(more)

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