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A view of Tewkesbury Abbey from with a street in the town of Tewkesbury.

Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucestershire
Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire is an historic market town, situated near the Cotswolds, it has a beautiful Abbey over 500yrs old and lots of historic buildings and ancient alley ways to explore.
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Market Hall, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire

Chipping Campden in the county of Gloucestershire
Immediately appealing, this is certainly one of the most picturesque small towns in the northern reaches of the Cotswolds
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Upper Slaughter

Upper Slaughter in the county of Gloucestershire
Tranquillity is the keynote for this enchanting hamlet which is best explored on foot.
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Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire

Lower Slaughter in the county of Gloucestershire
Lower Slaughter is one of the Cotswold's most idyllic villages where you should abandon your car and roam around on foot.
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A cottage deep in the woods near Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire

Henley on Thames in the county of Oxfordshire
Henley held the very first regatta in 1839 and in the year 1851 Prince Albert became Patron of the Regatta, thus giving the event the pretigious title of Royal Henley Regatta.
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Windsor Royal Station

Windsor in the county of Berkshire
Windsor, or rather Royal Windsor, is a seductive mix of history and romance with a unique atmosphere. It is a place where the sense of history is never far away, it is a town...
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Newcastle Packet Inn

Scarborough in the county of North Yorkshire
To this day Scarborough remains a very popular resort and this delightful north coast town overlooks two magnificent sandy bays which are divided by a huge headland.
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The view

Bempton in the county of East Riding of Yorkshire
From early spring to summer the dramatic cliffs of Bempton pulsate with the sounds of the vast number of seabirds, which nest in the chalky crevices and cliff shelving.
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Autum Valley

Filey in the county of North Yorkshire
Filey is a former fishing town on the North coast of England. It first became a noted holiday resort in Victorian times when the railways opened up giving city dwellers access to the coast.
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West Front entrance to Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire
The soaring grace of Salisbury Cathedral's slender spire rises majestically over the town. Higher than any other in the land, at 404 feet, the spire can be seen against the...
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Avebury, Wiltshire

Avebury in the county of Wiltshire
The village of Avebury is world famous for its spectacular stone circle, which some consider more spectacular than Stonehenge. The pretty village also has a 15th century church,...
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The Oxford canal at Banbury, Oxon.

Banbury in the county of Oxfordshire
This is one of the best known town's in England. It was made famous by its celebrated cross of 1859, built in honour of the wedding of Prince Frederick of Prussia, it replaces an...
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Alford windmill and tearooms, Lincolnshire

Alford in the county of Lincolnshire
Deep in the Lincolnshire countryside, not far distant from the golden sandy beaches between Mablethorpe and Chapel St.Leonards is the pleasant market town of Alford.
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The river, Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswolds.

Bourton on the Water in the county of Gloucestershire
Bourton on the Water is a beautiful Cotswold village often referred to as ‘The Venice of the Cotswolds’ or ‘Little Venice’ as it center’s around the river Windrush, a...
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Sally Lunn's

Bath in the county of Somerset
Bath is an elegant city famous for its beautiful Georgian architecture and its Roman attractions from which it got it's name. The traveller James Boswell who visited the city...
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Yorkshire Dales

York in the county of North Yorkshire
One of the most historic cities in Britain with overs 2000 years of history...
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Bridlington, East Yorkshire

Bridlington in the county of East Riding of Yorkshire
The town has a north beach, a south beach and a harbour. It is both a seaside town and a fishing port.
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Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln in the county of Lincolnshire
This fine cathedral City was called Lindon by the Ancient Britons' and later the Romans' knew it as Lindum. In AD48 a Roman garrison was set up to command the meeting of the...
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St Albans

St Albans in the county of Hertfordshire
One of the most pleasant parts of St.Albans is quaint Fishpond Street. The street derives it's name from a fishpond which lay nearby in medieval times where the monks used to fish.
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A picture of Stevenage

Stevenage in the county of Hertfordshire
Its history began in Roman times when it grew as a small town beside the Great North Road and its heritage from those times is evidenced by the Six Hills, a 2,000 year old Roman burial site.
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