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Bridgwater
Bridgwater

Bridgwater emerged from a village of the Middle Ages to become a prosperous river-port. Later, it became known as the place where Monmouth proclaimed himself King...

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The Old Gaol Museum in Buckingham
Buckingham

Said to have been founded by 'Bucca' leader of the first Anglo Saxon settlers during the 7th century AD, and declared the county town of Buckinghamshire during the year 888 by.....

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Bungay in Winter
Bungay

Bungay is an attractive historic market town in Suffolk and is situated on the river Waveney in the Norfolk Broads National Park. The town has several historic attractions.....

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Burford
Burford

Welcome to Burford - an historical market town in the Oxfordshire part of the Cotswolds. With a character all of its own, and a church that is considered to be one of the top 20.....

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Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds

Bury St.Edmunds is laid out in accordance with the old medieval formula of a square for god and a square for man...

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Cheadle, Staffordshire
Cheadle

Cheadle has several fine black and white half timbered buildings in the town that date from the 16th-century..

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St Mary's Church, Chesham, Autumn
Chesham

Located in the picturesque Chess Valley along the Chiltern hills and surrounded by famland, Chesham is one of Buckinghamshire's most attractive towns...

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The Crooked Spire
Chesterfield

Chesterfield is an attractive town close to the dramatic peaks of the Peak District National Park. It is well known for its strange landmark, the crooked spire of its parish.....

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Chipping Campden Wool Market, Gloucestershire
Chipping Campden

Immediately appealing, this is certainly one of the most picturesque small towns in the northern reaches of the Cotswolds..

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Chipping Norton Church
Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton lies in the midst of beautiful cotswold countryside and is surrounded by other villages that radiate the glory of traditional honey-coloured cotswold stone Manor Houses and magnificent Churches...

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The Broad Walk in Cirencester Park, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cirencester

Originally known in Roman times as Corinium Dobunorum, the town of Cirencester in those far off day's was the second largest town in England...

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A picture of Cirencester
Cirencester

Originally known in Roman times as Corinium Dobunorum, the town of Cirencester in those far off day's was the second largest town in England...

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The rooftops of Clitheroe
Clitheroe

Enter the town of Clitheroe and one glimpse of the ruined castle rising above the town, reminds you that this is an ancient place with a long and illustrious history...

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The Herdwick Tup, COCKERMOUTH, The Lake District, Cumbria 2005.
Cockermouth

Cockermouth is ideally placed to be used as a centre for touring the Lake District National Park. It has a High Street seemingly unaltered, and is ringed by some of the finest scenery in England...

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Colchester Town Hall
Colchester

Interestingly, this is England's oldest-recorded town. It has stood on the banks of the River Colne amid fine Essex countryside throughout some of history's most tempestuous times...

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St Sampson's Church, Cricklade, Wiltshire
Cricklade

Lying in the northern reaches of Wiltshire, the historic town of Cricklade has many visual delights...

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Diss Mere
Diss

Diss is a beautiful old market town built around the edge of a six acre lake...

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Leith Hill Tower, Surrey
Dorking

It is here that romantically Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton said their good byes before Nelson departed for the Battle of Trafalgar in the year 1805...

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Dunstable countryside
Dunstable

Henry I gave Dunstable its first "Royal" charter making it a market town, this was at the time he founded the town's Augustinian priory in 1131...

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Dursley Village in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Dursley

Dursley is an ancient place, set in lush greenery to the edge of the Cotswolds in the midst of the beautiful Vale of Berkley, close to the River Severn...

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