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

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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St Peter's Church, Colchester
Colchester, Essex

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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Astbury Mere
Congleton, Cheshire

This lively market town stands on a bend of the River Dane, it quite possibly takes its name from the Celtic word "congle" which in English means "a bend"...

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St Sampson's Church, Cricklade, Wiltshire
Cricklade, Wiltshire

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

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Village sign post in Diss, Norfolk
Diss, Norfolk

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

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Thomas Hardy's cottage
Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset and is the heart of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. On the outskirts of the town you will find Hardy’s birthplace and family home in Higher.....

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Box Hill
Dorking, Surrey

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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Downham Market, Norfolk. The attractive victorian clock (c.1878) that overlooks the market place
Downham Market, Norfolk

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View of Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire
Dunstable, Bedfordshire

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, Gloucestershire

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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Easingwold, North Yorkshire

Only a stones throw from the city of York, Easingwold makes good base for touring this area, with good routes for all the main places in North Yorkshire. Easingwold has some of.....

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Epsom race course, Epsom
Epsom, Surrey

Epsom, is known world-wide for what is perhaps the most famous horse race of all time - The Derby...

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Fairford
Fairford, Gloucestershire

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..

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Fareham Quay
Fareham, Hampshire

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Frensham Common (2)
Farnham, Surrey

It was King Caedwalla of Wessex who, in 688 bestowed the Manor of Farnham on the Bishop's of Winchester...

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A picture of Faversham
Faversham, Kent

There is record of settlements in the area in pre-historic times, it is known that the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons both established villages...

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Filey, North Yorkshire
Filey, 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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Views Over Frodsham, Cheshire
Frodsham, Cheshire

In the medieval times Frodsham was an important port and borough belonging to the earls of Chester...

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Old brick farm building on staddle stones in Gillingham, Dorset
Gillingham, Dorset

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Glastonbury Hill and Tor
Glastonbury, Somerset

This little town now enjoys world renown for its annual music festival which attracts thousands of visitors from all over the globe. None-the-less, this still remains very much a.....

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