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Holy Trinity & Jesus Hospital, Rothwell.
Rothwell

Interesting market town, with a long history, its market charter was granted in 1204...

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Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury

Shaftsbury is Dorset's only hill-top town, with its long history and good views it is particularly attractive to tourists...

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Exterior of Sherbourne Abbey
Sherborne

The softly glowing Ham stone of which most of the town properties are built, lends warmth and atmosphere to what is already a unique and attractive place...

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Skipton 015
Skipton

Long considered "The Gateway to the Dales" which lye to the north, moors extend southwards, and the tranquil countryside of the Ribble Valley is to the west...

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South Molton

Early evidence suggests that there was once a Saxon colony here but it is as an ancient sheep and cattle market town that South Molton has been documented since the 12th-century..

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St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
St Ives

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...

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Stafford
Stafford

Set in a landscape of contrasts with constantly changing scenery from the Royal hunting forests of Cannock Chase to the breweries of Burton, it is pleasurable to come across the.....

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Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire.
Stony Stratford

The pretty market town of Stony Stratford is an ancient town built around the Roman road 'Watling Street' which runs through the middle of the town. It is well worth a visit with.....

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Stow-on-the-Wold, one of the most popular cotswolds towns.
Stow on the Wold

"Stow on the Wold, where the wind blows cold"..

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Stratford upon Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford Upon Avon is a beautiful historic market town in the County of Warwickshire. Famous as the birthplace of the legendry playwright William Shakespeare..

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Gainsborough and his wife, part of guided walk round Sudbury, Suffolk
Sudbury

Sudbury is an ancient market town full of evocative memories. It was the birthplace of Gainsborough one of England's greatest painters...

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A picture of Taunton
Taunton

There is little doubt that this town is best known for the production of Cider (which is reputed to be Prince Williams' favourite drink) but this golden beverage should not be.....

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Saint Eustachius parish church, Tavistock, Devon
Tavistock

This pleasant market town plays host to what is possibly Devon's most entertaining annual fair, the Goose Fair, normally celebrated in the second week of October. Interest in.....

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Long Street, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Tetbury

A rather charming Cotswold town which has the good fortune to stand on the winding river Avon. Tetbury has a lovely old church which is thought to have been rebuilt around.....

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

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 alley ways...

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Town square, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
Thirsk

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Old cemetery in Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Trowbridge

Trowbridge is a historic town crammed with attractive stone buildings. It originated as a settlement along the Biss and flourished from the wool and weaving trades and from these periods there remain many magnificent merchant houses...

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Truro backstreet
Truro

Truro, today is Cornwall's unofficial capital and adminstrative centre but in the Middle Ages Truro was one of the towns which controlled Cornwall's flourishing tin mining industry...

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Sir John Barrow Monument in Ulverston. This monument is on Hoad Hill in Ulverston.
Ulverston

Old town and port with cobbled streets and a pretty market square. It is surrounded by the Furness fells, Coniston Water, Lake Windemere, and the spectacular Cumbrian Mountains. .....

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Wallingford bridge, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
Wallingford

Wallingford is a market town and riverside resort, it was originally built as a walled town at a strategic crossing of the River Thames by William the Conqueror. In fact, the.....

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