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Blandford Forum, Dorset   (Historic Market Town)

Utterly delightful, a town of matchless elegance, of quintessentially English beauty, are but a few of the attributes to the fine Market town on the River Stour.....(more)

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Windermere, Cumbria

Lake Windermere is England's largest lake, and one of it's most popular with visitors. It is 10.5 miles long and approx 1 mile wide. The water of the lake reaches a depth of.......(more)

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Goathland, North Yorkshire   (Picturesque Village)

Sheep graze on the course grasses that surround the greystone houses of this straggling moorland village....(more)

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

The lovely market town of Gainsborough flourishes along a sweep of the River Trent which opens up pleasant riverside walks revealing much of the areas flora and fauna as well as interesting pieces of modern sculpture.....(more)

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Hexham, Northumberland   (Historic Market Town)

Historic market town where for centuries the sheep and cattle farmers of Northumberland gathered for the Tuesday market beside Hexham Abbey.....(more)

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Hereford, Herefordshire   (Historic City)

Hereford is a town in the west of England bordering wales. It has a beautiful cathedral which was established in the 7th century and a medieval bridge over the River Wye. Famous.......(more)

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Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire

This is a large, typical Lancashire village lying close to the urban sprawl of Blackburn and Accrington.....(more)

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Bristol, Somerset   (Historic City)

Bristol Zoo is not this great city's only claim to fame....(more)

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Bamburgh, Northumberland   (Picturesque Village)

Bamburgh, is known as the ancient capital of the Northumbrian coast and it is home to probably the finest Castle in England.....(more)

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Grasmere, Cumbria   (Picturesque Village)

This tiny stone village is beautifully set between the tranquil waters of Grasmere Lake and the jagged heights of Helm Crag and Nab Scar....(more)

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Beccles, Suffolk   (Historic Market Town)

A town of picturesque buildings, with many relaxing places in which to quietly roam.....(more)

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Truro, Cornwall   (Historic Market Town)

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.....(more)

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Devizes, Wiltshire   (Historic Market Town)

Devizes is a small market town situate on the edge of the great expanse of Salisbury Plain.....(more)

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Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria

This is the principal resort on Lake Windermere, it is a town crammed with quaint narrow streets jammed full of summer tourists which sprawls along the shores of the lake somewhere between Waterhead and Lakeside.....(more)

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Burton Bradstock, Dorset   (Picturesque Village)

This in one of the most enchanting villages to be found along the sweeping Dorset coast. It has gorgeous little lanes where there are eye catching thatched cottages with walls.......(more)

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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Cheltenham, the very mention of this grand old town conjurs up not only images of gracious georgian houses but also of superb thoroughbred horses thundering round the town's.......(more)

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Maidstone, Kent

Interestingly, there was a time when the most important factor about Maidstone was its 5 watermills......(more)

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Winsford, Somerset   (Picturesque Village)

One of the prettiest and most unspoilt of villages, steeped in history and mentioned in the Domesday book....(more)

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Edensor, Derbyshire   (Picturesque Village)

It was the 6th Duke of Devonshire who looked out of his window one day from Chatsworth House, and realised that the magnificent view of the park in front of him was blocked by a.......(more)

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