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Baconsthorpe Castle

Baconsthorpe Castle, historically known as Baconsthorpe Hall, is a ruined, fortified manor house near the village of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England. It was established in the 15th century on the site of a former manor hall, probably by John Heydon I and his father, William. John was an ambitious lawyer with many enemies and built a tall, fortified house, but his descendants became wealthy sheep farmers, and being less worried about attack, developed the property into a more elegant, courtyard ho

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Little Barningham

Little Barningham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Cromer and 19 miles (31 km) north of Norwich and includes the hamlet of Barningham Green.

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Cawston Road Mill, Aylsham

Cawston Road Mill is a tower mill at Aylsham, Norfolk, England, which has been truncated and converted for use as a holiday home.

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Cawston Road Mill, Aylsham

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Blickling Hall

Blickling Hall is a Jacobean stately home situated in 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of parkland in a loop of the River Bure, near the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England. The mansion was built on the ruins of a Tudor building for Sir Henry Hobart from 1616 and designed by Robert Lyminge. The library at Blickling Hall contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England, containing an estimated 13,000 to 14,000 volumes. The core collecti

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Alby with Thwaite

Alby with Thwaite is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish straddles the A140 road around 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Cromer and 19 miles (31 km) north of Norwich. It includes the settlements of Alby and Thwaite.

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East Beckham

East Beckham is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Bluestone railway station

Bluestone railway station served the villages of Heydon and Oulton, in Norfolk, England. It was a stop on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.

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North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

North Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Steffan Aquarone, a Liberal Democrat.

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North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

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Copythorne Common

Copythorne Common is a 17-hectare (42-acre) nature reserve west of Southampton in Hampshire. It is managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. It is part of the New Forest, which is a Special Area of Conservation and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

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New Forest

The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featuring in Domesday Book.

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Matley Bog

Matley Bog is an ancient woodland bog in the New Forest, Hampshire, England.

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Bartley Lodge

Bartley Lodge is a country house near Cadnam in Hampshire, England, within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park. It was built in the 18th century to take advantage of the hunting offered in the surrounding New Forest. Most famously, the eminent geologist Sir Charles Lyell spent his childhood here. The building is now a hotel.

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Colbury

Colbury is a small village in the civil parish of Ashurst and Colbury, in the New Forest district, in the county of Hampshire, England. The village lies along Deerleap Lane, near the modern village of Ashurst, in the New Forest National Park.

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Bramshaw

Bramshaw is a small village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It lies just inside the New Forest. The name Bramshaw means Bramble Wood.

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Netley Marsh

Netley Marsh is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, close to the town of Totton. It lies within the New Forest District, and the New Forest National Park. It is the supposed site of the battle between an invading Anglo Saxon army, under Cerdic and a British army under the probably fictitious king Natanleod in the year 508.

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The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness

The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness is a £200 million development under construction in and around the Port of Barrow, England. The site covers an area of some 400 acres (160 ha) and was due for completion in 2020. The internal road network is already complete, with construction of a large business park complex ongoing and work on a 400-berth marina and 650 home Marina Village due to start thereafter. In 2010, The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness ranked as the ninetieth most costly regeneration project

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The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness

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St John's Church, Barrow-in-Furness

St. John's Church is a church on Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

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St John's Church, Barrow-in-Furness

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Walney Channel

The Walney Channel separates Walney Island from the British mainland. The northern portion of the channel opens into the Duddon Estuary and is both narrower and shallower. The southern half of the channel is wider and is regularly dredged to allow shipping to access the Port of Barrow. This half opens into Morecambe Bay.

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Island Road railway station

Island Road railway station was a railway station at the centre of Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, England which operated between 1899 and 1967. It was built by the Furness Railway near the junction of the Ramsden Branch Line and a line which ran through the industrial areas of the town.

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Ramsden Dock railway station

Ramsden Dock railway station was the terminus of the Furness Railway's Ramsden Dock Branch in Barrow-in-Furness, England.

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Ramsden Dock railway station

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Sheep Island (England)

Sheep Island is an uninhabited grassy island of around 15 acres (6 ha), located just over 1⁄4 mile (400 m) from the shore of Walney Island, opposite Snab Point. It is one of the Islands of Furness and is in Westmorland and Furness in Cumbria in northwest England. The island's geographic location is, using the British national grid reference system, SD215639.

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Sheep Island (England)

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Rampside railway station

Rampside railway station was located on the Piel Branch of the Furness Railway in the Rampside area of Barrow-in-Furness, England.

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Rampside railway station

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Islands of Furness

The Islands of Furness are situated to the south-west and east of the Furness Peninsula. Within England, they are the third biggest collection of islands. They are generally quite small, though at 12.99 km2 Walney Island is the eighth biggest in England. Of these, only Walney Island, Barrow Island, Roa Island and Piel Island are inhabited. The majority of the islands lay within the boundary of the former Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, with some 15,000 residents constituting 20% of the district's

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Islands of Furness

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Foulney Island

Foulney Island is a low-lying grass and shingle area 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-east of Roa Island, off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsula in Cumbria, England. Foulney Island is one of the Islands of Furness in Morecambe Bay, northern England. For local government purposes the island is in the borough of Westmorland and Furness. It has an area of about 40 acres. In earlier times it was known as Fowle Island.

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