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Marske Hall

Marske Hall is a 17th-century former mansion house, now a Valorum Care Group residential care home, in Marske-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland, England. It has Grade I listed building status.

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Upton, Vale of White Horse

Upton is a spring line village and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs, about 2 miles (3 km) south of Didcot in the Vale of the White Horse district. Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire, England, since the 1974 boundary changes. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 421.

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Boosbeck railway station

Boosbeck railway station was a railway station serving the village of Boosbeck in the ceremonial county of the North Riding of Yorkshire in England. The station was opened in 1878 and closed to passengers in 1960 with freight services being stopped in 1964.

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Mowbray Fields

Mowbray Fields is a 2.2-hectare (5.4-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the southern outskirts of Didcot in Oxfordshire. It is owned by South Oxfordshire District Council and managed by the Earth Trust.

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Sylva Foundation

The Sylva Foundation is an environmental organisation focusing on trees and forestry established in 2006, and registered as a charity in England and Wales in 2009 and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator in 2010. The organisation was co-founded by Sir Martin Wood and Dr Gabriel Hemery. Its office is at the Sylva Wood Centre in Long Wittenham in Oxfordshire, England.

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Kilton Castle

Kilton Castle is a ruined castle overlooking the valley of Kilton Beck, near to the village of Kilton in the historic county of the North Riding of Yorkshire in England. The castle was built in the 12th century and was described as being in a ruinous state by the 14th century, with it being totally abandoned by the 16th century. Kilton Castle was owned by several noble families who hailed from the area; de Brus, de Kilton, Autrey, de Thweng, de Lumley.

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Blewbury

Blewbury is a village and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs section of the North Wessex Downs about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Didcot, 14 miles (23 km) south of Oxford and 50 miles (80 km) west of London. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,581.

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St Germain's Churchyard

St Germain's Churchyard is a large cemetery overlooking the North Sea at Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England. Its church tower is a grade II listed structure at the midpoint to the yard and a landmark for sailors out on the sea. It is a remnant of a demolished church, services at St Germain's were replaced in 1876 by St Mark's.

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Earth Trust Centre

Earth Trust Centre is the hub of the Earth Trust Farm at Little Wittenham, at the foot of Wittenham Clumps and includes: the main office; Earth Lab, where education activities take place; Innovation Hub, the newly refurbished barn which is available for corporate space hire; Fison Barn and courtyard, a beautiful venue available to hire for weddings, celebrations and corporate events; and Poem Tree Café, which is only open during Earth Trust's larger festivals and events.

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Kilton, North Yorkshire

Kilton is a village in the civil parish of Lockwood, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Kilton, North Yorkshire

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Flat Fell

Flat Fell is a hill located on the edge of the English Lake District, standing at 272m. It is included in Alfred Wainwright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland book, sharing a chapter with Dent. Wainwright's clockwise route to the two summits starts at Wath Brow.

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Saltburn Cliff Lift

The Saltburn Cliff Lift is a funicular railway in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It provides access to Saltburn Pier and the seafront from the town. The cliff lift is the oldest operating water-balance cliff funicular in the United Kingdom.

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Cleator

Cleator is a village in the civil parish of Cleator Moor, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Cleator is located on the edge of the Lake District, with Dent Fell on the skyline to the south east. It is included in many nature initiatives such as Alfred Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk.

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Marske Aerodrome

Marske Aerodrome was a First World War-era airfield used by the Royal Flying Corps, and later by the Royal Air Force, between 1917 and 1920. The aerodrome was just to the west of the village of Marske-by-the-Sea in Yorkshire, England. Marske aerodrome hosted air gunnery schools and trained pilots in tactics and methods of aerial combat so that they could be deployed to the front. Marske is known for being the aerodrome where W. E. Johns, author of the Biggles books, undertook his training, as we

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Lockwood, North Yorkshire

Lockwood is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland with ceremonial association with North Yorkshire, England.

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Lockwood, North Yorkshire

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Gillfoot railway station

Gillfoot railway station was on the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway line half a mile north of Egremont station, in Cumbria, England.

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Clints Quarry

Clints Quarry is a nature reserve of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, a former quarry about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Egremont in Cumbria, England. Wildlife has become established since quarrying ceased in 1930.

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Allanfearn

Allanfearn is a small settlement, it lies 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, within the Scottish council area of Highland.

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St Paul's, Frizington

St Paul's is in Frizington, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is Crosslacon. The church is not a Listed Building.

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West Cumberland Hospital

West Cumberland Hospital is a hospital in Hensingham, a suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England, and was the first district general hospital to be built in England following the creation of the National Health Service. It is managed by the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. A campaign group is fighting to maintain hospital services at the West Cumberland Hospital, many of which have been moved to the Cumberland Infirmary, 40 mi (64 km) away from the population centres of the We

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Loch Ness F.C.

Loch Ness Football Club was a Scottish football club who played the North Caledonian Football League, and were based in the town of Fortrose in the Scottish Highlands.

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Loch Ness F.C.

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Moor Row

Moor Row is a village in Cumbria, North West England. It is in Egremont civil parish and lies on a minor road off the A595, south-east of Whitehaven. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 759.

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Egremont, Cumbria

Egremont is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, five miles south of Whitehaven and on the River Ehen. The parish also includes the villages of Bigrigg and Moor Row.

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Egremont, Cumbria

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Dalcross

Dalcross, in the original Gaelic, Dealgan Cros, later shortened to Dealgros, is a location in the Highland region of Scotland. It is on the Moray Firth about 10 km east-north-east of Inverness and contains Inverness Airport, Dalcross industrial estate, Dalcross Castle and Dalcross Forest.

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