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Oreo Fri 24-Jul-26 20:43:01

Missed H!
So, Hampshire, which contains the New Forest, a wonderful place to roam about in and made sometime in the 12,00’s C or thereabouts for the English King to have as a new hunting ground.

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Oreo Fri 24-Jul-26 20:40:23

Isle of Wight.
A good place to visit for a flavour of being back in time, say the 1950’s.

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Oreo Fri 24-Jul-26 20:38:43

Grantham in Lincolnshire, home to the late Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher.Her Father ran a grocery store there.

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Beeb Fri 24-Jul-26 20:25:23

Flookburgh is an old village on the Cartmell peninsula of Cumbria. In his childhood Stan Laurel was a frequent visitor as his aunt and uncle ran the cooperative store.

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Crocus5 Fri 24-Jul-26 11:57:43

Edinburgh famous for its castle and Military Tattoo.

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Oreo Fri 24-Jul-26 08:41:44

Dorset, an English county in the SW has unearthed a huge quantity of dinosaur bones over the last two hundred years.

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Oreo Fri 24-Jul-26 08:38:44

Clacton is Essex, England will soon be having a by election which may be won by that mighty political wannabe Count Binface.

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JackyB Fri 24-Jul-26 08:35:49

Bath is often used as a place in Jane Austen novels.

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CrazyUSA Thu 23-Jul-26 20:11:53

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Accrington is in Lancashire England

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