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Beautiful Collyweston….
architecture, Battle of Hastings, Ben Robinson, Cambridgeshire, Castle Acre, Clovelly, Cluniac Priories, Collyweston, cotton mills, Country Life, Cromfield, de Warenne, Derby, Devon, Dorset, fishing, Gainsthorpe, grubenhaus, Henry VII, industry, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lavenham, limestone, Lincolnshire, Milton Abbas, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Robin Hood’s Bay, Suffolk, Sutton-in-the-Isle, villages, West Stow, woolThe ten best villages in England are listed here and Collyweston in Northamptonshire makes the grade. I can only say that it does so entirely on its own merit and in spite of having once been the lair of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
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Even more “Britain’s Most Historic Towns”
America, Armada, banking, Battle of Lincoln, body snatching, Charles II, Corn Laws, Drake, Edinburgh, Engels, executions, Glasgow, Horatio Nelson, industry, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Marx, medicine, Nicola de la Haie, Osborne House, overdrafts, Plymouth, Portsmouth, rapid expansion, Royal Society, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Walter Raleigh, theatre, William Burke, William HareAlice Roberts has been back on our screens with a third series of the above. This time, she visited (Mediaeval) Lincoln, (Restoration) London, (Naval) Portsmouth, (Elizabethan) Plymouth, (Steam Age) Glasgow, (Georgian) Edinburgh and (Industrial Revolution) Manchester, albeit not in chronological order like the two previous series. There was a focus on Nicola de la Haye…
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