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THE QUEEN MOTHER’S PRIVATE APARTMENT REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Walmer Castle, seaside retreat beloved of The Queen Mother, opens private Lord Warden’s apartment from Saturday 23 March
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Stella Reading honoured with English Blue Plaque
Women’s Voluntary Services founder memorialised at their London headquarters Royal Voluntary Service diaries of wartime women go online
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Part of a monastic building, perhaps the abbot’s lodging, of Benedictine Abbotsbury Abbey, Henry VIII ordered its destruction during the Dissolution in 1538. St Catherine's Chapel is nearby.
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Historic Sites of the Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly have a remarkable range of historic sites to visit, from prehistoric burial mounds to Civil War forts. English Heritage looks after many of them.
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The Romans built Hadrian’s Wall from AD 122 to define the north-west frontier of their empire. Black Carts was one of the many turrets built into the Wall for soldiers to shelter in and keep watch.
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History's 'Celebrity' Gardeners
Long before Alan Titchmarsh or Monty Don were on the scene, England's finest garden and landscape designers were in high demand. From the rolling parklands of Audley End House in Essex to the Arts and Crafts details at Mount Grace Priory in Yorkshire, the legacy of history's most renowned growers and landscapers can still be seen by visitors today. Here's our who's-who of English history's most illustrious gardeners, horticulturalists and designers.
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Take your group to Hadrian's Wall and explore thousands of years of history along England's final frontier.
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Blue Plaque commemorating surgeon William Marsden at 65 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, London WC2A 4LH, London Borough of Camden.