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Osborne is of outstanding significance for its close association with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and for its reflection of their family life and interests.
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A brief history and description of Warton Old Rectory, a rare survival of a 14th-century stone house
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A brief history and description of Leiston Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery with spectacular surviving architectural features.
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A rare orchid, closely related to those that informed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, has been restored to the scientist’s former garden at Down House in Kent by English Heritage. Following two years of careful conservation and management by the charity’s gardeners and volunteers, Down House’s violet helleborine orchid population has doubled in number and is currently enjoying its best flowering season in living memory.
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Blue Plaque commemorating egyptologist Amelia Edwards at 19 Wharton Street, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 9PT, London Borough of Islington.
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Muchelney Abbey was once a wealthy Benedictine house and the second oldest religious foundation in Somerset, but as part of the dissolution the abbey’s principal buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. Pupils can still see the clearly laid out foundations of the abbey, parts of the richly decorated cloister walk and thatched monks’ lavatory - the only one of its kind in Britain. There is also a display of artefacts found at the Abbey, a brilliant resource to illustrate monastic life to your students.
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Description of Meare Fish House
A description of Meare Fish House, a small two-storey, stone-built structure with a hall, parlour and service rooms on the ground floor and two chambers above.
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Research on Heddon-on-the-Wall
A summary of the present state of research on Hadrian’s Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall, and its research potential.
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The Normans carried a cross banner into the Battle of Hastings, as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. This banner was blessed by Pope Alexander II, showing that Williams claim to throne had powerful spiritual backing.