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Aside from the technical and informational aspects of Skyscape it’s also our hope that you’ll enjoy it from a more human perspective. We’ve created a webpage which offers a small escape, a pleasant place to visit, to which you can return frequently, even within a single day, and connect with the land, the stones and the skies above.
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History of Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement
The group of prehistoric monuments at Merrivale, where a Bronze Age settlement site and an earlier, Neolithic ritual complex lie side by side, is one of the finest on Dartmoor.
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Holiday Cottages. Immerse yourself in England's colourful past by staying in one of our unique and historical properties. From cosy cottages to gatehouse towers.
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A history of Audley End, one of the greatest houses of early 17th-century England, transformed by Robert Adam in the 1760s.
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Witley Court was once one of the great country houses of England and in the 19th century was famous for its opulence and lavish entertainments. After a devastating fire in 1937, it became one of the country’s most spectacular ruins, but it is still possible to gain a sense of its former grandeur.
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Founded almost 900 years ago, Furness Abbey was once the largest and wealthiest monastery in north-west England. Today, its evocative ruins bear witness to the lives of the monks who worshipped and lived there between the 12th and 16th centuries.
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Speaking with Shadows: Series 1 Episode 4
Speaking with Shadows is the podcast that listens to the people that history forgot. In Episode 4 Josie Long visits Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire to discover the extraordinary stories behind thousands of graffiti etched on the walls of a cell block where conscientious objectors were detained during the First World War.
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First World War Conscientious Objectors at Richmond Castle
How 16 conscientious objectors detained at Richmond Castle during the First World War were taken to France, and sentenced to death – a sentence commuted to ten years’ hard labour – for refusing to obey orders.