The Gower Monument is a grade II* listed monument in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Erected in 1888, the monument's centrepiece is a seated bronze...
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC (9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833), known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786...
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Gower (Welsh: Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr) is in South West Wales and is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales...
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Stratford-upon-Avon (redirect from The Croft Preparatory School)
also features the Gower Monument, a bronze statue of William Shakespeare flanked by four of his most popular character. In the summer the River Avon is...
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Hill overlooking the village of Lilleshall in Shropshire. Commemorating George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, the monument is an ashlar obelisk...
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The Gower Peninsula (Welsh: Gŵyr) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, contains over twenty villages and communities. Most of the peninsula is a designated...
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the bank of the Avon within sight of the church where Shakespeare was buried. The Gower Monument was unveiled in 1888, the work of Lord Ronald Gower....
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system used by the Ordnance Survey. The "List Entry Number" is a unique number assigned to each listed building and scheduled monument by Historic England....
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Arthur's Stone may refer to: Arthur's Stone, Gower, an archeological site on the Gower Peninsula in Wales Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire, a Neolithic tomb...
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Ben Bhraggie (redirect from The Mannie)
Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford and first Duke of Sutherland who became notorious through the part he played in the Highland clearances. Leveson-Gower was...
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Swansea Castle (category Execution sites in the United Kingdom)
Life after the Lords of Gower". City and County of Swansea. Retrieved 3 April 2016. Medieval Secular Monuments – The Early Castles from the Norman Conquest...
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manor house on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, in the care of Cadw. The castle overlooks Llanrhidian saltmarshes and the Loughor estuary. The existing buildings...
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became a national monument. The gulch contained mines, camps, and roads during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Gower Gulch passes through...
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Loughor (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Loughor is part of the built-up area of Gorseinon. The town's name has been called "possibly the oldest name in Gower", dating back to the Roman era. It derives...
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Cefn Bryn (redirect from Arthur's Stone, Gower)
Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula, in the City and County of Swansea. Local people colloquially refer to it as the "backbone of Gower", as it protrudes...
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into the hands of the related Leveson-Gower family in the late 17th century. Lilleshall is surrounded by farmland. The village and surrounds were the site...
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Parkmill (redirect from Gower Heritage Centre)
Parkmill (Welsh: Melin y Parc) is a village in the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, midway between the villages of Penmaen and Ilston, about eight miles (13 km)...
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Glamorgan (redirect from The Van, Glamorganshire)
and the scenic Gower Peninsula. The county had boundaries with Brecknockshire (north), Monmouthshire (east), Carmarthenshire (west), and to the south...
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Confessio Amantis (section The tales)
Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain...
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Swansea (redirect from The weather in Swansea)
city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in south-west Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula...
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A church monument is an architectural or sculptural memorial to a deceased person or persons, located within a Christian church. It can take various forms...
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Earl of Bridgewater (category Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of England)
Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, was created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. His second son Lord Francis Leveson-Gower assumed by Royal licence the surname...
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Parc Cwm long cairn (redirect from The Long Cairn)
Coed y Parc Cwm at Parc le Breos, on the Gower Peninsula. A trapezoidal cairn of rubble – the upper part of the cromlech and its earth covering now removed –...
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Hollywood Walk of Fame (redirect from The Hollywood Walk of Fame)
annual visitors in 2010. The Walk of Fame runs 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from east to west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Gower Street to the Hollywood and La Brea...
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Charles Allan Cathcart (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies)
commercial treaty with the Emperor of China. Cathcart nominated Captain Erasmus Gower as his preferred captain to carry the embassy but Gower was serving as flag...
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Lady Ottoline Morrell (section Portrayals in the arts)
being the case and during 1927, the Morrells were compelled to sell the manor house and its estate, and move to more modest quarters in Gower Street...
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Euston Square tube station (redirect from Gower Street tube station)
Underground station at the corner of Euston Road and Gower Street, just north of University College London – its main (south) entrance faces the tower of University...
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were only three monuments on the first Schedule. These were Plas Newydd megalith, Anglesey, Arthur's Quoit, Gower, Glamorgan and the megalith at Pentre...
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University College School (category Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden)
also stated that the school would not use corporal punishment. The school opened at 16 Gower Street on 1 November 1830 under the name 'The London University...
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List of largest mosques (redirect from List of largest mosques in the world)
"Brochure by the Turkish Ministry of Religious Affairs" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2007. Gower, Simon Marcus...
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