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Bath, Somerset, England

The elegant Assembly Rooms were designed by John Wood the Younger from 1769 to act as a venue for social events and a public meeting place. If you were a member of high society visiting Bath during the Georgian and Victorian periods, then the Assembly Rooms were an essential stop on your daily social rounds.

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The fourth wife of Henry VIII, who agreed to marry her partly on the basis of a flattering portrait painted by Holbein



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28 January, 1547

Death of Henry VIII at Whitehall Palace

Henry is succeeded by his 9 year old son, Edward, with the Earl of Hertford as Lord Protector (soon replaced by the Duke of Somerset)

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Whose heir was lost at sea in the wreck of the 'White Ship'?



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Clayworth, Nottinghamshire
in the Domesday Book

"In Clayworth, Grimkel had 2 bovates of land to the geld. There is land for 4 oxen. There Fulk, Roger's man, has 3 sokemen and 3 bordars with 3 1/2 ploughs. There is meadow 2 1/2 furlongs long and 18 perches broad, and woodland pasture 3 furlongs and 10 perches long, and as much broad. In the time of King Edward worth 4s, now 5s."


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Abingdon - Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Abingdon is the oldest continuously inhabited town in the UK, set beside the River Thames south of Oxford. Abingdon has been settled since at least the early Saxon period. Alfred the great held the manor of Abingdon, and his descendant Athelstan had a royal residence here in he 10th century. There are a wealth of historic buildings to see in Abingdon, including the ruins of medieval Abingdon Abbey, set on the banks of the Thames. ... more

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