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Brighton's lavish Royal Pavilion, was
completed in 1822 for King George IV. Victoria hated it and sold it in
1850. |
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This newly sculpted gargoyle is awaiting installation
at the medieval Canterbury Cathedral, where Thomas Becket was murdered
in 1170. |
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HMS Victory, the flagship on which Admiral Nelson
was killed at Trafalgar in 1805, is now an excellent museum at Portsmouth, on the English Channel. |
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A little farther west on the Channel Coast is
Plymouth, the harbor from which the Mayflower set sail for America. |
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Dating from 3,000 BCE, enigmatic Stonehenge was not
built by the Druids. |
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A misty view of St Michael's Mount, once the site
of an 11th century Benedictine abbey, later a fortress to ward off the
French and now a magnificent private home (with tours, of course). |
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