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Riveaulx Abbey  you can still feel the monks.. 

 

 
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Castle Howard 
Brideshead revisited, but we won't.

 


York: 

-York Minster  

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-The Shambles 
 (a marvelous street) perfectly preserved for
 Tiny Tim        
 

   

 

Sherwood Forest 
  

Robin's (Major) Oak - 1,000 yrs. old...impact can only be 'felt', not seen.

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Hardwick Hall 
  - the most perfectly preserved  example of Elizabethan architecture in Britain.

shaped like an "E" (for Elizabeth I) - it is so much more!


 

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It 'defines' gracious opulence....

 

 home of "Building Bess"(Elizabeth of Shrewsbury, queen's cousin) who said if she ever stopped building she would die, and she did.  

The Heart of England:    

 

Warwick Castle   

 

 

 

 
commercial tourism in high gear.

 

 
 -waxworks as well.
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