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In fields are "lumps and bumps", Peterborough Archaeology says, as well as a memorial to 1,770 prisoners who died there. The ...

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An historic Yorkshire pub which was once used as a recruiting post during the Napoleonic Wars has been put up for sale for £475,000.

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There have also been censuses on all sorts of things in Essex over the decades, from counting footpaths and even the numbers of deer roaming ...