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Sunset at White Horse Hill near Wantage, Oxfordshire

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The Wicker Man 1973

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Abbey at sunset

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Children will love the English Heritage Halloween activities in 2022./Credit: English Heritage

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Whitby Goth weekend is a central event on the UK Gothic scene. /Picture credit: Rahman Hassani/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Gothic days out for Halloween

Robin Hoods Stride in autumn

Walk: Birchover, Derbyshire

Holy Trinity Church at Chapel Stile in Cumbria

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Llanthony Priory in summer

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Dode church

A Neolithic-style long barrow opens for memorials in the remote Kent countryside

River Thames running through Eton and Windsor

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Discover the royal River Thames

Billy Connolly and Judi Dench on horseback

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Boundary Dragon on Victoria Embankment, London

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Stonehenge at sunset, Wiltshire, England.

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A Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, with a summer sky overhead

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Walk: Sutton Hoo, Suffolk