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Quiz of the week

1) Which Greater London borough is named after a Tudor earldom that’s now a North Yorkshire town?

2) BB’s Wild Lone tells the story of which animal?

3) Where is St Agnes, the UK’s southernmost inhabited island, situated?

4) Which is Britain’s largest wading bird?

5) The heart of which poet danced with the daffodils in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?

Word of the week

Tintinnabulary (adjective) Relating to bells and their sounds

100 years ago in March 3, 1923

LACOCK ABBEY’S architectural styles are so mixed and multiplied that it might well have presented a jarring accretion rather than a blended composition. Very fortunate it is, then, that seven centuries of additions and subtractions have produced

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