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JFK's American home – in Surrey

Here is a humdinger of a subject, one that goes to the very core of our culture and our country.

Runnymede is named after the water meadow alongside the River Thames in Surrey. Only 20 miles from central London, it's famed for its association with the Magna Carta —what is considered to be our first democratic step.

A stone's throw from Windsor Castle – and Slough – its immediate landscape is characterised somewhat picturesquely as ‘Thames Basin Lowland’: a gently undulating vale

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