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England’s earliest car wash and upturned boat church listed by Historic England

England’s earliest known ‘modern day car wash’, a Second World War radar station and a railway pub that was a prototype for an early railway station are among the buildings that have been added to the National Heritage List for England in 2023.

Some 227 historic places have been added to the list this year, including 16 quirky buildings such as a church in designed in the form of an upturned boat and a rare purpose-built

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