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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Penzance
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(20,000 in 1991) Port and resort in Cornwall; the most westerly town in England, it is only 15km/9m from *Land's End. The influence of the *Gulf Stream gives it subtropical vegetation. The early 19C Egyptian House, with its exotic façade in Chapel Street, is a rare example in architecture of the decorative fashion deriving from the Egyptian campaigns in the *French Revolutionary Wars.
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