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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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Portmeirion
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(8km/5m N of Harlech across the bay) Fantasy village on the coast of Wales, privately owned, to which day visitors are charged an admission fee. It was created from 1925 by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883–1978), who set out to build on this craggy and lushly wooded peninsula a place as delightful as the seaside village of Portofino in Italy. He designed his own pastel-washed Italianate structures, and added to them older buildings saved from demolition elsewhere. Most are let out now as holiday homes. The visual delights of Portmeirion became widely known through its use as the setting for the TV serial The *Prisoner.
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