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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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Beaulieu
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(16km/10m S of Southampton) One of the major tourist attractions in Britain, largely because of the National Motor Museum. This superb collection of vehicles includes an example of virtually every model of significance in the history of British motor and motorcycle manufacture, together with some splendid rarities and oddities. There is, for example: a car made by John Knight in 1895 in Farnham, Surrey, which is believed to be the first British petrol-driven car to have run on public roads; the oldest surviving Triumph motorcycle, dating from 1903; the Golden Arrow in which *Segrave broke the land speed record in 1929, and the Bluebird in which Donald *Campbell did the same in 1964; and, best of all the oddities, a 1924 Daimler delivery van in the shape of a bottle of Worthington's India Pale Ale.
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Beaulieu was originally a Cistercian monastery of the 13C. Among the ruins stands Palace House, incorporating the original gatehouse of the abbey within a 19C mansion in the *Scottish baronial style.
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