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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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Westminster Bridge
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Bridge crossing the Thames beside the *Houses of Parliament, the view from which prompted *Wordsworth in 1802 to write his famous sonnet beginning 'Earth has not anything to show more fair'. The bridge that he stood on was the first to be built across the Thames in London since the medieval *London Bridge. It had opened in 1750 and was replaced by the present cast-iron bridge in 1862.
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