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Friendship in Esperanto. Seven trees were planted, although 3 of these have since died and replaced in 2012, to spell AMIKARO.
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A free leaflet has been published which is both a nature and history walk around the Park and Priory Pools. Available at
Warwick Tourist Information Centre, Jury Street, Warwick (with effect from February 2016) and also online.
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in the middle but this was removed. The nearest play area can be found a minute's walk north west from the park under the railway bridge in a smaller 5-acre (20,000 m) park called Priory Pools. Because there are many
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History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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189:Mimardière, A. M. (1983). B.D. Henning (ed.).
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