7/8. Midlands and East. More sites in need of renovation: Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, a former medieval monastery that was the seat of the colourful Byron family for four centuries; the transmitter block at Bawdsey Radar Station in Suffolk, which played a vital role in the Second World War; and the Grade ll-listed Old Grammar School and Saracen's Head at King's Norton in Birmingham, a stopover point for Charles I's wife during the English Civil War.
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