In addition to royal suites for your guests, the estate's attractions include a 94-acre vineyard along the glistening French Broad River.

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Yakuts said that somewhere in the south was Dauria, where a broad river watered fields of wheat in the summer sun.

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The dramatic Hollyford Track starts in the midst of lowland forest, crossing mountain streams and passing pretty waterfalls as it follows the broad Hollyford River valley all the way to the sea at Martins Bay.

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On the other, the broad St Lawrence River is a steely grey-blue, its opposite bank a distant misty outline.

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The river flows into the broad, flat Miramichi Bay, which is sheltered from the wider Gulf of Saint Lawrence by a string of low-lying islands.

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Perhaps had he had the chance to enjoy cycling down Broad Street or punting on the river Cam, the history of modern finance might have been a little different.

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