Uniform Gravity: Fact or Fiction?

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Is a location anywhere where the force of gravity is perfectly uniform over a distance?
 
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In Newtonian Gravity a uniform sphere with a non-concentric spherical cavity will have a uniform gravitational field within that cavity. I doubt it exists in large scale somewhere, but it could be build.