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  • '''Stalybridge''' is a town in north-eastern [[Cheshire]], on the border with [[Lancashire]]. It lies at t ...ern low density housing in the post-war period, the town is now semi-rural in character.
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  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=Staffordshire Moorlands
    10 KB (1,669 words) - 21:07, 28 January 2016
  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=South Staffordshire
    13 KB (2,052 words) - 08:51, 19 September 2019
  • |county=Staffordshire ...724 (including the [[Brereton, Staffordshire|Brereton]] and [[Etchinghill, Staffordshire|Etchinghill]]).
    9 KB (1,439 words) - 00:34, 9 August 2013
  • |county 1=Staffordshire ...treet and Holloway, and then following the old course of the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]] through the castle grounds.
    12 KB (1,860 words) - 11:27, 21 November 2019
  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=East Staffordshire
    16 KB (2,476 words) - 22:06, 1 October 2018
  • |churches=284 ...ed over by the Bishop of Worcester, and its centre is Worcester Cathedral, in the city of [[Worcester]].
    28 KB (3,657 words) - 20:08, 16 October 2018
  • ...way]]. To the north of Castle Bromwich beyond the M6 is the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]] and then [[Castle Vale]] and [[Erdington]], both within the co ...away), but then after the Second World War several new estates were built in Castle Bromwich, rapidly increasing its population.
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  • ...r 6 miles to the north. The village sits on the bank of the [[River Tame, Staffordshire|River Tame]]. The name "Kingsbury" is from the Old English ''Cyningesbyrig'' (recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Chinesburie'', the name meaning 'Kings F
    5 KB (819 words) - 00:03, 3 December 2013
  • ..., though it is conventional to assign all beyond that county border to the Staffordshire Moorlands. ...ferent; the southern, rolling Derbyshire Dales are green and richly grazed in the south, the hills beginning at the very edge of the city of [[Derby]], a
    44 KB (6,715 words) - 07:54, 12 May 2024
  • ...r as Luggerford, from that to the bridge of Wareham, and so along the sea, in an easterly direction, to a place called the Castle of Stodland; thence by ...t of the Isle of Purbeck and the coastal strip as far as [[Ringstead Bay]] in the west, have been designated as a 'National Character Area' by Natural En
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  • |county=Staffordshire ...w Invention''' is a small, suburban commuter village in [[Staffordshire]], in the south of the county and within the [[Black Country]]. It stands three
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  • The '''Hwicce''' were a tribe and kingdom in the southwest [[Midlands]] during the Anglo-Saxon period. Their territory ...er]] and [[Bath]] from the Britons in 577, after the Battle of [[Dyrham]]. In 628 the [[Mercia]]ns defeated the West Saxons at the Battle of Cirencester
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  • '''Wanborough''' is a village in [[Wiltshire]], in the north of the county, three and a half miles southeast of Swindon town c ...m, slightly northwest of the current village, at a road junction mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary. Being the last ''vicus'' on [[Ermin Street]] before
    4 KB (537 words) - 18:42, 13 February 2015
  • ...our centuries, although evidence of abuses appeared before its dissolution in 1539. The buildings fell into disrepair and the church was largely destroye The site is now in the care of [[English Heritage]] and is open to the public during the summe
    9 KB (1,426 words) - 16:06, 7 August 2015
  • |county=Staffordshire ...by the de Verdun family as a daughter house of the abbey in Aunay-sur-Odon in Normandy.
    5 KB (798 words) - 16:18, 22 December 2015
  • |county=Staffordshire '''Haunton''' is a village in [[Staffordshire]], close to the border with [[Derbyshire]]. It lies on the [[River Mease]],
    4 KB (613 words) - 11:47, 20 September 2016
  • | county 2=Staffordshire ...It lies on the [[River Mease]], around seven miles north of [[Tamworth]]. In 2001 the parish had a population of 598,<ref name="ons-pop"/> increasing to
    4 KB (621 words) - 10:31, 23 February 2016
  • | county=Staffordshire ...rish across the border in the detached part of Derbyshire, locally situate in Leicestershire; Clifton Campville and [[Haunton]] form the Clifton Campvill
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  • '''Lilleshall Abbey''' was an Augustinian abbey in [[Shropshire]], today located 6 miles north of [[Telford]]. It was founded ...and followed the austere customs and observance of the Abbey of Arrouaise in northern France.
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