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  • ...op of Coventry and the [[Diocese of Coventry]]. It stands in [[Coventry]] in [[Warwickshire]], beside its predecessor, which was gutted by the Luftwafff ...p. 56.</ref> Leofric was probably buried within the original Saxon church in Coventry. However, records suggest that Godiva was buried at Evesham Abbey,
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  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=East Staffordshire
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  • ...eorge Eliot's father, Robert Evans, was born in [[Roston Common]] and sang in the choir at Norbury church, and most of George Eliot's paternal ancestors ...ood]] and [[Darley Moor]], and formerly included the liberty of Stydd, now in [[Yeaveley]].<ref>Bowyer, L.J. Rev. 1953. ''The Ancient Parish of Norbury''
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  • |county=Staffordshire |LG district=East Staffordshire
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  • |county=Staffordshire '''Alrewas''' is a village and parish in [[Staffordshire]], adjacent to the border with [[Derbyshire]]. The village is beside the [[
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  • |county=Staffordshire '''Harlaston''' is a village and parish in Staffordshire. It lies on the [[River Mease]], about five miles north of [[Tamworth]]. Th
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  • |LG district=South Staffordshire |constituency=South Staffordshire
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  • '''Snitterfield''' is a village and parish in [[Warwickshire]], less than a mile to the north of the A46 road, 4½ miles ...ame of Snitterfield was "Snytenfeld", open field of snipe,<ref>Place Names in the Landscape, Margaret Gelling, 1984 ISBN 0-460-04380-3</ref> "Feld", sign
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  • ...hin the Manor of Manchester and the [[Salford Hundred|Hundred of Salford]] in Lancashire. ...ame effectively part of Manchester, absorbed within its civic jurisdiction in 1904.<ref>[http://www.withington.net/history.htm Withington history]</ref>
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  • '''Mickleover''' is an ancient parish in [[Derbyshire]] that forms the most westerly suburb of the city of [[Derby]] ...he Mickleover and Littleover areas, consolidating estates he had inherited in north-east Derbyshire from his kinsman through marriage, Wulfric Spot, who
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  • ...ownship of the ancient parish of [[Mucklestone]] and is the most northerly in Shropshire. ...re pass through adjoining counties. The village is also the farthest place in Shropshire from the centre of the county near [[Cantlop]].
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  • |LG district=South Staffordshire .../whatson/local-history-walks/perton-library-local-history-walk.pdf|website=Staffordshire.gov.uk|accessdate=8 August 2016|page=1|format=PDF}}</ref>
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  • |LG district=South Staffordshire ...cated beside Bridge 19 of the [[Shropshire Union Canal]]. The civil parish in which it falls is called 'Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston'.
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  • ...], [[Bromstead Heath]], [[Moreton, Staffordshire|Moreton]] and [[Haughton, Staffordshire|Haughton]]. The village was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]], in which it was named ''Geneshale''. It is listed there as having a population
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  • '''Blisworth''' is a village in [[Northamptonshire]], sitting some five miles south of the county town, [[N ...e only shop in Blisworth. There is a modern well-equipped doctor's surgery in Stoke Road serving several surrounding villages as well as Blisworth itself
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  • '''Burrington''' is a small village in the far north of [[Herefordshire]], close to [[Leintwardine]], with which i ...s to be found six miles south-west of [[Ludlow]] (across the county border in [[Shropshire]]).
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  • |LG district=South Staffordshire |constituency=South Staffordshire
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  • '''Monks Kirby''' is a village and parish in the [[Knightlow]] hundred of [[Warwickshire]]. The population of the parish ...today an attractive, wealthy commuter village with many residents working in Coventry, [[Birmingham]], [[Leicester]] and even [[London]].
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  • ...iles adjacent to the border with [[Derbyshire]]. It has five schools, four churches, a variety of small shops, a large supermarket, and a range of commercial a ...Templeborough]], although no evidence of Roman remains have been unearthed in Handsworth. Names such as Ballifield ("Bale Enclosure") indicate later Scan
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  • ...ldfieldatoz" /> There is, however, a Lakehouse Road and Baldmoor Lake Road in the area.<ref name="stnic_boundaries">{{cite web|url=http://www.stnicholasb ...d.<ref name="suttoncoldfieldatoz" /> The 1841 census listed eight families in the area, including agricultural workers, a painter, an Irish carrier, and
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