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  • ...to Oxford. The development of Uxbridge declined after the opening of the [[Great Western Railway]] in 1838, which passed through [[West Drayton]]. A branch ...ich the Abbot of Bec in Normandy brought an action against the rector of [[Great Wratting]] in [[Suffolk]] for non-payment of tithes. On parchments kept at
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  • ...is situated on the western shore of [[Weymouth Bay]] on the south coast of Great Britain. The town is built on weak sand and clay rock which in most places ...2000 | url =http://www.thedorsetpage.com/locations/Place/S370.htm | title =Sutton Poyntz, Dorset, England | publisher =The Dorset Page | accessdate =2006-11-
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  • ...n England".'' -- Daniel Defoe, in his ''A tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'' (1724-1726).<ref>Chandler (1990; 72)</ref> In 1613 and 1725 great fires destroyed large parts of the town, but some of the mediƦval building
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  • *[[Great Sutton]] *[[Little Sutton, Cheshire|Little Sutton]]
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  • |LG district=Sutton ...cite web|title=London Borough of Sutton Conservation Areas.|url=http://www.sutton.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6C0DFCB-818F-406C-B16F-5B88D6A4E80E/0/003ConservationA
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  • ...D (1996) ''More Light, More Power: An Illustrated History of Shoreditch''. Sutton</ref> Possibly it refers to the headwaters of the [[River Walbrook]], which Christopher Marlowe too, one of the great dramatists of the Elzabethan age, and Shakespeare' contemporary with, lived
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  • ...Liassic limestone rock of the Vale of Glamorgan, including the very rare "Sutton Stone", a conglomerate of lias limestone and carboniferous limestone.<ref>{ ...h the Cardiff Bay Barrage, and its tidal mudflats flooded permanently, the great bay turned into a freshwater lake. Beyond the barrage the [[River Severn|S
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  • ...xpanded into the neighbouring parishes of [[Hagbourne]], [[Harwell]] and [[Sutton Courtenay]]. ...r 30 years. Didcot is also the base of operations for the Baptist Union of Great Britain and BMS World Mission.
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  • [[File:River Stour in Canterbury, 2009.jpg|thumb|250px|The Great Stour in the city centre]] The city stands on the [[River Stour, Kent|River Stour or Great Stour]], which rises at [[Lenham]] to the north-east and falls into the [[E
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  • Bromley falls within the Bromley and Beckenham hundred and the [[Sutton-at-Hone]] lathe of Kent.<ref name=vision_parish>[http://www.visionofbritain ...=A.D.|publisher=Oxford}}</ref> It shares this Old English etymology with [[Great Bromley]] in Essex, but [[Bromley-by-Bow]] in [[Middlesex]] has a different
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  • ...the area's goods, it is no longer a commercial stream. There is however a great deal of tourist traffic upon it. ...tley, the Royalist Civil War soldier and a memorial to George Washington's great-uncle Lawrence Washington that includes the stars and stripes]] in the fami
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  • ...ming the source of many of the becks which form the rivers which carve the great [[Yorkshire Dales]] and the dramatic [[Forest of Bowland]]. They form a su ...t the head of each of the [[Yorkshire Dales]] and are the source of al the great rivers of northern England, including the [[River Calder, Lancashire|Lancas
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  • ...Skegness history</ref> until the arrival of the railway in 1875. In 1908, Great Northern Railways commissioned a poster to advertise excursions to the reso ...http://www.yours.co.uk</ref> It has also been described by Lonely Planet's Great Britain guide as "everything you could want" in a seaside resort. On 22 Jul
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  • ...s in existence by the last quarter of the 9th century when King Alfred the Great of [[Wessex]] granted land there to one of his subjects.<ref name=Page/> Th ...gland parish church of St Peter and St Paul was originally a chapelry of [[Sutton Courtenay]].<ref>Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 369-370</ref> The nave is 1
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  • ...ng of roads coming from the bridges over the river from [[Abingdon]] and [[Sutton Courtenay]]. The ancient parish extends across the river to encompass the I ...ypasses a difficult stretch of river past a watermill at Sutton Courtenay. Sutton Bridge was extended to span the cut, and Culham Lock was built on the cut j
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  • |name=Sutton Courtenay |picture=Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire - geograph.org.uk - 362188.jpg
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  • ==Great houses== ...ay station on the Peterborough and Sutton Bridge Branch of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which opened in 1866 and closed in 1959.<ref>{{cite
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  • ...iver Witham|Witham]], [[River Welland|Welland]], [[River Nene|Nene]] and [[Great Ouse]]. ...]]. The Nene used to snake across a marshland known as Cross Keys Wash or Sutton Wash, but it was straightened in 1827-30 and the surrounding land drained a
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  • ...employed in textiles by 1951: it had been 60% up to the beginning of the [[Great Depression]], in 1929.<ref>Taylor (2000), p.&nbsp;83.</ref> Furthermore, in Blackburn suffered badly in the Great Depression of the early 1930s, with unemployment reaching record levels as
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  • Previously named '''Great Camps''' and '''Camps Green''',<ref name="villagehistory">{{cite web|url=ht ...d Mayor of London. Roughly twenty five years later it was bought by Thomas Sutton, who endowed it to Charterhouse, which in turn sold all the Estate except C
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