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  • In 2010 the town was the winner of the 'Great Town Award', as nominated by the Academy of Urbanism, beating ...g Club, founded in May 1869; the oldest surviving rowing club on the north-east coast
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  • '''Whitstable''' is a seaside town in north-eastern [[Kent]], to the east of the outlet of [[the Swale]] into the Thames Estuary. It is found some 5 ..._KHA/KENT.html | accessdate=21 April 2007 }}</ref> The whole of the north east Kent coast has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.<ref>{
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  • ...nd has grown to be the county's largest town, while to the north and north-east is a series of other sizeable towns, leading out to the county's second-lar ...l, ready for the winning design to be unveiled in May 2014. Ultimately the winner was not revealed until September 11th 2014 at an unveiling ceremony held at
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  • ...ershire]] in the north, [[Wiltshire]] to the east, [[Dorset]] to the south-east, and [[Devon]] to the south-west. Its north and west are washed by the wate ...f the north, the clay vales and wetlands of the centre, the oolites of the east and south, and the Devonian sandstone of the west.<ref>{{cite web | title=S
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  • * the [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East Riding]] *East Riding:
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  • ...county has a hilly surface of moderate elevation with uplands in the north-east, the north-west and the South of the county; the middle is lower by compari ...orth-south length of the county is 45 miles; and its greatest breadth from east to west, is about 23 miles [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/County_Kilkenn
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  • ...oast Main Line railway at Potters Bar - geograph.org.uk - 140745.jpg|thumb|East Coast Main Line at Potters Bar]] * Potters Bar Golf Club was the home golf club of Tony Jacklin, winner of the The Open Championship and US Open, and former Captain of the Ryder C
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  • ...|accessdate=2007-07-31}}</ref> and the seaport is the largest in the north-east of Scotland.<ref name="seaport">{{cite web |url=http://uk.archiseek.com/sco ...ther churches, it was divided after the Reformation, in this case into the East and West churches.
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  • | LG district=East Cambridgeshire | constituency= North East Cambridgeshire
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  • ...the winner to accept congratulations before the chairing ceremony, but no winner appeared. It was then announced that Hedd Wyn had been killed the previous ...t of over £14,000 for each of the 320,000 residents of the Wirral. At the East Float and Vittoria Dock, the development would include several 50-storey sk
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  • Ben Nevis forms a massif with its neighbour to the north-east, Càrn Mòr Dearg, to which it is linked by the Càrn Mòr Dearg Arête.<re ...he simplest and most popular route of ascent. It begins at Achintee on the east side of Glen Nevis about 1½nbsp;miles) from Fort William town centre, at a
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  • ...ng entry in a competition which combines the blue field and gold crowns of East Anglia with a depiction of the River Cam in a the colour famously worn by s | {{Listflag|Flag of East Lothian.svg}} || 2018 || {{UKFlagname|East Lothian}} || A blue field with a gold saltire voided blue; over all a lozen
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  • Stratford lies on the [[River Avon, Warwickshire|River Avon]], 22 miles south-east of the county's largest town, [[Birmingham]] and 8 miles south-west of the ...ral competition was arranged to elicit designs for a new theatre, with the winner, English architect Elisabeth Scott, creating what we see on the riverside t
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  • ...old Medal in the 2009 Britain in Bloom horticultural contest, and outright winner in the category of ''Small Town''.<ref>[http://www.pitlochryinbloom.co.uk P ...Old Church of Rannoch is shaped as a rectangular box with its focus at the east end under a high wood-clad ceiling, a difference resulting from a major rec
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  • |constituency=Carmarthen East and Dinefwr ...ain. A [[Roman road]] heads across [[Mynydd Bach Trecastell]] to the south-east of Llandovery bound for the fort of [[Brecon Gaer]]. Another heads down the
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  • |LG district=East Dorset Wimborne Minster was winner of the regional Britain in Bloom Awards and Silver Gilt medallist in the na
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  • ...shire]], standing on the [[River Avon, Warwickshire|River Avon]], 13 miles east of [[Coventry]], on the eastern edge of the county, near the borders with [ ...ize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/gabor-autobio.html Nobel Prize Winner Denis Garbor, inventor of holography</ref>
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  • ...tely into and through in the town centre, until the Can enters the Chelmer east of the town centre. The Chelmer then flows out towards [[Maldon, Essex|Mal ...y further incidents here although the natural floodplains to the north and east such as The 'Baddow Meads' and The 'Chelmer Valley' continue to see floodin
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  • ...ounty Antrim]], which itself may be glimpsed if visibility is good. To the east, the views are not so extensive, being restricted by the higher ground of t The island is on the Great Cumbrae fault line that runs north east to south west. Fault lines have formed some interesting rock formations whi
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  • '''Buckland''' is a village in north-western [[Berkshire]], four miles north-east of [[Faringdon]]. It is an estate village,<ref name=VIV>{{cite web |title=V ...by Peta and Paul Barnard who previously owned The plough at Clanfield (the winner of a Michelin star).<ref name="thelambatbuckland.co.uk"/>
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  • ...of [[Morayshire]], standing on the coast of the [[Moray Firth]], 30 miles east of [[Inverness]], perhaps best known for its appearance in [[William Shakes ...torical artefacts and monuments within the town itself. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions.<ref>[http://www.forres
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  • ...ry top of Y Gyrn then more steeply to the Storey Arms on the A470. To the east, the ridge drops steeply to the col connecting it to [[Cribyn]], the next m ...500 was on offer for breaking the record, rising by £100 each year; race winner Martin Shaw from local fell running club Mynydd Du finished in 34:05. The P
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  • ...rset Levels]], close to [[Edington, Somerset|Edington]] and 7 miles to the east of [[Bridgwater]]. In 1990 Catcott was the winner of the village category of the ''Britain in Bloom'' competition.
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  • ...radiating outwards from the mediæval market cross lead the North, South, East and West shopping streets. ...heatre was built close to what would have been the city walls, outside the East Gate in around 80 AD. The remains are now buried under land currently used
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  • ...e foot of the [[South Downs]], 10 miles west of [[Brighton]], and 18 miles east of the county town of [[Chichester]]. ...ome to several literary figures in the 20th century, including Nobel prize-winner Harold Pinter. During the Second World War, Worthing was home to several al
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  • ...est offshore island in Wales, half a mile wide and a mile long. The north-east rises steeply from the sea to a height of 1,798 feet at ''Mynydd Enlli'',<r ...''Cometary Phrases'' was ''Welsh Book of the Year 1989'' and she was the winner of the inaugural ''Roland Mathias Prize'' in 2005.<ref>[http://www.gomer.co
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  • ...te stands at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, with the Vale of York to the east and the upland Yorkshire Dales to the west and northwest. It has a dry and ...the first Entente Florale competition in 1977. Harrogate was a gold medal winner of Europe in Bloom in 2004. In 2005, a Channel 4 TV show listed Harrogate a
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  • ...y the narrow channel of the [[Straits of Dover]]. The sands lie six miles east off [[Deal]] in [[Kent]]. The '''Brake Bank''' lying shorewards is part of Notable shipwrecks include the Dutch East Indiaman ''Rooswijk'' (1740), HMS ''Stirling Castle'' (1703), the ''Montros
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  • ...was named after the Nore sandbank in the [[Thames Estuary]], about 3 miles east of Sheerness.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Nore | publisher=The Columbia En ...in. The Sheppey Light Railway opened in 1901, connecting the new Sheerness East station with the rest of the island. However, by 1950, lack of demand led t
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  • ...-west of [[Anglesey]]. It is situated on the A4080 road some 6 miles south-east of [[Holyhead]], and is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. From the clock at the ...canoeing, walking and surfing. Broad Beach is a regular Green Coast Award Winner and is backed by sand dunes.
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  • ...th, [[St George's Channel]] to the southeast, and the [[Irish Sea]] to the east. ...e [[Atlantic Ocean]] and to the northeast by the [[North Channel]]. To the east, the [[Irish Sea]] connects to the Atlantic Ocean by way of [[St George's C
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  • |LG district=East Devon |constituency=East Devon
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  • ...ands above the chalk cliffs of the [[South Downs]] approximately six miles east of the centre of [[Brighton]], on the A259 road. Its site coincides with th ...uing them only on the payment of a conveyancing fee. The exact name of the winner is unknown only it is believed to be a member of the Fearby family. The new
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  • |LG district=Cheshire East Coal is found outcropping to the east of Towers Road, which corresponds to the line of the Red Rock Fault; that i
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  • |LG district=East Dorset The East Dorset Pottery Industry, known collectively as "Verwood Pottery" thrived fr
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  • ...ishopstokepc.hampshire.org.uk|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> The prefix 'East' is thought to refer to its location relative to the established settlement Another war-winner was the cartoon-heroine "Jane", in the comic strips of that name in the ''D
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  • ...r side of high tide. The island is approximately a mile and a half to the east of [[Maldon, Essex]] and the same to the west of [[Osea Island]]. ...e island, built by Norman Angell, the early twentieth century essayist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. It is maintained by the National Trust,
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  • |constituency=North East Hampshire ...' was a [[BBC]] television programme on English and spelling. The overall winner from the Internet was a man from Yateley, but the programme misspelt the na
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  • ...dents' employment is mainly to St Albans, Watford and London though to the east of the street in [[Frogmore, Hertfordshire|Frogmore]] is a substantial busi To the east and south-east of the village lies the disused Handley Page aerodrome. This was being expl
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  • '''Knowlton''' is a tiny village in [[Kent]], found along a dead-end lane east of the village of [[Chillenden]], halfway between [[Canterbury]] and the co It was once served (1916-1948) by a halt on the East Kent Light Railway, one of Colonel Stephen's lines, which ran between Shepe
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  • ...he east of the main harbour entrance channel is a gravel bank known as The Winner. ...s an area of geographical, recreational and conservation interest known as East Head. It is a large sand dune linked to land by a narrow area known as The
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  • ...ard Irlam, as part of the [[Manchester Ship Canal]]. Its course ends just east of Irlam, where it empties into the Mersey. [[File:Radcliffe looking east 1902 .jpg|right|thumb|200px|Radcliffe, 1902]]
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  • ...e]] and [[Lingmell]]. On 9 September 2007, Wast Water was announced as the winner of a vote to determine "Britain's Favourite View" by viewers of ITV. ...on the rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, that form the fells to the east of the lake, towards Eskdale. They are approximately 2,000&nbsp;feet, from
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  • |constituency=North East Milton Keynes ...ral in Kansas in the United States for the fastest time in either town and winner of the "International Pancake Race". There is also a children's race, run b
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  • ...along the coast from 'The Coastguard Cottages' in [[Hele Bay]] toward the east and 4 miles along [[The Torrs]] to [[Lee Bay]] toward the west. The resort The manor house at [[Chambercombe]] in east Ilfracombe, was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as being built by a Norm
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  • ...heep and grain production. Its location is associated with a nearby major east-west trade or drovers trail, which would account for its early importance a ...nner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Judges Discretionary Award for Commu
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  • ...attractive countryside on an arc running from the north-west to the north-east in the foothills of [[Pendle Hill]]. ...tside the town into the 1950s and open cast mining took place in the 1960s east of the town close to Gawthorpe Hall.
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  • ...walls. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the view looking towards the south-east of the square with its now listed buildings and river opening as "one of th ...end of a reduced, river bend-consumed half of the early mediæval village, east of the Old Shepperton Conservation Area due to erosion.<ref name=reynolds/>
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  • Central London is 14 miles east. The area is served by Hayes and Harlington railway station, served by tra The [[Grand Junction Canal]] runs through the Dawley land, east to west: it was constructed c. 1794–1800.<ref>''A History of the County o
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  • ...and earlier buildings, is a conservation area. The town has been a regular winner in the Britain in Bloom competition and, in summer, the main parts of Eccle The nearest railway station is Norton Bridge, three miles east of Eccleshall. It is still officially regarded as being open, but no servic
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  • *'''Telscombe Cliffs''' at the east end of the parish developed in the 20th century effectively as an extension ...Gorham. He managed a stud farm and trained racehorses, including the 1902 winner of the Grand National. On his death in 1933 he bequeathed his property in
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  • |LG district=Mid and East Antrim The village was designated a Conservation area in 1975. It is the winner of many Best Kept Village Awards including the Europa Nostra Award.
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  • ...12 ft 6 in high, surrounded by a ditch 23 ft wide. An adjoining bailey to east of the motte could indicate the boundary between Norman and Welsh land.<ref ...the rushing waters of the river Tâf, by which it is bounded on the north-east. It was formerly comprehended within the hundred of Miskin, but has been re
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  • ...innegad]] to the north and the R402 from [[Enfield, Meath|Enfield]] to the east meet at the north-eastern end of the Main Street. At the Grand Canal they s * Ron Delany, athlete, winner gold medal 1500 meters at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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  • ...estry.com. Retrieved 2012-04-20</ref> is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.<ref>[http://www.haylinganglicans.co.uk/stmary To the west is [[Langstone Harbour]] and to the east is [[Chichester Harbour]].
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  • The range has river valleys along its boundaries to north east ([[Clydesdale]]) and south-west ([[Nithsdale]]) which carry the two largest ==North-east and south-west boundaries==
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  • ...ey Sussex and Christ's College.<ref>Thompson, Roger, Mobility & Migration, East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629–1640, Amherst: University of Massac ...in class rather than score order. This made it harder to ascertain who the winner of the spoon was (unless there was only one person in the third class), and
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  • ...date=2012-01-23}}</ref> The scheme, which cost £1.9 million, was also the winner in the Community category of the 2011 Waterways Renaissance Awards. The Awa |title=The Canals of South and South East England
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  • ...in north-western [[Monmouthshire]], located south-east of [[Rhymney]] and east of [[Pontlottyn]] in [[Glamorgan]]. The nearest major town is [[Merthyr Tyd *Jack Howells, film director, winner of the 1963 Academy Award for his short documentary film ''Dylan Thomas''.
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  • '''Mountshannon''' is a village in south-east [[County Galway]] and a Catholic parish by the same name. The village is on Mountshannon is a regular winner in the Tidy Towns having won the national prize in 1981, Silver in 2004 and
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  • ...east/sites/wrexham/pages/llaycolliery.shtml Llay Main Colliery], BBC North East Wales</ref> *Dennis Taylor - 1985 World Snooker Championship winner and [[BBC]] snooker commentator.
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  • |LG district=Cheshire East ...vert|1,165|ha|acre|0|x}} to the west of the Peak Park foothills and to the east of the sandstone ridge which is ‘the edge’. The village is about a mile
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  • |LG district=East Lothian |constituency=East Lothian
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  • *the winner of the highly prestigious British Construction Industry Civil Engineering A *the winner of the Historic Structures category (30 years or older) of the Institution
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  • ...l has fine furniture, the interior decoration, grounds and gardens. It was winner of the Historic Houses Association/Christie's '' 'Garden of the Year' '' Aw ...access route to the main visitor entrance is by way of the signposted turn east off the A5199 at Creaton.
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  • ...isher=Scottish Places|accessdate=30 December 2014}}</ref> the silver medal winner in the British Cheese Awards 2002.
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  • |picture=Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. - geograph.org.uk - 429703.jpg |LG district=East Renfrewshire
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  • ...et Valley Railway''' is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway to the east of [[Stoke-on-Trent]] in [[Staffordshire]], that operates along eleven mile * 2008 National Railway Heritage Awards, National Express East Coast Volunteers Award, awarded for the reconstruction of the Up platform a
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  • |constituency=Lanark and Hamilton East ...Uddingston]] and [[Hamilton, Lanarkshire|Hamilton]], nine miles east-south-east of [[Glasgow]] city centre.
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  • ...village and township in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], about five miles east of [[Doncaster]] city centre. Throughout the village are various scattered In 2006, prize money for the winner reached £68,000, which makes the contest one of the most lucrative in the
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  • ...extends from one [[Munro]], [[Ben Vorlich, Perthshire|Ben Vorlich]] in the east through to another, [[Beinn Chabhair]] in the west. A small section of the There are some foundations of the east end of the small mediæval parish church of Balquhidder around the grave of
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  • ...r-old infant", ''The Guardian'', 21 October 1978, p. 9</ref> The choice of winner was even more contentious with the Cathedral Committee when it was discover ...s. John William Brown (1842–1928) designed the ''Te Deum'' window in the east end of the Cathedral, as well as the original windows for the Lady Chapel,
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  • The parish is bounded on the east by the [[River Dee, Kirkcudbrightshire|Dee]] and on the west by the [[River Minnigaff is the birthplace of Sir James Mirrlees, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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  • ...oss''' is a town in south-west [[County Wexford]], around 12½ miles north-east of [[Waterford]]. It is located on the [[River Barrow]], which here forms t ...y. An earthen defensive structure called a motte was quickly built at Old East Ross in order to hold the newly conquered territory. A mediæval borough s
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  • ...able=CDP08&PLanguage=0], To find the population of Athy, you must add Athy East Urban, Athy West Urnan, Athy Rural (Part Rural), and Athy Rural (Part Urban *Athy Rugby Club was founded in 1880 and five time winner of the Leinster Towns Cup.
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  • ...al labourers moved here from across the British Isles, including many from East Anglia, to drive this expansion. ...-charity-9964153 'Gravy Wrestling Championships 2015: Charity boss crowned winner of bank holiday tradition'] - Manchester Evening News 31 August 2015</ref>
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  • ...orian architecture of Ramsbottom, its industrial heritage, including the [[East Lancashire Railway]] and the beautiful Pennine landscape contribute to heri ...and [[Strongstry]]; to the west by [[Holcombe, Bury|Holcombe]] and to the east by [[Shuttleworth, Lancashire|Shuttleworth]] and [[Turn Village]].
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  • ...lewisham/assets/histories/sydenham|website=Ideal Homes: A History of South East London Suburbs|accessdate=29 June 2014}}</ref> Sydenham began as a small se ...About Us] Accessed 30 July 2013</ref> Green Flag and Mayor of London Award winner, Sydenham Garden, was formed in 2002. It is a charity which is involved in
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  • ...e Nest Crags has partly covered the cave which has three entrances. On its east and west flanks the fell falls away steeply with rocky slopes and scree to ...e to ascend on either of the ridges to the east or west of Combe Gill, the east ridge is the best because it allows for the climbing of [[Rosthwaite Fell]]
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  • ...lt the St Fergus Gas Terminal lived whilst it was being constructed to the east of the village. ...featured John "Moon eyes" Cooper competing on solos against double Manx GP winner George Buchan and sidecar aces Chris Vincent and Mac Hobson.. These were th
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  • |constituency=New Forest East ...metres at Whitsbury Castle. Whitsbury Wood and Whitsbury Common are to the east and south of the village.<ref name="vch"/> The Church of St Leonard, built
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  • ...ent. At the northern end of the street stands Swords Castle, 200 yds north-east of the ecclesiastical site, which was built in the early 13th century. A sh The Ward River, from Meath, runs west to east to near the centre of the town, and then turns to run north, before flowing
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  • The village was once served by its railway station on the [[East Coast Main Line]]. The railway still passes near Croft but the station, whi The 1861 Epsom Derby winner Kettledrum was bred at Croft in 1858.<ref name="Mortimer">{{cite book | las
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  • ...to be found on the B3280 road, a mile east of [[Marazion]], and four miles east of [[Penzance]]. ...e Little gave to the wrestlers in his parish a glove as the prize, and the winner of the glove was permitted to collect the market toll on the day of the fea
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  • ...vered with lead. Several episodes of damage necessitated rebuilding of the east end and spire but since the final erection of the stone spire in 1480 there ...tion, Norwich Cathedral was until the modern age the largest building in [[East Anglia]].
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  • ...of the [[River Irwell]] and is bounded on the north by Whitefield, on the east by [[Heaton Park]], to the west by the Prestwich Forest Park and the [[Irwe ...in the centre-east and Bowker Vale on the [[Blackley]] border to the south-east.
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  • |region=East Midlands ...and A6121 roads. A prominent reconstructed windmill can be seen from both east and westbound approaches to Morcott along the A47.<ref>http://www.windmillw
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  • ...s of the Lower Lake; the Lake View which is about the same distance to the east of the town and also on the shore of the Lower Lake; the Muckross about two ...y National Primary Route N22 (north to [[Tralee]] and [[Castleisland]] and east to [[Cork]]); the National Secondary Routes N72 (west to [[Killorglin]]) an
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  • ...in in 1845, he significantly enlarged Scorrier House, building the stately east façade overlooking the park. Parts of this enlargement were gutted during ...www.godolphin.com/HorseDetail.aspx?id=268 Goldolphin Stud]</ref> and twice winner of the Group 2 Godolphin Mile.<ref>[http://www.racingpost.com/horses/result
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  • ...sociated people include twenty-one Nobel Prize winners, two Pulitzer Prize winner, three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, two currently-sitting Justice Pollock Halls, adjoining [[Holyrood Park]] to the east, provides accommodation (mainly half board) for a minority of students in t
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  • The village is abouthalf a mile east of the A424 road, around a mile and a half west of the [[Fosse Way]] (A429) In September 2001, Longborough was the winner of the Bledisloe Cup competition for best kept village.<ref>[http://archive
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  • .... It stretches from Gilman Point in the west to [[Laugharne Sands]] in the east. The village of [[Pendine]] is close to the western end of Pendine Sands. ...behind a modified lorry driven by former British Truck Racing Championship winner, Dave Jenkins. The preparations for the record attempt were documented in E
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  • ...till exist on Wilmslow Road between Didsbury Village and Parrs Wood to the east and Withington to the north, but they have now been converted to nursing ho ...o a theme and meet in the playground of St. Catherine's Primary School, in East Didsbury, from where they parade to Didsbury Park.
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  • |constituency=Lanark and Hamilton East '''Larkhall''' is a town in [[Lanarkshire]], around 14 miles south-east of [[Glasgow]]. It lies in the parish of [[Dalserf]].
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  • ...eight miles north of [[Newport, Shropshire|Newport]] and five miles south-east of [[Market Drayton]]. At the 2001 Census, the parish (which also includes Cheswardine was also home to the late MBE award-winner Winnie Goodwin.<ref name=Winnie>
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  • ...ord''' is a town in the south of [[Essex]], located approximately 30 miles east of London. It has a population of more than 33,000 as of the 2011 census. ...a level. The [[River Crouch]] flows through the town, from the west to the east. The River Wick flows into the River Crouch from the south.
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  • ...Age and Roman times. The earliest settlement was probably somewhat to the east of the centre of Bampton today, the triangular space known as Market Square ...umpkins are weighed, with the winner being awarded a prize. The first ever winner of the club weigh-in was Joe Buckingham with a gourd weighing 51 lbs 8 oz.
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  • Sir Richard Rogers, winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, wrote of the London Eye in a book ...ional Rail services is made at London Waterloo station and London Waterloo East station.
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  • |riding=East '''Charleville''' is a town in the north of [[County Cork]], within the East Riding. It lies in the [[Golden Vale]], on a tributary of the [[River Maigu
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  • ...is]] & Tyrawley (1841) Dublin</ref> Two new roads were built - one to the east went to [[Ballycastle, County Mayo|Ballycastle]] and one to the south to [[ * [http://www.vimeo.com/8668733 'Pipe Down' Winner of Best Feature Documentary: Waterford Film Festival 2009]
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  • ...er 2007 when this road was also realigned to bypass Cahir to the north and east. The same road improvement scheme saw major changes to the N8 corridor: a n *Brenda Hyland, winner of the Rose of Tralee competition in 1983 (although she represented [[Count
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  • ...arish in the South Riding of [[County Tipperary]]. It is located ten miles east of [[Cashel, County Tipperary|Cashel]] on the ''Clashawley River'' where th ...ables in Fethard, notably that of Michael "Mouse" Morris at Everardgrange, winner of the Grand National and Irish Grand National. McCarthy's Hotel is noted
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  • '''Kinsale''' is a historic port and fishing town in the East Riding of [[County Cork]] which also has significant military history. Loca ...effort. The Lusitania memorial is at Casement Square in [[Cobh]], to the east of Cork city.
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  • ...on 27&nbsp;September 1871. The architect, William Henry Crossland, was the winner of a competition held in 1864 to design a new Town Hall. It had a 240-ft cl ...built between 1885 and 1887<ref name="PMSA"/> about 15 yds further to the east than the original,<ref name=link/> shows many similarities to [[Manchester
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  • |picture caption=Main Street and church, looking east ...is around here that there is a distinct change from West Central Scots to East Central Scots. The [[M8 motorway]] bypasses the village and has a service s
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  • |LG district=East Lindsey ...tury the parish had repute for its racing stables, at which the 1875 Derby winner Galopin was bred.<ref name=Cox/>
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  • ...ley. Prominent peaks seen from the Blorenge include the [[Skirrid]] to the east of Abergavenny and the [[Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire|Sugar Loaf]] to the nort ...Tour of Britain finished at the summit on 9 September 2014, when the stage winner was the Italian rider, Edoardo Zardini.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wynn|first1=Ni
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  • ...ords Delvin and Marquess of Westmeath and the Tuites of Sonagh were to the east. The 1946 Epsom Derby winner, Airborne was bred near the village in 1943.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www
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  • *The 1st Marquess Wellesley, proconsul for the East India Company in India. Older brother of The 1st Duke of Wellington. *Gordon Elliot - Trainer of 2007 Aintree Grand National winner, Silver Birch.
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  • ...ockets, have seen much success in recent years competing in both the North East Basketball League and the Dublin Ladies Basketball League. Dunshaughlin com ...cular National Hunt racing. The leading flat race sprinter ''Sole Power'', winner of the Nunthorpe Stakes and the King's Stand Stakes, is trained near the to
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  • ...reakwater, and the landward end is still clearly discernible. To the north-east, by the A7 road, are the earthwork remains of a motte and bailey castle kno ...nstructed of distinctive red Ruabon brick, the station is open seasonally; winner of an ''Ian Allen Heritage Award'' in 1991
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  • ...ed with the [[Flag Institute]]. It was revealed on 14 December 2018 as the winner of competition in which over 3,000 people from the county voted. ...in of the county's name ''South Land'' as well as the sunrises seen on the east coast and sunsets on Sutherland's west coast. The black recalls the peat of
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  • ...Royal Institute of British Architects East Spirit of Ingenuity Award; 2012 winner of Secured by Design Award; 2011 Essex Tourism Awards (shortlisted) Best La
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  • ...town, [[Chichester]]. Nearby towns include [[Haywards Heath]] to the south-east and [[Burgess Hill]] to the south. ...umbers of votes can be purchased for the price of one penny each, with the winner receiving the most votes.<ref>J D A Wiseman: '[http://www.jdawiseman.com/pa
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  • ...d parish in [[Worcestershire]], just to the north of [[Worcester]], on the east bank of the [[River Severn]]. Claines is situated in the heart of the count Pineau De Re, the 2014 Grand National winner, was trained at Claines and is also stabled there. The Claines village name
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  • |constituency=Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland ...rkshire|North Riding]] of [[Yorkshire]]. The town is around 12 miles south-east of [[Middlesbrough]], and the ward of Saltburn had a population of 5,912 at
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  • ...shire]], about two miles west of [[Clayton-le-Moors]] and four miles north-east of [[Blackburn]]. The population at the census of 2011 was 6,625.<ref name= ...of [[Accrington]]. Its elevation above sea level varies from 250 ft in the east, where Norden Brook flows into the [[River Hyndburn]], to 785 ft on Rishton
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  • ...thshire]]. It lies within the [[Snowdonia]] National Park, but just to the east of the main A470 road, and consequently many visitors pass the village by. ...6 British Rally Championship winner Gwyndaf Evans and his son Elfyn Evans, winner of Rally GB 2017.<ref>Parri, Ian. ''Placid haven with a wicked secret. Live
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  • ...Hill, the nearest village in Montgomeryshire, [[White Grit]], lies to the east of Priestweston. Second World War Victoria Cross winner John Brunt was born there in 1922 and his family lived there before moving
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  • ...rsity Press. {{ISBN|0-19-280106-6}}</ref> Approximately eight miles south-east of [[Charing Cross]], it includes one of the highest points in the London c ...businesses.<ref name="introELLCrystalPal">{{cite web|title=Introducing the East London Line: Crystal Palace|url=http://londonist.com/2010/05/introducing_th
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  • ...es west of [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire|Marlow]], and about three miles north-east of [[Henley-on-Thames]] in [[Oxfordshire]]. ...Phil Vickery, Rugby Union London Wasps player and England 2003 World Cup Winner, lived in Hambleden<ref>[http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/archives/2007/0709
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  • ...lies in a small valley through which the River Cledwen flows and has been winner of 'Best Kept Village' on four occasions. Its church is dedicated to Saint ...ancient standing stones approximately three feet high and aligned roughly east to west. The first stone carries a carving and what appears to be a 'W'.
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  • ...ordshire]]; a place of some 100 souls. It is to be found about five miles east of the border of [[Radnorshire]] and ten miles north-west of [[Hereford]]. George Frederick Bodley, winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1899, restored and improved St
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  • ...st of [[Charing Cross]]. The main thoroughfare running north-west to south-east is Kilburn High Road, part of the modern A5 road. The road dates back to pr ...its feeder ditches were diverted into combined sewers feeding away to the east; it was otherwise piped underground and became one of London's underground
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  • ...dely known as the Old Bailey after its street, is about half a mile to the east &mdash; a Crown Court centre with no direct connection with the Royal Court ...83|p=96}} In 1868 it was finally decided that George Edmund Street was the winner.{{sfn|Harper|1983|p=96}} Building work started in 1873, by Messrs Bull & So
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  • ...''' (also known as '''Hinton Martel''') is a village in [[Dorset]], in the east of the county three miles north of [[Wimborne Minster]]. With neighbouring ...d, and was revealed in 1965 by Miss Anne Sidney of Poole, the 'Miss World' winner of that year.
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  • ...omotion |publisher=Daily Telegraph |acces-date=3 September 2013 |quote=The winner of Les Routiers Best County Retreat 2009, Stoke Rochford Hall... |url-statu ...mile of the line is in the parish, including the Stoke Tunnel. Just to the east is Stoke Tunnel Farm, which is in Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe. Just south
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  • ...ablishing an "Eton Mission" in the crowded district of [[Hackney Wick]] in east London was started at the beginning of 1880, and it lasted until 1971 when ...aldane, Stephen Wolfram and the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner, John Gurdon; Beau Brummell; economists John Maynard Keynes and Richard Lay
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  • |picture=East Window - geograph.org.uk - 571765.jpg |picture caption=East Window, All Saints' Church, Moulton
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  • ...he [[Cotswolds]] in [[Gloucestershire]], on the [[River Coln]] eight miles east of [[Cirencester]] and two miles north of [[Fairford]]. ...e episode aired in early 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Quenington pub crowned winner of popular TV show Four in a Bed|url=http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/new
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  • ...n the hundred of [[Wimborne St Giles Hundred|Wimborne-St-Giles]], Shaston (East) division of the co. of Dorset. It consists of a single farm, and is crosse ...who sent out the winners of many important horse races including Foxhall, winner of the Grand Prix de Paris, Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire in 1881.
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  • ...d Great Barr station) and Perry Barr to the south, [[Kingstanding]] to the east, and the open countryside of Barr Beacon to the north. * Dhani Prem, – Padma Shri winner and the first Asian Councillor to represent Great Barr in 1946.<ref name="D
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  • ...seamen. This necessitated new accommodation wings, and a flanking pair to east and west were added and connected to the house by colonnades from 1807 (des ...ceiling in the main hall created by artist Richard Wright, a Turner prize winner. The house had previously been restored between 1986 and 1999, with contemp
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  • ...rth-south railway lines enclose the residential parts of the area, bounded east and west by estates of warehousing, industrial and commercial use ...Its loosely defined east and west limits coalesce around Wharf Road in the east and the Southbury station or Kingsway in the west.
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  • The racehorse Staveley, winner of the 1805 St Leger Stakes, was born at nearby [[Boroughbridge]].<ref>{{ci ...veral years, it is now a significant feature of the landscape to the south east of the village.{{sfn|Staveley CACA|2011|p=5}}
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  • |constituency=Carmarthen East and Dinefwr ...unity Store is a co-operative has been set up to run the village shop,<ref>Winner of A Welsh Oscar, ''Newyddion Cymuned'' 25 May 2007</ref> which featured in
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  • '''Werrington''' is a village in [[Staffordshire]], about five miles east of [[Stoke-on-Trent]] city centre. The village has a population of just ove Phil Taylor, 16-times winner of the World Professional Darts Championship, resides in Werrington.<ref>{{
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  • Upon exiting the lower reservoir Pendle Water flows east through the villages of [[Barley, Lancashire|Barley]] and [[Roughlee, Lanca ...2020}}</ref> The local special school, Pendle Community College, was joint winner of the 2009 ''Ecover Ethical Kids'' Award in February 2010 for their involv
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  • ...est edge of its larger, sister village, [[Kings Worthy]], and to the north-east of the city of [[Winchester]]. It is amongst a cluster of neighbouring vill ...}</ref> the stables of the Manor House once housed the 1946 Grand National winner, Lovely Cottage. The day after the race, Lovely Cottage was paraded around
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  • [[File:Regency Lissan House from the East c.1860.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Lissan House c.1860]] ...ty featured in the television Series ''Restoration'' which promised to the winner of a phone in competition a fund in excess of £1,000,000 for the restorati
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  • ...he altar does not feature a tabernacle. Most impressive is the magnificent east window with glass by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris which has a clai .../ref> The Alice Hawthorn public house was named after the 1840s [[equine]] winner of the [[Doncaster Cup]] and [[Queen's Vase]] and was formerly The Blue Bel
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  • [[File:Tal_y_llyn_lake.jpg|thumb|350px|Looking north-east up the ''Bwlch Llyn Bach'' pass]] 1976 Newbery Medal winner Susan Cooper used the lake as a setting for the book ''The Grey King''. Wi
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  • ...ame associates with a crossing through water, most likely Wath Beck at the east end of the village.{{sfn|Wath ca|2011|p=3}} ...and that of his champion, and so renounced all claims on the village. The winner was Sir Robert Marmion, whose family were already resident at [[West Tanfie
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  • ...entire Yorkshire region and subsequent super regional winner for the North East, making it one of the best 4 Clubs in the UK. It has now been voted the bes
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  • The [[River Wiske]] passes to the east of the village. Romanby Golf Course is situated between Yafforth and the vi ...ree brickyards, and a pub. The pub was named after a horse named Reveller, winner of the 1818 St Leger Stakes classic at Doncaster. The pub closed in the lat
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  • ...ouse, Somerville College, Oxford.jpg|right|thumb|200px|House seen from the east]] ...ceived in 1985, completed in 1991 and named after Somerville's Nobel Prize-winner.{{sfn |Manuel |2013 |p=47}} The quadrangle is above the Margaret Thatcher C
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