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  • Further north is Norbury Park which contains the Druids Grove, a forest of ancient yew trees, some o ...osperous agricultural and market town, benefiting from its position on the junction of a number of important roads and tracks.
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  • ...James Brindley in 1771 and the Droitwich Junction Canal built in 1854. The Junction canal linked Droitwich to the [[Worcester and Birmingham Canal]]. The canal The Norbury Theatre hosts regular shows year-round and has an active Youth Theatre.
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  • ...ury Junction.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction]] ...ollen Canal]] (at Hurleston Junction), the Middlewich Branch (at Barbridge Junction), which itself connects via the [[Wardle Canal]] with the [[Trent and Merse
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  • ...humb|300px|The former Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal near Norbury Junction, now part of the Shropshire Union Canal]] The '''Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal''' was a canal which ran from Nantwich, where it joined the [[Chester
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  • ...canal today: moorings on the only navigable section of the canal, near its junction with the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]]. This stretch at Brassknocker, some 220 ...a thriving marina with moorings. Excavations of the old stop lock (at the junction with the Kennet and Avon canal) showed that this had originally been a broa
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  • ...s of the five canals listed below, in anti-clockwise order from Middlewich Junction: ...y the Trent and Mersey Canal to ensure that they retained control over the junction.<ref>{{harvnb |Nicholson |2006 |pp=102–103}}</ref><ref name=jane272>{{har
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  • [[File:St Peters at Norbury - geograph.org.uk - 937152.jpg|thumb|250px|St Peter's]] ...ourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126998&c=Norbury&d=16&e=62&g=6464653&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1449775846234&enc=1|tit
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  • ...twell ''et al.'', p. 18.</ref> A corn mill is known to have existed at the junction of Denton Brook and the River Tame from about 1400 onwards.<ref>Downham, p. ...ates a small group of farm buildings and cottages at Shores Fold, near the junction of Nelstrop Road and Marbury Road, to the sixteenth and late seventeenth to
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  • ...rough the Midlands to [[Dundalk]]) starts/terminates south of Nenagh, at a junction with the M7. This route also bypasses Nenagh to the north and connects with *John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury – Irish lawyer, politician and judge, 'The Hanging Judge'
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  • ...n active campaign to preserve the remnants of the canal and to restore the Norbury to Shrewsbury line to navigation. ...|loc=Pt.1 Fig.72}} The branch linked [[Norbury Junction]] to [[Wappenshall Junction]], passing through Newport, and included 23 locks.
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  • ...Junction, Shrewsbury Canal - geograph.org.uk - 335323.jpg|thumb|250px|The junction in 1964. The route to Newport is through the bridge, the Trench Branch is t '''Wappenshall Junction''' is a canal junction located at [[Wappenshall]], [[Shropshire]]. It was created when the Newport
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  • ...s routes to travel to West Norwood, Tulse Hill, Streatham, West Dulwich or Norbury railway stations. The disconnection from the capital's rail/tube network h ...'s Cathedral, lived in ''Roselawn'', a large house on Beulah Hill near the junction with Hermitage Road. He played host to the composer Felix Mendelssohn in 18
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  • ..._UR_046928</ref> The mansion was then the home of the "hanging judge" Lord Norbury, until he died in 1831 and the Segrave family managed to reacquire it. Char Along the canal towards Liffey Junction, and serving the railway, was once a coke-making site, of which only some o
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  • ...[[Malpas, Cheshire|Malpas]], [[No Man's Heath, Cheshire|No Man's Heath]], Norbury, Wirswall and [[Wrenbury]]. The civil parish of '''Marbury-cum-Quoisley''' ...of Nantwich. The Domesday entry records 1½ hides at Marbury; jointly with Norbury and Wirswall, there was land for five ploughs and woodland measuring two le
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  • ...auseway being a term often used for old Roman roads. At Hepworth Road at [[Norbury]], where the modern road wanders from the Roman line, the intact road, 32 f South of junction 6 of the M25 motorway the Roman road has remained in use as the B2235 throu
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