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  • ...al instead ran eastwards to join on to the national network at [[Hurleston Junction]] on the (now-named) [[Shropshire Union Canal]] near [[Nantwich]]. A feeder ...Initially the festival was held in a tent on a playing field, and later a weaver's shed. It is now held in the Town Hall. The Fringe includes music, comedy,
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  • ...for example the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica states "It is formed by the junction of the Goyt and the Etherow a short distance below [[Marple, Cheshire|Marpl *[[River Weaver]]
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  • ...hile westwards there was a steep descent towards [[Bath]]. Swindon was the junction for the proposed line to [[Gloucester]]. Swindon Junction station opened in 1842 and, until 1895, every train stopped for at least 10
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  • ...of Bloody Mary (1553–1554), including Christopher Waid, a Dartford linen-weaver who was burnt at the stake in front of thousands of spectators on the Brent Dartford railway station is a busy junction serving three routes. The first railway from London to reach Dartford was t
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  • Robert Burns' poem ''The Gallant Weaver'' mentions the River Cart. ...ailway it was linked to the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Arkleston Junction. As a result, Hamilton Street station closed.<ref name=awdry/>
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  • ...inen.com Thomas Ferguson & Co Ltd.], the last remaining Irish linen damask weaver. ...g of the Banbridge, Lisburn and Belfast Junction Railway between Knockmore Junction and Banbridge on 13 July 1863,<ref name=Hajducki9/> which gave Banbridge a
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  • |constituency=Weaver Vale ...south of [[Runcorn]] and 16&nbsp;miles south of [[Liverpool]]. The [[River Weaver]] runs to its northeast and on the west it overlooks the estuary of the [[R
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  • ...ajor roads, the A533, A54 and A530, and it is approximately 2½ miles from junction 18 of the [[M6 motorway]]. The main westward traffic route between the mot ...at of ice age glaciers.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Environment Agency|title=Weaver and Dane Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy, Consultation Document|a
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  • Nantwich is on the [[Cheshire Plain]], on the banks of the [[River Weaver]], approximately four miles south-west of [[Crewe]] and 20 miles south-east ...s a popular mooring for visitors to the town. The Shropshire Union makes a junction with the [[Llangollen Canal]] at [[Hurleston]] to the north.
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  • ...given on 24&nbsp;March 1762.<ref name=anon29>{{Harvnb|Anon|p=29}}</ref> A junction, Waters Meeting, was created in Trafford Park, at which the new extension b ...to the Midlands, and forestalled the Weaver Trustees from making their own junction with the canal.{{sfn|Mather|1970|pp=xvi–xvii|ps=}} The new extension also
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  • ...of the former Eden Valley Railway which ran up the valley between Clifton Junction near [[Penrith]] and [[Kirkby Stephen]] by way of [[Appleby-in-Westmorland] ...er traffic ended in 1962 and the line was reduced to the track between the junction at Appleby station with the Settle-Carlisle Line and Kirkby Stephen which s
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  • ...his little congregation from the hills arrived at the chapel.<ref>William Weaver Tomlinson: "Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland", 1888</ref>
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  • ...e and East Coast Railway]] (later part of the Great Central) from Langwith Junction (later renamed Shirebrook North) to the outskirts of Sheffield. The station *Nicky Weaver, professional footballer.
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  • ...ed by the Mersey River Board, which was replaced in turn by the Mersey and Weaver River Authority in 1965. In 1974 all the river authorities were merged into The [[M60 motorway|M60]] passes through the valley and the bridge at junction 16 (A666] in Clifton is used as a summer roost for over 100 Daubenton's bat
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  • [[File:TandMJunctionMacclesfield.JPG|thumb|300px|Hardings Wood Junction with the Hall Green Branch]] ...anal that could bring coal in from [[Cheshire]]. The owners of the [[River Weaver]] Navigation were also not happy about the proposals, because the route wou
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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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  • ...in, on the Wirral Line of the Ellesmere Canal, at Raymond Street, near the junction with the Chester Canal and the River Dee]] ...o Nantwich, but the [[Trent and Mersey Canal]] were unco-operative about a junction at Middlewich, and so the route to Nantwich was opened in 1779. There were
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  • |picture=Junction of Hilton Lane and the A34 - geograph.org.uk - 162189.jpg ...heplebeian.net/books_cdtps.php|title=Conan Doyle and The Parson's Son|last=Weaver|first=Gordon|publisher=The Plebeian|accessdate=24 October 2010}}</ref> was
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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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  • ...ersions are loops that branch off to serve Manchester, one between Colwich Junction in the Trent Valley south of Stafford via Stoke-on-Trent, one north of Staf ...4148/virgintrainsmediaroom.com/media/adobepdf/3+Grand+Junction+D.pdf Grand Junction Railway: History of the West Coast Main line], Virgin Trains 2004.</ref><re
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