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Highway, Wiltshire

Highway is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hilmarton, in Wiltshire, England. The hamlet lies about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Hilmarton village and 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) northeast of the town of Calne.

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Calne

Calne is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, southwestern England, at the northwestern extremity of the North Wessex Downs hill range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Rhewl railway station

Rhewl railway station was a station in Rhewl, Llanynys, Denbighshire, Wales. The station was opened on 1 March 1862 and closed on 30 April 1962. The main station building and sections of the platform are still extant and in use as a private dwelling.

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St Mark's Church, Blackburn

St Mark's Church is in Buncer Lane, in the former parish of Witton, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is a redundant Anglican church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn. It was put up for sale in 2018. Originally a separate parish, in 2005 it combined with the parish of St Luke with St Philip to form the Parish of Christ the King. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed bui

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Junction Mills, Ashton-under-Lyne

The Junction Mills were cotton spinning and weaving mills to the west of the Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, in England. They were built between 1831 and 1890 for the Samuel Heginbottom and his sons. The firm went out of business in 1930, and all the buildings have been demolished but the 210 feet (64 m) octagonal chimney, built in 1867, and typical of that period has been preserved in situ.

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Canterbury Street drill hall

The Canterbury Street drill hall is a former military installation in Blackburn, Lancashire. It is a Grade II listed building.

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Canterbury Street drill hall

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Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda

Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda, also known as Darul Uloom Blackburn, is an 11-25 private, Islamic, boarding and day school for boys in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It was established in 1997 and its name means The College of Knowledge and Guidance.

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Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda

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St John's Church, Dukinfield

St John's Church is in Oxford Road, Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Mottram, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the diocese of Chester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It stands in an elevated position at the top of a small hill.

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Ashton Town Hall

Ashton Town Hall is a public building on Katherine Street in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

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Witton Park Academy

Witton Park Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in the west of Blackburn, Lancashire, England.

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Witton Park Academy

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Astley Deep Pit disaster

The Astley Deep Pit disaster was a mining accident at the Astley Deep Pit, in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, England, that took place on 14 April 1874, killing 54 men and boys. Astley Deep Pit was a coal mine started around 1845 to work the seam of coal known as the "Lancashire Black Mine". When finished, it was supposedly the deepest coal-mine in Britain and cost £100,000 to sink.

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The Mall Blackburn

The Mall Blackburn, also known by its former name, Blackburn Shopping Centre, is a shopping centre serving the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, England and is owned by the Adhan Group.

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Newton, Greater Manchester

Newton is an area of Hyde, in the Tameside district, in Greater Manchester, England; it occupies a narrow strip of land from the River Tame, near Newton Hall, to Matley, between Hyde and Dukinfield.

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Newton, Greater Manchester

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Dukinfield Old Chapel

Dukinfield Old Chapel is a Unitarian chapel on Old Road in Dukinfield, a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The present building was constructed between 1838 and 1841 to the designs of Robert Tattersall, with the west front refaced by Worthington & Elgood in the early 1890s. It stands within a historic graveyard containing several listed 18th‑century monuments and continues a tradition of Nonconformist worship in the area dating back to the 17th century. The chapel is recorded in the

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Stainmore Railway Company

Stainmore Railway Company is a volunteer-run, non-profit preservation company formed in 2000 with the aim of restoring Kirkby Stephen East railway station in Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England. In 1997 a company called Stainmore Properties Ltd. was formed, with the intention to convert KSE into an authentic North Eastern Railway focused heritage centre representing the early 1950s. The Stainmore Railway Company was subsequently formed to restore the site. Since then essential repairs have been mad

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Hyde Newton (ward)

Hyde Newton is an electoral ward of Tameside, England. It is represented in Westminster by Jonathan Reynolds Labour Co-operative MP for Stalybridge and Hyde.

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Hyde Newton (ward)

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Frodingham railway station

Frodingham railway station was a railway station in Frodingham, Lincolnshire, England. It was open by the Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby Railway on 1 October 1866 and, like all the others built by that company, had staggered platforms set around the level crossing on the Brigg Road. The first station here was closed in autumn 1886, when a new Frodingham station, built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, was opened, to the west of the Brigg Road level crossing. This station was s

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East Westmorland Rural District

East Westmorland was the name of a rural district in the administrative county of Westmorland from 1894 to 1935. The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the former East Ward rural sanitary district, and therefore indirectly on the former East Ward of Westmorland.

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East Westmorland Rural District

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St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy

St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy is a mixed Roman Catholic secondary school located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England.

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St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy

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Musgrave railway station

Musgrave railway station was a railway station situated on the Eden Valley Railway and located between Penrith and Kirkby Stephen East, England.

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Musgrave railway station

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John Leggott College

John Leggott Sixth Form College is a located on West Common Lane, in Old Brumby, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England.

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John Leggott College

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Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham

The Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. It is named after its main settlement of Rotherham. The wider borough spans a larger area and covers the outlying towns of Maltby, Swinton, Wath-upon-Dearne, Dinnington. As well as the villages of Rawmarsh and Laughton. A large valley spans the entire borough and is referred to as the "Rother Valley".

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Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham

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Clifton, Rotherham

Clifton is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Boston Castle ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, which in 2011 had a population of 13,486. It is known for its landmark Beeversleigh Flats, a 40m high tower block with an unusual hexagonal shape, built in 1970 which can be seen from many places across the borough, due in part to its position at the top of a hill. It is positioned just outside Rotherham town centre, bordered by other suburbs such as Eastwood

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Clifton, Rotherham

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Ashby, Lincolnshire

Ashby is a suburb of Scunthorpe, in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England.

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Ashby, Lincolnshire

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