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Urquhart and Logie Wester is a parish within the historic county of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. It is situated in the area known as the Black Isle and is in the Highland council area.
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View pinPortadown massacre
The Portadown massacre took place in November 1641 at Portadown, County Armagh, during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Irish Catholic rebels, likely under the command of Toole McCann, killed about 100 Protestant settlers by forcing them off the bridge into the River Bann and shooting those who tried to swim to safety. The settlers were being marched east from a prison camp at Loughgall. This was the biggest massacre of Protestants during the rebellion, and one of the bloodiest during the Irish Conf
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View pinKillicomaine Junior High School
Killicomaine Junior High School is a controlled school in Portadown, Northern Ireland.
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View pinMillgrove railway station (England)
Millgrove railway station was a private station on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway (C&WJR) main line from Moor Row to Workington Central. It appears to have served the Burnyeat family who lived at a house named Millgrove in Moresby, Cumbria, England, which was near the company's main line. William Burnyeat (1849-1921) was on the company's Board of Directors from 1900 to 1921.
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View pinBroomhill, County Armagh
Broomhill is a small village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Drumnahunshin and the Armagh City and District Council area. It had a population of 197 people in the 2011 Census.
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View pinMoorside railway station (Cumbria)
Moorside is a proposed railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line which would serve Moorside nuclear power station. A second railway station to be sited at Mirehouse further north on the line, has also been proposed to serve the accommodation for the workers of the construction phase of the nuclear power station.
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View pinWoodhouse Colliery
Woodhouse Colliery, also known as Whitehaven coal mine, was a proposed coal mine near to Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. The coal mine had been advertised as bringing jobs to a deprived area, but had also come in for criticism by green campaigners. The mine was proposed by West Cumbria Mining and planned to extract coking coal from beneath the Irish Sea for 25 years. The plan was criticised by some MPs, scientists and environmentalists due to the coal mine's environmental impact and the British
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View pinFountain Inn, Ashurst
The Fountain Inn is a 16th-century public house in the village of Ashurst, in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. After a period as a farmhouse, it was converted into the village inn and was extended and given a Georgian façade in the 18th century. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
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View pinMadani Schools Federation
Madani Schools Federation is a Muslim secondary school in Leicester, England. Based in the Evington neighbourhood, Madani Schools Federation caters for the city's Muslim population, with 450 places for boys and girls each. The building itself, designed by Leicester firm Pick Everard with an Islamic design including an Arabic-style courtyard. There is also an associated community centre and madrassa.
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View pinMill Hill, Shoreham
Mill Hill is a 13.5-hectare (33-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is owned by Adur District Council and managed by the council and the South Downs Joint Committee.
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View pinStoughton Grange
Stoughton Grange was a country house in the parish of Stoughton in Leicestershire and the family seat of the Farnham and Beaumont family. The house dated back to 15th century but was demolished in 1926, after being a successful family home for over five hundred years.
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View pinLancing College Chapel
Lancing College Chapel is the chapel to Lancing College in West Sussex, England, and is an example of Gothic Revival architecture. The chapel was designed by R.H. Carpenter and William Slater. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid in 1868, and the crypt was dedicated on 26 October 1875, whereupon the college began to use it for worship. Structural difficulties and chronic lack of funds meant that it was another forty-three years before the upper chapel was ready for use; the chapel was con
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View pinQueens Road, Leicester
Queens Road is the main shopping area for the Clarendon Park area in Leicester. Notably the road contains Leicester Friends Meeting House as well as several other Christian places of worship.
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View pinSt James the Less Church, Lancing
St James the Less Church is the Anglican parish church of Lancing with Coombes, an ancient village which has been absorbed into the modern town of Lancing in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded in the 12th century in the most northerly of the three settlements in Lancing parish, which has Saxon origins. The present building is mostly 13th-century in appearance, and structural work has been carried out several times si
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View pinCity of Leicester College
The City of Leicester College (TCOLC) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Evington, Leicester, England. It has around 2,000 pupils and specialises in business and enterprise.
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View pin2015 Shoreham Airshow crash
On 22 August 2015, a Hawker Hunter T7 warbird crashed onto a main road during an aerial display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since the 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash, which killed 31 people.
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View pinRowlatts Hill
Rowlatts Hill is an eastern, residential suburb of the English city of Leicester. It contains mostly council-owned housing.
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View pinCoombes
Coombes is a small village and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea.
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View pinLucas Marsh
Lucas Marsh is a 1.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Oadby in Leicestershire. It is part of Brock's Hill Country Park, and is owned by Oadby and Wigston Borough Council and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
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View pinSteyning railway station
Steyning railway station was a railway station on the Steyning Line which served the market town of Steyning.
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View pinBincknoll Castle
Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England.
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View pinBarripper
Barripper is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately one mile south-west of Camborne. The village has a public house named the St Michael's Mount Inn, so called as an outbuilding on that site was a resting place for druids and saints. Having landed at Godrevy, they followed a riverside trail from there through Roseworthy and Penponds to Barripper, where they were housed for the night, before continuing their pilgrimage to St Michaels Mount.
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View pinWootton Bassett Junction railway station
Wootton Bassett Junction railway station, formerly Wootton Bassett railway station, was a junction station in Wootton Bassett where the Great Western and South Wales Main Lines diverge. Opened in 1841, it closed in 1965.
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View pinPenponds
Penponds is a village west of Camborne, in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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