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Green Holm

Green Holm, (HU382379), is a small uninhabited island 500 metres north of Burra Ness at the north end of the island of Burra and on the west side of the main shipping lane into Scalloway, in Shetland.

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Hanley Castle High School

Hanley Castle High School is a non-selective mixed secondary school and sixth form centre located in the village of Hanley Castle, 1.4 miles (2.2 km) from the small town of Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire. It was formerly known as Hanley Castle Grammar School, and was probably founded in 1326, making it one of the oldest schools in England.

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Newtown Halt railway station

Newtown Halt was a railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GN) which served the northern part of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Opened in 1933, it was closed as a wartime economy measure and reopened in 1948 only to last a further eleven years before closing with the line.

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Mitcham Vestry Hall

Mitcham Vestry Hall is a municipal building in London Road, Mitcham, London. It is a locally listed building.

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Mitcham Vestry Hall

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Bure Park Specialist Academy

Bure Park Specialist Academy is a special school in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. It educates boys aged 6 to 16 with social, emotional and mental health needs, offering day and residential places. The school is part of Broad Horizons Education Trust.

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Roller Coaster (Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach)

Roller Coaster - also known as Scenic Railway or The Scenic - is a wooden roller coaster at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Great Yarmouth, UK. The ride was built at the park in 1932 and has been operational since. It is one of only two scenic railways still in operation in the UK and one of only seven in the world. In common with most scenic railways, an operator rides the car. Traditionally referred to as a 'brakesperson’, the operator applies brakes on the car to control its speed and to stop

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Roller Coaster (Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach)

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Burn Bullock (public house)

The Burn Bullock is former public house in Mitcham, in the London Borough of Merton, England. Parts of the building are thought to date to the 16th century. It was badly damaged by fire in April 2024.

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Palmers Department Store

Palmers Department Store was an independent and family-run department store located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Latterly the company boasted that it was the 'longest established independent department store in the United Kingdom'.

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Bishopsford Road Bridge

Bishopsford Road Bridge is a bridge in London that carries a road over the River Wandle.

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Bishopsford Road Bridge

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Time and Tide Museum

Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, is a maritime and fishing museum in Great Yarmouth and established in 2005. It is situated in a former Victorian herring curing factory known as Tower Curing Works, and is now part of Maritime Heritage East, a partnership of over 30 maritime museums in the East of England.

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Time and Tide Museum

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Municipal Borough of Mitcham

Mitcham was a local government district in north east Surrey from 1915 to 1965 around the town of Mitcham.

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Municipal Borough of Mitcham

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St Mark's Academy

St Mark's Academy is a mixed Church of England secondary school and sixth form located in the Eastfields area of the London Borough of Merton, England.

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St Mark's Academy

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Breydon Water

Breydon Water is a 514.4-hectare (1,271-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. It is a Local Nature Reserve, a Ramsar site and a Special Protection Area. It is part of the Berney Marshes and Breydon Water nature reserve, which is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

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Eagle House, Mitcham

Eagle House is a Grade One Listed Queen Anne house built in the Dutch style. It is on London Road, Mitcham, in the London Borough of Merton, the grounds forming a triangle bounded by London Road, Bond Road and Western Road.

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Eagle House, Mitcham

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Tooting railway station

Tooting is a railway station serving Tooting in South London; it is within London fare zone 3. The station is located in the London Borough of Merton but fronts onto the London Borough of Wandsworth where Tooting is actually located. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line.

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Bromsgrove Sporting F.C.

Bromsgrove Sporting Football Club is a football club based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. The club was founded in 2009 and played their first season, 2010-11, in Midland Football Combination Division Two, where they ended third. The club currently play in the Southern League Premier Division Central.

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Mitcham Junction station

Mitcham Junction is a National Rail station served by Southern and Thameslink trains. It also has a Tramlink stop. It is in the London Borough of Merton and is in London fare zone 4.

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Mitcham Junction station

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Woodmansterne School

Woodmansterne School is a co-educational all-through school and sixth form located in the Streatham area of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.

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Woodmansterne School

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1997 M42 motorway crash

On 10 March 1997 a multiple-vehicle collision occurred on the M42 motorway near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in central England. Three people were killed and more than 60 others were injured in the crash, which happened in dense fog during the early morning rush hour.

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1997 M42 motorway crash

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Bromsgrove District

Bromsgrove is a local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England. It is named after its only town, Bromsgrove, where its council is based, but also includes several villages and surrounding rural areas. It borders the built-up area of Birmingham to the north. Other places in the district include Alvechurch, Aston Fields, Belbroughton, Catshill, Clent, Hagley, Rubery, Stoke Prior and Wythall. The population at the 2021 census was 99,475.

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Harris Academy Merton

Harris Academy Merton is a secondary school and sixth form located in the London Borough of Merton district of Mitcham. When inspected by Ofsted in both 2012 and 2022, it was judged to be outstanding.

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Harris Academy Merton

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Ebury Way

The Ebury Way is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) rail trail in Hertfordshire between Watford and Rickmansworth. The route crosses the Grand Union Canal and three rivers: the River Colne, the River Chess and the River Gade.

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Ruddle Road Halt railway station

Ruddle Road Halt railway station was a minor station on the Great Western Railway's, Gloucester-Newport line on the outskirts of Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, England. The station was operational for less than ten years, from 3 August 1907 to 29 April 1917, and has since been demolished. The track remains in use on the Gloucester to Newport line. The station was also the start of a branch line to Cinderford New station and Mitcheldean Road station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railw

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Ruddle Road Halt railway station

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Upper Soudley Halt railway station

Upper Soudley Halt railway station is a disused railway station that was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on the former Bullo Pill Railway, later known as the GWR Forest of Dean Branch.

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Upper Soudley Halt railway station

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