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River Ellen

The Ellen is a river in the English county of Cumbria, flowing from Skiddaw in the Northern Fells to the Solway Firth at Maryport. It was historically in the county of Cumberland. It is approximately 25 miles (40.2 km) in length.

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Tropiquaria

Tropiquaria Zoo is a small tropical house and zoo in Somerset, England. It is located at Washford Cross, 16 miles (26 km) from Taunton and 9 miles (14 km) from Minehead.

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Dearham Bridge railway station

Dearham Bridge was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) serving the village and rural district of Dearham in Cumberland, England. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1842 as Dearham, but was renamed Dearham Bridge in 1867 when the M&CR opened a station in the village of Dearham, to which it gave that name. Dearham Bridge station lay in the Parish of Crosscanonby.

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Curdon Camp

Curdon Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the county of Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

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Flimby railway station

Flimby railway station serves the coastal village of Flimby in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

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Bridgwater and West Somerset

Bridgwater and West Somerset was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2010 until the seat's dissolution in 2024 by Ian Liddell-Grainger, a Conservative.

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Great Broughton railway station

Great Broughton railway station briefly served the village of Great Broughton, near Cockermouth in Cumberland, England.

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Dearham

Dearham is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, near the Lake District National Park in England. It lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Maryport and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Cockermouth. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 2,151.

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Market House Museum

The Market House Museum is a small museum in Watchet, Somerset, England.

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Watchet railway station

Watchet railway station is a station on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in Somerset, England. It is situated in the small harbour town of Watchet.

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Farnborough, London

Farnborough is a large village in Greater London, England. Historically within Kent, it is situated south of Locksbottom, west of Green Street Green, north of Downe and Hazelwood, and east of Keston, it is centred 13.4 miles (21.6 km) southeast of Charing Cross.

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Court House, East Quantoxhead

The Court House in East Quantoxhead, Somerset, England has a medieval tower and other parts of the building which date from the 17th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

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Poverest

Poverest is an area in south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley in Greater London. Prior to 1965 it was within the historic county of Kent. It lies south of St Paul's Cray, west of St Mary Cray, north of Orpington and Broom Hill, and east of Petts Wood.

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Well Hill

Well Hill is a small rural hamlet within the civil parish of Shoreham in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It borders east of Orpington & 3.5 miles south of Swanley, adjacent to the Kent border with Greater London, within the constituency of Sevenoaks.

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Lilstock Formation

The Lilstock Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves bivalve, insect and other invertebrate fossils, as well as fossil fish of Agkistracanthus mitgelensis and the basal theropod dinosaur Newtonsaurus cambrensis dating back to the Rhaetian of the Triassic period.

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Knockholt railway station

Knockholt railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, located in the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London. It is 16 miles 44 chains (26.6 km) down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between Chelsfield and Dunton Green stations. It is in London fare zone 6 and is located next to the Greater London boundary within the Kent district of Sevenoaks. The boundary is the farm bridge at the southern end of the platforms.

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Nettlecombe Court

Nettlecombe Court and park is an old estate on the northern fringes of the Brendon Hills, within the Exmoor National Park. They are within the civil parish of Nettlecombe, named after the house, and are approximately 3.6 miles (5.8 km) from the village of Williton, in the English county of Somerset. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

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Green Street Green

Green Street Green is an area in south-east London, located in the London Borough of Bromley and, prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent. It is located south of Orpington, west of Chelsfield, north-west of Pratt's Bottom, north of Hazelwood, and south east of Farnborough.

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East Cliff Railway

The East Cliff Railway, or East Cliff Lift, is a funicular railway located on the East Cliff of the English seaside resort of Bournemouth. The line serves to link the seaside promenade and beach with the cliff top and the town behind. Following a landslip in April 2016 which damaged the line and associated structures, the railway is out of use indefinitely.

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St Paul's Cray

St Paul's Cray is a suburb of Orpington within the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London. Prior to 1965 it was within the historic county of Kent. It is located south of Sidcup.

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Bournemouth Borough Council

Bournemouth Borough Council was the local authority of Bournemouth in Dorset, England and ceased to exist on 1 April 2019. It was a unitary authority, although between 1974 and 1997 it was an administrative district council with Dorset. Previously most of the borough was part of Hampshire.

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Bournemouth Borough Council

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Crofton Roman Villa

Crofton Roman Villa in Crofton, Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, is a Roman villa which was inhabited between approximately 140 and 400 AD. It was the centre of a farming estate of about 500 acres (200 ha), with farm buildings nearby, surrounded by fields, meadows and woods. The house was altered several times during its 260 years of occupation, and at its largest it probably had at least 20 rooms.

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Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

The Russell-Cotes Museum is an art gallery and museum in Bournemouth, England. A Grade II* listed building originally known as East Cliff Hall, it is located on the top of the East Cliff, next to the Royal Bath Hotel.

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Great Givendale

Great Givendale is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north of Pocklington.

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