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Wigginton Road Cricket Ground

Wigginton Road Cricket Ground in York is a former cricket ground. Its one and only first-class match was held in June 1890 between Yorkshire and Kent.

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Newbridge chariot

The remains of an Iron Age chariot burial were found near the Bronze Age burial mound at Huly Hill, Newbridge in Scotland, 14 km west of Edinburgh city centre, in advance of development at the Edinburgh Interchange. The chariot was the first of its kind to be found in Scotland and shows Iron Age Scotland in direct contact with the European Continent. The Newbridge chariot was buried intact, a method consistent with the burial practices of Continental Europe rather than Scotland.

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Kirkby Ski Slope

Kirkby Ski Slope was an artificial ski slope that was built in Kirkby, near Liverpool, England, in the 1970s. The ski slope never opened and was source of considerable controversy around how it was built and funded.

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Drumshoreland railway station

Drumshoreland railway station was a railway station in West Lothian, Scotland. It was located on the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway.

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Drumshoreland railway station

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Kirkby High School

Kirkby High School is a Knowsley based co-educational secondary school educating pupils aged 11-16 years of age in the Kirkby area of Merseyside, England.

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Uphall

Uphall is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It forms a conurbation with Broxburn to the east, Dechmont to the west and the major town of Livingston to the south west. Uphall is 30 miles from Glasgow and 14 miles from Edinburgh in the Scottish Lowlands. Uphall Station and Pumpherston are separate villages that lie to the south of Uphall.

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Headbolt Lane railway station

Headbolt Lane is a railway station in Kirkby, Merseyside, England, which opened on 5 October 2023.

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Headbolt Lane railway station

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Knightsridge

Knightsridge is an area of the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. Knightsridge lies to the north of the town.

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Knightsridge

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Auldcathie

Auldcathie is a suburb to the west of Winchburgh in West Lothian, Scotland.

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Auldcathie

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Simonswood

Simonswood is a civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. At the 2001 census, the population was 130, increasing to 151 by the 2011 census.

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Croxteth Hall

Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton. After the death of the seventh and last Earl in 1972, the estate passed to Liverpool City Council, which now manages the remainder of the estate following the sale of approximately half of the grounds. The remaining grounds, Croxteth Park, were at one time a hunting chase of the Molyneux fam

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Simonstone railway station

Simonstone railway station was located on the east side of Simonstone Lane, 0.75 miles (1 km) south of Simonstone centre and near Padiham, Lancashire, England. It was on a branch line of the East Lancashire Line, from Burnley to Blackburn.

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Aintree University Hospital

Aintree University Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Fazakerley, Liverpool. It is part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group.

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Aintree University Hospital

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Accrington Library

Accrington Library is a Carnegie library located in the town of Accrington, Lancashire.

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Accrington Library

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Melling, Merseyside

Melling is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 Census the population was recorded as 2,810, rising to 3,493 at the 2011 Census. Melling Rock contains a public house as well as St Thomas and the Holy Rood. The town of Waddicar, of which most of the population of Melling consists, is usually regarded as part of Melling itself and is served by the parish council which is based in the local Melling Primary School.

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Melling, Merseyside

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A678 road

The A678 is a road in Lancashire, England, which runs between the towns of Blackburn and Padiham.

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A678 road

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Tresillian River

The Tresillian River is a tributary of the River Fal in Cornwall. It rises in the Clay Country and is fed by springs between Summercourt and Mitchell. It runs south-west, alongside the B3275, through Ladock to Tresillian, where it passes under the A390 road bridge, then immediately opens into a tidal estuary, and passes the village of St Clement, before joining the Truro River at Malpas. Tresillian was a seaport until the head of the creek silted up.

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Carrine Common & Penwethers

Carrine Common & Penwethers is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Cornwall, England, UK, noted for its biological characteristics. The 46-hectare (110-acre) site is located at the settlement of Penweathers, within the civil parish of Kea, half a mile south of the city of Truro.

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Carrine Common & Penwethers

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Porth Kea

Porth Kea or Porthkea is a hamlet in Kea parish, south of Truro in Cornwall, England. It lies south-east of Kea village, on the other side of the A39.

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BBC Radio Cornwall

BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cornwall.

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BBC Radio Cornwall

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Thirsk Town railway station

Thirsk Town was a railway station that briefly served passengers for Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England in the 1840s and 1850s. It was closed to passengers in 1855 but continued in freight use until October 1966. Trains could leave the site only south-eastwards onto the Leeds Northern Railway towards Ripon, but a reversal was possible into Thirsk railway station after crossing the main line between York and Darlington.

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Kea, Cornwall

Kea is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a "large straggling parish" in a former mining area south of Truro.

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Kea, Cornwall

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Thirsk Racecourse

Thirsk Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England. The course is a left handed oval of about 1 mile 2 furlongs with a 3 furlong finishing straight and a 6 furlong chute. The present course opened in 1923, but racing had taken place on the old course at nearby Black Hambleton over 200 years earlier.

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Thirsk Racecourse

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Shortlanesend and Allet

Shortlanesend is a village in Kenwyn parish, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies two miles north of the city of Truro at grid reference SW 805 475. The name was recorded as Penfounder in 1547. Shortlanesend is in the former Carrick District. The village has a Methodist chapel, village hall, pub, the Old Plough Inn, a post office and primary school.

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Shortlanesend and Allet

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