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A.F.C. Porth

AFC Porth was a Welsh football team based in the village of Porth in the Rhondda Valley. The club played in the South Wales Alliance League Championship Division, which is the fifth tier of Welsh football. The club played its home matches at Dinas Park before withdrawing in 2023.

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Dromore, County Tyrone

Dromore is a town, townland and civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is nine miles (14 km) south west of Omagh on the A32 and sixteen miles (26 km) from Enniskillen. The population of Dromore was 1,198 at the 2011 Census.

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Mid Rhondda F.C.

Mid Rhondda Football Club was an association football team, based in Tonypandy, Wales that was formed in 1912. Mid Rhondda were one of the earlier South Wales teams to form, as competition from rugby union within the Rhondda Valleys was very strong. The team played in both the Southern and Welsh Leagues, and should have been promoted to the first division of the Southern League after topping the second Division during the 1919-20 season. This though was denied them by a restructuring of the leag

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Rhondda Heritage Park

Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s.

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Eskra

Eskra is a small village and townland in southwest County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is on the Omagh to Clogher road, about 10 miles from Omagh and about 4 miles from Clogher.

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Capel Rhondda

Capel Rhondda is a late 19th-century chapel in Hopkinstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The chapel was the site of the first performance of the hymn tune Cwm Rhondda on Sunday 1 November 1907. It is a Grade II listed building.

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Drumragh, County Tyrone

Drumragh is a civil parish and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on the right bank of the River Drumragh. Today, it is within the county town of Omagh. It has a Roman Catholic church; and a Church of Ireland one.

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Drumragh, County Tyrone

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Mynydd y Glyn

Mynydd y Glyn is a mountain in South Wales, between the towns of Pontypridd and Tonyrefail. It has a height above sea level of 377 metres.

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Burnham-on-Crouch & District Museum

The Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum, located in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, is a registered charity run by members of the Burnham History Society, aiming to reflect the history and development of the town and the local people.

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Burnham-on-Crouch & District Museum

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Wattstown

Wattstown is a village located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Located in the Rhondda Fach valley, it is a district of the community of Ynyshir. Prior to mid 19th century industrialisation the area was once little more than a wooded area, sparsely populated by farmsteads. With the coming of the coal industry Wattstown became a busy, densely populated village, but with the closure of the collieries Wattstown suffered an economic downturn that still affects

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St George's Church of England Foundation School

St George's C of E Foundation School, often abbreviated to St George's, is an all-through school in Broadstairs, Kent, catering for students for 4 to 19 years. The official school as it currently stands was formed in the mid-1970s by joining the two old schools of St George's Boys School and St George's Girls C of E School together into one building and formed the current St George's community.

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Creeksea Place

Creeksea Place is located near to the town of Burnham-on-Crouch in the Essex countryside of eastern England. Originally built in 1569, the estate retains many original internal and external features, with an original walled-garden and untouched orchard, where the BBC’s adaptation of Great Expectations was filmed. Creeksea Place is owned by Jon-Paul Bertorelli Lindsey.

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Bridgemarsh Island

Bridgemarsh Island is in the tidal part of the River Crouch in the English county of Essex, three miles upstream from Burnham-on-Crouch. The main river channel runs to the south between the island and Canewdon, and it is separated from the mainland to the north by Bridgemarsh and Althorne Creeks, channels of the estuary.

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The Charles Dickens School

The Charles Dickens School is a co-educational secondary modern school located in Broadstairs in the English county of Kent. The school is named after Charles Dickens, the 19th-century writer and social critic. It is one of six non-selective schools on the Isle of Thanet, physically isolated corner of Kent.

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Wallasea Island

Wallasea Island lies in Essex, England. It is bounded to the north by the River Crouch, to the south east by the River Roach, and to the west by Paglesham Pool and the narrow Paglesham Creek. The population of the Island is included in the civil parish of Canewdon.

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Margate Jetty

The Margate Jetty was a pier in Margate, Kent, in England initially constructed of wood in 1824. It was rebuilt in iron in 1855 and extended and added to over the years. It closed in 1976 over safety concerns and was severely damaged in a storm two years later. Demolition took many years and some parts remained until 1998.

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Asheldham

Asheldham is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located about 14 km (8.7 mi) southeast of Maldon and is 26 km (16 mi) east-southeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Maldon and the parliamentary constituency of Maldon & East Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 199. The parish shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Dengie.

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Saint Mary the Virgin, Foulness Island

Saint Mary the Virgin is a parish of the Church of England on Foulness Island, in Essex, England.

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Saint Mary the Virgin, Foulness Island

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Thanet West (UK Parliament constituency)

Thanet West was a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent.

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Thanet West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Steeple, Essex

Steeple is a village on the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, England. It is situated just east of Maylandsea and Mayland, on the southern side of the River Blackwater estuary. The parish also includes the small hamlet of Stansgate on the banks of Blackwater. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 486.

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Westbrook, Kent

Westbrook is a Victorian seaside resort on the Thanet peninsula in the southeast corner of England. It is the westernmost part of Margate and is part of the ribbon development of the north Kent coast. Westgate-on-Sea lies to the west.

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Westbrook, Kent

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St Mary's Church, Burnham on Crouch

St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Burnham on Crouch, Essex. It is Grade II* listed

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St Mary's Church, Burnham on Crouch

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Arlington House, Margate

Arlington House is an 18-storey residential apartment and commercial block in the Brutalist style on the seafront of Margate, Kent, England, next to Margate railway station and Dreamland Margate. It was developed by Bernard Sunley and designed by Russel Diplock, and is known for every apartment having a sea view.

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Arlington House, Margate

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Sandbeach Meadows

Sandbeach Meadows are a 30.3-hectare (75-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Dengie Peninsula, south-east of Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. The local planning authority is Maldon District Council.

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Sandbeach Meadows

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