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Burnage also lies on the line of the Nico Ditch linear earthwork built as a defensive barrier against Viking incursions.
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The Manchester Babies' Hospital (subsequently re-named the Duchess of York Hospital) moved to Burnage in 1919.
A similar institution, the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, opened in 1905 in Woolwich.
A similar institution, the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, opened in 1905 in Woolwich.
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Harwich also had a Royal Naval Dockyard that closed in the 19th century.
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Frating was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tendring Poor Law Union.
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Low Ham, Somerset, also has a church without a dedication.
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Low Ham contains a Geological Review Site at Woodbirds Hill, focused on an unusual Pleistocene sequence. There are about 3000 of such sites around the UK. Another is at Black Venn, near Lyme Regis in Dorset, which is an example of mass movement in Jurassic formations.
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John Fowles, the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman and other novels, lived in Lyme Regis from 1968 until his death in 2005 and was curator of Lyme Regis Museum from 1979 to 1988. He was born at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex in 1926.
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Hawes in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.
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Hawes is a centre of production of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese (not to be confused with ordinary Wensleydale which can be made pretty much anywhere). The technique is thought to have been brought to the dale by Cistercian monks from the Roquefort region of France who built the abbey at Jervaulx near East Witton in the 12th Century.
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Horsehouse is another settlement that the River Cover forms part of its land boundary area.
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Cambridge also has a church dedicated to St. Botolph.
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Swaffham Bulbeck is also another settlement with connections to the River Cam.
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Swaffham Bulbeck church tower is built from clunch, a locally quarried form of hard chalk or soft limestone. There are or were clunch quarries in other parts of the country too. St Mary's Church in Hemel Hempstead is built from clunch with some Roman brick.
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Bicester was also granted bailwick status in medieval times.
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Bicester and North Oxford Cricket Club (formed in 1996 from a merger of Bicester Town and the North Oxford Cricket Clubs) play at Akeman Street, Chesterton.
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Banff also has a parish church that is dedicated to St Mary.
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The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) donated a museum to the town of Banff. There is a stature of him in Dunfermline, which was his birthplace.
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Bradford is another settlement to have an Alhambra theatre.
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Author and playwright J B Priestley, born in Manningham, Bradford, in 1894, died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1984.
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Street in Somerset also has a church that is named as the Church of the Holy Trinity.
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Kendal was also a centre of shoe manufacture.
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Uckfield also holds an annual torchlight festival.
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Uckfield was mentioned in the last chapter of John le Carré's novel "The Honourable Schoolboy" (1977). John le Carré was born (as David John Moore Cornwell) on 19th October 1931 in Poole, Dorset.
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Canford Magna was also once administered by the Hundred of Cogdean.
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Sturminster Newton is also on the course of Dorset's River Stour.
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Winchester, like Sturminster Newton, has a working watermill.
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Canterbury also lies on the line of the historical pilgrimage route known as "The Pilgrims Way".
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Playwright Christopher Marlowe, born in Canterbury in 1564, was stabbed to death in a brawl in Deptford, SE London, in 1593.
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Eltham was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackheath,
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