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The battleship HMS Warspite was one of a number of redundant naval vessels broken up at Marazion in the late 1940s. She had been constructed between 1912 and 1915 at the Royal Dockyard, Devonport.
 

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Cremyll and the surrounding area were for a long period part of the county of Devon; until transfer to Cornwall in 1844. Much later than this -- in 1974 -- Bournemouth also underwent a transfer between neighbouring counties: being switched from Hampshire to Dorset.
 

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The Church of St Katherine, Great Bedwyn was built by Thomas Henry Wyatt in 1861 as the estate church for Tottenham House, Great Bedwyn. Prior to this, in 1848 / 1849, he had designed the Church of St Michael at Glascoed, Monmouthshire.
 

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Coed-y-paen is situated approximately a mile and a half south of Glascoed: the large Llandegfedd Reservoir lies roughly in between the two villages.
 

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Starting from the First Qualifying Round, in 1953, Beighton Miners Welfare FC reached the First Round of the FA Cup, where they were beaten by Wrexham at Millmoor, Rotherham.
 

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John David (Jackie) Stamps was an English footballer who scored two goals for Derby County in the 1946 FA Cup Final in their 4–1 win against Charlton Athletic. He was born on 2nd December 1918 in Thrybergh, and died on 19th November 1991 in Winshill, East Staffordshire.
 

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Winshill has a pub called the Anglesey. Bromley, Greater London, has one called the Anglesey Arms.
 

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Rowley Bristow Hospital, an orthopaedic hospital in Pyrford, was founded in 1928 and closed in 1992. The orthopaedic department at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey is now named the Rowley Bristow Orthopedic Unit.[10]
 

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The original Parish Church of Windsor is dedicated to St John the Baptist, and was rebuilt by Charles Hollis between 1820 and 1822. He also designed All Saints' Church, Poplar, at the same time.
 

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The renowned film-maker Alfred Hitchcock lived in Poplar for part of his childhood. Hitchcock and his family lived in the late 1920s and the 1930s in Shamley Green, Surrey.
 

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The hill Hydon's Ball, near Hydestile, is the tenth highest point in Surrey. Actual highest point in that county is Leith Hill (294 m.), near Coldharbour.
 

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The Lancashire and England left arm spin bowler Johnny Briggs died in Heald Green on 11th January 1902; he was born on 3 October 1862 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He remains the County's second-highest wicket-taker after Brian Statham.
 

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Sutton in Ashfield is home to one of the largest sundials in the UK. One of the oldest, thought to date from the 8thC AD, is built into the fabric of St Andrew's Church Dalton-le-Dale, Co Durham
 

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Agecroft has a similarity to Great Ayton, North Yorkshire; in that a building from each was -- in the period between the two World Wars, and per the plans of enthusiasts of considerable means -- dismantled, shipped off to a distant land, and re-erected there; on view there ever since. For Agecroft, it was the Tudor country house Agecroft Hall -- "transplanted" to Richmond, Virginia, USA. For Great Ayton, the cottage where dwelt the parents of the explorer James Cook (it is reckoned unlikely that Cook himself ever resided there) -- shipped to Melbourne, Australia.
 

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