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EbbwJunction1

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Hamilton is situated on the south bank of the River Clyde at its confluence with the Avon Water (River Avon). Prior to this, the Avon flows to the south east of the village of Glassford, South Lanarkshire.
 

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Glassford is known as ‘The Glesart’, apparently. A similar thing is known in Fraserburgh, which is sometimes called ’The Broch’.
 

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Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury PC (1904 – 1988) was the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974, having previously been Bishop of Durham from 1952 to 1956. He was born on 14th November 1904 in Cambridge.
 

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The English polar explorer Doctor Edward Adrian Wilson FZS was born in Cheltenham 23rd July 1872. He took part in Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1912 and died on 29th March 1912 on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Another member of that party who also died, albeit a few weeks before, was Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, who had been born on 17th March 1880 in Putney, London.
 

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Seven Royal Navy ships have been named after the town, including a Type 23 Frigate launched in 1991 which is still in operation. Another ship of the same class, HMS St Albans, is affiliated to St Albans in Hertfordshire.
 

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The composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was Director of Music at Cirencester Grammar School from 1959 to 1962. He died from leukaemia on 14th March 2016, aged 81, at his home in Sanday, Orkney.
 

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I must admit that I didn't know that Sanday was an island rather than a settlement, so I'm happy to go back to Cirencester.

Sorry for any confusion … shall we continue with this?

Cirencester lies on the River Churn, the first tributary river of the River Thames, which it joins in Cricklade, Wiltshire.
 

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