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Robert "Bob" Saint (1905 – 1950) was a British composer and musician who was born and died in Hebburn. He is best known for his 1930s brass band composition "Gresford", which is about the Gresford mining disaster in 1934 and is also known as "The Miner's Hymn"
Uffington, traditionally in Berkshire but since 1974 in the administrative area of Oxfordshire County Council, also has a carved white horse hill figure.
The parish church of Uffington is known as "The Cathedral of the Vale", whereas the parish church of Tideswell in Derbyshire is known as "The Cathedral of the Peak".
Whereas Chelmorton is the highest village built on limestone in the Peak District, Flash is the highest built on gritstone. Indeed it is the highest village in England.
D.S. McCall Butchers is a well-regarded local butcher's shop in Coal Aston.
Another independent butcher in South Yorkshire trading under a similar name is Mick McCall's in North Anston.
In the 1840s one visitor to the Nun Monkton would have been the novelist Anne Bronte and her brother Branwell. During her time as a governess to the Robinson family at Thorpe Green, Little Ouseburn, Brontë taught the children of the rector of Nun Monkton. The Bronte family are more often associated with the village of Haworth, West Yorkshire.
The actor Sir Patrick Stewart was born on 13th July 1940 in Mirfield. In 1951, aged 11, he met the actor Brian Blessed at a drama course in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, and the two have been friends ever since.
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