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D6130

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American journalist, author and humourist Bill Bryson lived in Kirkby Malham with his family for several years until 2003, when they moved to Wramplingham in Norfolk.
 

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The Grade II listed church of St Mary the Virgin, Hemsby dates from the early 14th century and contains a beautiful east window, for the Parish by Caroline Swash and installed in June 1985. Another of her works (the Hayman Memorial Window) can be seen in the Church of St Bartholomew, Rogate, West Sussex.
 

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Abercanaid (Welsh: Abercannaid) in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales is also the location of an outdoor bike centre.
 

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Commins Coch was the site of one of the 228 arson attacks against English owned holiday cottages carried out between 1979 and 1992 by Meibion Glyndwr, a militant Welsh nationalist group committed to direct action. The last of these attacks was on a house called Rose Cottage in Gwalchmai, Anglesey.
 

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St Michael's Church, Warden contains three bells cast in 1878 by the Newcastle firm of Cox and Sons. It was assumed they were unique, but research has found another Cox bell (dated 1879) at St Patrick's Church, Preston Patrick in Cumbria.
 

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From Undermillbeck (which seems to have been a historic name for a large area) you can board a ferry across Lake Windemere to the village of Far Sawrey in Westmorland.
 

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Cdr Loftus Jones VC lived in Petersfield. He commanded HMS Shark during the Battle of Jutland, where he went down with his ship. Said ship was built in Wallsend
 

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The two original bells from St Michael's Church, Bowness-on-Solway were stolen by border raiders in 1626 who accidently dropped them in the Solway during their flight. In retaliation, the villagers raided Dornock and Middlebie in Scotland, making off with a new pair of bells. Traditionally, on inception, the vicar of Annan petitions the village's neighbours for the return of his bells.
 

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Middlebie was the site of Blatobulgium, one of the Roman forts built to control the area north of Hadrian's Wall. Another much larger one was Trimontium at Newstead, Scottis Borders.
 

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