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Academy (English school)
Academy schools are state-funded schools in England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control.
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Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).
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Administrative counties of England
Administrative counties were a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government from 1889 to 1974.
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Agronomy
Agronomy (Ancient Greek ἀγρός agrós 'field' + νόμος nómos 'law') is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation.
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Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Alt, Greater Manchester
Alt is a semi-rural and suburban area lying on the borders of the towns of Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Angela Rayner
Angela Rayner (Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British Labour politician, care worker and trade unionist.
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Ashton Arcades
The Ashton Arcades, also known locally as just Arcades, is a medium-sized shopping centre located in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Ashton Canal
The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester in North West England.
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Ashton Cricket Club
Ashton Cricket Club is an English cricket team, based in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside, Greater Manchester.
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Ashton Moss tram stop
Ashton Moss is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line, built as part of Phase 3b of the Manchester Metrolink.
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Ashton Park Parade railway station
Ashton Park Parade railway station was a station on the line between Guide Bridge and Stalybridge in Greater Manchester, England.
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Ashton Sixth Form College
Ashton Sixth Form College is a sixth form college located in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, England.
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Ashton Town Hall
Ashton Town Hall is a public building in Ashton-under-Lyne.
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Ashton United F.C.
Ashton United Football Club is a football club in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Ashton West tram stop
Ashton West is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system.
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Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway
The Ashton, Stalybridge & Liverpool Junction Railway (AS&LJR), was formed in 1844 and was taken over by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1847.
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Ashton-under-Lyne (UK Parliament constituency)
Ashton-under-Lyne is a constituency centred on the town of Ashton-under-Lyne that is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Angela Rayner of the Labour Party, who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Education since 1 July 2016 and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities since 27 June 2016.
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Ashton-under-Lyne bus station
Ashton-under-Lyne bus station is a bus station that is located in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, run by Transport for Greater Manchester.
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Ashton-under-Lyne munitions explosion
The Ashton-under-Lyne munitions explosion occurred on 13 June 1917 when the Hooley Hill Rubber and Chemical Works caught fire and exploded.
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Ashton-under-Lyne railway station
Ashton-under-Lyne railway station serves Ashton-under-Lyne, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Ashton-under-Lyne tram stop
Ashton-under-Lyne is a tram stop serving Ashton-under-Lyne on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system, it is the terminus of the system's East Manchester Line (EML).
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Audenshaw
Audenshaw is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Tame south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and east of Manchester.
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Baron Delamer
Baron Delamer is a title that has been created twice in British history, in 1661 and 1796 respectively.
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Bedrock
In geology, bedrock is the lithified rock that lies under a loose softer material called regolith at the surface of the Earth or other terrestrial planets.
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Bert Jansch
Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle.
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Bog
A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.
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Borough status in the United Kingdom
Borough status in the United Kingdom is granted by royal charter to local government districts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Built environment
In social science, the term built environment, or built world, refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from buildings to parks.
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Bury
Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irwell east of Bolton, southwest of Rochdale and northwest of Manchester.
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Bus
A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.
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Carillion
Carillion plc was a British multinational facilities management and construction services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation, which began in January 2018.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Central Lancashire Cricket League
The Central Lancashire Cricket League (CLCL) is a fifteen team cricket league, traditionally based in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Chaumont, Haute-Marne
Chaumont is a commune of France, and the capital (or préfecture) of the Haute-Marne department.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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Christian Israelite Church
The Christian Israelite Church was founded in 1822 by the prophet John Wroe.
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Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Cohabitation
Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together.
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Common Brittonic
Common Brittonic was an ancient Celtic language spoken in Britain.
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Congregational church
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Councillor
A Councillor is a member of a local government council.
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Curzon Ashton F.C.
Curzon Ashton Football Club is a semi-professional football club in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in National League North, the sixth tier English football, and are members of the Manchester County Football Association.
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Dark Ages (historiography)
The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.
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Department for Children, Schools and Families
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF; stylised as all lowercase) was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education.
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Distribution network operator
Distribution network operators (DNOs) are companies licensed to distribute electricity in Great Britain by the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Droylsden
Droylsden is a town in Greater Manchester, England, to the east of Manchester city centre and west-southwest of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population of 23,172.
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Dukinfield
Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester.
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Dukinfield Junction
Dukinfield Junction is the name of the canal junction where the Peak Forest Canal, the Ashton Canal and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal meet near Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Earl of Stamford
Earl of Stamford was a title in the Peerage of England.
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Early modern Britain
Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
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East Manchester Line
The East Manchester Line (EML) is a tram line of the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester running from Manchester to Ashton-under-Lyne via Droylsden and Audenshaw.
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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae.
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End of Roman rule in Britain
The end of Roman rule in Britain was the transition from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain.
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Evangelism
In Christianity, Evangelism is the commitment to or act of publicly preaching of the Gospel with the intention of spreading the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Facade
A facade (also façade) is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front.
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Factory system
The factory system is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labour.
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Failsworth
Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, northeast of Manchester and southwest of Oldham.
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Fairbottom Branch Canal
The Fairbottom Branch Canal was a canal near Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, England.
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Farmers' market
A farmers' market is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.
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Feudalism
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
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Fire services in the United Kingdom
The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
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Flea market
A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of bazaar that rents or provides space to people who want to sell or barter merchandise.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Friendly society
A friendly society (sometimes called a mutual society, benevolent society, fraternal organization or ROSCA) is a mutual association for the purposes of insurance, pensions, savings or cooperative banking.
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Further education
Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions.
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Fustian
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear.
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Gas holder
A gas holder, or gasometer, is a large container in which natural gas or town gas is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures.
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General Certificate of Secondary Education
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford
George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1 October 1737 – 28 May 1819), styled Lord Grey from 1739 to 1768, was a British nobleman, who additionally became a peer of Great Britain as Earl of Warrington in 1796.
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George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford
George Harry Booth-Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford and 3rd Earl of Warrington (7 January 1827 – 2 January 1883) was an English cricketer, landowner and peer, who sat on the Whig benches in the House of Lords.
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Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester
There are 48 Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England.
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Great Academy Ashton
Great Academy Ashton (formally New Charter Academy) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,782,100.
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Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.
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Greater Manchester Police
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.
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Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) is England’s largest Waste Disposal Authority, responsible for the management and disposal of municipal waste from Greater Manchester.
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Green belt
A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas.
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Green Flag Award
The Green Flag Award is the benchmark national standard for publicly accessible parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom.
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Gresley baronets
The Baronetcy of Gresley of Drakelow was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for George Gresley of Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire who was later High Sheriff of Derbyshire and Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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Gritstone
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.
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Guide Bridge railway station
Guide Bridge railway station serves Guide Bridge in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, England, and is operated by Northern.
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Hartshead Pike
Hartshead Pike is a hill in Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, and its name is associated with the monument on its summit.
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Hattersley
Hattersley is an area of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, west of Glossop and east of Manchester city centre at the eastern terminus of the M67.
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Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.
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History of Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.
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History of Lancashire
Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country.
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Home Office
The Home Office (HO) is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England.
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Huddersfield line
The Huddersfield line is one of the busiest rail lines on the West Yorkshire MetroTrain network in Northern England.
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Huddersfield Narrow Canal
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England.
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Hugh Mason
Hugh Mason (30 January 1817 – 2 February 1886) was an English mill owner, social reformer and Liberal politician.
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Humphrey Chetham
Humphrey Chetham (10 July 1580 – 1653) was an English merchant, responsible for the creation of Chetham's Hospital and Chetham's Library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.
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Ian Hamilton (British Army officer)
General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, (16 January 1853 – 12 October 1947) was a senior officer in the British Army, who is most notable for commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign.
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IKEA
IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group, that designs and sells, kitchen appliances and home accessories.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Jodrell Bank Observatory
The Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, then the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999) is a British observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.
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John Ashton Floyd
John Ashton Floyd was a sculptor based in Manchester, England, in the inter-war years of the 20th century, who created a number of notable works.
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John Wroe
John Wroe (19 September 1782 – 5 February 1863) was a British evangelist who founded the Christian Israelite Church in the 1820s after having what he believed were a series of visions.
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.
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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.
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Lancashire Cotton Famine
The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as the Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–65), was a depression in the textile industry of North West England, brought about by overproduction in a time of contracting world markets.
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Lancashire County Council
Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England.
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Land use
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
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Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Limehurst Rural District
Limehurst was, from 1894 to 1954, a rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.
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Lindow Man
Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England.
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List of mills in Tameside
This list of mills in Tameside, lists textile factories that have existed in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.
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List of people from Tameside
This is a list of famous and infamous people from Tameside, a metropolitan borough in North West England.
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List of towns in England
This is a list of towns in England.
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Listed buildings in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a town in the Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.
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Local government
A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.
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Local Government Act 1888
The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c.41) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales.
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Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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London Midland Region of British Railways
The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR) and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England and Wales.
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.
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Lord of the manor
In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism.
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Lostprophets
Lostprophets were a Welsh rock band from Pontypridd, Wales formed in 1997.
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M60 motorway
The M60 motorway, Manchester Ring Motorway, or Manchester Outer Ring Road, is an orbital motorway in North West England.
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Manchester (ancient parish)
Manchester was an ancient ecclesiastical parish of the hundred of Salford, in Lancashire, England.
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Manchester and Leeds Railway
The Manchester and Leeds Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom which opened in 1839, connecting Manchester with Leeds via the North Midland Railway which it joined at Normanton.
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Manchester city centre
Manchester city centre is the central business district of Manchester, England, within the boundaries of Trinity Way, Great Ancoats Street and Whitworth Street.
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Manchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England.
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Manchester Football Association
The Manchester Football Association (also known as the Manchester FA) is the governing body for association football in the centre of the city of Manchester, England.
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Manchester Metrolink
Metrolink (also known as Manchester Metrolink) is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England.
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Manchester Piccadilly station
Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England.
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Manchester Senior Cup
The Manchester FA Senior Cup (originally known as the Manchester Cup) is an annual football tournament held between the clubs of the Manchester Football Association which was first played in 1885.
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Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
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Manchester Victoria station
Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop.
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Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847.
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Manor
A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.
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Manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.
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Manorialism
Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.
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Market square
The market square (or sometimes, the market place) is a feature of many European and colonial towns.
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Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Mesolithic
In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Methodism
Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.
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Metropolitan borough
A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county.
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Metropolitan county
The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level administrative division of England.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Middle class
The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.
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Mill town
A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.
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Moors murders
The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England.
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Mortality rate
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
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Mossley
Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a small town and a civil parish in Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, southeast of Oldham and east of Manchester.
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Mottram in Longdendale
Mottram in Longdendale is an unparished village within the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Municipal borough
Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.
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Municipal Corporations Act 1835
The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. IV., c.76), sometimes known as the Municipal Reform Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in the incorporated boroughs of England and Wales.
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Muse (band)
Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994.
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National Health Service (England)
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system for England and one of the four National Health Services for each constituent country of the United Kingdom.
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National League North
The National League North, formerly Conference North (named the Vanarama National League North for sponsorship reasons), is a division of the National League in England, taking its place immediately below the top division National League.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.
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Nico Ditch
Nico Ditch is a six-mile (9.7 km) long linear earthwork between Ashton-under-Lyne and Stretford in Greater Manchester, England.
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North West Ambulance Service
The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS), formerly 4 services (Cumbria Ambulance Service, Lancashire Ambulance Service, Cheshire and Mersey Ambulance Service and Greater Manchester Ambulance Service), was formed on 1 July 2006, as part of Health Minister Lord Warner's plans to reduce the number of NHS ambulance service trusts operating in the United Kingdom meaning that (NWAS) was given a bigger area to cover, making them the second largest in England It is one of 10 Ambulance Trusts providing England with Emergency medical services, and is part of the National Health Service, receiving direct government funding for its role.
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Northern England
Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of the UK government, reporting to Parliament.
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Old English
Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old Street drill hall, Ashton-under-Lyne
The Old Street drill hall is a former military installation in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Oldham
Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester.
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Oldham Road railway station (Ashton-under-Lyne)
Oldham Road Railway Station was one of three railway stations that used to serve the town of Ashton-under-Lyne.
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Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway
The Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway was an early British railway company, which opened in 1861, connecting Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge.
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Parish
A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.
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Park Bridge
Park Bridge is an area of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Parliament of England
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Peak District
The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.
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Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England.
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Pennines
The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.
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Points of the compass
The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.
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Poor law union
A poor law union was a geographical territory, and early local government unit, in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Population growth
In biology or human geography, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population.
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Power loom
A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
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Preschool
A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool or kindergarten, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.
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Primary school
A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.
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Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.
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Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, or PMSA, was established in 1991 to bring together individuals and organisations with an interest in British public sculptures and monuments, their production, preservation and history.
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Putting-out system
The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.
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Ralph de Ashton
Sir Ralph de Ashton or Assheton (fl. 1421–1486), was an officer of state under Edward IV of England.
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Rayner Stephens
Joseph Rayner Stephens (1805–1879) was a Methodist minister who offended the Wesleyan Conference by his support for separating the Church of England from the State.
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Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.
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River Medlock
The River Medlock is a river in Greater Manchester, England, which rises near Oldham and flows south and west for ten miles to join the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.
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River Tame, Greater Manchester
The River Tame flows through Greater Manchester, England.
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Roman Britain
Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.
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Royal charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.
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Rural area
In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
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Saddleworth Moor
Saddleworth Moor is a moorland in North West England.
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Salford Hundred
The Salford Hundred (also known as Salfordshire) is one of the subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire, in Northern England.
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Samuel Lewis (publisher)
Samuel Lewis (c.1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Seat
A seat is a place to sit.
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Secondary school
A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.
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Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield and Manchester via Ashton-under-Lyne.
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Shepherds Friendly Society
Shepherds Friendly Society is a UK friendly society and one of the oldest mutual insurers in the world.
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SHMD
Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley & Dukinfield Tramways & Electricity Board (SHMD) was a public transport and electricity supply company formed by Act of Parliament in August 1901.
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Siding (rail)
A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line or branch line or spur.
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Spindle (textiles)
A spindle is a straight spike usually made from wood used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn.
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Spinning (textiles)
Spinning is the twisting together of drawn-out strands of fibers to form yarn, and is a major part of the textile industry.
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St Damian's Roman Catholic Science College
St Damian's RC Science College is a mixed Roman Catholic secondary school located in Ashton-under-Lyne in the English county of Greater Manchester.
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St Michael and All Angels' Church, Ashton-under-Lyne
St.
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Stalybridge
Stalybridge is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census.
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
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Stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone.
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Suburb
A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.
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Sunroom
A sunroom, also frequently and traditionally denominated a solarium and sometimes a "Florida room", "garden conservatory", "garden room", "patio room", "sun parlor", "sun porch", or "winter garden", is a room that is built, either attached to, or integrated into, the primary building, such as a residence or office, that permits abundant sunlight and views of the landscape while sheltering from adverse weather.
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Tameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England.
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Tameside Advertiser
The Tameside Advertiser is a weekly newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.
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Tameside College
Tameside College is a further education college located in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Tameside General Hospital
Tameside General Hospital is an acute general hospital situated in Ashton-under-Lyne managed by Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council elections
One third of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, England is elected each year, followed by one year without election.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Terraced house
In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.
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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution in Britain was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines.
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The Chameleons
The Chameleons were an English post-punk band formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1981.
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The Coral
The Coral are an English rock band, formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Fall (band)
The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Morning Chronicle
The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication.
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The Witchwood
The Witchwood is a pub and live music venue in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Thomas de Ashton (alchemist)
Sir Thomas de Ashton or Assheton (fl. 1446), was an English alchemist.
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Tom Hingley
Thomas William Hingley (born 9 July 1965) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman of Inspiral Carpets.
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Town centre
A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town.
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Township (England)
In England, a township (Latin: villa) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Transport for Greater Manchester
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England.
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Turnpike trusts
Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Turnpike trusts in Greater Manchester
Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Turton F.C.
Turton Football Club is a football club based in Edgworth, in the North Turton district of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England.
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United Kingdom census, 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.
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United Kingdom census, 2011
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.
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United Utilities
United Utilities Group plc (UU), the United Kingdom's largest listed water company, was founded in 1995 as a result of the merger of North West Water and NORWEB.
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University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.
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Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.
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Urban structure
Urban structure is the arrangement of land use in urban areas, in other words, how the land use of a city is set out.
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Viaduct
A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.
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Vikings
Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
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Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors.
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Weaving
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.
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Woolen
Woolen (American English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool.
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Workhouse
In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.
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Working class
The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-under-Lyne
