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A24 road (England)
The A24 is a major road in England that runs for from Clapham in south-west London to Worthing on the English Channel in West Sussex via the suburbs of south-west London, as well as through the counties of Surrey and West Sussex.
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A25 road
The A25 road is one of the two cross-sector non-motorway grade roads in the 2 sector (or Zone 2) of Great Britain alongside the A27 which is approximately double its length along the south coast.
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Abinger
Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the district of Mole Valley, Surrey, England.
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Absolute Radio
Absolute Radio (originally Virgin Radio) is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations.
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Alma Deutscher
Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born February 2005) is an English composer, pianist, violinist, and child prodigy.
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Arriva Guildford & West Surrey
Arriva Guildford & West Surrey is a bus operator based in Guildford, England.
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Arthur Cotton
General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (15 May 1803 – 24 July 1899) was a British general and irrigation engineer.
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Arundel
Arundel is a market town and civil parish in a steep vale of the South Downs, West Sussex, England.
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Baryonyx
Baryonyx is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the early Cretaceous Period, about 130–125 million years ago.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Betchworth
Betchworth is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Box Hill, Surrey
Box Hill is a summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately south-west of London.
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Brian Kay
Brian Christopher Kay (born 12 May 1944) is an English radio presenter, conductor and singer.
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Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.
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Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent (often abbreviated to BGT) is a British talent show competition, and is part of the ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell.
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British and Foreign School Society
The British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) offers charitable aid to educational projects in the UK and around the world by funding schools, other charities and educational bodies.
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Brockham
Brockham is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.
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Calcareous grassland
Calcareous grassland (or alkaline grassland) is an ecosystem associated with thin basic soil, such as that on chalk and limestone downland.
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Capel, Surrey
Capel is a village and civil parish in southern Surrey, England.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.
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Christian Almer
Christian Almer Christian Almer (29 March 1826 – 17 May 1898) was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascentionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism.
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Christian O'Connell
Christian Liam O'Connell (born 7 April 1973 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British radio DJ, TV host, writer and comedian who presents The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne.
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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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Common land
Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.
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Coningsby
Coningsby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, England.
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Country park
A country park is an area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
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David McFall
David Bernard McFall (12 December 1919 – 18 September 1988) was a Scottish sculptor.
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De Vere Wotton House
De Vere Wotton House is a hotel, training centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Deepdene (garden)
Deepdene was an estate and country house occupying the south-east of Dorking, Surrey, England, the aspects of it that remain being a large minority of its woodland garden, interwoven amidst Dorking Golf Course.
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Denbies
Denbies is a large estate to the northwest of Dorking in Surrey, England.
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Denbies Wine Estate
Denbies Wine Estate near Dorking, Surrey has the largest vineyard in England with under vines, representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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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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Domestic pig
The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus or only Sus domesticus), often called swine, hog, or simply pig when there is no need to distinguish it from other pigs, is a large, even-toed ungulate.
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Dorking Caves
The Dorking Caves are a network of manmade tunnels excavated in the soft sandstone of the Upper Greensand deposits beneath Dorking in Surrey, England.
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Dorking chicken
The Dorking is a British breed of domestic chicken.
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Dorking Deepdene railway station
Dorking Deepdene railway station is in Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Dorking F.C.
Dorking Football Club was a football club based in Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Dorking R.F.C.
Dorking Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union football club, originally based in Dorking, Surrey and play in the nearby village of Brockham.
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Dorking railway station
Dorking railway station is one of three stations that serve the town of Dorking in Surrey, England.
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Dorking Wanderers F.C.
Dorking Wanderers Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Dorking West railway station
Dorking West railway station is in Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Duke of Norfolk
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl.
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Ebony and Ivory
"Ebony and Ivory" is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
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Elizabeth Cotton, Lady Hope
Elizabeth Reid Cotton, (9 December 1842 – 8 March 1922) who became Lady Hope when she married Sir James Hope in 1877, was a British evangelist active in the Temperance movement.
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Emergency department
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident & emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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English country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.
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Epsom
Epsom is a market town in Surrey, England, south-west of London, between Ashtead and Ewell.
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Eric Stewart
Eric Michael Stewart (born 20 January 1945) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer best known as a founding member of the rock groups The Mindbenders from 1963 to 1968 and 10cc from 1972 to 1995.
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Fairtrade Town
The Fair Trade Towns campaign is the result of a grass-roots citizens movement that started in the UK in 2001 (see below).
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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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Fred Batt
Fred Batt (born 2 September 1955) is a former businessman, nightclub owner, singer, actor and self-styled demonologist and historian known for his regular appearances on the British paranormal reality television series Most Haunted.
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Güglingen
is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
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George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe
George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe PC (4 June 1828 – 26 February 1917) was a British politician and peer, the son of Thomas Cubitt, the leading London builder and property developer of his day.
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George Meredith
George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.
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George Tomkyns Chesney
Sir George Tomkyns Chesney, KCB, CSI, CIE (30 April 1830 in Tiverton, Devon – 31 March 1895), was a British Army general, brother of Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney and of writer Matilda Marian Pullan.
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Georgian era
The Georgian era is a period in British history from 1714 to, named eponymously after kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.
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Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.
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Goodwyns
Goodwyns is a housing estate in Dorking, a market town in Surrey, England.
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Gouvieux
Gouvieux is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
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Graham Gouldman
Graham Keith Gouldman (born) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.
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Grande Ruine
La Grande Ruine (3,765 m) is a mountain in Hautes-Alpes, France.
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Great Bookham
Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-rural spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford.
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Great Western Railway (train operating company)
First Greater Western Limited, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western railway franchise.
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Greensand Ridge
The Greensand Ridge is an extensive, prominent, often wooded, mixed greensand/sandstone escarpment in south-east England.
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Guildford
Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.
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Headley, Surrey
Headley is a village and civil parish in the North Downs in Surrey, England.
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Henry Hope
Henry Hope (1735–1811) was an Amsterdam merchant banker born in Boston, in Britain's Massachusetts Bay Colony in North America.
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Highway Act 1835
The Highway Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will 4 c 50) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Horsham
Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England.
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Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment.
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Ian Nairn
Ian Douglas Nairn (24 August 1930 – 14 August 1983) was a British architectural critic who coined the word ‘Subtopia’ to indicate drab suburbs that look identical through unimaginative town-planning.
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Invasion literature
Invasion literature (or the invasion novel) is a literary genre most notable between 1871 and the First World War (1914) but still practised to this day.
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Jamie Mackie
James Charles Mackie (born 22 September 1985) is a professional footballer who last played as a striker for Queens Park Rangers.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, (born 3 November 1934) is a British politician, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, including holding the offices of Home Secretary, Education Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman.
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Kevin Godley
Kevin Michael Godley (born 7 October 1945, Prestwich, Lancashire, England) is an English musician and music video director.
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Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.
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Knights Hospitaller
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), also known as the Order of Saint John, Order of Hospitallers, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Hospitalier or Hospitallers, was a medieval Catholic military order.
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Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply as Templars, were a Catholic military order recognised in 1139 by papal bull Omne Datum Optimum of the Holy See.
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in Surrey, England on the right bank of the River Mole, and at the edge of the contiguous built-up area of London.
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Leisure centre
A leisure centre in the UK, Ireland, Australia (also called aquatic centres) and Canada is a purpose built building or site, usually owned and operated by the city, borough council or municipal district council, where people go to keep fit or relax through using the facilities.
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Leith Hill
Leith Hill is a wooded hill to the south west of Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Lewis Halliday
General Sir Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday, (14 May 1870 – 9 March 1966) was a Royal Marine officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Life peer
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.
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Lime (material)
Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.
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List of Britain's Got Talent finalists (series 8)
The eighth series of Britain's Got Talent started on 12 April 2014 and ended on 7 June 2014.
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List of bus routes in London
This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches).
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List of places of worship in Mole Valley
As of, the district of Mole Valley has more than 70 current and former places of worship: 56 buildings are in use by various Christian denominations and other religions, and a further 16 are no longer in religious use but survive in other uses or—in two cases—as ruins.
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Lol Creme
Laurence Neil "Lol" Creme (born 19 September 1947) is an English musician and music video director, best known for his work in 10cc.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London commuter belt
The London commuter belt is a metropolitan area that includes London and its surrounding commuter zone (the area in which it is practical to commute to work in London).
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London Victoria station
Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.
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London Waterloo station
Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.
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London–Surrey Cycle Classic
The London–Surrey Cycle Classic was a one-off, one-day bicycle race that served as one of three U.K. events in the year-long 2010–11 UCI Europe Tour and acted as the test event for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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Maidstone
Maidstone is a large, historically important town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.
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Marian Hemar
Marian Hemar (1901–1972), born Marian Hescheles (other pen names: Jan Mariański, and Marian Wallenrod), was a Polish poet, journalist, playwright, comedy writer, and songwriter.
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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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Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.
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Maundy Gregory
John Arthur Maundy Gregory (1 July 1877 – 28 September 1941) was a British theatre producer and political fixer who is best remembered for selling honours for Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
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Meadow
A meadow is a field habitat vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants (grassland).
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Meta Brevoort
Marguerite "Meta" Brevoort (November 8, 1825 – December 19, 1876), an American mountain climber, spent her early years in a Paris convent school.
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Metrobus (South East England)
Metrobus Metrobus Limited is a bus operator with routes in south London, and parts of Surrey, Kent & Sussex.
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Metropolitan Green Belt
The Metropolitan Green Belt is a statutory green belt around London, 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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Mill (grinding)
A mill is a device that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.
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Mole Valley
Mole Valley is a local government district in Surrey, England.
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Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
Mole Valley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Paul Beresford, a Conservative.
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Mortar (masonry)
Mortar is a workable paste used to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units together, fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, and sometimes add decorative colors or patterns in masonry walls.
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Most Haunted
Most Haunted is a British paranormal reality television series.
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Mountain biking
Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.
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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Newdigate
Newdigate is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley borough of Surrey lying in a relatively flat part of the Weald to the east of the A24 road between Dorking and Horsham, ESE of Guildford and south of London.
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Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.
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Non-League football
Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country.
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Norbury Park
Norbury Park is a swathe of mixed wooded and agricultural land associated with its Georgian manor house near Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey, which appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.
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North Downs
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.
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North Downs Line
The North Downs Line is a passenger-train line connecting Reading, on the Great Western Main Line, to Redhill and, along the Brighton Main Line, linking many centres of population in that part of the North Downs which it traverses en route.
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North Holmwood
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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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Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Pixham
Pixham is a chapelry (small village) within the parish of Dorking, Surrey on the near side of the confluence of the River Mole and the Pipp Brook to its town, Dorking, which is centred 1 km (0.6 mi) south-west.
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Plough
A plough (UK) or plow (US; both) is a tool or farm implement used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil.
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Polesden Lacey
Polesden Lacey is an Edwardian house and estate, located on the North Downs at Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey, England.
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Priory School, Dorking
The Priory (C of E Aided) School, Dorking is a voluntary-aided Church of England school for pupils aged 11–18, in Dorking, Surrey.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in White City, London.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.
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Ranmore Common
Ranmore Common is an area of wooded former common land on the North Downs, immediately northwest of Dorking in the English county of Surrey.
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Redhill, Surrey
Redhill is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead within the county of Surrey, England.
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Reigate
Reigate is a town of over 20,000 inhabitants in eastern Surrey, England.
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River Mole
The River Mole is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England.
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Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.
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Roman roads
Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.
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South Western Railway (train operating company)
South Western Railway (SWR) is an English train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation (30%) that operates the South Western franchise.
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Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)
Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in England.
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St John Passion
The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion (Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the older of the surviving Passions by Bach.
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St Matthew Passion
The St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244, is a Passion, a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander.
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Stane Street (Chichester)
Stane Street is the modern name given to an important Roman road in England that linked London to the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum, or Regnentium, later renamed Chichester by the Saxons.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Sunray Travel
Sunray Travel was a bus and coach operator based in the Surrey town of Epsom, England.
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Surrey
Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.
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Surrey County Council
Surrey County Council is the county council administering certain services in the non-metropolitan county of Surrey in England.
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Surrey Fire and Rescue Service
The Surrey Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service for the County of Surrey, England, with 24 fire stations.
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Surrey Hills AONB
Surrey Hills is a Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in Surrey, England.
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Surrey Police
Surrey Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Surrey in South East England.
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Sutton and Mole Valley lines
The Sutton and Mole Valley lines were constructed between 1847 and 1868 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the London and South Western Railway and the LBSCR-sponsored Horsham, Dorking and Leatherhead Railway.
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Sutton railway station (London)
Sutton railway station is in the London Borough of Sutton in south London and is the main station serving Sutton town.
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The Ashcombe School
The Ashcombe School is a mixed community comprehensive secondary school in Dorking, Surrey, for children aged 11 to 16 with a sixth form for ages 16 to 18.
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The Battle of Dorking
The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction.
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The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.
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The Pickwick Papers
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.
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The Things We Do for Love (song)
"The Things We Do for Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1976.
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Thomas Cubitt
Thomas Cubitt (25 February 1788 – 20 December 1855) was an English master builder, notable for developing many of the historic streets and squares of London, especially in Belgravia, Pimlico and Bloomsbury.
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Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer
Thomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, 2nd Baronet (25 October 1859-12 April 1940) was the second Baron Farrer.
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Thomas Hope (1769–1831)
Thomas Hope (30 August 1769 – 3 February 1830/1831) was a Dutch and British merchant banker, author, philosopher and art collector, best known for his novel Anastasius, a work which many experts considered a rival to the writings of Lord Byron.
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Tschingel
The Tschingel (2,326 m) is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Meiringen in the Bernese Oberland.
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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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United Kingdom census, 2011
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.
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Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)
In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.
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Vale of Holmesdale
The Vale of Holmesdale is a comparatively narrow valley lying at the foot of the North Downs in Surrey and Kent, England.
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Victoria County History
The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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W. A. B. Coolidge
William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (August 28, 1850 – May 8, 1926) was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer.
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Walbury Hill
Walbury Hill is a hill in Berkshire, England.
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Walter Dendy Sadler
Walter Dendy Sadler (12 May 1854 – 13 November 1923) was an English painter.
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Westcott, Surrey
Westcott is a semi-rural English village and former civil parish west of the centre of Dorking on the A25 between the North Downs and Greensand Ridge, making it one of the 'Vale of Holmesdale' villages (greatly in Westcott an AONB) and is in Surrey in the direction of Guildford.
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Westhumble
Westhumble is a clustered village centred north of Dorking in Surrey, England, in the parish of Mickleham but without a civil parish.
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William the Conqueror
William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.
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Woodland
Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.
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Worthing
Worthing is a large seaside town in England, with borough status in West Sussex.
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10cc
10cc are an English rock band founded in Stockport, England, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorking
