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Knaresborough

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Knaresborough is an historic market town, spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. [1]

72 relations: 'Allo 'Allo!, A1 road (Great Britain), A59 road, Association football, Battle of Marston Moor, Bebra, Borough of Harrogate, Boroughbridge, Canterbury Cathedral, Charles Farrar Forster, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, Civil parish, Claro Wapentake, Connexionsbuses, Domesday Book, Duchy of Lancaster, Edward II of England, Edward III of England, English Civil War, Eugene Aram, Gorden Kaye, Grant Kirkhope, Harrogate, Harrogate and Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency), Harrogate line, Henry II of England, Historic counties of England, Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland, Hundred (county division), James Harry Lacey, John Metcalf (civil engineer), John of Gaunt, John Walton (entomologist), John, King of England, King George's Fields, King James's School, Knaresborough, Knaresborough Castle, Knaresborough railway station, Knaresborough Town A.F.C., Leeds, Leeds Bradford Airport, Leeds United L.F.C., Lidl, Market town, Mary, mother of Jesus, Middle Ages, Mother Shipton, Normans, North Yorkshire, Philippa of Hainault, ..., Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway, Pub, Rare (company), René Artois, River Nidd, Robert Aagaard, Robert III de Stuteville, Robert of Knaresborough, Royal charter, Royal Maundy, Samuel Smith Brewery, Spa town, The Co-operative Group, The New Statesman, Thomas Becket, Tour de France, Transdev, Viaduct, Wallasey, West Riding of Yorkshire, Wetherby, York. Expand index (22 more) »

'Allo 'Allo!

Allo Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes.

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A1 road (Great Britain)

The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, at.

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A59 road

The A59 is a major road in England which is around long and runs from Wallasey, Merseyside to York, North Yorkshire.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Battle of Marston Moor

The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the First English Civil War of 1642–1646.

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Bebra

Bebra is a small town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany.

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Borough of Harrogate

The Borough of Harrogate is a local government district and borough of North Yorkshire, England.

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Boroughbridge

Boroughbridge is a small town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England.

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Charles Farrar Forster

Charles Farrar Forster (29 February 1848 – 28 August 1894) was curate of the parish of Lockwood near Huddersfield, vicar of St Andrew's Church in Huddersfield, and the first vicar of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw.

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Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, North Yorkshire, England, also known as Beckwithshaw Church, is an Anglican church built and furnished between 1886 and 1887 by William Swinden Barber in the Gothic Revival style as part of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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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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Claro Wapentake

Claro was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Connexionsbuses

Connexionsbuses is a bus operator based in Borough of Harrogate.

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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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Duchy of Lancaster

The Duchy of Lancaster is, since 1399, the private estate of the British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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Eugene Aram

Eugene Aram (1704 – 16 August 1759) was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad, The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1832 novel Eugene Aram.

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Gorden Kaye

Gordon Fitzgerald Kaye (7 April 194123 January 2017), known as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor and singer, best known for playing womanizing cafe owner René Artois in the British comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!.

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Grant Kirkhope

Grant Kirkhope (born 10 July 1962) is a British video game composer.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England.

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Harrogate and Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Harrogate and Knaresborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Andrew Jones of the Conservative Party.

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Harrogate line

The Harrogate line is a passenger rail line through parts of North Yorkshire and the West Yorkshire area of northern England connecting Leeds to York by way of Harrogate and Knaresborough.

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Henry II of England

Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.

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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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Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland

Sir Hugh de Morville (died c. 1202) was an Anglo-Norman knight who served King Henry II of England in the late 12th century.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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James Harry Lacey

James Harry "Ginger" Lacey, (1 February 1917 – 30 May 1989) was one of the top scoring Royal Air Force fighter pilots of the Second World War and was the second highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain, behind Pilot Officer Eric Lock of No. 41 Squadron RAF.

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John Metcalf (civil engineer)

John Metcalf (1717–1810), also known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough or Blind Jack Metcalf, was the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution.

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John of Gaunt

John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, KG (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English nobleman, soldier, statesman, and prince, the third of five surviving sons of King Edward III of England.

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John Walton (entomologist)

John Walton (23 July 1784, Knaresborough, Yorkshire- 3 January 1862, Knaresborough) was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Curculionidae.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland (Norman French: Johan sanz Terre), was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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King George's Fields

A King George's Field is a public open space in the United Kingdom dedicated to the memory of King George V (3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936).

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King James's School, Knaresborough

King James's School is located on King James Road, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Knaresborough Castle

Knaresborough Castle is a ruined fortress overlooking the River Nidd in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Knaresborough railway station

Knaresborough railway station is a Grade II listed station serving the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, England.

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Knaresborough Town A.F.C.

Knaresborough Town Association Football Club is a football club based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Bradford Airport

Leeds Bradford Airport is located at Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, northwest of Leeds city centre itself, and from Bradford city centre.

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Leeds United L.F.C.

Leeds United Ladies Football Club are an English women's football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Lidl

Lidl Stiftung & Co.

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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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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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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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Mother Shipton

Ursula Southeil (c. 1488–1561) (also variously spelt as Ursula Southill, Ursula Soothtell or Ursula Sontheil), better known as Mother Shipton, is said to have been an English soothsayer and prophetess.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county (or shire county) and larger ceremonial county in England.

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Philippa of Hainault

Philippa of Hainault (Middle French: Philippe de Hainaut; 24 June c.1310/15 – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III.

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Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway

| The Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway was a railway line in North Yorkshire, England, that connected Pilmoor on the East Coast Main Line with the towns of Boroughbridge and Knaresborough.

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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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Rare (company)

Rare Limited is a British video game developer based in Twycross, England.

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René Artois

René François Artois is a fictional character, the main character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, which ran from 1982 to 1992.

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River Nidd

The River Nidd is a tributary of the River Ouse in the English county of North Yorkshire.

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Robert Aagaard

Robert Aagaard OBE JP (27 June 1932 – 1 April 2001) was an English furniture maker and conservator, magistrate, and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps.

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Robert III de Stuteville

Robert III de Stuteville (died 1186) was an English baron and justiciar.

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Robert of Knaresborough

Robert of Knaresborough (St. Robert) (c. 1160 – 24 September 1218) was a hermit who lived in a cave by the River Nidd, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.

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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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Royal Maundy

Royal Maundy is a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday.

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Samuel Smith Brewery

Samuel Smith's Old Brewery, popularly known as Samuel Smith's or Sam Smith's, is an independent British brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England.

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Spa town

A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring).

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The Co-operative Group

The Co-operative Group, trading as the Co-op, is a British consumer co-operative with a diverse family of retail businesses including food retail and wholesale; electrical retail; financial services; insurance services; legal services and funeralcare, with in excess of 4,200 locations.

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The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative Party Government of the period.

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Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket (also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and later Thomas à Becket; (21 December c. 1119 (or 1120) – 29 December 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

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Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual male multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries.

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Transdev

Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev, is a French-based international private public transport operator, with operations in 20 countries as of June 2018, including its future Czech bus operations starting from December 2018.

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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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Wallasey

Wallasey is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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Wetherby

Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaresborough

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