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Leominster

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Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, England, and is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, approximately north of the city of Hereford and approx 7 miles south of the Shropshire border, 11 miles from Ludlow in Shropshire. [1]

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A49 road

The A49 is an A road in western England, which traverses the Welsh Marches region.

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Abbess

In Christianity, an abbess (Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior of a community of nuns, which is often an abbey.

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Abergavenny railway station

Abergavenny railway station (Y Fenni) is situated southeast of the town centre of Abergavenny, Wales.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales (Trenau Arriva Cymru) (ATW) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operates the Wales & Borders franchise.

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Arthur Peppercorn

Arthur Henry Peppercorn, OBE (29 January 1889 – 3 March 1951) was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway.

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Battle of Bryn Glas

The Battle of Bryn Glas, (sometimes referred to in English accounts as the Battle of Pilleth, although Bryn Glas translates as green or blue hill) was fought on 22 June 1402, near the towns of Knighton and Presteigne in Powys.

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Berrington Hall

Berrington Hall is a country house located about north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

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Bromyard

Bromyard is a market town in Herefordshire, England, situated in the valley of the River Frome.

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Cardiff Central railway station

Cardiff Central railway station (Caerdydd Canolog) is a major railway station on the South Wales Main Line in Cardiff, United Kingdom and one of two hubs of the city's urban rail network.

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Chester railway station

Chester railway station is a railway station in Newtown in the city of Chester, England.

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Cloister

A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.

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Common Era

Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Convent

A convent is either a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters, or nuns; or the building used by the community, particularly in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

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Cotton mill

A cotton mill is a factory housing powered spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution when the early mills were important in the development of the factory system.

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Crewe railway station

Crewe railway station is a railway station in Crewe, Cheshire, England.

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Croft Castle

Croft Castle is a castle, church and garden located at Yarpole, Herefordshire, England.

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Cucking stool

Cucking stools or ducking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland, and elsewhere.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Districts of England

The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages or Early Medieval Period, typically regarded as lasting from the 5th or 6th century to the 10th century CE, marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.

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George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

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Grange Court

Grange Court is a former market hall in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

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Gruffydd ap Llywelyn

Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (died 5 August 1063) was the King of Wales from 1055 to 1063.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

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Henry I of England

Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Hereford railway station

Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, England.

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Hereford Times

The Hereford Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper published every Thursday in Hereford, England.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.

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Holyhead railway station

Holyhead railway station (Gorsaf reilffordd Caergybi) serves the Welsh town of Holyhead (Caergybi) on Holy Island, Anglesey.

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Ivington

Ivington is a village in the county of Herefordshire, England, approximately 13 miles (21 km) north of Hereford.

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John Abel

John Abel (1578/9 — January 1675) was an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented Half-timbered construction typical of the West Midlands.

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John Scarlett Davis

John Scarlett Davis (1 September 1804 – 29 September 1845), or Davies, was an English landscape, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer.

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John Wyatt (inventor)

John Wyatt (April 1700 – 29 November 1766), an English inventor, was born near Lichfield and was related to Sarah Ford, Doctor Johnson's mother.

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Kimbolton, Herefordshire

Kimbolton is a village and parish in Herefordshire, England, around north east of Leominster and north of Hereford.

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Kingsland, Herefordshire

Kingsland is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire.

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Kington, Herefordshire

Kington is a market town, electoral ward and civil parish in Herefordshire, England.

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Lady Godiva

Godiva, Countess of Mercia (died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was an English noblewoman who, according to a legend dating at least to the 13th century, rode naked – covered only in her long hair – through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband imposed on his tenants.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Ledbury

Ledbury is a Herefordshire market town, lying east of Hereford, and west of the Malvern Hills.

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Leofric, Earl of Mercia

Leofric (died 31 August or 30 September 1057) was an Earl of Mercia.

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Leominster

Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, England, and is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, approximately north of the city of Hereford and approx 7 miles south of the Shropshire border, 11 miles from Ludlow in Shropshire.

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Leominster (district)

Leominster (district) was a local government district in England from 1 April 1974 to 1 April 1998 with its administrative seat in the town of Leominster.

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Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

Leominster was a parliamentary constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England, then until 1801 in that of Great Britain, and finally until 2010, when it disappeared in boundary changes, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Leominster Museum

Leominster Museum, formerly known as Leominster Folk Museum, is an independent, volunteer-run, museum in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

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Leominster railway station

Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England.

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Lewis Paul

Lewis Paul (died 1759) was the original inventor of roller spinning, the basis of the water frame for spinning cotton in a cotton mill.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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Ludlow

Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford via the main A49 road, which bypasses the town.

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Ludlow railway station

Ludlow railway station in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, lies on the Welsh Marches Line between Shrewsbury to the north and Hereford.

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Luston

Luston is a village and civil parish in north Herefordshire.

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Manchester Piccadilly station

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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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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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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Milford Haven railway station

Milford Haven railway station serves the town of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Minster (church)

Minster is an honorific title given to particular churches in England, most famously York Minster in York, Westminster in London and Southwell Minster in Southwell.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Newport railway station

Newport railway station (Casnewydd) is the third-busiest railway station in Wales (after Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street), situated in Newport city centre.

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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 Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Herefordshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Bill Wiggin, a Conservative.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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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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Old Welsh

Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg) is the label attached to the Welsh language from about 800 AD until the early 12th century when it developed into Middle Welsh.

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On the Resting-Places of the Saints

On the Resting-Places of the Saints is a heading given to two early medieval pieces of writing, also known as Þá hálgan and the Secgan, which exist in various manuscript forms in both Old English and Latin, the earliest surviving manuscripts of which date to the mid-11th century.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Origin myth

An origin myth is a myth that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world.

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Owain Glyndŵr

Owain Glyndŵr (c. 1359 – c. 1415), or Owain Glyn Dŵr, was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) but to many, viewed as an unofficial king.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Paul-Wyatt cotton mills

The Paul-Wyatt cotton mills were the world's first mechanised cotton spinning factories.

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Pilleth

Pilleth is a small village south of Knighton in Powys, Wales.

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Pinsley Mill

Pinsley Mill, also known as Etnam Street Mill, is a former watermill in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

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Preston Wynne

Preston Wynne is a small village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England located north east of Hereford, and south east of Leominster.

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Priory

A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress.

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Priory Church, Leominster

The Priory Church is an Anglican parish church in Leominster, Herefordshire, England, dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

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Quatrefoil

A quatrefoil (anciently caterfoil) is a decorative element consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping circles of the same diameter.

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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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Reading Abbey

Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.

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River Kenwater

The River Kenwater is a short tributary of the River Lugg.

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River Lugg

The River Lugg (Afon Llugwy) rises near Llangynllo, Powys.

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Ross-on-Wye

Ross-on-Wye (Welsh: Rhosan ar Wy) is a small market town with a population of 10,700 (according to the 2011 census), in south eastern Herefordshire, England, located on the River Wye, and on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean.

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Ryeland

The Ryeland is one of the oldest English sheep breeds going back seven centuries when the monks of Leominster in Herefordshire bred sheep and grazed them on the rye pastures, giving them their name.

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Saverne

Saverne (Saverne,; Alsatian: Zàwere; (German)) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Saxons

The Saxons (Saxones, Sachsen, Seaxe, Sahson, Sassen, Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany.

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Shrewsbury railway station

Shrewsbury railway station is in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Stoke Prior, Herefordshire

Stoke Prior is a village in Herefordshire, England, south east of Leominster.

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Tengeru

Tengeru is a market-town in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania.

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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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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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Welsh Marches line

The Welsh Marches line (in Welsh: Llinell y Mers), known historically as the North and West Route, is the railway line running from Newport in south-east Wales to Shrewsbury in the West Midlands region of England by way of Abergavenny, Hereford and Craven Arms and thence (by some definitions) to Crewe via Whitchurch.

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Worcester

Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.

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Wrexham General railway station

Wrexham General railway station (Wrecsam Cyffredinol) is a main line railway station and the main railway station serving Wrexham, north-east Wales.

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References

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

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