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Sawston

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Sawston is a large village in Cambridgeshire in England, situated on the River Cam about seven miles (11 km) south of Cambridge. [1]

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Acer pseudoplatanus

Acer pseudoplatanus, known as the sycamore in the United Kingdom and the sycamore maple in the United States, is a flowering plant species in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.

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Air Training Corps

The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a British volunteer-military youth organisation, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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Army Cadet Force

The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army.

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Artesian aquifer

An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure.

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Babraham

Babraham is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about south-east of Cambridge on the A1307 road.

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Beavers (Scouting)

Beavers is one name for programs associated with Scouting for young children usually aged 6 to 8 1/2.

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Bonfire

A bonfire is a large but controlled outdoor fire, used either for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration.

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Boys' Brigade

For the 80s New Wave band from Canada, see Boys Brigade (band).

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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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Brownies

Brownies are the section in the Girl Guides (or in America, Girl Scouts) organization for girls aged seven years old to ten years old.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge Castle

Cambridge Castle, locally also known as Castle Mound, is located in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cambridge City F.C.

Cambridge City Football Club is an English football club currently based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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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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Cub Scout

Cub Scouts, Cubs or Wolf Cubs are programs associated with Scouting for young children usually between 5 and 12, depending on the national organization to which they belong.

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Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.

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Duke of Northumberland

Duke of Northumberland is a noble title that has been created three times in English and British history, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Eighth Air Force

The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) (8 AF) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Girlguiding

Girlguiding is the operating name of The Guide Association, previously named The Girl Guides Association and is the national guiding organisation of the United Kingdom.

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Girls' Brigade

Not to be confused with the Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade. The Girls' Brigade is an international and interdenominational Christian youth organisation.

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Goethe University Frankfurt

Goethe University Frankfurt (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Gog Magog Hills

The Gog Magog Hills are a range of low chalk hills, extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge in England.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Hard water

Hard water is water that has high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water").

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Heidi Allen

Heidi Allen (born 18 January 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Henry Morris (education)

Henry Morris (1889 – 14 December 1961) is known primarily as the founder of village colleges.

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Hill figure

A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology.

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Housing estate

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development.

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Huddleston

Huddleston is a surname.

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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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List of places in Cambridgeshire

This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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List of the largest villages in England

Several places claim to be the largest village in England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Little Trees Hill

Little Trees Hill is one of the highest points of the Gog Magog Hills, a ridge of low chalk hills extending for several miles to the south-east of Cambridge in 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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Mary I of England

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.

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National Cycle Network

The National Cycle Network (NCN) is the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom, which was established to encourage cycling throughout Britain, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring.

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Natural England

Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church

The Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs (OLEM) is an English Roman Catholic parish church located at the junction of Hills Road and Lensfield Road in south east Cambridge.

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Pampisford

Pampisford is a village, south of Cambridge, on the A505 road near Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Priest hole

A priest hole is a hiding place for a priest built into many of the principal Catholic houses of England during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law in England.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

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River Cam

The River Cam is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England.

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River Granta

The River Granta is the name of two of the four tributaries of the River Cam, although both names are often used synonymously.

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Sawston Village College

Sawston Village College is an academy school in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Scouts (The Scout Association)

The Scout section is the direct descendant of the original Scout Patrols which formed The Scout Association of the United Kingdom in 1908.

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Selinum carvifolia

Selinum carvifolia is a flowering plant of the genus Selinum in the family Apiaceae.

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Selsingen

Selsingen is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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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 Cambridgeshire

South Cambridgeshire is a mostly rural local government district of Cambridgeshire, England with a population of 148,755 at the 2011 Census.

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South Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Cambridgeshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Heidi Allen, a Conservative, since May 2015.

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South Cambridgeshire District Council

South Cambridgeshire District Council is the local authority for the district of South Cambridgeshire in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Stocks

Stocks are restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanned leather in Marrakesh Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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The Abingtons, Cambridgeshire

The Abingtons are a community in South Cambridgeshire consisting of two villages: Little Abington and Great Abington, about south east of Cambridge.

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The Scout Association

The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organisation in the United Kingdom and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement's recognised member for the United Kingdom (UK).

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Tudor architecture

The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England.

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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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Wandlebury Hill

Wandlebury Hill is a peak in the Gog Magog Hills, a ridge of low chalk hills extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge, England.

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William Hone

William Hone (3 June 1780 – 8 November 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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66th Fighter Wing

The 66th Fighter Wing is a disbanded unit of the United States Air Force, last stationed at Chicago Municipal Airport, Illinois.

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References

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

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