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Swadlincote is a town in Derbyshire, England, near the borders with Leicestershire and Staffordshire. [1]

143 relations: A511 road, A514 road, Air Training Corps, Alan Jackson, Albert Village, Alworths, Andrew Bridgen, Arriva Midlands, Arthur Archer, Ashby Canal, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, BBC Online, Belper (UK Parliament constituency), Ben Warren, Bloor Homes, Bobby Mason, Boots UK, Bottle oven, British Rail, Burton Mail, Burton upon Trent, Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote Green Belt, Carl Dickinson, Castle Gresley, Catholic Church, Chain store, Church Gresley, Church of England parish church, Civil parish, Coal, Coat of arms, Conservative Party (UK), Derby, Derbyshire, Derbyshire County Council, Domesday Book, Earl of Harrington, East Midlands, Edwina Currie, England, English Place-Name Society, Ermine (heraldry), Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Fire clay, Fleur-de-lis, Frederick Heath (cricketer), Gene Vincent, General election, George H. Widdows, George Harrison (footballer), ..., George Lloyd (archaeologist), George Stanhope, Gothic Revival architecture, Granville Academy, Gresley F.C., Gresley railway station, Harry Ward (darts player), Hartshorne, Derbyshire, Heather Wheeler, Helen Allingham, Henry Isaac Stevens, Herbert Wragg, Industrial Revolution, Ivanhoe line, J. M. Dent, J. Thomas Looney, Jack Bodell, Joe Jackson (musician), John Bloor, John Heath (cricketer, born 1891), John Hulme (Derbyshire cricketer), John Hurt, Kelly's Directory, Labour Party (UK), Latin, Leicester–Burton upon Trent line, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Council, Lew Bradford, Lewis White (swimmer), Lichfield, Light heavyweight, List of largest towns in England without a railway station, Local board of health, Local Government Act 1894, Local Government Act 1974, Luke Simpkin, Manorialism, Marc Goodfellow, Mark Todd (politician), Mary, mother of Jesus, Member of parliament, Midland Classic, Midland Railway, Moira, Leicestershire, Morrisons, National Cycle Network, Newhall, Derbyshire, Old English, Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship, Paralympic Games, Paramount Cars, Penguin Books, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Port Vale F.C., Privatisation of British Rail, Pub, Public Health Act 1875, Repton Rural District, Ringo Starr, Rory Storm, Royal Historical Society, Rugeley, Saint George, Salt glaze pottery, Samuel Lewis (publisher), Somerfield, South Derbyshire, South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency), South East Derbyshire Rural District, Staffordshire, Staffordshire University, Tamworth, Staffordshire, The Co-operative Group, The Midlands, The National Forest (England), The Pingle Academy, Town centre, Train station, Tramway (industrial), Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, Tudor rose, University of Derby, Unparished area, Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Vair, Ward (electoral subdivision), Watercolor painting, Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), West Midlands (region), Woodville, Derbyshire, Woolworths Group, World War II. Expand index (93 more) »

A511 road

The A511 road is a stretch of mainly single-carriageway road which runs northwest from Markfield in Leicestershire, England to Foston in South Derbyshire.

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A514 road

The A514 road is a road in England.

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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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Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country singer and songwriter.

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Albert Village

Albert Village is a small industrial village in Leicestershire, England and is located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the town of Swadlincote.

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Alworths

Alworths was a chain of 18 high-street retail stores created in 2009 out of some of the former stores of Woolworths plc in the United Kingdom.

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Andrew Bridgen

Andrew James Bridgen (born 28 October 1964) is a Conservative Party politician and businessman.

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Arriva Midlands

Arriva Midlands is a bus operator providing services in the East Midlands and West Midlands areas of England.

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Arthur Archer

Arthur Archer (1874–1940) was an English professional association footballer who played as a full back.

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Ashby Canal

The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a long canal in England which connected the mining district around Moira, just outside the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth in Warwickshire.

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Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Belper (UK Parliament constituency)

Belper is a former constituency in the UK Parliament.

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Ben Warren

Benjamin Warren (7 May 1879 – 15 January 1917) was an England international footballer who played as a half-back for Derby County and Chelsea.

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Bloor Homes

Bloor Homes is an English housebuilder based in Ashby Road, Measham, Leicestershire, although it has a Derbyshire post code.

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Bobby Mason

Robert Henry Mason (born 22 March 1936) is an English former professional footballer, who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he spent the majority of his league career, and for Leyton Orient.

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Boots UK

Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd), trading as Boots, is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories.

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Bottle oven

A bottle kiln, or bottle oven, is a type of kiln.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Burton Mail

The Burton Mail (formerly the Burton Daily Mail) is a British daily newspaper published each weekday and on Saturdays.

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Burton upon Trent

Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a town on the River Trent in East Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire.

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Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote Green Belt

The Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote Green Belt is a statutory green belt environmental and planning policy that regulates the rural space between the towns of Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote, in the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, within the East Midlands region of England.

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Carl Dickinson

Carl Matthew Dickinson (born 31 March 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for EFL League Two club Yeovil Town.

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Castle Gresley

Castle Gresley is a village and civil parish about southwest of the centre of Swadlincote in South Derbyshire, England.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chain store

Chain store(s) or retail chain(s) are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices.

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Church Gresley

Church Gresley is a village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.

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Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish (outside meetings of the church) to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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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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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Derbyshire County Council

Derbyshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire, England.

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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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Earl of Harrington

Earl of Harrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1742.

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie (née Cohen; born 13 October 1946) is a British former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1983 until 1997.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Place-Name Society

The English Place-Name Society (EPNS) is a learned society concerned with toponomastics and the toponymy of England, in other words, the study of place-names (toponyms).

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Ermine (heraldry)

Ermine in heraldry is a "fur", a type of tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail).

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Feast of Saints Peter and Paul

The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which is observed on 29 June.

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Fire clay

Fire clay is a range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick.

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Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis/fleur-de-lys (plural: fleurs-de-lis/fleurs-de-lys) or flower-de-luce is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means "flower", and lis means "lily") that is used as a decorative design or motif, and many of the Catholic saints of France, particularly St. Joseph, are depicted with a lily.

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Frederick Heath (cricketer)

Frederick Rhead Heath (30 October 1894 – 19 September 1967) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1924 and 1925.

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Gene Vincent

Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly.

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General election

A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen.

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George H. Widdows

George H. Widdows (15 October 1871 – 11 February 1946) was an English architect who pioneered changes to school building design to enhance the health of school children.

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George Harrison (footballer)

George Harrison (18 July 1892 – 12 February 1939) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left.

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George Lloyd (archaeologist)

George Lloyd (1820 – 21 January 1885) was an English Anglican curate and archaeologist.

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George Stanhope

George Stanhope (5 March 1660 – 18 March 1728) was a clergyman of the Church of England, rising to be Dean of Canterbury and a Royal Chaplain.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Granville Academy

Granville Academy, formerly Granville Sports College is a comprehensive school on Burton Road (A511) in Woodville, Derbyshire maintained by the Derbyshire County Council.

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Gresley F.C.

Gresley Football Club are an English football club from Church Gresley, near Swadlincote, Derbyshire.

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Gresley railway station

Gresley railway station was a railway station at Castle Gresley, Derbyshire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line.

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Harry Ward (darts player)

Harry Ward (born 13 June 1997) is a professional English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

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Hartshorne, Derbyshire

Hartshorne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire.

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Heather Wheeler

Heather Kay Wheeler (born 14 May 1959) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire, taking the seat from the Labour Party after 13 years.

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Helen Allingham

Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was an English watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.

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Henry Isaac Stevens

Henry Isaac Stevens FRIBA was an architect based in Derby.

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Herbert Wragg

Sir Herbert Wragg (1880 – 13 February 1956) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Belper in Derbyshire from 1923 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1945.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Ivanhoe line

The Ivanhoe line was the local passenger service operated on the Midland Main Line between and between 1993, when three intermediate stations were re-opened, and June 2005, when the separate Leicester–Loughborough service was withdrawn.

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J. M. Dent

Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849 – 9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series.

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J. Thomas Looney

John Thomas Looney (14 August 1870 – 17 January 1944) was an English school teacher who is notable for having originated the Oxfordian theory, which claims that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) was the true author of Shakespeare's plays.

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Jack Bodell

Jack Bodell (11 August 1940 – 9 November 2016) was an English professional boxer, active during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Joe Jackson (musician)

David Ian "Joe" Jackson (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter.

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John Bloor

John Stuart Bloor OBE, (born 16 June 1943) is an English businessman.

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John Heath (cricketer, born 1891)

John Stanley Heath (30 August 1891 – 1 September 1972) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Europeans in India in 1918/19 and for Derbyshire in 1924 and 1925.

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John Hulme (Derbyshire cricketer)

John Joseph Hulme (30 June 1862 – 11 July 1940) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1887 and 1903.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years.

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Kelly's Directory

Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in England that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leicester–Burton upon Trent line

The Leicester–Burton upon Trent line is a freight-only railway line in England linking the Midland Main Line south of to the Cross Country Route at.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is the county council for the English non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire.

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Lew Bradford

Lewis Bradford (24 December 1916 – 1984) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half.

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Lewis White (swimmer)

Lewis White (born 17 April 2000) is a Paralympic British swimmer competing as a S9 classification swimmer, mainly in freestyle events.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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Light heavyweight

Light heavyweight, or junior cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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List of largest towns in England without a railway station

This is a list of towns in England that are not served by any sort of rail services.

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Local board of health

Local boards or local boards of health were local authorities in urban areas of England and Wales from 1848 to 1894.

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Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London.

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Local Government Act 1974

The Local Government Act 1974 of New Zealand consolidated the previous law relating to local government that applied to territorial local authorities, regional and district council bodies in New Zealand.

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Luke Simpkin

Luke Simpkin (born 5 May 1979 in Derby) is a British light heavyweight boxer based in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England.

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Manorialism

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.

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Marc Goodfellow

Marc David Goodfellow (born 20 September 1981) is an English former footballer.

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Mark Todd (politician)

Mark Wainwright Todd (born 29 December 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire from 1997 to 2010.

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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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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Midland Classic

Midland Classic is Burton upon Trent's main bus operator, providing bus services around the Staffordshire town and beyond to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Uttoxeter, Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield and the surrounding areas.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Moira, Leicestershire

Moira is a former mining village about southwest of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in North West Leicestershire, England.

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Morrisons

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, trading as Morrisons, is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, and is headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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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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Newhall, Derbyshire

Newhall is a town and civil parish located in South Derbyshire, England.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship

The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare.

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Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games is a major international multi-sport event involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment.

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Paramount Cars

Paramount Cars was a British company which produced the Paramount automobile between 1950 and 1956.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Port Vale F.C.

Port Vale Football Club is a professional association football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

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Privatisation of British Rail

The Privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Public Health Act 1875

The Public Health Act 1875 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, one of the Public Health Acts, and a significant step in the advance of public health in Britain.

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Repton Rural District

Repton was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Rory Storm

Rory Storm (7 January 1938 – 28 September 1972) was an English musician and vocalist.

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Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society (abbr. RHistS; founded 1868) is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.

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Rugeley

Rugeley is a historic market town in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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Saint George

Saint George (Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Georgius;; to 23 April 303), according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and a member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

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Salt glaze pottery

Salt-glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery, usually stoneware, with a glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process.

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Samuel Lewis (publisher)

Samuel Lewis (c.1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Somerfield

Somerfield (originally Gateway) was a chain of small to medium-sized supermarkets operating in the United Kingdom.

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South Derbyshire

South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.

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South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Derbyshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Heather Wheeler, a Conservative.

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South East Derbyshire Rural District

South East Derbyshire was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Staffordshire University

Staffordshire University is a university in Staffordshire, England.

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Tamworth, Staffordshire

Tamworth is a large market town in Staffordshire, England, northeast of Birmingham and northwest of London.

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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 Midlands

The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

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The National Forest (England)

The National Forest is an environmental project in central England run by The National Forest Company.

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The Pingle Academy

The Pingle Academy is a state comprehensive school located at Coronation Street in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire, England.

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Town centre

A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town.

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Train station

A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.

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Tramway (industrial)

Tramways (not to be confused with a system of passenger carrying trams) are lightly laid railways, sometimes worked without locomotives.

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Triumph Motorcycles Ltd

Triumph Motorcycles Ltd is the largest British motorcycle manufacturer, established in 1983 by John Bloor after the original company Triumph Engineering went into receivership.

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Tudor rose

The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of York and House of Lancaster.

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University of Derby

The University of Derby (formerly Derby College of Art and Technology or simply Derby College) is a public university in the city of Derby, England.

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Unparished area

In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (a small administrative division of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish).

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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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Vair

Vair (from Latin varius "variegated") is a fur, and a set of patterns in heraldry.

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Ward (electoral subdivision)

A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the majority Methodist movement in Great Britain following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Woodville, Derbyshire

Woodville is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, east of Swadlincote.

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Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths.

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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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References

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

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