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A5199 road
The A5199 road is the direct road from Northampton to Leicester in England.
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Abington Academy
Abington High School, known as Abington Academy between 2011 and 2015, was a middle school located in Wigston, Leicestershire, 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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Arriva Fox County
Arriva Fox County is a bus company operating services in Leicestershire.
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Birmingham–Peterborough line
The Birmingham–Peterborough line is a cross-country railway line in the United Kingdom, linking Birmingham, and, via and.
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Bodnant Garden
Bodnant Garden (Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy, Wales, overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau mountains.
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Bushloe High School
Bushloe High School was a middle school with academy status located in Wigston, Leicestershire, England.
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Centrebus
Centrebus is a bus company operating services in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
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Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser (4 July 1834 in Glasgow – 24 November 1904 in Mulhouse) was a designer and design theorist, now widely known as one of the first and most important, independent designers.
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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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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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Evesham
Evesham is a market town and parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, southern England with a population of 23,576, according to the 2011 census.
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Further education
Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions.
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Gertie Gitana
Gertie Gitana (27 December 1887 – January 1957) was a British music hall entertainer.
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Graham Chapman
Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, author, and one of the six members of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python.
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Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system.
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Guthlaxton
Guthlaxton is an ancient hundred of Leicestershire.
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Harborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Harborough is a constituency covering the south east of Leicestershire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Neil O'Brien of the Conservative Party.
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Harry Ellis
Harry Alistair Ellis (born 17 May 1982 in Leicester) is a retired English rugby union footballer who played scrum half for Leicester Tigers, England and the British & Irish Lions.
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Henry Pochin
Henry Davis Pochin (1824–28 August, 1895) was an English industrial chemist.
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Hugh de Grandmesnil
Hugh de Grandmesnil (1032 – 22 February 1098), also known as Hugues or Hugo de Grentmesnil or Grentemesnil, is one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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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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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Kwik Save
Kwik Save is a British discount supermarket chain that was founded in Wales.
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Leicester
Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.
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Leicester Sound
Leicester Sound was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Leicestershire.
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Leicestershire
Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.
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Michael Garrett (composer)
Michael Garrett (born 1944) is a British composer, born in Leicestershire.
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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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Monty Python
Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.
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Oadby
Oadby is a small town in Leicestershire, three miles south east of Leicester city centre.
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Oadby and Wigston
Oadby and Wigston is a local government district and borough in the English county of Leicestershire.
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Repton
Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote.
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Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 16.9% share of the supermarket sector in the United Kingdom.
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Social history
Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past.
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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 Leicestershire College
South Leicestershire College, formerly Wigston College, is a general college of further education, which opened in 1970.
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South Wigston
South Wigston is a large village to the south of Leicester, England.
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South Wigston railway station
South Wigston railway station is a railway station serving the town of South Wigston, Leicestershire, England.
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Stocking frame
A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry.
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Tesco
Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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W. G. Hoskins
William George Hoskins CBE FBA (22 May 1908 – 11 January 1992) was an English local historian who founded the first university department of English Local History.
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Wigstan
Wigstan (died c.840 AD), also known as Saint Wystan, was the son of Wigmund of Mercia and Ælfflæd, daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia.
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Wigston Academy
Wigston Academy is an Academy in Wigston, Leicestershire.
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Wigston College
Wigston College is a coeducational upper school and sixth form located in Wigston Magna in the English county of Leicestershire.
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Wigston Fields
Wigston Fields is a district of the borough of Oadby and Wigston in Leicestershire, England.
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Wilko (retailer)
Wilko Retail Ltd. (formerly Wilkinson Hardware Stores) is a British high-street chain which sells homewares and household goods.
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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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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigston
