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Almondsbury

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Almondsbury is a large village near junction 16 of the M5 motorway, in South Gloucestershire, England, and a civil parish which also includes the villages of Hortham, Gaunt's Earthcott, Over, Easter Compton, Compton Greenfield, and Hallen. [1]

42 relations: A38 road, Alex Kapranos, Almondsbury F.C., Almondsbury Interchange, Bristol, Bristol Filton Airport, Catbrain, Charlton, Bristol, Civil parish, Compton Greenfield, Controlled-access highway, Cribbs Causeway, Domesday Book, Easter Compton, Eilert Ekwall, Filton and Bradley Stoke (UK Parliament constituency), Forest of Dean, Franz Ferdinand (band), Garden centre, Gaunt's Earthcott, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire County Football Association, Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, Hallen, Gloucestershire, Henbury, M5 motorway, Mary, mother of Jesus, National Police Air Service, Non-League football, Over, South Gloucestershire, Oxford University Press, Patchway, Patchway Community School, Police station, Princess Caraboo, River Severn, Severn crossing, South Gloucestershire, South Wales, Unitary authority, United Kingdom census, 2011, Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom.

A38 road

The A38, part of which is also known as the Devon Expressway, is a major A-class trunk road in England.

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Alex Kapranos

Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a Scottish, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author.

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Almondsbury F.C.

Almondsbury Football Club is a football club based in Almondsbury, near Bristol, England.

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Almondsbury Interchange

The Almondsbury Interchange in South Gloucestershire, is one of the United Kingdom's largest motorway stack interchanges.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bristol Filton Airport

Filton Airport or Filton Aerodrome was a private airport on the border between Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol, England.

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Catbrain

Catbrain Hill, simply known as Catbrain, is a small village near the north of Bristol, at the edge of neighbouring district South Gloucestershire, England.

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Charlton, Bristol

Charlton was the name of a small village in Gloucestershire, England, demolished in the late 1940s to make room for airport expansion.

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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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Compton Greenfield

Compton Greenfield is a small hamlet of farms and spread out houses to the south west of Easter Compton, in South Gloucestershire.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.

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Cribbs Causeway

Cribbs Causeway is a road in South Gloucestershire, England, just north of Bristol, which has given its name to the surrounding area, a large out-of-town shopping centre, including retail parks and an enclosed shopping centre known as The Mall.

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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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Easter Compton

Easter Compton is a village in the civil parish of Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire, England.

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Eilert Ekwall

Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län, Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and was one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote works on the history of English, but he is best known as the author of numerous important books on English placenames (in the broadest sense) and personal names.

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Filton and Bradley Stoke (UK Parliament constituency)

Filton and Bradley Stoke is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.

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Garden centre

A garden centre is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business.

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Gaunt's Earthcott

Gaunt's Earthcott, sometimes spelt Gaunts Earthcott, is a hamlet in the civil parish of Almondsbury in South Gloucestershire, England.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gloucestershire County Football Association

The Gloucestershire County Football Association, also simply known as the Gloucestershire FA or GFA, is the governing body of football in the county of Gloucestershire.

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Great Western Air Ambulance Charity

The Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) is a charity air ambulance service in southwest England.

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Hallen, Gloucestershire

Hallen is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, just north of the Bristol city boundary.

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Henbury

Henbury is a suburb of Bristol, England, approximately north west of the city centre.

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M5 motorway

The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands and the South West.

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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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National Police Air Service

The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is a police aviation service that provides centralised air support to the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales.

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Non-League football

Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country.

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Over, South Gloucestershire

Over is a village in the civil parish of Almondsbury in South Gloucestershire, England, situated about 20 km north-west of Bristol.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Patchway

Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, situated north-north west of central Bristol.

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Patchway Community School

Patchway Community School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Almondsbury in the English county of Gloucestershire.

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Police station

A police station (sometimes called a "station house" in the US) is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff.

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Princess Caraboo

Mary Baker (née Willcocks; 11 November 1792 (alleged), Witheridge, Devonshire, England – 24 December 1864, Bristol, England) was a noted impostor.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren, Sabrina) is a river in the United Kingdom.

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Severn crossing

Severn crossing is a term used to refer to the two motorway crossings over the River Severn estuary between England and Wales operated by Highways England.

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South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in South West England.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.

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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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Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom

The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors.

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Almondsbury Primary school, Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, Cattybrook, Hortham.

References

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

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