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Blacon is a large suburb in Chester, England, containing a mixture of private homes and substantial public council-built properties which are made up of houses, flats and bunglows for those less able. [1]

36 relations: Asphalt concrete, Beeching cuts, Blacon High School, Border town, British Army, Cheshire, Cheshire Constabulary, Cheshire West and Chester, Chester, Chester (district), Chester Northgate railway station, Chris Matheson (British politician), Church of England, City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency), Commonwealth War Graves Commission, England, England–Wales border, Labour Party (UK), Marquess of Crewe, Mollington, Cheshire, Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme, Newtown, Chester, Nissen hut, North West England (European Parliament constituency), Overpool, Place of worship, Richard Beeching, Royal Air Force, Saltney, Saughall, Sports College, United Kingdom census, 2011, Upton by Chester, Ward (electoral subdivision), Wirral Peninsula, World War II.

Asphalt concrete

Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, as well as the core of embankment dams.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Blacon High School

Blacon High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Blacon in the English county of Cheshire.

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Border town

A border town is a town or city close to the boundary between two countries, states, or regions.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Cheshire Constabulary

Cheshire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the English unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton (including Runcorn, and Widnes) and Warrington.

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Cheshire West and Chester

Cheshire West and Chester is a unitary authority with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Chester (district)

Chester was a non-metropolitan local government district of Cheshire, England, with the status of a city and a borough.

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Chester Northgate railway station

Chester Northgate is a former railway station in Chester, Cheshire, England, that was a terminus for the Cheshire Lines Committee and Great Central Railway.

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Chris Matheson (British politician)

Christian Matheson (born 2 January 1968) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency)

The City of Chester is a constituency created in 1545 (turned into a county division in 1885 and reformed in narrowed geographical guise in 1918) and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Chris Matheson of the Labour Party.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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England

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

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England–Wales border

The England–Wales border, sometimes the Wales–England border or the Anglo-Welsh border, is the border between England and Wales, two constituent countries of the United Kingdom.

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Labour Party (UK)

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

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Marquess of Crewe

Marquess of Crewe was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Mollington, Cheshire

Mollington is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, It is located two miles north of the city of Chester, with approximate boundaries formed by the A41 Liverpool-Chester trunk road and Shropshire Union Canal to the east and southeast, the A540 Wirral Peninsula trunk road (Parkgate Rd) to the south and west and the A5117 Dunkirk link road to the north.

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Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme

The Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme was a co-operative programme in England between residents and stakeholders such as the local authority, businesses etc., aimed at improving specific deprived neighbourhoods.

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Newtown, Chester

Newtown is an area of Chester, Cheshire, England.

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Nissen hut

A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure for military use, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel.

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North West England (European Parliament constituency)

North West England is a constituency of the European Parliament.

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Overpool

Overpool is a village on the Wirral Peninsula in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Place of worship

A place of worship is a specially designed structure or consecrated space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.

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Richard Beeching

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Conservative Party in Britain.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Saltney

Saltney is a small town on the England–Wales border with the west part lying in Flintshire and the eastern part in Cheshire.

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Saughall

Saughall is a village and former civil parish, now in the parishes of Saughall and Shotwick Park, Puddington and the unparished area of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Sports College

Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom.

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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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Upton by Chester

Upton by Chester is a civil parish and a large suburb on the outskirts of Chester, in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

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Ward (electoral subdivision)

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

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Wirral Peninsula

Wirral, also known as The Wirral, is a peninsula in northwest England.

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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/Blacon

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