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Emsworth

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Emsworth is a small town in Hampshire on the south coast of England, near the border of West Sussex. [1]

84 relations: Alan Mak (politician), Albert Finney, Around the world sailing record, Battle of Britain, Blandings Castle, Boat building, Borough of Havant, Brighton, Brighton railway station, British Academy Film Awards, Burnley F.C., Canadian Army, Captain (Royal Navy), Chichester, Chichester Harbour, Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom), Coastliner 700, Conservative Party (UK), Coronation Street, Councillor, County council, Cricket, David Richards, Baron Richards of Herstmonceux, Denise Black, Electoral district, Emmy Award, Emsworth railway station, English Channel, George Wilder (cricketer), Golden Globe Award, Hampshire, Hampshire County Cricket Club, Havant, Havant (UK Parliament constituency), Jeeves and Wooster, Labour Party (UK), Lee Spencer, Liberal Democrats (UK), List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Holy See, List of Coronation Street characters (1992), London Victoria station, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Malcolm Waldron, Mark Evelyn Heath, Marketplace, Member of parliament, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Normandy landings, Old English, Only Fools and Horses, ..., Oyster, P. G. Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse bibliography, Peter Blake (sailor), Peter Danckwerts, Portsmouth, Portsmouth F.C., Portsmouth Harbour railway station, Post Office Ltd, Queen Victoria, Queer as Folk (UK TV series), River Ems (Chichester Harbour), Rodney Trotter, Rope, Royal Air Force, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados, Shipbuilding, Southampton Central railway station, Southampton F.C., Southsea, Stagecoach South, Sussex County Cricket Club, Terror (boat), Thomas Hellyer (architect), Thorney Island (West Sussex), Tide, Tide mill, UK Independence Party, Warblington, West Coastway line, West Sussex, William Whitcher, World War II, Yacht club. Expand index (34 more) »

Alan Mak (politician)

Alan Mak (born 1984) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Havant constituency in Hampshire in 2015.

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Albert Finney

Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor.

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Around the world sailing record

The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world was Juan Sebastián Elcano and the remaining members of Ferdinand Magellan's crew who completed their journey in 1522.

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Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures.

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Boat building

Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.

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Borough of Havant

The Borough of Havant is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Brighton railway station

Brighton railway station is the southern terminus of the Brighton Main Line in England, and the principal station serving the city of Brighton, East Sussex.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club is a professional association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.

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Canadian Army

The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Captain (Royal Navy)

Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Chichester Harbour

Chichester Harbour is a large natural harbour to the south west of the city of Chichester on the Solent.

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Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)

The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is the professional head of the British Armed Forces and the most senior uniformed military adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence and the Prime Minister.

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Coastliner 700

Coastliner 700 is a bus service operated in West Sussex and south east Hampshire, England, by Stagecoach South between Brighton and Southsea via Worthing, Littlehampton, Wick, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Havant, and Portsmouth with a general daytime frequency of every ten minutes.

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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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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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County council

A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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David Richards, Baron Richards of Herstmonceux

General David Julian Richards, Baron Richards of Herstmonceux, (born 4 March 1952) is a retired senior British Army officer who was formerly the Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces.

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Denise Black

Denise Black (born 16 March 1958 in Emsworth, Hampshire) is an English actress, best known for playing Denise Osbourne in the ITV soap Coronation Street on and off from 1992 until June 2017, Hazel Tyler in Channel 4's Queer As Folk in 1999 and 2000 and Cucumber in 2015, both written by Russell T Davies and for playing Joanie Wright in Emmerdale from June to November 2013, and again from June 2015 until January 2017.

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Electoral district

An electoral district, (election) precinct, election district, or legislative district, called a voting district by the US Census (also known as a constituency, riding, ward, division, electoral area, or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Emsworth railway station

Emsworth railway station serves the small town of Emsworth, on the Hampshire side of the border between Hampshire and West Sussex, in southern England.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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George Wilder (cricketer)

George Wilder (9 June 1876 – 10 June 1948) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Sussex and Hampshire County Cricket Club.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Havant

Havant is a town in the south east corner of Hampshire, England approximately midway between Portsmouth and Chichester.

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Havant (UK Parliament constituency)

Havant is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Alan Mak.

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Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.

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Labour Party (UK)

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

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Lee Spencer

Lee Spencer (born Lee Alan Spencer-Todd in 1963) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Holy See

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See has held that title since 1982.

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List of Coronation Street characters (1992)

The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1992, by order of first appearance.

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London Victoria station

Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR; known also as "the Brighton line", "the Brighton Railway" or the Brighton) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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Malcolm Waldron

Malcolm Waldron born 6 September 1956 is a former footballer who played for various clubs, including Southampton and Portsmouth. He played as a Centre back during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Mark Evelyn Heath

Sir Mark Evelyn Heath (27 May 1927 – 28 September 2005), a British diplomat, was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See (1980–82), and the first Ambassador to the Holy See (1982–85).

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Marketplace

A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.

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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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Nicholas Lyndhurst

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst (born 20 April 1961) is an English actor.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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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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Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan.

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Oyster

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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P. G. Wodehouse bibliography

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (1881–1975) was an English author, humorist and scriptwriter.

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Peter Blake (sailor)

Sir Peter James Blake, KBE (1 October 1948 – 5 December 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, held the Jules Verne Trophy from 1994 to 1997 by setting the fastest time around the world as co-skipper of ENZA New Zealand, and led his country to successive victories in the ''America'''s Cup.

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Peter Danckwerts

Peter Victor Danckwerts, (14 October 1916 – 25 October 1984) was a chemical engineer who pioneered the concept of the residence time distribution.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Portsmouth F.C.

Portsmouth Football Club is a professional football club in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, which plays in EFL League One, the third tier of English football, following their promotion as EFL League Two champions in the 2016–17 EFL League Two season.

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Portsmouth Harbour railway station

Portsmouth Harbour railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, England.

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Post Office Ltd

Post Office Ltd (Swyddfa’r Post Cyf.; Oifis a' Phuist) is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Queer as Folk (UK TV series)

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street.

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River Ems (Chichester Harbour)

The River Ems is a river that flows through the English counties of West Sussex and Hampshire, before flowing into Chichester Harbour and thence the sea.

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Rodney Trotter

Rodney Charlton "Rodders" Trotter is a fictional character in the long running BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst.

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Rope

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.

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Royal Air Force

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

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Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados

Saint Aubin-sur-Mer, in the District of Caen, is a commune in the Calvados department (14), of la Basse-Normandie (25), in northwestern France.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Southampton Central railway station

Southampton Central railway station is a main line station serving the city of Southampton in Hampshire, southern England.

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Southampton F.C.

Southampton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, England, which plays in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.

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Southsea

Southsea is a seaside resort and geographic area, located in Portsmouth at the southern end of Portsea Island, Hampshire, England.

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Stagecoach South

Stagecoach South is a bus operator providing services in South East England.

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Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Terror (boat)

Terror was an open sailing boat built around 1890 and used for conveying oysters around Chichester Harbour.

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Thomas Hellyer (architect)

Thomas Hellyer (1811–18 March 1894) was an English architect of the mid-Victorian era.

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Thorney Island (West Sussex)

Thorney Island is an island (effectively a peninsula) that juts into Chichester Harbour in West Sussex.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Tide mill

A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall.

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UK Independence Party

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.

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Warblington

Warblington, historically part of the Hundred of Bosmere, is a suburb of Havant, a town in Hampshire, England.

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West Coastway line

The West Coastway line is a railway line in England following closely the south coast of Sussex and Hampshire, between the cities Brighton and Southampton.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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William Whitcher

William Whitcher (1832 – 3 March 1910) was an English first-class cricketer.

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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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Yacht club

A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to yachting.

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References

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

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