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Isleworth

Index Isleworth

Isleworth is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England. [1]

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013.

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Ait

An ait (pronounced, like "eight") or eyot (pronounced,, or) is a small island.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Arthur Penty

Arthur Joseph Penty (17 March 1875 – 1937) was an English architect and writer on Guild socialism and distributism.

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Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel PC (25 April 17252 October 1786) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755 to 1782.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Battle of Brentford (1642)

The Battle of Brentford was a small pitched battle which took place on 12 November 1642, between a detachment of the Royalist army (predominantly horse with one regiment of Welsh foot) under the command of Prince Rupert, and two infantry regiments of Parliamentarians with some horse in support.

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BBC Natural History Unit

The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme.

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Benefice

A benefice or living is a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services.

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Brentford

Brentford is a town in west London, England, historic county town of Middlesex and part of the London Borough of Hounslow, at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west-by-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Brentford and Isleworth (UK Parliament constituency)

Brentford and Isleworth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Ruth Cadbury of the Labour Party.

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Bridgettines

The Order of the Most Holy Savior, abbreviated as O.Ss.S., and informally known as the Brigittine or Bridgettine Order is a monastic religious order of Augustinian nuns, Religious Sisters, and monks founded by Saint Bridget of Sweden (Birgitta) in 1344, and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370.

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Brixton

Brixton is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Canon (priest)

A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανονικός, kanonikós, "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies subject to an ecclesiastical rule.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect.

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Carucate

The carucate or carrucate (carrūcāta or carūcāta)Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed.

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Chapelry

A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.

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Chertsey

Chertsey is a town in the Runnymede borough of Surrey, England on the right bank of the River Thames where it is met by a corollary, the Abbey River and a tributary, the River Bourne or Chertsey Bourne.

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Chiswick

Chiswick is a district of west London, England.

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Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (–) was an English anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.

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Clapham Common

Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham, south London.

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Clapham Junction railway station

Clapham Junction railway station is a major railway station and transport hub near St John's Hill in south-west Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Dean (Christianity)

A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Distributary

A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.

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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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Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland

Dorothy Percy (née Devereux), Countess of Northumberland (formerly Perrot, née Devereux; c. 1564 – 3 August 1619) was the younger daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex by Lettice Knollys, and the wife of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.

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Douai Abbey

Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth.

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Drainage divide

A drainage divide, water divide, divide, ridgeline, watershed, or water parting is the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins.

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Duchy of Cornwall

The Duchy of Cornwall (Duketh Kernow) is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster.

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Duke of Northumberland

Duke of Northumberland is a noble title that has been created three times in English and British history, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Duke of Northumberland's River

The Duke of Northumberland's River consists of separate upper and lower artificial watercourses in west London, United Kingdom.

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Duke of Somerset

Duke of Somerset is a title in the peerage of England that has been created several times.

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Ealing Southall (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing, Southall (also Ealing Southall) is a constituency created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2007 by Virendra Sharma of the Labour Party.

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Earl of Shrewsbury

Earl of Shrewsbury is a hereditary title of nobility created twice in the Peerage of England.

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East Dulwich

East Dulwich is a district of south East London, England in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Edd Gould

Edward Duncan Ernest Gould (28 October 1988 – 25 March 2012) was a British animator and artist.

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Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500 – 22 January 1552) was Lord Protector of England during part of the Tudor period from 1547 until 1549 during the minority of his nephew, King Edward VI (1547–1553).

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (Ēadƿeard Andettere, Eduardus Confessor; 1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.

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Eileen Sheridan (cyclist)

Eileen Sheridan, née Shaw (born 18 October 1923) is a retired English cyclist who specialised in time trialing and road record breaking.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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England

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

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Erroll Collins

Erroll Collins (aka Ellen Edith Hannah Redknap) was a British author active during the 1940s, specialising in adventure and science fiction for boys.

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Family seat

A family seat or sometimes just called seat is the principal residence of the landed gentry and aristocracy.

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Feudalism

Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.

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Fiona Phillips

Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961) is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter.

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First Doctor

The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Francis Bird

Francis Bird (1667–1731) was one of the leading English sculptors of his time.

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Fulwell bus garage

Fulwell Bus Garage is a Transport for London bus garage located in Twickenham in west London.

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Fulwell, London

Fulwell is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames between Twickenham, Teddington and Hampton Hill.

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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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George Manville Fenn

George Manville Fenn (3 January 1831 in Pimlico – 26 August 1909 in Isleworth) was a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist.

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Glebe

Glebe (also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close(s)McGurk 1970, p. 17) is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest.

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Gumley House Convent School

Gumley House Convent School is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls ages 11 to 18 in Isleworth, Hounslow, West London.

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Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district of west London, England, located west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England, south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

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Hampton Hill

Hampton Hill (initially known as 'New Hampton') is a place in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to the west of Twickenham, bounded by Fulwell and Twickenham Golf Course to the northwest; the road bridge over the railway line; a line southward just east of Wellington Road; Bushy Park to the southeast; and the artificial Longford River to the south and west.

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Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death.

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Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, KG (27 April 1564 – 5 November 1632) was an English nobleman.

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Henry V of England

Henry V (9 August 1386 – 31 August 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 36 in 1422.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Herne Hill

Herne Hill is a district in south London, England, approximately four miles from Charing Cross and bordered by Brixton, Denmark Hill, Dulwich Village, Loughborough Junction and Tulse Hill.

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Heston

Heston is a suburban area and part of the Hounslow district in the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Hounslow

Hounslow is a large commercial town and district in west London, England, west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Hounslow East tube station

Hounslow East is a London Underground station in Hounslow in west London designed by Acanthus LW Architects.

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Hounslow Priory

Hounslow Priory was a priory in London, England.

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Hugh Blaker

Hugh Blaker (1873–1936) was an English artist, collector, connoisseur, dealer in Old Masters, museum curator, writer on art, and a supporter and promoter of modern British and French painters.

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Hugh Ronalds

Hugh Ronalds (4 March 1760 – 18 November 1833) was an esteemed nurseryman and horticulturalist in Brentford, who published Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or, a Concise Description of Selected Apples (1831).

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.

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Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar

Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, (8 July 1926 – 21 September 2007) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London (officially Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom.

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Inspector Japp

Detective Chief Inspector James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner Japp) is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christie's novels featuring Hercule Poirot.

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Isleworth and Syon School

Isleworth & Syon School (formerly Isleworth Grammar School) is a non-denomination secondary school and sixth form for boys and girls (Sixth Form only) aged 11 to 18 years.

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Isleworth railway station

Isleworth railway station is in the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.

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Isleworth Studios

Isleworth Studios is the common name of two former film studios in Great Britain.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Ivybridge (Isleworth)

Ivybridge, formerly Mogden, is a locality in the southern part of Isleworth in west London.

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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

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Jack Simmons (historian)

Jack Simmons OBE (30 August 1915 – 3 September 2000) was an English transport historian and emeritus professor of history at University of Leicester, known as a specialist in railway history.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Joan Bicknell

Joan Bicknell (April 10, 1939 - June 12, 2017) was Britain´s first female psychiatry professor.

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John Gumley

John Gumley (c. 1670 – 19 December 1728) was an English furniture-maker, army contractor and MP.

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John Robinson (Harwich MP)

John Robinson (1727–1802) was an English lawyer, politician and government official.

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Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Kew

Kew is a suburban district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, north-east of Richmond and west by south-west of Charing Cross; its population at the 2011 Census was 11,436.

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Lampton

Lampton is a small area located on the Great West Road in the Hounslow, between Hounslow and Heston.

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Life (UK TV series)

Life is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC in association with The Open University.

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List of bus routes in London

This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches).

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Apprentice, Isleworth

The London Apprentice is a Grade II* listed public house at 62 Church Street, Isleworth, London.

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London Borough of Hounslow

The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in West London, England, forming part of Outer London.

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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames.

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London Buses route 117

London Buses route 117 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London and Surrey, England, running between West Middlesex University Hospital and Staines.

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London General Omnibus Company

The London General Omnibus Company or LGOC, was the principal bus operator in London between 1855 and 1933.

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London Passenger Transport Board

The London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) was the organisation responsible for local public transport in London and its environs from 1933 to 1948.

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London United Busways

London United is a bus company operating mostly in west and south-west Greater London.

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London United Tramways

London United Tramways Company Limited was an operator of trams and trolleybuses in the western and southern suburbs of London, UK, from 1894 to 1933, when it passed to the London Passenger Transport Board.

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Lord Privy Seal

The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain.

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M4 motorway

The M4 is a motorway which runs between London and South Wales in the United Kingdom.

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Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a large town in Berkshire, England, on the south-western bank of the River Thames.

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Manor

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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National Coal Board

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Northumberland House

Northumberland House (also known as Suffolk House when owned by the Earls of Suffolk) was a large Jacobean townhouse in London, which was so called because for most of its history it was the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland, and one of England's richest and most prominent aristocratic dynasties for many centuries.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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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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Ordnance datum

In the British Isles, an ordnance datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps.

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Osterley

Osterley is an affluent district of the historic parish of Isleworth in west London approximately west south-west of Charing Cross and is part of the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Osterley tube station

Osterley is a London Underground station in Osterley in west London.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Pears (soap)

Pears transparent soap is a brand of soap first produced and sold in 1807 by Andrew Pears at a factory just off Oxford Street in London, England.

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Peckham

Peckham is a district of south-east London, England, south-east of Charing Cross.

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Peter Oliver (painter)

Peter Oliver (1594 – December 1648) was an English miniaturist.

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Picardy

Picardy (Picardie) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Privatisation of London bus services

The privatisation of London bus services was the process of the transfer of operation of London Buses from public bodies to private companies.

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Putney

Putney is a district in south-west London, England in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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RATP Group

The RATP Group (French: Groupe RATP), also known as the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (English: Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports), is a state-owned public transport operator and maintainer headquartered in Paris, France.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall

Richard (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272), second son of John, King of England, was the nominal Count of Poitou (1225-1243), Earl of Cornwall (from 1225) and King of Germany (from 1257).

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Richmond Palace

Richmond Palace was a royal residence on the River Thames in England that stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Richmond station (London)

Richmond, also known as Richmond (London), is a National Rail station in Richmond, Greater London on the Waterloo to Reading and North London Lines.

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Richmond, London

Richmond is a suburban town in south-west London, The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.

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River Colne, Hertfordshire

The Colne is a river in England which is a tributary of the River Thames.

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River Crane, London

The River Crane, a tributary of the River Thames, is a river running through west London, England, It is 8.5 miles (13.6 km) long and flows entirely within Greater London.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes

Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (30 May 1919 – 20 March 2001) (a.k.a. Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes or R. Chetwynd-Hayes) was a British author, best known for his ghost and horror stories.

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Second Barons' War

The Second Barons' War (1264–1267) was a civil war in England between the forces of a number of barons led by Simon de Montfort against the royalist forces of King Henry III, led initially by the king himself and later by his son Prince Edward, the future King Edward I. The war featured a series of massacres of Jews by Montfort's supporters including his sons Henry and Simon, in attacks aimed at seizing and destroying evidence of Baronial debts.

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Secretary of State for Defence

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Defence (Defence Secretary) is an official within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Ministry of Defence.

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Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Somme (river)

The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France.

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South Western Railway (train operating company)

South Western Railway (SWR) is an English train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation (30%) that operates the South Western franchise.

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Special education in the United Kingdom

In Commonwealth countries, Special Educational Needs (SEN or SEND) is school education focusing on students primarily with learning difficulties or disability.

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St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, is a chapel designed in the high-medieval Gothic style.

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St Margarets, London

St Margarets is a suburb in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, about west-southwest of central London.

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London.

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Staines-upon-Thames

Staines-upon-Thames is a town on the River Thames in Surrey, England.

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Syon Abbey

Syon Abbey, Sion Abbey or simply Sion was a monastery of the Bridgettine Order founded in 1415 which stood until its demolition in the 16th century on the left (northern) bank of the River Thames within the parish of Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex, on or near the site of the present Georgian mansion of Syon House.

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Syon House

Syon House, and its 200-acre (80 hectare) park, Syon Park, is in west London, historically within the parish of Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex.

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Syon Lane railway station

Syon Lane railway station in Travelcard Zone 4 is on the Hounslow Loop Line and borders the Spring Grove and New Brentford neighbourhoods of the London Borough of Hounslow in west London.

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Syon Park

Syon Park is the 56.6 hectare (139 acre) garden of Syon House, the London home of the Duke of Northumberland in Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow.

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Teaching hospital

A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical center that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The African Queen (film)

The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Green School

The Green School, also known as The Green School for Girls, is in an all-girls secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Isleworth, west London, England.

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Transdev (historic)

Transdev was an international public transport group based in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France and operating in several countries.

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Trolleybuses in London

Trolleybuses served the London Passenger Transport Area from 1931 until 1962.

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Twickenham

Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.

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Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Twickenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

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University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.

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Vicar

A vicar (Latin: vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand").

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Vince Taylor

Vince Taylor (14 July 1939 – 28 August 1991), born Brian Maurice Holden, was a British rock and roll singer.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG (16 September 1541 – 22 September 1576), was an English nobleman and general.

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Walter R. Booth

Walter Robert Booth (12 July 1869 – 1938) was a British magician and early pioneer of British film working first for Robert W. Paul and then Charles Urban mostly on "trick" films, where he pioneered techniques that led to what has been described as the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist (1906).

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Wandsworth

Wandsworth Town is a district of south London within the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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West Middlesex University Hospital

West Middlesex University Hospital (WMUH) is an acute NHS hospital in Isleworth, west London, operated by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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West Thames College

West Thames College is a medium-sized college of further and higher education.

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Whitton, London

Whitton is a leafy suburban area in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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William Hartnell

William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor.

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William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, (22 March 16847 July 1764) was an English Whig politician who was created the first Earl of Bath by King George II in 1742; he is sometimes stated to have been Prime Minister, for the shortest term ever (two days), though most modern sources reckon that he cannot be considered to have held the office.

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Winchester College

Winchester College is an independent boarding school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

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

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