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72 relations: A40 road, Alabaster, Almshouse, Archenfield, Beeching cuts, Betzdorf, Germany, Black Mountains, Wales, Broad-gauge railway, Bubonic plague, Church (building), Coffin, Condé-sur-Noireau, Cotswold Line, Cricket, Crossroads (UK TV series), Dale Griffin, Dennis Potter, Forest of Dean, Frederick Gordon (hotelier), Gloucester railway station, Great Western Railway, Hereford and South Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway, Herefordshire, Hockey, John Kyrle, John Kyrle High School, Junction station, Ledbury railway station, M5 motorway, M50 motorway (Great Britain), Market town, Marketplace, Mary, mother of Jesus, Met Office, Middle Ages, Monmouth, Mott the Hoople, Namutumba, Uganda, Noele Gordon, Nottingham, Oceanic climate, Parish, Pete Overend Watts, Picturesque, Plague pit, Playwright, Richard Hammond, River Wye, Rose and Rosie, ..., Ross and Monmouth Railway, Ross Town F.C., Ross-on-Wye railway station, Ross-on-Wye weather station, Sandstone, Sarah Potter, Sculpture, Secondary school, Shane Warne, Somerfield, Spire, Standard-gauge railway, Tewkesbury, The Chase Hotel, Ross-On-Wye, The Singing Detective, Tourism, Walenty Pytel, William Gilpin (priest), William Henry Squire, Wilton Castle, Wye Tour, Wye Valley. Expand index (22 more) »
A40 road
The A40 is a major trunk road connecting London to Goodwick (Fishguard), Wales, and officially called The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) in all legal documents and Acts.
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Alabaster
Alabaster is a mineral or rock that is soft, often used for carving, and is processed for plaster powder.
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Almshouse
An almshouse (also known as a poorhouse) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community.
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Archenfield
Archenfield (Old English: Ircingafeld) is the historic English name for an area of southern and western Herefordshire in England.
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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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Betzdorf, Germany
Betzdorf is a town and municipality in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Black Mountains, Wales
The Black Mountains (Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.
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Broad-gauge railway
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.
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Bubonic plague
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Church (building)
A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.
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Coffin
A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.
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Condé-sur-Noireau
Condé-sur-Noireau is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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Cotswold Line
The Cotswold Line is an railway line between and in England.
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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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Crossroads (UK TV series)
Crossroads is a British television soap opera that ran on ITV over two periods – the original 1964 to 1988 run, followed by a short revival from 2001 to 2003.
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Dale Griffin
Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (24 October 1948 – 17 January 2016) was an English drummer and founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople.
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Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
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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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Frederick Gordon (hotelier)
Frederick Gordon (22 July 1835 – 22 March 1904) was a British entrepreneur and businessman, known primarily as a hotelier.
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Gloucester railway station
Gloucester railway station (formerly known as Gloucester Central station) is a railway station serving the city of Gloucester in England.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Hereford and South Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Hereford and South Herefordshire is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
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Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway
The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway (also known as the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway), was a railway which ran for linking Hereford and Gloucester via Ross-on-Wye.
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.
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Hockey
Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.
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John Kyrle
John Kyrle (22 May 1637 – 7 November 1724), known as "the Man of Ross", was an English philanthropist, remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
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John Kyrle High School
John Kyrle High School is a secondary school with academy status situated in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.
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Junction station
Junction station usually refers to a railway station situated on or close to a junction where lines to several destinations diverge.
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Ledbury railway station
Ledbury railway station is a railway station on the outskirts of the town of Ledbury on the Worcester to Hereford line in the English Midlands.
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M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands and the South West.
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M50 motorway (Great Britain)
The M50 is a 22-mile/35-km-long dual two-lane motorway in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, England.
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Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.
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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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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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Met Office
The Met Office (officially the Meteorological Office) is the United Kingdom's national weather service.
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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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Monmouth
Monmouth (Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is the historic county town of Monmouthshire, Wales.
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Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople are an English rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid-1970s.
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Namutumba, Uganda
Namutumba is a town in the Namutumba District of the Eastern Region of Uganda.
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Noele Gordon
Joan Noele Gordon (25 December 1919 – 14 April 1985) was a British stage, film, television actress and presenter.
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Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Parish
A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.
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Pete Overend Watts
Peter "Pete" Overend Watts (13 May 1947 – 22 January 2017) was an English bass guitar player and founding member of the 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople.
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Picturesque
Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.
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Plague pit
A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.
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Richard Hammond
Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English presenter, writer, and journalist, best known for co-hosting the BBC Two car programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
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River Wye
The River Wye (Afon Gwy) is the fifth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn estuary.
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Rose and Rosie
Rose Ellen Dix (born 15 June 1988) and Roseanne Elizabeth "Rosie" Spaughton (born 30 May 1990), known as Rose and Rosie, are a married British comedy and entertainment duo who have gained popularity through their YouTube videos.
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Ross and Monmouth Railway
The Ross and Monmouth Railway was a standard gauge railway of which ran between Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire, England and Monmouth, Wales.
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Ross Town F.C.
Ross Town F.C. was a football club based in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.
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Ross-on-Wye railway station
Ross-on-Wye railway station is a former junction railway station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway constructed just to the north of the Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye.
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Ross-on-Wye weather station
The Ross-on-Wye weather station is now a fully automated weather station, situated off the Walford Road in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sarah Potter
Sarah Potter (born July 11, 1961 at Hammersmith, London) is a former cricketer who played seven Test matches and eight One-Day Internationals for the England Women's team between 1984 and 1987.
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
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Secondary school
A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.
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Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969) is a Australian former international cricketer, and a former ODI captain of the Australian national team.
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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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Spire
A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.
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The Chase Hotel, Ross-On-Wye
The Chase Hotel in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire is a house of historical significance.
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The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, which stars Michael Gambon and was directed by Jon Amiel.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
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Walenty Pytel
Walenty Pytel is a Polish-born contemporary artist based in the United Kingdom, recognised as a leading metal sculptor of birds and beasts.
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William Gilpin (priest)
William Gilpin (4 June 1724 – 5 April 1804) was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster and author, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque.
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William Henry Squire
William Henry Squire, ARCM (8 August 1871 – 17 March 1963) was a British cellist, composer and music professor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Wilton Castle
Wilton Castle is a 12th-century Norman castle fortification located in southeastern Herefordshire, England on the River Wye adjacent to the town of Ross-on-Wye.
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Wye Tour
The Wye Tour was an excursion past and through a series of scenic buildings, natural phenomena, and factories located along the River Wye.
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Wye Valley
The Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; Dyffryn Gwy) is an internationally important protected landscape straddling the border between England and Wales.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross-on-Wye
