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Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. [1]

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A11 road (England)

The A11 is a major trunk road in England.

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Allan Glaisyer Minns

Allan Glaisyer Minns (1858 – 16 September 1930) was the first black man to become a mayor in Britain.

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Allan Noel Minns

Allan Noel Minns, DSO, MC, (1891 – 6 April 1921) was an English doctor of Afro-Caribbean descent who served as an officer in the British Army during the First World War.

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Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.

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Assizes

The courts of assize, or assizes, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Bacon

Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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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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Bell Hotel, Thetford

The Bell Hotel is an AA 3-star hotel in the English town of Thetford within the county of Norfolk.

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Black Horse, Thetford

The Black Horse is a grade II listed public house in Thetford, Norfolk, England.

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Breckland

Breckland in Norfolk and Suffolk is a 39,433 hectare Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.

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Breckland District

Breckland District is a local government district in Norfolk, England.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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British Trust for Ornithology

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles.

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Bury St Edmunds railway station

Bury St Edmunds railway station serves the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England.

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Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

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Cambridge railway station

Cambridge railway station is the principal station serving the city of Cambridge in the east of England.

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Captain Mainwaring

Captain George Mainwaring is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Charles Burrell Museum

The Charles Burrell Museum is a museum in Thetford in Norfolk dedicated to steam power and steam transport.

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Chrissie Wellington

Christine Ann Wellington (born 18 February 1977) is an English former professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion.

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Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham

St Michael’s Church in Framlingham, Suffolk is a Church of England church dedicated to Saint Michael.

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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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Cluniac Reforms

The Cluniac Reforms (also called the Benedictine Reform) were a series of changes within medieval monasticism of the Western Church focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor.

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Common Sense (pamphlet)

Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.

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Dad's Army Museum

The Dad's Army Museum is a museum located in Cage Lane in Thetford in Norfolk dedicated to the popular BBC comedy series Dad's Army, many of the outdoor locations for which were filmed in the local area.

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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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East Harling

East Harling is a village in the English county of Norfolk.

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East Midlands Trains

East Midlands Trains (EMT) is a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach Group.

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Eastern Counties 1

Eastern Counties 1 is an English level 9 Rugby Union League.

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Eastern Counties Football League

The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes, is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system.

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Edmund the Martyr

Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869) was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.

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English Reformation

The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

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Equinox

An equinox is commonly regarded as the moment the plane (extended indefinitely in all directions) of Earth's equator passes through the center of the Sun, which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 22-23 September.

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Fakenham

Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

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Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.

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Ford (crossing)

A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet.

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Framlingham

Framlingham is a market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.

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Frederick Duleep Singh

Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh, MVO, TD, FSA (23 January 1868 – 15 August 1926), also known as Prince Freddy, was a younger son of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.

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Gateley

Gateley is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England.

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Ghosthunters (TV series)

Ghosthunters is a British paranormal documentary television series that originally aired from 1996 to 1997 on the Discovery Channel.

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Greater Anglia (train operating company)

Greater Anglia (legal name Abellio East Anglia Limited) is a train operating company in Great Britain owned as a joint venture by Abellio, the international arm of the state-owned Dutch national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen, and the Japanese company Mitsui.

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Hürth

Hürth is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd.

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Inagua

Inagua is the southernmost district of the Bahamas, comprising the islands of Great Inagua and Little Inagua.

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Jan Moir

Jan Moir (born August 1958) is a British newspaper columnist.

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Jones' van (Dad's Army)

Jones' van is the butcher's delivery van owned by Lance-Corporal Jones in the BBC comedy series Dad's Army.

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King's Lynn

King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn, is a seaport and market town in Norfolk, England, about north of London, north-east of Peterborough, north north-east of Cambridge and west of Norwich.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,Parliament of the Kingdom of England.

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Les Ulis

Les Ulis is a commune in the Essonne department located in the southwestern suburbs (banlieue) of Paris, France.

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List of monarchs of East Anglia

The kingdom of East Anglia, (also known as the kingdom of the East Angles), was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens.

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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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Liverpool Lime Street railway station

Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station, and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool.

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London

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

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London County Council

London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected.

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London King's Cross railway station

King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a Central London railway terminus on the northern edge of the city.

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London overspill

London overspill communities are the communities created as a result of the government policy of moving residents out of Greater London into other areas in the South East of England between the 1930s and the 1970s.

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Manchester Piccadilly station

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, 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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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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National Cycle Route 13

The National Cycle Route 13 is a cycling route that is part of the National Cycle Network in the United Kingdom.

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Nissewaard

Nissewaard is a municipality in the Netherlands, located on the island of Voorne-Putten, in the south of the province of South Holland.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Norwich

Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.

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Norwich railway station

Norwich railway station (formerly Norwich Thorpe) is the eastern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the city of Norwich, Norfolk.

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Nottingham station

Nottingham station, briefly known as Nottingham City and for rather longer as Nottingham Midland, is a railway station and tram stop in the city of Nottingham.

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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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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Rights of Man

Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.

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River Great Ouse

The River Great Ouse is a river in the United Kingdom, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse".

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River Little Ouse

The River Little Ouse is a river in the east of England, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.

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River Thet

The River Thet is a river in Norfolk, England and is a tributary of the River Little Ouse.

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Santon Downham

Santon Downham is a village and civil parish in the Forest Heath district of Suffolk in eastern England.

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Satyr

In Greek mythology, a satyr (σάτυρος satyros) is the member of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus; they usually have horse-like ears and tails, as well as permanent, exaggerated erections.

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Sheffield station

Sheffield station, formerly Pond Street and later Sheffield Midland, is a combined railway station and tram stop in Sheffield, England, and the busiest station in South Yorkshire.

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Skawina

Skawina is a town in southern Poland with 27,328 inhabitants (2008).

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South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

South West Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Elizabeth Truss, a Conservative.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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The American Crisis

The American Crisis is a pamphlet series by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author, Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Godiva Affair

The Godiva Affair is the fourth episode of the seventh series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on Friday 6 December 1974.

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The Thetford Academy, Norfolk

The Thetford Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Thetford, Norfolk, England.

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The Wash

The Wash is a largely rectangular bay and estuary at the north-west corner of East Anglia on the East coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire.

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Thetford Bridge railway station

Thetford Bridge railway station served the eastern part of Thetford, Norfolk, England between 1875 and 1953.

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Thetford Castle

Thetford Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle in the market town of Thetford in the Breckland area of Norfolk, England.

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Thetford Forest

Thetford Forest is the largest lowland pine forest in Britain and is located in a region straddling the north of Suffolk and the south of Norfolk in England.

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Thetford Grammar School

Thetford Grammar School is an independent co-educational school in Thetford, Norfolk, England.

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Thetford Hoard

The Thetford Hoard (also known as the Thetford Treasure) is a hoard of Romano-British metalwork found by Arthur and Greta Brooks at Gallows Hill, near Thetford in Norfolk, England, in November 1979, and now in the British Museum.

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Thetford Priory

Thetford Priory is a Cluniac monastic house in Thetford, Norfolk, England.

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Thetford railway station

Thetford railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the town of Thetford, Norfolk.

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Thetford Town F.C.

Thetford Town Football Club is an English football club based in Thetford, Norfolk.

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Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443 – 21 May 1524), styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was an English nobleman and politician.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1. Paine's birth date, therefore, would have been before New Year, 1737. In the new style, his birth date advances by eleven days and his year increases by one to February 9, 1737. The O.S. link gives more detail if needed. – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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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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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Walmington-on-Sea

Walmington-on-Sea is a fictional seaside resort that is the setting of Dad's Army, including the BBC Television sitcom, the BBC Radio 4 series and two feature films (1971 and 2016).

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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/Thetford

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