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Wadsley

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Wadsley is a suburb of the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. [1]

56 relations: Anglo-Saxons, Baritone, Chesterfield, City of Westminster, Coal, Common land, Commonwealth Games, Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Dead end (street), Deer park (England), Domesday Book, Drift mining, Early Middle Ages, Elizabeth I of England, Feudalism, Forge Valley School, Forth Bridge, Freedom to roam, Ganister, Genitive case, George Calvert Holland, Golf, Hallamshire, Hillsborough, Sheffield, Judith of Lens, Ken Hawley, List of mayors of Sheffield, Listed building, Little mester, Malcolm Elliott, Malin Bridge, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Manorialism, Myers Grove School, Norman conquest of England, Old English, Oughtibridge, Owlerton, Peter Glossop, Pub, Reuben Hallam, Roger de Busli, Roy Hattersley, Sandstone, Sheffield, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency), Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, South Yorkshire, Stocks, ..., Thomas Creswick, Wadsley Parish Church, Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, William the Conqueror, World War I, Yorkshire. Expand index (6 more) »

Anglo-Saxons

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

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Common land

Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, known as the CRoW Act is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament affecting England and Wales which came into force on 30 November 2000.

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Dead end (street)

A dead end is a street with only one inlet/outlet.

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Deer park (England)

In medieval and Early Modern England, a deer park was an enclosed area containing deer.

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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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Drift mining

Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages or Early Medieval Period, typically regarded as lasting from the 5th or 6th century to the 10th century CE, marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.

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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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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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Forge Valley School

Forge Valley School is a secondary school and sixth form located in Sheffield South Yorkshire England.

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Forth Bridge

The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, west of Edinburgh City Centre.

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Freedom to roam

The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise.

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Ganister

A ganister (or sometimes gannister) is hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite,Jackson, J. A., 1997, Glossary of geology, 4th ed.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive (abbreviated); also called the second case, is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun.

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George Calvert Holland

George Calvert Holland (1801–1865) was an English physician, phrenologist, mesmerist and homeopath.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Hallamshire

Hallamshire (or Hallam) is the historical name for an area of South Yorkshire, England, in the current city of Sheffield.

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Hillsborough, Sheffield

Hillsborough is a suburb in north-west Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Judith of Lens

Countess Judith (born in Normandy between 1054 and 1055, died after 1086), was a niece of William the Conqueror.

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Ken Hawley

Ken Hawley (born Kenneth Wybert Hawley, 29 June 1927 – 15 August 2014) was a British tool specialist and industrial historian: he was a tool retailer, collector of tools and authority on the history of Sheffield manufacturing trades.

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List of mayors of Sheffield

The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council.

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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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Little mester

A little mester is a self-employed worker who rents space in a factory or works from their own workshop.

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Malcolm Elliott

Malcolm Elliott (born 1 July 1961) is a former English professional cyclist, whose professional career has lasted from 1984 to 1997 when he retired and from 2003 up to 2011 when he made his comeback in British domestic racing.

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Malin Bridge

Malin Bridge is a suburb of the city of Sheffield, England.

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Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847.

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Manorialism

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.

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Myers Grove School

Myers Grove School was a secondary school (11–16) in the north-west of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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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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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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Oughtibridge

Oughtibridge is a residential village on the northern outskirts of Sheffield within the bounds of Bradfield civil parish.

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Owlerton

Owlerton is a suburb of the city of Sheffield, it lies northwest of the city centre near the confluence of the River Don and River Loxley.

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Peter Glossop

Peter Glossop (6 July 1928 – 7 September 2008) was an English baritone who was the only Englishman to have sung Verdi's great tragic baritone roles at La Scala, Milan.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Reuben Hallam

Reuben Hallam (1818-1908), also known as Wadsley Jack, was a carver, cutler, musician and author, from the Wadsley district of Sheffield, England, who wrote in the Sheffield dialect.

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Roger de Busli

Roger de Busli (c. 1038 – c. 1099) was a Norman baron who participated in the conquest of England in 1066.

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Roy Hattersley

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield.

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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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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield City Council

Sheffield City Council is the city council for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield Hillsborough was a Parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield.

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Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet

Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Stocks

Stocks are restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

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Thomas Creswick

Thomas Creswick RA (5 February 1811 – 28 December 1869) was an English landscape painter and illustrator, and one of the best-known members of the Birmingham School of landscape painters.

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Wadsley Parish Church

Wadsley Parish Church is situated within the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria

Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northumbria (d. 31 May 1076) was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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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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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

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

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