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Amersham

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Amersham is a market town and civil parish within the Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England, north-west of London, in the Chiltern Hills. [1]

152 relations: A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A.F.C. Bournemouth, A413 road, Amersham and Chiltern Rugby Football Club, Amersham Meeting House, Amersham plc, Amersham School, Amersham station, Amersham Town F.C., Amyas Connell, Anglo-Saxons, Art Deco, Arthur Machen, Association football, Aylesbury, Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station, Beaconsfield, Bensheim, Benskins Brewery, Berkhamsted, Bill Pertwee, Birmingham, Brick, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Buckinghamshire County Council, Carve Her Name with Pride, Catholic Church, Chalk stream, Chancel, Charter, Cheryl Gillan, Chesham, Chesham and Amersham (UK Parliament constituency), Chesham Bois, Chesham Grammar School, Chiltern District, Chiltern Hills, Chiltern Railways, ChuckleVision, Church of England, Cindy Gallop, Circus of Horrors, Civil parish, Climbing wall, Coaching inn, Community school (England and Wales), Conservative Party (UK), ..., Cricket, Death by burning, Dissenter, Domesday Book, Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Dr Challoner's High School, Drainage divide, Dry valley, Earl of Essex, Eddie Howe, Edith of Wessex, Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford, Edward the Confessor, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Free church, Friends meeting house, Further education, Gazetteer, GE Healthcare, Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century), George V, Giles Cooper (producer), Good Omens, Grammar school, Halma plc, Harold Godwinson, Harrow Road, Harrow, London, Hertfordshire, High Speed 2, High Wycombe, Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, Infant school, Jennifer Worth, John Betjeman, Junior school, Katy Brand, Krynica-Zdrój, Lace, Lancashire Telegraph, List of King George V Playing Fields in Buckinghamshire, Listed building, Little Chalfont, Lollardy, London commuter belt, London Evening Standard, London Underground, Maidenhead, Market town, Mary, mother of Jesus, Marylebone, Member of parliament, Merchant, Methodism, Metro-Land (1973 film), Metroland (film), Metropolitan line, Metropolitan Railway, Michaelmas, Midsomer Murders, Misfit stream, Murder at the Gallop, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ordnance datum, Paul Foot (comedian), Plateau, Preparatory school (United Kingdom), Pub, Quakers, Reform Act 1832, River Chess, River Misbourne, Rotten and pocket boroughs, Royal Variety Performance, Rugby union, Ruth Ellis, Saint George, Secondary modern school, Shardeloes, Simon Church, Sister city, Slough, South Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), St Mary's Church, Old Amersham, Tanning (leather), The Duke Wore Jeans, The Guardian, The Jigsaw Man, The Meaning of Liff, The Peter Principle (TV series), The Shooting Party, Tim Rice, Town council, United Kingdom constituencies, United Kingdom general election, 2005, Unreformed House of Commons, Uxbridge, Victorian architecture, Watford, William the Conqueror, World War I, World War II. Expand index (102 more) »

A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 3 in Great Britain starting west of the A3 and south of the A4 (roads beginning with 3).

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A roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 4 in Great Britain starting north of the A4 and south/west of the A5 (roads beginning with 4).

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A.F.C. Bournemouth

AFC Bournemouth is a professional football club in Bournemouth, Dorset, that plays in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.

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A413 road

The A413 is a major road in England that links Gerrards Cross to Towcester.

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Amersham and Chiltern Rugby Football Club

Amersham and Chiltern RFC are an English rugby union team located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Amersham Meeting House

The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Whielden Road in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

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Amersham plc

The company had its roots in a national centre set up in 1946 for the development and manufacture of radioactive materials for peacetime uses in medicine, scientific research and industry.

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Amersham School

Amersham School is a mixed secondary school in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

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Amersham station

Amersham is a London Underground and National Rail station in the town of Amersham in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Amersham Town F.C.

Amersham Town Football Club is a football club based in Amersham, Buckinghamshire England.

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Amyas Connell

Amyas Douglas Connell (23 June 1901 – 19 April 1980) was a highly influential New Zealand architect of the mid-twentieth century.

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Anglo-Saxons

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

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Aylesbury is a constituency created in 1553 — created as a single-member seat in 1885 — represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since 1992 by David Lidington, of the Conservative Party.

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Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station

Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station is a railway station serving villages northwest of Aylesbury, England.

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Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire centred WNW of London and SSE of the county's administrative town, Aylesbury.

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Bensheim

Bensheim is a town in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.

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Benskins Brewery

Benskins was the pre-eminent brewery in Watford, and Hertfordshire's biggest brewer until its acquisition by Ind Coope in 1957.

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Berkhamsted

Berkhamsted is a historic market town close to the western boundary of Hertfordshire, England, in the small Bulbourne valley in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of London.

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Bill Pertwee

William Desmond Anthony Pertwee, (21 July 1926 – 27 May 2013) was an English comedy actor.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Brick

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Buckinghamshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency.

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Buckinghamshire County Council

Buckinghamshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Buckinghamshire, in England, the United Kingdom established in 1889 following the Local Government Act 1888.

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Carve Her Name with Pride

Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chalk stream

Chalk streams are streams that flow through chalk hills towards the sea.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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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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Cheryl Gillan

Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (born 21 April 1952 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.

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Chesham

Chesham is a market town in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Chesham and Amersham (UK Parliament constituency)

Chesham and Amersham is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Chesham Bois

Chesham Bois (traditionally, but now more commonly) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, adjacent to both Amersham and Chesham.

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Chesham Grammar School

Chesham Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school on White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

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Chiltern District

Chiltern is one of four local government districts of Buckinghamshire in south central England.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England.

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Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996.

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ChuckleVision

ChuckleVision is a British television series created by Martin Hughes and the Chuckle Brothers for the BBC.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Cindy Gallop

Lucinda "Cindy" Lee Gallop (born 1 February 1960) is an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies.

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Circus of Horrors

Circus of Horrors is a 1960 British horror film directed by Sidney Hayers.

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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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Climbing wall

A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet, usually used for indoor climbing, but sometimes located outdoors.

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Coaching inn

The coaching inn (also coaching house or staging inn) was a vital part of Europe's inland transport infrastructure until the development of the railway, providing a resting point for people and horses.

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Community school (England and Wales)

A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local authority (LA) employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate.

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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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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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Death by burning

Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat, has a long history as a form of capital punishment.

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Dissenter

A dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, "to disagree") is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc.

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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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Dr Challoner's Grammar School

Dr Challoner's Grammar School (also known as DCGS, Challoner's Boys or simply Challoner's) is a selective grammar school for boys, with a co-educational Sixth Form, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Dr Challoner's High School

Dr Challoner's High School, abbreviated to DCHS, is a grammar school for girls between the ages of 11 and 18, located in Buckinghamshire, England.

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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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Dry valley

A dry valley may develop on many kinds of permeable rock, such as limestone and chalk, or sandy terrains that do not regularly sustain surface water flow.

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Earl of Essex

Earl of Essex is a title in the Peerage of England which was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England.

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Eddie Howe

Edward John Frank Howe (born 29 November 1977) is an English former professional footballer and manager.

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Edith of Wessex

Edith of Wessex (1025 – 18 December 1075) was a Queen of England.

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Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford

Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford (20 December 1572 – 3 May 1627) was an English nobleman and politician.

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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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Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell.

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Free church

A "free church" is a Christian denomination or independent church that is intrinsically separate from government (as opposed to a theocracy, or an "established" or state church).

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Friends meeting house

A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.

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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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Gazetteer

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.

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GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century)

Geoffrey de Mandeville alias de Magnaville (Latinized to: de Magna Villa ("from the great town")), (died c. 1100), Constable of the Tower of London.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Giles Cooper (producer)

Giles Cooper is a British entertainment producer, concert promoter and marketer.

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Good Omens

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990) is a World Fantasy Award-nominated novel, written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Halma plc

Halma plc is a group of technology companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection.

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Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), often called Harold II, was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.

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Harrow Road

The Harrow Road is an ancient route in London which runs from Paddington in a northwesterly direction towards Harrow, northwest London.

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Harrow, London

Harrow is a large suburban town in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, England.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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High Speed 2

High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, directly linking London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.

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High Wycombe

High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England.

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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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Infant school

An Infant school is a term used primarily in England and Wales.

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Jennifer Worth

Jennifer Worth RN RM (25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British nurse and musician.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

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Junior school

A Junior school is a type of school which provides primary education to children, often in the age range from 8 and 13, following attendance at Infant school which covers the age range 5–7.

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Katy Brand

Katherine Frances "Katy" Brand (born 13 January 1979) is an English actress, comedian and writer, known for her ITV2 series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and for Comedy Lab Slap on Channel 4.

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Krynica-Zdrój

Krynica-Zdrój (until 31 December 2001 Krynica, Крениця, Криниця) is a town in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

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Lace

Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, made by machine or by hand.

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Lancashire Telegraph

The Lancashire Telegraph, formerly the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, is a local tabloid newspaper distributed in East Lancashire, England.

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List of King George V Playing Fields in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire King G King G.

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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 Chalfont

Little Chalfont is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Lollardy

Lollardy (Lollardism, Lollard movement) was a pre-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century to the English Reformation.

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London commuter belt

The London commuter belt is a metropolitan area that includes London and its surrounding commuter zone (the area in which it is practical to commute to work in London).

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire 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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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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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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Marylebone

Marylebone (or, both appropriate for the Parish Church of St. Marylebone,,, or) is an affluent inner-city area of central London, England, located within the City of Westminster and part of the West End.

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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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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Metro-Land (1973 film)

Metro-Land is a BBC documentary film written and narrated by the then Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Sir John Betjeman.

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Metroland (film)

Metroland is a 1997 British comedy-drama film directed by Philip Saville and starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson.

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Metropolitan line

The Metropolitan line (colloquially known as the Met) is a London Underground line that runs between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in the western London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Metropolitan Railway

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

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Michaelmas

Michaelmas (also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Sosa, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a minor Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September.

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997.

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Misfit stream

A misfit stream is a river that is either too large or too small to have eroded the valley or cave passage in which it flows.

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Murder at the Gallop

Murder at the Gallop (1963) is the second of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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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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Paul Foot (comedian)

Paul Foot (born 24 December 1973) is an English comedian.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a selective, fee-charging independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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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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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Reform Act 1832

The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.

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River Chess

The River Chess, a chalk stream, rises just north of Chesham in the Chiltern Hills, to flow through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to join the River Colne in Rickmansworth.

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River Misbourne

The River Misbourne rises in a field on the outskirts of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and flows down the Misbourne valley to join the River Colne just north of where the latter is crossed by the A40 Western Avenue.

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Rotten and pocket boroughs

A rotten or pocket borough, more formally known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain unrepresentative influence within the unreformed House of Commons.

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Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which Queen Elizabeth II is life-patron).

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Ruth Ellis

Ruth Ellis (9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a British model and nightclub hostess.

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Saint George

Saint George (Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Georgius;; to 23 April 303), according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and a member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

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Secondary modern school

A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, from 1944 until the 1970s under the Tripartite System and still persist in Northern Ireland, where they are usually referred to simply as Secondary schools, and in areas of England, such as Buckinghamshire (where they are referred to as community schools), Lincolnshire, Wirral Medway and Kent where they are called high schools.

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Shardeloes

Shardeloes is a large 18th century country house located one mile west of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

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Simon Church

Simon Richard Church (born 10 December 1988) is a retired footballer who last played as a striker for Football League One side Plymouth Argyle.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Slough

Slough is a large town in Berkshire, England, on the western fringes of the Greater London Urban Area, west of central London, north of Windsor, east of Maidenhead, south-east of High Wycombe and north-east of the county town of Reading.

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South Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Buckinghamshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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St Mary's Church, Old Amersham

St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Old Amersham, Amersham in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanned leather in Marrakesh Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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The Duke Wore Jeans

The Duke Wore Jeans is a 1958 British film by producer Nat Cohen starring Tommy Steele and June Laverick.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Jigsaw Man

"The Jigsaw Man" is a short story in the Known Space universe by Larry Niven.

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The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (UK Edition:, US Edition) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the United Kingdom in 1983 and the United States in 1984.

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The Peter Principle (TV series)

The Peter Principle (broadcast as The Boss in the United States) is a British television sitcom.

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The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party is a 1985 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate.

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Tim Rice

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist.

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Town council

A town council, village council or rural council is a form of local government for small municipalities.

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United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elect one member to a parliament or assembly, with the exception of European Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies which are multi member constituencies.

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United Kingdom general election, 2005

The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.

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Unreformed House of Commons

The unreformed House of Commons is a name given to the House of Commons of Great Britain and (after 1800) the House of Commons of the United Kingdom before it was reformed by the Reform Act 1832.

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Uxbridge

Uxbridge is a town in west London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Watford

Watford is a town and borough in North West London, England, situated northwest of central London and inside the circumference of the M25 motorway.

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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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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/Amersham

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