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Cannock

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Cannock, as of the 2011 census, has a population of 29,018, and is the most populous of the three towns in the district of Cannock Chase in the central southern part of the county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England. [1]

149 relations: A34 road, A5 road (Great Britain), Aldridge, Alec Talbot, Alice Chess, Andy Bishop, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Armitage, Arriva Midlands, Arthur Hopcraft, Aston Villa F.C., August, Balaam and the Angel, Bangladeshis, BBC Domesday Reloaded, BBC WM, Beeching cuts, Birmingham City F.C., Black Country, Bloxwich, Bobby Hosker, Brewood, Bridgtown, Britain's Strongest Man, British Rail, Brownhills, Burntwood, Calligraphy, Cannock (UK Parliament constituency), Cannock Built-up Area, Cannock Chase, Cannock Chase (UK Parliament constituency), Cannock Chase District, Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Cannock Chase High School, Cannock Chase Radio, Cannock Hockey Club, Cannock railway station, Cannock Wood, Carole Ashby, Castle Ring, Catholic Church, Chase Line, Cheslyn Hay, Chris Overton, Civil parish, Civil partnership in the United Kingdom, Cohabitation, Colloquialism, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ..., Community radio, County Westmeath, Datteln, Dave Norton, Dean of York, Deep Purple, Derbyshire Dales (UK Parliament constituency), Domesday Book, Elgar Howarth, England cricket team, England men's national hockey team, Express & Star, Featherstone, Staffordshire, Field hockey, Franciscans, Frank Edward Tylecote, Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country, Gailey, Staffordshire, GCE Advanced Level, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Geoff Palmer (footballer), Glenn Hughes, Gordon Lee (footballer), Great Wyrley, Hammerwich, Harry Kinsell, Heart West Midlands, Heath Hayes and Wimblebury, Hednesford, Henry Sacheverell, Hillock, Household, Huntington, Staffordshire, ITV News Central, Jed Mercurio, Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, Jim Rhodes (golfer), Kevin Pietersen, Kris Taylor, Landywood, Lichfield, List of chess variants, M54 motorway, M6 motorway, M6 Toll, Malcolm Beard, Male unemployment, Mel Galley, Met Office, Mick Gosling, Midlands Today, Moate, Normans, Norton Canes, Office for National Statistics, Old English, Open University, Patrick McLoughlin, Paul Cooper (footballer, born 1953), Penkridge, Penkridge weather station, Planet Rock (radio station), Raymond Furnell, Republic of Ireland, Richard Gosling, Robert Lloyd (Nightingales), Rugeley, Shifnal, Smooth West Midlands, South Staffordshire College, Stafford, Staffordshire, Steve Edge, Steve James (snooker player), Tapestry, Telford, Tertiary sector of the economy, The Nightingales, The Prefects, Tom Galley, United Kingdom census, 2011, Unparished area, V. R. Parton, Vernon Allatt, Voluntary aided school, Walsall, Walter Colman, West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Ham United F.C., West Midlands (region), West Midlands conurbation, West Midlands Trains, White British, Whitesnake, Willenhall, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., World War I, World War II. Expand index (99 more) »

A34 road

The A34 is a major road in England.

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A5 road (Great Britain)

The A5 London Holyhead Trunk Road is a major road in England and Wales.

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Aldridge

Aldridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England.

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Alec Talbot

Alec Talbot (13 July 1902 at Cannock, Staffs – 13 August 1975 at Stourbridge) was a centre-half for Aston Villa during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Alice Chess

Alice Chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration to the standard rules of chess.

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Andy Bishop

Andrew Jamie Bishop (born 19 October 1982) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National League North club Stalybridge Celtic.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Armitage

Armitage is a village in Staffordshire, England on the south side of the Trent and Mersey Canal between Lichfield and Rugeley.

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Arriva Midlands

Arriva Midlands is a bus operator providing services in the East Midlands and West Midlands areas of England.

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Arthur Hopcraft

Arthur Hopcraft (30 November 1932 – 22 November 2004) was an English scriptwriter, well known for his TV plays such as The Nearly Man, and for his small-screen adaptations such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Hard Times, Bleak House, and Rebecca.

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Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans and The Lions) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.

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August

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days.

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Balaam and the Angel

Balaam and the Angel are a Scottish rock band founded by Mark, James (Jim), and Desmond (Des) Morris in Cannock, England in 1984.

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Bangladeshis

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BBC Domesday Reloaded

BBC Domesday Reloaded is a local history web site for the digitised content of the BBC's 1986 Domesday Project.

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BBC WM

BBC WM 95.6 (previously BBC Radio WM) is the BBC Local Radio service serving the West Midlands conurbation and parts of south Staffordshire, operated by BBC Birmingham.

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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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Birmingham City F.C.

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England.

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Black Country

The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham, and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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Bloxwich

Bloxwich is a small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England, situated in the north of the borough and forming part of the Staffordshire/West Midlands border.

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Bobby Hosker

Robert Charles Hosker (born 27 February 1955) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for York City, in non-League football for Boston United and was on the books of Middlesbrough without making a league appearance.

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Brewood

Brewood refers both to a settlement, which was once a town but is now a village, in South Staffordshire, England, and to the civil parish of which it is the centre.

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Bridgtown

Bridgtown is a civil parish in the Cannock Chase District of Staffordshire, England.

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Britain's Strongest Man

Britain's Man is an annual strongman event held in the United Kingdom.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Brownhills

Brownhills is a town in the West Midlands, England.

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Burntwood

Burntwood is a town in Staffordshire, England, approximately west of Lichfield.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.

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Cannock (UK Parliament constituency)

Cannock was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

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Cannock Built-up Area

The Cannock Built-up Area (known until 2013 in official statistics as the Cannock/Great Wyrley Urban Area) is an area of land in the central southern part of Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England defined by the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics (ONS) for population monitoring purposes.

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Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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Cannock Chase (UK Parliament constituency)

Cannock Chase is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Amanda Milling of the Conservative Party.

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Cannock Chase District

Cannock Chase is a local government district in England.

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Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery

The Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery is on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.

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Cannock Chase High School

Cannock Chase High School is a secondary school with academy status in Cannock, Staffordshire.

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Cannock Chase Radio

Cannock Chase Radio is a local community radio station, broadcasting to Cannock, Hednesford and Rugeley, England.

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Cannock Hockey Club

Cannock Hockey Club are an English field hockey team.

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Cannock railway station

Cannock railway station serves the town of Cannock in Staffordshire, England.

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Cannock Wood

Cannock Wood is a village and civil parish in the Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire, England.

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Carole Ashby

Carole Ashby (born 24 March 1955 in Cannock, Staffordshire) is an English actress and pinup girl.

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Castle Ring

Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, in the village of Cannock Wood, England.

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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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Chase Line

The Chase Line is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of England.

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Cheslyn Hay

Cheslyn Hay is a former mining village in south Staffordshire located between Cannock and Walsall.

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Chris Overton

Chris Overton is an English actor and filmmaker, best known for his film, The Silent Child for which he received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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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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Civil partnership in the United Kingdom

Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom are a form of civil union granted under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, allowing same-sex couples to obtain essentially the same rights and responsibilities as civil marriage.

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Cohabitation

Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together.

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Colloquialism

Everyday language, everyday speech, common parlance, informal language, colloquial language, general parlance, or vernacular (but this has other meanings too), is the most used variety of a language, which is usually employed in conversation or other communication in informal situations.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Community radio

Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting.

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County Westmeath

County Westmeath (Contae na hIarmhí or simply An Iarmhí) is a county in Ireland.

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Datteln

Datteln is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Dave Norton

David Wayne Norton (born 3 March 1965 in Cannock, England) is a former professional footballer, who played as a Midfielder.

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Dean of York

The Dean of York is the member of the clergy who is responsible for the running of the York Minster cathedral.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.

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Derbyshire Dales (UK Parliament constituency)

Derbyshire Dales or is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Patrick McLoughlin of the Conservative Party since being created for the 2010 general election.

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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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Elgar Howarth

Elgar Howarth (born 4 November 1935), is an English conductor, composer and trumpeter.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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England men's national hockey team

The England women's national field hockey team competes in most major international tournaments except the Olympic Games.

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Express & Star

The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain.

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Featherstone, Staffordshire

Featherstone is a small village in the district of South Staffordshire, England, near to the border with Wolverhampton.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Frank Edward Tylecote

Frank Edward Tylecote CBE (23 May 1879 – 7 October 1965) was a British doctor, and one of the first physicians to draw attention to the connection between smoking and lung cancer.

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Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country

Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country (previously known as Beacon Radio), is an Independent Local Radio station serving Shropshire and the Black Country in the West Midlands region of England.

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Gailey, Staffordshire

Gailey is a small village in Staffordshire, England.

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GCE Advanced Level

The A Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational authorities of British Crown dependencies to students completing secondary or pre-university education.

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General Certificate of Secondary Education

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Geoff Palmer (footballer)

Geoff Palmer (born 11 July 1954 in Cannock, Staffordshire) is a former professional footballer, who spent almost his entire career with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Glenn Hughes

Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1952) is an English rock bassist and vocalist, best known for playing bass and performing vocals for funk rock pioneers Trapeze, the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s.

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Gordon Lee (footballer)

Gordon Francis Lee (born 13 July 1934) is an English former footballer and football manager.

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Great Wyrley

Great Wyrley is a civil parish and large village in the district of South Staffordshire, England, forming part of the Staffordshire border with the metropolitan borough of Walsall, West Midlands.

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Hammerwich

Hammerwich is a village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England, south-east of Burntwood.

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Harry Kinsell

Thomas Henry "Harry" Kinsell (3 May 1921 – 14 August 2000) was an English footballer who played as a full back for West Bromwich Albion, Bolton Wanderers, Reading, West Ham United and Bedford Town.

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Heart West Midlands

Heart West Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network.

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Heath Hayes and Wimblebury

Heath Hayes and Wimblebury is a civil parish in the Cannock Chase District of Staffordshire, England.

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Hednesford

Hednesford (pronounced) is a small town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, within Cannock Chase District.

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Henry Sacheverell

Henry Sacheverell (8 February 1674 – 5 June 1724) was an English High Church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon.

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Hillock

A hillock or knoll is a small hill,, "hillock" entry, retrieved December 18, 2007 usually separated from a larger group of hills such as a range.

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Household

A household consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and also share meals or living accommodation, and may consist of a single family or some other grouping of people.

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Huntington, Staffordshire

Huntington is a civil parish and former mining village in Staffordshire, on the outskirts of Cannock Chase.

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ITV News Central

ITV News Central is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands.

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Jed Mercurio

Jed Mercurio (born 1966) is a British television writer, producer, director and novelist.

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Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge

Janet Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, PC (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988), known as Jennie Lee, was a Scottish politician.

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Jim Rhodes (golfer)

James Rhodes (29 January 1946 – 4 March 2015) was an English professional golfer.

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Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen (born 27 June 1980) is a former English cricketer.

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Kris Taylor

Kris Taylor (born 12 January 1984) is an English footballer who plays primarily as a left-sided midfielder for Midland League Premier Division side Romulus.

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Landywood

Landywood is a village in Staffordshire, England.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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List of chess variants

A chess variant (or unorthodox chess) is a game "related to, derived from, or inspired by chess".

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M54 motorway

The M54 is a 23-mile (37 km) east-west dual carriageway in the English counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire.

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M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45).

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M6 Toll

The M6 Toll, also called the Birmingham North Relief Road (BNRR), connects M6 Junction 3a at the Coleshill Interchange to M6 Junction 11A at Wolverhampton with of six-lane motorway.

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Malcolm Beard

Malcolm Beard (born 3 May 1942) is an English former professional footballer born in Cannock, Staffordshire, who made more than 350 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half.

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Male unemployment

Male unemployment is unemployment, being out of work and actively seeking to work, among men.

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Mel Galley

Melville John "Mel" Galley (8 March 1948 – 1 July 2008) was an English guitarist and singer, best known for his work with Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers and Phenomena.

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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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Mick Gosling

Mick Gosling (born 24 March 1972) is famous for being the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2005.

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Midlands Today

Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news service for the West Midlands.

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Moate

Moate is a town in County Westmeath, Ireland.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Norton Canes

Norton Canes is a village and civil parish on the southern periphery of Cannock Chase District, in Staffordshire, England.

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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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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Patrick McLoughlin

Sir Patrick Allen McLoughlin (born 30 November 1957) is a British Conservative politician.

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Paul Cooper (footballer, born 1953)

Paul David Cooper (born 21 December 1953) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Penkridge

Penkridge is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, which since the 17th century has been an industrial and commercial centre for neighbouring villages and the agricultural produce of Cannock Chase.

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Penkridge weather station

Penkridge weather station is a weather station at Penkridge in Staffordshire, England, operated by the Met Office.

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Planet Rock (radio station)

Planet Rock is a radio station in the United Kingdom owned by Bauer Radio.

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Raymond Furnell

Raymond Furnell (18 May 1936 – 10 July 2006) was the Dean of York from 1994 to 2003.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Richard Gosling

Richard Gosling (born 1974) is the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2003.

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Robert Lloyd (Nightingales)

Robert Lloyd (born 5 June 1959) is the lead singer with The Nightingales and formerly with The Prefects.

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Rugeley

Rugeley is a historic market town in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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Shifnal

Shifnal is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford.

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Smooth West Midlands

Smooth West Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station for the West Midlands of the United Kingdom.

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South Staffordshire College

South Staffordshire College is a further education college located over four sites in Staffordshire, England.

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Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands of England.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Steve Edge

Steve Edge (born 2 November 1972) is an English actor, writer and former comedian.

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Steve James (snooker player)

Stephen "Steve" James (born 2 May 1961)White, Jason (2002) "Steve James: Crucible or bust for James; Last act beckons in great entertainer's compelling snooker tale", Sports Argus, 26 January 2002, (confirms May 1961) is a retired English professional snooker player.

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Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom.

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Telford

Telford is a large new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, about east of Shrewsbury, and north west of Birmingham.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.

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The Nightingales

Nightingales (a.k.a. The Nightingales) are a UK post-punk/alternative rock band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England by four members of Birmingham's original punk group The Prefects who had been part of The Clash's 'White Riot Tour', recorded a couple of Peel Sessions, released a 45 on Rough Trade and, years after splitting up, had a retrospective CD released by New York indie label Acute Records.

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The Prefects

The Prefects were a punk band from Birmingham, England, with members that would later form The Nightingales.

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Tom Galley

Thomas Galley (4 August 1915 – 12 July 2000) was an English international footballer, who spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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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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Unparished area

In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (a small administrative division of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish).

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V. R. Parton

Vernon Rylands Parton (2 October 1897 – 31 December 1974) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variant being Alice Chess.

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Vernon Allatt

Vernon Allatt (born 28 May 1959) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Crewe Alexandra, Halifax Town, Preston North End, Rochdale and Stockport County.

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Voluntary aided school

A voluntary aided school (VA school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a religious organisation), contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school.

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Walsall

Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England.

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Walter Colman

Walter Colman (1600–1645) was an English Franciscan friar.

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West Bromwich Albion F.C.

West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or simply WBA, is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands.

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West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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West Midlands conurbation

The West Midlands conurbation is the large conurbation that includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the large towns of Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge and Halesowen in the English West Midlands.

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West Midlands Trains

West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and stations in the English Midlands.

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White British

White British is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.

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Whitesnake

Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in 1978 by David Coverdale, after his departure from his previous band Deep Purple.

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Willenhall

Willenhall is a medium-sized town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 28,480.

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, commonly referred to as Wolves, is an English professional football club based in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

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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/Cannock

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