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Dunsfold is a village in the borough of Waverley, Surrey, England, 8.7 miles (14 kilometres) south of Guildford. [1]

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Albert Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson

Albert Francis Joseph Horatio Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson FRGS, FRSA, FZS (2 September 1890 – 23 June 1957) was a British Earl.

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Alfold

Alfold is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the West Sussex border.

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BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational defence, security, and aerospace company.

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BAE Systems Hawk

The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, jet-powered advanced trainer aircraft.

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Bargate stone

Bargate stone is a highly durable form of sandstone.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948–12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

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Borough of Waverley

The Borough of Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England.

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British Aerospace

British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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Brown ministry

Gordon Brown formed the Brown ministry after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to begin a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, on 27 June 2007.

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Canadian Army

The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Caroline Flint

Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley since 1997.

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Casino Royale (2006 film)

Casino Royale is a 2006 British spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions ''James Bond'' film series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name.

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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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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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Dunsfold Aerodrome

Dunsfold Aerodrome (ICAO code EGTD) is an unlicensed airfield in Surrey, England, near the village of Cranleigh.

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Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as an effect of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively leveled areas having differing elevations.

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G-BDXJ

G-BDXJ is the registration of a Boeing 747-236B aircraft purchased by British Airways in 1980.

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Godalming

Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, SSW of Guildford.

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Greensand Ridge

The Greensand Ridge is an extensive, prominent, often wooded, mixed greensand/sandstone escarpment in south-east England.

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Guildford

Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.

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Hawker Siddeley

Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production.

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Hawker Siddeley Harrier

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, developed in the 1960s, was the first of the Harrier Jump Jet series of aircraft.

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Hawker Siddeley P.1127

The Hawker P.1127 and the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1 are the experimental and development aircraft that led to the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) jet fighter-bomber.

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Ironstone

Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron compound from which iron either can be or once was smelted commercially.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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JCB Fastrac

The JCB Fastrac is a high-speed agricultural tractor series manufactured by JCB Landpower, part of the J. C. Bamford group of companies.

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John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby (29 August 1917 – 12 July 2005) was a British businessman, who was noted for leading British Airways from an inefficient, nationalised company to one of the most successful airlines of recent times.

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Joseph Warton

Joseph Warton (April 1722 – 23 February 1800) was an English academic and literary critic.

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Manor

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport, also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the Miami area.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Moiety title

Moiety title is a legal term describing a portion other than a whole of ownership of property.

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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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Peter Curry

Thomas Peter Ellison Curry Q.C. (22 July 1921 – 25 January 2010) was a prominent English Barrister and athlete.

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Pew

A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church or sometimes a courtroom.

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Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.

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Post office

A post office is a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system.

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Primeval (TV series)

Primeval is a British science-fiction drama television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures.

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Red 2 (film)

Red 2 is 2013 American action comedy film and sequel to the 2010 film Red.

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Reynold Higgins

Reynold Alleyne Higgins (born 26 November 1916 in Weybridge, Surrey; died 18 April 1993 in Dunsfold, Surrey) was a Classical Archaeologist and Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.

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Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford

George Richard Hodges Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, (6 June 1907 – 16 March 1994),, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) known as Sir Richard Nugent, 1st Baronet between 1960 and 1966, was a British Conservative politician.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational public limited company incorporated in February 2011 that owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries.

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Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland (Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba, Ryal Bank o Scotland, Banc Brenhinol yr Alban), commonly abbreviated as RBS, is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, together with NatWest and Ulster Bank.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.

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South West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

South West Surrey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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The Day of the Triffids (2009 TV miniseries)

The Day of the Triffids is a BBC miniseries adaptation of John Wyndham's novel of the same title.

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Top Gear (2002 TV series)

Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two.

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Top Gear test track

The Top Gear test track is used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear.

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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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Viscount Montagu

Viscount Montagu was a title in the Peerage of England.

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Volkswagen Touareg

The Volkswagen Touareg (German pronunciation) is a mid-size luxury crossover SUV produced by German automaker Volkswagen since 2002 at the Volkswagen Bratislava Plant.

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VTOL

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically.

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Waverley Abbey

Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England.

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Weald

The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.

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Wey and Arun Canal

The Wey and Arun Canal is a partially restored, 23-mile-long (37 km) canal in the south east of England.

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Wings and Wheels (Dunsfold)

Wings and Wheels is a major airshow and motorsport event held since 2005 at Dunsfold Aerodrome which is home to Formula Woman and to BBC's motoring show, Top Gear.

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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/Dunsfold

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