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Shipston-on-Stour

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Shipston-on-Stour is a town and civil parish in south Warwickshire. [1]

45 relations: A34 road, Barry Gibb, BBC Radio 4, Brass band, Change ringing, Church of England parish church, Civil parish, Coaching inn, Dorothy Hodgkin, Edmund the Martyr, Enclave and exclave, Francis J. Haverfield, George Edmund Street, Gloucestershire, Gothic Revival architecture, Ilmington, John Taylor & Co, Local Government Act 1972, Marketplace, Midlands 3 West (South), Moreton-in-Marsh, Old English, Oswaldslow, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Penguin Books, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Richard Morant, River Stour, Warwickshire, Robin Gibb, Sheep, Shipston-on-Stour Rugby Football Club, Shipston-on-Stour Rural District, Sing Slowly Sisters, Stagecoach, Stratford and Moreton Tramway, Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency), Stratford-on-Avon District, Stratford-upon-Avon, Toponymy, United Kingdom census, 2011, Vale of Red Horse, Victoria County History, Warwickshire, Worcestershire.

A34 road

The A34 is a major road in England.

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Barry Gibb

Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb (born 1 September 1946) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences.

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Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish (outside meetings of the church) to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

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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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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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Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

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Edmund the Martyr

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

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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Francis J. Haverfield

Francis John Haverfield, FBA (8 November 1860 at Shipston-on-Stour – 1 October 1919) was a British historian and archaeologist.

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George Edmund Street

George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Ilmington

Ilmington is a village and civil parish about north-west of Shipston-on-Stour and south of Stratford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in Warwickshire, England.

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John Taylor & Co

John Taylor & Co, commonly known as Taylor's Bell Foundry, Taylor's of Loughborough, or simply Taylor's, is the world's largest working bell foundry.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Marketplace

A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.

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Midlands 3 West (South)

Midlands 3 West (South) is a level 8 English Rugby Union league and level 3 of the Midlands League, made up of teams from the southern part of the West Midlands region including clubs from parts of Birmingham and the West Midlands, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and sometimes Oxfordshire, with home and away matches played throughout the season.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

Moreton-in-Marsh is a town civil parish in northeastern Gloucestershire, England.

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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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Oswaldslow

The Oswaldslow (sometimes Oswaldslaw) was a hundred in the English county of Worcestershire, which was named in a supposed charter of 964 by King Edgar the Peaceful (died 975).

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Richard Morant

Richard Morant (30 October 1945 – 9 November 2011) was an English actor.

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River Stour, Warwickshire

The River Stour is an English river that rises in the county of Oxfordshire but largely flows through Warwickshire.

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Robin Gibb

Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Shipston-on-Stour Rugby Football Club

Shipston-on-Stour Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire.

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Shipston-on-Stour Rural District

Shipston on Stour was a rural district in England from 1894 to 1974.

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Sing Slowly Sisters

Sing Slowly Sisters was to have been Robin Gibb's second studio album.

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Stagecoach

A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.

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Stratford and Moreton Tramway

The Stratford and Moreton Tramway was a 16-mile (25-km) long horse-drawn wagonway from the canal basin at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, with a branch to Shipston-on-Stour.

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Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency)

Stratford-on-Avon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nadhim Zahawi, a Conservative.

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Stratford-on-Avon District

Stratford-on-Avon is a local government district of southern Warwickshire in England.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, north west of London, south east of Birmingham, and south west of Warwick.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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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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Vale of Red Horse

The Vale of Red Horse, also called the Vale of the Red Horse or Red Horse Vale, is a rural district in southern Warwickshire, England, lying between the escarpment of Edgehill and the northern Cotswolds around the valley of the Stour.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipston-on-Stour

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