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Brampton, Cambridgeshire, the Glossary

Brampton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, about south-west of Huntingdon.^[1]

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Administrative county

An administrative county was a first-level administrative division in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974, and in Ireland from 1899 until 1973 in Northern Ireland, 2002 in the Republic of Ireland.

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Brampton Grange

Brampton Grange in Brampton, Cambridgeshire, England, is a historic building that dates to 1773.

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Brampton Wood

Brampton Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council for non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Carla Humphrey

Carla Humphrey (born 15 December 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Women's Championship club Charlton Athletic.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire.

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Danegeld

Danegeld ("Danish tax", literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax raised to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Eighth Air Force

The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).

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Ellington, Cambridgeshire

Ellington is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, west of Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and historic county of England. Brampton, Cambridgeshire and Ellington, Cambridgeshire are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Geoff Capes

Geoffrey Lewis Capes (born 23 August 1949)David Webster, Sons of Samson Volume 2 Profiles, page 78 (Ironmind Enterprises), is a British former shot putter, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor.

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Golf course

A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played.

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Grafham, Cambridgeshire

Grafham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Brampton, Cambridgeshire and Grafham, Cambridgeshire are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

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Hide (unit)

The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household.

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Hinchingbrooke School

Hinchingbrooke School is a large comprehensive secondary school situated on the outskirts of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, historically in Huntingdonshire.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Huntingdon

Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. Brampton, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

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Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

Huntingdon is a constituency west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire and including its namesake town of Huntingdon.

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Huntingdon and Peterborough

Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative and geographical county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

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Huntingdon Racecourse

Huntingdon Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Brampton near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Huntingdon railway station

Huntingdon railway station (formerly known as Huntingdon North) serves the market town of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right.

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Huntingdonshire District Council

Huntingdonshire District Council is the local authority for the district of Huntingdonshire in Cambridgeshire, England. Brampton, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire District Council are Huntingdonshire.

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Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.

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John Major

Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Leightonstone

Leightonstone was a hundred of Huntingdonshire mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.

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Notcutts

Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd. is a private limited company.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.

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Parish council (England)

A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government.

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Portholme

Portholme (or Port Holme on Ordnance Survey mapping) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Parish of Brampton between Huntingdon and Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England.

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RAF Brampton

RAF Brampton was a non-flying Royal Air Force installation near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England.

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RAF Wyton

Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton is a Royal Air Force station near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Raid on the Medway

The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brampton,_Cambridgeshire

Also known as Brampton Park, Brampton, Huntingdonshire.

, World's Strongest Man, 2001 United Kingdom census, 2011 United Kingdom census.

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