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Keynsham is a town and civil parish located on the outskirts of the city of Bristol on the A4 that links the cities of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.[1]
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A4 road (England)
The A4 is a major road in England from Central London to Avonmouth via Heathrow Airport, Reading, Bath and Bristol.
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A4174 road
The A4174 is a major ring road in England which runs around the northern and eastern edge of Bristol, mainly in South Gloucestershire, and through the southern suburbs of the city.
Acid grassland
Acid grassland is a nutrient-poor habitat characterised by grassy tussocks and bare ground.
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Aedas
Aedas is an architectural firm founded by the Welsh architect Keith Griffiths.
Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Avon (county)
Avon was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in the west of England that existed between 1974 and 1996.
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Avon and Somerset Police
Avon and Somerset Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in the five unitary authority areas of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Somerset, and South Gloucestershire, all in South West England.
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Avon Fire and Rescue Service
Avon Fire & Rescue Service (AF&RS) is the fire and rescue service covering the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire in South West England.
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Avon Valley Country Park
Avon Valley Country Park is a country park in Keynsham, Somerset, England.
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Azores High
The Azores High also known as North Atlantic (Subtropical) High/Anticyclone or the Bermuda-Azores High, is a large subtropical semi-permanent centre of high atmospheric pressure typically found south of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Horse latitudes.
Bandstand
A bandstand (sometimes music kiosk) is a circular, semicircular or polygonal structure set in a park, garden, pier, or indoor space, designed to accommodate musical bands performing concerts.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Bath and North East Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) is a unitary authority district in Somerset, South West England.
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Bath College
Bath College is a further education college in the centre of Bath, Somerset and in Westfield, Somerset, England.
Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about west of the centre of the city.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. Keynsham and bath, Somerset are towns in Bath and North East Somerset.
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Battle of Worcester
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 in and around the city of Worcester, England and was the last major battle of the 1642 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
BBC Points West
BBC Points West is the BBC's regional TV news programme for the West of England, covering Bristol, the majority of Wiltshire (excluding the city of Salisbury) and Gloucestershire, northern, eastern and parts of western and southern Somerset, and northern parts of Dorset.
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BBC Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC's local radio station serving the cities of Bristol and Bath and the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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Bilbie family
The Bilbie family were bell founders and clockmakers based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon in south-west England from the late 17th century to the early 19th century.
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Bill Bailey
Mark Robert Bailey (born 13 January 1965), known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English musician, comedian, actor and television presenter.
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
BMX
BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general street or off-road recreation.
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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as the Bonzo Dog Band or the Bonzos) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s.
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Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, the boundary commissions are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies for elections to the House of Commons.
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Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport.
Bridges Almshouses
The Bridges Almshouses in Keynsham within the English county of Somerset were built around 1685.
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Brislington
Brislington is an area in the south east of the city of Bristol, England.
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.
Bristol Airport
Bristol Airport, at Lulsgate Bottom, on the northern slopes of the Mendip Hills, in North Somerset, is an international airport serving the city of Bristol, England, and the surrounding area.
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Bristol Crown Court
The Bristol Crown Court is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases at Small Street in Bristol, England.
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Bristol Observer
The Bristol Observer started out as the Kingswood and Keynsham Observer, a weekly paper, but at this time it was a paid for publication.
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Bristol Post
The Bristol Post is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
British Gas
British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom.
British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.
Broadlands Academy
Broadlands Academy is a secondary school in Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset, England.
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Brown trout
The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.
Brychan
Brychan Brycheiniog was a legendary 5th-century king of Brycheiniog (Brecknockshire, alternatively Breconshire) in Mid Wales.
Brycheiniog
Brycheiniog was an independent kingdom in South Wales in the Early Middle Ages.
Building regulations in the United Kingdom
Building regulations in the United Kingdom are statutory instruments or statutory regulations that seek to ensure that the policies set out in the relevant legislation are carried out.
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Burnett, Somerset
Burnett is a small village within the civil parish of Compton Dando, approximately from the River Chew in the Chew Valley within the unitary authority area of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England.
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Cadbury
Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.
Cadbury Dairy Milk
Cadbury Dairy Milk is a British brand of milk chocolate manufactured by Cadbury.
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Canon regular
The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are priests who live in community under a rule (and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology.
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Carex muricata
Carex muricata, the rough sedge or prickly sedge (a name it shares with other species), is a species of Carex found in Europe and western Asia as far as the Himalayas.
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Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
Ceremonial counties of England
Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
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Chew Stoke
Chew Stoke is a small village and civil parish in the affluent Chew Valley, in Somerset, England, about south of Bristol and 10 miles north of Wells. Keynsham and Chew Stoke are civil parishes in Somerset.
Chew Valley Lake
Chew Valley Lake is a reservoir in Chew Stoke, Chew Valley, Somerset, England.
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Chewton Keynsham
Chewton Keynsham is a hamlet on the River Chew in the Chew Valley, Somerset, England.
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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 each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes called the ecclesiastical parish, to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have).
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Church of St John the Baptist, Keynsham
The Church of St John the Baptist, is an Anglican parish church in Keynsham, Somerset, England.
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Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.
Climate of south-west England
The climate of south-west England is classed as oceanic (Cfb) according to the Köppen climate classification.
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Cloud
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.
Common dace
The common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus) is a species of freshwater and brackish water ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae which is native to Europe but which has been introduced to other parts of the world.
Common roach
The roach, or rutilus roach (Rutilus rutilus), also known as the common roach, is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the family Cyprinidae, native to most of Europe and western Asia.
A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.
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Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance.
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Cremation
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
Cribbs Causeway
Cribbs Causeway is both a road in South Gloucestershire, England, running north of the city of Bristol, and the adjacent area which is notable for its out-of-town shopping and leisure facilities.
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Crunchie
Crunchie is a brand of chocolate bar with a honeycomb toffee (or known as "sponge toffee" in Canada and "honeycomb" or "cinder toffee" in the UK as well as "hokey pokey" in New Zealand) centre.
Cumulus cloud
Cumulus clouds are clouds that have flat bases and are often described as puffy, cotton-like, or fluffy in appearance.
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Dan Norris
Dan Norris (born 28 January 1960) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Mayor of the West of England since May 2021, and Member of Parliament for North East Somerset and Hanham since 2024.
Digital Audio Broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services in many countries around the world, defined, supported, marketed and promoted by the WorldDAB organisation.
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Dissolution of the monasteries
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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Districts of England
The districts of England (officially, local authority districts, abbreviated LADs) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.
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Diurnal motion
Diurnal motion is an astronomical term referring to the apparent motion of celestial objects (e.g. the Sun and stars) around Earth, or more precisely around the two celestial poles, over the course of one day.
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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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Double Decker (chocolate bar)
Double Decker is a British brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury.
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EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985.
English Civil War
The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
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Environmental health
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.
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Escape of Charles II
After the final defeat of Royalists in the English Civil War against Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, the future Charles II of England (already by that time King of Scotland) was forced to flee England.
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ESPNcricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.
European perch
The European perch (Perca fluviatilis), also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man's rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a predatory freshwater fish native to Europe and North Asia.
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FA Vase
The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English football league system).
First-past-the-post voting
First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.
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In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of association football matches taking place in the coming week.
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Ford Fiesta
The Ford Fiesta is a supermini car that was marketed by Ford from 1976 to 2023 over seven generations.
Fry's Chocolate Cream
Fry's Chocolate Cream is a chocolate bar developed by J. S. Fry & Sons and currently manufactured by Cadbury.
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Fudge (chocolate bar)
Fudge is a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury.
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Further education
Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is additional education 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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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
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Grassland
A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae).
Great Flood of 1968
The Great Flood of 1968 was a flood caused by a pronounced trough of low pressure which brought exceptionally heavy rain and thunderstorms to South East England and France in mid-September 1968, with the worst on Sunday 15 September 1968, and followed earlier floods in South West England during July.
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Great Western Main Line
The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to.
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Green belt
A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.
Green Flag Award
The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy, who also administers the scheme in England.
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Gudgeon (fish)
Gudgeon is the common name for a number of small freshwater fish of the families Butidae, Cyprinidae, Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae.
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Heart West
Heart West is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network.
Horace Batchelor
Horace Cyril Batchelor (22 January 1898 – 8 January 1977) was an English gambling advertiser.
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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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Hundred of Keynsham
The Hundred of Keynsham is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during the Anglo-Saxon era although exact dates are unknown.
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Irene Rosenfeld
Irene Blecker Rosenfeld (born May 3, 1953) is an American businesswoman who was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mondelēz International.
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ITV News West Country
ITV News West Country is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV West Country.
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J. S. Fry & Sons
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James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman and military officer.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former world champion and former world number one.
Keyne
Keyne (also referred to as Keane, KayaneJ. Meyrick A Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, pp. 68–69 Keyna, Cenau, Cenedion, CeinwenRay Spencer A Guide to the Saints of Wales and the Westcountry, pp. 51–52David Hugh Farmer Oxford English Dictionary of Saints) was a 5th-century holy woman and hermitess who was said to have travelled widely through what is now South Wales and Cornwall.
Keynsham (album)
Keynsham is the fourth album by the Bonzo Dog Band.
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Keynsham Abbey
Keynsham Abbey in Keynsham, Somerset, England, was a monastic abbey founded c. 1166 by William, Earl of Gloucester.
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Keynsham Civic Centre
Keynsham Civic Centre is a municipal building in Keynsham, a town in Somerset, in England.
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Keynsham Humpy Tumps
Keynsham Humpy Tumps is a floristically rich acidic grassland site situated between the town of Keynsham, and the River Avon, southeast of Bristol, England.
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Keynsham Lock
Keynsham Lock is a canal lock situated on the River Avon at Keynsham, England.
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Keynsham railway station
Keynsham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in South West England, serving the town of Keynsham, Somerset.
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Keynsham Roman Villa
Keynsham Roman Villa refers to a cluster of villas built during the Roman occupation of Britain near Keynsham in Somerset, England.
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Keynsham Town F.C.
Keynsham Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Keynsham, Somerset, England.
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Kiss (UK radio station)
Kiss is a British digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Kiss Network.
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Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (doing business as Kraft Foods Group) was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in English cricket.
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Libourne
Libourne (Liborna) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Library
A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.
Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.
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Local education authorities (LEAs) were defined in England and Wales as the local councils responsible for education within their jurisdictions.
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Local Government Commission for England (1992)
The Local Government Commission for England was the body responsible for reviewing the structure of local government in England from 1992 to 2002.
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Local government in the United Kingdom
Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system.
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Low-pressure area
In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.
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Luke Sutton
Luke David Sutton (born 4 October 1976) is an English former cricketer.
M32 motorway
The M32 is a long motorway in South Gloucestershire and Bristol, England.
M4 motorway
The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales.
M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands with the South West.
Marcus Trescothick
Marcus Edward Trescothick (born 25 December 1975) is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals.
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Mark Regan
Mark Regan MBE (born 28 January 1972 in Bristol) is an English former rugby union player.
Marketplace
A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.
Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.
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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.
Mimi Thebo
Mimi Thebo is an American author who lives and works in the United Kingdom.
Minster (church)
Minster is an honorific title given to particular churches in England, most notably York Minster in Yorkshire, Westminster Abbey in London and Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire.
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Moenchia
Moenchia is a genus of plants in the family Caryophyllaceae with three species native to the Mediterranean region of southern Europe and naturalised in southern Africa and parts of North America and Australia.
Monarch's Way
The Monarch's Way is a long-distance footpath in England that approximates the escape route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester.
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Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Motocross
Motocross is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits.
Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom)
Neighbourhood Watch in the United Kingdom is the largest voluntary crime prevention movement covering England and Wales with upwards of 2.3 million household members.
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Neil Forrester
Neil A. Forrester (born 3 January 1971, in Keynsham, England) is a British research assistant in the field of developmental disorders and language acquisition at the University of London and former reality television personality.
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Non-metropolitan county
A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a subdivision of England used for local government.
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North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
North East Somerset was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2010 to 2024.
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North East Somerset and Hanham (UK Parliament constituency)
North East Somerset and Hanham is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.
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Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen.
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Ofcom
The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.
Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.
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Parapet
A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Pinnacle
A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations.
Pitch (sports field)
A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports.
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Planning permission
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions.
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Playground
A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors.
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 19219 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Private school
A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing.
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Public school (United Kingdom)
In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.
Queen Charlton
Queen Charlton is a small village within the civil parish of Compton Dando, within the unitary authority area of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England.
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Radio Luxembourg
Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.
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Radstock
Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about south-west of Bath and north-west of Frome. Keynsham and Radstock are civil parishes in Somerset and towns in Bath and North East Somerset.
Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
Religious congregation
A religious congregation is a type of religious institute in the Catholic Church.
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River Avon, Bristol
The River Avon is a river in the southwest of England.
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River Chew
The River Chew is a small river in England that flows for some through the North Somerset countryside to form the Chew Valley before merging with the River Avon.
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.
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Roundhead
Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651).
Saltford
Saltford is a large English village and civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset. Keynsham and Saltford are civil parishes in Somerset.
Sam FM (Bristol)
Sam FM was an adult hits format radio station that broadcast on 106.5 MHz FM in Bristol, United Kingdom and owned by Bauer Radio.
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Scardinius
Scardinius is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae commonly called rudds.
Scleranthus annuus
Scleranthus annuus is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names German knotweed and annual knawel.
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Season
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region.
Shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18.
Skateboard
A skateboard is a type of sports equipment used for skateboarding.
Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged.
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Somerdale Factory
Somerdale was a chocolate factory located in Keynsham near Bristol in South-west England, closed by Kraft foods in 2011.
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Somerset
Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Somerset County League
The Somerset County League is a football competition based in England.
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South Western Ambulance Service
The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is the organisation responsible for providing ambulance services for the National Health Service (NHS) across South West England.
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Southmead Hospital
Southmead Hospital is a large public National Health Service hospital, situated in the area of Southmead, though in Horfield ward, in the northern suburbs of Bristol, England.
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Specialist school
Specialist schools, also known as specialised schools or specialized schools, are schools which specialise in a certain area or field of curriculum.
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Spergularia
Spergularia is a genus in the family Caryophyllaceae, containing salt-tolerant plants known as sandspurrys (or sandspurries) and sea-spurreys.
Squalius cephalus
The common chub (Squalius cephalus), also known as the European chub or simply chub, is a species of European freshwater ray-finned fish in the carp family Cyprinidae, that frequents both slow and moderate rivers, as well as canals, lakes and still waterbodies of various kinds.
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State school
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge.
Studio school
A studio school is a type of specialist secondary school in England that is designed to give students practical skills in workplace environments as well as traditional academic and vocational courses of study.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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The Breeze (Bristol)
| name.
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The Real World: London
The Real World: London is the fourth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships.
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Three Ways School
Three Ways School is a coeducational special school with academy status, located in the Odd Down area of Bath in Somerset, England.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Trading Standards
Trading Standards are the local authority departments with the United Kingdom, formerly known as Weights and Measures, that enforce consumer protection legislation.
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Trifolium subterraneum
Trifolium subterraneum, the subterranean clover (often shortened to sub clover), subterranean trefoil, is a species of clover native to Europe, Southwest Asia, Northwest Africa and Macaronesia.
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Unitary authorities of England
The unitary authorities of England are a type of local authority responsible for all local government services in an area.
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Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national government.
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University
A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
University college
In a number of countries, a university college is a college institution that provides tertiary education but does not have full or independent university status.
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University of Bath
The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, England.
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Urban district (England and Wales)
In England and Wales, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Village hall
A village hall is a public building in a rural or suburban community which functions as a community centre without a religious affiliation.
Wansdyke (district)
Wansdyke was a non-metropolitan district within the County of Avon west of England from 1974 to 1996.
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Wansdyke (UK Parliament constituency)
Wansdyke was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Waste collection
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management.
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
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Weir
A weir or low-head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.
Wellsway School
Wellsway School is a mixed comprehensive school on the eastern side of Keynsham, Somerset, England, for students aged 11 to 18.
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Wessex Main Line
The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central.
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The Western Football League is a football league in South West England, covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, western Dorset, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
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Willmott Dixon
Willmott Dixon is a British privately owned contracting, residential development and property support business.
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Wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
1968 Chew Stoke flood
Chew Stoke Flood was a heavy rain event and severe flash flood which occurred on 10 July 1968, affecting Somerset and Southwest England in particular the Chew Valley and some areas of Bristol, notably Bedminster.
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2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons.
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2024 United Kingdom general election
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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See also
Market towns in Somerset
- Axbridge
- Bridgwater
- Bruton
- Castle Cary
- Chard, Somerset
- Crewkerne
- Frome
- Glastonbury
- Highbridge, Somerset
- Ilminster
- Keynsham
- Langport
- North Petherton
- Shepton Mallet
- Somerton, Somerset
- Taunton
- Wells, Somerset
- Wincanton
- Wiveliscombe
- Yeovil
Towns in Bath and North East Somerset
- Bath, Somerset
- Keynsham
- Midsomer Norton
- Radstock
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynsham
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