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Pax Hill (Peace Hill), near Bentley, Hampshire, England, was the family home of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, and his wife, Olave, for over twenty years during the 20th century.[1]

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  1. 23 relations: A31 road, Bentley, Hampshire, Canada, Commonwealth of Nations, Don Potter, Dovecote, England, Gaumont Film Company, Girl Guides, Girlguiding, Hampton Court Palace, Home economics, Kenya, Movietone News, Olave Baden-Powell, Paramount Pictures, River Wey, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Rose, Scouting, Shrubbery, Tennis court, World War II.

  2. Nursing homes in the United Kingdom
  3. Places associated with Scouting

A31 road

The A31 is a major trunk road in southern England that runs from Guildford in Surrey to Bere Regis in Dorset.

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Bentley, Hampshire

Bentley is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Don Potter

Donald Steele Potter (21 April 1902 – 7 June 2004) was an English sculptor, wood carver, potter and teacher.

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Dovecote

A dovecote or dovecot, doocot (Scots) or columbarium is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves.

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England

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

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Gaumont Film Company

The Gaumont Film Company, often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).

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Girl Guides

Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only.

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Girlguiding

Girlguiding is the operating name of The Guide Association, previously named The Girl Guides Association.

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Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

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Home economics

Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences (often shortened to FCS or FACS), is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as textiles and apparel.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Movietone News

Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States.

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Olave Baden-Powell

Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell (née Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting and co-founder of Girl Guides).

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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River Wey

The River Wey is a main tributary of the River Thames in south east England.

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement.

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Rose

A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears.

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Scouting

Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth social movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports.

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Shrubbery

A shrubbery, shrub border or shrub garden is a part of a garden where shrubs, mostly flowering species, are thickly planted.

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Tennis court

A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played.

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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.

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See also

Nursing homes in the United Kingdom

Places associated with Scouting

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Hill