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Ross-on-Wye, the Glossary

Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales.^[1]

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Market towns in Herefordshire
River Wye
Towns in Herefordshire
Towns of the Welsh Marches

Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages.

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Anglo-Zulu War

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.

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Archenfield

Archenfield (Old English: Ircingafeld, Middle English: "Irchenfield") is the historic English name for an area of southern and western Herefordshire in England.

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Arthur Pugh

Sir Arthur Pugh CBE (19 January 1870 – 2 August 1955) was a British trade unionist.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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BBC Hereford & Worcester

BBC Hereford & Worcester is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, which were one county from 1974 to 1998.

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BBC Midlands (known as the Midland Region from 1927 until c. 1974) is the BBC English Region producing local radio and web content for the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and parts of Gloucestershire.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Betzdorf, Germany

Betzdorf is a town and municipality in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Biological anthropology

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective.

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Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (B&GR) was the first name of the railway linking the cities in its name and of the company which pioneered and developed it; the line opened in stages in 1840, using a terminus at Camp Hill in Birmingham.

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Black Mountains, United Kingdom

The Black Mountains (Y Mynydd Du or sometimes Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.

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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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Civil parish

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

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Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.

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Condé-sur-Noireau

Condé-sur-Noireau is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Corn Exchange, Ross-on-Wye

The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the High Street in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.

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Cotswold Line

The Cotswold Line is an railway line between and in England.

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Dale Griffin

Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (24 October 1948 – 17 January 2016) was an English drummer and a founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Frank Andrews (rugby)

Frank Andrews (14 February 1886 – 22 November 1944) was an English-born Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s.

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Frederick Burrows

Sir Frederick John Burrows (3 July 1887 – 20 April 1973) was a British politician who served as the last British Governor of Bengal during the British Raj in India.

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Frederick Gordon (hotelier)

Frederick Gordon (22 July 1835 – 22 March 1904) was a British entrepreneur and businessman, known primarily as a hotelier.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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Gloucester railway station

Gloucester, formerly known as Gloucester Central, is a railway station serving the city of Gloucester in England.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Greatest Hits Radio Midlands

Greatest Hits Radio Midlands is a regional radio station serving the East & West Midlands as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.

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Hereford and South Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Hereford and South Herefordshire is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Hereford Times

The Hereford Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper published every Thursday in Hereford, England.

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Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway

The Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway (also known as the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway) was a railway which ran for linking Hereford and Gloucester, England, via Ross-on-Wye.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Herefordshire Council

Herefordshire Council is the local authority for the county of Herefordshire in England.

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Hits Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire

Hits Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network.

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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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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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ITV Central

ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television, Carlton Central, ITV1 for Central England and commonly referred to as simply Central, is the Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands.

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James Cowles Prichard

James Cowles Prichard (11 February 1786 – 23 December 1848) was a British physician and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry.

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Jesse Norman

Alexander Jesse Norman (born 23 June 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

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John Egerton (bishop)

John Egerton (30 November 1721 –18 June 1787) was a Church of England clergyman from the Egerton family who eventually rose to be Bishop of Durham.

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John Kyrle

John Kyrle (22 May 1637 – 7 November 1724), known as "the Man of Ross", was an English philanthropist, remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.

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John Kyrle High School

John Kyrle High School is a secondary school and sixth form in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.

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Junction station

Junction station usually refers to a railway station situated either on (in German this is called a Keilbahnhof) or close to a junction where lines to several destinations diverge.

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Juxon Barton

Sir Cecil James Juxon Talbot Barton (13 April 1891 – 29 September 1980) known as Sir Juxon Barton, was a British colonial administrator who twice served as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

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Ledbury railway station

Ledbury railway station is located on the outskirts of the town of Ledbury, on the Worcester to Hereford line in the English Midlands.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (colloquially known as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988.

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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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M50 motorway (England)

The M50 is a dual two-lane motorway in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, England.

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Market town

A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.

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Marquess of Bath

Marquess of Bath is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Met Office

The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service.

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Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is a Protestant Christian denomination in Britain, and the mother church to Methodists worldwide.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Monmouth

Monmouth (Trefynwy; meaning "town on the Monnow") is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated on where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border. Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth are river Wye and towns of the Welsh Marches.

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople were a British rock band formed in Herefordshire.

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Namutumba, Uganda

Namutumba is a town in the Namutumba District of the Eastern Region of Uganda.

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National Express Coaches

National Express, also abbreviated NX, is an intercity and inter-regional coach operator providing services throughout Great Britain.

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Noele Gordon

Joan Noele Gordon (25 December 1919 – 14 April 1985) was an English actress and television presenter, of Scottish descent.

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Nottingham alabaster

Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century.

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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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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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Pete Overend Watts

Peter Overend Watts (13 May 1947 – 22 January 2017) was an English bass guitar player and founding member of the 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople.

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Plague cross

The term plague cross can refer to either a mark placed on a building occupied by victims of plague; or a permanent structure erected, to enable plague sufferers to trade while minimising the risk of contagion.

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Plague pit

A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried.

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Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions.

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Ridge Hill transmitting station

The Ridge Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located 8.5 miles SE of Hereford in Herefordshire, and close to the border of Gloucestershire.

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River Wye

The River Wye (Afon Gwy) is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary.

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Roger Whittaker

Roger Henry Brough Whittaker (22 March 1936 – 13 September 2023) was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and musician.

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Ross and Monmouth Railway

The Ross and Monmouth Railway was a standard gauge railway of which ran between Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire, England and Monmouth, Wales.

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Ross Rowing Club

Ross Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Wye, based at The Ropewalk, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

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Ross, Scotland

Ross (Ros) is a region of Scotland.

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Ross-on-Wye railway station

Ross-on-Wye railway station is a former junction railway station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway constructed just to the north of the Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye.

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Ross-on-Wye weather station

The Ross-on-Wye weather station is a weather station, now fully automated, situated off the Walford Road in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.

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Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Secondary school

A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Spire

A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples.

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Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West is a bus operator providing services in Gloucestershire, Bristol, Swindon, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, North Somerset and Herefordshire, in the West of England.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Sunshine Radio (Herefordshire and Monmouthshire)

Sunshine Radio is an Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts to Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, areas of the West Midlands and South Wales respectively from its studios in Hereford.

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Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury is a market town and civil parish in the north of Gloucestershire, England.

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The Chase, Ross-on-Wye

The Chase in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire is a house of historical significance.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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Trades Union Congress

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions that collectively represent most unionised workers in England and Wales.

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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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United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom.

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Victoria Coach Station

Victoria Coach Station in the City of Westminster is the largest coach station in London, and a terminus for medium and long distance coach services in the United Kingdom.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross-on-Wye

Also known as Plague Cross, Ross Foreign, Ross On Wye, Ross, Herefordshire, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

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See also

Market towns in Herefordshire

River Wye

Towns in Herefordshire

Towns of the Welsh Marches

References