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Todmorden, the Glossary

Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.^[1]

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Geography of Calderdale
Market towns in West Yorkshire
Towns in West Yorkshire

Aeolian processes

Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).

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Alan Godfrey

Alan Godfrey (born 30 June 1947) is a retired police constable of the West Yorkshire Police known for his 1980 report of an unidentified flying object.

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Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation.

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All Quiet on the Preston Front

All Quiet on the Preston Front is a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon.

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Autopsy

An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death; or the exam may be performed to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC North West

BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, North Yorkshire (western Craven), Derbyshire (western High Peak), Staffordshire (Biddulph), Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland) and the Isle of Man.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Yorkshire

BBC Yorkshire is one of the English regions of the BBC.

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BIT (alternative information centre)

BIT was an information service, publisher, travel guide and social centre founded in 1968 by John "Hoppy" Hopkins.

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Blackshaw

Blackshaw is a civil parish in the Calderdale metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. Todmorden and Blackshaw are civil parishes in West Yorkshire.

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Bouldering

Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses.

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Bramsche

Bramsche is a town in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Burnley

Burnley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021.

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Cairn

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.

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Calder Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

Calder Valley is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Josh Fenton-Glynn of the Labour Party.

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Calderdale

Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 211,439.

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Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Calderdale Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.

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Calderdale Way

The Calderdale Way is a long-distance footpath in West Yorkshire, England.

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Cardinal direction

The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.

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Casualty (TV series)

Casualty (stylised as CASUAL+Y since 1997) is a British medical drama series that is broadcast on BBC One.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was a British architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.

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Charles III

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.

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Cherie Blair

Cherie, Lady Blair (born 23 September 1954), also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is an English barrister and writer.

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Child care

Childcare, otherwise known as day care, is the care and supervision of a child or multiple children at a time, whose ages range from two weeks to 18 years.

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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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Claire Benedict

Claire Benedict (born 28 July 1951) is a British actress known for her work in classical productions on the British stage, but best known for portraying the principal character Mma Ramotswe in the continuing radio adaptations of The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

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Cornholme

Cornholme is a village in the market town of Todmorden, in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Cornholme railway station

Cornholme railway station served the village of Cornholme in West Yorkshire, England on the Copy Pit line.

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Counties of England

The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England.

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Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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Derek Shackleton

Derek Shackleton (12 August 1924 – 28 September 2007) was a Hampshire and England bowler.

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Derren Brown

Derren Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English mentalist, illusionist, and writer.

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Dicken Ashworth

Dicken Ashworth (born 18 July 1946) is an English actor.

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Dobroyd Castle

Dobroyd Castle is an important historic building above the town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.

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Doctors (2000 TV series)

Doctors is a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000.

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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.

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Eastwood (L&Y) railway station

Eastwood Railway Station served the village of Eastwood in the civil parish of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.

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Eastwood, West Yorkshire

Eastwood is a place within the civil parish of Todmorden and Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Todmorden and Eastwood, West Yorkshire are geography of Calderdale.

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Edwardian era

In the United Kingdom, the Edwardian era was a period in the early 20th century, that spanned the reign of King Edward VII from 1901 to 1910.

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Elizabethan architecture

Elizabethan architecture refers to buildings of a certain medieval style constructed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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Erringden

Erringden is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. Todmorden and Erringden are civil parishes in West Yorkshire.

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Felicia's Journey (film)

Felicia's Journey is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins.

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Fell running

Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty.

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Fortean Times

Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort.

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Fred Lawless

Fred Lawless is a British playwright from Liverpool who writes mainly for the stage, but also for television and radio.

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Geiger–Nuttall law

In nuclear physics, the Geiger–Nuttall law or Geiger–Nuttall rule relates the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted.

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General practitioner

A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice.

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Geoff Crowther

Geoff Crowther (15 March 1944 – 13 April 2021) was a British travel writer who wrote for BIT and Lonely Planet.

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Geoff Love

Geoffrey Love (4 September 1917 – 8 July 1991) was a prolific British arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes, famous in the late 1950s under the stage name Manuel and the Music of the Mountains.

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Geoffrey Wilkinson

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.

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Gilbert Bayes

Gilbert William Bayes (4 April 1872 – 10 July 1953) was an English sculptor.

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Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school.

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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Gritstone

Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Todmorden and Halifax, West Yorkshire are geography of Calderdale, market towns in West Yorkshire and towns in West Yorkshire.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Happy Valley (TV series)

Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series, set and filmed in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.

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Harold Shipman

Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English doctor in general practice and serial killer.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hauts-de-France

Hauts-de-France (Upper France, Picard: Heuts d'Franche) is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.

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Haymarket affair

The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Hebden Bridge

Hebden Bridge is a market town in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. Todmorden and Hebden Bridge are geography of Calderdale, market towns in West Yorkshire and towns in West Yorkshire.

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Hepton Rural District

Hepton was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1894 to 1974.

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Heptonstall

Heptonstall is a small village and civil parish within the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire, England, historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Todmorden and Heptonstall are civil parishes in West Yorkshire and geography of Calderdale.

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Hippie trail

Hippie trail (also the overland) is the name given to an overland journey taken by members of the hippie subculture and others from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s travelling from Europe and West Asia through South Asia via countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh to Thailand.

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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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Holby City

Holby City (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC One.

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Homonormativity

Homonormativity is the adoption of heteronormative ideals and constructs onto LGBT culture and identity.

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Hundersfield

Hundersfield (also more anciently known as Honersfield and Honnersfield) was a manor, parish and, from 1746, township, within the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, England.

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Hyde, Greater Manchester

Hyde is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 35,890 in 2021.

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Incredible Edible

The Incredible Edible project is an urban gardening project which was started in 2008 by Pamela Warhurst, Mary Clear and a group of like minded people in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is a British educational organisation providing resources and training for historical researchers.

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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ITV Yorkshire

ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network.

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James Hargreaves

James Hargreaves (– 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England.

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Janet Smith (judge)

Dame Janet Hilary Smith, (born 29 November 1940), styled The Rt Hon.

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Jenny Randles

Jenny Randles is a British author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), serving in that role from 1982 through to 1994.

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Jessie Bayes

Jessie Bayes (b. 1876 Hampstead, London - d. 1970) was a British Arts & Crafts artist who specialized in miniature paintings, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, iconography and more.

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John C. Wells

John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist.

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John Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

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John Fielden

John Fielden (17 January 1784 – 29 May 1849) was a British industrialist and Radical Member of Parliament for Oldham (1832–1847).

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John Gibson (architect)

John Gibson (2 June 1817 – 23 December 1892) was an English architect born at Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire.

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John Helliwell

John Anthony Helliwell (born 15 February 1945) is an English musician, best known as the saxophonist, secondary keyboardist, and backing vocalist for the rock band Supertramp.

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John Kay (flying shuttle)

John Kay (17 June 1704 – c. 1779) was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution.

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John Kettley

John Graham Kettley (born 11 July 1952 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a British freelance weather forecaster.

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John Mitchell Nuttall

John Mitchell Nuttall (21 July 1890 – 28 January 1958) was an English physicist, born in Todmorden.

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John Ramsbottom (engineer)

John Ramsbottom (11 September 1814 – 20 May 1897) was an English mechanical engineer.

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Johnston Press

Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767.

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Juliet Bravo

Juliet Bravo is a British television police procedural drama series, first broadcast on 30 August 1980, that ran for six series and a total of 88 episodes on BBC1.

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Jupiter Ascending

Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 space opera film written, directed and co-produced by the Wachowskis.

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Keith Emerson

Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 194411 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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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

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.

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Lancashire League (cricket)

The Lancashire League is a competitive league of local cricket clubs drawn from the small to middle-sized mill towns, mainly but not exclusively, of East Lancashire.

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Lenny Henry

Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is a British comedian, actor and writer.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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Lesbian feminism

"Names must not be purely numeric...they should have semantic value so that they can be more easily distinguished from each other by human editors." Do not use ":1", ":3", ":5", etc., as ref names.--> Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective that encourages women to focus their efforts, attentions, relationships, and activities towards their fellow women rather than men, and often advocates lesbianism as the logical result of feminism.

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Leyland Motors

Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was an English vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses.

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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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Life on Mars (British TV series)

Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007.

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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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Listed buildings in Todmorden (inner area)

Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Listed buildings in Todmorden (outer areas)

Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Littleborough, Greater Manchester

Littleborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Roch Valley by the foothills of the South Pennines, northeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 motorway are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge to the east.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Local Government Act 1888

The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales.

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Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher.

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Loom

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.

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Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state in northwestern Germany.

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Lumbutts

Lumbutts is a former mill village just to the south of Todmorden, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Manchester and Leeds Railway

The Manchester and Leeds Railway was a British railway company that built a line from Manchester to Normanton where it made a junction with the North Midland Railway, over which it relied on running powers to access Leeds.

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Mankinholes

Mankinholes is a hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, 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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Mary Towneley Loop

The Mary Towneley Loop is a circular route that forms part of the Pennine Bridleway National Trail, along the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

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Mayors in England

In England, the offices of mayor and lord mayor have long been ceremonial posts, with few or no duties attached to them.

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Member of the European Parliament

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Merisairas

Merisairas (Finnish: Seasick) is a 1996 thriller film directed by Veikko Aaltonen and starring Bob Peck, Katrin Cartlidge and Peter Firth.

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Metropolitan borough

A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England.

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Metropolitan county

Metropolitan counties are a subdivision of England which were originally used for local government.

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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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Mill (grinding)

A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking (MTB) is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes.

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Municipal borough

A municipal borough was a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1836 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.

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My Summer of Love

My Summer of Love is a 2004 British drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne.

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My Summer of Love (novel)

My Summer Of Love is a novel by Helen Cross, first published in Great Britain in 2001, winning a Betty Trask Award in the subsequent year.

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Mytholmroyd

Mytholmroyd (pronounced) is a large village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hebden Royd, in the Calderdale district, in West Yorkshire, England, east of Hebden Bridge. Todmorden and Mytholmroyd are geography of Calderdale.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Newspaper

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Nord (French department)

Nord (officially département du Nord; départémint dech Nord; Noorderdepartement) is a département in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium.

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Nuclear family

A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Open source

Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (TV serial)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a 1990 BBC television drama miniseries, directed by Beeban Kidron.

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Pace Egg play

The Pace Egg plays are an Easter custom in rural Northern England in the tradition of the medieval mystery plays.

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Packhorse

A packhorse, pack horse, or sumpter refers to a horse, mule, donkey, or pony used to carry goods on its back, usually in sidebags or panniers.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pennine Bridleway

The Pennine Bridleway is a National Trail in Northern England.

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Pennine Way

The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of uplands mainly located in Northern England.

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Peter Lever

Peter Lever (born 17 September 1940) is a former English cricketer, who played in seventeen Tests and ten ODIs for England from 1970 to 1975.

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Plurality block voting

Block plurality voting is a winner-take-all method for multi-winner elections.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Portsmouth (Lancs) railway station

Portsmouth railway station was on the Copy Pit line and served the village of Portsmouth, which was part of Lancashire, before being incorporated into the West Riding of Yorkshire in the late 1880s.

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Postal counties of the United Kingdom

The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996.

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Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television series devised by Lynda La Plante.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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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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Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public research university in Mile End, East London, England.

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Rebecca Taylor (politician)

Rebecca Elizabeth Taylor (born 10 August 1975) is a British health researcher and Liberal Democrat politician, who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2012 to 2014.

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Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.

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Ring cairn

A ring cairn (also correctly termed a ring bank enclosure, but sometimes wrongly described as a ring barrow) is a circular or slightly oval, ring-shaped, low (maximum 0.5 metres high) embankment, several metres wide and from 8 to 20 metres in diameter.

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River Calder, West Yorkshire

The River Calder is a river in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.

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Rochdale Canal

The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain.

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Roncq

Roncq (Ronk) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Rural district

A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.

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Ryknield Motor Company

The Ryknield Motor Company, originally established as the Ryknield Engine Company was a short-lived motor car manufacturer of the early twentieth century.

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Sally Wainwright

Sally Anne Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director.

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Samuel Fielden

Samuel "Sam" Fielden (February 25, 1847 – February 7, 1922) was an English-born American Methodist pastor, socialist, anarchist and labor activist who was one of eight convicted in the 1886 Haymarket bombing.

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Singletrack (magazine)

Singletrack is a UK-based mountain biking magazine and web site.

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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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Stansfield Hall railway station

Stansfield Hall railway station was the second station in Stansfield, Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England and was situated on the Copy Pit line.

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Stansfield, West Yorkshire

Stansfield is a place and township in the civil parish of Todmorden and Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England, which gave its name to Stansfield Hall, Stansfield Hall Railway Station, and an electoral ward in Todmorden, Calderdale. Todmorden and Stansfield, West Yorkshire are geography of Calderdale.

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Stoodley Pike

Stoodley Pike is a hill in the south Pennines in West Yorkshire in northern England.

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Summit Tunnel

Summit Tunnel in England is one of the world's oldest railway tunnels.

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Summit Tunnel fire

The Summit Tunnel fire occurred on 20 December 1984, when a dangerous goods train caught fire while passing through the Summit Tunnel on the railway line between Littleborough and Todmorden on the Greater Manchester/West Yorkshire border, England.

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Supertramp

Supertramp were a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada.

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The Bill

The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.

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The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen is a surreal British comedy horror sitcom that premiered on BBC Two in 1999.

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The Nice

The Nice were an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s.

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982, composed of Morrissey (vocals), Johnny Marr (guitar), Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums).

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

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Tim Benjamin (composer)

Tim Benjamin (born 1975) is an English composer.

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Tingley

Tingley is a suburban village in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, Northern England, forming part of the parish of West Ardsley.

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Todmorden Cricket Club

Todmorden Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Centre Vale in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

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Todmorden High School

Todmorden High School is a comprehensive school in the town of Todmorden, Calderdale LEA, West Yorkshire, England.

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Todmorden Markets

Todmorden Markets consist of an indoor market held in the Public Market Hall and an outdoor open air market held to the front of the Public Market Hall in central Todmorden adjacent to the Town Hall.

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Todmorden railway station

Todmorden railway station serves the town of Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England, originally on the Yorkshire and Lancashire border.

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Todmorden Town Hall

Todmorden Town Hall is a municipal building in Halifax Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.

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Todmorden Unitarian Church

Todmorden Unitarian Church is a Unitarian church located in Honey Hole Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.

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Todmorden War Memorial

Todmorden War Memorial is a war memorial located in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.

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Tomb

A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.

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Tony Blair

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Tony Booth (actor)

Anthony George Booth (9 October 1931 – 25 September 2017) was an English actor, best known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part.

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Township (England)

In England, a township (Latin: villa) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church.

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Turnpike trust

Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Unforgiven (TV series)

Unforgiven is a three-part British television drama series, written by Sally Wainwright and directed by David Evans, that first broadcast on ITV (ITV1 and UTV) in January 2009, and later on STV in 2012.

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Upper Calder Valley

The Upper Calder Valley lies in West Yorkshire, in northern England, and covers the towns of Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, and Sowerby Bridge, as well as a number of smaller settlements such as Portsmouth, Cornholme, Walsden, and Eastwood. Todmorden and Upper Calder Valley are geography of Calderdale.

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References

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

Also known as Municipal Borough of Todmorden, Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, Todmorden, Yorkshire.

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