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    Moor Crichel (/ˈkrɪtʃəl/) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Crichel, in East Dorset, England situated on Cranborne Chase five...
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    Long Crichel (/ˈkrɪtʃəl/) is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Crichel, in east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase...
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    Crichel House is a Grade I listed Classical Revival country house near the village of Moor Crichel in Dorset, England. The house has an entrance designed...
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  • The Crichel Down affair was a British political scandal of 1954, with a subsequent effect and notoriety. The Crichel Down Rules are guidelines applying...
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    Crichel is a civil parish in East Dorset, England. It was formed on 1 April 2015 following the merger of Long Crichel and Moor Crichel parishes. It is...
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    Conservative Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Down Affair, often quoted as a classic example of the convention of individual...
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  • made legal history in the Crichel Down affair. Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt was born on 12 September 1929 at Moor Crichel, the daughter of Napier Sturt...
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  • Sturt. Marten's sister is the writer Charlotte Mosley. Marten grew up in Crichel House, (which he subsequently inherited) a palatial 18th-century Georgian...
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    was Forster's junior by 46 years. They met at Long Crichel House, a Georgian rectory in Long Crichel, Dorset, a country retreat shared by Edward Sackville-West...
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  • He is also a landowner in Dorset, England, and owns the Crichel Down estate, including Crichel House, which he bought for £34 million in 2013. Lopez, Linette...
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    St Mary's Church is in the village of Long Crichel, Dorset, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church that has been under the care of the Friends...
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    peer and Conservative politician Henry Sturt was made Baron Alington, of Crichel in the County of Dorset, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was the...
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  • then either agreed or (failing which) is set by the Lands Tribunal. The Crichel Down principles oblige central and local government, when, having acquired...
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    1946 and 1990. Cranborne Chase School opened in 1946 at Crichel House in the village of Moor Crichel in Dorset, England. In 1961, the school moved to New...
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    Together with Shawe-Taylor and the art dealer Eardley Knollys he bought Long Crichel House, an old rectory near Wimborne. Along with the literary critic Raymond...
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    Wimborne Minster. It has two main tributaries, the Gussage Stream and the Crichel Stream. The River Allen starts as a winterbourne at Wyke Farm in Monkton...
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  • exposes, leading to the resignation of his minister from parliament (cf. the Crichel Down affair). The film is based around the fictionalised events of a massacre...
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  • Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England Moor Island, uninhabited Canadian Arctic...
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  • worry over lack of cohesion and supervision. The catalyst for this was the Crichel Down Affair. However, this was a result of a decision by the British Government...
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    to the Barony on 30 July 1919 on the death of his father. He owned the Crichel House estate in Dorset. He married Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, daughter...
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    estimated population of 80. Starting in the north east the parish adjoins Moor Crichel, Witchampton, Pamphill, Shapwick, Tarrant Crawford, Tarrant Keynston and...
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  • headhunting) committed by British troops during the Malayan Emergency. Crichel Down and the resignation of Thomas Dugdale (1954) Suez Crisis (1956) Vassall...
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    British diplomat Harold Nicolson. Mortimer joined the three owners of Long Crichel House in Dorset, friends Edward Sackville West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and...
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    Ferndown Gussage Hinton Martell, Hinton Parva, Holt, Horton Long Crichel Moor Crichel Pamphill, Pentridge St Ives, St Leonards, Shapwick, Sixpenny Handley...
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  • Council. The Cranborne Chase ward is rural and covers the civil parishes of Crichel, Gussage All Saints, Gussage St Michael, Langton Long Blandford, Sixpenny...
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  • maladministration. The formulation of some guidelines took place during the Crichel Down Affair in 1954 in which the Minister of Agriculture, Thomas Dugdale...
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    have three sons, including her younger brother, Tobias. She grew up in Crichel House in Dorset; but became estranged from her family around 2012. She...
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    appointed deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire on 2 July 1951. During the Crichel Down affair, which led to the resignation of minister Thomas Dugdale, Carington...
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  • politician. His most notable contribution was to bring to public attention the Crichel Down affair, in which the Government's failure to sell requisitioned land...
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  • Littledown, Littlemoor, Litton Cheney, Loders, Longfleet, Long Bredy, Long Crichel, Longburton, Lower Mannington, Lower Wraxall, Lydlinch, Lyme Regis, Lytchett...
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