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    Gilwell Park is a camp site and activity centre in East London located in the Sewardstonebury area of Waltham Abbey, within Epping Forest, near the border...
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    Wood Badge (redirect from Gilwell Reunion)
    "Skipper" Gidney and lectured at by Robert Baden-Powell and others at Gilwell Park (United Kingdom) in September 1919. Wood Badge training has since spread...
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  • Gilwell may refer to: Gilwell Park, a Scouting centre near London Gilwell Campsite, a Scouting campsite in Hong Kong Gilwell Park (Victoria), a Scouting...
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    1900. Another report is that William 'Bill' Shankley, while working at Gilwell Park with Scouting's founder, prior to 1922, called it a woggle, 'a name given...
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    The Gilwell Oak is an oak tree on the grounds of The Scout Association's headquarters at Gilwell Park, Essex. It is reputed to have been used as a hiding...
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    at Gilwell Park. The car, nicknamed Jam Roll, was sold after his death by Olave Baden-Powell in 1945. Jam Roll and Eccles were reunited at Gilwell for...
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  • Power-Boating Scuba diving Ski touring Survival Water skiing Gilwell Park, named after the original Gilwell Park in the United Kingdom, is a campsite, activity and...
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    the organisation's property, runs the conference centres located at Gilwell Park and 65 Queen's Gate and manages sponsorship and marketing for the organisation...
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    owned scout centres such as Gilwell Park. Gilwell 24 is an annual event that takes place at the home of UK Scouting, Gilwell Park, North London. It comprises...
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    Corporation; entirely within it is the village of High Beach. In the south is Gilwell Park, which since 1919 has formed an important site for the worldwide Scout...
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    Gilwell Park housing all the association's staff. The decision was in part led by the deteriorating condition of the historic White House at Gilwell Park...
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  • 2004 were Downe Scout Activity Centre, for the Southern Home counties, Gilwell Park, recognised as headquarters of the association and spiritual home of...
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  • contributing funds for an indoor accommodation centre for Wolf Cubs at Gilwell Park which would go on to be named the Dorothy Hughes Pack Holiday Centre...
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    Chief of Gilwell Park from 1943 to 1969 and scouting’s first International Director of Adult Leader Training In 1943, he introduced the Gilwell woggle as...
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    and combined Boy Scout and Girl Guide associations in many countries. Gilwell Park near London was purchased in 1919 on behalf of The Scout Association...
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    original bronze" was cast and placed at Gilwell Park, the original remained at Scout Headquarters in London. Gilwell was requisitioned by the War Ministry...
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    extends into Sewardstone at Gilwell Hill. To the east is High Beach. The headquarters of the world Scout movement, Gilwell Park, is in Sewardstone. Sewardstonebury...
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    George Baden-Powell, at The Scout Association's national headquarters at Gilwell Park in Essex. Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical...
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  • most recognized as the first major benefactor of Scouting by donating Gilwell Park in 1919. William Frederick de Bois Maclaren was born on 17 November 1856...
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  • Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland The White House, the manor house at Gilwell Park, headquarters of The Scout Association First White House of the Confederacy...
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    nationally owned scout centres such as Gilwell Park. Winter Camp is held on a weekend in January at Gilwell Park, North London. The event, hosted for Scouts...
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  • for organising the first two international Scout and Guide camps at Gilwell Park in 1959 and 1961. These events are called Witans, named after the Anglo-Saxon...
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    Gilwell Campsite (Chinese: 基維爾營地) a major campsite run by the Scout Association of Hong Kong for wild camping and other scouting activities in the Kowloon...
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    Baden-Powell House Brownsea Island Edith Macy Conference Center Foxlease Gilwell Park Kandersteg Pax Hill Philmont Scouting memorials Baden-Powell grave Scouting...
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    as an adult became a Scoutmaster. He earned his Wood Badge beads at Gilwell Park in England. When the Svenska Scoutrådet formed he served as its first...
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    Scout camp (redirect from Scout Park)
    both Scouts and the community at large. The world's first scout park was Gilwell Park near London, purchased by the British Scout Association in 1919...
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    Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell to test his ideas for the book Scouting for Boys. Gilwell Park is one of twelve national centres run directly by or in partnership with...
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  • House Gilwell Park Conference Centres" (PDF). Scouts Conference Centres Brochure. The Scout Association. 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2021. Gilwell Park London...
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  • of the World. This award is represented by a small buffalo statue in Gilwell Park. The second went to the Unknown Scout who inspired William D. Boyce to...
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    Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex. This site was selected because of the easy access to air and sea transport, and it is also near Gilwell Park, an important...
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