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    Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, close to the town of Gretna, on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish...
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  • Look up Gretna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gretna may refer to: Gretna, Tasmania Gretna, Manitoba Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway Gretna Green, Dumfries...
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    Gretna Green services is a motorway service station near the village of Gretna Green, Scotland and the town of Gretna. The service station is located...
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  • Gretna (Scottish Gaelic: Greatna) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, originally part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire. It is located...
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    Gretna Green is a railway station on the Glasgow South Western Line, which runs between Carlisle and Glasgow Central via Kilmarnock. The station, situated...
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    Gretna Green is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It is based on the...
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  • California – a 4-bedroom, Tudor-style house with 3,400 square feet on Gretna Green Way where she lived for 2 years. Simpson filed for divorce on February...
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  • Gretna Football Club was a Scottish professional football club based in the town of Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, close to the border between England...
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  • Gretna Football Club 2008 (commonly referred to as Gretna 2008 and colloquially as Gretna) is a football club from the town of Gretna. It is the phoenix...
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    the early 1940s it was called Gretna Green Wedding Chapel, named after the Scottish wedding destination of Gretna Green. Elvis Presley visited the chapel...
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    which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people...
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    e. the Philadelphia metropolitan area). Elkton was once known as the Gretna Green of the East of the US because of its popularity as a place for eloping...
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    Gretna is a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 9,071 at the 2022 census. Gretna started shortly after the Burlington Railroad...
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  • Wreck Site at New Gretna is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as site #88001899. New Gretna was named after Gretna Green in Scotland. As...
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    Gretna is the second-largest city in, and parish seat of, Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Gretna lies on the west bank of the Mississippi...
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    Western Line Auchinleck New Cumnock Kirkconnel Sanquhar Dumfries Annan Gretna Green Carlisle In the latter years of British Rail, operations were sectorised...
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    law is 16, while it is 18 under English law. The border settlements of Gretna Green to the west, and Coldstream and Lamberton to the east, were convenient...
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    In March 2023, Fletcher married theatre actor Joel Montague at Gretna Green in Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Together, they have one child...
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  • needed] "Meet the Workers". You Rang, M'Lord?.[season and episode needed] "Gretna Green or Bust". You Rang, M'Lord?.[season and episode needed] "The Night of...
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    Gretna was Britain's largest cordite factory during the First World War. The government-owned facility was adjacent to the Solway Firth, near Gretna,...
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    connect the M8 motorway in central Glasgow to the Scottish-English border at Gretna. They are part of the unsigned international E-road network E05. Although...
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    wedding, Dibnah and 19-year-old hairdresser Alison Mary Foster eloped to Gretna Green, to get married. Dibnah had first spotted Alison from the top of a chimney...
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    Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union. The most famous town on the Sark is Gretna Green, best known for its wedding industry. The A74(M) motorway passes over...
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  • 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley. The couple were married in Gretna Green, Scotland, and travelled to Calais, France, before Turner's father was...
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    without the need for reading the banns, and the village was known as the Gretna Green of Derbyshire. The Peak Forest Canal, although originally aiming for...
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    England and Wales eloping to Scotland to marry at border towns such as Gretna Green was due to England, at the time, having much higher minimum ages for...
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    daily packet boat. During this period, Portpatrick was known as the "Gretna Green for Ireland". The lifeboat station at Donaghadee harbour, founded in...
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    ISBN 978-1-911582-92-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 September 2021. "Green light for £55m Scottish Government investment in decarbonisation". Transport...
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  • he met Laura Liddell, also an actress; subsequently they married at Gretna Green in 1933. After appearing with Entertainments National Service Association...
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  • Literature portal Age disparity in sexual relationships Clarissa Evelina Gretna Green The Courtship of Miles Standish Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (London...
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