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    Shillingstone /ˈʃɪlɪŋstən/ is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour between Sturminster...
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    the Shillingstone Station Project, the North Dorset Railway Trust and the Shillingstone Railway Project) is a heritage railway based at Shillingstone railway...
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    Shillingstone railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), serving the village of Shillingstone in the English county...
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    Shillingstone Quarry SSSI, Dorset (grid reference ST823098) is an 8.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified...
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    line to working condition, notably at Midsomer Norton in Somerset and Shillingstone in Dorset. The fame of the Somerset & Dorset line reached its peak in...
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    standard. On 21 December 2005, the locomotive was relocated to the Shillingstone Railway Project on the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, in...
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    had roots in Cheshire and Kent. The Fry family originates around the Shillingstone and Blandford areas of Dorset; in the early 1800s, Samuel Fry settled...
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    children. As a child he played for South London Schools, attending Shillingstone Street School. Mead holds many batting records, notably that of scoring...
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    horseshoe with Bell Hill. Another spur runs east from Turnworth Down to Shillingstone Hill, site of a quarry and a popular cross-country race. A trig point...
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    village, through neighbouring Shillingstone, until the line closed in 1966 under the Beeching cuts. The Shillingstone Station, however, is being refurbished...
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    railway station The North Dorset Railway (formerly the Shillingstone Railway Project) at Shillingstone railway station The Gartell Light Railway, a narrow...
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    recently come out of retirement to play for Dorset Division 3 side Shillingstone CC. He bats at 5 after claiming he is "untested at this level". Kumar...
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    Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine. Toronto, Ontario: Shillingstone Press. ISBN 978-0-9780621-6-3. Turner, Ralph V. (2009). Eleanor of Aquitaine:...
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    Milton Abbas, Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Pimperne, Pulham Shaftesbury, Shillingstone, Silton, Spetisbury, Stalbridge, Stoke Wake, Stourpaine, Stour Provost...
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  • Valley Railway, Marsh Mills, Plympton, Devon North Dorset Railway, Shillingstone, Dorset Somerset & Dorset Railway, Midsomer Norton, Somerset South Devon...
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    Railway Centre, Devon Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon Shillingstone Railway Project, Dorset Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust Swanage...
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    Hinton St Mary Horsington Marnhull Mere Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Shillingstone Stalbridge Stour Provost Stourton Caundle Sturminster Newton Templecombe...
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    way the North Dorset Railway (previously the Shillingstone Station Project) is undertaking at Shillingstone railway station. The remains of Midford railway...
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    Milton Abbas Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Pimperne Pulham Shaftesbury Shillingstone Silton Spetisbury Stalbridge Stoke Wake Stourpaine Stour Provost Stour...
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    railway station in the English county of Dorset. It was located between Shillingstone and Blandford Forum on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. The station...
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  • Orcas, Seaborough, Seatown, Sea View, Shaftesbury, Shapwick, Sherborne, Shillingstone, Shipton Gorge, Shitterton, Silton, Sixpenny Handley, Slades Farm, Slepe...
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    causing rapid luxuriant growth. Long-term observations of fairy rings on Shillingstone Hill in Dorset, England, further suggested that the cycle depended on...
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    Pre-School. The school has now closed and the children are bused to Shillingstone Primary School, nearby. Within the parish are 61 structures that are...
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  • Lydlinch, Manston, Marnhull, Okeford Fitzpaine (includes Belchalwell), Shillingstone, Stalbridge, Stoke Wake, Stourton Caundle, Sturminster Newton, Woolland...
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    (252 m) Ball Hill (251 m) Dogbury Hill (248 m) Beaminster Down (244 m) Shillingstone Hill (223 m), a densely wooded scarp face with a large quarry. Rampisham...
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    1985 Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Pathfinder Series, sheet 1281 (ST81/91), Shillingstone & Tollard Royal, published 1987, ISBN 0-319-21281-5 "Parish Profiles"...
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    Milton Abbas Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Pimperne Pulham Shaftesbury Shillingstone Silton Spetisbury Stalbridge Stoke Wake Stourpaine Stour Provost Stour...
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    Milton Abbas Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Pimperne Pulham Shaftesbury Shillingstone Silton Spetisbury Stalbridge Stoke Wake Stourpaine Stour Provost Stour...
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    Milton Abbas Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Pimperne Pulham Shaftesbury Shillingstone Silton Spetisbury Stalbridge Stoke Wake Stourpaine Stour Provost Stour...
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    Milton Abbas Motcombe Okeford Fitzpaine Pimperne Pulham Shaftesbury Shillingstone Silton Spetisbury Stalbridge Stoke Wake Stourpaine Stour Provost Stour...
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