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    St Bees is a coastal village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Copeland district of Cumbria, England, on the Irish Sea. Within the parish is St...
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  • St Bees Man was the name given to the extremely well preserved body of a medieval man discovered in the grounds of St Bees Priory, Cumbria, in 1981. His...
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  • St Bees School is a co-educational fee-charging school, located in the West Cumbrian village of St Bees, England. In 1583, it was founded by Edmund Grindal...
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    63229 St Bees Head St Bees Head is a headland on the North West coast of the English county of Cumbria and is named after the nearby village of St Bees. It...
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    3°35′36″W / 54.493777°N 3.593461°W / 54.493777; -3.593461 St Bees Priory is the parish church of St Bees, Cumbria, in England. There is evidence for a pre-Norman...
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    St Bees Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on St Bees Head near the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. The cliff-top light is the highest in England...
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  • its live home/remote coverage of St. Ambrose University sports events. This includes SAU's Fighting Bees/Queen Bees basketball, football, and baseball...
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    Wainwright recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and, at the end of the walk, in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. It has...
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    St Bees Theological College, close to the coast of Cumberland, was the first independent theological college to be established for the training of Church...
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  • The History of St. Bees School encompasses more than four hundred years of British history. It was founded in 1583 as a Free Grammar School by the dying...
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    within the "Preston Quarter" of the parish of St Bees, and the town's churches were chapels-of-ease of St Bees until 1835 when three ecclesiastical districts...
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    Rowan Atkinson (category People educated at St Bees School)
    educated at the Durham Chorister School, a preparatory school, and then at St Bees School. Rodney, Rowan and their older brother Rupert were brought up in...
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    St Bees railway station is a railway station serving the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast line, which runs between...
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  • that are protected within the park include (portion of) Keswick Island, St Bees Island, Cockermouth Island, and Scawfell Island (formerly named L Island)...
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    respectively. Kirkby Stephen (close to Tan Hill, North Yorkshire) and St Bees Head are the most easterly and westerly points of the county. The boundaries...
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    The list of headmasters of St. Bees School includes the men and one woman who have held the headmastership of St. Bees School in west Cumbria (formerly...
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    St Bees Head RSPB Reserve at St Bees Head, Cumbria, England, is a coastal site which provides a home for thousands of seabirds under the care of the RSPB...
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    Edmund Grindal (category People from St Bees)
    St Bees Priory, though this is not recorded. It is believed by Collinson that both Grindal and Edwin Sandys shared a childhood, quite probably in St Bees...
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  • Kenworthy was a noted Cumberland artist, who lived at Seacroft House, St Bees, a coastal village south of Whitehaven. He painted both portraits and landscapes...
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  • St Bees is a civil parish in the Borough of Copeland, Cumbria, England. It contains 38 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England...
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    Saint Bega (redirect from St Bee)
    medieval Irish saint of Northumbria, venerated primarily in the town of St Bees. According to her Life, she was an Irish princess who fled to Northumbria...
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  • coast and beneath the Vale of Eden. It comprises the St Bees Evaporite and the overlying St Bees Shale Formation which are between 0 and 100m and 0 and...
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    6426667°N 2.6722278°W / 51.6426667; -2.6722278 The Parish and Priory Church of St Mary is located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. Parts of the...
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    evacuated to St. Bees School in Cumberland for the duration of the Second World War. Collinson House, a school for girls, was named for it. A St Bees Association...
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    (including the Solway Plain) from Dumfries and Galloway. It stretches from St Bees Head, just south of Whitehaven in Cumbria, to the Mull of Galloway, on...
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  • the River Eden, Annan and Gretna, both in Scotland. Luce Bay, Wigtown, St Bees, Aspatria These are connected to, or form part of, the North Sea. Dornoch...
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    honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and...
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    after (from south to north) St. John the Evangelist, St. Michael, and St. Andrew. The chapels of St. Nicholas, St. Edmund, and St. Benedict are in the south...
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    Edwin Sandys (bishop) (category People from St Bees)
    childhood, quite probably in St Bees, and were educated together. A branch of the Sandys family lived at Rottington Hall near St Bees. The heralds in 1563 knew...
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    following example, attributed to W.S. Gilbert: There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp, When asked, "Does it hurt?" He replied...
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