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    Wookey railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset, England. The site is a 0.04 hectare geological...
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    of Wells Forum. The now-closed Wookey Station, once lying on Cheddar Valley line branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, is a geological Site of Special...
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    ammonites in the subcontractus zone and the morrisi zone. Wookey Station Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting English Nature citation sheet for the site...
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  • Draycott station; Lodge Hill station; the adjacent settlement was Westbury-sub-Mendip, but that name was not chosen to avoid confusion; Wookey station; opened...
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    liberty of Wells St Andrew). Population centres in the parish are Dinder, Wookey Hole and East, West and South Horrington. It also includes the smaller settlements...
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    later German prisoners after the Battle of Normandy. Penleigh Camp on the Wookey Hole Road was a German working camp. Wells City Council is a parish council...
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    (Tucker Street) railway station. Wells (Tucker Street) railway station was the second terminus station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley...
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  • list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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  • Weare Wedmore Westhay Weston-super-Mare Westonzoyland Wick St Lawrence Wookey Woolavington Aller and Beer Woods Aller Hill Aller Moor Allerton Moor Ascott...
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    'registration' of clowns' make-up. Much of the collection is now on display at Wookey Hole. The Little Sisters of Jesus are a Roman Catholic community of religious...
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    (2002). Somerset Railway Stations. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. ISBN 978-1-904349-09-9. Butt, RJV (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stevens...
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  • factory, flying, and plans to electrify Wookey Hole, "the caves of the Druids". Eight pages of chapter 8, "Wookey Hole", were removed when the novel was...
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  • Hill railway station was a station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset, England from 1870 until 1963. The station served...
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    Hole. Some caves continued to be occupied until modern times, including Wookey Hole.[citation needed] The Somerset Levels—specifically dry points at Glastonbury...
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    ore was extracted from the hill above and east of Axbridge. Axbridge railway station, on the Cheddar Valley line, opened on 3 August 1869. It closed to...
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    Sandford once had its own railway station on the Cheddar Valley line, which ran from Yatton to Wells. The now-disused station is a Grade II listed building...
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    well as being popular with climbers, hillwalkers and natural historians. Wookey Hole Caves and some of the caves in Cheddar Gorge are open as show caves;...
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    It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route...
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    The Mendip transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills range in Somerset...
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    Taunton bus station was situated on Tower Street, Taunton, Somerset, England. It was opened by the Western National Omnibus Company in 1953 and closed...
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    Camping coach (category Railway coaches of the United Kingdom)
    people to travel by train to the stations where they were situated; they were also encouraged to make use of the railway to travel around the area during...
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    Woodlands – Westbury-sub-Mendip – Westcombe – Westhay – Whatley – WookeyWookey Hole – Worminster – Witham Friary Yarley A37 from Bristol to Yeovil...
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    construction materials for the reservoir and pumping station it also provided passenger services. Later the railway was used to bring coal for the pumps. Passenger...
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    The quarry is linked by a freight only railway line, part of the former Bristol and North Somerset Railway using trains operated by Mendip Rail, to...
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    Beckery), and then north through the Panborough-Bleadney gap in the Wedmore-Wookey Hills, to join the River Axe just north of Bleadney. This route made it...
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    Birdsville Courthouse (category Police stations in Queensland)
    by the Queensland Department of Works and built from 1888 to 1890 by J Wookey and Henry Walton. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21...
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    toothbrushes. Thales Defence closed its radar site (former EMI Electronics) near Wookey Hole, in St Cuthbert Out. Thales Underwater Systems (former Plessey Marine)...
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    way of a jetty near Burnham-on-Sea railway station. The railway also used a wharf near Highbridge railway station. A jetty was opened on the River Yeo...
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    Priddy Pools Site of Special Scientific Interest and continues south to Wookey Hole before entering the city of Wells, where it passes the Cathedral and...
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    Gerry Cottle's Circus, Moscow State Circus, Chinese State Circus; owner Wookey Hole Caves (1956–61; ran away to join the circus) Jason Cundy, Chelsea,...
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