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    Desford is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of England, 7 miles (11 km) west of the centre of Leicester and around 7 miles...
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    Royal Air Force Desford or more simply RAF Desford is a former Royal Air Force station located one mile (1.6 km) south of Desford, Leicestershire, and...
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    The Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 Desford is a British twin-engined, three-seat advanced trainer developed in the Second World War for postwar use. Although...
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  • engineering company based at New Malden in Surrey. It later acquired sites at Desford and Braunstone in Leicestershire. Initially it developed and manufactured...
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  • British actor and narrator. Royce is best known for his roles as DC Jamie Desford in the fourth series of Line of Duty and as Reece in Murdered by My Boyfriend...
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    Desford Lane, it was renamed Desford by 26 April 1833. This station was closed on 27 March 1848, being replaced by a new station, also named Desford,...
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  • as Suzanne Hope Joey Ansah as Stuart Hope Tamica Greenaway as DC Marisa Desford Ace Bhatti as Parth Kuhalam Yinka Awoni as Peter Ince Camilla Arfwedson...
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  • They are also assisted by PC Maneet Bindra (Maya Sondhi) and DC Jamie Desford (Royce Pierreson), who is briefly assigned to the team. The unit investigates...
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  • revolves around the character of the twenty-nine-year-old Viscount Ashley Desford and his mission to save Charity Steane from a precarious life with her...
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    Newbold Verdon with Desford and Peckleton (3 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats Joyce Crooks* 1,593 61.0 +6.1 Liberal Democrats Mark...
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  • due to his age was rejected. Instead he worked in an aircraft factory at Desford aerodrome near Leicester to "do his bit for the war effort". Livesey was...
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    Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth, Castle, Clarendon, De Montfort, Desford and Peckleton, Earl Shilton, Markfield, Newbold Verdon, Sheepy and Witherley...
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    Boulton Paul Defiant TT Mk III target tug, number N1697; RAF Desford, May 1944. Note the wind-driven generator that provided power for the target winch...
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  • Miles M.18 (RAF) trainer Miles M.20 (RAF) fighter Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 Desford (RAF) rejected trainer Supermarine B.12/36 (Type 317) Supermarine Type...
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  • had a total caseload of 442. Mr. Alexander, who started his career at Desford approved school in 1921, retired in 1961. He noted that since he arrived...
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  • Sywell No. 7 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School 25 November 1935 Desford 3 September 1939 Unknown No. 8 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School...
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    It is in the civil parish of Desford and about a mile northeast of the village. Newtown Unthank was the site of Desford railway station on the Leicester...
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  • Carl Haleford Mackinley Guest as Hannah Mancetta Carla Henry as Julie Desford "Homefront, ITV1, review". Chater, David. "Thursday's TV: Homefront". "New...
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  • meeting place of the Sparkenhoe Hundred was probably at Shericles Farm near Desford (SK467026), which derives from scirac meaning "the hundred oak". Sparkenhoe...
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    coach of the Scotland national netball team. Greenway is originally from Desford, Leicestershire. She was educated at the local community primary school...
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    Desborough DS England Northamptonshire 1944 1948 Assigned to USAAF RAF Desford England Leicestershire 1916 1953 Owned by Caterpillar Inc. since 1953,...
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  • Donna Deangelo, Rob Norbury as Mark Peterborough, Michael Hawkins as Nigel Desford 4 Lewis Arnold Unknown 16 October 2023 (2023-10-16) 5.52 Guest cast: Harry...
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    at Leicester in 1990. He was educated at Bosworth Community College in Desford and at Oakham School. Cobb scored a double century for the England Under...
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    eastern edges of the borough lie several settlements (including Bagworth, Desford, Groby, Markfield, Ratby and Thornton) which largely relate to Leicester;...
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  • Bosworth School and Community College (formerly Dixie Grammar School) in Desford. He studied history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, under Maurice Cowling, and...
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  • Newbold Verdon, attending school in Market Bosworth and Bosworth College in Desford. He was in the 1st Newbold Verdon Scout Group, gaining the Chief Scout's...
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    the village of Thornton in the National Forest. It then flows through Desford and Ratby before being joined by a tributary from Kirby Muxloe just before...
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    Lands, within the Manor and Parish of Coleby, in the County of Lincoln. Desford and Peckleton (Leicestershire) inclosures. 32 Geo. 2. c. 54 2 June 1759...
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    it that I am not hurt". The Church of Desford He also began preaching to a small chapel in the village of Desford from 1794. This congregation had a proper...
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  • October 1943 Rearsby Aerodrome Cadet TX.1 RAF Bruntingthorpe RAF Desford RAF Desford 1950 Reformed as 44 Gliding School 44 Gliding School 7 July 1951...
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