West Bretton is a village and civil parish in the Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies close to junction 38 of the M1 motorway at Haigh. It has...
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Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a...
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Bretton may refer to: Bretton, Derbyshire Bretton, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire Monk Bretton in South Yorkshire West Bretton in West Yorkshire Bretton...
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Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training...
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King George III granted Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall, a country house in West Bretton, West Yorkshire, and 82 others, a parcel of 24,640 acres...
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it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Monk Bretton has been a settlement since medieval times and was originally known as just 'Bretton'. It is sometimes...
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The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries...
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Huddersfield Wakefield Museum, Wakefield West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield Emley Moor, site of...
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Sally Davis (born 23 April 1980), known professionally as Sally Bretton, is an English actress. She is best known for appearing as Lucy Adams in the long-running...
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park (category West Bretton)
gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international...
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Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed...
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Bretton's was a high-end department store in Canada from 1985 to 1996. The first two Bretton's stores were opened in Ottawa in 1985 by the parent company...
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Nixon shock (redirect from Collapse of the Bretton Woods system)
existing Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, the suspension of one of its key components effectively rendered the Bretton Woods system...
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West Bretton is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 40 listed buildings...
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title became extinct on his death in 1631. The Wentworth Baronetcy, of West Bretton in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 27...
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St Michael's Church Westgate End, Wakefield Church of England Serves the west end of Wakefield St Paul's Church St Paul's Drive, Alverthorpe, Wakefield...
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Thomas Wentworth resided in West Bretton, England, on his estate called Bretton Hall, after which the township was named "Bretton Woods". On the 1816 Carrigain...
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Colonel Hamish Stephen de Bretton-Gordon OBE (born September 1963) is a chemical weapons expert. He was a British Army officer for 23 years and commanding...
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Bretton Hall may refer to: Bretton Hall, Flintshire, former fortified manor house on the England/Wales border Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, country house...
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Gallery England - Yorkshire Sculpture Park - On Display until 2024 in West Bretton, UK Georgia – Tbilisi – Bidzina Ivanishvili[clarification needed] palace...
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ordained priest in 1994 and served as priest in charge of Woolley with West Bretton from 1995 to 2001. Catherine became Vicar of Huddersfield in 2001. She...
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interest along the Dearne include the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton, and Monk Bretton Priory. The Dearne Valley below Barnsley is a regeneration area...
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Bretton Woods Mountain Resort is a ski area located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, across from the Mount Washington Hotel, which owns it. The resort...
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the 2006–07 academic year, some courses were taught at the Bretton Hall campus in West Bretton. The site closed in summer 2007 after which the courses taught...
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Cairns", "Moonlit Path" (Petworth, West Sussex, 2002) and "Chalk Stones" in the South Downs, near West Dean, West Sussex he has employed the use of machine...
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International monetary system (redirect from Bretton Woods II)
Alternatively, it can arise from a single architectural vision, as happened at Bretton Woods in 1944. Throughout history, precious metals such as gold and silver...
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Bretton Hall is a twelve-story residential building at 2350 Broadway, spanning from West 85th to 86th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York...
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Bretton is a settlement and civil parish on the north western edge of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire...
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pianist to the queen of Hanover. Robena Anna Keddy Laidlaw was born in West Bretton in Yorkshire in 1819. She was the daughter of Alexander Laidlaw who was...
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Woolley Edge services (category Economy of West Yorkshire)
borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies between junctions 38 and 39 close to West Bretton and west of the village of Woolley. The...
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