Ackworth is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It stands between Pontefract, Barnsley and Doncaster...
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Ackworth School is a private day and boarding school located in the village of High Ackworth, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is one of seven...
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Ackworth may refer to: Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England Ackworth railway station, closed many years ago Ackworth, Iowa, US Acworth (disambiguation) This...
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Ackworth is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 36 listed buildings that...
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The Ackworth Hoard is a Post-Medieval hoard dating from the English Civil War from Ackworth, West Yorkshire. The hoard was found by Dr Owen Johnson in...
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Child (band) (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
Child are a British pop group that released a number of records, including a top-10 single in 1978. The band were originally a four-piece, consisting of...
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Brenda Swinbank (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, the youngest of five siblings. She married Peter Heywood, a teacher and colleague at the Friends' School in Ackworth, with...
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West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east...
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Luke Howard (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
French Consul to London. Howard spent the years 1824 to 1852 in Ackworth, Yorkshire. Luke Howard has been called "the father of meteorology" for his...
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George Baker (mayor) (category Mayors of Birmingham, West Midlands)
long-established Quaker family. He was educated at the Friends' School, Ackworth, West Yorkshire, but started work at his father's blacking factory aged 15. He...
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Pontefract (redirect from Pontefract, West Yorkshire)
Shipman spent some time working here. Listed buildings in Pontefract Ackworth, West Yorkshire Pontefract Hermitage "Pontefract South Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood...
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Rhubarb Triangle (redirect from Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb)
The Rhubarb Triangle is a 9-square-mile (23 km2) area of West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley, and Rothwell famous for producing early forced...
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Ackworth railway station was a railway station serving Ackworth in the English county of West Yorkshire. The station was opened by the Swinton and Knottingley...
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Edmund Tempest (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
victories. Edmund Tempest was born at the family estate of Ackworth Grange, in Ackworth, Yorkshire, the son of Wilfrid Francis Tempest, a member of the notable...
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(disambiguation) Oakfield School (Swindon), Wiltshire Oakfield Park School, Ackworth, West Yorkshire Oakfield Preparatory School, Dulwich, London Oakfield High School...
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Oakfield Park School (category Yorkshire school stubs)
(formerly OakTree School) is a coeducational special school in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England. In early 2000s Oakfield Tree School was renamed into...
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Graham Stevenson (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
was spent mainly with Yorkshire and, latterly, Northamptonshire. Stevenson was born in 1955 in Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a right-armed...
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Listed buildings in England (section West Yorkshire)
buildings in Ackworth, West Yorkshire Listed buildings in Badsworth Listed buildings in Castleford Listed buildings in Chevet, West Yorkshire Listed buildings...
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Irvin Barraclough (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
was born in Ackworth, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, his birth was registered in Hemsworth district, West Riding of Yorkshire, after his...
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parishes straddled two or more counties, such as Todmorden in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Such anomalies mostly arose in the height of the feudal system, when...
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Harry Gilpin (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
educationalist who founded a novel school. He was given a Quaker education at Ackworth School where there was learning tracts and the art classes concentrated...
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1962) (nee Beatrice Wood) was a British tennis player from Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England active from 1884 to 1897. She was a two time semi...
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Thomas Thistlewood (category Planters from the British West Indies)
16 March 1721. The second son of a farmer, he was educated in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, where he received training in mathematics and "practical science...
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A parish council community centre, Ackworth, West Yorkshire...
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William Nelstrop (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
1877) was a British miller and political figure. Hailing from Ackworth, West Yorkshire, he began milling at the Nelstrop family farm before establishing...
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John Fowler (agricultural engineer) (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
his health. He was advised to take more rest and so he retired to Ackworth in Yorkshire, to recuperate. He was persuaded to take up hunting as a way of...
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buildings in Ackworth, West Yorkshire Listed buildings in Badsworth Listed buildings in Castleford Listed buildings in Chevet, West Yorkshire Listed buildings...
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Co-op supermarket in Ackworth, West Yorkshire in 1990s–2000s branding....
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Daryl Powell (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
Trinity ahead of the 2024 campaign. Powell was born in Ackworth, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Powell was selected to go on the 1992 Great...
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Wulstan Tempest (category People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire)
airship over Potters Bar in October 1916. Wulstan Tempest was born in Ackworth, Yorkshire, in 1891. He was the ninth child, and the sixth son, of Wilfrid Francis...
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