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    Quorn (/kwɔːrn/) is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, near the university town of Loughborough. Its name was shortened from Quorndon...
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  • Quorn Football Club is an English football club based in the village of Quorn, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, currently playing in the Northern Premier...
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  • Quorn is a meat substitute. Quorn may also refer to: Quorn, Leicestershire (or Quorndon), a village in England after which the meat substitute product...
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  • Louise Lear (category Television personalities from Leicestershire)
    Charnwood, Leicestershire and went to the Humphrey Perkins School, until the age of 14. She took her O-levels and A-levels at Rawlins Academy in Quorn, gaining...
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    1696 at Tooley Park, Leicestershire, by the youthful Thomas Boothby (1677–1752). Its present name comes from the village of Quorn, also known as Quorndon...
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    instant food packets named after the Quorn Hunt, which in turn derives from the Leicestershire village of Quorn. Quorn entered distribution in the UK in...
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    British fox and stag hunts, in this case, the Quorn Hunt, which was originally based in Quorn Leicestershire. Quorn was built by J. Samuel White and Co. at...
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    Freedom of the Borough scroll in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. From May 2011 to September 2014, Quorn was deployed to the Persian Gulf as part of the...
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  • Flesh Hovel Lane (category Transport in Leicestershire)
    Flesh Hovel Lane is a road in Quorn, Leicestershire, England. Its name originates from the time of the Quorn Hunt, where horses that were no longer fit...
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  • Quorn Hall is a grade II listed country house in the village of Quorn, Leicestershire. It is a three-storey brick built house originally constructed circa...
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    northwards. It was named by Mr J.H.B. Warner whose family lived in Quorn, Leicestershire, England. At the time, he was employed as private secretary to the...
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  • father worked as an accountant. He attended Rawlins Academy in Quorn, Leicestershire where he was selected for England's under-16 rugby union team. He...
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    Farley Way Stadium (category Sports venues in Leicestershire)
    is an association football stadium located in Quorn, Leicestershire, England. It is home to both Quorn F.C. of the United Counties League. Opened in 1994...
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    Hugo Meynell (category People from Quorn, Leicestershire)
    the Quorn Hunt in Leicestershire in 1753 and continued in that role for another forty-seven years (the hunt is so called after Meynell's home, Quorn Hall...
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  • Charlotte Smith (broadcaster) (category People from Quorn, Leicestershire)
    main presenters of BBC Radio 4's Farming Today. Smith grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, the ancestral home of British fox hunting. She attended Loughborough...
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  • John Earl (cricketer, born 1788) (category People from Quorn, Leicestershire)
    John Earl (31 July 1788 – 20 April 1866) was an English first-class cricketer active 1844–45 who played for Manchester Cricket Club as a left-handed batsman...
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    Rawlins Academy (category Academies in Leicestershire)
    Academy is a secondary school of about 1600 students situated in Quorn, Leicestershire, England. Thomas Rawlins founded the school in 1691. Rawlins became...
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    Leicestershire (/ˈlɛstərʃɪər, -ʃər/ LEST-ər-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire...
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    reputedly bestowed the name 'Quorn' because his private secretary at the time had come from the parish of Quorn, Leicestershire in England.[citation needed]...
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    Jane Hunt (politician) (category People from Quorn, Leicestershire)
    Council from 2003 until 2015 for Loughborough Nanpantan, and from 2018 for Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle. She worked as an adviser to her predecessor, Nicky...
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    Jeremy Howick (category People from Quorn, Leicestershire)
    Jeremy Howick is a Canadian-born, British residing clinical epidemiologist and philosopher of science. He researches evidence-based medicine, clinical...
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    Borough of Charnwood (category Non-metropolitan districts of Leicestershire)
    the fox, which is also the symbol used by Leicestershire County Council. Charnwood contains the village of Quorn, which gives its name to one of the country's...
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  • Norman Dunham (category People from Quorn, Leicestershire)
    batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Leicestershire. He was born in Quorn and died in Leicester. Dunham made a single first-class appearance...
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  • The Leicestershire Senior League (currently sponsored by Everards Brewery) is a football competition based in Leicestershire, England. The league was formed...
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    Eaves is a village in the Borough of Charnwood, Leicestershire, England. Nearby are the villages of Quorn, Swithland, and Newtown Linford. Breakback Road...
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    1701389 St Bartholomew's Church, Quorn is the Church of England parish church for Quorn (Quorndon), Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed, dating from...
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    Quorn and Woodhouse railway station is a heritage station on the Great Central Railway (preserved) serving the villages of Quorn and Woodhouse in Leicestershire...
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  • "SSSI:Allexton Wood, Leicestershire" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 25 November 2011. "SSSI:Buddon Wood, Quorn, Leicestershire" (PDF). Natural England...
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  • married D. H. Lawrence's maternal aunt, Ada, and they settled in Quorn, Leicestershire. He later became a professor at the Aligarh Muslim University during...
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    known as Barrow and Barrow-upon-Soar and Quorn) serves the large village of Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicestershire, England. The station is located on the...
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