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    Swynnerton is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It lies in the Borough of Stafford, and at the 2001 census had a population of 4,233...
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  • Annie Louisa Swynnerton, ARA (née Robinson; 26 February 1844 – 24 October 1933) was a British painter best known for her portrait and symbolist works....
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  • Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (21 October 1931 – 7 May 2017) was an English historian and writer, best known for his book The Spanish...
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    Swynnerton Hall is an 18th-century country mansion house, the home of Lord Stafford, situated at Swynnerton near Stone, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I...
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  • Swynnerton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Annie Swynnerton, English painter Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton, English...
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  • The Swynnerton Plan was a colonial agricultural policy that appeared as a government report in 1954 in Kenya, aiming to intensify the development of agricultural...
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    ROF Swynnerton was a Royal Ordnance Factory, more specifically a filling factory, located south of the village of Swynnerton in Staffordshire, United Kingdom...
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    Swynnerton's robin (Swynnertonia swynnertoni) is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Muscicapidae. It is monotypic within the genus Swynnertonia...
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    Massy Swynnerton CMG (3 December 1877 – 8 June 1938) was an English naturalist noted for his contributions to tsetse fly research. Swynnerton was born...
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    Humphrey Swynnerton (c. 1516 – 1562) was a Staffordshire landowner, a Member of the English Parliament and an Elizabethan recusant. Swynnerton's father...
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  • Sir John Swynnerton (died 8 December 1616) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611. He was Lord Mayor of London...
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  • Swynnerton is a civil parish in the Borough of Stafford, Staffordshire, England. It contains 62 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage...
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  • The Butterton-Swynnerton dykes (or sometimes singularly, the Butterton dyke) are an assemblage of igneous intrusions which extend in a roughly north-northwest...
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  • John Swynnerton (c. 1349 – c. 1427) was an English politician. He was the son and heir of Sir John Swynnerton of Hilton, Staffordshire and his wife Christine...
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    (demolished in 1925). The seat of the Fitzherbert family is Swynnerton Hall in Swynnerton, near Stone, Staffordshire. Not to be confused with the title...
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  • Swynnerton's worm lizard (Chirindia swynnertoni), also known commonly as Swynnerton's round-headed worm lizard, is a species of amphisbaenian in the family...
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    turned instead in 1953 to Roger Swynnerton, Kenya's assistant director of agriculture. The primary goal of the Swynnerton Plan was the creation of family...
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    Swynnerton's bush squirrel (Paraxerus vexillarius), also known as Svynnerton's bush squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae endemic to...
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    visible Islamic influences. They were first published by Charles Rev Swynnerton in his 1884 book "The Adventures of the Panjáb Hero Rájá Rasálu: And Other...
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  • Pentila swynnertoni, the Swynnerton's buff, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forests...
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  • Thomas Swinnerton (or Swynnerton; died 1554) was an evangelical preacher and author during the English Reformation. Swinnerton was one of the first Englishmen...
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    Stone. The population as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Swynnerton. The village consists of mostly 1960s housing as well as the few remaining...
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  • massacre Lari massacre Chuka massacre Operation Mushroom Christmas Eve Battle 1954 Operation Anvil Swynnerton Plan 1956 Capture of Kimathi 1959 Hola massacre...
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    changes to land tenure occurred. The most important of these was the Swynnerton Plan, which was used to both reward loyalists and punish Mau Mau. This...
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    squirrel (Paraxerus palliatus) Green bush squirrel (Paraxerus poensis) Swynnerton's bush squirrel (Paraxerus vexillarius) Vincent's bush squirrel (Paraxerus...
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    Neptis swynnertoni, or Swynnerton's sailer, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Malawi, west central Mozambique and eastern...
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    pines) and small-scale commercial farming units. The naturalist Charles Swynnerton was appointed manager of the nearby Gungunyana farm in 1900, and a number...
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    Swynnerton and Oulton (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Roy James* 676 43.8 +43.8 Conservative James Nixon* 546 35.4 +35.4 Labour Adrian...
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  • Retrieved 19 August 2019. Preston, Paul (9 May 2017). "Lord Thomas of Swynnerton obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2019. Baxell, Richard (20...
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    found under Swynnerton It is considered part of historic Stone, and is near to other historic locations such as Eccleshall and Swynnerton. Yarnfield and...
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