• A bishop's borough or bishop borough was a pocket borough in the Irish House of Commons where the patron who controlled the borough was the bishop for...
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    Bishop's Cleeve is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. The village lies at the...
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    In counties, forty-shilling freeholders were enfranchised while in most boroughs it was either only the members of self-electing corporations or a highly...
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    Bishop's Castle is a market town in the south west of Shropshire, England. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,893. Bishop's Castle is...
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    Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bishop Stortford". Bishop's Stortford Town Council Archived 21 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Bishop's Stortford and Thorley:...
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  • Columbia Bishop Auckland, a town in County Durham, England, aka "Bishop" Bishop's ward, in the London Borough of Lambeth Bishop, California, a city Bishop, Georgia...
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  • Bishop's University (French: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec...
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    experiences into comedy material. Bishop's TV show In the Name of the Fada premiered in 2008. It chronicles Bishop's undertaking to learn Irish to a level...
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    Bishop's (12), No. 4 or Prince's (15), No. 5 or Vauxhall (24), No. 6 or Stockwell (15), No. 7 or Brixton (15) and No. 8 or Norwood (9). The borough council...
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    A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great...
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    represented Old Leighlin one of the Bishop’s boroughs of the Irish Parliament between 1791 and 1798 and subsequently Armagh Borough until 1801. He sat then for...
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    King's Lynn (redirect from Bishop's Lynn)
    King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the...
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    as parts of the London Borough of Barnet. The see is in the City of St Albans in Hertfordshire, where the cathedra (bishop's seat) is located at St Albans...
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    The Borough of Broxbourne is a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Cheshunt. Other settlements...
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    Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which...
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  • Bishop's ward was an administrative division of the London Borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom, from 1965 to 2022 It was located in the north of the borough...
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    Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and parts of the City of Wolverhampton. The Episcopal see is in the city of Worcester where the bishop's throne is located...
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    constituency. In the Irish House of Commons, both Kilkenny City and the bishop's borough of St Canice (or Irishtown) were represented with two MPs each. From...
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    Lennoxville, Quebec (category Boroughs of Sherbrooke)
    institutions are located in Lennoxville, including Bishop's University, Champlain Regional College, Bishop's College School and Alexander Galt Regional High...
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    2006. Retrieved 9 January 2009. "Character Appraisal: The Bishop's Avenue" (PDF). London Borough of Barnet. 1 February 1999. Retrieved 16 May 2007. New London...
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    over 2,500. Ash Priors - Ashbrittle Bathealton - Bickenhall - Bishop's Hull - Bishops Lydeard - Bradford-on-Tone - Burrowbridge Cheddon Fitzpaine - Chipstable...
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    Commons through the constituencies of County Carlow, Carlow and the bishop's borough of Old Leighlin, each of which returned two MPs. Following the Act...
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  • in County Carlow. It was a bishop's borough, controlled by the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin. The borough was disenfranchised by the...
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    1293 when the bishop and his steward failed to attend proceedings of quo warranto held by the justices of Northumberland. The bishop's case went before...
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    Ipswich (/ˈɪpswɪtʃ/ ) is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St...
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    follows: Arfon Borough Council was based at the Town Hall, Ffordd Gwynedd, Bangor. This was the former Bishop's Palace of the Bishop of Bangor, dating...
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    Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth)
    Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Marsh, Oval, Prince's, and Vauxhall. 1974–1983: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Oval, Prince's...
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    January 2022. Bishops Cannings in the Domesday Book Chettle, H. F.; Powell, W. R.; Spalding, P. A.; Tillott, P. M. (1953). "Parishes: Bishop's Cannings"....
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    worldwide. The archbishop's main residence is Lambeth Palace in the London Borough of Lambeth. He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, Canterbury, located...
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    The Borough of Tewkesbury is a local government district with borough status in Gloucestershire, England. The borough is named after its largest town...
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