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    the Lickey Ridge, amongst the Lickey Hills, its proximity to countryside and the city makes it a popular commuter area. The civil parish of Lickey and...
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    The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain. The climb is a gradient of 1 in 37.7 (2...
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    BR 58100). It was designed by James Anderson for banking duties on the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire (south of Birmingham), England. It became known...
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    The Lickey Hills (known locally as simply The Lickeys) are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, 11 miles (18 km) to the south-west of the centre...
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    Lickey End is a village in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, England. It is situated just north of Bromsgrove, to the south-east of the junction...
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    Lickey Hills Country Park is a country park in England. It is 10 miles (16 kilometres) south west of Birmingham and 24 miles (39 kilometres) north east...
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    car factory to the south east and the Lickey Hills and Cofton Hackett Park just south. The popular rural Lickey Hills Country Park is 1⁄2 mile (800 metres)...
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  • Lickey Grange is a Victorian house and estate in the village of Lickey, Bromsgrove District, Worcestershire, near Birmingham, England. Car manufacturer...
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  • also known as an arterial route or line. Its main line incorporated the Lickey Incline 2 miles (3.2 km) of track climbing a 1-in-37 (2.7%) gradient, northbound...
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    as the type species. Artomyces adrienneae Lickey 2003 – Chile, Argentina Artomyces austropiperatus Lickey 2003 – Argentina Artomyces candelabrus (Massee)...
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    train without coupling (as demonstrated in archive films of banking on the Lickey Incline) before applying more power, thus precluding the need for a standing...
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    Holy Trinity Church, Lickey is a Church of England parish church in Lickey, Worcestershire. The foundation stone was laid on 16 May 1855 by Robert Windsor-Clive...
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    Birmingham. He enjoyed exploring Sarehole Mill and Moseley Bog and the Clent, Lickey and Malvern Hills, which would later inspire scenes in his books, along...
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    officers were Benjamin Franklin Lickey, president, and Edward J. Silver, vice president and educational director. Lickey with his wife Susan had in 1919...
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    Rivers Severn and Trent. To the immediate south west of the city lie the Lickey Hills, Clent Hills and Walton Hill, which reach 1,033 feet (315 m) and have...
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    transport needs instead. The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway built the Lickey Incline, which opened in 1840. It was an engineering compromise, designed...
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    Lickey Hills Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Bakul Kumar 522 55.2 11.6 Liberal Democrats Janet King* 332 35.1 21.3 Labour John Cochrane 87 9.2...
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    islands of Bute and Lundy. It has recently been reported by walkers in the Lickey Hills Country Park area of Birmingham that a pair of wallabies have been...
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  • at the house of James McConnell, after viewing locomotive trials at the Lickey Incline. Beyer, Richard Peacock, George Selby, Archibald Slate and Edward...
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    in the North-East of Worcestershire and comes under the jurisdiction of Lickey and Blackwell Parish Council. Nearby large towns include Barnt Green and...
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    hills continues eastwards to include Romsley Hill, Waseley Hills and the Lickey Hills. Clent Hill is the most popular hillwalking hill in the range, although...
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    An elaborate toposcope on Beacon Hill in the Lickey Hills near Birmingham, UK...
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    northeast Worcestershire, England, in the valley of the River Arrow. The Lickey Hills Country Park is 2.5 miles (4 km) to the northwest. It is 11 miles...
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    by CE Digital's Birmingham DAB Multiplex, who opened new transmitters at Lickey Hills and Headless Cross. Ofcom has earmarked two potential 'Small Scale...
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    hilltops geographically comprising The Lickeys – Rednal Hill, Bilberry Hill and Cofton Hill – are the summits of the Lickey Ridge, a formation of hard quartzite...
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    91.6795C. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.15.6795. PMC 44285. PMID 8041699. Shaw J, Lickey EB, Schilling EE, Small RL (March 2007). "Comparison of whole chloroplast...
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    several crew members during unsuccessful trials in the early days of the Lickey Incline. William Church, the Surprise's inventor, is mainly remembered for...
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  • in order of decreasing steepness: Grade (slope) Hillclimbing (railway) Lickey Incline, steepest British main-line gradient Longest trains Mountain railway...
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    locomotive ran for some time as an oil burner, and was tried out on the Lickey Incline in 1949–1950 and again, after the electrification of its home line...
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    Lady Austin in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Lickey, near his former home at Lickey Grange and the factory at Longbridge, close to both Bromsgrove...
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