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    Alton (UK: /ˈɒltən/ OL-tən) is a village in Staffordshire, England. It is noted for the theme park Alton Towers, built around the site of Alton Mansion...
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  • Alton Towers Resort (UK: /ˈɒltən/ OL-tən) (often shortened to Alton Towers) is a theme park and resort complex in Staffordshire, England, near the village...
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    Alton Towers is located near the village of Alton in Staffordshire, England. The former country estate was a former seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury. It...
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    Alton is a former railway station in Staffordshire, which served the village of Alton and the country estate at Alton Towers. Opened in 1849 by the North...
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  • Alton College Alton, Leicestershire, England Alton, Staffordshire, England Alton Castle, presently a Catholic youth retreat centre Alton Towers, theme...
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    Alton Castle is a Gothic-revival castle, on a hill above the Churnet Valley, in the village of Alton, Staffordshire, England. The site has been fortified...
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    Chained Oak (category History of Staffordshire)
    Chained Oak is an oak tree, tied in chains, near to the village of Alton, Staffordshire, England. The tree, referred to as "The Old Oak", is the subject...
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    located at Alton Towers theme park, near Alton in the English shire county of Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Corkscrew was manufactured for Alton Towers by...
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    Ripsaw was a Top Spin ride at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It opened in 1997 and closed at the end of 2015. The ride opened on 15 March, 1997...
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  • Alton is a civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England. It contains 63 listed buildings that are recorded in the National...
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    The Curse at Alton Manor is a dark ride at the Alton Towers theme park near the village of Alton in Staffordshire, England, opened in 2023. It originally...
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    Alton Towers Waterpark, previously known as Cariba Creek, is a water park at Alton Towers Resort, in Staffordshire, England. It is themed to a tropical...
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    Bet365 which is based in Stoke-on-Trent. The theme park Alton Towers is in the Staffordshire Moorlands and several of the world's largest pottery manufacturers...
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    enclosed steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers theme park near Alton in the English shire county of Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Manufactured by Anton...
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    precipice above the River Churnet on the outskirts of the village of Alton, Staffordshire. On a site fortified since Saxon times, the 12th-century castle had...
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  • Thumbnail for Submission (Alton Towers)
    Submission was a theme park ride at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England from 2001 until 2013. It was a Chance Rides double swinging inverter. Submission...
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    Staffordshire Moorlands is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. Its council is based in Leek, the district's largest town. The district...
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  • Thumbnail for The Flume (Alton Towers)
    The Flume was a Log Flume at Alton Towers in Staffordshire. It opened in 1981 and was rethemed in 2004 coinciding with its sponsorship by Imperial Leather...
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  • Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun (category Staffordshire)
    Alton, Staffordshire, and his wife Margery de Bohun. The elder Theobald was the son of John de Verdon, otherwise Le Botiller, of Alton, Staffordshire...
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    Spa Land (Kuwana, Mie, Japan) 8,133.2 ft Most Inversions Smiler Alton Towers (Alton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom) Number of Inversions: 14...
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    Bradley in the Moors (category Alton, Staffordshire)
    civil parish, now in the parish of Alton, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is situated between the...
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    Verdun for only six months when Theobald died on 27 July 1316, at Alton, Staffordshire, from typhoid. He left behind three daughters from a prior marriage...
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    The Smiler (category Alton Towers)
    The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. The Infinity Coaster model from Gerstlauer set a world...
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    Croxden Abbey (category English Heritage sites in Staffordshire)
    Staffordshire, United Kingdom. A daughter house of the abbey in Aunay-sur-Odon, Normandy, the abbey was founded by Bertram III de Verdun of Alton Castle...
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    with a 19th-century malthouse along one wing. The Malt House in Alton, Staffordshire. House with attached granary, and underground maltkiln and cellars...
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  • to Roesia de Verdun, daughter of Nicholas de Verdun (Verdon) of Alton, Staffordshire and Clementia, daughter of Philip le Boteler, and the widow of William...
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  • England, within six post towns. These cover much of north and central Staffordshire (including Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Leek, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stone...
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    Manchester, United Kingdom. First dive coaster: Oblivion, Alton Towers, Alton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. First linear motor launched inverted roller...
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    Spinball Whizzer (category Alton Towers)
    spinning roller coaster located in the Adventure Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. Built by Maurer Söhne, it was previously sponsored...
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  • original on 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2016-02-13. "Galactica - Alton Towers (Alton, Staffordshire, England, UK)". rcdb.com (in German). Archived from the original...
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