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    Glen Parva is a civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of over 17,000. The population of the civil parish, including...
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    HM Prison Glen Parva was an adult male prison and Young Offenders Institution, located in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, England. Glen Parva was operated...
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    (adjectival suffix). Note that some place-names in England with "Glen", such as Glen Parva in Leicestershire, are actually more likely to derive from river-names...
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    Glen Parva Barracks was a military installation at Glen Parva near South Wigston in Leicestershire. The barracks opened under the name of Wigston Barracks...
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    the fact that Great Glen lies in part of the valley of the River Sence. The 'great' part is to distinguish the village from Glen Parva. In 1751 a turnpike...
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    Glen Parva or Glen Hills is an 11.9 hectares (29 acres) Local Nature Reserve in Glen Parva on the south-western outskirts of Leicester. It is owned and...
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  • following the construction of Five Wells Prison and HMP Fosse Way in Glen Parva. HMP Millsike, in addition to HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, was built...
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  • co-founded the Black Agenda Report Glen Ford, Leicestershire, original settlement which is now Glen Parva, England Glen Ford (curler) in 2013 Canadian Direct...
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    Wigston Glen Parva railway station was a railway station on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line that served Glen Parva in Leicestershire, England. The...
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  • Monday 29 May 2023. The prison was constructed on the site of HM Prison Glen Parva, which closed in 2017. In August 2022, a proposal to increase the size...
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  • Council. Retrieved 16 December 2014. Wiltshire Community History website "Glen Parva". HM Prison Service. Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved...
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  • accused Sheffield United of engaging in a "witch hunt." Morgan lives in Glen Parva, Leicestershire. His sister Holly played for Leicester, and later became...
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    pdf https://www.blaby.gov.uk/media/ioansau4/district-result-glen-parva.pdf https://www.blaby.gov.uk/media/2vmbyqwc/district-result-glenfield-ellis...
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    and acted as Chairman. In the mid-1930s work took him and Gwendoline to Glen Parva, Leicester, where they settled for the remainder of their lives. During...
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  • Island Frolesworth Gaddesby Garthorpe Gaulby Gelsmoor Gilmorton Glen Hills Glen Magna Glen Parva Glenfield Glooston Goadby Goadby Marwood Goodwood Gopsall Grace-Dieu...
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    Glen, and then west (south of Wigston and South Wigston) until the confluence with the River Soar just to the west of Blaby and south of Glen Parva....
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    ward borders Saffron and Eyres Monsell wards and the county parish of Glen Parva and is in the parliamentary constituency of Leicester West. The ward has...
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    bounded by the City of Leicester and the civil parishes of Braunstone Town, Glen Parva, Lubbesthorpe, Narborough and Whetstone. The course of the Fosse Way Roman...
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    Blaby and Glen Parva Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats Geoff Welsh 1,484 48.7 −7.8 Conservative Ryan Scott 1,020 33.5 +3.9 Labour Suresh Chauhan...
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  • Wigston area. Wigston Glen Parva railway station on the South Leicestershire Railway was opened in about 1868 and later renamed Glen Parva. BR closed it in...
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  • Town 16,850 Thurmaston 9,668 Glenfield 9,109 Leicester Forest East 6,719 Glen Parva 6,189 Kirby Muxloe 4,667 Thurnby and Bushby 3,301 Scraptoft 1,804...
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  • House of Commons that two new prisons at Wellingborough, Northants, and Glen Parva, Leicestershire, would be built using conventional public finance, but...
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  • Pant (Shropshire), Panbride parva L little Appleby Parva, Wigston Parva, Ruston Parva, Glen Parva, Thornham Parva, Ludford Parva pen C, K, W, P head (headland...
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  • LE2 LEICESTER Oadby, Knighton, Highfields, Aylestone, Eyres Monsell, Glen Parva, Stoughton, Little Stretton Leicester, Oadby and Wigston, Harborough,...
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    (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot), and assigned to district no. 27 at Glen Parva Barracks in Leicestershire. On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into...
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    affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Glen Parva Barracks from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 – as it already...
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    Vastly in debt he is forced to move to the fictional village of Mangold Parva. The local (fictional) Member of Parliament (MP) for the town of Ashby de...
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    Flamville Blaby Braunstone Cosby Countesthorpe Croft Elmesthorpe Enderby Glen Parva Glenfields Huncote Kilby Kirby Muxloe Leicester Forest East Leicester...
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    Bridge 1 mile (1.6 km), and for several miles through South Wigston, Glen Parva 2 miles (3.2 km), Blaby 3 miles (4.8 km) and on towards Leicester. Wigston's...
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  • in 1989, Willington was closed in 1968 and reopened in 1994, Wigston Glen Parva was closed in 1968 and replaced with a new station South Wigston in 1986...
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