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    Lydney is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the west bank of the River Severn in the Forest of Dean District, and is 16 miles...
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    Lydney Park is a 17th-century country estate surrounding Lydney House, located at Lydney in the Forest of Dean district in Gloucestershire, England. It...
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    physical depiction of him has survived, votive plaques found in a shrine at Lydney Park (Gloucestershire) indicate his connection with dogs, a beast associated...
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    the main towns in the historic Forest area, together with Cinderford and Lydney. The origin of the name is unknown. The prevalence of Welsh place names...
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  • asked to translate an inscription at the late Roman temple of Nodens at Lydney Park in Gloucestershire. The inscription recorded a curse upon a ring; the...
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    The Lydney Canal is a one-mile canal in Gloucestershire that runs inland from the River Severn to Lydney. It was opened in 1813 to trans-ship iron and...
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  • Lydney Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Lydney, Gloucestershire. The club currently play in Regional 1 South West at the fifth tier of...
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    carriage of minerals to watercourses for onward conveyance. It was based on Lydney, where a small harbour was constructed, and opened its line to Parkend in...
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    between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The route was part of the former Severn and Wye Railway which ran from Lydney to Cinderford...
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    Lydney Town Hall is a municipal structure in the High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England. The structure, which is used as an events venue, is listed...
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    1935. Bathurst was born in London, the second son of Charles Bathurst, of Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, and Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Thomas Hay...
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    Lydney railway station is a railway station serving the town of Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the Gloucester-Newport line, 133 miles...
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    In 1929, during excavations of the site of the Roman temple of Nodens at Lydney Park, the archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler discovered details of the curse...
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    is Tolkien's analysis of Nodens, an obscure pagan god with a temple at Lydney Park, where he studied the Latin inscriptions, one containing a curse on...
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  • Lydney Town A.F.C. are a football club based in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England. They are currently member of the Hellenic League Premier Division. The...
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    Cirencester Coleford Dursley Emersons Green Fairford Filton Kingswood Lechlade Lydney Minchinhampton Mitcheldean Moreton-in-Marsh Nailsworth Newent Northleach...
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    Severn Railway Bridge (category Lydney)
    bridge carrying the railway across the River Severn between Sharpness and Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. It was built in the 1870s by the Severn Bridge...
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    only via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. The Lydney Canal is a short canal which connects Lydney to the river. The section of the river between Tewkesbury...
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    Viscount Bledisloe, of Lydney in the County of Gloucestershire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the Conservative...
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    Lydney Town railway station is a railway station on the Dean Forest Railway in Lydney in Gloucestershire. The station which is situated in the centre...
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  • 51°43′30″N 2°30′50″W / 51.725°N 2.514°W / 51.725; -2.514 Lydney was a rural district in Gloucestershire, England from 1894 to 1974. It covered an area...
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  • "Hollin"). In 1928, a 4th-century pagan mystery cult temple was excavated at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Tolkien was asked to investigate a Latin inscription...
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  • thought that Tolkien's work on a Latin inscription at a Roman temple at Lydney Park was a "pivotal" influence, combining as it did a god-hero, a ring,...
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    Lydney East (3 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Alan Preest* 448 38.1 −1.4 Independent James Bevan* 441 37.5 +1.7 Green Andrew McDermid 440...
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  • Magdalen College School, Oxford and Lydney Grammar School. A fly-half, Williams played his early rugby for the Lydney and Headingley clubs, the latter while...
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  • The Lydney power station supplied electricity to 300 square miles (780 km2) of West Gloucestershire, England from 1923 until 1967. The supply area included...
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  • Lydney Cliff (grid reference SO654020) is a 8.0-hectare (20-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1990....
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  • "Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire". In Drout, Michael D. C. (ed.). The J. R. R. Tolkien...
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  • step 4 Brimscombe Corsham Town Fairford Town Hereford Pegasus Longlevens Lydney Town Mangotsfield United Roman Glass St George Thornbury Town Tuffley Westfields...
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  • Barnstaple Brixham Chew Valley Devonport Services Exmouth Ivybridge Launceston Lydney Matson Okehampton St Austell Weston-super-Mare Updated to match(es) played...
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