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    Woolavington is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in the English county of Somerset. It is 5.2 miles (8.4 km) north east of Bridgwater...
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    James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, GCVO, JP (16 August 1849 – 9 August 1935), known as Sir James Buchanan, Bt, from 1920 to 1922, was a British businessman...
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    Factory (ROF) Bridgwater was a factory between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England that produced high explosives...
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    East Lavington, formerly Woolavington, is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England. It is located six kilometres...
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    parish church is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. A chapel on Woolavington Road was converted to a private house some 20 years ago. The parish includes...
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    The Church of St Mary in Woolavington, Somerset, England has 11th-century origins and is a Grade I listed building. There may have been a church on the...
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    the start of the Second World War, between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington, to manufacture explosives. The site was decommissioned and closed in...
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  • Milton Podimore, Shapwick, Street, Walton, Westonzoyland, Wheathill, and Woolavington as well as covering King's Sedgemoor. It covered an area of 49,640 acres...
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    which were not under his administrative jurisdiction. He was born at Woolavington, in the county of Somerset, England, where his father the Reverend Stephen...
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    influence". The painting was immediately popular. It was purchased by Lord Woolavington for 2,000 guineas and presented to the Australian government. After a...
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  • Commons from 1640 to 1641. Garton was the son of Sir Peter Garton of Woolavington, Sussex. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 27 October 1615...
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  • English Civil War clubman, was of a yeomanry/ minor gentry family of Woolavington, Somerset, related on his mother's side to the Pophams of Huntworth....
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    John Rutherford 3:04.40 1926 Coronach Joe Childs Fred Darling 1st Baron Woolavington 3:01.60 1927 Book Law Henri Jelliss Alec Taylor Jr. 2nd Viscount Astor...
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    Sandford, Sowey, Sydenham, Victoria, Westonzoyland, West Poldens, and Woolavington, and the District of West Somerset wards of Alcombe, Aville Vale, Carhampton...
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    Pirates and Highwaymen series (Lambert & Butler) Fred Darling and Lord Woolavington's racing colours from Trainers And Owners Colours by Ogden's 1925 W. Duke...
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    Christie's in London in July 2011 for £22.4 million. It was sold by The Woolavington Collection of sporting art at Cottesbrooke Hall, Northamptonshire; the...
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  • Garton Orme (c. 1696–1758) of Woolavington, near Midhurst, Sussex, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1739 to 1754. He left...
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    the Grade 2 Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas, and the Grade 1 Woolavington 2000. In 2022 Kennedy moved to New Zealand where he was engaged by Byerley...
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    Blessed Virgin Mary was before 1505. The parish is part of the benefice of Woolavington with Cossington and Bawdrip within the Diocese of Bath and Wells. The...
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  • 1922 - 1st Baron Woolavington 1923 - 17th Earl of Derby 1924 - Aga Khan III 1925 - 2nd Viscount Astor 1926 - 1st Baron Woolavington 1927 - 17th Earl of...
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    held various local churches, including those at Cleeve, Queen Camel, Woolavington while also holding the rectory of Lundy. The abbey was also responsible...
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  • the Briquetage from a Later Romano-British Saltern at Pyde Drove, near Woolavington, Somerset", Britannia 48, 117–133. Hobson, M. S., Payne, N., Cousins...
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  • businessman and political figure in Canada West James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington (1849–1935), British businessman and philanthropist "Major" John Buchanan...
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  • Church of Scotland minister and theologian James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington (1849–1935), Scottish businessman, philanthropist, and racehorse owner...
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    estates at Puriton (of which he held the lordship), Catcot, Bawdrip and Woolavington, came into the estate at Plainsfield held by the family of his wife,...
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  • Withypool, Wiveliscombe, Woodford, Woodlands, Wookey, Wookey Hole, Woolavington, Woollard, Woolley, Woolmersdon, Woolminstone, Woolverton, Wootton Courtenay...
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    Cossington is a village and civil parish close to Woolavington and 5 miles (8 km) north of Bridgwater, in Somerset, England. The village lies on the north...
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    were later carried out by Robert Mitchell c1770-95. It is home to the Woolavington Collection, one of the most extensive collections of sporting paintings...
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    156.2 2:36.2 1922 Captain Cuttle Steve Donoghue Fred Darling 1st Baron Woolavington 04 4 154.6 2:34.6 1923 Papyrus Steve Donoghue Basil Jarvis Ben Irish...
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  • Duke of Somerset rewarded him with the post of Keeper of Petworth or Woolavington Park in Sussex. Fowler was heavily involved in helping Thomas Seymour...
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