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    Braunston is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England, next to the border with Warwickshire...
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    Braunston-in-Rutland is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 392...
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    Canal. The canal south of Braunston to the River Thames at Brentford in London is the original Grand Junction Canal. At Braunston the latter met the Oxford...
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    Braunston Tunnel is on the Grand Union Canal about 830 yards (760 m) east of Braunston, Northamptonshire, England top lock. It is in the northern outskirts...
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    which it is combined with for 5 miles (8 km) between to the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the-Hill. The canal is usually divided into the North Oxford...
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    Parliament on 30 April 1793, and was to run over 90 miles (140 km) from Braunston on the Oxford Canal to Brentford near London, where it would join the...
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    All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in Braunston-in-Rutland, Rutland. It is a Grade II* listed building. The church dates back to...
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    of Daventry wards of Abbey North, Abbey South, Badby, Barby, Brampton, Braunston, Byfield, Crick and West Haddon, Drayton, Everdon, Flore, Guilsborough...
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    Braunston London Road was one of two railway stations that served the village of Braunston in Northamptonshire, England. The station was built on the Weedon...
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    The village of Braunston Cleves or Fawcliff formerly stood north of the village of Braunston in the English county of Northamptonshire at its border with...
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  • The Grand Junction Canal is a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches. The mainline...
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    Wright, Avebury Pub. Co., 1982 Goddess or Queen? The enigmatic carving at Braunston in Rutland Hunky Punks: a blurb about a book about Somerset stone carvings...
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    Braunston & Martinsthorpe (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats Andrew Johnson 522 57.0 +7.5 Conservative Giles Clifton 408 44.5 −5.4...
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    miles (29.0 km) from the northern end of the Grand Junction Canal at Braunston, Northamptonshire and the southern end about 20 miles (32.2 km). At 3...
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    Braunston and Willoughby railway station was a station on the former Great Central Main Line. It served the small village of Willoughby which it was located...
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    major canals – the Oxford and the Grand Union – join in the county at Braunston. Notable features include a flight of 17 locks on the Grand Union at Rothersthorpe...
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    Oxford company to shorten its route north of Braunston, and because Grand Junction traffic using the Braunston–Fazeley route avoided the high tolls charged...
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    Principal outlying villages on the canal include Gayton, Blisworth, Braunston and Stoke Bruerne. Northampton once had a horse-drawn tramway which opened...
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  • Cambridge, Massachusetts to Cambridge, England. Filmed on location in Braunston, mainly around the canal and marina. Other filming took place in high...
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    Barleythorpe David Blanksby Independent 2019–23 Sue Webb Independent 2019-23 Braunston & Martinsthorpe Edward Baines Conservative 2019–23 William Cross Conservative...
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    Northampton, Nuneaton, Southam and Warwick. Nearby villages: Barby, Braunston, Brinklow, Catthorpe, Harborough Magna, Kilsby, Lilbourne, Monks Kirby...
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    1805 the rival Grand Junction Canal was built from Braunston to Brentford, with a wharf at Braunston competing with the Oxford's wharf at Willoughby. However...
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  • 7 Brantham Athletic Development Suffolk County League Championship 8 Braunston Athletic Leicestershire County League Div.Two 8 Braunton Devon County...
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    Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Coventry Canal Oxford Canal Starting at Braunston Turn, the route heads west along the Grand Union Main Line for five miles...
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    Canal at Warwick to the Grand Junction Canal at Braunston, and was called the Warwick and Braunston Canal. Construction began in 1795, but in August...
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  • Walgrave. Daventry PLU Ashby St Ledgers, Badby + 2 detached portions, Braunston, Brockhall, Byfield, Canons Ashby, Catesby, Charwelton, Daventry, Dodford...
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    Blisworth, Boddington, Boughton, Brackley, Bradden, Brafield-on-the-Green, Braunston, Brington, Brixworth, Brockhall, Bugbrooke, Byfield Caldecote, Canons...
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  • except locks 52 to 64 in Birmingham. The numbering of locks originates at Braunston, and increases both towards the north, to Lock 64, and the south, to Lock...
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  • Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham to survey a route from Braunston to London which resulted in the formation of the Grand Junction Canal...
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    Southam, Coventry and the villages of Ashby St Ledgers, Badby, Barby, Braunston, Byfield, Charwelton, Dodford, Dunchurch, Everdon, Fawsley, Hellidon,...
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