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    Higham Ferrers is a market town and civil parish in the Nene Valley in North Northamptonshire, England, close to the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire borders...
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    most of the former Midland Railway branch line from Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers, which had been closed completely in November 1969. As of April 2016...
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    Rushden (redirect from Rushden & Higham)
    Higham Ferrers. Rushden is home to one secondary school, Rushden Academy. It is part of The East Northamptonshire College together with The Ferrers Specialist...
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  • The Higham Ferrers school shooting was a shooting that occurred on 6 January 1988 at The Ferrers School, Higham Ferrers, England in which a 16-year-old...
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  • Suffolk, England Higham, West Suffolk, Suffolk, England Cold Higham, Northamptonshire, England Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire...
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    Catherine, her first cousin." Lane was made Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers in 1556. The choice was surprising, though it may be explained by the...
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    Higham Ferrers Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England. The structure, which serves as the...
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  • Higham Ferrers is a former railway station on the Higham Ferrers branch line from Wellingborough. It served the market town of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire...
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    R T H A M P T O N S H I R E Brigstock Titchmarsh Bulwick Warmington Higham Ferrers Rushden Collyweston    East Northamptonshire was a local government...
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  • The Ferrers School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England, UK. The...
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    parliamentary and local government boundary reviews), Hatton, Higham Ferrers Lancaster, Higham Ferrers Chichele, Irchester, Isebrook, Queensway, Redwell, Rixon...
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    Northampton and Wellingborough before running north of Rushden and Higham Ferrers and terminating at its junction with the A14 in Thrapston. Prior to...
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  • The Higham Ferrers branch line was a short railway branch built in Northamptonshire, England, by the Midland Railway to serve the industrial towns of Rushden...
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    the Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1940. 1918–1950: The Borough of Higham Ferrers, the Urban Districts of Finedon, Irthlingborough, Raunds, Rushden, and...
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  • Higham Ferrers was a parliamentary borough in Northamptonshire, which was represented in the House of Commons from 1558 until 1832, when it was abolished...
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    Higham Ferrers Pits is a 10 hectare nature reserve Northamptonshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire...
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    Henry Chichele (category People from Higham Ferrers)
    (1414–1443) and founded All Souls College, Oxford. Chichele was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364; Chichele told Pope Eugene IV, in...
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    The Midland Railway constructed a branch line from its Main Line to Higham Ferrers in 1892 and 1893, this was the last railway constructed in Northamptonshire...
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    stood at Higham Ferrers but was defeated. However his opponent died within a year and Watson-Wentworth was returned unopposed for Higham Ferrers at a by-election...
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  • refer to: Charles Montagu (of Boughton) (1564–1625), English MP for Higham Ferrers Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English poet and statesman...
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    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The present church was founded...
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  • Swanspool (3) Desborough (3) Earls Barton (3) Finedon (3) Hatton Park (3) Higham Ferrers (3) Irchester (3) Irthlingborough (3) Ise (3) Kingswood (3) Lloyds (3)...
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    for Rushden, Higham Ferrers and Irchester, called Rushden Parkway. The Rushden Historical Transport Society, operators of the Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough...
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    but five boroughs elected only one MP: Abingdon, Banbury, Bewdley, Higham Ferrers and Monmouth. The City of London and the joint borough of Weymouth and...
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    recently, the River Nene floodplains between the town and its neighbour, Higham Ferrers, have been quarried for gravel. Quarrying in the area was extensive...
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    1980s Eppstein, Germany (3 Jun 1983) London, England (11 Nov 1987) Higham Ferrers, England (6 Jan 1988) Raumanmeri, Finland (25 Jan 1989) Montreal, Canada...
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  • with a shotgun before killing himself. 6 January 1988 Higham Ferrers, England 0 4 4 Higham Ferrers School shooting: An expelled student entered his former...
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    him. He was elected a member of the Long Parliament in 1640 for both Higham Ferrers and Castle Rising, choosing to sit for the former where he was High...
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    The parish councils for Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, Finedon, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Kettering, Oundle, Raunds, Rothwell, Rushden, Thrapston...
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    postponed. Roberts was found by Northamptonshire Police at his home in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire; they said that they were not treating the circumstances...
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