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    Cookham is a historic Thames-side village and civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, 2.9 miles (5 km) north-north-east of Maidenhead...
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  • HM Prison Cookham Wood is a male young persons' prison and Young Offenders Institution in the village of Borstal (near Rochester) in Kent, England. The...
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    George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015, is a British...
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    Cookham Dean is a village to the west of the village of Cookham in Berkshire, England. It is the highest point of all the Cookhams (Cookham Rise, Cookham...
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    Cookham railway station serves the village of Cookham, Berkshire, England. Great Western Railway trains between Maidenhead and Marlow serve the station...
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  • Stanley Spencer (category People from Cookham)
    occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village...
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  • Cookham Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon monastery in Berkshire, England. It was established by 726. Situated south of the Thames, Cookham was traditionally part...
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    7808 Cookham Manor is a Great Western Railway 7800 'Manor' Class steam locomotive. It was built in 1938 at Swindon Works, withdrawn from service in December...
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  • country house poems imitated To Penshurst. Aemilia Lanyer's Description of Cookham, however, had in fact been published earlier, in 1611, as a dedicatory...
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    Cookham Bridge is a road bridge in Cookham, Berkshire, carrying the A4094 road across the River Thames in England. It is on the reach above Cookham Lock...
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    Cookham Lock is a lock with weirs situated on the River Thames near Cookham, Berkshire, about a half-mile downstream of Cookham Bridge. The lock is set...
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  • The Mount is a country house in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, England. It was originally built as a hunting lodge in the 16th century and subsequently extended...
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    Networkers Plc (since 2007) and trustee of Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham. Astor was an early opponent of the HS2 high-speed rail project. Astor...
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    Kenneth Grahame (category People from Cookham)
    maternal grandmother at The Mount, a large house in extensive grounds in Cookham Dean in Berkshire, while their grieving father remained in Scotland and...
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    excitedly. He based the voice of Parker on a waiter at the King's Arms pub in Cookham, and he and Ray Barrett shared many of the guest villains. Although he...
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    industrial town of Slough. To the north are the Cookhams, Cookham Village, Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean. To the west is the area of Pinkneys Green....
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    monastery at Cookham and also had charge of the church at Bedford, where Offa was interred. It is thought that she may be buried at Cookham, and ongoing...
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  • Hindley, help me." Police visited Hindley – then being held in HM Prison Cookham Wood in Kent – a few days after she received the letter, and although she...
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    Canada (Montreal) Tim Brooke-Taylor 79 Actor and comedian United Kingdom (Cookham) Victor Batista Falla 87 Editor and publisher Cuba (Havana) André Manaranche...
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  • Cookham was a rural district in Berkshire, England from 1894 to 1974. The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the Cookham...
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  • June 2017 Conservative Life peer Communications consultant Lord Young of Cookham 29 September 2015 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Acton (1974–1983)...
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  • Conservative cabinet minister and businessman George Young, Baron Young of Cookham (born 1941), Conservative baronet ennobled in 2015 Anthony Young, Baron...
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    possession. She served two months of a three-month prison sentence in HM Prison Cookham Wood. Her autobiography, Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside:...
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  • Bergen, Norway. Much of the rest was shot on location in England including Cookham, Berkshire and at the Headland Hotel situated on the coast in Newquay,...
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    districts and part of a sixth, which were all abolished at the same time: Cookham Rural District Eton Rural District (parishes of Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury...
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  • February 1902 St. Petersburg, Russia Died 12 July 1992(1992-07-12) (aged 90) Cookham, England Occupation film editor Spouse Irene Beck Parent(s) Ernest Beck...
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    Stanley Spencer Gallery (category Cookham)
    Spencer. It was opened in 1962 and is located in the Thameside village of Cookham, Berkshire where the artist was born and spent much of his life. The gallery's...
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  • greatest women artists in England. In 1928, Preece and Hepworth moved to Cookham and befriended the artist Stanley Spencer. Spencer became obsessed with...
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    Nos. 7802 Bradley Manor, 7808 Cookham Manor, 7812 Erlestoke Manor and 7819 Hinton Manor. In the 1970s, no. 7808 Cookham Manor was used by the Great Western...
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    The Mount, which was a large country house overlooking the Thames in Cookham Dean. His uncle, David, introduced him to the rustic locality and this...
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