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  2. Stratford Mill (Constable) - Wikipedia

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    Stratford Mill was a water-powered paper mill, located on a small island just outside the village, [1] it can be seen on the far left of the picture. Constable made a sketch of children fishing by the mill in 1811 now known as Anglers at Stratford Mill (private collection), [ 1 ] but this view extends to display more of the river, a barge and ...

  3. Welsh toponymy - Wikipedia

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    Other religious place-names include merthyr ("martyr") and eglwys ("church"). Over the centuries, Welsh place-names have been variously affected by social and economic changes in the country. The Industrial Revolution saw the development of many new towns and villages, particularly in south Wales. Some of these used already existing place-names ...

  4. Saltaire - Wikipedia

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    Saltaire is a Victorian model village near Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the River Aire, the railway, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Salts Mill and the houses were built by Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871 to allow his workers to live in better conditions than the slums of Bradford.

  5. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  6. Llanfairpwllgwyngyll - Wikipedia

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    The name was submitted to Guinness World Records as the longest word to appear in a published cryptic crossword, having been used by compiler Roger Squires in 1979. The clue was "Giggling troll follows Clancy, Larry, Billy and Peggy who howl, wrongly disturbing a place in Wales (58)", where all but the last five words formed an anagram. [30]

  7. List of Roman place names in Britain - Wikipedia

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    A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain. The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.

  8. List of foods named after places - Wikipedia

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    Since all of these names are words derived from place names, they are all toponyms. This article covers English language food toponyms which may have originated in English or other languages. According to Delish.com, "[T]here's a rich history of naming foods after cities, towns, countries, and even the moon." [1]

  9. List of United Kingdom locations: Mill - Wikipedia

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    Location: Locality: Coordinates (links to map & photo sources) OS grid reference: Milland: West Sussex: Millarston: Renfrewshire: Millbank: Aberdeenshire: Millbank