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Orford is a suburb of Warrington, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Originally a small area north of the township of Warrington, it is now a large area between the town centre and the M62, incorporating other small communities, such as Longford. Orford area had a population of 10,950 at the 2001 census.
An indoor karting centre is located near to Bank Quay. Pitch and putt and crazy golf are available at Walton Hall and Gardens. A Laser Quest arena and a snooker club can also be found in Warrington, both located close to the town centre. Gulliver's World theme park is located in Old Hall, Apple Jack's Farm theme park is situated in Stretton.
England is closer than any other part of mainland Britain to the European continent. It is separated from France (Hauts-de-France) by a 21-mile (34 km) [108] sea gap, though the two countries are connected by the Channel Tunnel near Folkestone. [109] England also has shores on the Irish Sea, North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Warri is a locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang Region, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It lies mostly southwest of the Kings Highway between Bungendore and Braidwood and on the north bank of the Shoalhaven River .
A bridge at this location was first opened on 23 September 1874, [15] and later replaced by the current structure. Stewart's Crossing is a ford on Stewart's Crossing Road. Oallen Crossing was formerly a flood-prone single-lane timber bridge with a low-level concrete floodway for the Oallen Ford Road at Oallen Ford, near Nerriga , constructed in ...
The UK created the largest continuous marine protected areas in the world, the Chagos Marine Protected Area, and announced in 2015 funding to establish a new, larger, reserve around the Pitcairn Islands. [117] [118] [119] In January 2016, the UK government announced the intention to create a marine protected area around Ascension Island. The ...
Oware is an abstract strategy game among the mancala family of board games (pit and pebble games) played worldwide with slight variations as to the layout of the game, number of players and strategy of play. [1] Its origin is uncertain [2] but it is widely believed to be of Ashanti origin. [3]
Walmington-on-Sea is on the south coast of England which, following the fall of France and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, found itself on the front line against Hitler. It is situated in Sussex [1] and the nearest large town is Eastbourne, where Captain Mainwaring was educated at the local grammar school