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    Oldcastle is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Malpas and Threapwood, in the Cheshire West and Chester district and ceremonial county of Cheshire...
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  • Oldcastle may refer to: Oldcastle, Bridgend, Wales, a ward Oldcastle, Cheshire, England, a parish Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, a town Oldcastle, Monmouthshire...
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    protected Cheshire's western border from the Welsh; these included motte-and-bailey castles at Shotwick, Dodleston, Aldford, Pulford, Shocklach, Oldcastle and...
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    (secondary coordinates) There are 20 castles in the county of Cheshire in North West England. Cheshire is one of the historic counties of England and its historic...
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  • The ancient parishes of Cheshire were the group of parishes that existed in the English county of Cheshire, roughly within the period of 1200–1800. Initially...
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    Revealing Cheshire's Past: Castle Hill motte, Malpas, retrieved 23 January 2009 Historic England, "Castle Hill motte and ditch system, Oldcastle (1012124)"...
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    Chester (district) (category Council elections in Cheshire)
    Chester was a non-metropolitan local government district of Cheshire, England from 1974 to 2009. It had the status of a city and a borough, and the local...
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    John Speed (category People from Cheshire)
    28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, he rose from...
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    Threapwood (redirect from Oldcastle Heath)
    and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is close to the villages of Shocklach...
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  • Malpas Rural District (category History of Cheshire)
    Larkton Macefen Malpas Marbury cum Quoisley Newton by Malpas Norbury Oldcastle Overton Stockton Threapwood Tushingham cum Grindley Wigland Wirswall Wychough...
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    2016). Psychedelic Celluloid: British Pop Music in Film & TV 1965 - 1974. Oldcastle Books. p. 192. ISBN 9781843444589. Retrieved 8 July 2021. "Band Biography...
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    there were rumours that the Herefordshire based Lollard leader, Sir John Oldcastle, was communicating with Owain and reinforcements were sent to the major...
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    the Wild, together with his Welsh allies and further rebel forces from Cheshire and Shropshire, attacked the castle at Shrewsbury. In the southwest, rebels...
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    Macclesfield Castle Malpas Castle Nantwich Castle Newhall Tower Northwich Castle Oldcastle Pulford Castle Shipbrook Castle Shocklach Castle Shotwick Castle Warrington...
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  • PLUs Link to 1888 map showing Cheshire PLUs; Link to 1908 map showing Cheshire PLUs; Link to 1927 map showing Cheshire PLUs Link to 1888 map showing Cornwall...
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  • was descended from a younger branch of the noble family of Brereton in Cheshire. His father was Major Thomas Brereton of the Queen's Dragoons. He attended...
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    essayist, completed his schooling at the Middle School, and called the town Oldcastle in his Clayhanger trilogy of novels. Dinah Maria Mulock, who wrote under...
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    there were rumours that the Herefordshire-based Lollard leader Sir John Oldcastle was communicating with Owain, and reinforcements were sent to the major...
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    Tarvin Rural District (category History of Cheshire)
    was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire, England. The district was named after the village of Tarvin, and saw considerable...
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  • MPs for Buckingham from 1774 to 1780. Edward John Stanley, MP for North Cheshire, sat alongside his brother William Owen Stanley, MP for Anglesey, from...
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    would also serve in the nearby settlements of Navan, Nobber, Kells and Oldcastle, County Meath. Having arrived on the Indian subcontinent in 1934, it was...
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    2015 to 2018, the Haverstraw Quarry owned and managed by CRH Tilcon and Oldcastle Materials was heavily fined for air and water pollution, including over-blasting...
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    Foy John Masefield, poet laureate Sidney Nolan, Australian artist John Oldcastle, Lollard leader and basis for Shakespeare's character Falstaff Blanche...
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  • the original of the Sir Scudamore of Spenser's Faerie Queene. Sir John Oldcastle, the leader of the Lollards, was sheriff of Herefordshire in 1406, before...
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    and turns out for his local Yorcaster club against Lancastrian rivals Oldcastle. The 1963 film, This Sporting Life, is set around the life of a professional...
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    UK: Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-3651-7. Rennison, Nick (2012). Robin Hood. Oldcastle Books. ISBN 978-1842436370. Rose, Susan (2002). Medieval Naval Warfare...
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  • Llanvihangel-Crucorney, Llanwenarth Citra, Llanwenarth Ultra, Lower Cwmyoy, Oldcastle, Upper Cwmyoy. Remainder of PLU in Herefordshire, England. Bedwelty PLU...
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    54.74; -01.48 NZ3339 Oldcastle Monmouthshire 51°55′N 2°59′W / 51.91°N 02.99°W / 51.91; -02.99 SO3224 Oldcastle Heath Cheshire 53°00′N 2°47′W / 53...
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    alleging involvement in the escape of Sir John Oldcastle from the Tower of London in 1413. As Oldcastle was a known Lollard sympathiser, these accusations...
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    thought that of these the most likely place of birth would be Prestbury, Cheshire, near Macclesfield. Prestbury was ordained a subdeacon on 13 March 1367...
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