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    Thornhill is a village on the southern outskirts of Dewsbury in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Thornhill...
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    The Royston to Thornhill line was a Midland Railway venture constructed in West Yorkshire, England, that had the intent to allow trains to travel from...
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    Thornhill Community Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status situated just outside Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. The school...
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    The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named...
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  • Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal; vicar John Michell of Thornhill, West Yorkshire; physicist Kip Thorne of Caltech, who made a bet with Stephen...
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  • Thornhill Hall is a ruined medieval manor house on a moated island in Rectory Park, Thornhill, West Yorkshire, England. The ruins are listed as grade...
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  • Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    styled an English nabob by his peers. Sykes was born in Thornhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1732. Having joined the British East India Company...
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  • David March (rugby league) (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    stand-off, scrum-half and loose forward. David March was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, and he is the twin brother of the rugby league footballer and...
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  • automobiles. The company was founded on July 30, 1912, in Thornhill near Dewsbury in West Yorkshire. In the 1970s there were experiments with formula racing...
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    George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    was raised to the peerage in 1668. Savile was born in Thornhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest son of Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet, and...
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  • Thornhill Trojans are an amateur rugby league club situated in Thornhill, West Yorkshire; they currently compete in the National Conference League Premier...
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    West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east...
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    Danny Brough (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    25 caps. Brough was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, England. Brough started his playing career as a junior at Thornhill before signing for Wakefield...
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    The Yorkshire Electric Power Company was founded in 1901 to provide a supply of electricity to commercial and industrial users throughout the West Riding...
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  • and pupils of Thornhill Community Academy, a secondary school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. A Christmas special entitled Educating Yorkshire at Christmas...
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  • Alex Smith (footballer, born 1947) (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    Date of birth (1947-05-11) 11 May 1947 (age 77) Place of birth Thornhill, West Yorkshire, England Position(s) Full back Youth career Ossett Albion Senior...
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  • Christopher Brooke (British Army officer) (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    Conservative MP for Pontefract from 1924 to 1929. He was born in Thornhill, Yorkshire in 1869, the son of Ingham Brooke, and was educated at Winchester...
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    included Benjamin Franklin. They then stayed at the rectory in Thornhill, West Yorkshire with the polymath and botanist Rev. John Michell. In 1779, Ingenhousz...
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  • containing Royd Fox Royd, an area of Thornhill, West Yorkshire, England Hebden Royd, a civil parish in West Yorkshire, England Royd House, in Hale, Greater...
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    Hector Munro Chadwick (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    Kershaw. On 22 October 1870, Hector Munro Chadwick was born in Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire, England, the third son of Reverend Edward Chadwick and Sarah...
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  • Nathan Wood (cricketer) (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium. He was born at Thornhill Edge, Yorkshire. Wood represented Young England at U14, U15 and U17 levels, and...
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  • Barron Kilner (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    Barron Kilner was born in Thornhill Lees, West Riding of Yorkshire, and he died aged 70 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Barron Kilner won a cap...
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  • Southwick, West Sussex St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, West Yorkshire St Michael's and All Angels Church, Thornhill, West Yorkshire St Michael...
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  • Edward J. Thomas (category People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire)
    history of Buddhism. Thomas was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire. He was the son of a gardener at Thornhill Rectory. Thomas left school and worked as...
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    Thornhill Lees is a district of Thornhill near Dewsbury, in the borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Thornhill Lees is between Thornhill and...
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    Thornhills is a hamlet in the Calderdale district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is near the town of Brighouse. In 2023, Calderdale Council...
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  • Circus in London. 4 July – An underground explosion at Combs Pit, Thornhill, West Yorkshire, kills 135. 12 July – Dundee F.C. is formed in Scotland. 10 August...
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    Heaton Lodge Junction (category Rail transport in West Yorkshire)
    so accepted the LNWR having running powers between Heaton Lodge and Thornhill. Due to a growth in traffic from both companies, the line between Heaton...
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  • 1902 to 1909. He was born on 11 June 1841 in St James West, Middlesex, the son of Walter Thornhill (1806-1887) and Sophia Turner (1811-1879). On 25 September...
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