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    Cardington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Part of the ancient hundred of Wixamtree, the settlement is...
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    Cardington Airfield, previously RAF Cardington, is a former Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, with a long and varied history, particularly...
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  • Cardington may refer to: Cardington, Bedfordshire, a village and civil parish in England Cardington Airfield, the nearby air base that has two vast airship...
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    John Howard (prison reformer) (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    old, and, described as a "sickly child", he was sent to live at Cardington, Bedfordshire, some fifty miles from London, where his father owned property...
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    Samantha Womack (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    Samantha Zoe Womack (née Janus; born 2 November 1972) is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage. Womack...
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    Bedfordshire (/ˈbɛdfərdʃɪər, -ʃər/; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire...
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  • the former Royal Airship Works in Cardington, Bedfordshire, where the R101 was built, remain. The No.1 Cardington hangar is original, but extended; the...
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  • steel-concrete composite, and concrete) at the BRE Cardington facility near Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, during the mid-1990s. After the tests, extensive...
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    on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2017. "Cardington Sheds to make a Star Wars comeback". Bedfordshire on Sunday. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 22 December...
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  • and built rocks using molds of real caves. An airship hangar at Cardington, Bedfordshire was rented by Warner Bros. during April 2004 and, converted into...
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  • Map of places in Bedfordshire compiled from this list See the list of places in England for places in other counties. Bedford Luton Leighton Buzzard Dunstable...
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  • loan was provided to enable the company to purchase a site near Cardington, Bedfordshire, on which to build airship construction facilities. As a result...
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    Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796) (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    Whitbread & Co Ltd. Samuel Whitbread was born on 20 August 1720 at Cardington in Bedfordshire, the seventh of eight children of Henry Whitbread. At 12, he received...
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    Portugal Cardington Studios, Cardington, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom On static display Named "Francisco d’Ollanda". Preserved as a prop at Cardington Studios...
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  • William Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    William Frederick Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton (29 June 1816 in Cardington, Bedfordshire – 8 October 1854) was a British army officer. Waldegrave was the...
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    Lakehurst, New Jersey; Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Brazil; and Cardington, Bedfordshire. Steel rigid airship hangars are some of the largest in the world...
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    saw the relocation of the RAF Museum Conservation Centre from Cardington, Bedfordshire to Cosford. The centre, costing £2.4 million, was opened by Marshal...
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    were to be built. Work was based at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, Bedfordshire, which had been built by Short Brothers during the First World...
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  • Inception (category Films shot in Bedfordshire)
    to the United Kingdom and shot in a converted airship hangar in Cardington, Bedfordshire, north of London.: 14  There, the hotel bar set which tilted 30...
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    slowly to York then set course for the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, Bedfordshire, running on five engines since one of the engines had to be shut...
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    The historic airship facilities at Cardington, Bedfordshire (formerly the Royal Airship Works and RAF Cardington), were used as a base for the firm's...
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    Samuel Whitbread (1764–1815) (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    a British politician. Whitbread was born on 18 January 1764 in Cardington, Bedfordshire, the son of the brewer Samuel Whitbread. He was educated at Eton...
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  • which served the Royal Air Force station near the village of Cardington in Bedfordshire, England. A short-lived halt, it opened during the First World...
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    George Gascoigne (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    English versification. The eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire, Gascoigne was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving...
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    Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson (category People from Cardington, Bedfordshire)
    Three Parts, Lord Thomson of Cardington (Christopher Birdwood Thomson), Jonathan Cape, 1926. Lord Thomson of Cardington: A memoir and some letters, Martha...
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  • development of British airships between the wars, hangar moved to Cardington (Bedfordshire), used as crashed aircraft dump in WW2. RAF Rackheath USAAF Station...
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    factory in Akron, Ohio to the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Cardington, Bedfordshire, England on an Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy to be erected there but...
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    Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of its urban area (as defined by the Office for National Statistics)...
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    Cardington was a railway station on the Bedford to Hitchin Line which served the village of Cardington in Bedfordshire, England. Opened in 1857, it gave...
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  • William Gascoigne (died 1540) (category People from Bedfordshire)
    1485 – 1540) of Cardington, Bedfordshire was an English Member of Parliament. He was born the son of George Gascoigne of Cardington. He was pricked High...
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