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    Shoreham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 5.2 miles north of Sevenoaks. The probable derivation...
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  • William of Shoreham (fourteenth century) was an English poet. Little is known of his life, but he probably lived in Shoreham, Kent and was vicar of Chart...
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    Shoreham railway station serves Shoreham in Kent, England. It is 22 miles 52 chains (36.5 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between...
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  • Shoreham may refer to: Shoreham, Victoria Shoreham, Kent Shoreham railway station Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency) 1974-1997...
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    Naomi Watts (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    actor Billy Crudup. Naomi Ellen Watts was born on 28 September 1968, in Shoreham, Kent, England. She is the daughter of Myfanwy (Miv) Edwards (née Roberts)...
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    Samuel Palmer (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    the next ten years. The works were landscapes around Shoreham, near Sevenoaks in the west of Kent. He purchased a run-down cottage, nicknamed "Rat Abbey"...
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    Shoreham, Rhode Island and is part of Washington County. The island is named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, and the town was named for Shoreham,...
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    Lord Dunsany (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    gained an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. He retired to Shoreham, Kent, in 1947. In 1957 he took ill when visiting Ireland and died in Dublin...
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    William Colgate (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    Hollingbourne, Kent, England, on January 25, 1783. He was the son of Robert Colgate and his wife Sarah (née Bowles). The family moved to a farm near Shoreham when...
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  • Thomas Highgate (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    desertion and executed by firing squad on the Western Front. He was born in Shoreham, Kent, and worked as a farm labourer before joining the army in 1913 as a...
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    (c. 1542 – 1582). He was a member of parliament representing first Shoreham, Kent (1563) and then Oxfordshire. Esquire of the Body to Elizabeth I. He...
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    The Shoreham Memorial Cross is a Christian cross hill figure carved into a chalk escarpment above the village of Shoreham, Kent. The concept of the cross...
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    (1916) Fovant badges, Wiltshire (1916-) Lenham Cross, Kent (1922) Shoreham, Kent memorial cross, Kent (1920)[citation needed] Sutton Mandeville military...
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    George Medhurst (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    to the development of the first atmospheric railway. He was born in Shoreham, Kent and trained as a clockmaker at Clerkenwell, London, but later became...
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    Shoreham Downs is a 145.1-hectare (359-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Kemsing and Eynesford in Kent. It is part of Kent...
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    Scott-Paine, whom he had first met while involved in property speculation in Shoreham, Kent. Pemberton-Billing, his wife and Scott-Paine lived on Pemberton-Billing's...
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  • kitchen is located in the main barn at the Quadrangle Trust, near Shoreham in Kent. Each heat featured two teams, while each semi-final and the final...
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    1662 and 1631 Flight's and No. 7 Anti-Aircraft Practice Camp at RAF Shoreham, Kent for various anti-aircraft training duties. The squadron was initially...
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  • Shena Mackay (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    War, her family moved to Hampstead, London, and eventually settled in Shoreham, Kent, from where she attended Tonbridge Grammar School. Her writing career...
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    Edward Calvert and George Richmond, who gathered in the country at Shoreham, Kent in the 1820s, producing intense and lyrical pastoral idylls in conditions...
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  • Science Museum, London SW7 Shoreham Airport Visitor Centre, Shoreham Airport, West Sussex Shoreham Aircraft Museum, Shoreham, Kent Shuttleworth Collection...
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    Joseph Prestwich (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    Stratigraphical and Palaeontological. In 1888, he retired from Oxford to Shoreham, Kent where he continued to work until his death in 1896. Prestwich was elected...
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    Samuel Palmer's Shoreham period, which mainly depicted moonlit scenes of shepherds and sheep from around his home in Shoreham, Kent. A nearly life-sized...
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  • G-ACSY of London, Scottish & Provincial Airways crashed just north of Shoreham, Kent killing all four people on board. The aircraft was on a scheduled international...
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    Blake-influenced group known as The Ancients which met at Samuel Palmer's in Shoreham, Kent in the later 1820s and early 1830s. Amongst Calvert's finest works are...
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    The Shoreham Aircraft Museum is located in the village of Shoreham near Sevenoaks in Kent, England, on the south-east edge of Greater London. It was founded...
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    Franklin White (dancer) (category People from Shoreham, Kent)
    (1939–42) and The Royal Ballet (1942–66). Franklin White was born in Shoreham, Kent, England, the son of artist Franklin White (1892–1975) and violinist...
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    guarding the Thames and Medway, afterwards to Westerham, Knockholt and Shoreham, Kent. The battalion was then increasingly employed in airfield defence, including...
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  • Peter's, Cranley Gardens he held incumbencies in Shoreham, Kent, Westminster, Aylesford and Ashford, Kent. In 1934 he was appointed Archdeacon of Maidstone...
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    (Repealed by Whitesheet Hill and Barford Road Act 1830 (c.lxxxviii)) Shoreham (Kent) Road Act 1810 (repealed) 50 Geo. 3. c. xviii 21 March 1810 (Repealed...
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