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Beyton

Beyton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. The village is around 8 miles (13 km) east of Bury St Edmunds, 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of Thurston and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Stowmarket. The main Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds road used to pass through the village - the modern A14 dual carriageway bypasses the village to the north.

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Elmswell railway station

Elmswell serves the village of Elmswell in Suffolk, England. It is on the Ipswich-Ely line. The station, and all trains serving it, are today operated by Greater Anglia.

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Elmswell railway station

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Tostock

Tostock is a small village around eight miles east of Bury St. Edmunds in the county of Suffolk. It is a very traditional Suffolk village, with a good example of a fourteenth-century church.

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Edward Capell

Edward Capell was an English Shakespearian critic.

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Edward Capell

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Rushbrooke with Rougham

Rushbrooke with Rougham is a large civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England covering the villages of Blackthorpe, Rougham and Rushbrooke as well as Rougham Airfield. Located directly south-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 1,140. One 'Henry of Rushbrook' was Abbot of Bury St Edmunds from 1235 to 1248. The site of a former stately home, Rushbrooke Hall, is situated to the south of Rushbrooke. Until April 2019 it was in the St Edmundsbury district.

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Thurston, Suffolk

Thurston is a village and a parish in Suffolk situated about 4 miles (6 km) east of Bury St Edmunds and 10 miles (16 km) west of Stowmarket.

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Thurston, Suffolk

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Great Ashfield Castle

Great Ashfield Castle, also known locally as Castle Hill, is a medieval motte and bailey castle near the village of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England.

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Great Ashfield Castle

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St Andrew's Church, Sapiston

St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Sapiston, Suffolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It stands at the end of a track to the south of the village, adjacent to Grange Farm and near to a ford crossing the Black Bourne stream. The church served what became a deserted medieval village.

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St Andrew's Church, Sapiston

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Thurston Community College

Thurston Community College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Thurston, Suffolk, England. As of 2018, it has 1,733 students aged 11-18 drawn from the local village and surrounding rural communities.

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Thurston Community College

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Thedwastre Rural District

Thedwastre was a rural district in West Suffolk, England from 1894 to 1974. Thedwastre was formed under the Local Government Act 1894, from the part of the Stow Rural Sanitary District which was in West Suffolk. It was named after the historic hundred of Thedwastre.

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Thedwastre Rural District

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Stanton Chare

Stanton Chare is a hamlet in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England. It is near the large village of Stanton. The A143 road and B1111 road are nearby.

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Stanton Chare

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Elmswell

Elmswell is a village and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England. It is situated halfway between Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket and lies just to the north of the A14 road.

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Bardwell, Suffolk

Bardwell is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.

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Bardwell, Suffolk

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RAF Bury St Edmunds

Royal Air Force Bury St Edmunds or simply RAF Bury St Edmunds is a former Royal Air Force station located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. It is not to be confused with the RAF grass strip on the western side of Bury St Edmunds known as RAF Westley, an area now part of the town itself.

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RAF Bury St Edmunds

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Newe House

Newe House is a Grade II* listed Jacobean dower house in the village of Pakenham, Suffolk.

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Newe House

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The Gardens, Great Ashfield

The Gardens, Great Ashfield is a 3.8-hectare (9.4-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Great Ashfield in Suffolk.

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The Gardens, Great Ashfield

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Pakenham Meadows

Pakenham Meadows is a 5.8-hectare (14-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Pakenham in Suffolk.

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Pakenham Meadows

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Pakenham Windmill

Pakenham Mill is a Grade II* listed tower mill at Pakenham, Suffolk, England which has been restored and is maintained in working order.

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Pakenham Windmill

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Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)

Bury St Edmunds was a constituency in Suffolk from 1621 to 2024, most recently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2015 to 2024 by Jo Churchill, a Conservative.

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Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lees Hall Roman Camp

Lees Hall Roman Camp is an archaeological site, a Roman camp near Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland, England. It is near Haltwhistle and adjacent to the B6318 road.

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Lees Hall Roman Camp

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Milecastle 42

Milecastle 42 (Cawfields) is a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY7157466692).

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Milecastle 42

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Northumbria

Northumbria was an early medieval English kingdom, existing between 654 and 1066 AD, spanning modern-day Northern England and Southern Scotland.

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Northumbria

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Allolee to Walltown

Allolee to Walltown is the name given to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Northumberland, England. The site, which follows the path of a section of Hadrian's Wall, is notable for an unusually wide range of grassland types growing on thin soil above the Whin Sill, a rock formation peculiar to the Northern Pennines.

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Allolee to Walltown

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Milecastle 41

Milecastle 41 (Melkridge) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY73026705).

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Milecastle 41

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