The area gained notoriety in the late 1960s when the Cannock Chase murders made national headlines; the remains of three young girls were found buried on the Chase after going missing from areas along the A34 road between there and Birmingham. Raymond Leslie Morris, a motor engineer from Walsall, was found guilty at Stafford assizes of one of the murders in 1968 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is still in prison over 40 years later and one of the country's longest serving prisoners.
The landscape owes much to the underlying Triassic "bunter" formations. These are sandstone deposits containing rounded pebbles. They can be found in Warwickshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Devon and Dorset in England. They are thought to be alluvial deposits. Judging from the rounding of the mainly quartzite pebbles, they were carried for a long time in a large and turbulent river. The hard pebbles got powerful abrasion. The deposits in the English Midlands are thought to have been carried northwards from Brittany in northern France.
Aleksandr Kokorin
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Heveningham
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England. In 2001 there were 110 people living in Heveningham. Heveningham is pronounced "Henningum". Heveningham has a church called St Margaret.
Hollesley
Hollesley is a village and civil parish in Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England. In 2001 there were 1356 people living in Hollesley. Hollesley is the largest village on the southern tip of the Sandlings Peninsula.
Huntingfield
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Belarusian Wikipedia
There are two Belarusian Wikipedias: one in the orthography of the Belarusian language which is official in modern Belarus ("Narkomovka," prefix "be:"), and another one in the pre-reform of 1933, classical orthography ("Taraškievica", prefix "be-x-old:").
The first Belarusian Wikipedia was started on August 12, 2004. One of its creators and first administrators was Uladzimir Katkouski (user name: rydel). Katkouski/rydel (who died in 2007) created over 1,300 articles in the Belarusian Wikipedia alone.
Punjabi Wikipedia
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Summer Esperanto Study
Summer Esperanto Study (in , shortly "SES") is the largest yearly international meeting for learning the Esperanto language. There is teaching of Esperanto on all levels, talks, short teaching of other languages, workshops, concerts, travel etc. Many participants use also "lernu!", the official website for free learning of Esperanto. The coordinator of the event is the non-profit organization E@I, since 2007. The minister of education and the mayor of the city usually support the event. The 7th Summer Esperanto Study was on 12–20 July 2013 in the city of Martin in Slovakia. There were 230 people from 27 countries.
Redditch
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Rugby, Warwickshire
Rugby is a town in Warwickshire, England. Rugby is 15 miles northeast of Warwick and 30 miles southeast of Birmingham.
Stafford
Stafford is the county town of the ceremonial county of Staffordshire in England. It is situated around 16 miles (26 km) north of Wolverhampton, 18 miles (29 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent and 24 miles (39 km) north-west of Birmingham.
The town's 2011 population of 68,472 makes it the fifth largest town in Staffordshire by population, behind Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Burton-upon-Trent.
The name Stafford means ""ford"" by a ""staithe"" (a landing place).
The town is famous for the Stafford knot, sometimes called the Staffordshire knot. It is a distinctive three-looped knot that is the traditional symbol of Staffordshire and Stafford itself. It is used by many local organisations on logos and buildings and also gives its name to a pub.
The town has a busy railway station on the West Coast Main Line. The station provides direct local trains to Crewe, Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton and Manchester, longer-distance trains to London, Carlisle, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and cross-country trains to Manchester and Bristol.
The town has a semi-professional football club, Stafford Rangers, who currently compete in the Northern Premier League. They play their home games at Marston Road.
Tamworth
Tamworth is a large market town and borough in Staffordshire, England. It is 14 miles (23 km) north-east of Birmingham. A 2019 census estimated that around 77,000 people live in the town.
It used to be divided between the counties of Warwickshire and Staffordshire. In 1889, the town was placed entirely in Staffordshire.
The town is home to Tamworth Castle, a 12th century castle.
It was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
The town's railway station is located on the West Coast Main Line. Passengers can board direct local-stopping trains to Birmingham, London and Crewe. Cross-country trains, operated by CrossCountry, also call at Tamworth, providing direct trains to Nottingham, Yorkshire, Scotland, South Wales and Cornwall.
Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent, or simply Burton, is a town in the county of Staffordshire in England, near to the border with Derbyshire. It is located 11 miles southwest of Derby and 30 miles northeast of Birmingham.
Burton is famous for its brewing industry. A lot of famous beers and lagers, such as Carling, are brewed in the town. It is currently home to eight independent breweries. The town's football club, Burton Albion FC, are nicknamed "The Brewers".
The 2011 census revealed that the town had a population of 72,299 people, making it one of the biggest towns in Staffordshire.
Stone, Staffordshire
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Hel
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Kenilworth
Kenilworth is a town and civil parish in Warwick District, Warwickshire, England. In 2011 there were 22413 people living in Kenilworth.
Leek, Staffordshire
Leek is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is around 10 miles (16 km) north east of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. It is near to the border with Cheshire.
Leek is an ancient borough. It was granted its royal charter in the year 1214.
The town is the administrative centre of the Staffordshire Moorlands district in the north of the county.
The town is at a high altitude. Most of the town is at or above 600 feet (180 m).
For hundreds of years, Leek had a big cattle market. It was a large centre of local farming.
Leek has a lot of remaining old architecture. Many Victorian buildings still stand around the town.
Droitwich Spa
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Corby
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