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- Pontefract, Yorkshire
- 34 km
- 38.5°C in Faversham, Kent, England on 11 August 2003
- Three times: in 1908, 1948 and 2012
- over 80
- Mother Shipton’s Cave in Yorkshire has been a tourist attraction since 1630.
- French
- No. They are expensive, private schools which select pupils.
- Hay-on-Wye. It also has the world’s largest second-hand book market.
- Danish Vikings first settled in York in 867. They ruled the city until 954.
- Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534.
- Because Britain was the first country to issue national stamps.
- aluminium
- At Bletchley Park in 1943/44. It was used by codebreakers in WWII, but was a secret until 1974.
- eight
- “Macbeth” by Shakespeare. On average, it is performed somewhere in the world every 4 hours.
- about 80,000
- Rudolf Hess, in May 1941
- The Blackjacks, the Quarrymen.
- In Arizona, USA