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217:18 November
178:totalisator
89: /
64:Coordinates
1851:Categories
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1587:St Austell
1552:Pontefract
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402:Canterbury
203:"Bideford"
189:References
74:51°01′19″N
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1707:Thurnscoe
1492:Newmarket
1462:Markfield
1377:Lingfield
1337:Kettering
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437:Crayford
157:Football
138:Bideford
130:football
103:Capacity
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48:Location
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1747:Warwick
1302:Hebburn
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1217:Coundon
1197:Chester
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148:Origins
112:Tenants
1687:Syston
1447:Maldon
1262:Exeter
1232:Durham
1182:Caxton
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752:Oxford
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1457:March
1442:Luton
1227:Dover
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142:Devon
128:is a
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253:ISBN
219:2022
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