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  1. 2 days ago · Semley lies within the Wiltshire butter country, and its clay soils provide extensive pasture. The proportion of arable land has long been small, and there is little evidence of open fields. There may have been a South field but its location and the names and whereabouts of other fields are unknown. In the mid 14th century some and in the late ...

  2. 2 days ago · taken 4 days ago, near to Semley, Wiltshire, England. St Leonard, Semley: George Dewrance Irving Armstrong. On 29 May 1901, Armstrong fought in a particularly savage encounter at Vlakfontein, South Africa. H Company, made up of 5 officers and 95 men, was part of a larger force moving towards Mafeking and although appearing well protected by the ...

  3. 2 days ago · The boundary with Semley, on high ground between Donhead St. Mary and Semley villages, was redrawn in 1241 when Shaftesbury abbey and Wilton abbey, the lords respectively of Donhead and Semley manors, agreed to cease intercommoning there. The parish is at the west end of the Nadder valley and in the Vale of Wardour.

  4. 4 days ago · From the Reformation to the 19th century the earls of Pembroke owned most of the eastern parishes. Sheep-and-corn husbandry and more recently arable and dairy farming was the pattern of agriculture in all the parishes except Semley where there is a remarkable survival of common pastures.

  5. 3 days ago · Merseyside, metropolitan county in northwestern England. It is situated on both banks of the lower reaches of the River Mersey estuary and centred on the city of Liverpool. The metropolitan county comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St. Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool.

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  6. 5 days ago · Robert Morley (born May 26, 1908, Semley, Wiltshire, Eng.—died June 3, 1992, Reading, Berkshire) was a prolific English actor, director, and playwright whose forte was comedy and comedy-drama. Morley was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and made his professional debut in Margate in 1928.

  7. 3 days ago · Essex, England. Essex, administrative, geographic, and historic county of eastern England. It extends along the North Sea coastline between the Thames and Stour estuaries. The administrative county covers an area within the larger geographic county, which in turn covers a part of the original historic county of Essex.

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