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... that the boathouse for the
Burnham Area Rescue Boat
(
pictured
) was built in just three days as part of the
Challenge Anneka
television series?
... that the medieval chronicler
Matthew Paris
accused the medieval bishop
Hugh of Wells
(d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"?
... that horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to
Weston-super-Mare railway station
,
England
, from 1841, when the
railway
opened, until 1851?
... that a
coal mining
spoil heap
at
Writhlington
,
England
was the site for the discovery of
fossilised
remains of the world's earliest known
Damselfly
?
... that
Drove Cottage Henge
is around 54 metres (177 ft) in diameter, yet is hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged it?