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Powerstock is a village in south west Dorset, England, situated in a steep valley on the edge of the Dorset Downs, five miles ( 8 km ) north east of the market town of Bridport.
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Powerstock was used as the filming location for the BBC productions of Agatha Christie's " A Murder is Announced " and the 2010 " Spring Watch " series.
Television reporter Jemima Shore is an old school friend of Sister Miriam, who was also known as Rosabelle Powerstock and was heiress to " the Powers fortune ", one of the largest fortunes in Britain.
Powerstock and village
Powerstock village, December 2010
Just over a mile to the east of the village lies the nature reserve of Powerstock Common.
Powerstock and Dorset
* Poorstock Forest, Dorset ( see Powerstock )
A number of military events took place in Dorset during The Anarchy of the 12th century, and this gave rise to the defensive castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury.
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It was originally known as ' Poorstock ' but this was changed to ' Powerstock ' when the Bridport Railway was built in 1857, possibly to avoid connotations of ' poor ( rolling ) stock ' Powerstock railway station ( and the entire Bridport branch line ) closed on 5 May 1975.
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She was a goodwill ambassador for the UNESCO World Water Day for 2006, supporting that year's theme of " Water and Culture " by declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable electronic music festival that proposes a " water-consciousness " for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture.
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The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.
An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.
Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.
Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.
Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.
Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.
Most of the families moved to the nearby village of Dooagh, which is beside the sea, while some others emigrated.
The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.
The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.
It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.
There is a monument to him in his native village.
The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).
There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.
The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.
" They must guard a village that is being shelled too heavily.
Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.
Portes is a fishing village on the east coast.
Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.
Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.
Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.
The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.
A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.
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`` Jed's homestead is on the south bank ''.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.
The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.
He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.
Farther south in New York there is a heavy haze of color over the Catskills in mid-October, notably along routes 23 and 23A.
It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.
It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.
It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.
As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.
The south tides in the Atlantic Ocean are semi-diurnal ; that is, two high tides occur during each 24 lunar hours.
The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.
Rovaniemi ( in Finland ), which lies slightly south of the line, has a population of approximately 58, 000, and is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle.
It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.
The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.
The Dardanelles Strait, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, is approximately long and increases in width toward the south.
Southeast Anatolia is south of the Anti-Taurus Mountains.
Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.
* 681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
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