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Haydock Park Racecourse
Haydock Park Racecourse is a racecourse in Merseyside, North West England. The racecourse is set in an area of parkland bounded by the towns of Haydock to the west, Ashton-in-Makerfield to the north, Golborne to the east and Newton-le-Willows to the south.
David Shawcross
Francis David Shawcross was an English footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Halifax Town, Stockport County and Manchester City.
Haydock
Haydock is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. Historically in Lancashire, it contains all of the Haydock electoral ward and a section of the Blackbrook electoral ward.
Haydock Sprint Cup
The Sprint Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of 6 furlongs , and it is scheduled to take place each year in early September.
George Leo Haydock
George Leo Haydock , scion of an ancient English Catholic Recusant family, was a priest, pastor and Bible scholar. His edition of the Douay Bible with extended commentary, originally published in 1811, became the most popular English Catholic Bible of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic.
Thomas Haydock
Thomas Haydock , born of one of the oldest English Catholic Recusant families, was a schoolmaster and publisher. His dedication to making religious books available to fellow Catholics suffering under the English Penal Laws came at great personal cost.
George Haydock
George Haydock was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
Haydock Collieries
Haydock Collieries was a colliery company situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield which is now in Merseyside, England.
Haydock High School
Haydock High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Haydock in the English county of Merseyside.The school first opened as a secondary modern school in February 1932. Today it is a community school administered by St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council.
Haydock railway station
Haydock railway station served the village of Haydock, formerly in Lancashire, now in Merseyside, England.The station was on the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway line from Lowton St Mary's to the original St Helens Central railway station where it was crossed by what is now the A599 in the centre of the village.East of the station was the 99 yards Haydock Colliery Tunnel, the only tunnel on the line. It was built at the railway's expense using the 'cut and cover' method.
Haydock Park railway station
Haydock Park railway station was a railway station adjacent to Haydock Park Racecourse, formerly in Lancashire and now in Merseyside, England. The station's sole purpose was to handle race day traffic.
Shaw Brothers Studio
Shaw Brothers Ltd. (Chinese: 邵氏兄弟（香港）公司) was the largest film production company of Hong Kong that operated from 1925 to 2011.
William Shawcross
William Hartley Hume Shawcross, is a British writer and commentator, and the former Chairman of the Charity Commission for England and Wales.