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    Savile Park is a public open space in Halifax in West Yorkshire, England, 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of the town centre. There are fine Victorian mansions...
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    of Halifax took the name of the town. Its first creation, in the Peerage of England in 1677, was for George Savile, who was created Baron Savile of Eland...
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    James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE KCSG (/ˈsævɪl/; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English media personality and DJ. Savile was well known in the...
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    In late 2012 it emerged that Jimmy Savile, a British media personality who had died the previous year, had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout...
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    George Halifax Lumley-Savile, 3rd Baron Savile (24 January 1919 – 2 June 2008), was an English landowner, member of the House of Lords, and president...
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    housed at Savile Park. As the number of pupils reduced over the coming years, the 6th form and 4th form were relocated to the Savile Park site and the...
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    Savile baronets, their later-to-be ennobled heirs (with the territorial designation of Halifax), then from 1888 until 1938 to 1st to 3rd Lords Savile...
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  • and 3 Savile Road, Halifax (1261490)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 May 2020 Historic England, "Nos. 13–27 Woolshops, Halifax (1393794)"...
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    Congregational minister. This is a Grade II listed building in Savile Park Road, Savile Park, Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was designed by Barber and ground broken...
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    Thornhill. Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet (1612–1644), politician and soldier, born in Thornhill George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695), statesman...
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