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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of northern England north of Sheffield.
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- proper noun A
town in the countySouth Yorkshire in the north ofEngland .
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BARNSLEY (BLACK, or properly BLEAK BARNSLEY), a market town and municipal borough in the Barnsley parliamentary division of the West Riding of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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School, Barnsley (another vanished place, soon to be converted to residential flats); Holgate Grammar School, also in Barnsley; The Oaks, Worsborough Dale; the Lycée de Garçons in Vitré - and many more.
Joanne Harris discusses Gentlemen & Players and her work in general. 2010
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Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire on July 3, 1964, her mother is
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And he would have been far more likely to learn the true figure in Barnsley than in the rural peace of Wallington!
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(The public baths in Barnsley contain nineteen mens slipper bathsthis in a town of 70,000 inhabitants, largely miners, not one of whom has a bath in his house!)
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I never meant to upset anyone and if I didn’t live in Barnsley I would nave have put this comment.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Too many official languages? 2008
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Striker Daniel Bogdanovich headed just wide from the corner to start a period of pressure by Barnsley, which is without a major trophy since the 1912 FA Cup, but the League Championship side was denied a goal by its poor finishing.
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Striker Daniel Bogdanovich headed just wide from the corner to start a period of pressure by Barnsley, which is without a major trophy since the 1912 FA Cup, but the League Championship side was denied a goal by its poor finishing.
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Striker Daniel Bogdanovich headed just wide from the corner to start a period of pressure by Barnsley, which is without a major trophy since the 1912 FA Cup, but the League Championship side was denied a goal by its poor finishing.
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It is in a region that has pockets of deprivation, such as Barnsley and Doncaster, and Leeds has largely been overshadowed by Manchester, which has done a better job of promoting itself.
Cities report reveals mixed picture of economic recovery 2011
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