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Sir William Twysden, 3rd Baronet, of Roydon Hall in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.
Brookland Halt was a railway station which served the village of Brookland in Kent, England. The station opened in 1881 and closed in 1967.
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Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney of The Mote, Maidstone, known as Sir Robert Marsham, Bt between 1703 and 1716, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Romney.
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