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Saffron Walden Rural District was a rural district in the county of Essex, England. It was created in 1894 and later enlarged by the addition of the parishes of Berden, Birchanger, Elsenham, Farnham, Henham-on-the-Hill, Manuden, Stansted Mountfitchet and Ugley from the disbanded Stansted Rural District. It was named after and administered from Saffron Walden.

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Quendon and Rickling

Quendon and Rickling is a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England with an area of 2,048 acres. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 was 587. It is a linear settlement on the B1383 between Saffron Walden and Bishops Stortford. Quendon & Rickling stand 300 feet above sea level on a watershed between two rivers: the Cam to the east, flowing north through Cambridge to the Ouse flowing on to the Wash.

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Rickling, Germany Place in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Quendon village in England

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Gönnebek Place in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Boostedt-Rickling is an Amt in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The seat of the Amt is in Boostedt. Before 1 January 2008, when Boostedt joined, the Amt was named Rickling, and the municipality Rickling was its seat.

Rickling, Essex village in United Kingdom

Rickling, which includes Rickling Green, is a village in the civil parish of Quendon and Rickling, in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) north from the town of Bishop's Stortford. Saffron Walden, at 5 miles (8 km), and the larger village of Newport, at 2 miles (3 km), lie to the north-east.

Sir Alexander Walden, of Matching and Rickling, Essex, was an English politician.

John Phillipps Judd was an English cricketer with amateur status who was active in 1831. He was born in Birchanger, Essex and died in Rickling, Essex. He made his first-class debut in 1831 and appeared in one match as an unknown handedness batsman whose bowling style is unknown, playing for Cambridge University. He scored eighteen runs with a highest score of 9 and took no wickets. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Neumünster–Bad Oldesloe railway German railway line

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Segeberg – Stormarn-Mitte federal electoral district of Germany

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St. Leos Catholic Church (Lewistown, Montana) United States historic place

The St. Leo's Catholic Church in parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Lewistown, Montana, in the Diocese of Great Falls–Billings.