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Collingham and Linton Cricket Club Ground
Collingham and Linton Cricket Club is a cricket ground in Collingham, West Yorkshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1896. In 1986 the club hosted the first Women's Test between England women and India women. The following year the ground hosted its second and final Women's Test between England women and Australia women. In 1993, the ground held a Women's One Day International between England women and Australia women in the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup. In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Collingham and Linton Cricket Club.
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Collingham Bridge
Collingham Bridge is a road bridge that spans the Collingham Beck, a tributary of the River Wharfe on Harewood Road in Collingham, West Yorkshire, England.
Bernard Hartley, the county surveyor for the West Riding of Yorkshire was probably responsible for building the road bridge over the beck in about 1790. The Grade II listed bridge has a single arch and rusticated stone parapets.
The bridge gave its name to the village railway station, distinguishing it from a station in Nottinghamshire.
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Collingham, West Yorkshire
Collingham is a village and civil parish 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 2,991.
It sits in the Harewood ward of Leeds City Council and Wetherby and Easingwold parliamentary constituency.
The River Wharfe runs through the village towards Wetherby, as does the main A58 trans-Pennine road. The A659 passes through the village. The River Wharfe is dangerous at Collingham due to undercurrents, which are prevalent around Linton Bridge and the former viaduct. Collingham Beck burst its banks in 2007, causing extensive flooding.
The village public house, known as Cromwells, is said to be where Oliver Cromwell spent the night after the Battle of Marston Moor. The clergyman, the Reverend William Mompesson was born there in 1639.
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Collingham Bridge railway station
Collingham Bridge railway station was a railway station serving the villages of Collingham and Linton in West Yorkshire, England. The station opened on 1 May 1876, and closed on 6 January 1964. The station's coal yard is now a car park for the River Wharfe with the location for the original station much further to the South West, aligning with the current Linton Road.
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St Oswald's Church, Collingham
St Oswald's Church is an active Anglican church in Collingham, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Harrogate deanery and Diocese of Leeds. The church is on the edge of the village on Wetherby Road.