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  • 11Warton, Warwickshire — Warton is a village in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, United Kingdom. It is five miles east of Tamworth and four miles north west of Atherstone.Warton is a small, bucolic village, which, being surrounded by rivers, probably… …

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  • 12Warton, Fylde — Warton is a village on the The Fylde in Lancashire, England.The village is about six miles from Preston and eight miles from Blackpool. The village is located on the banks of the River Ribble, close to its entry into the Irish Sea. It is best… …

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  • 13Warton, Lancaster — infobox UK place country = England latitude= 54.1488 longitude= 2.7755 population= 2,315 (2001 census) official name= Warton map type= Lancashire shire district= Lancaster shire county = Lancashire region= North West England constituency… …

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  • 14Warton Aerodrome — Infobox Airport name = Warton Aerodrome nativename = nativename a = nativename r = image width = caption = IATA = ICAO = EGNO type = Private owner = operator = BAE Systems city served = location = Preston elevation f = 55 elevation m = 17… …

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  • 15Warton, Thomas, The Elder; Joseph; And Thomas, The Younger — (1688 1800)    • Thomas, the elder, the father, 1688 1745    The son of Antony Warton, vicar of Godalming, Surrey, he graduated, B.A. (1709 10), M.A. (1712), and B.D. (1725) from Magdalen College, Oxford. His Jacobite sympathies made him popular… …

    British and Irish poets

  • 16Warton, Thomas, the Younger — ▪ English poet born Jan. 9, 1728, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Eng. died May 21, 1790, Oxford  poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry, brother of the poet and critic Joseph Warton, and son of Thomas Warton the Elder… …

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  • 17Warton, Joseph — ▪ English author baptized April 22, 1722, Dunsfold, Surrey, Eng. died Feb. 23, 1800, Wickham, Hampshire       English critic and classical scholar who anticipated some of the critical tenets of Romanticism. His brother Thomas was poet laureate… …

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  • 18Warton — biographical name Thomas 1728 1790 English literary historian & critic; poet laureate (1785 90) …

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  • 19Warton — War•ton [[t]ˈwɔr tn[/t]] n. big Thomas, 1728–90, English poet and critic: poet laureate 1785–90 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 20Warton — /ˈwɔtən/ (say wawtuhn) noun Thomas, 1728–90, English poet; poet laureate 1785–90 …