Green Farm - Farmhouse bed and breakfast located on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border southwest of town. Includes a description of the facilities.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
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The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
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