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Cartmel is a village in Cumbria several miles west of Grange-over-Sands.It was originally in Lancashire but boundary changes brought it into the newly created county of Cumbria in 1974. The village is the location of the 12th century Cartmel Priory. It has more recently become known as the "home of sticky toffee pudding". Its racecourse hosts popular meetings two or three times a year, traditionally in Whit Week. Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ... Grange-over-Sands is a town in Cumbria, England, and in the traditional county of Lancashire. ... Lancashire is a county in the North of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Early History Cartmel Priory, at Cartmel, Cumbria in the north of England, was founded in 1190 by William Marshal, later 2nd Earl of Pembroke for the Augustinian Canons and dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Michael. ... Originally called icky sticky toffee sponge, sticky toffee pudding is a British dessert composed of a moist sponge cake made with fine chopped dates and then covered with a toffee sauce. ... A race track (or racetrack), is a purpose-built facility for the conducting of races. ... The name of the Jewish holiday Shavuot is commonly translated as Pentecost. Pentecost is the Christian festival that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, fifty days after the Resurrection of Jesus at Easter, and ten days after the Ascension. ...


The village is served by the nearby Cark and Cartmel railway station on the Furness Line. Cark and Cartmel railway station is a railway station that serves the villages of Cark, Flookburgh and Cartmel in Cumbria. ... The Furness Line runs from Barrow_in_Furness to Ulverston and Grange_over_Sands, connecting with the West Coast Main Line at Carnforth. ...


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Andrew Cartmel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (646 words)
In 1987, Cartmel was hired as the script editor for the twenty-fourth season of the iconic science-fiction programme Doctor Who, having been recommended to the producer John Nathan-Turner by the producer's agent, who had seen some unproduced scripts Cartmel had written.
Cartmel worked on the programme for the next two years, overseeing the final three seasons of its original run on BBC One.
The most lasting legacy of this new direction was the so-called "Cartmel Masterplan", a backstory developed with other writers that restored some of the mystery of the Doctor's background and eventually would explain exactly who he was.
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Young people now spend more time alone and on watching television than in school or with parents (Steele and Brown, 1995; Jeffs and Smith, 2001).
They may have greater control over aspects of their life picking ‘n mixing lifestyles, but choices are often more illusory than real (Furlong and Cartmel, 1997: Miles, 2000).
Furlong, A. and Cartmel, F. Young People and Social Change.
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