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| - Billingham was an adventurer and self-professed thief by trade who was active in the early years of the Heartstone Crisis. He eventually met with the young wizard Cyril Faulkner, and their travels would eventually take them far across the Astran Isles, and on all manner of adventures, but at the hour of their meeting they had yet to realise their significance.
- Billingham is a town of over 35,000 people in northeastern England.
- Billingham is a town in the Borough of Stockton on Tees in North East England with a population of 35,765 (2006). It was founded in roughly c. 650 by a group of Saxons known as Billa's people, which is where the name Billingham is thought to have originated. In modern history, the Chemical industry and in particular the company ICI played an important role in the growth of Billingham. Today, ICI no longer operates in Billingham, although other chemical companies are working in the area. Billingham came 35th in the Crap Towns survey of 2003, provoking some outrage in the local press.
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| - Billingham was an adventurer and self-professed thief by trade who was active in the early years of the Heartstone Crisis. He eventually met with the young wizard Cyril Faulkner, and their travels would eventually take them far across the Astran Isles, and on all manner of adventures, but at the hour of their meeting they had yet to realise their significance.
- Billingham is a town in the Borough of Stockton on Tees in North East England with a population of 35,765 (2006). It was founded in roughly c. 650 by a group of Saxons known as Billa's people, which is where the name Billingham is thought to have originated. In modern history, the Chemical industry and in particular the company ICI played an important role in the growth of Billingham. Today, ICI no longer operates in Billingham, although other chemical companies are working in the area. The town is effectively split into two separate areas by name, Old Billingham (the area around the village green adjacent to St Cuthbert's church and built up around the ICI works) and the more planned estates that have spread out since the 1950s, increasing the town's size and borders towards the villages of Wolviston and Cowpen Bewley (to the point of almost incorporating them). Billingham is served by three secondary schools, Northfield (famous for Jamie Bell), Billingham Campus (originally Brunner and Mond Schools) and St. Michael's RC School. Between 1923 and 1968, Billingham had its own Urban District Council which built, among other things, Dawson House, Kennedy Gardens and Billingham Golf Club (the UK's first municipally-owned club). It was absorbed into the Borough of Stockton and the County Borough of Teesside in 1968. In 1974 Teesside County was replaced by the County of Cleveland. In 1996, the arrangements were refashioned once more with Billingham being part of a separate unitary council for all of Stockton. In February 2007, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Electoral Commission issued orders for the creation of a Billingham Parish and the setting up of a a new Town Council. Billingham Town Council will be the largest in the Borough of Stockton. It will initially be funded by a precept (money collected by a small extra charge added to each Council tax Bill) of £80,000. Elections for the new Town Council were held on May 3 2007, a petition to Stockton Borough Council and referendum held in 2003 having both given assent to the proposal. Billingham came 35th in the Crap Towns survey of 2003, provoking some outrage in the local press.
- Billingham is a town of over 35,000 people in northeastern England.
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