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Tutbury

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Tutbury

Small town in Staffordshire, England, on the River Dove, 6 km/4 mi from Burton upon Trent; population (2001) 5,250 (Tutbury and Outwoods). The town has agricultural and antique trade, a glass-cutting works, and manufactures sheepskin and leather goods; tourism is important.

Features include the ruins of the 14th–15th-century castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned, and a church built in about 1083, with a Norman doorway.
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The fact is, that on the Southampton coach, the day previous, James Crawley had met the Tutbury Pet, who was coming to Brighton to make a match with the Rottingdean Fibber; and enchanted by the Pet's conversation, had passed the evening in company with that scientific man and his friends, at the inn in question.
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I forget, without looking back to some old letters I have upstairs, whether it was my great-grandfather who went to school with the Cock-lane Ghost, or the Thirsty Woman of Tutbury who went to school with my grandmother.
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I warrant we will bring his wits back to him again when we get him safe before our good Bishop at Tutbury Town.
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