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Whitkirk

Whitkirk is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Leeds.

The parish church is the resting place of civil engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist John Smeaton (1724-1794). Among numerous projects, Smeaton designed the Eddystone Lighthouse, Ramsgate harbour, the Forth and Clyde Canal, and numerous bridges.

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