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TIL Edvard Beneš, the President of the Czech Republic who was exiled in the UK from 1940 to 1945, donated a bus shelter to the villages of Aston Abbotts and Wingrave in 1944. Beneš rented Wingrave Manor for his exiled government and their families, as well as The Abbey at Aston Abbots for himself

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