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Hace 2 días · Two of the best lodges in Somerset. Benevolent and Love and Honour held a joint social evening in Wells yesterday. 446 and 285 have a great history together and it was fantastic to enjoy a relaxed social evening amongst friends. We started with pre-dinner drinks at The Crown, famous for scenes in the movie Hot Fuzz.
Hace 2 días · It was 857 in 1901 but had fallen to 804 by 1911 and to 789 by 1921. In 1931 it was 904. With pre- and post-war housing expansion, the population had reached 1,934 by 1951, 2,222 by 1961, and 4,258 by 1971. A slight fall to 4,151 by 1981 was reversed by renewed housing development and in 1991 the population was 7,329. (fn. 1)
Hace 5 días · Coston Hackett, a small and hilly parish, covers an area of 1,299 acres, which includes 224 acres of arable land, 766 acres of pasture and 90 acres of woods and plantations. (fn. 1) In 1911 a small part of King's Norton was added to this parish. Bilberry Hill (800 ft.) and Coston Hill (800 ft.), part of the Lickey Hills, bound Coston Hackett on ...
Hace 22 horas · Athelstan Rendall: Liberal Tipperary East: Thomas Condon: Irish Parliamentary Party Tipperary Mid: John Hackett: Irish Parliamentary Party Tipperary North: John Esmonde: Irish Parliamentary Party Tipperary South: John Cullinan: Irish Parliamentary Party Tiverton: Hon. William Walrond: Conservative Torquay: Charles Burn: Liberal Unionist Totnes ...
Hace 4 días · Enmore Castle was built in the 1750s by John Perceval, earl of Egmont, to his own design and may have incorporated an earlier gatehouse. (fn. 41) Its plan was a hollow square with embattled square towers at the corners and semicircular turrets flanking the entrance and in the centres of the other sides. The building was surrounded by a dry moat ...
Hace 2 días · HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE MONKS. 1. ST. ALBANS ABBEY. Before The Conquest. The legend of the foundation of St. Albans Abbey has been graphically written by Matthew Paris, a 13th-century monk of the abbey. According to his account Offa II, King of the Mercians, desired to found a monastery in atonement for the murder by Quendreda, his queen, of ...
Hace 4 días · It is not certainly known whether this Thunderfield was the place where Athelstan held a witan, but it is improbable that the neighbourhood was much inhabited until after 1086. It may be the 'Thunresfelda' where Alfred bequeathed lands to his nephew Aedelme, (fn. 7) and it may also be the Thunderfield at which a pool is mentioned as a boundary of lands granted by Edgar to his servant Oswig.
