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Hace 1 día · Much Wenlock still hosts the Wenlock Olympian Games, which were an inspiration to Pierre de Coubertin for the Olympic Games. The mascot for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is an anthropomorphic Phrygian cap based on the one Marianne wore at the time of the French Revolution .
Hace 5 días · Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, the majority with his second wife, Rose West . All the victims were young women.
Hace 5 días · In 1468, a few weeks after the first successful royal appointment of a prior of Wenlock and at the instance of Lord Wenlock, chief butler of England, Edward IV, recalling the 'laudable and acceptable services' of his 'liege men and residents of the town of Wenlock' in his gaining of the crown, granted them a charter conferring on the town the status of a 'free borough incorporate forever'.
Hace 2 días · Home. A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10, Munslow Hundred (Part), the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock. Covering the central part of southern Shropshire, including Wenlock, Upper Corve Dale and the Stretton Hills. Victoria County History - Shropshire. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1998.
Hace 1 día · LITTLE WENLOCK. Little Wenlock village lies 4½ km. south of Wellington and 3½ km. west of Dawley. The civil parish, lying immediately west of Dawley (later Telford) new town, was greatly extended in 1966; until then it had formed part of the borough of Wenlock and its boundaries had remained those of the ancient parish, the area ...
Hace 20 horas · The list, which was compiled using the list of 1,000 Largest Cities and Towns in the UK by Population, published by The Geographist, to ensure completeness, [1] includes over 700 surviving buildings. Notable examples of buildings which have not survived include the town halls of Kensington, Newcastle, Paddington and Sunderland.
Hace 5 días · Saint Mildburh (alternatively Milburga or Milburgh) (+23 February 727) was the abbess of Wenlock Priory. Her feast day is 23 February. Mildburh was a daughter of Merewalh, King of the Mercian sub-kingdom of Magonsaete, and Domne Eafe. She was the older sister of Saint Mildrith and Saint Mildgytha.
