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unusual facts about Altham


Altham

Altham, Lancashire, a village and a civil parish in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England


History of English amateur cricket

Altham says that CUCC began at a huge public area called Parker's Piece but then became tenants at Fenner's in 1846.

James Altham

Altham died on 21 February 1617, and the lord keeper, Sir Francis Bacon, in appointing his successor, characterised the late baron as ‘one of the gravest and most reverend of the judges of this kingdom.’ He was buried in Oxhey Chapel, built by himself on his estate at Oxhey in Hertfordshire, where a monument still preserves his memory and that of his third wife, who died on 21 April 1638.

Richard Annesley

Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey (1693–1761), Irish peer, kidnapper and bigamist, son of the 3rd Baron Altham


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