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unusual facts about Ashdown


John D. Winters

On January 26, 1952, he wed the former Frances Locke (1921–2006) in her native Ashdown in Little River County in southwestern Arkansas.


Alcock Ashdown survey catamaran

Alcock Ashdown Survey Catamarans are a series of six 500 ton steel hull/aluminium superstructure Hydrographic Survey Catamarans being built by Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat) Ltd at its Bhavnagar shipyard for the Indian Navy.

Baron Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown (born 1941), formally Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, British politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats

Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven

He and his brother William founded the Craven Hunt, and he appears in James Seymour's 1743 A Kill at Ashdown Park, a picture owned by the Craven family until 1968.

Hollington, Hastings

The area lies next to Baldslow, Ashdown, North and Conquest, and less than five miles southeast of Battle, East Sussex, the home of Battle Abbey, which commemorates the victory of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

James Henry Ashdown

In 1907, Ashdown was elected mayor of Winnipeg and served for two years before being defeated by William Sanford Evans.

Lake Cowichan First Nation

In 1887 the surveyor Ashdown Green reported that the Lake Cowichan people had once been a large tribe but had been nearly wiped out by war with the neighboring Cowichan Tribes and Ditidahts.

Millwood Lake

In Ashdown, Arkansas, the lake supplies their Domtar's (formerly Georgia Pacific) Communications Paper Division with 50 million gallons of water each day for its operations.

Richard Ashdown

At the age of 14, Ashdown got involved in darts by playing youth county darts for Cambridgeshire county, where he discovered his love for the game.


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