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81 unusual facts about Berkshire


1894–95 New Brompton F.C. season

The match was played at a neutral venue in Caversham, near Reading, and New Brompton won 5–1 to gain promotion to the higher division.

1954 Southern Area League

Three teams finished equal on points at the top but California Poppies from California, Berkshire were champions by the slenderest possible margin of a single race point with all their rivals having an fixture in hand that was never ridden.

Alfred John Agg

He was educated at the Worcester grammar school, and entered the service of the Great Western Railway Company as a clerk at Reading in 1846, where he remained until 1850, when he emigrated to Australia.

ALL-IN-1

Digital then made the decision to move most of the development activity to its central engineering facility in Reading, United Kingdom, where a group there took responsibility for the product from version 2.0 (released in field test in 1984 and to customers in 1985) onward.

An American Family

A year after this programme was broadcast, the BBC in 1974 filmed its own similar 12-episode programme, called The Family, focusing on the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

The programme consisted of 12 half-hour episodes, showing the daily lives and concerns of the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier

His elder brother the duc d'Orléans wanted to take him to Devon to benefit from the fresh air but, twelve miles out of Twickenham, they had to stop at an inn at Salthill (near Windsor).

António Borges

He was also a member of the Supervisory Boards of Novartis Venture Fund and CNP Assurances SA, the Advisory Board of Critical Links SA, and the Board of Governors of Wellington College.

Archibald Ormsby-Gore

In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled Archie and the Strict Baptists, in which the bear's sojourns at the family's successive homes in Uffington and Farnborough are fictionalised.

Arthur Newbery Park

Arthur Newbery Park is a park in Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire.

Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The full Olympic route was thus from Windsor, via Eton, Slough, Langley, Uxbridge, Ickenham, Ruislip, Harrow, Sudbury, Wembley, Willesden, and Wormwood Scrubs, to White City Stadium.

Bacon ice cream

Heston Blumenthal, a chef who owns The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire and is famous for creating unusual dishes by following the principles of molecular gastronomy.

Benjamin Ferris

He was a descendant of Samuel Ferris, who had come from Reading, England, in 1682 to settle at Groton, Massachusetts, and of John Ferris, who was among the first settlers in the city of Wilmington in 1748.

Berit Carow

In 2006 she won second place the World Rowing Championships at the Dorney Lake, Eton, Great Britain, and in 2007 the World Rowing Championships in Munich, Germany.

Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin Massachusetts Senate district

Since 2007, it has been represented in the State Senate by Benjamin Downing of the Democratic Party.

British Rail Class 166

Their main destinations included fast-trains to Reading, Newbury and Oxford, with some services continuing beyond Oxford to Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon, or along the Cotswold Line to Evesham, Worcester, Great Malvern and Hereford.

Bullace

The Langley Bullace, or "Veitch's Black Bullace", is by far the newest variety, being first raised in 1902 by the Veitch nurseries at Langley, Berkshire.

Charles de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau

Charles was born on 7 March 1793 at Sunninghill in Berkshire, while his parents, Marc Étienne Gabriel, Prince of Beauvau-Craon and Nathalie Henriette Victurnienne de Montemart, were in exile in England from the French revolution.

Charles Hampden-Turner

He was educated at Wellington College, a military public school attended by his father, and did his national service with the same regiment his father had served in, the Suffolk Regiment.

Conway's Bridge

Conway's Bridge is an ornamental rustic arched stone structure close to the River Thames on the estate of Park Place, Berkshire, England.

Crooked House of Windsor

The Crooked House of Windsor (also known as the Market Cross House) in Windsor, England, is a building constructed in 1592, now a restaurant.

Darville

Darville (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer from Bray, Berkshire who played in major matches during the 1740s.

Dominique Sandy

Dominique Thomas Sandy (born 18 March 1992, Reading, England) is an international lacrosse player for France.

Dumsey Meadow

Dumsey Meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England; the only piece of undeveloped water meadow unfenced by the river remaining on the River Thames below Caversham, (Oxfordshire now Berkshire) and is home to a variety of rare plants and insects.

Eastbury Halt railway station

Eastbury Halt railway station was a railway station in Eastbury, Berkshire, UK, on the Lambourn Valley Railway.

Edgar Allison Peers

Obtaining a teacher's diploma (first class with double distinction) from Cambridge in 1913, Peers taught modern languages at Mill Hill School, Felsted School, Essex and then at Wellington College.

Emmbrook

Emmbrook, Berkshire, a suburb of the town of Wokingham, Berkshire, England

English Dissenters

They were organized around John Pordage (1607–1681), an Anglican priest from Bradfield, Berkshire, who had been ejected from his parish in 1655 because of differing views, but then reinstated in 1660 during the English Restoration.

Farnborough

Farnborough, Berkshire, a small village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire

Frederic Deane

Frederic was born at Stainton le Vale in Lincolnshire on 19 September 1868, the son of Francis Hugh Deane, Rector of Horsington and Stainton, and his wife and 2nd cousin, Emma Anne, the daughter of Robert Micklem Deane of Caversham in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire).

George Waldegrave, 5th Earl Waldegrave

Upon his father's death in 1789, he inherited his titles at the age of five but drowned whilst swimming in the River Thames near Eton in 1794, a week before his tenth birthday.

Great Western Railway accidents

The accident occurred in the early hours of 24 December 1841 in the Sonning Cutting, near Reading, in Berkshire, as a luggage train travelling from London to Bristol entered the cutting.

Hampton Park, Ottawa

Many streets in the Hampton Park neighbourhood are named for upper-class neighbourhoods of London, including Kensington, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Windsor.

Harold Knox-Shaw

During his youth he earned scholarships to Wellington College in Berkshire and to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1907 ranked as Sixth Wrangler.

Hawker Sea Fury

The first Sea Fury prototype, SR661, first flew at Langley, Berkshire, on 21 February 1945, powered by a Centaurus XII engine.

Hipólito da Costa

He was buried in the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, in Hurley, Berkshire, but in 2001 his remains were brought to Brazil, and can now be found at the Museu da Imprensa Nacional.

Holy Brook

For the first stretch of its route, the channel forms the boundary between the Reading suburbs of Beansheaf Farm, Fords Farm, Calcot, Southcote, Coley Park and Coley to the north and the Kennet water meadows to the south.

Horton and Wraysbury

There are two polling stations within the ward - one inside the Village Hall in Wraysbury and the other in the Champney Hall in Horton.

Hounslow Heath

Various armies used the heath due to its nearness to London, Windsor and Hampton Court.

IBM Internet Security Systems

Until late 2003 the company had significant development activities in Mountain View (California, USA), Reading (UK) and Sydney (Australia), but all development has since been relocated to Atlanta.

International Presbyterian Church

The IPC has 2 Presbyteries, a Korean Presbytery composed of 6 churches in Ealing, Kingston upon Thames, Reading and Kings Cross, Oxford.

James Veitch, Jr.

As business expanded, the nursery acquired sites at Feltham, Langley and Coombe Wood.

JANET

The core point of presence (Backbone) sites in SuperJanet4 were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Warrington, Reading, Bristol, Portsmouth, London and Leeds.

Jerome Knapp Junior

In 1758, Jerome had married Sarah the daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Soutcote in Berkshire and Andover in Hampshire and his wife, Anne, the eldest daughter of Charles May of Basingstoke also in Hampshire and his wife, Anne, sister and heiress of William Noake, the High Sheriff of Berkshire, and sister and heiress of Daniel May of Sulhamstead House also in Berkshire.

John Hathorne

He did publish several works in 1830 under the Hathorne name, and his assumption of the modified spelling may have been an echo of the family's ancestral name from Bray, Berkshire, England.

Kennet Valley Alderwoods

Kennet Valley Alderwoods is a 56.8 hectare (140.35 acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest in the civil parishes of Welford and Speen in the English county of Berkshire, notified in 1997.

Klaus Dodds

He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science.

Knud Lange

WC 2006, Dorney Lake by Eton (UK): Silver-Medal with Kai Anspach, Martin Rückbrodt, Knud Lange, Christoph Schregel.

Lady Catherine Gordon

In 1510, Lady Catherine obtained letters of denization and that same year, on 8 August, was given a grant of the manors of Philberts at Bray, and Eaton at Appleton, both then in Berkshire.

London Buses route 81

In April 2008, a Muslim bus driver on route 81 was reported to have stopped a bus at Langley to pray.

Marshall Godschalk

They finished at a fourth position at the Luzern Rowing World Cup and rowed to the sixth position at the World Championships in Eton, where Van Gool was replaced by Gerard Harenberg.

Martin Dobelle

He returned to Pittsfield in 1965 and two years later was appointed medical examiner for Central Berkshire, a post he held until 1982.

Miles Master

A total of 3,227 Masters were built by Phillips and Powis Aircraft Limited at Woodley, Berkshire; South Marston, Swindon, Wiltshire; and Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the largest number produced of any Miles aircraft type.

New Windsor, Maryland

It was renamed in the early 19th century, possibly after its English namesake.

Newbury Castle

Despite appearing proudly on the town's coat of arms, Newbury Castle doesn't appear to have been built in Newbury, England at all, but four miles away in the village of Hamstead Marshall.

Norwich Over the Water

After this experiment launched further pilot schemes in Burslem, Windsor and Haddington.

Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond

From 1991 to 2001, he was a Governor of Wellington College, from 1991 to 1995 Registrar of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, and Director of Overseas Relations from 1995 to 1997.

Peter Garthwaite

Peter and his identical twin Clive, who later became a brigadier in the Royal Artillery, were educated at Wellington College, where they caused some confusion when bowling from either end for the First XI.

Philip Hagreen

Hagreen was the only child of Henry Hagreen, the drawing master at Wellington College, Berkshire.

Renaud de Courtenay

Renaud de Courtenay ( – September 27, 1194) (Anglicised to "Reginald") was a French nobleman of the House of Courtenay who came over to England, of Sutton, Berkshire.

Rhode River

A deed was written by Thomas Harwood of Streatley, Berks County (Berkshire), England to his son Richard Harwood for Hookers Purchase at the head of Muddy Creek.

Robert Archibald Smith

He was the son of Robert Smith, a silk-weaver from East Kilbride who had moved to England, and was born at Reading, Berkshire on 16 November 1780; his mother was Ann Whitcher.

Roderick McLean

Roderick McLean (died June 9, 1921) attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria on March 2, 1882, at Windsor, England, with a pistol.

Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society

During visits to the Island Her Majesty has also been presented with prize 'Jersey' cows to join the Royal herd at Windsor.

Scottish State Coach

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also used it at Windsor during the Queen's sixtieth birthday celebrations in 1986.

Shaw House and Centre

:For Shaw House, the English Elizabethan mansion, see Shaw House, Berkshire

Starview

The Home Office had granted several experimental licenses to broadcast subscription television services, of which Rediffusion received licenses for five areas, Burnley, Hull, Pontypridd, Reading and Tunbridge Wells.

The Lady of Pleasure

In this context, note that the 1637 quarto was dedicated to Richard Lovelace, who had been created Baron Lovelace of Hurley in 1627.

This Is Not What You Had Planned

This Is Not What You Had Planned is the debut mini-album from Reading singer-songwriter Ben Marwood, released on 4 August 2008 via Broken Tail Records.

Tim Abeyie

His personal best time is 20.57 seconds, achieved in July 2008 at Eton, Berkshire.

Tirabad

Just outside the village is the Tirabad Centre, an outdoor pursuits centre run by the Tirabad Residential Educational Trust and owned jointly by three state schools in Berkshire, England - Charters in Sunningdale, The Emmbrook near Wokingham and Maiden Erlegh in Earley.

Unity Sporting Club

The club was founded in 2007 by the club's president Mr. Ernest Anokye-Gyan with support from Unity Community & Sport Association and Unity Football Club, of Reading in Berkshire, England to promote safe ground for young athletes to develop their football skill.

Upton, Slough

In 1895 a detached part of the parish was transferred to Gerrards Cross, and in 1900 and 1901 the rump of the parish was divided between the neighbouring parishes of Eton, Langley Marish, Slough and Wexham.

Victor Buller Turner

He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst before commissioning as Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1918.

Volvo B9TL

In tri-axle form, the B9TL made its debut in Britain when Weavaway Travel of Newbury placed an order for 6 B9TL with East Lancs "Myllennium" Nordic bodywork in late 2004 and put them into service in April/May 2005, becoming the first UK operator of the type.

Welford Park railway station

Welford Park railway station was a railway station in Welford, Berkshire, UK, on the Lambourn Valley Railway.

White Lilies Island

The name of this album comes from the location of Imbruglia's home in Windsor.

Whiteknights Park

Whiteknights Park is some two miles south of the centre of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan

At the battle of Worcester in 1651, where he commanded a brigade, he was taken prisoner and carried to Windsor, but managed to escape and reach the king at Paris.

Winding Wood

Winding Wood, Berkshire a hamlet and a wood in Berkshire near Clapton, Berkshire

Yellowroot

It was grown by Bowles in his garden at Myddelton House, near Enfield, Middlesex, and gardens that currently cultivate it include the Savill Garden at Windsor, Berkshire and the Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.


Anthony Alsop

Warton, in his essay on Pope, speaks of the sixty fables as ‘exquisitely written.’ Bishop Trelawny afterwards gave Alsop a prebend in Winchester, with the rectory of Brightwell in Berkshire.

Arthur William Rucker

Sir Arthur William Rucker (or Rücker), KB, FRS (23 October 1848, Clapham Park, London, England – 1 November 1915, Everington at Yattendon in Berkshire) was a British physicist.

Æthelwulf of Wessex

His most notable victory came in 851 at "Acleah", possibly Ockley in Surrey or Oakley in Berkshire.

B. G. Henry

Glynn Henry was well known in Cookham Berkshire during the 1950s and 1969s where he owned the chemist shop on the High Street for over twenty years, 'The Old Apothecary'.

Baron Lisle

Robert de Lisle of Rougemont married Alice FitzGerold (grand-daughter of Henry I FitzGerold (d.1173/4)), the heiress of Kingston in the parish of Sparsholt, Berkshire.

Bartholomew Tipping IV

Bartholomew was the son of John Tipping of Chequers at Stokenchurch in Oxfordshire (now Buckinghamshire) and Woolley Park at Chaddleworth in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Spire.

Berkshire Industrial Farm

The Berkshire Industrial Farm, (previously known as the Burnham Industrial Farm) in Canaan, New York, was a rural residential facility for troubled young men from the New York area in the late 19th Century.

Brunsden

Brunsden Lock, lock in on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire, England

Clive Scott

Most recently, Scott and Levine had written and produced the albums Northern Soul 2007 and Disco 2008, both recorded in Scott's 'Racetrack' Studios in Ascot, Berkshire.

Deadwater

Deadwater Ait, island in the River Thames near Windsor, Berkshire, England

Edgbarrow

Edgbarrow School, a secondary comprehensive school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England

Fettiplace

During the latter's reign, Sir Thomas Fettiplace of Compton Beauchamp in Berkshire accompanied the King to the Field of the Cloth of Gold to meet the French King, Francis I in 1520.

Fettiplace baronets

The Fettiplace Baronetcy, of Childrey in the County of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was a title in the Baronetage of England.

Florence Kate Upton

The original Golliwogg and Dutch Dolls resided for many years at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country estate in Berkshire.

Foxhill

Foxhill House: a historic house in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire

Frederick Thrupp

Thrupp executed the monument to Lady Coleridge at Ottery St. Mary in Devon; the reredos representing the Last Supper in St. Clement's, York; and the monument to Hugh Nicholas Pearson in Sonning Church, Berkshire, in 1883.

G.I. American Universities

Two further campuses were later established, in August 1945: the first in the French resort town of Biarritz and the second in the English town of Shrivenham, Berkshire.

George E. Hinman

Hinman graduated from high school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1888, and became a newspaperman, working at the Berkshire Courier, published in Great Barrington, as reporter and advertising manager and later as local editor.

GNR Stirling 4-2-2

Bagnall had earlier, in 1893, supplied a similar model (works number 1425) to Lord Downshire of Easthampstead Park, Crowthorne Berkshire.

Godfrey Goodman

He made rapid progress in the Church, and was made successively prebend of Westminster in 1607; Rector of West Isley, Berkshire, in 1616; Rector of Kinnerton, Gloucester; Canon of Windsor in 1617; Dean of Rochester in 1621; and finally Bishop of Gloucester, 1624-1655.

Godric the Sheriff

Henry de Ferrers had acquired lands at Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) belonging to Godric the Sheriff, probably between 1055 and 1067.

Gordon Cullen

Cullen lived in the small village of Wraysbury (Berkshire) from 1958 until his death, aged 80, on 11 August 1994, following a serious stroke.

Henry Brinklow

Henry Brinklow was the ninth child of Sibyl (or Isabell) Butler, and her husband, Robert Brinklow, a farmer in Kintbury, Berkshire.

James Linder

Linder is married to Karen Linder SCT(ASCP), author of The Women of Berkshire Hathaway.

John Dunch

John was the second son of Samuel Dunch of Pusey in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and his wife, Dulcibella, the daughter of Sir John Moore of East Ilsley in Berkshire.

John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk

His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

Jonathan Govett

Berkshire lost the match, mainly thanks to a double century from England international Vince Wells.

Kennett River, Victoria

The river was named by surveyor George Smythe after the River Kennet in Berkshire, England

Malcolm Campbell-Johnston

Born in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England he was the son of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnston and his wife Frances Ellen Bury Campbell-Johnston (née Paliser).

Old Windsor Residents' Association

The Old Windsor Residents Association (OWRA) is an organisation which represents the residents of Old Windsor, Berkshire.

Otis, Massachusetts

On the state level, Otis is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

Risk assessment for organic swine health

Many larger farms will use common breeds such as, Duroc, Berkshire, or Chester White, while others will use exotic breeds for artisan meats, especially on European farms.

Ross Wood

Wood first stood in county cricket in a match between Buckinghamshire and Berkshire in the 1991 Minor Counties Championship.

Samuel Rayner

Samuel Rayner was born in 1806 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire); afterwards the family moved to Marylebone in London where he was possibly trained by his grandfather.

Sonning Regatta

Sonning Regatta is the regatta of the village of Sonning in Berkshire and the hamlet of Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England, on the north and south banks of the River Thames.

South Wales Coal Measures Group

The Group name is also applied to rocks of similar age across southern England from the Bristol Coalfield east to the concealed Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Kent Coalfields.

Star Maidens

Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire.

Stratfield Saye Priory

Stratfield Saye Priory was an alien priory belonging to the Abbey of Vallemont, located at Beech Hill in the Berkshire part of the parish of Stratfield Saye (in England).

Sylvain Van de Weyer

They had two sons and five daughters, who were brought up in Marylebone and on their country estate at New Lodge in the parish of Winkfield in Berkshire.

The Leaky Establishment

The book draws on some of Langford's own experiences working at the United Kingdom government's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire.

The Victorian Kitchen Garden

It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire, although at the time the series was made Chilton Foliat was in the county of Berkshire.

Wessex Brigade

Accordingly, on May 17, 1958 the Devonshire Regiment and Dorset Regiment were amalgamated into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, while on June 9, 1959 the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Wiltshire Regiment were merged into the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire).

William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford

Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.

William Darrell of Littlecote

He died 1 October 1589, aged 50, and is commemorated by a memorial window in the church of St. Mary, Kintbury, Berkshire.