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unusual facts about Bilton-in-Ainsty


Bilton-in-Ainsty

The novelist, poet and children's writer Annie Keary (1825-1879) was born in Bilton, the daughter of the rector, William Keary.


Ainsty, Wetherby

In the past this parade has had a launderette, tool hire shop, newsagent (Ainsty News), Nisa, Happy Shopper and independent convenience shop (Harves and Green Grocers).

Alan Bilton

Among the writers Bilton teaches in his Contemporary American Fiction class are Cormac McCarthy, Douglas Coupland, Paul Auster, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jennifer Egan.

Upon completing his bachelor's degree at Stirling, Bilton moved on to the University of Manchester where he completed his PhD on 'Word and Image in The Novels of Don DeLillo’ in 1995, after initially starting a project on Kurt Vonnegut and changing his mind midway through researching it.

Charles Wellington Furse

Such are the Diana of the Uplands, the Lord Roberts and The Return from the Ride at the Tate Gallery; the four children in the Cubbing with the York and Ainsty, The Lilac Gown, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fishing and the portraits of Lord Charles Beresford and William Johnson Cory.

John Bilton

As well as coaching at Oldham Athletic and Notts County, Bilton set up his own coaching practice and worked at the Singapore Sports School.

Joseph Albert Riley

Born at Bilton, Warwickshire (at that time in Staffordshire), he emigrated at an early age with his parents to South Australia.

Maurice Leyland

Leyland was born in Bilton, an area of Harrogate, to Mercy (née Lambert) and Edward (Ted) Leyland.

Max Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim

In 1938 he was awarded the Bilton Pollard Travelling Fellowship and worked as research assistant for Dr Fuller Albright at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Nidd Gorge

Although this mill was classified as being in Bilton, there was actually another Bilton mill on the other side of the weir, which shared the Scotton weir with Scotton Flax mill as its source of power.

Old Laurentian Society

The Old Laurentians (OLs) have an affiliated rugby football club (OLRFC) who have a ground at Fenly Field located in the village of Bilton, which is a part of the town Rugby.

Sovereign Group

Bilton was responsible for setting up the Sovereign Art Foundation which runs both the Sovereign Asian and European Art Prize, turning his art-collecting hobby into what is now Asia’s largest art prize.

Tyringham Hall

In 2001 Tyringham Hall was purchased by wealthy real estate heir Anton Bilton and his wife Lisa Barbuscia-Bilton.


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