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10 unusual facts about Chesterton


Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Chesterton, Cambridgeshire

Chesterton, Huntingdonshire, a village historically separate but now in the far west of Cambridgeshire

Chesterton, Oxfordshire

Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson (1859-1927), son-in-law of a former Vicar, is buried in the churchyard.

Dona Massin

In Dona's later years, she and daughter Jodie would visit the Wizard of Oz Festivals in Chesterton, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Chicago.

Free School Lane

The "Free School" was established in the 17th century by Dr Stephen Perse who left money in his will to educate 100 boys from Cambridge, Barnwell, Chesterton and Trumpington.

George Longstaff

He founded the Longstaff Cycle Centre in Chesterton near Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1982 and soon established a reputation as a builder of high quality bikes.

Ian Moores

Moores was born in Chesterton, Staffordshire and learned to play his football for the Staffordshire County Boys' Team.

Mohammed Asha

In 2007, Asha lived in the village of Chesterton with his wife and young son Anas, and worked as a junior neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.

Thomas Tusser

At the time of his death he was in possession of a small estate at Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, and his will proves that he was not, as has sometimes been stated, in poverty of any kind, but had in some measure the thrift he preached.

William Petow

Though his parentage was long unknown, it is now established that he was the son of Edward Peyto of Chesterton, Warwickshire, and Goditha, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton.


First Doctor

In the Big Finish audio drama "The Light at the End" the First Doctor is portrayed by William Russell who also played Ian Chesterton in both the show and the audio dramas.

G. K.'s Weekly

Britain had its replicas of Maurras and Daudet in those adornments of English letters, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.

George Napper

George Napper was a son of Edward Napper (died in 1558), sometime Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, by Anne, his second wife, daughter of John Peto, of Chesterton, Warwickshire, and niece of Cardinal William Peto.

George Stockton

George Stockton (born 1905; date of death unknown) was an English footballer who played at inside-right for Chesterton, Leicester Regiment, West Bromwich Albion, and Port Vale.

Indiana State Road 49

Then SR 49 leaves Valparaiso heading north toward Chesterton having an interchange with U.S. Route 6, Interstate 80/Interstate 90/Indiana Toll Road, Interstate 94, U.S. Route 20, and U.S. Route 12.

Interstate 94 in Indiana

East of SR 49 the freeway leaves Chesterton entering rural Porter County, before entering LaPorte County.

Jaap Marais

In his writings and speeches, Marais often referred to Richard Weaver, C.J. Langenhoven, Tobie Muller, James Burnham, Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, C.K. Chesterton, Alain de Benoist, Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, Ludwig von Mises, F.A. von Hayek and Ortega y Gasset.

Lost communities of Porter County, Indiana

Platted by Joseph Bailly in 1833, north of Chesterton, where the Arcelor/Mittal (previously Bethlehem) Steel mill is located.

Thomas Maxfield

He was born in Stafford gaol, one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire; William Macclesfield was a Catholic recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey.

Titterton

W. R. Titterton (1876–1963), British journalist, writer and poet, also friend and first biographer of G. K. Chesterton

West Anglia Main Line

This traffic joined the West Anglia Main Line north of Cambridge at Chesterton Junction and was generally routed for the large marshalling yards at Temple Mills.