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2 unusual facts about Congleton


Rode Hall Silver Band

The band have played in the Congleton area ever since and are currently based in a property belonging to Lady Wilbraham of Rode Hall.

Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council

Indeed in May 1995, the claimant, John Tomlinson (then aged 18), visited an artificial lake, part of a country park in Brereton, Cheshire in the borough of Congleton with his friends.


Audley-Stanley family

The extended Audley family, originally of Audley Castle but who later built (or re-built) Heighley Castle, Madeley, Staffordshire in 1226, had several additional households including Red Castle at Hawkstone in Shropshire, Buglawton Manor in Congleton, Newhall Tower at Combermere and a home in Nantwich.

Benjamin Dawson

In 1754 Dawson succeeded Gaskell as presbyterian minister at Leek, Staffordshire, but soon moved to Congleton, Cheshire, probably to assist in the school of Edward Harwood.

Boldon James

Originally, Boldon James specialised in Information Processing Architecture (IPA) networking solutions for interworking with International Computers Limited (ICL) systems, with offices in Congleton and Alsager.

Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton

Lord Congleton was also the author of several volumes and pamphlets on matters connected with financial questions, the most important being that On Financial Reform, published in 1830.

Mildred Gale

Their granddaughter, another Mildred Porteus, married Robert Hodgson, of Congleton, and was the grandmother of Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (1805-1891), whose daughter Frances married Claude Bowes-Lyon, later Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and became the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Stokes, North Carolina

Stokes Regional Water Company serves local water needs; Stokes & Congleton Gas Co. is the local Propane(LP) supplier, www.stokescongleton.com ; Embarq is the local telephone and ADSL company; and GUC provides electricity.

To Be Kind

The album was produced by Michael Gira and recorded by John Congleton at Sonic Ranch, the world's largest residential recording studio complex, in Tornillo, Texas, 30 miles from El Paso and at Congleton's studio in Dallas.


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