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unusual facts about Cove, Hampshire



1929 Rye Cove, Virginia tornado outbreak

The Carter Family recorded a song about the Rye Cove tornado in the early 1930s.

Alresford Cricket Club

It represented the adjacent small towns of New Alresford and Old Alresford in Hampshire.

Arthur Livermore

Elected as a Democratic-Republican as United States Representative for New Hampshire to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, Livermore served from March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821.

Barbastelle

In Britain, only a few breeding roosts are known; Paston Great Barn in Norfolk, parts of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills in Devon and Somerset (see Tarr Steps), the Mottisfont woodland in Hampshire and Ebernoe Common in West Sussex.

Bashley Cricket Club

Bashley Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based at Bashley in Hampshire.

Bramshott Camp

Bramshott Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Bramshott, was a temporary army camp set up on Bramshott Common, Hampshire, England during both the First and Second World Wars.

Brickearth

Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.

Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

Lord Moyne died in 1992 at Biddesden, his home in Hampshire, and was succeeded by his eldest son Jonathan.

Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth

Ceawlin (pronounced See-aw-lin) Thynn attended Horningsham Primary School and Kingdown Comprehensive School in Warminster, Bedales School in Hampshire, and read economics and philosophy at University College London.

Chandler blueberry

The Chandler blueberry appears in the Lighthouse Cove area of FarmVille, a farming simulation social network game developed by Zynga.

David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that Chidgey would be created a life peer, and on 17 June 2005 the peerage was created as Baron Chidgey, of Hamble-le-Rice in the County of Hampshire.

David Wildstein

Several journalists credit Wildstein with having helped launch their careers while they worked at PolitickerNJ.com, including Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt; James Pindell, the political director at WMUR in New Hampshire; and Steve Kornacki, who hosts a cable television political news commentary program on MSNBC.

Defence College of Communications and Information Systems

The College consists of a headquarters based at Blandford Camp in Dorset, the Royal Navy CIS Training Unit at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hampshire, The Royal School of Signals at Blandford Camp and the Royal Air Force Number 1 Radio School, collocated with the headquarters of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at Cosford, of which the Aerial Erector School at RAF Digby is a part.

Dwarf wedgemussel

The Ashuelot River in New Hampshire, the Farmington River in Connecticut, and the Neversink River in New York harbor large populations, but these number in the thousands only.

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

From 1758 to 1762, he was Whig Member of Parliament for Tiverton and on his retirement was raised to the Peerage as Baron Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, and later Earl Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, in 1784.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

In 1899, Emma married one of the last of the great Cope family from Bramshill House in Hampshire, John Hautenville Cope.

Fabyan

Carroll, New Hampshire, mountain town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States that contains the railroad junction of Fabyan

Farleigh Wallop

Since 1486, Farleigh Wallop has been the home of the Wallop family, including John Wallop, Henry Wallop, and Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, whose seat, Farleigh House, is in the village.

Franklin Pierce House

Pierce Manse, at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1842-1848

Hampton Academy

New Hampton School, an independent college preparatory high school located in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Hinton Admiral railway station

Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England.

James Briggs

James Frankland Briggs (1827–1905), United States Representative from New Hampshire

Janel Bishop

Bishop, the first titleholder from New Hampshire, was crowned by outgoing titleholder Bridgette Wilson of Oregon.

Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell

Katherine Lambert Richards Rockwell married theologian William Walker Rockwell in South Orange, New Jersey on November 8, 1934 after a courtship at Lake Sunapee (New Hampshire).

Kingsgate Castle

The name Kingsgate is related to an incidental landing of Charles II on 30 June 1683 (‘gate’ referring to a cliff-gap) though other English monarchs have also used this cove, such as George II in 1748.

Lewis Richard Farnell

In 1893, Farnell married Sylvia (born 1872), youngest daughter of Captain Christopher Baldock Cardew of East Liss, Hampshire, and granddaughter of the Lord Chancellor Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury.

Linford, Hampshire

Linford is a hamlet in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, close to the market town of Ringwood.

Matt Arnold

He then worked as a runner on the ITV daytime quiz show Talk About, before returning to college to study journalism at Highbury College in Hampshire.

North Carolina Highway 284

Its routing through the Great Smoky Mountains was demoted to Old NC 284 (Cove Creek Road) and today remains primitive road; it is thus unpaved and is maintained by the National Park Service.

Peter Paddleford

Paddleford's design saw wide use, especially in New Hampshire, Orleans County, Vermont, and Caledonia County, Vermont.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

RAF Prestwick

RAF Prestwick closed on 7 December 2013, with personnel transferring to the RAF's 'London Military' facilities at the NATS owned London Area Control Centre, Swanwick, Hampshire.

Rush darter

This fish is currently known from three Alabama river drainages: the Clear Creek drainage in Winston County, some springs in Jefferson County, and Little Cove Creek drainage in Etowah County.

Sam Jepp

Jepp was born in Northtown, Aldershot, Hampshire and played his youth football with Aldershot Athletic before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Sasso Marconi

In 1902, Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal at Poldhu Cove, Cornwall, UK.

Seal of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College received a royal charter on December 13, 1769 through New Hampshire's colonial governor John Wentworth.

Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet

His half-brother Lionel Hervey-Bathurst represented Hampshire in two first-class matches in 1875.

Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Henry was, during his life, Curate in charge at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight; Rector of the Church of Holy Trinity, Fareham, Hampshire (the building of which had been paid for by himself and his mother, Lady Jane Thompson), and in 1845 he was given the living of Frant, Sussex by the Earl of Abergavenny.

Southern Co-operative

Head office was previously located at Fareham in Hampshire, but since July 2011, is now located at 1000 Lakeside, a business park in North Harbour, Portsmouth.

Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1998

Despite being able to enforce the follow-on, Hampshire instead decided to forfeit their second innings, giving the Sri Lankans a target of 309 runs off the last 89 overs of the final day to win, which they reached following an unbeaten century from Chandika Hathurusingha and 90 from Mahela Jayawardene.

SS Gairsoppa

They are buried at St Wynwallow's, Church Cove, Landewednack.

Styles Bridges

He was the secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation from 1922 until 1923, and the editor of the Granite Monthly Magazine from 1924 until 1926.

Susan Featherly

Susan Featherly is an actress best known for her appearances in Cinemax TV shows and movies such as Kama Sutra, Lady Chatterly's Stories and Passion Cove.

The Midnight Hour

It is Halloween in the small town of Pitchford Cove located somewhere in New England, and five high school friends, Phil (Lee Montgomery), Mary (Dedee Pfeiffer), Mitch (Peter DeLuise), Vinnie (LeVar Burton), and Melissa (Shari Belafonte), plan on making it a night they will never forget.

United States presidential election, 1820

Nonetheless, during the counting of the electoral votes on February 14, 1821, an objection was raised to the votes from Missouri by Representative Arthur Livermore of New Hampshire.

Wachusett Dam

The Metropolitan Water Board selected the south branch of the Nashua River in Clinton as the best site for Boston's new water supply over New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee, Maine's Sebago Lake, and the Merrimack River.

Walker Corporation

In 2008, Walker Corporation began its first Malaysian development, beginning work on Senibong Cove, a mixed-use development situated across 213 acres of waterfront land in Johor Bahru.

Wellworthy Athletic F.C.

The 1984–85 season was a memorable one as they completed a fantastic double by winning the Bournemouth League and the Pickford Cup, as well as being finalists in the Hampshire Intermediate Cup.

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

He was ordained in 1865 and became curate of a number of English parishes before being appointed, in 1875, rector of Swarraton and vicar of Northington, Hampshire, where he remained for the rest of his life.


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