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4 unusual facts about Denbigh


David Oswald Thomas

He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School, after which he worked as a bank clerk.

Denbigh, Milton Keynes

Denbigh East is an employment area, best known as the home of Marshall Amplification.

These lands to the east of Watling Street were originally in the manor of Simpson.

Denbigh, North Dakota

It is listed as the nearest community to Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery, which is actually 10 miles south, and which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh

Alexander Stephen Rudolph Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh, 11th Earl of Desmond (born 4 November 1970), styled Viscount Feilding until 1995, is a member of the British aristocracy and son of William Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh and his wife Judy nee Cooke.

Blessed Edward Jones RC High School

It was founded in September 1965 to serve the Catholic population of the surrounding area, including towns such as Rhyl, Rhuddlan, Abergele, Prestatyn, Bodelwyddan, St Asaph, and Denbigh.

Bletchley

Perhaps its most famous residents are Milton Keynes Dons F.C., in Denbigh North, and their former club sponsors Marshall Amplification, just across the old Watling Street in Denbigh West.

Bletchley and Fenny Stratford

For many years, Denbigh has been an important employment area: perhaps its most famous resident is Marshall Amplification.

Denbigh Plantation Site

Denbigh Plantation Site was one of the 17th-century sites excavated by Colonial Williamsburg's renowned archeologist Ivor Noël Hume during the 1960s.

Dewi Morgan

He later claimed that his ancestry stretched back to Sir Gruffudd Fychan of Denbigh, who had been knighted in the field at the Battle of Agincourt by Henry V in 1426.

Edward Almer

Edward Almer or Aylmer (by 1516-1574 or later), of Denbigh and Gresford, Denbighshire, was a Welsh politician.

Frederick West

Frederick Richard West (1799–1862), his son, British MP for Denbigh and East Grinstead, father of William Cornwallis-West

John Salusbury

John Salesbury (1533-1580), member of parliament for Merioneth, Denbigh Boroughs, and Denbighshire

May Pen

While May Pen has no universities, it does have several public and private schools, including Central High School, Denbigh High School, Glenmuir High School (Anglican), Glenmuir Preparatory School (Anglican primary), May Pen High School (private), May Pen Primary School, and St. Thomas Moore Preparatory School (Catholic primary).

Siege of La Rochelle

The second one, led by William Feilding, Earl of Denbigh, left on April 1628, but returned without a fight to Portsmouth, as Denbigh "said that he had no commission to hazard the king's ships in a fight and returned shamefully to Portsmouth".

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet

In 1925, after graduating from Woolwich, Williams-Wynn was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery; He served in the Royal Horse Artillery, was an Instructor at the Equitation School, Weedon, Adjutant of the 61st (Carnarvon and Denbigh Yeomanry) Medium Regiment of the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), from 1936 to 1940, and was promoted Major in 1940, having been appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1937.

Wolverton railway station

Denbigh Hall railway station: Pending construction of a bridge over the River Ouse, passengers alighted at Denbigh Hall and transferred to coaches on the London-Birmingham turnpike.


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