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unusual facts about Denton, Lincolnshire


Augustus Charles Pugin

Pugin married Catherine Welby of the Lincolnshire Welby family of Denton and his developing interest in the Gothic was to be magnified in the career of their son Augustus Welby Pugin, an architect who was the leading advocate of Gothicism in 19th century England and the designer of the Palace of Westminster, home of the United Kingdom Parliament.


Aaby, Aarhus

Its name derives from the Old Norse for "village on a river" (Old Norse á, river, and býr, village) and is identical in meaning with Aby in Lincolnshire in England.

André Liohn

In 2012, with fellow photographers Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga, Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet and Finbarr O'Reilly, he created the project Almost Dawn in Libya, four photo exhibits in the main Libyan cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Misurata and Zintan.

Aswarby and Swarby

The Tally Ho Inn is the only pub/restaurant in the county of Lincolnshire to be listed in the Egon Ronay Guide 2006 that particularly commends the policy of sourcing produce locally.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

Bigby

Bigby, Lincolnshire, one of the Thankful Villages in Lincolnshire, England

Bobby Oxspring

Bobby Oxspring died on 8 August 1989, and was buried at Cranwell Parish church, Lincolnshire.

British NVC community OV16

It is found in southern and eastern England, from Dorset and Wiltshire to Lincolnshire.

BRM P261

The BRM P261, also known as the BRM P61 Mark II, is a Formula One motor racing car, designed and built by the British Racing Motors team in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.

Catherine McKinnell

McKinnell was born in Denton and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, where the attended the Sacred Heart Comprehensive School in Fenham.

Cathy Tyson

The event, organised by Friends of Eckersley House, a committee supporting the charity's Leeds house, was held at the Haven Golden Sands resort in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

Other appointments he held until his death were: Provincial Grand Master of Lincolnshire (Freemasons) from 1895 and Master of the Fox Hounds of Brocklesby from 1880.

Children's Order of Chivalry

Shortly after the society was established, the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea founded a temporary convalescent home for poor 'companions' of the Order in the village of Ewerby, close to the family's Lincolnshire estate.

Curzon Ashton F.C.

Outside the stadium, a statue stands commemorating three locally born footballers associated with the World Cup; Geoff Hurst (born in Ashton), Jimmy Armfield (Denton), and Simone Perrotta (also born in Ashton).

Denton Hall, Wharfedale

Denton Hall has been used as a college for old people, and also was a location for two films: In the 1942 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Powell & Pressburger, it is the seat of the Wynne family, whose daughter Barbara marries the eponymous Colonel.

Denton Holme

The main street, Denton Street has many small shops along it and other businesses including a bingo hall and a branch of the Cumberland Building Society.

Doyle Lawson

Every year Doyle hosts the Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival in Denton, North Carolina.

Eliza Gutch

Gutch was born on 15 July, St Swithin's Day, in Manthorpe, Lincolnshire as Eliza Hutchinson.

Finningley

The 2,741 metre long runway, currently the second longest in the north of England, was sufficiently large to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region (as well as Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

Francis Windebank

Francis was the only son of Sir Thomas Windebank of Hougham, Lincolnshire, who owed his advancement to the Cecil family, Francis entered St John's College, Oxford, in 1599, coming there under the influence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud.

Frederic Deane

Frederic was born at Stainton le Vale in Lincolnshire on 19 September 1868, the son of Francis Hugh Deane, Rector of Horsington and Stainton, and his wife and 2nd cousin, Emma Anne, the daughter of Robert Micklem Deane of Caversham in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire).

Furniture Style

The magazine was based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, at Vance Publishing's corporate headquarters; it was founded in October 1996.

General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven

On 17 January 1991, a USAF EF-111 crew of Captain James Denton and Captain Brent Brandon ("Brandini") achieved an unofficial kill against an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1, which they managed to maneuver into the ground, making it the only member of the F-111/FB-111/EF-111 family to achieve an aerial victory over another aircraft.

Henry Bonney

He was ordained deacon in 1803 and priest in 1804, with a charge at Thurlby, in Lincolnshire.

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

The member of an old Lincolnshire family, Chaplin was born at Ryhall, Rutland, the second son of the Reverend Henry Chaplin, of Blankney, Lincolnshire and his wife Carolina Horatia Ellice, daughter of William Ellice.

Herbert Thorndike

He was the third son of Francis Thorndike, a Lincolnshire gentleman of good family, and Alice, his wife, daughter of Edward Colman, of a family resident at Burnt Ely Hale, and at Waldingfield in Suffolk.

Hjúki and Bil

The village of Bilsby in Lincolnshire, England (from which the English surname Billing derives) has been proposed as having been named after Bil.

Hollie Arnold

Arnold was born in Lincolnshire in 1994, growing up in Holton-le-Clay.

Isaac Jackman

Jackman prefixed a long dedication to Phillips Glover of Wispington, Lincolnshire, in the form of a letter on Royal and Royalty Theatres: it purported to prove the illegality of the opposition of the existing theatres to one just opened by John Palmer in Wellclose Square, Tower Hamlets.

John Rennie the Younger

He was responsible for the New River Ancholme Drainage Scheme in Lincolnshire, and Horkstow Bridge, which he designed to cross the river at Horkstow in 1835–6, is one of the earliest suspension bridges to survive and remains substantially as designed.

Jonathan Blitstein

Jonathan Blitstein (born 1982 Lincolnshire, Illinois) is an American playwright, and indie filmmaker.

London Midland Region of British Railways

In return the London Midland gained the lines of the former Great Central Railway that lay outside Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

Lovell Benjamin Badcock

He was born Lovell Benjamin Badcock, the eldest son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire and Maplethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire.

Mario Edwards, Jr.

As a junior, he recorded 127 tackles, 50 tackles for loss and 18 sacks leading Denton Ryan to a state runner-up finish against Austin Lake Travis led by Michael Brewer.

Mike Rawding

A County level amateur player in his youth, Rawding turned out for Ancaster FC and RAF Hemswell in Lincolnshire, then Haltemprice AFC and Ainthorpe Old Boys in Yorkshire.

No. 239 Squadron RAF

On 27 October 1944 during fighter affiliation training with No. 49 Squadron RAF, a Mosquito piloted by F/Lt J.H.Roberts and accompanied by Flight Engineer Sgt. A.M.Ashcroft, stalled and crashed in Stapleford Woods, Lincolnshire, with the immediate death of both pilot and passenger.

North Lindsey Light Railway

The line passed through Winterton and Thealby, West Halton and Winteringham; it was later extended to reach Whitton.

Patrick Hawes

Born in Lincolnshire, he studied music as an organ scholar at St Chad's College, University of Durham before working as a teacher of music and English, firstly at Pangbourne College (1981-1990) then as Composer in Residence for Charterhouse School (1990-1997).

Queen's Champion

The feudal holder of the Manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, England, has, since the Norman Conquest in 1066, held the manor from the Crown by grand serjeanty of being The Honourable The King's/Queen's Champion.

RAF Dunholme Lodge

Royal Air Force Station Dunholme Lodge or more simply RAF Dunholme Lodge was a Royal Air Force station located between the parishes of Welton and Dunholme in Lincolnshire, England.

RAF Sutton Bridge

Royal Air Force station Sutton Bridge or more simply RAF Sutton Bridge is a former Royal Air Force station found next to the village of Sutton Bridge in the south-east of Lincolnshire.

Samuel Pattinson

Samuel Pattinson was the son of William Pattinson, a Justice of the Peace from Ruskington in Lincolnshire.

Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet

# John Sutton, who married Sophia Frances Chaplin, daughter of Charles Chaplin, esq., of Tathwell, Lincolnshire.

Somerton Castle

The property and estate were later bought by the notable Lincolnshire and Sussex landowners, Marfleet Battle in 1812, from Sir Montague Cholmondeley, Baronet.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton (formerly Denton Community Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital of Denton) serves the communities of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.

The Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

The Virgin Wolves

The Virgin Wolves are an American rock band that formed in Denton, Texas, featuring five members, many of whom have been involved in other successful projects: Chase Robbins (of Memphis May Fire), Jaimeson Robbins, Kristin Leigh (solo), Steve Phillips, and Carson Coldiron.

Tom Dorward

Thomas Fairgrieve Dorward (27 March 1916, Galashiels - 5 March 1941, Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire) also known as Tom or Tommy Dorward was a Scottish international rugby union player.

Tom Hickathrift

He is mentioned in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Lavengro by George Borrow, although Borrow places his exploits as far north as Lincolnshire.

White Springs Television

White Springs Television was seen on outlets including WANN-LD 32.4 in Atlanta (formerly on WYGA-LD 16.2); WWCG-LP in Columbus, Georgia; KFLA-LD Los Angeles; KDEO-LD Denver; KHPK-LP Denton, Texas; and KITL-LP Boise.


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