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4 unusual facts about Dunster


Ashen faggot

At the appropriate moment during Christmas Eve, the faggot must be burnt in a hearth while people who are watching sing Dunster Carols.

Dunster

The castle was largely remodelled in the Victorian period by Anthony Salvin.

Dunster, British Columbia

Dunster was named by a Grand Trunk Pacific surveyor in honor of his home town Dunster in England.

William MacKennal

He was ordained in 1908 and held curacies at Great St Mary’s, Cambridge and St George, Dunster.


Bathsheba Bowers

Bowers was one of twelve children of Quakers Benanuel Bowers and Elizabeth Dunster Bowers, the niece of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard University.

Dunster Castle

George Luttrell inherited the castle in 1867 and began an extensive modernisation, backed by the considerable income from the Dunster estates – in a period of agricultural boom in England, the estates were producing £22,000 in revenue a year (£1.49 million at 2010 prices).

William de Mohun's eldest son, also called William, was a noted supporter of Matilda, and Dunster was considered one of her faction's strongest castles in the south-west.

Henry Dunster

From 1649-1650 Dunster also served as interim pastor at The First Parish in Cambridge until the accession of Jonathan Mitchel.

He was born at Bolholt, Bury, Lancashire, England to Henry Dunster (1580–1646) and Henry's first wife, who is not named in any records.

Montevideo, God Bless You!

Nebojša Ilić as Boško "Dunster" Simonović, who becomes the national team's coach later in the film.

Old Connecticut Path

In Sudbury the Connecticut Path was known as "the road from Watertown to the Dunster Farm", for after passing along the north side of Cochituate Pond, it crossed the tract beyond that was granted to Henry Dunster, president of Harvard College, and the lands of Edmund Rice, and Philemon Whale.

Wassailing

The West Country is the most famous and largest cider producing region of the country and some of the most important wassails are held annually in Carhampton and Dunster (Somerset) and Whimple (Devon), both on 17 January (old Twelfth Night).


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