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54 unusual facts about England


1979–80 English League North season

The 1979–80 English League North season was the second season of the English League North (also known as the Midland League), the top level ice hockey league in northern England.

1980–81 English League North season

The 1980–81 English League North season was the third season of the English League North (also known as the Midland League), the top level ice hockey league in northern England.

2007–08 Los Angeles Kings season

Their season began with the team playing a neutral site home-and-home series with the defending Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks at the O2 Arena in London, England, the first time the NHL has held a regular season game in Europe.

Alfred Dundas Taylor

He retired as Commander of the Indian Navy and died in England in 1898.

Angleterre

"Angleterre" - French name of England - a translation of the English name, "Angl" (as in "Anglo-") + "Terre" (land)

Archibald Salvidge

Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge KBE PC (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an English politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party in Liverpool through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by Warden Chilcott, MP for Liverpool Walton).

Ashton Common

Ashton Common is a hamlet in Wiltshire, England, located on the Common Hill a little south of the A350 road.

Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs

The Association of Waterways Cruising clubs is a waterway society and umbrella organisation in England, UK.

British subject

Hence, from 1949 to 1982, a person born in England would have been a British subject and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, while someone born in Australia, would have been a British subject and a citizen of Australia.

Brown Company

In 1954, European business began to purchase large amounts of stock in the company, therefore the Brown Company began to buy European businesses in England, Wales, and Italy.

Carwile

The name Carwile is a surname that originated in England following the Norman Conquest of 1066, but is most present today in the United States of America.

Clare Imrie

In 1910 she funded the building and interior decorating of St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church in Liverpool, which is known as "the Vatican outside of Rome", because of the splendid artistry displayed in its interior.

Cleveland, North Carolina

It is named after Cleveland, England, but it is rumored that the town is actually named after Grover Cleveland after he visited the town during his presidential campaign.

Cuthbert Robert Blackett

Mr. Blackett married Miss Margaretta Palmer in May 1870 at Stokesley, England.

Death by Sheer Torture

Death by Sheer Torture (1981), also known simply as Sheer Torture, is a mystery novel by English writer Robert Barnard, the first of five novels, penned in the 1980s, featuring his recurring detective character Perry Trethowan.

District registry

a part of the High Court situated in various districts of England and Wales dealing with High Court family and civil business.

E-scape

E-scape is a project run by the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) at Goldsmiths University of London, England that developed an approach to the authentic assessment of creativity and collaboration based on open-ended but structured activities.

Edmund Roberts Larken

Larken and Boole also worked together in the 1850s on a plan to reduce the impact of prostitution in Lincoln.

England captain

For information about the captains of England sports teams see the articles on the sports team in question.

England's Glory

The song "Senses Working Overtime" by XTC contains the spoken phrases "England's Glory" and "A striking beauty", the latter of which was a slogan associated with England's Glory matches

Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity and St Luke

The Church of The Holy Trinity and St Luke is a Greek Orthodox church in the north of Birmingham, England, dedicated to The Holy Trinity and St Luke.

Henry Alleyne Lash

After leaving India, Henry Lash lived in Bridge End, Churt, Surrey, England.

In My Head It Works

In My Head It Works is the second album by English band The Race, and was released in 2009.

Inward Parts

Inward Parts is the second album by the English band The Others.

John Antes

In 1785, he was named warder of an entire Moravian community in Fulneck, England.

Larrousse LH94

The LH94 was designed by Larrousse UK, a fifteen-strong component of the team based in Bicester, England and owned by Robin Herd.

Laurence Clarkson

Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667), sometimes called Claxton, was an English theologian and accused heretic.

Liege Hulett

Sir James Liege Hulett (17 May 1838 – 1928) was a sugar magnate and philanthropist in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, originally from Kent, England.

Linford, Hampshire

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

Mantrap

Since 1827, they have been illegal in England, except in houses between sunset and sunrise as a defence against burglars.

Mehkar

The documents written on copper found with Balaji's sculpture are now in the British Museum, England.

Millennium Communities Programme

The Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.

Monte Cinto

On May 26, 1883, a party led by the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, and including the guide F. Devouassoud and the landscape painter Compton, also ascended the mountain by the pass that now bears Tuckett's name.

Nathaniel Crisp

Nathaniel "The Bishop" Crisp (1762-1819) - an 18th-century character in the city of Nottingham, England.

Nicola Hall

Nicola Hall, born in 1969 in England, is a British classical guitarist.

Nirah

The National institute for research into aquatic habitats - A planned fresh water aquarium in England, to be the world's largest aquarium upon completion.

North Western Road Car Company

North Western Road Car Company may refer to one of two bus operators running within the north west of England in different eras.

Preston Lockwood

Preston Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996) was an English actor.

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) is a series of tests for the license to practice as solicitor in England and Wales designed for foreign licensed attorneys.

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) is a regulatory exam for foreign licensed attorneys who want to practice in England and Wales.

Ray Sonin

Ray Sonin (23 June 1907–20 August 1991) was an English-born broadcaster on Toronto radio station CFRB and hosted several very popular radio programs.

River Blyth

River Blyth is the name of several rivers in England.

Robert Hawker Dowling

Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, née Darke.

Rochester Airport

Rochester Airport, England (ICAO: EGTO) in Rochester, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Rother Valley

The Rother Valley is the valley of the River Rother, of which there are at least three in England.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.

Skytrak Total

Skytrak Total was a flying roller coaster at the Granada Studios Tour theme park at Granada Studios in Manchester, England.

State House, Bermuda

The State House was one of the sites (the others mostly being military) illustrated on a map of Bermuda (shown at left) published in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith in 1624.

Thomas Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham

Thomas Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham (1393–1394) was an English nobleman and politician.

Titus Kent

Nevertheless, England offered freedom to slaves who fought for their side.

Trimbak

In turn, Briggs delivered the diamond to Francis Rawdon-Hastings which then went to England.

When the Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear

It was printed by a number of publishing houses in the United States in 1860 and also eventually became popular in England.

Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire

The cricket ground has a significant slope and was tried by the BBC to see if it would be suitable for filming the cricket scene in the production of A. G. Macdonnell's England, Their England.

Wisbech railway station

Wisbech railway station may refer to one of several railway stations that served the town of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England.


1884–85 in English football

Note – Some sources credit England's third goal as a Joe Lofthouse goal, but match reports clearly state an Eames own goal.

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

1973 Thomas Cup

In the European zone England was upset 4–5 by a solid West German squad that featured a world class singles player in Wolfgang Bochow who won both of his matches, as well as a world class doubles team in Roland Maywald and Willi Braun who won the last match of the tie to clinch the victory.

A History of Everyday Things in England

A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (aka C. H. B.) between 1918 and 1934.

Aberford Dykes

The Aberford Dykes are a series of archaeological monuments located around the valley of the Cock Beck, where it runs just north of the village of Aberford on the border between North and West Yorkshire, England.

Andrew Ducrow

Ducrow is buried on the Main (or Centre) Avenue at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England near the tomb of the Duke of Sussex, one of the most desirable burial plots of the time.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm occasionally visited England to see the abbey's property there, as well as to visit Lanfranc, who, in 1070, had been installed as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Anti-fouling paint

One famous example of the traditional use of metal sheathing is the clipper Cutty Sark, which is preserved as a museum ship in dry-dock at Greenwich in England.

Arnold Stephenson Rowntree

He was a Director of North of England Newspaper Co. (Limited), The Nation, the Westminster Press and Associated Papers.

Aspall

Aspall, Suffolk, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England

Birmingham Journal

The Birmingham Journal was the name of two separate and unrelated newspapers published in Birmingham, England.

Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge

It was built in 1925, from a kit fabricated in England by David Rowell & Co., in order to shorten the distance sheep needed to be driven from southern Lafonia to the shearing sheds in Goose Green.

Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd

Dafydd was able to keep the eastern part, and in 1177 King Henry gave him the manors of Ellesmere and Hales in England.

Dan Mara

He was named NJCAA New England Women's Basketball Coach of the Year nine times, Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Coach of the Year six times, NJCAA District Coach of the Year three times and Converse District One Coach of the Year in 1994.

Devon Railway Centre

The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway.

Flag of New England

On 8 June 1989 the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) adopted a flag designed by Albert Ebinger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as the official flag of the New England Governors’ Conference.

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

H. Gordon Tidey

Herbert Gordon Tidey (1879-1971) was an English railway photographer.

Harry Dodson

Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 – 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences.

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

Leon Baptiste

On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.

Lopwell

Lopwell is a site of natural beauty situated at the upper tidal mark on the River Tavy, 3 miles from north Plymouth and 7 miles from Tavistock, Devon, England.

Mark Sutcliffe

Mark Sutcliffe MBE (born 29 July 1979 in Peterborough, England) joined the British Army in 1997 aged 17, enlisting into the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment The Poachers, initially joining C (Northamptonshire) Company.

Marshall MacDermott

At Argostoli, in the island of Cephalonia, he became acquainted with Lord Byron, who entrusted him with the three last cantos of Don Juan, to be delivered to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, a commission which MacDermott executed, having just then obtained leave of absence in order to visit England.

Marsk

Marske-by-the-Sea, a village in Redcar and Cleveland in north-east England.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Menthorpe Gate railway station

Menthorpe Gate railway station was a station on the Selby to Driffield Line in North Yorkshire, England serving the village of North Duffield and the hamlet of Menthorpe.

Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville and his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 and are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England.

Michel Fourniret

He was named as a suspect in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Englishwoman Joanna Parrish, whose body was found in an Auxerre river on 17 May 1990.

Old North

Hen Ogledd, the Welsh-speaking areas of northern England and southern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages

Pierre-Chéri Lafont

After several years at the Nouveautis and the Vaudeville, on the burning of the latter in 1838 he went to England, and married, at Gretna Green, Jenny Colon, from whom he was soon divorced.

Plague, Poverty and Prayer: A Horrid History with Terry Deary

Plague, Poverty and Prayer is a Horrible Histories exhibition at the York Archaeological Trust's Barley Hall in York, England.

Preston baronets

The Preston Baronetcy, of Furness in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 April 1644 for George Preston.

Redfest

Redfest is an annual music festival at Robins Cook Farm, Kings Mill Lane, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey, England.

Reginald Stourton

Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (born 1434) was an English knight.

Sack Friary, Bristol

Sack Friary, Bristol was a friary in Bristol, England.

Sean Bury

Sean Bury (born in Brighton, Sussex, England on 15 August 1954) is a British television and film actor, best known for his lead role as Paul Harrison in Lewis Gilbert's 1971 film Friends and the 1974 sequel Paul and Michelle.

Silverwood Colliery

Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Beauclerc

They had a large family, including John Scott, the eldest son who became the second Baronet of Beauclerc on the death of his father and Mason and William Martin Scott, England international rugby union players.

Stephen Paget

Stephen Paget (1855-1926) was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic.

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

William Scroggs

Sir JF Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England (3 vols, London, 1883)

Wyvern College

Wyvern College, Wiltshire, a secondary school near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).