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14 unusual facts about Farnham


Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing is an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Ed Doheny

Graduating to the minor leagues, Doheny crossed the Canadian border in 1894 and pitched for Farnham, Quebec.

Farnham Castle

It is for this reason that St Joan of Arc's Church in Farnham is dedicated to her.

Farnham, Dorset

Following his donation of some 20,000 antiquities to the University of Oxford in 1884, forming the nucleus of the Pitt Rivers Museum, he continued to collect archaeological and ethnological specimens for his personal collection at Tollard Farnham, about a half-mile from Farnham village centre.

James Chabot

He was born in Farnham, Quebec, and moved to British Columbia during the 1950s.

Mother Ludlam's Cave

Mother Ludlam's Cave, also known as Mother Ludlum's Cave or Mother Ludlum's Hole, is a small cave in the sandstone cliff of the Wey Valley at Moor Park, near Farnham, Surrey, in England.

From Waverley we went to Moore Park, once the seat of Sir William Temple, and, when I was a very little boy, the seat of a lady or a Mrs Temple.

Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage

It is commonly believed by historians that Nancy's grandmother, also named Nancy but generally called Ann, decided to return to the homeland of her youth and much of her adulthood in old Farnham parish in Virginia.

National Cycle Route 22

National Cycle Route 22 (NCR22) runs from Banstead to Brockenhurst in the New Forest via Dorking, Guildford, Farnham, Petersfield, Havant, Portsmouth, Ryde, Yarmouth and Lymington.

Paddy Griffith

In 1980 while still a lecturer in War Studies at RMA Sandhurst, organised a conference, "New Directions in Wargaming", held at Moor Park, Farnham, which lasted an entire weekend (23–25 May 1980).

Pullingers

Pullingers Art Shop (aka Pullingers) is a chain of art shops with four retail outlets in Farnham, Kingston upon Thames and Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom and online at Pullingers.com.

Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart

Vansittart was born at Wilton House, Farnham, Surrey, the eldest of the three sons of Robert Arnold Vansittart, of Foots Cray Place, Kent, a Captain in the 7th Dragoon Guards, by his wife Susan Alice Blane, daughter of Gilbert James Blane.

Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

He renamed the house Moor Park after Moor Park, Hertfordshire, a house he much admired and which influenced the formal gardens he built at Farnham.

The Bourne Children and Youth Initiative

The Bourne Children and Youth Initiative (CYI) is a voluntary youth organisation that runs an information and advice drop-in centre for young people as well as youth clubs in the Farnham, Surrey area of England.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team

Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Jack Petoskey, Farnham Johnson, Bob Rennebohm, Vincent Mroz, Fenwick Crane, Clifton Myll, and Art Renner (ends); Robert Derleth, John Greene, Robert Kennedy, Fred Bryan and Leonard Naab (tackles); Rex Wells and Robert Fischer (guards); John Crandell (center); and Jack Wink, Hugh Mack, Joe Ponsetto, Jim Aliber, Wally Dreyer, Bob Nussbaumer, Earl Maves, Howard Wikel, James Brown and Bob Stenberg (backs).

Alec Bregonzi

Bregonzi began his career as a professional actor in 1955 in repertory theatre in Farnham, then in York, Bromley and Leatherhead, amongst other places.

Barbara Inkpen

She trained at Aldershot, Farnham & District AC and represented Great Britain at two Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972), and won the gold medal at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Compton, Surrey

Compton, Waverley, a hamlet near Farnham in the Waverley district of Surrey, England

Dunsfold Aerodrome

It received support from Age Concern Waverley, Guildford Labour Party, Farnham Labour Party, Cranleigh Labour Party and the former Lib Dem MP for Guildford, Sue Doughty.

Emelia Gorecka

She attended Howard of Effingham School and now runs for Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club and lives in Bookham, Surrey.

Everybody Oughta Sing a Song

The album was re-released in 1974 with a different cover, it shows Farnham performing live on stage, whereas the initial 1968 release had him leaning against a Holden Monaro (see infobox at right).

George Farnham

Unlike founder Keith Stroup and most of NORML'S senior staff, Farnham did not come from a middle-class or working-class background.

GU10

The GU10 postcode district, part of the GU postcode area covering part of the Farnham area in Surrey, England

Guy Maxwell Aylwin

Like his sometime business partner and colleague, Falkner, Aylwin was educated at Farnham Grammar School.

Jeremiah W. Farnham

Jeremiah W. Farnham (born in Camden, Maine; died February 20, 1905, Seattle, Washington) was an American merchant sailor and sea captain.

Keith Farnham

Currently a small business owner, Farnham served in the United States Navy from 1964 through 1968.

Keith Houghton-Webb

Both Mike and Keith have appeared alongside the likes of Lisa Edwards who later went on to be one of John Farnham's backing singers.

Massawippi Valley Railway

While the rail line from Newport southward remains in operation as the Washington County Railroad, the only onward Canadian rail connection at Newport is westward through Richford, Vermont via a branch of the now-bankrupt Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway which joins that company's mainline between Cowansville and Farnham, Quebec.

Monmouthshire Beacon

Since 1980 the newspaper has been part of the Tindle Newspaper Group of local newspapers owned by Farnham Castle Newspapers and chaired by Sir Ray Tindle.

New York State Route 249

It runs east–west across southwestern Erie County from the shores of Lake Erie in the town of Farnham to the hamlet of Langford in the town of North Collins.

Pilgrims' Way

On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).

Quebec Route 233

It starts at a junction with Route 104 between Farnham and Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville, next to a training facility of the Canadian Forces and runs north toward a parclo interchange with Autoroute 10 after which it crosses the Rivière du Sud-Ouest which it follows for a few kilometers until its headwaters on Yamaska River.

Richard Farnham

Farnham added in an appendix an explicit denial that he claimed to be Christ or Elias, or that he had prophesied a shower of blood, but insisted that he foresaw a long drought, pestilence, and war.

On the 23rd February 1636–7, Farnham was still in Newgate and petitioned the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud for his own release.

Southern Sons

Buckle has collaborated with several Australian artists such as John Farnham, Rick Price and Rob Mills.

Weybourne, Surrey

Pioneering motorist and auto-mobile manufacturer John Henry Knight lived in Weybourne House, before moving to Barfield in Runfold, Farnham.

Whispering Jack

Whilst visiting a jazz club in the US, Farnham was mistakenly introduced as Jack Phantom, and when he subsequently provided a running commentary for a local pool game he named himself Whispering Jack Phantom after the Pot Black commentator 'Whispering' Ted Lowe.