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unusual facts about Fern, Buckinghamshire



Adstock, Quebec

The township was itself named after the village of Adstock in Buckinghamshire, England.

Alfred Gatley

In 1844 he received the silver medal for the best model from the life, and exhibited marble busts of "Cupid" and "Psyche", and in 1846 he exhibited a bust of Marshal Espartero, and a model in bas-relief of "The Hours leading out the Horses of the Sun", which went to the library of Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire.

Alice Baldwin

(d. 28 September 1526) of Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, by Anne Catesby, daughter of Sir Humphrey Catesby of Whiston, Northamptonshire, but predeceased his father, leaving no issue.

Bartholomew Tipping IV

Bartholomew was the son of John Tipping of Chequers at Stokenchurch in Oxfordshire (now Buckinghamshire) and Woolley Park at Chaddleworth in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Spire.

Bertram de Verdun

In the Domesday Book (1086), Bertram de Verdun holds the land and the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire, held before by princess Goda of England.

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Boarstall Duck Decoy

The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property.

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

The present Buckinghamshire CCC was founded on 15 January 1891 as "Bucks County Cricket Club" with the Rothschild family prominent in its formation.

Bucks County Council

Buckinghamshire County Council, the administrative body governing the county of Buckinghamshire, England

C. tenuis

Cystopteris tenuis, the Mackay's bladder fern or Mackay's fragile fern, a fern species found in the northeastern United States

Canterbury College, Oxford

Its endowment was granted in 1363, and included the church of Pagham, Sussex, along with (initially) eight Oxford houses' rents and a portion of the rents from Woodford, Northamptonshire and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, where the Priory had manors.

Castlethorpe Castle

Castlethorpe Castle stood in the village of Castlethorpe, to the north of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

Claire Loewenfeld

Claire Loewenfeld died on 20 August 1974, and is buried at St Lawrence's Church, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, near where she lived, alongside her husband Gunther Loewenfeld's cousins, Margaret Lowenfeld and Helena Wright née Lowenfeld.

Dennis K. Stanley

Dennis Stanley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on Easter Sunday 1906, the youngest of seven children.

East Pyramids

What vegetation there is on these rocks is dominated by Poa, Pig Face and ferns.

FERN

Some of FERN's most outstanding coordination and facilitation work is the organisation of NGO meetings on various issues, such as the annual Forest Movement Europe meeting.

Fern Persons

On July 27, 1999, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley officially declared "Fern Persons Day" to mark her 89th birthday.

Forever Green

Handcross Garage, owned by Geoff Bate, is North's Garage in Lane End, near Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford

Russell died in 1861, aged 73, and was buried on 22 May at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.

Geri Jewell

In 1980, she performed at the 2nd Annual Media Access Awards, when she was introduced to Norman Lear by producer, Fern Field.

Grade II* listed buildings in Chiltern

This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Chiltern in Buckinghamshire.

Great Missenden railway station

Great Missenden railway station serves the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England and the neighbouring villages of Prestwood, Little Hampden and Little Missenden.

Grenvillite

The Grenvillites or Grenvilles were a name given to several British political factions of the 18th and early-19th centuries, all associated with the important Grenville family of Buckinghamshire.

Hughenden

Hughenden Manor, a mansion in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, home of Benjamin Disraeli

Jaishree Misra

Misra worked for several years in the Child Care Department of Social Services in Buckinghamshire and, more recently, as a film classifier at the British Board of Film Classification in London, England.

James Parton

With Ellen (and previously Fanny Fern), he raised Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (Fanny Fern's daughter) and writer Mortimer Thomson (also known as Philander Doesticks).

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Lavendon Castle

Lavendon Castle stood to the north of the village of Lavendon, Buckinghamshire.

Leonard Webb

In 1924 his father's regiment moved back to Tidworth, Wiltshire until he was demobbed in 1927, and the Webb family moved to William Webb's native Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire.

Los Alcornocales Natural Park

Forests and smaller wooded areas within the park are comprised mainly by cork oaks (Quercus suber), Portuguese oaks (Quercus faginea), Pyrenean oaks (Quercus pyrenaica), olive trees (Olea europaea), alders (Alnus glutinosa and Alnus incana incana), holly trees (Ilex aquifolium), bay laurels (Laurus nobilis), rhododendrons (Rhododendron ponticum), ferns, mosses, and lichens.

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.

Mike Bonifer

Born on December 31, 1953, in Jasper, Indiana, Bonifer grew up on a farm near Ireland, Indiana, the oldest of six children of Bob and Fern (Henke) Bonifer.

Montague Garrard Drake

Montague Garrard Drake (1692-1728), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.

Order of the Four Emperors

Orders of knighthood, Awards and the Holy See by Peter Bander van Duren and Archbishop H.E. Cardinale (Apostolic Delegate in the United Kingdom), Buckinghamshire 1985.

P. americana

Pilularia americana, the American pillwort, an aquatic fern species

Places of interest in Buckinghamshire

There are various notable sports facilities in Buckinghamshire from Adams Park in the south to the National Hockey Stadium and stadium:mk in the north, and the county is also home to the world famous Pinewood Studios.

Plamil Foods

In 1965 the society became a limited company, Plantmilk Ltd, with Leslie Cross as its first full-time employee, and began production of its milk, which it called Plamil, from a rented factory in Iver, Buckinghamshire.

Pycnoloma

For the synonym of the fern genus, see Selliguea.

Richard Beke

Richard Beke (1630–1707), of Westminster and Ford, Dinton, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.

Samuel Rayner

Samuel Rayner was born in 1806 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire); afterwards the family moved to Marylebone in London where he was possibly trained by his grandfather.

Saskia Ozinga

She is the facilitator of the Forest Movement Europe (FME) and the co-founder of the NGO FERN, of which she is currently the campaigns coordinator.

Sidney Richard Percy

He moved after his 1857 marriage to the Florence Villas on Inner Park Road in Wandsworth, Surrey, and then moved his family about 1863 to Hill House in the village of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

Silver fern flag

The first suggestion that a silver fern flag be adopted as New Zealand's official flag came in 1998 from Cultural Affairs Minister Marie Hasler of the National Party.

Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, 1st Baronet

Through his marriage with Sarah, eldest daughter of the knight Sir Henry Gott of Newland Park, Buckinghamshire he had one son and two daughters.

Star Maidens

Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire.

The Johnson Gang

Notable thefts include Waddesdon Manor on 10 June 2003, a National Trust property and former Rothschild family residence near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

The Old Ride School

The Old Ride School (previously called The Old Ride Preparatory School) was an independent school, at Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, later at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.

Vernon Scannell

The family, always poor, moved frequently: Ballaghaderreen in Ireland, Beeston, Eccles, before settling in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where his father, who had fought in the First World War, developed a reputation as a good portrait photographer and the family's severe financial difficulties began to ease.

William Selby Lowndes

Richard Lowndes had represented Buckinghamshire in Parliament between 1741–1774.

Windlesham

In 1911 the village was due to the heath, see Surrey Heath, described as almost entirely modern, in much the same way as Wentworth, Surrey's landscape was tamed approximately at the turn of the 20th century, being naturally heather, gorse and fern and ideal for grass and laid out evergreen trees.


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