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4 unusual facts about Fonthill


Fonthill Kame

The original town of Fonthill is perched on the moraine, although it has spread beyond the hill.

Marlene Streit

She learned golf from Gordon McInnis Sr. at the Lookout Point Golf Club in Fonthill, Ontario.

Philip James de Loutherbourg

At Christmas, 1781, Loutherbourg mounted a spectacle at a party in the Egyptian Hall at Fonthill for William Beckford, promising (according to Beckford) to "present a mysterious something that the eye has not seen or heart of man conceived ".

PowerCity

Power City is an Irish electrical retailer of consumer and electronic goods with branches in Blanchardstown, Coolock, Tallaght, Finglas, Fonthill, Sallynoggin, Drogheda, Bray and Naas.


Fonthill Abbey

Fonthill Abbey β€” also known as Beckford's Folly β€” was a large Gothic revival country house built around the turn of the 18th century at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt.

Kame delta

The Fonthill Kame Delta is the highest point in the Niagara Peninsula region.

The Lincoln and Welland Regiment

The regiment is also connected with cadet corps in St. Catharines and Fonthill, and with Robert Land Academy in Wellandport.

Vathek

He often stated that Vathek was written as an emotional response to β€œthe events that happened at Fonthill at Christmas 1781,” and that it took him two days and a night, or three days and two nights.


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