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3 unusual facts about Hickling


Hickling, Nottinghamshire

Fred M. Warner was born here but emigrated to the USA and eventually became Governor of the State of Michigan.

£4,500 was handed over in February 2010, at a ceremony at the Plough Inn, to each of the Meningitis Trust, the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Air Ambulance, and a further 14 village groups.

Mop

In her book “Maggie's Memories” Margaret Wadkin (late of Hickling, near Melton Mowbray in England) describes the use of a mop nail for constructing home made mops from old pieces of cloth during her village childhood in the early 20th century.


John Whyte Cooper Bonnar

Bonnar was married in 1905 to a daughter of Rev. C. H. Hickling, former minister of the Union Church.


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