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5 unusual facts about Leominster


Abijah Bigelow

He was admitted to the Worcester County bar in 1798 and commenced practice in Leominster, Massachusetts, in the same year.

Bisceglia

Gaspare is particularly notable in the Leominster, Massachusetts area for the formation of the Leominster Colonial Band, a timeless civic band which performs regularly at the Bisceglia Bandstand in Carter Park, Leominster, MA.

Cams Hall

By 1770 Cams Hall was owned by Brigadier General Carnac, the MP for Leominster, who commissioned architect Jacob Leroux to design a new mansion for the estate.

F. A. Whitney Carriage Company

A. Whitney Carriage Company in Leominster, Massachusetts is named after Francis Austin Whitney, who founded the company in 1858 with his cousin Francis Wolfe Whitney.

Leominster

John Abel (1578/9-1675), an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented half-timbered construction, notably the market house known as Grange Court (1633) in Leominster, which originally stood in Broad Street, but was rebuilt in 1855 near to the Priory Church.


Broadcloth

The raw material for broadcloth from Worcester was wool from the Welsh border counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire, known as Lemster (i.e. Leominster) wool.

Chase Price

By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, he was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780), Barrister from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of Captain Thomas Foley, and had female issue.

Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck

Hugh de Kilpeck, a relative of Earl Mortimer, employed the same builders at Kilpeck, and their work is also known at Leominster, Rowlestone and elsewhere.

Henry Fairs

Born in Hereford, England, he received his earliest musical education as a chorister at Leominster Priory and studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Conservatoire NDR Rueil-Malmaison and the Hochschule für Musik Köln, supported by an award from the Countess of Munster Trust.

Hollow Sword Blade Company

The fourth partner, George Caswall, came from Leominster which his family had represented as MP for generations.

Hugh de Mapenor

Mapenor was the son of Robert de Mapenore and his wife Matilda, who lived in Herefordshire at Hampton, Herefordshire near Leominster.

John Stanhope Arkwright

In 1910 he sold Hampton Court, near Leominster and purchased Kinsham Court

Leominster Canal

Following the opening of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in 1772, which linked the industrial Midlands to the River Severn at Stourport, the engineer Robert Whitworth proposed a canal to link Stourport to Hereford, passing through Pensax and Leominster in 1777.

Massachusetts Route 13

Whalom Park, a former amusement park which stood from 1893 to 2000, was located along Route 13 in Lunenburg, just north of the Leominster town line.

Nashua Valley Council

It was originally the council summer camp for the Wachusett Council, serving Massachusetts towns from Leominster through Petersham.

North Leominster

North Leominster is accessible from the Lancaster, MA line on MA Route 2 by taking the exit for Harvard Street, or from the exit for Massachusetts Route 13.

Pembridge

Pembridge is a village located just south of the River Arrow on the A44 between Leominster and Kington in Herefordshire, England.

Sweyn Godwinson

On his return from this campaign Sweyn abducted Eadgifu, the Abbess of Leominster, apparently intending to marry her and gain control of Leominster's vast estate.

Viscount Bateman

It was created on 12 July 1725 for William Bateman, previously Member of Parliament for Leominster and the son of Sir James Bateman, Lord Mayor of London from 1716 to 1717.


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