From his Manton Stud at Manton, Wiltshire, Alec Taylor trained a large number of very successful horses.
The town is also the home, as of June 2006, of the St. John of San Francisco Monastery, an Orthodox Christian men's monastery belonging to the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
In the springtime these waters would flood, providing a waterway which lead first to the Salt River, then to the Ohio River and thence by flatboat the boatsmen could make their way to New Orleans.
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Some companies of men from the Tenth Kentucky Infantry were mustered into Union service having come from the village of Manton.
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John Hunt Morgan, the Confederate raider, passed through this area on some of his raids into Kentucky.
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This village was once known as Blincoe as is identified as such in the 1896 Kentucky Gazetteer.
The eponymous Edward Manton was one of the original land owners, whose family would accumulate a huge tract of land.
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Previous to the construction of the US 131 Manton bypass in Wexford County, US 131 was routed north from the Grand Rapids area on a freeway that ended north of Cadillac.
Edward Manton (ca.1760-1820) was a delegate to the secessionist Hartford Convention in 1814-15.
In the early 1980s, Manton came to know Leslie Parris, deputy keeper of the British Collection at the Tate, who, together with Ian Fleming-Williams and Graham Reynolds, were the leading authorities in the field.
He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Manton in 1968 and in 1980 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Humberside.
Alongside Sontaran commander Strax, a large battalion of Silurian warriors, and the newly space-pirating former crew of the Fancy, they help to apprehend Colonel Manton and his Cleric forces.
After the end of World War I, the Sachem was returned to her owner, Manton B. Metcalf of New York, 10 February 1919.
The history of W.W. Greener begins in 1829, when William Greener, who had been working in London for Manton, a prominent gun maker, returned to his hometown of Newcastle and founded the W. Greener company.