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15 unusual facts about Moulton


1902 in chess

December 6 – G. H. Diggle (1902–1993), British chess player and writer, is born in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England

Cheshire FM

Cheshire FM's transmitter site was located near the village of Moulton, atop an elevator shaft at one of the area's numerous salt mines.

Deeping Fen

In 1733, he surveyed the parish of Moulton, a little further downstream, to assess how drainage could be improved for the Commissioners of Sewers.

John Grundy, Sr.

Following his work for the Duke of Baccleuch, he was asked to survey the parish of Moulton in 1733.

In 1733, he worked for the Commissioners of Sewers, surveying the parish of Moulton, near Spalding, and suggesting ways in which its drainage could be improved.

Moulton Co-operative Society

The society was formed in 1861 and operated a single supermarket in Moulton, Northamptonshire.

Moulton College

Moulton College is an educational establishment with a main campus in the village of Moulton in Northamptonshire, England.

Moulton, Lincolnshire

Johnny Douglas (1895-7), Olympic gold medal winner in boxing and captain of the England Cricket Team

John Molson (1763 – 1836), major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company.

Moulton, Northamptonshire

Boughton Lane Pocket Park on the Southern end of Moulton is another source of animal and plant biodiversity.

Moulton, Suffolk

Moulton also has a fine church, St. Peter's, with an early 14th-century tower topped by a gilded weather vane in the shape of a large pike by blacksmith Charles Poulter.

Multon

See the Moulton page for people and places with this similar spelling of the Name.

Paul Bowes

He was born at Great Bromley, and after being educated in the school at Moulton, Norfolk, was admitted a pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, 21 Dec. 1650.

Robert de Herle

Robert Herle was associated with the Bassett family of Drayton in 1339 as retainer to the Bassett manors of Moulton, Buckby, Olney and Walsall.

Springfield, Colorado

According to the Plainsman Herald from March 1988, the town was settled in 1888 or 1889 by Frank Pierce Tipton (DPOB 10 December 1852, Gallipolis, Ohio) who had travelled to Springfield from Moulton, Iowa, via Springfield, Missouri, in 1886 or 1887 in a covered wagon.


Cramble Cross

It begins near the village green in North Cowton and ends on the back road between Dalton Gates and Moulton village.

Daniel B. Wallace

A Scripture Index to Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary of the Greek Testament in the reprint of Moulton and Milligan (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997).

Dave Moulton

Moulton emigrated to the United States in 1979 and went to work for Vic and Mike Fraysse in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.

Moulton's bicycles have been ridden in more than 20 world championships, in major races including the Tour de France, and in Olympic events.

Fay Moulton

Moulton won a bronze medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics in the men's 60 metre dash.

Flatonia, Texas

The north-south line of the Waco branch of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway opened in the mid-1880s, leading to new settlements of Muldoon and Moulton.

Forest Ray Moulton

The crater Moulton on the Moon, the Adams-Moulton methods for solving differential equations and the Moulton plane in geometry are named after him.

Four Seasons Resort Carmelo, Uruguay

While exuding a minimalist elegance of Balinese and Japanese resorts, the designers (San Francisco-based Babey Moulton Jue & Booth) incorporated influences from China, Thailand, Europe and South America to fuse together a contemplative, yet familiar feel.

G. D'Arcy Boulton

The second son of Henry Boulton (1732–1788) J.P., of Moulton, Lincolnshire, by his third wife, Mary (1734–1779), the daughter of D'Arcy Preston of Askham Bryan Hall, Yorkshire.

Jonathan Moulton

Also during this time, Moulton opened a store in Hampton and started importing goods from Europe and the West Indies to sell.

Martin of Littlebury

Before 1245 he was presented to the parish church at Kirkoswald by Thomas of Moulton, either the Thomas of Moulton who served as a royal justice or his son of the same name.

Moulton Bicycle

Eleanor Bron's 1978 book Life and Other Punctures celebrates travels around France on an original Moulton.

Moulton Developments Limited

Moulton Developments Limited is a British company formed by Alex Moulton in the late 1950s to work on the design and development of the suspension system for Alec Issigonis's BMC Mini project, and other projects.

Peter Bielkowicz

He also introduced orbital mechanics and familiarized his students with Moulton’s text on celestial mechanics.

Phoenix Venture Holdings

Jon Moulton withdrew the Alchemy bid when the Government added extra conditions to the sale, and a march through Birmingham led by Prof Carl Chinn opposed the Alchemy bid

Stephen Moulton

Moulton's great-grandson Dr Alex Moulton was himself a pioneer of rubber engineering, being responsible for many innovations including the rubber suspension system he designed for the innovative BMC car the Mini.

Stephen Moulton (7 July 1794–26 April 1880) was an Englishman who, as an agent of the U.S. rubber pioneer Charles Goodyear, first brought samples of vulcanized rubber to the UK.

Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland

She married Ranulph (Ralph) de Dacre, whom she married because she found him chivalrous and against her father's wishes but he later approved when he found out that the family was a match to his own in estate and power, according to the Moulton Annals.

Thomas de Multon, Lord

Under Henry III Moulton became an important royal agent in the north; between 1217 and 1218 he was an itinerant justice for Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland.

The Lord of Moulton (misprinted as Multon by the scribes of the time period) was born in Lincolnshire, England and fought as a Knight in Normandy and then settled in the French Providence of Orbec in 1203,

WEUP

WEUP-FM, a radio station (103.1 FM) licensed to Moulton, Alabama, United States