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unusual facts about River Bourne, Addlestone



Addlestone

After that, part of the site was used by Caddy's who built taxis.

For example from 1779–1803 the Duke of Bridgwater held it and from an unknown date until 1827 the British Commander-in-Chief Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, famed for the nursery rhyme, the Duke of York Column was tenant of the lands.

The UK headquarters of multinational defence company Thales Group is located in the town.

Burbage, Wiltshire

Burbage stands on a watershed at the eastern end of the Vale of Pewsey, with streams to the east draining to the Thames via the Dun and Kennet; to the south draining to the Salisbury Avon via the River Bourne, and to the north and west into the Salisbury Avon itself.

Cholderton

Cholderton, or more properly West Cholderton, is a village and civil parish in the Bourne Valley of Wiltshire, England.

Collingbourne Ducis

It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.

Elizabeth Whitlock

She and her husband returned to America for the years 1812–14, before settling at Addlestone, Surrey.

Elizabeth Whitlock (2 April 1761 Warrington, Lancashire – 27 February 1836 Addlestone) was a British actress, a member of the Kemble family of actors.

Feba Radio

In April 1979, an international conference was held in the newly leased UK office in Addlestone.

Norman Criddle

Norman Criddle, born in 1875 in Addlestone, Surrey, England, died in 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, was an entomologist active in the early development of control strategies for agriculturally important grasshoppers (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the prairie croplands of western North America, as well as a naturalist-artist.

River Bourne, Addlestone

Just before the confluence is the confluence of the Parley Brook that stems from the Goldsworth Park recreation ground.

River Bourne, Kent

The mill was at one time owned by the Geary family and worked by William Young and his son Edward in the period 1847-75.

The mill burnt down in 1917 and was rebuilt and worked by steam power until 1960.


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