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2 unusual facts about Rockingham, Northamptonshire


1090s in England

25 February - A Council at Rockingham is held to resolve the dispute between Anselm and William II, but fails to do so.

William de St-Calais

St-Calais managed the king's case against Anselm at Rockingham in 1095, when Anselm wished to go to receive his pallium from Pope Urban II.


Andy Hillenburg

Hillenburg also was a technical advisor and provided equipment for the filming of the Bollywood film Ta Ra Rum Pum, which was filmed at Rockingham and also at the ARCA race at the Wisconsin State Fair Park.

Anthony Morgan of Kilflgin

By the death of his half-brother, Colonel Thomas Morgan, who was killed at the Battle of Newbury 20 September 1643, he became possessed of the manors of Heyford and Clasthorpe, Northamptonshire; and had other property in Momouthshire, Warwickshire, and Westmoreland.

Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon

Arthur Hill Trevor (1798–1862), of Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, was an English politician.

Beilby Thompson

Urged by Rockingham to stand for York (the seat once held by his grandfather) in 1768, his mother objected on grounds of expense.

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Brampton railway station

Pitsford and Brampton railway station, formerly known as Brampton, Northamptonshire

Brington

Brington, Northamptonshire, the civil parish in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England

Charles Arthur Ayre

He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the son of the Reverend George James Ayre and Margaret Mary Burgess, and was educated in Bath, Somersetshire and at Hymers College in Hull, Yorkshire.

Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton

He married at Hackney, Middlesex, on 8 May 1630, Elizabeth (died 1672), eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir Charles Montagu, of Boughton, Northamptonshire.

Constantine Jessop

He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and his son, Constantine, who became rector of Brington, Northamptonshire and a prebendary of Durham Cathedral.

Creswell Levinz

Sir Creswell Levinz (1627–1701), judge, was the second son of William Levinz, the elder, of Evenley, Northamptonshire, by Mary, second daughter of Richard Creswell of Purston in the same county.

Donald Ramsamooj

Donald Ramsamooj (born 5 July 1932, San Fernando, Trinidad, died 23 May 1993, Toronto, Canada) was a professional Cricketer who spent his career between Trinidad and Northamptonshire.

Earl Fitzwilliam

In 1782 he inherited the Watson-Wentworth estates (including Wentworth Woodhouse) on the death of his uncle Lord Rockingham, which made him one of the greatest landowners in the country.

Edmund Cosyn

He held the living of Grendon, Northamptonshire, which was in the gift of King's Hall, from 21 September 1538, to November, 1541, and successively, fellowships of King's Hall, St. Catharine's Hall, and of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Edward Montagu of Boughton

In 1570 he became Deputy Lieutenant and was Sheriff of Northamptonshire again from 1570 to 1571.

Elkton, Virginia

Located on Rockingham Street, the Miller-Kite House was the headquarters of General Stonewall Jackson at the start of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign during the Civil War.

Fineshade Wood

Fineshade Wood is a large wooded area in the county of Northamptonshire in the English East Midlands region.

Fish family

The family is of English origin and is descended from Jonathan Fish (1615–1663), who was born in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, England and settled in the Province of New York.

Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer

Lord Spencer died at the family seat at Althorp, Brington, Northamptonshire, in December 1857, aged 59, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son from his first marriage, John, who became a prominent Liberal politician.

Gervase Jackson-Stops

Jackson-Stops developed a unique home in The Menagerie, a Grade II listed building at Horton, Northamptonshire, part of the estate buildings for the now demolished Horton House and seat of the Earl of Halifax.

Goin' To Rockingham

Goin' To Rockingham is the fifth album released by surf music band The Surfin' Lungs, released in 2002 on the Spanish label No Tomorrow.

Harry Hartz

Hartz was badly burned and injured in a crash in 1927 at the Rockingham Speedway in Salem, New Hampshire, requiring him to spend the next two years in hospitals.

Historic houses in Virginia

1812, Rockingham County - early Greek-Revival manor house, former home of Willis Sharpe Kilmer

Jabez Turner

He was born on 25 October 1828, the seventh of fourteen children of Puritan farmers George and Amy Turner in the village of Warkton near Kettering in Northamptonshire.

James Hylton

Hylton was planning on qualifying his #48 car sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans for the ARCA race at Rockingham on April 19, 2009.

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

In 1690, he left France for England, to work on painting decorations for Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, where he produced over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which have survived at Boughton House, Northamptonshire.

Jim Watts

In the autumn of 1970, Northamptonshire faced the future without the services of Roger Prideaux, Brian Reynolds and Albert Lightfoot, and with Mushtaq Mohammad expected to miss a good part of the following summer on tour with Pakistan.

John Claypole

Claypole was appointed by his father-in-law one of the lords of his bed-chamber, clerk of the hanaper, and ranger of Whittlewood Forest) in Northamptonshire, where he built Wakefield Lodge, a magnificent house near Potterspury, (it came into the possession the Dukes of Grafton, the first duke having had a grant of the forest in 1685, with the title of hereditary ranger).

John Knyvet

Knyvett was eldest son of Richard Knyvet of Southwick, Northamptonshire, and a keeper of the "Forest of Clyve" (now part of Rockingham Forest).

John Penry

It was successively located at East Moulsey (Surrey), Fawsley (Northamptonshire), Coventry and other places in Warwickshire, and finally at Manchester, where it was seized in August 1589.

Mark Sutcliffe

Mark Sutcliffe MBE (born 29 July 1979 in Peterborough, England) joined the British Army in 1997 aged 17, enlisting into the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment The Poachers, initially joining C (Northamptonshire) Company.

Milton Hall

In 1782, however, the fourth Earl succeeded to Wentworth Woodhouse on the death of his uncle the second Lord Rockingham, and this became his principal seat, the family moving to Milton only in the winter for the hunting.

Northamptonshire Yeomanry

It was during Operation Totalize that Joe Ekins a Sherman Tank gunner of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry gained recognition for killing the renowned German tank commander, Michael Wittmann, the 4th top scoring tank ace in history, on August 8, 1944 near St. Aignan de Cramesnil, France.

Norton Strange Townshend

Born in Clay Coton, Northamptonshire (England), in 1830 he migrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Avon, Ohio.

Obedience Robbins

Robbins was born shortly before April 26, 1600 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England.

Oliver St John

He retired to his country house in Northamptonshire till 1662, when he left England and went to Basel, Switzerland and afterwards to Augsburg, Germany.

Raymond Swann

His elder son Alec has also represented Bedfordshire and played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire and Lancashire.

Rockingham Castle

Rockingham Castle was a popular haunt of writer Charles Dickens who was a great friend of Richard and Lavinia Watson, ancestors of the current family.

Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman

Narrowly defeated in the 1997 general election, he was shortly afterwards elevated as a life peer to the House of Lords and sits as Baron Freeman, of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire.

Saddled swellshark

The saddled swellshark is found off the eastern coast of Australia, as far north as Rockingham Bay in Queensland and as far south as Tathra in New South Wales, and perhaps also the Britannia Seamount near Brisbane.

Sammy Bland

Also a track announcer at several of the tracks, including Darlington, Rockingham and Richmond International Raceway, Bland's “partner” was Ray Melton.

Samuel Cadman

He was batting alongside Leonard Oliver, Guy Jackson and Harry Storer and in 1924 he scored a century against Northamptonshire.

Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Baronet

Leighton died at Norton Hall, near Daventry, Northamptonshire on 26 January 1871 aged 65, and was buried in Loton Park's parish churchyard of St Michael, Alberbury.

St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate

Two double centuries were scored at the ground, 277* by Percy Holmes against Northamptonshire in 1921, as part of that 548, and 217* by Viv Richards for Somerset in 1975.

Thomas Tew

One theory is that he was born in Maidford, Northamptonshire, England before immigrating to the colonies as a child with his family, although there is only a little circumstantial evidence for this.

Trichopetalum whitei

The species is recorded from caves in the upper Potomac River drainage in Virginia (Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties) and West Virginia (Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton Counties).

Vets4pets

In September 2012, following on from their win of ITV's show 'Britain's got Talent', Ashleigh and Pudsey A.K.A 17-year-old Ashleigh Butler from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and her six-year-old dog, Pudsey, joined forces with Vets4Pets to help raise awareness of the importance of preventative pet healthcare and responsible pet ownership.

Westrill and Starmore

The parish is located in the south of the county, on the border with Northamptonshire, between the parishes of Swinford and South Kilworth.

To the south-east it faces the Northamptonshire parish of Stanford-on-Avon, across the River Avon.

William Courten

In 1628 he paid Charles I £5,000 and received lands in Whittlewood Forest, Northamptonshire.


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