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3 unusual facts about Rowland's Castle


Rowland's Castle

Former Van Morrison guitarist Herbie Armstrong once operated The Fountain Inn in the centre of the village next to the Village Green.

The village is crossed by three long-distance footpaths, the Monarch's Way, Sussex Border Path and Staunton Way.

The Mustangs

The Mustangs were formed by Adam Norsworthy and Derek Kingaby after an impromptu jam session in the Fountain Pub in Rowland's Castle, Hampshire, in 2001.


ABC News Breakfast

The main fill-in presenters for Trioli are Tamara Oudyn, Beverley O'Connor and Melissa Clarke and the fill-in presenters for Rowland are Paul Kennedy, Neal Woolrich and Waleed Aly.

Aisling Burnand

Burnand worked as head of international media relations for Rhône-Poulenc in Paris, then as a director at the Rowland Company, a London-based public affairs consultancy.

Anglicisation of names

Ó Briain has often become O'Brien, Ó Rothláin became Rowland, Ó Néill became O'Neill and some surnames like Ó Súilleabháin may be shortened to just O'Sullivan or Sullivan.

Aurora Inn

The Aurora Inn renovation team included Pleasant Rowland, Katie Waller(Director of Aurora Foundation) and Steve McGlynn(Project Manager), Holt Architects of Ithaca, McGlynn Interiors of Skaneateles and Northeast Construction Services of Syracuse.

Baron Leigh

He was a descendant of Rowland Leigh, eldest son of the aforementioned Sir Thomas Leigh (d. 1571), himself of a cadet branch of the Leighs of West Hall, High Legh.

Baynard's Castle

Later in Henry's reign, the lordship of Dunmow and honour or soke of Baynard's Castle were granted to the king's steward, Robert Fitz Richard (1064–1136).

BET Presents Kelly Rowland

The DVD was originally packaged with Rowland's second album, Ms. Kelly, exclusively at Walmart.

Bob Klose

In 2006, Klose wrote an accompanying essay for a picture book of previously unpublished Rowland Hilder's watercolor paintings, entitled "Rowland Hilder's British Isles".

Brad Lesley

After retiring from athletics, he became a television personality in Japan, where he is probably best known for his role as Animaru Resuri "Animal Leslie" in the Japanese gameshow, Takeshi's Castle.

British Hospitality Association

The 2012 event attracted some well-known names including, for example, John Penrose MP (The UK Minister for Tourism & Heritage), Kit Malthouse (The Deputy Mayor of London), Willie Walsh (CEO, British Airways), Taleb Rifai (Secretary of the UN World Tourism Organisation), Simon Vincent (Europe President of Hilton), Robin Rowland (CEO of Yo!Sushi), etc.

Buhl Building

Wirt C. Rowland, architect of the Penobscot Building, Guardian Building, and the Buhl Building was born and raised in Clinton, Michigan.

Cargill's Castle

The ruins of Cargill's Castle stand on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean in New Zealand's southern city of Dunedin.

Charles Hedding Rowland

Rowland was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses from Pennsylvania's twenty-first district.

Charles Proctor Sifton

He is survived by his son Sam Sifton, the national news editor of The New York Times, by his wife, the artist Susan Rowland; two other sons, Toby and John; and three grandchildren.

Christian Fauria

While in college, he appeared in an American version of Takeshi's Castle with other members of his family called "Storm the Castle" in 1993.

Cymbeline's Castle

Cymbeline's Castle, also known as Cymbeline's Mound and Belinus's Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.

Down for Whatever

With the release of the single, an accompanying music video was directed by Sarah Chatfield, which features Rowland dancing and a number of different club lights, as the song is a club-dance song and was released on 19 October 2011.

Genevieve McGuckin

She performed on the Rowland S. Howard and Lydia Lunch cover of "Some Velvet Morning", and on Lunch's Honeymoon In Red LP, where she contributed the song "Three Kings".

She also played organ on, and wrote the music for, the song "Silver Chain" on Rowland S. Howard's solo album Teenage Snuff Film.

Hull Blokes

The project was actually part of the BBC’s Northern Exposure ‘Writing in the Margins’ initiative, spearheaded by the Corporation’s then creative director of new writing, Kate Rowland.

Ian Rowland

Citing Rowland's recitation of the tricks of "astrologers and psychics," journalist Malcolm Gladwell has criticised the practice of offender profiling by the FBI.

Joe Beagle

He was invited to host an art exhibition of his illustrated lyrics in The Gallery, 4–22 October 1982, St Donat's Castle, Llantwit Major, South Wales and perform a live concert of his own songs in the Tythe Barn there on Saturday 6 October 1982.

John Bercow

After a spell in merchant banking, Bercow joined the lobbying firm Rowland Sallingbury Casey (part of Saatchi & Saatchi) in 1988, becoming a board director within five years.

Kikko Matsuoka

The couple have appeared in many Japanese television programs together, including the hit gameshow Takeshi's Castle, where Matsuoka guest starred by encouraging her husband, General Tani, not to give up.

Kinta Kellas

It is historically named after the Scottish plantation owner in British Malaya, William Kellie Smith who is most famous for building Kellie's Castle in Batu Gajah.

Laura Joh Rowland

Rowland takes some literary licence with known figures, creating fictionalised versions of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Emperor Higashiyama in "The Samurai's Wife", and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.

Michiru Jo

His most famous television appearance was Takeshi's Castle during the late 1980s where he played the role of one of the many henchmen working for the lord, Takeshi Kitano.

Noel MacNeal

He has also been Magellan, a baby dragon, on the ACE Award winning series Eureeka's Castle on Nick Jr, Leon MacNeal in The Puzzle Place; Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III and Madame Chairbird in the film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird.

Peter William Youens

He left Lonrho in 1969 to join John Tyzack & Partners, but returned to the Lonrho board in 1980 where he remained until 1994, after control of Lonrho had passed from Rowland to the German businessman Dieter Bock.

Pleasant Rowland

In 1986 Rowland founded the Pleasant Company, which manufactures the "American Girl" dolls, books and accessories.

Rowland was born in the Chicago area and grew up in Bannockburn, a suburb north of Chicago.

R.H. Brotherhood

Rowland Henderson Brotherhood served as the seventh mayor of the Village of Elkhorn.

Richard's Castle

In 1196 this Hugh fought at the battle at New Radnor and was probably killed there, his castles eventually passing to Robert de Mortimer of Attleborough.

His grandson, the last Hugh Mortimer of Richard's Castle, was poisoned to death by his wife in 1304.

River Tay

A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.

Robert Bagod

Robert spent the earlier part of his career in Limerick where he served both as sheriff and constable of King John's Castle He was accused of misconduct of his official duties in 1275, but cleared of the charges; he was held in high regard by the Crown and was a friend of Robert Burnell, the Lord Chancellor of England.

Roger H. Chen

By 1988, Chen then convinced Taiwanese investors to construct a retail complex that was able to accommodate restaurants and stores and as well as a 36,000-square foot supermarket in Rowland Heights, a suburb that was located in the Eastern part of Rowland Heights, where the suburb was located east of the well-known Chinese American community of Monterey Park.

Roland Caldwell Harris

Harris is also featured (and misnamed as "Rowland") in the Michael Ondaatje novel In the Skin of a Lion, although the portrayal of him is fictitious.

Rowland Greenberg

he was a central part of Oslo's swing-jazz milieu, where he led his own Rowland Greenberg Swing Band (1939–41) with Arvid Gram Paulsen on sax, Lulle Kristoffersen on piano and Pete Brown on drums.

Rowland Plumbe

Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe (2 February 1838, Whitechapel – 2 April 1919, Willesden), was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City.

Shea's Castle

It has been a location for 1967's Blood of Dracula's Castle and TV shows such as Air Wolf, Bat Masterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry O, The Rat Patrol, and Starsky & Hutch.

Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle

Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle is a video game for the ColecoVision and Atari 2600 in which the player must brave a series of obstacles to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel's castle.

The Cronin Omnibus

The Cronin Omnibus is a single volume of three A. J. Cronin novels: Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, and The Keys of the Kingdom.

Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley

The great City of London townhouse of the Berkeleys, known as "Berkeley's Inn", was at Puddle Dock by Baynard's Castle, close to the Blackfriars Monastery.

Vale of Glamorgan Festival

The 2013 event, held at the St Donats Arts Centre and Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall, was favourably reviewed by The Guardian, highlighting composer Sebastian Currier as the outstanding performance.

Virginia State Route 10

The state highway traverses Lower Chippokes Creek and passes the Old Brick Church and Bacon's Castle, a rare American example of Jacobean architecture, in the namesake hamlet.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil

That year, he joined several Russian officers in a palace coup against Paul I and, along with General Bennigsen assassinated the tsar in Saint Michael's Castle.

William Steuart

One month later Steuart married Eliza, daughter of Sir Rowland Alston (1654–1697), 2nd Bart., of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire, by his wife Temperance, daughter and heiress of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew.


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