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16 unusual facts about Ryton


1986 in motoring

The phasing-out of Talbot began in October 1985 when the Horizon was replaced by the Peugeot 309 - which became the first "French" car to be built in Britain, at the Ryton plant near Coventry.

1987 in motoring

The saloon version was assembled at the Ryton plant near Coventry, while the forthcoming estate was to roll off French production lines.

Airfield Construction Branch RAF

The Branch Depot moved three times, starting first at RAF Church Lawford with plant training at Ryton-on-Dunsmore.

Ashford Police Training Centre

Ashford PTC and the other remaining regional training centres, Aykley Heads in Durham, Bruche in Warrington, Cwmbran in Wales, Ryton in Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Shotley in Ipswich were closed.

Bruche Police National Training Centre

Forces in other parts of the country usually sent their recruits to similar centres at Ashford in Kent, Aykley Heads in Durham, Ryton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire and Cwmbran in South Wales.

Edith Atkins

She died in August 1999, aged 79, while crossing the A45 with her bicycle at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry.

Hillman Avenger

The Avenger was initially produced at Rootes' plant in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, England, and later at the company's Linwood facility near Glasgow, Scotland.

Production continued until the middle of 1981, when PSA closed the Linwood production plant and concentrated all British production at the Ryton plant.

Hindley, Northumberland

Local buses stopping at this stop are the 40, 602 and the X66, providing links with Hexham, Corbridge, Prudhoe, Ryton, The Metrocentre and Newcastle.

Rootes Arrow

Hunter production was switched in 1969 to Rootes' troubled Imp plant in Linwood, from its original home of Ryton.

Ryton, Shropshire

It is believed Reverend Robert William Eyton (1815–1881), author of The Antiquities of Shropshire, was Rector at Ryton.

Colonel William Kenyon-Slaney (1847–1908), sportsman and politician, whose family home, Hatton Grange, is in the parish, is buried in the churchyard.

Selby baronets

It was created on 3 March 1664 for George Selby, of Whitehouse, Ryton, County Durham.

Simca 1307

The car was originally manufactured in Poissy in France, in Ryton in the United Kingdom, from 1977 in Villaverde in Barreiros, subsidiary of Chrysler Europe in Spain, and assembled from CKD kits by Todd Motors (later Mitsubishi Motors NZ) in New Zealand between 1977 and about 1983.

Sunbeam Rapier

Rapier bodies were built by Pressed Steel, shipped to Thrupp & Maberly in north London where they were painted and trimmed, then shipped again to the Rootes assembly plant at Ryton-on-Dunsmore near Coventry where the engines, transmission and running gear were fitted.

Tom Mahir

In 1955 he was seconded as Deputy Commandant of the National Police College at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, a post in which he served until 1957.


Charles Thorp

Charles Thorp (13 October 1783 - 10 October 1862) was an English churchman, rector of the parish of Ryton and, later, Archdeacon of Durham and the first warden of the University of Durham.

Charles Thorp Comprehensive School

Ryton Comprehensive School was a popular oversubscribed school but was nevertheless threatened with closure as part of a review of secondary education in Gateshead in 2009.

John de Barton

John de Barton (fl. 1304), was a judge, otherwise called de Ryton and de Fryton, a Yorkshire gentleman, is with Ralph Fitzwilliam, the king's lieutenant in Yorkshire, a member of the itinerary court constituted by the first commission of Trailbaston for Yorkshire, for which Hemingford gives as date 1304 (as to date Spelman's 'Glossary' is silent).

Peugeot 207

Amicus and the TGWU, both unions representing workers at PSA's UK manufacturing plant in Ryton, Coventry, chose the same day to launch a campaign calling for the boycott of PSA's Peugeot and Citroën vehicles in the United Kingdom.

Peugeot 309

The 309 was also significant in that it was the first Peugeot car to be assembled in the former Rootes factory in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, which Peugeot had inherited from Chrysler Europe in 1978.

PSA Peugeot Citroën

What was to have been the Talbot Arizona became the 309, with the former Rootes plant in Ryton and Simca plant in Poissy being turned over for Peugeot assembly.

William Streatfeild

William's father, Rev. William Champion Streatfeild, was the sometime Vicar of Howick, Ryton-on-Tyne, Kings Worthy and Frant.