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9 unusual facts about Sandford


Attorney General v Davy

A clause stated that three of the twelve would choose a chaplain for the Sandford church as well, another village within the Kirton parish, with the consent of the majority of Sandford residents.

Brasenose College Boat Club

Students would row to the inn at Sandford-on-Thames, a few miles south of Oxford, and race each other on the way back.

Crediton Parish Church

Sully was lord of the manor of Iddesleigh, but was said by Westcote to have had his seat at "Rookesford", i.e. Ruxford, in the parish of Sandford about 1/2 mile north-west of Crediton.

A vicar of Crediton was appointed together with two chaplains, one of which ministered to Sandford (the adjoining parish).

Fordy Wood Copse

Fordy Wood Copse is a woodland in Devon, England, near Sandford.

George Napper

His quarters were placed on the four city gates, but at least some were secretly removed, and buried in the chapel (now a barn) of Sandford manor, formerly a preceptory of Knights Templar.

John Doddridge

The family took its name from a manor in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton.

William de Shareshull

He lived beyond 1364, in which year he granted his manor of Alurynton in Shropshire to Osney Priory, in addition to lands at Sandford in Oxfordshire, which he had given seven years before.

William Stroudley

Born at Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, William Stroudley began work in 1847 at the local paper mill and in the same year he was apprenticed to John Inshaw's engineering firm in Birmingham.


21962 Scottsandford

It is named after Scott Alan Sandford, a researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Baron Sandford

The first creation came in 1891 when Sir Francis Sandford, a civil servant who played an important role in the implementation of the Elementary Education Act of 1870, was made Baron Sandford, of Sandford in the County of Salop.

Charles W. Sandford

His command seriously weakened due to manpower shortages during the American Civil War, Sandford served on active duty with the Union Army from April 19 to July 25, 1861.

Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford (1902-1983) of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, was a book designer, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, a founding director of the Folio Society, and husband of the wood engraver and pioneer Corn dolly revivalist, Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate.

Frank Sandford

There were moments of real peril, as when the Coronet fought its way through the thundering seas around Cape Horn and then again after a powerful gale broke the main sheet and (indirectly) part of the mast almost immediately after Sandford had shot an albatross.

Considered by former members and many neighbors to be a crank and an autocrat who insisted on unquestioning loyalty, Sandford—who had identified himself with the biblical Elijah and David—was convicted of manslaughter in 1911 and served seven years in a federal penitentiary.

In 1902, after once again visiting Jerusalem, Sandford received a divine message that indicated that in some way, he was also the biblical David.

Gerald S. Graham

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970.

John Lascelles

Lassells was the son of Richard, or George, Lassells of Gateford, Nottinghamshire (d. 1520), gentleman, and his wife Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Brian Sandford.

John Loren Sandford

He and his wife, Paula Sandford, are generally considered part of the Christian Inner Healing Movement.

Leaderboard Golf Ltd

Leaderboard Golf Ltd is a company that owns four renowned Golf Clubs in South East England, including The Oxfordshire Golf Club near Oxford, Sandford Springs Golf Club near Basingstoke and Newbury, Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club near Tonbridge and Royal Tunbridge Wells and Chart Hills Golf Club near Ashford in Kent.

Gibbons learnt of the availability of Sandford Springs Golf Club in Kingsclere during a golf lesson and subsequently negotiated the purchase using the Enterprise Investment Scheme.

Meshaw

She was the daughter of Henry Sandford (d.1644) of Nynehead Court, Somerset (whose gravestone exists in the chancel floor of Nynehead Church), by Mary Ayshford (1606–1662).

Military disc-shaped aircraft

In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.

Paula Wilcox

In 1991, Wilcox returned to situation comedy as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner's Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992 - the show then went on to became a series.

Sandford Lock

In the reign of Edward III there is an account of the immemorial conflict between millers and bargemen when "the men of Oxon broke down the locks of Sandford".

Sir Sandford Fleming Park

During the 1880s Sir Sandford Fleming, famous for introducing standard time to North America, established a summer retreat on property fronting Halifax's Northwest Arm, after he finished constructing the Intercolonial Railway.

Temple Sandford

Sandford was named after Frederick Temple, Bishop of Exeter at the time of Sandford's birth and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

What Kind of Man Would I Be?

"What Kind of Man Would I Be?" is a song written by Jason Scheff, Chas Sandford and Bobby Caldwell and recorded by the band Chicago for their 1988 album Chicago 19 and 1989 album Greatest Hits 1982–1989.

William Sandford

Exhausted by his repeated business failures, Sandford retired to Darling Point in 1908, later moving to an orchard in Castle Hill and then Eastwood.


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