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unusual facts about Shelton, Bedfordshire


Lower Shelton

For other settlements with the name Shelton in Bedfordshire, see Shelton, Bedfordshire


Angela V. Shelton

Angela V. Shelton was born on 4 March 1970 and attended the Roeper School in Birmingham, Michigan.

Arthur Macnamara

His family was wealthy; the Macnamara family owned many buildings, including a castle at Llangoed, Wales, a country house called Caddington Hall in Hertfordshire, and an estate at Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire.

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.

C.H. Latimer-Needham

He left the RAF in 1935 and formed his second company, Luton Aircraft, at Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire, where he designed the Buzzard, Minor & Major.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Salford, Bedfordshire

Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Salford, Bedfordshire, England.

Church of St Mary, Linslade

Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed church in Linslade, Bedfordshire, England.

Copthorne, Shropshire

In particular, Gains Park, a 1990s housing estate west of the hospital, is often passed off as Copthorne (or sometimes as Shelton or Bicton Heath)- despite sharing the SY3 postcode it is completely separated from Copthorne and Shelton while Bicton Heath refers to an older settlement along the A458.

Cranfield School of Engineering

The Cranfield School of Engineering is one of the schools of Cranfield University, an English University located on the Cranfield campuses in Bedfordshire.

De Havilland Gipsy Six

A preserved Gipsy Six engine is on public display at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, another is on display at the Science Museum (London).

Debbie Dingle

Debbie hires Robbie Lawson (Jamie Shelton) as her assistant and they begin selling cheap vodka.

Dnash

While the last few years have found him perpetually on tour, he considers home to be Shelton, Connecticut and Grindavík, Iceland.

Dunstable, Massachusetts

It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler.

Earl Thomas Conley

In 2002, Blake Shelton charted in the Top 20 with "All Over Me," which Conley co-wrote with Shelton and songwriter Mike Pyle.

Eastern Region Ministry Course

Students tend to come from the Eastern region of England, including the counties of Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire (or parts thereof).

Francis Dillingham

Francis Dillingham (Dean, Bedfordshire – 1625, Wilden, Bedfordshire) was an English Protestant scholar and cleric.

George Arnald

One account places his birth in the village of Farndip (now Farndish) in Northamptonshire (now Bedfordshire), although others suggest he was born in Berkshire.

Joseph Foveaux

Foveaux was baptised on 6 April 1767 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, the sixth child of Joseph Foveaux and his wife Elizabeth, née Wheeler.

Josiah Spode

There he was in financial partnership with William Tomlinson (a solicitor), and in 1772 he took on a pottery at Shelton with Thomas Mountford as his backer.

Karol Kennedy

Karol Estelle Kennedy Kucher (February 14, 1932, in Shelton, Washington – June 25, 2004, in Seattle, Washington) was an American pair skater.

Lewis Dyve

Dyve, who had an estate at Bromham in Bedfordshire, was knighted in 1620 and was one of the attendants of Prince Charles during his time at Madrid.

Lynn Shelton

During a live recording of his song "Sleepwalkin'", singer Rhett Miller (of the Old 97's) stated that the song is based on an imagined romance with Shelton based purely on a photo of her he saw once.

Marquess of Ailesbury

On 18 March 1664, Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland was created Baron Bruce, of Skelton in the County of York, Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, and Earl of Ailesbury, in the County of Buckingham, all in the Peerage of England.

Melchbourne Preceptory

On two occasions the Hospitallers of Bedfordshire came into collision with the canons of Dunstable Priory, on account of one of the customs of their order.

Moses Taylor Pyne

The son of Percy Rivington Pyne and Albertina Shelton Taylor, Pyne was born in New York City in 1855, and graduated from Princeton in 1877.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra

The NHSO Pops Series takes place on selected Saturday afternoons at the Hamden Middle School in Hamden, CT, and Sunday afternoons at Shelton Intermediate School in Shelton, CT.

Osborn baronets

The third Baronet was Governor of New York and Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire.

Pamphill

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.

Paul Alan Levi

Performers of his music include conductors Pierre Boulez, Jesús López-Cobos, Robert DeCormier, Clara Longstreth, Gustav Meier, and Gerard Schwarz; pianist Justin Kolb; and singers Margaret Ahrens, David Bender, Adam Klein, Antonia Lavanne, Douglas Perry, Neva Pilgrim, Lucy Shelton, Sheila Schonbrun, and James Archie Worley, as well as Cantors Richard Botton and Mark Lipson.

Percival Provost

G-KAPW with CAA permission to fly as XF603, owned by the Shuttleworth Trust and based at Old Warden, Bedfordshire.

Pistol Annies

The group is also featured on the Blake Shelton single, "Boys 'Round Here," from his 2013 album, Based on a True Story….

Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad

Propane is heavily used by Kitsap County, Washington residents in the fall, winter, and spring months and comes in via rail for destinations in Shelton, Washington, Belfair, Washington, and Bremerton, Washington.

Raymond Swann

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

Shelton Laurel Massacre

Events of the Shelton Laurel massacre are described in The World Made Straight, by Ron Rash, a fictional book about western North Carolina during the 1970s.

Shelton, Connecticut

Representation of Shelton in the House of Representatives is split between the 3rd and 4th Congressional districts, which are represented by Democratic Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Jim Himes, respectively.

Shelton, Shropshire

It has a cricket team which played in the Shropshire Premier Cricket League until the league was wound up after the 2011 season.

Slip End

The name of Slip End possibly has a connection with the brickworks, Slip is an old English word for clay and End is quite common in Bedfordshire and not unknown in other counties.

Southill, Bedfordshire

In 1914, the village was described as follows: "Southill, parish and village with railway station (1½ miles north-west, Midland Railway), east Bedfordshire; parish 5734 acres, population 989, ecclesiastical district 954; village 3 miles south-west of Biggleswade; Post Office; Telegraph Office at station. In vicinity is Southill Park, seat".

Squire sidecars

In 2002 Motor Cycle News set a Guinness World Record for a motorcycle and trailer reaching a timed speed of 139.5mph at Millbrook in Bedfordshire, UK, pulling a Squire D21 trailer behind a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 motorcycle.

Steven Lines

He was dismissed for a single run by Hallam Moseley in Bedfordshire's innings, while with the ball he took the wickets of Peter Roebuck, Ian Botham and Nigel Popplewell for the cost of 28 runs from 10 overs.

The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour

Host Vallée appeared along with regulars Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson (1932), followed by Tom Howard and George Shelton (1935).

The Gregory Hines Show

Now and then Ben would receive advice from his brother Carl (Wendell Pierce), his father James (Bill Cobbs) as well as his co-worker Alex (Mark Tymchyshyn), Alex's ex-wife, Nicole (Robin Riker) and his assistant Angela (Judith Shelton).

Theodore Wade-Gery

Born into a long-established Bedfordshire family, he was educated at Winchester College, a contemporary of Arnold J. Toynbee and R.M.Y. Gleadowe, and at New College, Oxford, which he left with a First in Classical Moderations in 1911.

Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey

In 1833 he succeeded his aunt as second Earl de Grey according to a special remainder and also inherited the Wrest Park estate in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

Travis Shelton

Competing in track in high school, Shelton finished fourth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Florida 4A state meet, behind Walter Dix, Chris Johnson, and Alonzo Phillips.

Wellingborough School

Wellingborough School RAF section is linked to No. 5 Air Experience Flight at RAF Wyton, where cadets are flown on Friday afternoons in the Grob Tutor training aircraft, and to 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, where cadets go on Sundays to fly in the Grob Vigilant motor glider, and where Flt Lt Walker is a C Category instructor.

William Drury Lowe

After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he took up the challenge of running the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.

William Lee Antonie

The son of Sir William Lee, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and brother of Harriet Lee, he lived at Totteridge Park, formerly in Hertfordshire and owned Colworth House near Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire.

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.


see also

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shelton, North Bedfordshire

Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Shelton, Bedfordshire, England.