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6 unusual facts about Somerton


Arizona State Route 195

The only connection from I-8 to the San Luis Port of Entry was US 95, which runs as a surface street through the downtown business districts of Yuma, San Luis and Somerton.

Somerton, Newport

The neighbourhood is also home to one of the last remaining 'TARDIS' police boxes in the city – the Somerton TARDIS on Chepstow Road.

Somerton, Oxfordshire

In 1230 the manor of Somerton was divided between two heiresses.

In 1815 William Fermor sold the manor to George Villiers, 6th Earl Jersey.

Somerton, Philadelphia

Chris Matthews, television personality and host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, was raised in Somerton and attended St. Christopher's School, a Catholic grade school.

Troy Town

"Troy", a beautiful maze in a private garden at Troy Farm, Somerton, Oxfordshire is rather larger, and "Troy Town" maze on St Agnes, the Isles of Scilly, is a small maze of turf and small stones and is reputed to have been laid down in 1729 by the son of a local lighthouse keeper.


AEC railmotor

On the Upfield line an AEC railmotor operated a shuttle service between Fawkner and Somerton (on the site of today's Roxburgh Park station) from the reopening of the section in 1928, until 1956 when the line north from Fawkner was closed.

City of Whittlesea

18% of its land area was ceded to entities created in 1994 — the Doreen and Arthurs Creek districts were lost to the new Shire of Nillumbik, while Kinglake West went to Shire of Murrindindi and Somerton to the City of Hume.

Lower Heyford

St. Mary's is now part of the Cherwell Valley Benefice along with five other parishes: Ardley, Fritwell, Somerton, Souldern and Upper Heyford.

Thomas Graves Law

On the death of his mother in 1844, Law was sent to school at Somerton, but in the following year, after his father had moved to the living of Harborne in Staffordshire, he was successively sent to St. Edmund's School, Birmingham, and (as founder's kin) to Winchester College, then under George Moberly.

William Meehan

Meehan was noted for the annual summer clambake, which he held at his residence in the Somerton section of Philadelphia, a heavily Republican stronghold.


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