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4 unusual facts about St Margaret-at-Cliffe


Flame fougasse

A further variant of the hedge hopper idea was devised for St Margaret's Bay where the barrels would be sent rolling over the cliff edge.

St Margaret-at-Cliffe

At the other end of the beach there are cottages, two of which were owned by Noël Coward and Ian Fleming.

Sir Peter Ustinov was stationed in the village during WWII and liked it so much that he bought a house on the cliffs after the war.

The house is now owned by Miriam Margolyes, both have hosted functions to raise funds for the new village hall.


Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

The mediaeval convent of St Margaret's, abolished by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was for centuries just 400 yards along the lane.

Barlby

Barlby Hilltop contains Hilltop Primary School, a post office, a library, the Craig Bonner memorial centre, a late nineteenth-century church, and Barlby High School which also serves pupils from the surrounding villages of Osgodby, Riccall, Kelfield, Escrick, Cliffe, North Duffield, South Duffield, Hemingbrough and Bubwith.

Binsey, Oxfordshire

Binsey's most noted feature is the Church of England parish church of St Margaret, set at some distance north of the surviving houses.

Church of St Anne, Aigburth

The church adjoins St Margaret's Church of England Academy and is used at times as the venue for carol and other services.

Cliffe Vale, Staffordshire

The railway sidings and buildings at Cliffe Vale were used as the winter quarters for the world's biggest circus, Barnum & Bailey, from 1897 until 1911 when Twyfords expanded and the circus had to move elsewhere.

Cliffe, Richmondshire

At the end of June to the beginning of July 2009, Time Team investigated the Roman remains of Piercebridge Roman Fort and the supposed Roman bridge, and it is now suspected that the remains on the south bank are not a bridge at all, but the footings of a jetty, and that the location of the Roman bridge is unknown.

The Grade II listed George Hotel stands near the road-bridge which crosses the Tees coming from Piercebridge, and is said to be the home of My Grandfather's Clock which "stopped short never to go again when the old man died".

The village is notable for its 17th-century Grade II listed George Hotel, where the story behind the song, My Grandfather's Clock, is said to have originated in 1875.

Counter-Strike

It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.

Fiona Woolf

Woolf attended St Denis School (now part of St Margaret's School), Edinburgh.

George Stradling

He held positions, at one time or another, at parishes in Fulham and St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (London), Hanwell (Middlesex), Cliffe-at-Hoo and Sutton-at-Hone (Kent).

Get Cracking

Released on 17 May 1943 and running at 96 minutes in black and white, the film was written by L. du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan and John L. Arthur, while the songs were written by George Formby with Fred Godfrey, Fred E. Cliffe and Eddie Latta.

Griffin Higgs

with the support of Archibishop William Laud, he was appointated precentor of St David's on 21 May 1631 (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, i. 316), instituted vicar of Cliffe, Kent, about 1636 (Hasted, Kent, iv. 32), and in 1638 made dean of Lichfield (Le Neve, i. 563), ‘the cathedral of which,’ says Wood, ‘he adorned to his great charge.’ He was also chaplain in ordinary to the king.

Jess Cliffe

Jess Cliffe is a Valve Software computer game designer and co-creator of Counter-Strike with Minh Le (aka Gooseman).

Jill Ellison

She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey and now heads the Nurse Directors Association (NDA/UK).

Jim Cliffe

Cliffe and his wife Melodie are currently writing new projects, including one with an extra-terrestrial theme, inspired by the events of Roswell and Project Blue Book.

John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

Between 1868 and 1886 he financed the rebuilding of St Margaret's Parish Church, Roath, Cardiff, creating a new mausoleum for the Bute family with sarcophagi in red marble.

John Strange Winter

She was born on 13 January 1856 in Trinity Lane, York, was only daughter of Henry Vaughan Palmer, rector of St. Margaret's, York, by his wife Emily Catherine Cowling.

Little Casterton

In June 1968, the Rutland Dinosaur, a specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus oxoniensis was found in the Williamson Cliffe quarry in the parish.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

At the beginning of the book Johnny and his family live in London, however Johnny is sent to live with his Aunt Ivy in the town of Cliffe soon after his father enlists.

Louise Cliffe

As a model Cliffe has done many magazine shoots and front covers including Maxim, Bizarre, Front, Loaded, FHM, OK!, Stuff, THE Magazine, Zoo, Nuts, Ice and Switched On.

Marcus Cliffe

Marcus Cliffe (born 1962 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a professional musician, currently the bass player in The Manfreds, a reunion of members of the 1960s pop group Manfred Mann (minus Manfred Mann himself).

NICCT

The first lecture under this series was given by the Chief Economist of the ING Banking and Insurance Group, Mr. Mark Cliffe.

North Cliffe

North Cliffe is the home of The White Rose Polo Club which is a member of the Hurlingham Polo Association.

Parliament Square

Buildings looking upon the square include the churches Westminster Abbey and St Margaret's, Westminster, the Middlesex Guildhall which is the seat of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Government Offices Great George Street serving HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs, and Portcullis House.

RAF Kings Cliffe

Glenn Miller played his last airfield band concert in the big hangar at Kings Cliffe.

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet

Fludyer died in 1768 and was buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Lee.

St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh

According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle.

St Margaret's Church, Burnage

Also dating from 1950 is a window in the baptistery depicting Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brownies.

St Margaret's Church, Durham

The eagle lectern dates from 1909, and was given in memory of members of the Shafto family killed in the Boer War.

St Margaret's Church, Prestwich

In order to care better for the Simister end of the parish, a new church was designed by R. Basnett Preston in a combination of Romanesque and vernacular revival styles and built in 1915 on a site given by the V Earl of Wilton in Nutt Lane, Simister.

In 1875, parishioners affiliated to St Margaret's presented a petition to the Bishop to request that the church be licensed for marriages, and a license for Holy Matrimony was duly granted.

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

St Margaret's College

St Margaret's College, Otago, hall of residence of the University of Otago, New Zealand

St Margaret's School Hampstead

In her final year, the Board of Education inspectors described her as “a woman of culture and ideals to whom the School is much indebted for all her educational work”.

St Margaret's School, Bushey

Christabel Bielenberg 1909-2003 (née Burton), author of best-selling novel 'The Past is Myself' 1968, made into a TV drama 'Christabel'1988.

The Clergy Orphan Corporation paid for a new school building to be erected on land bought in St John's Wood next to Lord's Cricket Ground, and both boys and girls moved there in 1812.

St Margaret's, Corsley

St Margaret's, Corsley, is the Parish Church of Corsley in Wiltshire.

St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam

Its benefice is combined with those of St Michael, Baddiley, and St Margaret, Wrenbury.

The Superstation Orkney

The Superstation started broadcasting under a 3 month trial Restricted Service Licence awarded by Ofcom on Saturday September 4, 2004, from the MV Communicator, berthed at St Margaret's Hope.

Thomas Brittain Vacher

His son, the architect Sydney Vacher, designed the elaborate pulpit in St Margaret's church, Westminster as a memorial to him.


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