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6 unusual facts about Stonehouse


George Nayler

Sir George Nayler, KH (bapt. 29 June 1764, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire – 28 October 1831, Hanover Square, Mayfair) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

John Bidlake

He was curate of Plymouth's Stonehouse Chapel, now St George's Church, from 1785 to 1812.

Newark Park

Mrs Annie Poole King family, widow of a Bristol shipping merchant took the leasehold in 1898, moving from the larger Standish House at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

Stonehouse, Plymouth

During 1882, Arthur Conan Doyle worked as a newly qualified physician at 1 Durnford Street, East Stonehouse.

The site of the original settlement of Stonehouse is now mostly occupied by the complex of Princess Yachts.

During the reign of Henry VII defences at the mouth of the Tamar were strengthened by the building of cannon-bearing towers.


Cheltenham Spa Express

The Cheltenham Spa Express is a British named passenger train service from Paddington station, in London, to Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire, via Reading, Kemble, Stroud, Stonehouse and Gloucester.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 6th Earl of Minto

In 1965 Lord Minto married, secondly, Mary Elizabeth Ballantine (29 December 1936 — 24 January 1983), daughter of Peter Ballantine, of Stonehouse Farm, Gladstone, New Jersey, United States.

Philip Ashmole

In the same year he became a research student at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (EGI) and accompanied the scientists' couple Bernard and Sally Stonehouse and the ornithologist Doug Dorward on a two-year expedition of the British Ornithologists' Union to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt, 1st Baronet

He married in 1884, Frances Layland (Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, CBE 1920) of Stonehouse, Wallasey.

Star 107.9

Star 107.9 was a UK Independent Local Radio station centred on the area of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, also broadcasting to other localities including Cirencester, Tetbury and Stonehouse, and Dursley on a 107.3 FM relay (originally 107.2 FM).

Stoke Military Hospital

The Stonehouse Creek was later filled in during the 1960s to become Victoria Park, The Stonehouse Sharks Junior Rugby Team's grounds and The playing fields of Devonport High School for Boys.

Stonehouse Pipe Band

Mrs. Millar’s brother was Alexander Hamilton of Kidderminster who had also gifted a public park to the village of Stonehouse in 1925.


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