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6 unusual facts about Wallingford


Burh

Substantial new towns were built on flat land with a rectangular layout, at for example Oxford, Wallingford, Cricklade and Wareham.

Dick's Drive-In

Founders Dick Spady, H. Warren Ghormley, and Dr. B. O. A. Thomas opened the first Dick's in 1954 in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood, on N.E. 45th Street.

London Parachute School

The London Parachute School is a BPA affiliated parachuting centre and skydiving drop zone at Chiltern Park Aerodrome at Ipsden, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire

The Melancholy Fantastic

The film features a life-size talking muslin doll named Mor and was filmed in Wallingford, Connecticut and Monroe, Connecticut.

Wallace Silversmiths Inc.

Co. purchased the Watson Company and relocated to the “The Watson Co.’s” Wallingford, Massachusetts factory.

Wallingford, Seattle

Major annual events in the neighborhood include the Wallingford Kiddie Parade as part of Seafair, the Wallingford Wurst Festival run by St Benedict's Church, and the Family Fourth fireworks show at Gas Works Park.


Bear at Home

The Bear at Home is a 16th-century public house in the South Oxfordshire (England) village of North Moreton, near Wallingford.

Bells of San Angelo

Lionel Bates arrives from England saying Scotland Yard is on the hunt for an English national named George Wallingford Lancaster.

Brother Cadfael's Penance

Stephen's eldest son Eustace died in 1153 a month after the encounter at Wallingford, and his son William was settled in Normandy, not considered for succession after his father.

Cholsey and Wallingford Railway

The first plans for the Cholsey to Wallingford line date from 1861, and envisaged an independently owned route from Moulsford to Princes Risborough via Wallingford, Benson, Watlington and Chinnor.

Clint Tracy

These included Jeff Glenn, an executive with Delta Companies and former aide to former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.); and Wayne Wallingford, a retired Air Force officer and head of human resources for McDonald's of Southeast Missouri.

Cultural depictions of the Anarchy

Graham Shelby's 1972 novel The Oath and the Sword (aka The Villains of the Piece), focuses on Empress Matilda's faithful supporter Brien FitzCount, Lord of Wallingford, through the years of the Anarchy.

Dag Hammarskjold Middle School

Dag Hammarskjold Middle School, generally referred to as Dag, is a New Haven County public middle school located on the east side of Wallingford, Connecticut, next to the Lyman Hall High School campus.

Edgar Field

Field was described as a wine merchant in Wallingford at the 1891 Census, but he was a Chartered Accountant by profession.

Guthrum II

He referred to the medieval historian John of Wallingford as supporting this identification, stating that Wallingford referred to a second Guthrum being active in Edward's reign.

Honour of Wallingford

In the late 11th century Miles Crispin held the larger of these as part of the Honour of Wallingford.

Jared Potter Kirtland

Kirtland was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and died in Rockport Township, Ohio (now Lakewood).

Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley

With the Earl of Lancaster, he rebelled against King Edward II, for which he was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where he died on 31 May 1326 and was eventually buried at St Augustine's Abbey in Bristol.

Nether Providence High School

Nether Providence High School was a four-year public high school in Wallingford, Pennsylvania serving the Township of Nether Providence and the Boroughs of Rose Valley, South Media, Garden City, and sections of Morton.

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 crime / romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy.

Police Beat

This obsession with the absence of his girlfriend and the escalating jealousy and paranoia makes him unfazed by the crimes he witnesses, which take place in locations all over Seattle (including the Arboretum, Gasworks Park in Wallingford, and the Boeing factory in Renton) on different levels of depravity.

Rosemary Hall

Choate Rosemary Hall, coed school in Wallingford, Connecticut that is successor to Greenwich all-girls school

Wallingford Castle

Wallingford Castle passed from Robert to first his son-in-law Miles Crispin, and then Brien FitzCount, who married Robert's daughter after Miles died.

Wallingford House party

The Wallingford House party were a group of senior officers (Grandees) of the New Model Army who met at Wallingford House, the London home of Charles Fleetwood.

Wallingford Town F.C.

In 2001–02, AFC Wallingford won the Combined Counties League championship, and they were runners-up to Withdean 2000 and AFC Wimbledon in the succeeding two years.


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