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unusual facts about Walton, Powys


Stanner Rocks

Stanner Rocks is a rounded hill, steep in parts, which lies close to the Wales border with England between Walton and Kington.


1981 Ryder Cup

The 24th Ryder Cup Matches were held 18–20 September 1981 at the Walton Heath Golf Club in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England, southwest of London.

2007 Tour of Britain

The race then turned inland through Walton le Dale before beginning to climb, on its way up to the Second Category climb of Grizedale.

2013 Swansea measles epidemic

There were a total of 1,219 measles notifications (suspected cases) in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys, with 1,455 measles notifications for the whole of Wales, 664 of which were in Swansea alone.

A Glastonbury Romance

In 1934, Powys and his English publishers were successfully sued for libel by Gerard Hodgkinson, real-life owner of the Wookey Hole caves, who claimed that the character of Philip Crow had been based on him.

A. Ronald Walton

Working with ACTFL, the US Department of Education, the College Board, among other organizations, Walton helped to formulate nationwide standards for Japanese, French, Hebrew German, Spanish Chinese and Korean.

Bertram Kelly

Bertram Kelly was educated at Southend High School for Boys and Walton College before studying electrical engineering at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.

Bleddyn ap Cynfyn

The south was restored to the Houses of Dinefwr and Morgan, but Powys and Gwynedd were given to Gruffydd's half-brothers Bleddyn and Rhiwallon.

Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited

In 1956 the estate of Izaak Walton Killam sold the company to Bowater which renamed the company Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited in 1959.

Brian Labone

Whilst returning home from an Everton fans awards evening at The Winslow Hotel in Walton, Labone died suddenly after collapsing in the street close to his Lydiate home at the age of 66.

Buddugre Castle

Buddugre Castle (sometimes referred to as Tomen Bedd-Ugre) was a motte and bailey defensive fortification overlooking the River Ithon, located in the community of Llanddewi Ystradenny, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Builth Castle

Builth Castle was a castle built under King Edward I, today an abandoned site just outside Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.

Drinker House

Located just beyond Founder's Green, the house is situated directly next to Haverford's soccer pitch and across Walton Road from Gummere, which houses freshmen.

Fort Walton Mound

The Fort Walton Mound was probably built around 800 CE, although Charles H. Fairbanks who excavated the mound in 1960 believed it was built between 1500 and 1650 based on pottery sherds he uncovered and analyzed.

Freedom Lite SS-11 Skywatch

The Freedom Lite SS-11 Skywatch (also called the Skywatch SS11) is a Canadian ultralight aircraft that was produced by Freedom Lite of Walton, Ontario and later by Legend Lite of New Hamburg, Ontario, introduced in 1996.

Garbage Pail Kids

Packs contained randomly inserted chase cards including lenticular Loco Motion, authentic Printing Plates, four levels of Parallels, and hand-drawn Artist Sketches by pop-culture artists including Layron DeJarnette, Brent Engstrom, Dave Gross, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, Colin Walton, Fred Wheaton, Jeff Zapata, and veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch.

Herbert James Walton

ex Pampanini, discovered and collected by Walton at Gyangtse on the British Expedition to Tibet, was named for him by the Scottish botanist James Drummond, curator of the herbarium at the Calcutta Royal Botanic Gardens.

Horatio Powys-Keck

Born in Hyères, France, Powys-Keck's debut came for Oxford University Authentics on their tour of India in 1902-03; the team played three games (the only first-class matches they ever played) and Powys-Keck was chosen for the first of these, against Gentlemen of India at the Polo Ground, Delhi.

Ipswich Castle

By the 12th century the Bigod family had come to dominate Suffolk, holding the title of the Earl of Norfolk and owning the four major castles of Framlingham, Bungay, Walton and Thetford.

James Davies Lewin

Born in Womaston, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales, the son of Samuel Lewin and Mary Furmage, Lewin was educated at the Kingston Grammar School, Wales.

Jane's Minstrels

Since the ensemble's beginning, Manning has championed Pierrot Lunaire and a number of twentieth century works influenced by it, ranging from Walton's Facade to Miss Donnithorne's Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies.

John Cowper Powys

Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset, for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper.

John de Bothby

He was still living in 1382 when he was asked to inquire into whether lands held by the Priory of Walton had been unlawfully acquired.

John Plumbe

Plumbe was born in Castle Caereinion, Powys, Wales in 1809, to John Plumbe and Frances Margaretta Atherton.

Josiah Flynt

His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include The Powers that Prey (1900), a collection of short stories written in collaboration with Francis Walton; Notes of an Itinerant Policeman (1900); The World of Graft (1901), a volume of short stories and The Little Brother (1902), his only sustained attempt in fiction.

Lesley Mahmood

Although she won a majority of 92 out of 140 Walton Labour Party members, once the union votes were counted, Peter Kilfoyle became the Labour Party candidate.

Libanus

Libanus, Powys, a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in the county of Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

Llandovery Group

The Tarannon group is represented by the Rhayader Pale Shales in Powys; in the Moffat Silurian belt in south Scotland by a thick development, including the Hawick rocks and Ardwell Beds, and the Queensberry Group or Gala; in the Girvan area, by the Drumyork Flags, Bargany Group and Penkill Group; and in Ireland by the Treveshilly Shales of Strangford Lough, and the shales of Salterstown, Co.

Llangammarch railway station

Llangammarch railway station serves the village of Llangammarch Wells in Powys, Wales.

Mathrafal

Mathrafal near Welshpool, in Powys, Mid Wales, was the seat of the Kings and Princes of Powys probably from the 9th century until its destruction in 1212 by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth of Gwynedd.

Melissa Walton

As an amateur actress, Walton appeared in pantomime at Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, was a member of the Coventry youth group YOG and attended Three Spires Dance School.

Walton studied at Bablake School in Coundon, Coventry, then took a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at Stratford-upon-Avon College, which she passed with three distinctions.

Pennyhole Bay

Pennyhole Bay is a stretch of water situated to the south of the ports of Harwich in Essex and Felixstowe in Suffolk, England where the rivers Stour and Orwell flow into the sea and just east of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

Prince of Annwn

The novel is a retelling of the story of the First Branch of the Mabinogion, Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed (Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed), and hence is chronologically the first of Walton's Mabinogion novels, though published last.

Raphaels Bank

The bank is sited in London and at Walton Lodge, in Walton, Aylesbury a grade II listed building, part of Walton Terrace.

Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn

Following the 1063 invasion of Wales by Harold and Tostig Godwinson that overthrew Gruffydd, Rhiwallon and Bleddyn jointly received Powys and Gwynedd on condition of faithfully serving Edward the Confessor "everywhere by water and by land".

Shuffle Along

The cast included Lottie Gee as Jessie Williams, Adelaide Hall as Jazz Jasmine, Gertrude Saunders as Ruth Little, Roger Matthews as Harry Walton, and Noble Sissle as Tom Sharper.

Sunshine Coast Line

The line was then extended to Weeley on 8 January 1866, to Kirby Cross on 28 July 1866, and on to its terminus at Walton-on-the-Naze on 17 May 1867.

Tanya Alexander

Her departure from Moonbase Alpha was chronicled in the Powys Media novel, Space: 1999 The Forsaken by John Kenneth Muir (featuring a foreword by Prentis Hancock) in which the character reveals an unplanned pregnancy and fears that she will be have to have an abortion in light of the ban on new births on Alpha (i.e. Alpha Child, The Exiles); a small group of Alphans mutinies to settle with her on a habitable planet, led by Paul Morrow.

Ted LeFevre

His assistant design work includes ten international and touring companies of Beauty and the Beast, two new musicals at Goodspeed Opera, and both A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden and Carnevale at Radio City for Tony Walton.

The Luke Walton Band

Luke Walton rose to internet fame by asking country artist Taylor Swift out on a date via YouTube.

Thomas Basil Humphreys

He was born in Liverpool, the son of John Basil Humphreys and Mary Elizabeth Morgan, and was educated at Walton-on-the-Hill.

Tommy Norden

Other performances include a minor role in the film Five Miles to Midnight (1962), as well as roles on the TV series Naked City (1961), Search for Tomorrow (1971–1973), where he played Dr. Gary Walton and The Secrets of Isis.

Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction

Its introductory text, "Walton Ford: A Personal History of his Work" was written by Steven A. Katz and its concluding interview, "A Conversation with Walton Ford," was conducted by Dodie Kazanjian.

Walton Heath Golf Club

Walton Heath has had a long association with royalty and politics, with Edward, Prince of Wales having been the club's first captain in 1935, and former United Kingdom Prime Ministers David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Andrew Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour all having been members.

Walton, Kentucky

There is an elementary school in the neighboring community of Verona, and a high school and middle school within the city of Walton.

Walton, Somerset

There is no evidence in the parish registers or other documents pertaining to Walton to support the popular notion the family of William Henry Smith the founder of W H Smith came from Walton.

William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans

On 30 August 1814 at Walton, Warwickshire, to Susan Mordaunt (d. 5 February 1830), with no issue.

Willow Geer-Alsop

She is a third-generation actor/actress, the daughter of actress Ellen Geer and children's musician Peter Alsop and the granddaughter of actor Will Geer (best known for his role in The Waltons as Grandpa Walton).


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