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unusual facts about Wellington, Shropshire



A490 road

From here it heads north, crossing over the border into Shropshire, and passes through Chirbury.

Alfoxton House

During World War II it housed evacuees from Wellington House School Westgate on Sea Kent.

An Infamous Army

Seeing this, Colonel Sir John Colborne leads his regiment, the Fighting 52nd, across the battlefield from the right flank and Wellington calls for a general advance of Peregrine Maitland's Grenadier Guards, completing the French rout.

Battle of Boxtel

The battle is cited in Sharpe's Tiger when Sharpe is a private in Wellington's Regiment.

Chapel Lawn

Chapel Lawn is a small village in southwest Shropshire, England, located within the Redlake Valley, some three miles south of the small, historic town of Clun.

Daisy Ogle

She is known to have had close links with Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre in London and along with her colleague Miss Sinclair, they worked closely with two of their staff in India: Alfred J. Flack and Raymond Golsworthy who were stationed at Wellington.

Daniels Mill

Daniels Mill, Shropshire, a watermill near Bridgnorth in the English county of Shropshire

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

Edgar Kain

He went to Croydon School, Wellington and Christ's College, Canterbury later studying under Professor Von Zedlitz in Wellington.

Edwin Henry Mason Smith

Private Edwin Smith embarked on Troop Ship Number 93 from Wellington on 13 October 1917 and disembarked in Liverpool, England on 8 December.

Ernest Martin Jehan

He was posted to HMS Duke of Wellington on 2 December HMS Raven on 9 December and back to Duke of Wellington I on 26 March 1901.

Ernie Toshack

In Wellington, he opened the bowling in a match that was retrospectively classed as an official Test match.

George Forester

He was the only son of Brooke Forester of Dothill in Wellington and Elizabeth daughter and heir of George Weld of Willey Park.

Glazier Systems

Glazier Systems was established in Wellington in 1995 by Tony Stewart, Rod Drury, Andrew Kissling and Pat Ryan.

Golden Bay Air

The airline currently operates two Piper Aircraft from Takaka to Wellington and Karamea, and also from Nelson to Takaka and Karamea with connecting road shuttle services to the Abel Tasman National Park, the Heaphy Track in the Kahurangi National Park and to and from Takaka township.

Gustavus Hamilton

Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne (1931–1995), Irish peer and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire

Hawke Cup

Teams from New Zealand's 4 "main centres", Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin have not usually competed for the Hawke Cup, although they did participate for the latter half of the 1990s.

HMS Iron Duke

HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line also named after the first Duke of Wellington

Holcombe Burnell

Margaret Denys (d. 1649), married in 1623 Sir Arthur Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, carver to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I.

Holden VK Commodore

The VK was assembled by General Motors New Zealand at their Trentham assembly plant, near Wellington.

John Mainwaring

He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge.

Limited express

The Night Limited was the premier express train on the North Island Main Trunk Railway between Auckland and Wellington from 1924 until 1971; during peak seasons, it was augmented by the Daylight Limited.

Llywelyn ap Dafydd

A force of cavalry and infantry were deployed to escort Llywelyn and Owain out of Gwynedd via Acton Burnell in Shropshire to Bristol before the end of July 1283.

Lucarno

Retired to stud for the 2009 season, Lucarno will stand at Wood Farm Stud in Ellerdine, Wellington, Shropshire, where he will be covering predominantly National Hunt mares, his size, strong physique, soundness and excellent conformation making him eminently suitable for that role.

N class

NZR N class, a class of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department and the Wellington and Manawatu Railway

Neville Hiscock

Neville and his younger brother Dave Hiscock grew up in Stokes Valley, a suburb near Wellington, where they both rode an old BSA Bantam in grass paddocks, and later perfected their skills on the infamous Rimutaka hill climb nearby north of Upper Hutt.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Panharmonicon

Beethoven apparently composed his piece "Wellington's Victory" (Op. 91) to be played on this behemoth mechanical orchestral organ to commemorate Arthur Wellesley's victory over the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813.

Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

In the summer of 1914 he and his twin brother were sent to St. Aubyns Preparatory School at Rottingdean, and four years later both boys entered the Orange dormitory at Wellington College where Percy was continually referred to as Bernard Minor incorrectly throughout his time at Wellington College.

Pony Turf Club

In 1929, a dedicated racetrack was opened in Northolt, Middlesex and during the 1930s pony races are recorded as being held throughout the South West of England, as well as at Portsmouth Park (Paulsgrove), Worthing, Chelmsford, Southend, Sketty Park near Swansea and Lilleshall Hall, Shropshire.

Prince William Parkway

The State Route 294 portion from I-95 to the intersection of Liberia Avenue and Wellington Road (where the Parkway turns towards VA 234 and I-66) has been designated the Kathleen K. Seefeldt Parkway for Kathleen Seefeldt, the former Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

In addition, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk and the City of Wellington pipe band.

Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery

The examination batteries at Fort Takapuna, Point Gordon in Wellington, Fort Jervois and Howlett Point at the entrance to Port Chalmers were manned around the clock until 15 March 1915.

Sarah Jane Parton

Parton currently lives in Wellington with her partner, musician Luke Buda (The Phoenix Foundation), and their two sons.

Shakespeare's Globe Centres

Sam Wanamaker visited New Zealand in 1990, and the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand was founded in Wellington the following year by Dawn Saunders.

Sport in Bristol

Bristol Handball Club are the sole club and are based at The City Academy Bristol, though they play their "home" games at the Princess Royal Sports Complex in Wellington, Somerset due to lack of facilities in Bristol.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Terence Arnold

He taught criminal law at Victoria University of Wellington as well as at several Canadian universities, including Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary.

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

Pritchard's monuments can be found in churches across Shropshire, including St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury and churches at Acton Round, Ludford and Barrow.

Tilstock Airfield

Tilstock Airfield is an airfield located in Shropshire, England

Timothy Turner

His initial practice was centered around Ludlow, the legal center of Wales and the Marches, but he was of little note officially until 1626, when he became a justice of the peace for Shropshire, through the influence either of Sir Thomas Coventry, or Ellesmere's son and heir the Earl of Bridgewater.

Tom Scudamore

Riding first for trainer Martin Pipe, since March 2007 Scudamore has been stable jockey for David Pipe (Martin's son) in Wellington, Somerset.

Universities Superannuation Scheme

The scheme formerly owned Telford Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire, prior to its sale to Hark Group and Apollo Real Estate.

Wellington Cable Car

Initially both contracts were won by Harbour City Cable Car Ltd, a joint venture between the Stagecoach Group, which had purchased the buses, and East by West, a Wellington ferry operator.

Wellington Cantonment

The list of alumni of the DSSC at Wellington reads like a Who's Who of the armed forces and includes Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, former Fijian strongman Sitiveni Rabuka, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, head of German special forces Hans-Christoph Ammon, Naval Commander Dhananjay Joshi and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India R.N.Malhotra.

Wellington tramway

Wellington Tramway Museum, established in 1965 after the closure of the Wellington tramway system

Wellington, British Columbia railway station

It was the Wellington Colliery Railway and mines which provided Robert Dunsmuir with the wealth, experience and infrastructure he needed to convince the government, under generous terms, to allow him to build an Island Railway.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

At the suggestion of the College's Principal Hubert Wellington, she moved to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1940, near to where a group of Hampstead-based modernists had settled, at Carbis Bay, to escape the war.This was a pivotal moment in her life.

William Penny Brookes

In response, King George I of Greece sent a silver cup which was presented at the Shropshire Olympian Games held that year in Shrewsbury.

Winifred Knights

Amongst her most notable works are The Marriage at Cana produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the National Art Gallery of New Zealand in Wellington and her winning Rome Scholarship entry The Deluge which is now held by Tate Britain.


see also

Brooke Forester

He was the eldest son of William Forester of Dothill in Wellington, Shropshire (now Telford) and Catherine daughter and heir of William Brooke of Clerkenwell.