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6 unusual facts about Whitwell


Nettlecombe, Isle of Wight

It is roughly centered on the corner of High Street and Nettlecombe Lane, about half a mile north of Whitwell.

Roundwood Park School

Opened in 1956, it currently has around 1200 pupils, most of whom live in the local area and surrounding villages (e.g. Markyate, Southdown, Whitwell, Kimpton, Flamstead, Redbourn, Breachwood Green and Wheathampstead.) The school has specialities in mathematics, computing and languages, and is a designated RM Pioneer School.

Vectidraco

In November 2008, the four years old Daisy Morris of Whitwell, Isle of Wight, an avid natural history collector, discovered some small bones in a rock below the cliff face of Atherfield Point at the southwest coast of Wight.

Whitwell, Isle of Wight

The Eastern Yar, originating in the north-east of the island, extends an infant tributary to Whitwell and at one point, a stone sheep wash is still present.

Whitwell, Rutland

In the 1970s, regulars from the pub, the Noel Arms wrote to the then Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac proposing the link and with a tight deadline for a response.

Will Streets

Streets was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas and Hannah Streets, and was one of twelve children.


George W. Parsons

George Whitwell Parsons (August 26, 1850 - January 5, 1933) was a licensed attorney turned banker during the 19th century Old West.

Joseph Whitwell

Whitwell died in November 1932, in Langbaurgh Hall, Great Ayton, Yorkshire.

Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet

Pease eventually also became chairman of Middlesbrough Estate Ltd, North-Eastern Improved Dwellings Company, William Whitwell & Co, and the Durham & North Yorkshire Public House Trust, and a director of the North Eastern Railway Company/London and North Eastern Railway Company, Lloyds Bank, Horden Collieries Ltd, the Forth Bridge Railway Company, the National Benzole Company, and a number of others.

Tennis at the 2011 Island Games – Women's Doubles


Taylor and Whitwell lost in the final 6–7(5–7), 6–2, 4–10 against Amanda Carreras and Lindsay De Haro-Sene.

Viking Way

It meets the A606 and Hereward Way at Whitwell, then passes through the two watersports centres on Rutland Water at Whitwell and Barnsdale.


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