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3 unusual facts about cathedral city


Agnes Lawrence Pelton

She settled in Cathedral City, California in 1932, and resided there until her death in 1961.

Cathedral City, California

Timothy Bradley, the current WBO welterweight champion, is also from Cathedral City and graduated from Cathedral City High School.

In the state legislature Cathedral City is located in the 40th Senate District, represented by Democrat Denise Moreno Ducheny, and in the 80th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Manuel Perez.


Wells, Maine

In 1653, Wells was incorporated, the third town in Maine to do so, and named after Wells, England, a small cathedral city in the county of Somerset.


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Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book

The story has a detailed and realistic setting in the tiny decaying cathedral city of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, at the foot of the Pyrenees in southern France.

Gloucester Township, New Jersey

Gloucester Township, which took its name from the cathedral city of Gloucester on the banks of the River Severn in England, was further subdivided into four smaller townships, and on June 1, 1695, became one of the first New Jersey municipalities to incorporate.

KPSP

KPSP-CD, a Class-A low-power digital television station (channel 38) licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States

KRET

KRET-CA, a low-power television station (channel 45) licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States

Montagu Square

Anthony Trollope, prolific 19th Century author famous for his series of Barchester novels based on a fictitious cathedral city lived here at number 39 from 1873.

Richard Atkyns

Atkyns was descended from an old Gloucestershire family that for upwards of a century leased from the dean and chapter of Gloucester the manor of Tuffley, two miles south-south-east from the cathedral city.

Vauluisant Abbey

At Troyes, the Hôtel de Vauluisant, the abbot's seat in the cathedral city, has housed the Musée historique de Troyes et de Champagne, with a decorative arts collection that includes a 19th-century model of Troyes Cathedral.

W2W

The northerly spur passes through Hamsterley, taking two miles (3 km) more to reach the beautiful cathedral city of Durham than the easier southern spur which passes through Bishop Auckland.