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  Alcester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alcester (pronounced 'olster' or 'aulster') is a small town in Warwickshire, England, situated approximately eight miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Alcester is known for two local stately homes, Coughton Court and Ragley Hall.
In Roman times Alcester (Aluana) was a walled town and fort of some importance, being located at a junction between the Ryknild Street Roman road and the ancient Salt way from Droitwich.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alcester   (190 words)

  
 Alcester, South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alcester is a city located in Union County, South Dakota.
Alcester is located at 43°1'23" North, 96°37'50" West (43.023041, -96.630451)
Alcester has been assigned the ZIP code 57001, and the FIPS place code 00700.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alcester,_South_Dakota   (424 words)

  
 ALCESTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alcester - Alencestre - The Roman Fort on the River Alne
Town defences have been confirmed only on the east side of the settlement's circuit, where they consist of a clay rampart dated to the "second century or later", fronted by a 2.75 metre wide wall which was probably not contemporary with the bank.
Aside from the settlement and forts at Alcester, there is a Roman marching camp about five miles to the west along the line of the Droitwich road at Shurnock, near Inkberrow in Worcestershire.
www.roman-britain.org /places/alcester.htm   (629 words)

  
 ALCESTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alcester is a small town in Warwickshire, England, sited approximately eight miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon, its population is around 9,000.
In Roman times Alcester was a walled town and fort of some importance, being located at a junction between several Roman roads including the Ryknild Street and several others.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/al/Alcester.htm   (100 words)

  
 State Bank of Alcester Community Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
State Bank of Alcester’s dedication to the community it serves is demonstrated by the wide array of activities and organizations it supports both financially and by involvement.
Alcester has held a number of educational seminars for all ages throughout the years.
The State Bank of Alcester also had a booth at the Union County Fair and gave pictures of the 4-H participants and their entries to each of the participants.
www.s-b-a.com /76335.html   (975 words)

  
 Welcome to Alcester, Warwickshire, England - Alcester Town Website
Alcester is an ancient Roman town in a beautiful part of south-west Warwickshire, England with a population of around 9000.
Alcester is a great alternative to Stratford on Avon which can be too busy and commercialised for many people visiting Shakespeare country.
Today Alcester is a thriving rural town with lots to offer its residents and the many visitors we have throughout the year.
www.alcester.co.uk   (355 words)

  
 Alcester Turnpike Gate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Turnpike trusts were empowered by Parliament to: raise loans for road repairs, build tollhouses, erect gates and milestones and each trust would often consist of a local lawyer (as clerk), a treasurer and a surveyor, together with many of the landowners through whose land the road passed.
In 1813, William Jones was Clerk to the Alcester Turnpike Trust and he was succeeded by attorney, Robert Bartlam until his death in 1821.
The Alcester - Evesham and Alcester - Wootton Wawen Trusts were separate ones from that of Stratford to Droitwich and Bromsgrove.
dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/square/fk26/localpast/92su/turnpi.htm   (621 words)

  
 Nathanael Lutheran Church - Alcester, SD - About Our Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alcester had become a thriving business center at the beginning of the 20th century and the population base had shifted.
In 1910, a parsonage was purchased in Alcester and in 1918 a church was acquired to serve the dual country/city congregations which had evolved.
A new parsonage was built in Alcester in 1949 and a new church building was completed in 1960.
www.lutheransonline.com /servlet/lo_ProcServ/dbpage=page&GID=01042013600975468196368995&PG=01042013600975468196445253   (436 words)

  
 Alcester, South Dakota (Cities)
Alcester is located in Union County, in Dakota Heritage & Lakes Region, on Hwy 11 East of US 29, southeast of Sioux Falls.
The population estimate for July 1, 1998 was 1,072, an increase of 229 since 1990.
The citizens of Alcester support and encourage our town's existing businesses, and we invite entrepreneurs to open new businesses here.
www.ohwy.com /sd/a/alcester.htm   (97 words)

  
 Warwickshire Police Force - Alcester Community Policing Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He can be contacted at Alcester Police Station or via his voicemail number 10327.
PC 440 Peter Gateley is based at Alcester Police Station and can be contacted at the police station or via his voicemail number 10440.
PC 427 Susan Neville is based at Alcester Police Station and can be contacted at the police station or via her voicemail number 10427.
www.warwickshire.police.uk /policingwarwickshire/stratforduponavon/alcesterbeatofficers   (175 words)

  
 Advantage Alcester - Warwickshire Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Advantage Alcester is supporting local community group Alcester Opportunities to convert the old sports pavilion on Conway fields into a community centre.
Copies of a heritage trail of Alcester produced by Advantage Alcester will soon be distributed free of charge in the town, the surrounding villages and throughout the tourist information points in the region.
Bikes in Alcester – new parking facilities and cycle access to and around the town are being planned thanks to a grant of £14,500 from the Countryside Agency.
www.warwickshire.gov.uk /Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/F39AF91A3DA6519180256E93003AFA0D   (577 words)

  
 Alcester News
Mary Lou Jackson had just left Alcester, South Dakota, was on her way to work the graveyard shift at Menu Foods in North Sioux City.
Nancy Fickbohm, Alcester, state president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, and Ardessa Moser, Miller, state VFW Auxiliary Hospital Chairman, visited the Human Services Center in Yankton January 25 to...
A grand jury is considering whether criminal charges are warranted in the case of a newborn baby found in a Jackson, Neb., landfill.
www.topix.net /city/alcester-sd   (696 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: Eider, Alcester - A853779
Although the wheel was spun to turn her round, it was too late, the Alcester ploughed on to Typit Ledge, Atherfield.
At Noon the tug left the Alcester, and at 1pm the Atherfield lifeboat was called for.
By 9pm, a storm had come and the two onboard the Alcester signalled for the lifeboat, but the storm that had come was too strong, and each attempt to launch the lifeboat failed.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A853779   (1204 words)

  
 Alcester Warwickshire tourist information guide from TourUK
Alcester, a small attractive village, in a fruit growing area.
Located at the junction of A46 and A435, 8 miles west of Stratford upon Avon, this Travelodge provides quality accommodation and a base for exploring Stratford upon Avon and the surrounding area.
The Kings Court Hotel, originally a Tudor farmhouse situated in the village of Kings Coughton, where the infamous gunpowder plot was hatched, has been delightfully extended over the years.
www.touruk.co.uk /warw/war_alc.htm   (388 words)

  
 Alcester Poor Law Union and Workhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alcester Poor Law Union was formed on 31st May 1836.
The Alcester Union workhouse was built in 1837 at site to the east of Alcester on the south side of the Stratford Road.
The former workhouse, later became Alcester Hospital, and the later infirmary block is still in use.
users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/Alcester/Alcester.html   (327 words)

  
 Alcester from Swoopon.co.uk.
River Arrow to the west of its confluence with the River Alne, underlying the modern town of Alcester in Worcestershire....
Alcester was a Roman settlement, at the crossing of the Ryknild Street....
Alcester Racing 7's Equipe (incorporating ARST - Alcester Racing Sevens Team) is a private....
www.swoopon.co.uk /Local.aspx?town=Alcester   (286 words)

  
 Alcester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alcester was a Roman settlement, at the crossing of the Ryknild Street and the Salt Road.
Alcester is now a very small town, with several notable medieval buildings.
This is a view along Alcester High Street.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /heartofengland/alcester.htm   (63 words)

  
 Alcester Information Online - guide and directory for Alcester,Warwickshire,UK with tourist information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Whatever you want to find around Alcester; shops, businesses, hotels, pubs, restaurants, clubs, cinemas, theatres, etc. our directory, classified system and events guide will help you to find out what's on in Alcester and where to find things in and around Alcester.
If you live and work in Alcester, Send your news items to us; whether it is entertainment, sports, business or community related.
If you are looking for accommodation we have Alcester hotels and Alcester bed and breakfasts plus Alcester cottages and self catering holiday accomodation as well as directories for Camping and Caravan Parks.
www.britinfo.net /index_Alcester.htm   (585 words)

  
 ALCESTER
The Hemmings of Alcester and Oxford, E.A.B. Barnard (1931).
Population and its Geography in England 1500-1730, R.M. Smith (partly based on a study of Alcester PR's).
The Society also published a series of Occasional Papers, covering Alcester and the Lower Arrow Valley, copies of which are at Alcester Library and possibly at STR WAR BIR
www.bmsgh.org /parish/warw/tyaiw/alcester.html   (370 words)

  
 Welcome to Alcester, SD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Alcester Community Foundation is a community savings account established in 1997 as a tax exempt, nonprofit foundation.
Meet 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month at Arlene Café with 6:30 start time.
Troop 69 meets Tuesday nights at 7:00 at the Alcester Fire Hall.
www.alcestersd.org /churches/organizations.htm   (62 words)

  
 Knowhere Contacts UK: Alcester
The Alcester branch of the RBL invite all serving and ex-service people to take part on our parade on Sunday the 10th November 2002.
We were recently in Alcester, looking for the burial place and date of my great aunt - Maria Parkes and/or her husband W.W.(Willie) Parkes.
On Monday 10 April, Alcester Junior Drama Club is holding a workshop for "Shakespears Birthplace Trust Millennium Link: New Beginnings, in which their own interpritation of Richard III is being performed.
www.knowhere.co.uk /board/kb449/threads.html?start=0&id=1412886&thread=241587   (1280 words)

  
 Local History Index Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As part of our links with the local community, Alcester Grammar School is pleased to able to produce and host the on-line publications of the 'Alcester and District Local History Society'
Alcester is the site of an ancient Roman town.
This project revealed a comprehensive picture of the development of one-fifth of Roman Alcester including a wealth of structural and other details.
www.alcester.dial.pipex.com /lohis1.htm   (285 words)

  
 Roman Alcester - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Established around AD 47, the town of Alcester grew up around a fort located on the Roman road of Icknield Street, which stretched hundreds of miles from the North East to the South West of England.
Thanks in part to being on the salt route from nearby Droitwich, Alcester developed into a town of bustling streets, temples and workshops.
Designed specifically to evoke everyday life in Roman Alcester, the museum displays many of artefacts discovered in the town.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum/AM19920.html   (264 words)

  
 Alcester Woman Pleads Guilty - KDLT-TV - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An Alcester woman has admitted she threw her newborn baby in the trash, killing him.
It's almost been two years since life ended tragically for an Alcester newborn.
SD Attorney General Larry Long says, "Lori Schulz gave birth to a little boy and, I think in the bathroom of her home, and stuffed the baby in the trash."
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10715031   (368 words)

  
 Roman Alcester - Warwickshire Web
Roman Alcester will close at 4pm on Sunday 18th December 2005 and re-open 10am Thursday 5th January 2006.
Alcester is one of the most investigated Roman small towns in the country, with over 100 archaeological digs in the last 80 years.
Recent excavations have revealed much about the area of the Roman town which would have been outside the boundary wall built in the 3rd century AD.
www.warwickshire.gov.uk /Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/41447991809C8BB780256CB0005E49FC   (261 words)

  
 Alcester Information Online - Classified advertisements for Alcester, UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
If you are looking for an advert for jobs, property or cars then please look at the relevant section.
If you have any news or information related to Alcester or would like an article to be published in Alcester Information Online, fill in a simple form or send it to us and we will do the rest.
Alcester Information Online is an independent site and is not affiliated with, or officially sponsored by any local authority or tourist information centre based in Alcester.
www.britinfo.net /fp-B-ABE.htm   (268 words)

  
 A Select Dictionary of Alcester Biography -Occ.Paper 46   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ALCESTER Baron Alcester of Alcester (Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour) Not born Alcester but took title in 1882 after being C.in C. Mediterranean Fleet;given town reception 1883; ‘Alcester’ in Sth.Dakota said to be named after him
Although nominally lord of manor of Alcester from then till now- were not Alcester residents, continuing to reside in their manor house of Arrow, Ragley Hall.
Elizabeth married Fulke Greville and brought Alcester manor to Fulke; tomb in Alcester parish church.
dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/square/fk26/localpast/occpap/46biog/biogind.htm   (3045 words)

  
 Alcester-Racing-Sevens for Caterhams
Welcome to Alcester Racing 7's Equipe - "we are willing to work for money".
Alcester Racing 7's Equipe (incorporating ARST - Alcester Racing Sevens Team) is a private organisation dedicated to the preparation and improvement of Caterham Sevens.
The AR7E team are members of the Lotus 7 Club of Great Britain (L7CoGB Lotus 7 Club and recommend BlatChat as an antidote to work.
www.alcester-racing-sevens.com   (1170 words)

  
 Ant Veal's Top UK Pubs - Three Tuns, Alcester
There are 2 pubs that really stand above the others in Alcester; the Three Tuns and the Holly Bush situated a couple of hundred yards down the road on the main High Street.
Inside the flagstone floors and there are signs of its original construction with a glass frame revealing wattle and daub underneath.
We chatted with allsorts of people and glanced at some of the pictures on the walls of old Alcester.
www.greatbeer.co.uk /warthtu.htm   (365 words)

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