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	Atherstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atherstone itself has a population of 8,293 (2001 census), the population of its urban area which includes Mancetter is 10,742.
		It is believed by some historians that the rebel Queen of the Britons Boudica was defeated at the Battle of Watling Street by the Romans in her final battle near Manduessedum.
		Atherstone was once an important hatting town, and became well known for its felt hats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atherstone (653 words)

	HMS Atherstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Atherstone, launched in 1916, was an Ascot-class minesweeper that served in World War I.
		The second Atherstone (L05), launched in 1939, was a Hunt-class destroyer that served in World War II.
		The third and current Atherstone (M38), launched in 1985, is a Hunt-class minesweeper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Atherstone (143 words)

	Atherstone
		Atherstone, was a Chapelry of Mancetter until 1825 when it became a separate parish.
		Atherstone Hall was demolished in 1963 and a housing estate built on the site (which is where I now live).
		In 1841 Atherstone was formally separated from Mancetter and the first vicar was Frederick H Richings, son of the vicar of Mancetter, who continued to serve Atherstone until his death in 1888.
	www.search-local4me.com /town_villages/atherstone.htm (1118 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Atherstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS Atherstone was the first of her class to have a chamber of this type fitted.
		Atherstone finally returned to her home port of Faslane on November 29, having spent seven months of the year away from home.
		In the later half of 1940, Atherstone was based in Portsmouth where she was bombed and severely damaged while escorting a convoy.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/atherstone.asp (618 words)

	Atherstone Town Cricket Club
		Atherstone seconds suffered a bitterly disappointing defeat away to table toppers Aston Manor on Saturday in a hard fought ding-dong battle in the gloom at Perry Barr.
		Together with Chris Horton, he helped to rebuild Atherstone's innings and the pair were scoring abundantly before Horton fell to an incredible catch on the deep square boundary.
		Atherstone must take heart from this performance and realise that similar efforts will reap them more points in future than the five they picked up here.
	www.atherstonecc.co.uk /htm/2ndxireport070701.htm (622 words)

	Atherstone from Swoopon.co.uk. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Atherstone has a good diversity of shops supporting it's community, with plenty of places to eat, and drink...
		In 1985 Atherstone celebrated the 600th anniversary of its church....
		Atherstone is a town in Warwickshire, England, with a population of....
	www.swoopon.co.uk /Local.aspx?town=Atherstone (258 words)

	Sporting Dreams Forum - Atherstone News
		Atherstone are still looking to let go in swap deal Eric Ivanov 6.00, Chris Corry 4.00 and Daryl Oliver 4.00 due to them liking a big track.
		Atherstone track is tight and small so if any promoters need a 6.00 or a 4.00 rider and have someone suited for a small track with them averages we will be interested to hear from you.
		Atherstone Adders boss is rumoured to be keeping a eye on all riders as he may try his hand in a international role.
	www.sportingdreams.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3314 (213 words)

	Atherstone Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The gradual emergence of spring and finally the end of the season and as the weather warms up your winter companion, your horse, the one that has carried you valiantly throughout the last six months is turned out to grass to spend a lazy summer and eagerly await the forthcoming season.
		The Atherstone Pony Club were particularly good at the Prince Phillip Games and the Trainer an ex master of the Atherstone Hunt was invited to train the English team when they visited America.The Hunt invite the Pony Club to have 2 days hunting each, year, put on specially for children.
		The relationship between the Atherstone hunt and the large majority of landowners and farmers where 30 plus hounds and numerous horses are welcome without being charged a fee is quite remarkable.
	www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk /evidence/hunts/atherstone.htm (1439 words)

	Interview with James Hanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They are also being read by journalists who use these comments to form an opinion about Atherstone and its inhabitants before they arrive to do a story.
		I neither have, nor want control over who opens a bookshop in Atherstone but my experience tells me that a booktown must be a loose co-operative of booksellers with someone at the helm to do the work the booksellers can’t, won’t or don’t have time to do.
		Atherstone will be contacted when plans are completed.
	www.atherstone-online.co.uk /interview_jameshanna.htm (2173 words)

	On an Atherstone Faire Daie, 1597
		One of the Atherstone residents called forth to give evidence in the case was Hugh Drayton who kept an alehouse in Atherstone overlooking the market square.
		The case describes events which took place on the fateful afternoon of the annual fair in Atherstone, and centred around the alehouses with which the town was particularly well provided.
		According to the records when Edward Taylor, the key witness arrived in Atherstone he was barely able to conceal his delight upon discovering that John and Sara were sitting together in the alehouse.
	www.elizabethi.org /uk/essays/fair.html (1986 words)

	Sporting Dreams Forum - Atherstone Narrow defeat
		Atherstone were in confident mood as Sheepy Road welcomed speedway for first ever time.
		Atherstone then hit back in the next heat with a 4-2 making it 18-18 after six heats, thanks to Frode and Jukka Tervonen picking up third.
		Heat eight saw Jukka Tervonen take control and Atherstone responded with a 4-2 of there own and got it back to 24-24, it was proving to be a cracker of a meeting for the neutrals as well as supporters.
	www.sportingdreams.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3326 (372 words)

	Atherstone Booktown
		However, during this discussion a number allegations about James Hanna and the Blaenafon Booktown project were made, and as a result the thread has been closed down.
		Their local MP is due to bless the project on July 6th and the BBC will feature the town in a new series entitled 'Around the Region in 80 Days'.
		Apparently there are still spaces to rent in the Atherstone Bookshop, contact Jo Wyborn for further information.
	www.inprint.co.uk /thebookguide/shops/atherstone_booktown.shtml (1244 words)

	Richard III Society-Michael lJones on Bosworth
		In the second, he gives money to Atherstone and its neighbouring parishes, for damage inflicted at the field of battle itself.
		Accepting that Richard’s encampment was to the north of the town, for the first time we find a scenario that works, with Henry Tudor’s men approaching as the sun climbed in the sky behind them.
		Atherstone may now be the setting for one of the most epic battles of our history.
	www.r3.org /bosworth/texts/jones.html (2041 words)

	Atherstone Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Best centres: Atherstone and Nuneaton in the middle of the country; Rugby in North Warwickshire country; Coventry on the North Warwickshire border; Lutterworth on the Pytchley border; Leicester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch on the Quorn border, and Tamworth on the South Staffordshire border, whence meets of the Atherstone.
		The Atherstone Hunt was established in 1815 when the kennels were established in Witherley.
		the fox in the Atherstone country.The Atherstone country means that area or district in the counties of Leicester, Warwick and Stafford which is by tradition and custom generally acknowledged and regarded as the exclusive hunting ground for fox hunting purposes of the Atherstone Hounds."
	www.mfha.co.uk /hunts/atherstone_hunt.html (305 words)

	Atherstone Town Council
		Atherstone is a market town in the district of North Warwickshire.
		It has a population of c.8000 and acts as the administrative centre for the district, which has a total population of c.
		Tourism is an increasing feature with Atherstone being a popular stopping point on the Coventry Canal.
	www.atherstone-tc.gov.uk (259 words)

	BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Features - Shrove Tuesday in Atherstone
		The Atherstone Ball Game is one of the oldest traditions in the country - the game has taken place every single Shrove Tuesday for 805 years.
		The game sees hundreds of men charge through the town with a giant ball for around two hours and the person holding the ball at the end of the game is the winner.
		The winner of the ball receives a prize and is allowed to keep the ball - but the greatest accolade comes in the shape of winning and their are fierce contests between regular winners every year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/features/local-history/shrove-tuesday-in-atherstone.shtml (695 words)

	Hatting town of Atherstone to get new identity as town of books
		The North Warwickshire market town of Atherstone, without an identity since the loss of its hatting and coalmining industries, is about to be reborn as Atherstone Booktown.
		Now Atherstone is set to become a booklovers’ paradise and could eventually become known throughout the world as England’s National Booktown.
		The Atherstone Book Shop will be run by Jo Wyborn, one of the founding book-dealers of Blaenafon Booktown who was persuaded to move up to Atherstone as part of James Hanna’s Booktowns International team.
	www.inprint.co.uk /thebookguide/shops/atherstone_press_release_2.1.htm (880 words)

	JBA Consulting > Offices > Atherstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is excellent public transport, with the bus station less than 500 yards away and the mainline railway station 10 minutes walk.
		Atherstone is located mid-way between Tamworth and Nuneaton and has excellent road links, via the A5, to both the M42 and the M6.
		The town itself, with a population of 22,000 was known last century as a centre of the hat industry but has now a broad employment base of services and light industry.
	www.jbaconsulting.co.uk /offices/atherstone.html (216 words)

	Atherstone Workhouse and Poor Law Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A workhouse was erected in Atherstone in 1723.
		Atherstone Poor Law Union was formed on 31st March 1836.
		County of Warwick: Ansley, Atherstone (4), Baddesley Ensor, Baxterley, Bentley, Grendon, Mancetter or Mancester, Merivale [Merevale], Oldbury, Polesworth (2).
	users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/Atherstone/Atherstone.html (305 words)

	Atherstone's QUALITY site for news and information - CWN
		A pub licensee was stabbed in the hand as he confronted thieves armed with a shot gun in a village near Atherstone.
		An 18-year-old girl was grabbed by a pervert in a village near Atherstone yesterday.
		Police have warned people in the Atherstone area to be on the look-out for some dangerous drugs that were stolen in the town.
	www.cwn.org.uk /atherstone (570 words)

	Atherstone Book Town Shop XHTML CSS Template
		Atherstone is a town in Warwickshire, England, with a population of 8,293 (2001
		The administrative headquarters and largest town is Atherstone, other significant places in the district include Coleshill and Polesworth.
		Primarily this website is aimed at potential bookshop owners for the town of Atherstone North Warwickshire England UK.
	atherstonebooktownshop.nfshost.com (452 words)

	Atherstone Online
		This fascinating account of Atherstone's past has been kindly provided by Judy Vero.
		It begins way back in 60AD and moves towards the present day, explaining events which have not only local but national importance in the way both Atherstone and England arrived at where they are today.
		Many of the history in Atherstone lives on today in the attractive old buildings which are still present in the town centre.
	www.atherstone-online.co.uk (419 words)

	Warwickshire Police Force - Atherstone Police Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Atherstone Police Station is one of the two police stations in the North Warwickshire sector.
		From the 22nd November 2004 the Community Beat Officers and PCSOs at Coleshill and Atherstone will be operating a Mobile Community Police Office.
		Click this link to email Atherstone Police Station with any general enquiries.
	www.warwickshire.police.uk /policingwarwickshire/northwarwickshire/policestations/atherstonepolicestation (139 words)

	Atherstone news - Atherstone Ball Game Number 801- 8 March 2000
		Businesses in Long Street, the main road through the town, boarded up their properties in preparation for the contest.
		The prize was a bag of gold and the privilege of serving in the army for a year, which, at the time, guaranteed a regular wage.
		Atherstone is not the only place that stages this unusual annual sport.
	www.cwn.org.uk /atherstone/2000/03/000308-ball-game.htm (193 words)

	Britannia King Arthur: Atherstone
		In searching for his burial-place, Blackett and Wilson claim that the original Glastennen of Arthurian legend became confused with Glastonbury in Somerset.
		Its original location was at an ancient cemetery called the "Old Bury" near Atherstone in Warwickshire.
		They cite the Harleian MS 3859 Pedigree No 25 as proof, by interpreting its last passage "funt glastenic qui uenerunt que uocatur loyt coyt" as meaning that the people of Glastennen lived at a place called Caer-Luit-Coyt, that is nearby Wall in Staffordshire.
	www.britannia.com /history/arthur/atherstone.html (418 words)

	Knowhere Contacts UK: Atherstone
		If you are single and looking for other singles in Atherstone for dating or just to chat, Knowhere's 2000 local message boards make it easy to get to know people in your area.
		For general information go to the main entry for Atherstone or to chat online with other Knowhere members try the Knowhere chat.
		hello people of atherstone from scottish rob who worked for shire manufacturing at holly lane industrial estate.
	www.knowhere.co.uk /board/kb3839/threads.html?start=20 (204 words)

	News Release - Atherstone’s hidden hurdles - Warwickshire Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A group of Atherstone residents have taken to the streets to investigate first hand the `hidden’ obstacles lurking in everyday places for disabled people.
		New Ideas is a project which enables adults with learning disabilities to make informed choices and have their concerns heard.
		The service users from New Ideas wanted to investigate how accessible the businesses were for members of the public in a wheelchair.
	www.warwickshire.gov.uk /corporate/pressR.nsf/0/f4727e6613db5a6680256fa8004d51ae?OpenDocument (448 words)

	Message from Mike O'Brien MP :: Atherstone-Online Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Seems to have a finger on the pulse of Atherstone's "old school" as well as looking forward to new teachings.
		All that message says is I understand about the internet, nothing about other issues in the area and how he intends on representing the area for the next 4 years!
		He attended the Atherstone Business Broadband Association (ABBA) launch and has been supportive throughout of Atherstone-Online.
	www.forum.atherstone-online.co.uk /cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1126458404 (686 words)

	Atherstone
		Four Bays were added in 1737 to meet the increasing need of the population.
		Atherstone Poor Law Union was declared 16th March 1836 and comprised the parishes of Ansley, Atherstone, Atterton, Baddesley Ensor, Baxterley, Bentley, Fenny Drayton, Grendon, Hartshill, Mancetter, Merevale, Oldbury, Polesworth, Ratcliffe Culey, Sheepy Magna, Sheepy Parva and Witherley
		Following the poor law amendment act 1834 Atherstone became a Union Workhouse.
	institutions.org.uk /workhouses/england/warks/atherstone_workhouse.htm (176 words)

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