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  Cirencester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The struggle of the townsmen to prove that Cirencester was a borough, and thus gain the associated rights and privileges, probably began in the same year, when they were amerced for a false presentment.
At the end of the 18th Century Cirencester was a thriving market town, at the centre of a network of turnpike roads with easy access to markets for its produce of grain and wool.
A local grammar school provided education for those who could afford it, and businesses thrived in the town, which was the major urban centre for the surrounding area.
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 A Brief History of Cirencester
A grammar school was founded in Cirencester in 1461.
By 1901 the population of Cirencester was 8,000.
In 1894 Cirencester was given an urban district council.
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 Cirencester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the Thames, and is the largest town in Cotswold District.
The manor was granted to Cirencester Abbey, founded by Henry I in 1117, and following half a century of building work during which the minster church was demolished, the great abbey church was finally dedicated in 1176.
To the west of the town is Cirencester House, the seat of Earl Bathurst.
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 Cirencester Grammar School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cirencester Grammar School was an historic school in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
The school was founded in 1461 and had a history of over 500 years, finally closing in July 1966 as part of a government reorganisation in education.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was music master at the school from 1959 to 1962, and it was here that he started his life-long association with writing works for non-specialist children to perform.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cirencester_Grammar_School   (246 words)

  
 Cirencester - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cirencester
Cirencester was the important Roman settlement of Corinium Dobunnorum, and flourished in the Middle Ages as the centre of the Cotswold wool trade.
Cirencester's medieval prosperity is reflected in the 15th-century Perpendicular church of St John the Baptist, one of the largest in England.
Cirencester Park to the west of the town includes a pavilion known as ‘Pope's Seat’ after the poet Alexander Pope, who often visited the park.
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 Cirencester - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cirencester is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles (150 km) west northwest of London.
Cirencester lies on the lower dip-slope of the Cotswold Hills, an outcrop of oolitic limestone.
Cirencester is the hub of a significant road network with important routes to Gloucester (A417), Cheltenham (A435), Warwick (A429), Oxford (A40 via the B4425), Wantage (A417), Swindon (A419), Chippenham (A429), Bristol and Bath (A433), and Stroud (A419).
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 Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Pictures
A market town for the surrounding area, Cirencester is an agricultural and tourist centre and is known as the "Capital of the Cotswolds".
Cirencester has a grammar school, founded in 1461, and the Royal College of Agriculture.
Called Corinium by the Romans, Cirencester is thought to have been the second largest and most important town after Londinium (London).
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/United_Kingdom_Encarta_UK_edition/England/Gloucestershire/Cirencester_town.html   (285 words)

  
 Cirencester Grammar School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Another famous pupil was the cricket er, Wally Hammond, whose centenary was celebrated at a reunion in Cirencester on 11 October 2003.
The Barstow School is a private school in Kansas City, Missouri that serves students from preschool through the 12th grade.
The school was founded in 1884 and is named for one of its earliest Headmistresses, Ms.
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 Cirencester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in Cotswold District.
Cirencester has an important tourist trade as well as providing shopping, entertainment, and sports facilities for the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area.
Cirencester was one of the most substantial cities of Roman-era Britain.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cirencester, a market town in Gloucestershire, England, on the river Churn, a tributary of the Thames, is located 93 miles west northwest of London.
And the Corinium Museum, housing collections of historical objects from prehistoric through medieval times, is also located in Cirencester.
Parts of this entry were based on the entry from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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 Cotswold Pictures - About Clive Townsend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Clive was born in Purley Road, Cirencester, in 1936.
This very quiet second son of the Townsend family, 5 boys and one girl, was always academically bright and went to Cirencester Grammar School at the early age of 10, after passing the 11+.
His talent at painting did not go unnoticed at school but after his father died at the early age of 55 it was not possible to go to art college to study, he went to work as an apprentice aircraft design draughtsman.
www.cotswoldpictures.co.uk /clivetownsend.htm   (254 words)

  
 Peter Maxwell Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After education at Leigh Grammar School, he studied at the University of Manchester and at the Royal Manchester College of Music (amalgamated into the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973), where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon.
After a further period of study on a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt and Earl Kim, Davies moved to Australia, where he was Composer in Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide from 1965-66.
Davies was Artistic Director of the Dartington Summer School from 1979 to 1984 and has held a number of posts and been awarded a number of honorary doctorates at various institutions since then.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies   (1070 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cirencester was an important centre in the Saxon period, but little tangible evidence survives.
Cirencester Abbey was founded by Henry I in 1117, and following half a century of building work during which the Saxon minster was demolished, the great abbey church was finally dedicated in 1176.
Cirencester residents and visitors can enjoy the green lungs provided by the open spaces and parks which survive within the town in the Abbey Grounds, St Michael’s Field, and Cirencester Park.
www.british-publishing.com /Pages/CirencesterOG/CirenHistorical.htm   (2927 words)

  
 Cirencester Cricket Club
Cirencester Cricket Club was founded in 1842 and there is no doubt that, even if it is not the oldest, it is one of the longest standing clubs in Gloucestershire.
Cirencester has a long cricketing tradition with one of England's pre-war greats, Wally Hammond, educated at the local Grammar School.
The Cirencester club itself has a splendid history and, for most of its life, the club's First XI has played at a very high level.
www.cirencestercricketclub.co.uk /news/preview300403.html   (838 words)

  
 CIRENCESTER문법 학교   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cirencester문법 학교는 Cirencester,Gloucestershire, 연합 왕국안에 역사적인 학교 이었다.
1966년9월 안에 사슴에 결합하는Cirencester학교의 부품이 되고지 않 사슴 공원에 직접적으로 간 새로운 첫번째 모양을 가지고 갔다.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.faktoko.com /wiki/ko/ci/Cirencester%B9%AE%B9%FD%20%C7%D0%B1%B3.htm   (107 words)

  
 Cirencester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is home of the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world founded in 1840.
The town is split into five main areas: The town centre, the suburbs of Chesterton, Stratton, and Watermoor (originally villages outside the town) and the Beeches Estate (a 1950s housing development).
The parish church of St John the Baptist, often referred to as the Cathedral of the Cotswolds, has a nave built in 1515-1530, and also features a high embattled tower and a remarkable south porch with parvise.
www.findingservices.co.uk /cirencester_info.htm   (2251 words)

  
 Cirencester Cricket Club
Last weekend, they entertained a party of Australians from Sydney Grammar School who arrived on Saturday evening and a well attended barbecue was followed by an impromptu England/Australia football match.
There were however some fine individual performances by Cirencester players including an innings of 46 by Sam Denning who batted for all but one over of the innings and James Denyer who took 3 for 22 off 5 overs.
Cirencester batted first posting 266 runs, for the loss of 4 wickets, setting a target of 243 to win.
www.cirencestercricketclub.co.uk /news/roundup070705.html   (431 words)

  
 COTSWOLD - John Burgess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Burgess was born in Cirencester, educated at Cirencester Grammar School, is married with two grown up children and has lived on the Beeches / Kingshill estate for over 20 years.
Between leaving school and starting work with the former Cirencester Urban District Council, John was a professional musician and teamed up with some friends to form one of the first rock bands in Cirencester.
Following the retirement of Bert Marshall, John became Chairman of the Governors of Cirencester Infants School holding the position of governor for nearly five years during the 1980’s at which time important changes to the curriculum were successfully introduced.
www.cotswold.gov.uk /nqcontent.cfm?a_id=3985&tt=cotswold   (818 words)

  
 Upper School at Bristol Grammar School
Classics is a popular and well-respected subject at Bristol Grammar School: Latin and Classical Greek are both offered at GCSE and AS/A2, with Classical Civilisation also available at 'A' level.
The presence of Greek on the curriculum is a distinctive feature of BGS compared to most schools in the UK.
Classical Civilisation involves the study of Greek and Roman culture, as well as the study of literature in translation: no knowledge of Latin or Greek language is required.
www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk /school.php?page_id=298&parent=12&type=&parent_id=6   (529 words)

  
 Caleb Hillier Parry (www.whonamedit.com)
A disorder characterized by a triad of hyperthyroidism, goiter, and exophthalmos (bulging eyeballs).
Caleb Hillier Parry was the son of a non-conformist minister in Cirencester and the eldest of ten children.
He was educated at Cirencester Grammar School, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Edward Jenner 1749-1823).
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 Bedford School - Queen's Composer opens Music School
An appointment at Cirencester Grammar School (1959-62) triggered a life-long stream of music for children, still increasing and widely performed and loved.
The School itself has a national reputation for music and has one of the largest Music Departments in the country.
It holds a recording studio, a rock room, a computer room for composition and music technology and a magnificent recital hall with floor to ceiling windows which overlook the School’s playing fields.
www.bedfordschool.org.uk /news_detail.asp?news=368   (464 words)

  
 SNAPSHOTS OF LOCAL HISTORY BY CAROL MCLACHLAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Watermoor has often been regarded as the "working" end of Cirencester, with, in its past, the canal, the railway, and nearby the foundry, with other factories.
Cirencester Grammar School was in Victoria Road; many "outsiders" therefore came to know Watermoor.
Sports and Summer fetes were held in what is now St Michael’s Park, and the Bingham Hall was used for assemblies; now, among other activities it is used for reunions of former pupils – Ralph Wilkins plans to organise another one for the year 2000.
www.cirencester-scene.fsnet.co.uk /pages/articles/watermoor.htm   (350 words)

  
 Te Lucis ante Terminum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
First performance: 30 November 1961, at Cirencester Grammar School, Gloucestershire, by the Orchestra and Choir of Cirencester Grammar School; conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies
Recordings of almost all of Peter Maxwell Davies's works, as well as talks and interviews with the composer, are available for visitors to listen to at the National Sound Archive and British Music Information Centre in London.
Written for Davies's school pupils, this is a setting of the evening hymn, with three verses of ever richer harmony.
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 Cirencester Society in London - Objects of the Society
It was in these words, "The members of the Bull Club in meeting assembled greet the Cirencester Society on their annual meeting" The chairman replied by telegram, "The Cirencester Society drink a glass of wine to the Bull Club".
Resolved that the Vicar of Cirencester for the time being shall be eligible for election as a member of this society subject to the usual condition of his first dining with the society.
One being the son of Mr Viner a confectioner of Cirencester.
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 Organizations - C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is one of the four schools in the UK that specializes in education musically gifted children (the others being the Purcell School in London, St.
Mary's School in Edinburgh, and the Menuhin School in Surrey).
English school in Cirencester, Gloucestershire for eleven-to seventeen-year-olds.
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 Frederick Lea online
Frederick Lea was born in Manchester in 1945 but grew up in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
He was educated at Cirencester Grammar School, and subsequently followed a career of some 30 years in the Civil Service.
In his spare time he began painting as a hobby, and this developed over the years with much encouragement from family and friends.
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 DAVIES, Peter Maxwell :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of composers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was educated at Leigh Grammar School, Royal Manchester College of Music and Manchester University.
From 1959 to 1962 he was director of music at Cirencester Grammar School.
In 1962 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and went to Princeton University Graduate Music School; he gave a series of lectures in Austria, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand in 1965; and in 1966 was composer-in-residence at the University of Adelaide, South Australia.
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 Obituary: HERMIONE HAMMOND Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
It would prompt her Irish nanny to remark, 'Oh, shucks!' The children could not say 'shucks', but 'tooks', and for the rest of her life Hermione was known to intimates as Tooker.
Hermione attended Francis Holland School in London, her mother insisting that while she might not learn a lot there she would make excellent and interesting friends.
After winning the competition to decorate the ceiling of the new Senate House of London University in 1937 she gained a Rome Scholarship in 1938, but her studies there were cut short by the outbreak of war.
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 Edward Jenner
English physician and discoverer of vaccination, born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, on the 17th of May 1749.
Edward received his early education at Wotton-under-Edge and Cirencester, where he already showed a strong taste for natural history.
The medical profession having been selected for him, he began his studies under Daniel Ludlow, a surgeon of Sodbury near Bristol; but in his twenty-first year he proceeded to London, where he became a favorite pupil of John Hunter, in whose house he resided for two years.
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