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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Printer Friendly Format - Hillingdon Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A BIRTHDAY boy was asked for his vote on a new party room at a children's play centre.
Four-year-old Michael Vangelatos was asked to gave his vote to the new party room at the recently opened Wacky Warehouse in Horsendon Lane, North Greenford.
Michael, from Ealing, pictured left with manager Scott Dunn, was invited back to the pub to give his approval of the party room as he was the first child to celebrate his birthday there.
www.hillingdontimes.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=272827   (162 words)

  
 HORSENDON HILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Playing fields and golf courses provide green intervals along the line of the canal.
In this picture, Horsendon Hill is in the background.
This section of the canal is the coldest in London and always the first to freeze in winter..
www.mike-stevens.co.uk /metrocuts/paddington/horsendon2.htm   (54 words)

  
 Sir John Denham (1615-1669)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Copy of John Leach's opinion respecting the appointment of new trustees to Sir John Denham's almshouses.
  Extracts from the private journal, "History of Horsendon Manor", by Cecil Stuart Goldingham, 1925.
Sidney Oliver to Rawlings and Welsh, Chertsey, reflecting on Sir John Denham's thoughts should he return to his house in Vicarage Road, Egham in 1963.
www.rhbnc.ac.uk /~uhyl007/denham2.htm   (346 words)

  
 RcTalk UK Model Flying Forum - Control Line Question for all members
I tried control line about 25 years ago when my son was a little sprog.
The event took place at Horsendon Hill, but not much luck.
After several unsuccessful attempts I eventually conceded that I would never be able to fly control line and I never have.
www.rctalk.co.uk /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=58   (1275 words)

  
 STONE Wills3
To my sons Edward Meade and Richard Meade, all my land and barn in Horsendon, now or late in the occupation of Thomas Saunders the elder, and Thomas Saunders the younger.
my trusty and well beloved friend John Grubb Esquire of Horsendon to hold the £100 in trust, and invest it in stocks, until the said Edward Meade reaches the age of 21.
Appoint John Grubb of Horsendon esquire, and my brother in law the Reverend Mr.
freespace.virgin.net /peter.rowe/Wills3.html   (1268 words)

  
 Rebecca (Becks) : COWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While much of Middlesex is either industrial or suburban, there are pleasant green interludes, as here on Horsendon Hill.
This is a wonderful highland bull, I did not zoom for this picture or any of the pictures of these out of place cattle.
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www.greatestjournal.com /users/peanutpunk/241691.html   (325 words)

  
 Berger Collection (BCET) | Artwork | Miss Craigie | Allan Ramsay
The two portraits were painted to accompany one another in an elegant pendant.
By descent in the sitters' family until 1990; Christie's, July 12, 1990, lot 43; Horsendon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Christie's, Horsendon Manor, October 22, 1997, lot 659
The 18th century English art connoisseur Horace Walpole considered Ramsay to be the greatest painter of female portraits, while he thought Reynolds was the finest painter of men.
www.bergercollection.org /artwork_detail.php?i=7   (385 words)

  
 Old Maps of Brill, Bucks, Buckinghamshire, Oxon, Oxfordshire.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The towns on the map are Thame and Princes Risborough.
Of the great estates the Rothschild's Waddesdon is the most celebrated on the map but Elizabeth Lockwood also reminds us of Waterperry House, Horsendon House and Notley Abbey.
However, you may find it useful if we list the towns and principal villages or church parishes that are included on this map:
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk /one237.htm   (514 words)

  
 Old Maps of Perivale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The lower quarter of the map is more built up, with the beginnings of development along Pitshanger Lane, Castle Bar Park, Montpelier Road.
On the reverse we include part of a six inch to the mile map covering a wider area, including Perivale, Greenford Green, Horsendon Hill and a stretch of the Grand Junction Canal.
An index map showing the areas covered by this and adjacent maps is available here.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk /perivale.htm   (355 words)

  
 Walk 1 - Wendover Circular - Time Out Country Walks Volume 2
Alongside the cross are the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age burial mounds.
The cross rises above the ancient settlements of Monk’s Risborough, Princes Risborough, Bledlow, Horsendon and Saunderton; settlements which are linked by the ancient Lower and Upper Icknield Ways.
The Upper Icknield Way originated as a prehistoric track following the chalk downs of the Chilterns and passing through the village.
www.walkingclub.org.uk /book_2/walk_01/index.shtml   (1098 words)

  
 Ancient earthworks | British History Online
The site of the ancient house commands an extensive view of the surrounding country.
Perivale (xv, 4).-In a field west of the church and north-east of Horsendon Farm, may be seen the depressions in the land which mark the site of the old manor-house of Greenford Parva.
The house has long since been demolished, but the moat still remains on three sides.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22152   (4038 words)

  
 Portfolio Hodges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Beryl's family lived near to the Grand Union Canal, and Beryl remembers going fishing for tiddlers and gudgeon.
Nearby Horsendon Hill, with its steep slopes, was great for tobogganing in winter and children went down on anything that slid!
There was a big log in the back garden of Beryl's home where they used to sit.
www.buntingford.com /profiles/prorohdes.htm   (2821 words)

  
 Pedigree and Notes of the Partridge Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Knight, and Hugh Partridge of London, Gentleman, inter alia of Lands and Tenements in the parish of Tetbury, belonging to the late Chantrey
From the above we find that there was a "Hugh Partridge of London," who was contemporary with Sir Miles Partridge and very probably an ancestor of the Hockham Hall and the Horsendon House branches of the Family.
It is believed that the Partriges of Buckinghamshire and of Derbyshire, the only male representative of whom is now (1863) the Rev. William Edward Partrige, the Rector of Horsendon, Bucks, were an offshoot from Wishanger of about the time of Henry VIII.
www.partridgenest.com /histories/pedigree.php   (12359 words)

  
 Wycombe Workhouse and Poor Law Union
Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 41 in number, representing its 33 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one):
The population falling within the Union at the 1831 census had been 33,947 with parishes ranging in size from Horsendon (population 37) to Great Marlow (4,237) and Wycombe itself (3,198).
The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1831-34 had been £30,016 or 17s.8d.
users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/Wycombe/Wycombe.shtml   (861 words)

  
 ResCen: Motivation seminar transcription
My story is also a suburban one – I grew up in a suburb of West London called Greenford.
In order to escape the kind of visual and psychological oppression of these houses that all look the same – all identical houses – I went to a bit of open land called Horsendon Hill.
I think it is still there, though the elm trees that I used to draw of course aren’t there anymore, because they got the disease.
www.mdx.ac.uk /rescen/archive/motivation204.html   (13915 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional:Europe:United Kingdom:England:Buckinghamshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To Include: Princes Risborough, Dunsmore, Ellesborough, Horsendon, Ilmer, Longwick, Meadle, Monks Risborough, Owlswick and Pitch Green.
Dunsmore, Ellesborough, Horsendon, Ilmer, Longwick, Meadle, Monks Risborough, Owlswick and Pitch Green, all administered by Wycombe District Council.
Please submit here only sites relating to the village of Quainton, plus the surrounding rural area administered by the Aylesbury Vale District Council.
dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/desc.html   (13643 words)

  
 Bucks CC - Archives - Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies - Accessions
Programme for Household Cavalry Point to Point meeting at Kimble near Aylesbury, 25 Mar 1931
Microfilm of the account book of Sir Edward Don of Horsendon, 1510-1551 [published by Buckinghamshire Record Society, Volume 33], 2004
Certificate issued to Raymond John Hilton, Main Street, Weston Underwood, for service in the Bucks Special Constabulary during the Second World War, 1945
www.buckscc.gov.uk /archives/report/accessions_2004/misc.htm   (393 words)

  
 Fresh Guest Book 2.1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The average age of the inhabitants at death was nearly 70 years in all 3, astonishing when set against the national average of about 50, and the London age of 40 odd.
Greenford (due probably to its physical location in between Horsendon hill and Cuckoo hill) had a micro-climate all of its own (I think it's called a Geocline); we often looked out towards Southall and Hanwell getting a good soaking, while the sun beamed down on us righteous souls.
See, all those years weren't wasted after all!
www.dmgs67.co.uk /archive/guest[38].htm   (2393 words)

  
 A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS
Another branch rolled along in this way, and lead to two well known
Reverend Edward STONE, Rector of Horsendon from 1737 till his death in 1768.
Reverend Edward STONE, Rector of Horsendon from 1769 till his death in 1811,
freespace.virgin.net /peter.rowe/Stone1.htm   (996 words)

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