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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: England (Before the Reformation)
Thus understood, England (taken at the same time as including the Principality of Wales) is all that part of the Island of Great Britain which lies south of the Solway Firth, the River Liddell, the Cheviot Hills, and the River Tweed; its area is 57,668 square miles, i.e.
One thing is certain, that England in several instances owed some of her best and holiest prelates to the action of the popes in providing to English sees in opposition to the known wishes of the king.
He came to England armed with the direct authorization of a papal Bull, and his expedition, in the eyes of many earnest men, and probably even his own, was identified with the cause of ecclesiastical reform.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05431b.htm   (13927 words)

  
 NewHampshire.com: News: UNH profs unveil New England encyclopedia
Watters, director of UNH’s Center for New England Culture, called the book a “browser’s paradise,” with nearly 1,000 different contributors on New England themes such as architecture, farming, religion, agriculture, and ethnic and racial identity.
“The encyclopedia of the region is intended to illuminate everyday life in today’s New England,” Feintuch said in a statement.
DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire unveiled the 1,564-page Encyclopedia of New England yesterday, the first major reference book that attempts to detail the region’s culture and history.
www.newhampshire.com /articles/showularticle.cfm?id=60650   (247 words)

  
 trounce - pafg90 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
was born in 1872 in Stonehouse (Plymouth), Devon, England.
She married Thomas Henry Trounce in 1900 in Stonehouse, Devon, England.
She married James Hole in 1894 in Plymouth, Devon, England.
webhome.idirect.com /~djtrounce/trounce/pafg90.htm   (247 words)

  
 Township - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In England townships became obsolete long ago: the term referred to a subdivision used to administer a large parish.
Townships are referred to as "lots" in Prince Edward Island and merely form census subdivisions and are not administrative units.
A civil township is a widely-used unit of local government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Township   (415 words)

  
 Hillsborough disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liverpool, with many refusing to stock the tabloid and large numbers of readers cancelling orders and even refusing to buy from shops which did stock the newspaper.
Following The Sun 's report, the newspaper was boycotted by most newsagents in
Even fifteen years after the Hillsborough disaster, the circulation of The Sun in Liverpool is still reckoned to be only 12,000 copies a day where previously it was around 200,000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hillsborough_disaster   (415 words)

  
 Epping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epping is a place in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex near London, England.
The town is served by Epping tube station, the eastern terminus of the Central Line of the London Underground.
Epping is widely popular in Germany for being the home of Peter, David, Betty and Helga, protagonists of many textbooks used to teach English to German children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epping   (114 words)

  
 Brentwood, Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brentwood is a town in Essex, England and part of the London commuter belt.
Brentwood was also the home of the East India Company's Elephant training school - the site, based in Warley, is now headquarters of Ford UK and Ford Europe.
It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of junction 28 of the M25 motorway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brentwood,_England   (177 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Administrative counties of England
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.
Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census).
Gloucestershire (pronounced [ ˈglɒstəʃəʳ]; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a ceremonial and administrative county in southwest England.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Administrative-counties-of-England   (177 words)

  
 Taunton, England (Cities)
The Saxon king Ine built a castle at Taunton around 700.
Find Great Deals and Free reviews for Taunton at Tripadvisor.com.
It is situated on the River Tone, in the valley of Taunton Deane, 45 miles SW of Bristol.
www.2hwy.com /eg/t/taunton.htm   (177 words)

  
 NORTHAMPTON (ENGLAND) - LoveToKnow Article on NORTHAMPTON (ENGLAND)
The chief village, Northampton, is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford; and the Boston and Maine railways.
NORTHAMPTON, a municipal, coilnty and parliamentary borough and the county town of Northamptonshire, England, 66 m.
HENRY HOWARD, earl of Northampton (15401614), was the second son of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, the poet, and of Lady Frances Vere, daughter of the 15th earl of Oxford, and younger brother of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk.
1.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORTHAMPTON_ENGLAND_.htm   (2614 words)

  
 Newark-on-Trent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newark (also Newark-on-Trent) is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands area of England, located on the River Trent, the River Devon also runs through the town.
Newark was incorporated under an alderman and twelve assistants in 1549, and the charter was confirmed and extended by Elizabeth I.
Newark's position as one of the few bridges on the Trent in the area, its location along the Great North Road (the A1), and later with the advance of rail transport being at the junction between the East Coast Main Line, and the route from Nottingham to Lincoln has informed its growth and development.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newark,_England   (2614 words)

  
 Merry England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A few popular music artists have used elements of the Merry England myth as recurring themes; Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull in particular has often alluded to an anti-modern, pre-industrial, agrarian vision of England in his songs (the band's namesake was himself an agrarian, the inventor of the seed drill).
The term Merry England, or in more jocular, half-timbered spelling Merrie England, refers to a semi-mythological, idyllic, and pastoral way of life that the inhabitants of England allegedly enjoyed at some poorly-defined point between the Middle Ages and the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
The Lord of the Rings is a pernicious confirmation of the values of a declining nation with a morally bankrupt class whose cowardly self-protection is primarily responsible for the problems England answered with the ruthless logic of Thatcherism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merry_England   (1785 words)

  
 Lynndie England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At her retrial, England was convicted on September 26, 2005 of one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act.
Lynndie Rana England (born November 8, 1982) is a U.S. Army reservist who served in the 372nd Military Police Company, one of several soldiers convicted by the U.S. Army in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse in a Baghdad prison during the Occupation of Iraq.
England fired her first lawyer, Giorgio Ra'Shadd, after he was accused of improper handling of finances in an unrelated case.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lynndie_England   (1842 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Luton, England
Luton is recorded in the Domesday Book as Loitone, its population was 700.
Luton Airport was opened in 1938, owned and operated by the council.
In 2000 Vauxhall announced the end of car production in Luton, the plant closed in March 2002.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Luton,-England   (1842 words)

  
 Little England beyond Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This separation was reinforced after the Norman conquest of England, when the area was also settled by Normans, who built a string of castles known as the Landsker Line to defend the region.
The district is the most fertile area of south west Wales, and is still known for its high number of English migrants and visitors, and for its support for the union with England and the Conservative Party.
Despite its distance from England, it is one of the most anglicised areas of the principality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_England_beyond_Wales   (1842 words)

  
 Lewes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lewes itself has six bonfire societies (one of which, Nevill, is a children's society and holds its celebrations a week or two before the 5th November) and a number of nearby towns have their own bonfire societies.
Lewes Priory and the so-called Anne of Cleves House (which was owned, but never lived in, by the divorced queen).
Lewes is the seat of three administrative councils.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewes   (1842 words)

  
 Hillsborough, England
Hillsborough is a suburb in northwest Sheffield, England.
Hillsborough is the location of the Hillsborough stadium where Sheffield Wednesday play their matches.
Hillsborough lies on the Sheffield Supertram route, and is home to a number of industries.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/h/hi/hillsborough__england.html   (1842 words)

  
 SEVENTEENTH GENERATION
MINANUS CARMINOW was born in 1274 in TRENOWYTH, CORNWALL, ENGLAND.
JOANNA DINHAM was born in 1244 in HARTLAND DEVON, ENGLAND.
MATILDA BEATRICE CARMINOW was born in 1271 in TRENOWYTH, CORNWALL, ENGLAND.
www.goldrush.com /~choffman41/Royalty/d2940.htm   (169 words)

  
 Cranbrook (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cranbrook School, Kent, is a voluntary aided non-denominational boarding and day co-educational grammar school located in Kent, England, United Kingdom.
Cranbrook Kingswood School is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States.
Cranbrook School, Sydney is an independent, K-12 day and boarding school, located in Sydney, Australia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cranbrook   (140 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Cot)
Coton Hayes is a village in Staffordshire, England.
Coton in the Clay is a village in Staffordshire, England.
Cotes Heath is a village in Staffordshire, England.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /G73A.HTM   (140 words)

  
 Colchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colchester is an historic town in the north of the English county of Essex, with a population of about 160,000.
Colchester is the oldest recorded Roman town in England, although it existed as a Celtic settlement before the Roman conquest and there is archaeological evidence of settlement 3,000 years ago.
A copy of the Report on the East Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd 1884 can be found in the Colchester local library.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colchester   (140 words)

  
 Chelmsford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
About 10,000 commuters travel to London daily, making Chelmsford the busiest through railway station in England (the busiest overall being Clapham Junction).
Chelmsford is also home to part of the Anglia Polytechnic University and to King Edward VI Grammar School founded in 1551 by charter of King Edward VI on the site on an earlier educational foundation.
The population of the area covered by the Borough council is 157,748 (ONS 2004 estimate), approximately one third of that number living within the area of the town itself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chelmsford,_England   (140 words)

  
 Dudley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dudley is a town in the West Midlands of England.
Dudley's borough boundaries were further expanded in 1974 to become a metropolitan borough, having taken in the boroughs of Halesowen and Stourbridge (both in Worcestershire).
Dudley, part of the West Midlands conurbation, is located south of Wolverhampton and is a part of the Black Country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dudley   (585 words)

  
 Bridgwater and Taunton Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a canal in the south west of England between Bridgwater and Taunton, linking with the River Parrett and the River Tone.
Bridgwater docks is now a marina, and the old warehouse has been converted into apartments, with new apartment blocks built nearby.
It was extended from Huntworth to a floating harbour north of Bridgwater in 1842, and the Huntworth dock was abandoned.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridgwater_and_Taunton_Canal   (446 words)

  
 Bridgwater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bridgwater Arts Centre was opened on October 10 1946, the first community arts centre opened in the UK with financial assistance from the newly established Arts Council of England.
Bridgwater in Somerset, England, is a market town, the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and the leading industrial town in the county.
Bridgwater is located on the major communication routes through South West England, between two junctions of the M5 motorway and on the edge of the Somerset Levels.
en.wikipedia.org /?title=Bridgwater,_England   (2548 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Brad)
Bradley Stoke is a village in Gloucestershire, England.
Bradford (recorded in the Domesday Book as Bradeford) is an industrial city in West Yorkshire in England.
Bradninch (recorded in the Domesday Book as Bradenese) is an industrial town in Devon, England.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /G411.HTM   (2548 words)

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