Effingham is a large semi-rural and rural English village in the Borough of Guildford in Surrey, the village has been chosen as the home of notable figures, such as Sir Barnes Wallis who was buried here and who?
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Effingham, Surrey Effingham is a large semi-rural and rural English village in the Borough of Guildford in Surrey, reaching from the gently sloping northern plain to the crest of the North Downs and with a medieval parish church. The village has been chosen as the home of notable figures, such as Sir Barnes Wallis who was buried here and Toni Mascolo. The M25 motorway is 4 mi north-west of the middle of the village which mostly consists of green space in the Metropolitan Green Belt.
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Barnes Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was the subject of the 1955 film "The Dam Busters", in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave. Among his other inventions were his version of the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb.
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Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet (30 October 1700 – 15 June 1778), later Bisshopp, was a British politician. He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Bishopp, of Parham, co. Sussex on 25 October 1725. He was Member of Parliament for Penryn between 1727 and 1734, having been returned unopposed on the interest of the Boscawen family into which he had married. He also represented Boroughbridge between 1755 and 1768. He married Hon. Anne Boscawen, daughter of Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth and Charlotte Godfrey, in 1726. In addition to Parham Park, Sussex he was also the owner of a house at 11 Berkeley Square, London which Horace Walpole purchased from Bisshopp's heirs in 1779 and in which Walpole lived until he died there in 1797. Sir Cecil died on 15 June 1778 at the age of 77.
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Sutton Park, Yorkshire Sutton Park is an 18th-century Georgian country house situated on the edge of the village of Sutton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 10 miles north of York, in the ancient Forest of Galtres. The house, a Grade I listed building, is open to the public for part of the year and is the residence of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet (father of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron's wife Samantha Cameron), and Lady Sheffield.
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Windsor, Berkshire Windsor ( ) is a historic market town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family.
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Uffington, Lincolnshire Uffington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 686. It is situated in the valley of the River Welland, between Stamford and The Deepings.
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Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth Woolsthorpe (formally known as Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth to distinguish it from Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir in the same county) is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is best known as the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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Sibton Sibton is a village and civil parish on the A1120 road, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is near the towns of Saxmundham and Halesworth, the village of Peasenhall and the hamlet of Sibton Green. The church is dedicated to St Peter; there is also an abbey, Sibton Abbey. There is a large stately house set in the grounds of Sibton Park which dates back 1827 in the Georgian period, which is now used as a hotel. The estate consists of 4500 acres, being part of the Wilderness Reserve where there are holiday cottages and a lake. The Parish is also in close proximity to the River Yox which runs past the White Horse Inn and down through Pouy Street, it then goes on past both the A1120 road and a small wooded area called Abbey Woods to pass through the grounds of Sibton Park and then on to Yoxford.
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Mowbray Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham (29 November 1905 – 22 February 1996), styled Lord Howard from 1927 to 1946, was a British peer.
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Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney (1529 – 5 May 1586), Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent politician and courtier during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he received extensive grants of land, including the manor of Penshurst in Kent, which became the principal residence of the family.
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William Barnes (labour leader) William Henry Barnes (c.1827–23 July 1918) was a New Zealand blacksmith and labour reformer . He was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England on c.1827.
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South Ascot South Ascot is a village just south of and down the hill from the small town of Ascot in the English county of Berkshire. It is bounded on the west by the Kingsride area of Swinley Woods, on the north by the Reading to Waterloo railway line and merges with Sunninghill to the east.
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Hog's Back The Hog's Back is a part of the North Downs in Surrey, England, that lies between Farnham in the west and Guildford in the east.
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Æthelwold of East Anglia Æthelwold, also known as Æthelwald or Æþelwald (Old English: "Æþelwald" "noble ruler"; reigned c. 654–664), was a 7th-century king of East Anglia, the long-lived Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was a member of the Wuffingas dynasty, which ruled East Anglia from their "regio" (centre of royal authority) at Rendlesham. The two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Sutton Hoo, the monastery at Iken, the East Anglian see at Dommoc and the emerging port of Ipswich were all in the vicinity of Rendlesham.
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Ockford Ridge Ockford Ridge is a small semi-rural area in south east England situated between Eashing village and the commuter town of Godalming in Surrey. There are a mix of properties mainly built in the 1930s but also Victorian properties and new build properties. There was once a large manor house called Ockfordwood house which was built in the 1870s by Thomas Cooper. Later converted into flats, it was to be incorporated into Aaron's Hill, but it burnt down in the 1950s. There are local amenities such as a shop which once had a post office inside too, bus stops, a church, a village pub, a primary school, a cemetery just off Franklyn Road and lots of open spaces.
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Penshurst Place Penshurst Place is a historic building near Tonbridge, Kent, 32 mi south east of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney. The original medieval house is one of the most complete surviving examples of 14th-century domestic architecture in England. Part of the house and its gardens are open for public viewing. Many TV shows and movies like Merlin and The Others are filmed at Penshurst.
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Holy Trinity Barnes Holy Trinity Barnes is a Church of England church in Castelnau, Barnes, London. Its vicar is David Cooke.
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Adhurst Adhurst (also known as Adhurst St Mary) is a hamlet in Hampshire, United Kingdom. The settlement is within the civil parish of Steep, and is located approximately 1.3 mi north-east of Petersfield. Lothian Bonham-Carter of the Bonham Carter family was born in the hamlet in 1858.
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East Sheen Cemetery East Sheen Cemetery, originally known as Barnes Cemetery, is a cemetery on Sheen Road in East Sheen in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. The cemetery opened in 1906 on what was previously woodland in a rural area of Surrey. Originally, only half the site was given over for burials while the other half was maintained as a nursery before it was converted in the 1930s and the whole site was renamed East Sheen Cemetery. It is today contiguous with Richmond Cemetery, though the original boundary is marked by a hedge. The cemetery's chapel is used for services by both sites, as Richmond Cemetery's chapel is no longer in use as such. The chapel was built in 1906 in the Gothic revival style by local architect Reginald Rowell, who was himself later buried in the cemetery.
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River, Kent River is a village and civil parish in Kent, England, situated between the historic town of Dover and the neighbouring village of Temple Ewell. "Village" is a somewhat loose term for River; it is a community of several thousand and is probably more usefully regarded as a suburb of Dover. After a period of rapid housing development in the 1960s and 1970s, the size and population of River have largely stabilised in recent decades, and little new development is now seen. This is partly because River lies in a steep chalk valley which affords little scope for further expansion. However, it is also true that the Dover area is historically not in the vanguard of high economic growth, being tied almost exclusively to the cross-channel port and various support industries, which have witnessed a gradual decline since the opening of the Channel Tunnel. In transport terms River is well connected, being close to the A2 and A20 trunk routes, having a railway station at Kearsney with direct services to London, and of course being only 3 mi from the Port of Dover itself.
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Chipstead, Surrey Chipstead is a predominantly commuter village in north-east Surrey, England, that has been a small ecclesiastical parish since the Domesday Survey of 1086. Its rolling landscape meant that Chipstead's development was late and restricted compared to parishes of comparable distance from London. Formerly and formally including Hooley and Netherne-on-the-Hill, according to the 1831 census, Chipstead had 66 homes – today, excluding those two parts, the village has 1,212 homes spread across part of the North Downs.
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Mealsgate Mealsgate is a village in the English county of Cumbria.