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53 unusual facts about England


1976 United Kingdom heat wave

For 15 consecutive days from 23 June to 7 July inclusive, temperatures reached 32.2°C (90°F) somewhere in England.

1978–79 English League North season

The 1978–79 English League North season was the first season of the English League North (also known as the Midland League), the top level ice hockey league in northern England.

1980–81 English League North season

The 1980–81 English League North season was the third season of the English League North (also known as the Midland League), the top level ice hockey league in northern England.

Anglo Swiss

Anglo Swiss or Anglo-Swiss describes people or things with joint English and Swiss connections.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe

In 1644 she married her second cousin, Richard (later Sir Richard) Fanshawe (1608–1666), Secretary of War to Prince Charles.

Archibald Salvidge

Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge KBE PC (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an English politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party in Liverpool through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by Warden Chilcott, MP for Liverpool Walton).

Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs

The Association of Waterways Cruising clubs is a waterway society and umbrella organisation in England, UK.

Bahik

The agreement which was signed in the presence of Persian, Turkish, Russian, and English delegates stipulated that the village of Behik, in addition to a number of others, remain as a part of Persia, modern day Iran.

Belfast City Council

Belfast's modern history can be dated back to the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century which brought significant numbers of Protestant Scottish and English settlers to Ulster.

Bucks County Council

Buckinghamshire County Council, the administrative body governing the county of Buckinghamshire, England

Carwile

The name Carwile is a surname that originated in England following the Norman Conquest of 1066, but is most present today in the United States of America.

Clare Imrie

In 1910 she funded the building and interior decorating of St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church in Liverpool, which is known as "the Vatican outside of Rome", because of the splendid artistry displayed in its interior.

Cleveland, North Carolina

It is named after Cleveland, England, but it is rumored that the town is actually named after Grover Cleveland after he visited the town during his presidential campaign.

Cuthbert Robert Blackett

Mr. Blackett married Miss Margaretta Palmer in May 1870 at Stokesley, England.

Disabled students allowance

This comes from the Funding Council and not out of individual student's DSA.

District registry

a part of the High Court situated in various districts of England and Wales dealing with High Court family and civil business.

Francis Ripley

Canon Francis Joseph Ripley (26 August 1912 - 7 January 1998) was a Roman Catholic priest in London, England.

George S. Talbot

George Thomas Surtees Talbot (1875 – 1918) was an English composer and writer.

Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity and St Luke

The Church of The Holy Trinity and St Luke is a Greek Orthodox church in the north of Birmingham, England, dedicated to The Holy Trinity and St Luke.

In My Head It Works

In My Head It Works is the second album by English band The Race, and was released in 2009.

Incendiary device

The first incendiary devices to be dropped during World War I fell on coastal towns in the south west of England on the night of 18–19 January 1915.

Inward Parts

Inward Parts is the second album by the English band The Others.

Israel Stoughton

He was then appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army, and soon afterwards died at Lincoln.

Kern AG

In the 1990s, the company expanded and extended its network of branches in Germany, USA; Switzerland, England, China and Netherlands.

Larrousse LH94

The LH94 was designed by Larrousse UK, a fifteen-strong component of the team based in Bicester, England and owned by Robin Herd.

Lotus 100T

During the 1988 season, former three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart test drove the 100T at the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, England, which was Lotus's test track at the time.

Manthorpe

Manthorpe is the name of two places, both in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England

Mehkar

The documents written on copper found with Balaji's sculpture are now in the British Museum, England.

Millennium Communities Programme

The Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.

Monte Cinto

On May 26, 1883, a party led by the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, and including the guide F. Devouassoud and the landscape painter Compton, also ascended the mountain by the pass that now bears Tuckett's name.

Nathaniel Crisp

Nathaniel "The Bishop" Crisp (1762-1819) - an 18th-century character in the city of Nottingham, England.

Nicola Hall

Nicola Hall, born in 1969 in England, is a British classical guitarist.

North Western Road Car Company

North Western Road Car Company may refer to one of two bus operators running within the north west of England in different eras.

Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

The equivalent infrastructure and representative body for voluntary sector organisations in Wales is WCVA, in Scotland is the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, SCVO and in England is NCVO or National Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Perry Henzell

Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar on Antigua, grew up on the Caymanas sugar cane estate near Kingston.

Play party

Folk songs, many of European and English origin, were used as means to give the attendants choreographed movements for each phrase.

Preston Lockwood

Preston Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996) was an English actor.

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) is a regulatory exam for foreign licensed attorneys who want to practice in England and Wales.

Ray Sonin

Ray Sonin (23 June 1907–20 August 1991) was an English-born broadcaster on Toronto radio station CFRB and hosted several very popular radio programs.

Registered Intermediaries

In England and Wales Registered Intermediaries are available to facilitate communication between the vulnerable person and the lawyers.

River Blyth

River Blyth is the name of several rivers in England.

Rother Valley

The Rother Valley is the valley of the River Rother, of which there are at least three in England.

Russell Hunting

Hunting traveled to England in 1898, and became recording director of Edison Bell Records.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.

Shutdown Day

Bystrov teamed up with his friends Nikolay Kudrevatykh, Michael Taylor (former trade floor occupant in stock markets in London, England) and David Bridle (part time film maker from Cardiff, Wales), to present a challenge on the Internet, through the website shutdownday.org, challenging people to avoid their computers for 24 hours.

Skytrak Total

Skytrak Total was a flying roller coaster at the Granada Studios Tour theme park at Granada Studios in Manchester, England.

State House, Bermuda

The State House was one of the sites (the others mostly being military) illustrated on a map of Bermuda (shown at left) published in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith in 1624.

Thomas Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham

Thomas Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham (1393–1394) was an English nobleman and politician.

Thomas McDonnell, Snr.

He later returned to England and was appointed Additional British Resident in New Zealand in late 1834 or early 1835.

Trimbak

In turn, Briggs delivered the diamond to Francis Rawdon-Hastings which then went to England.

West Sussex Invitation Cricket League

The West Sussex Invitation Cricket League is a cricket competition in West Sussex, England.

When the Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear

It was printed by a number of publishing houses in the United States in 1860 and also eventually became popular in England.

Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire

The cricket ground has a significant slope and was tried by the BBC to see if it would be suitable for filming the cricket scene in the production of A. G. Macdonnell's England, Their England.


1729 in literature

John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

67th Special Operations Squadron

It was activated on 14 November 1952 at RAF Sculthorpe, England, and discontinued, and inactivated, on 18 March 1960 at Prestwick, Scotland.

Alfred Whitmore

Major Alfred Whitmore (1876–1946) was an English pathologist who, together with C.S. Krishnaswami, identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in 1911.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm occasionally visited England to see the abbey's property there, as well as to visit Lanfranc, who, in 1070, had been installed as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Arnold Stephenson Rowntree

He was a Director of North of England Newspaper Co. (Limited), The Nation, the Westminster Press and Associated Papers.

Bigby

Bigby, Lincolnshire, one of the Thankful Villages in Lincolnshire, England

Birmingham Journal

The Birmingham Journal was the name of two separate and unrelated newspapers published in Birmingham, England.

Buckinghamshire Junction Railway

Since then the Woodstock Road crossing (ex-A34 road now A44 road) has been replaced with a roundabout, part of the A4260 road has been built along the trackbed and part of the A34 road has been built across the trackbed.

Centenary World Cup

1995 Rugby League World Cup, hosted by England and celebrating the 100th birthday of Rugby league.

Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset

After a second grand tour to continental Europe in 1737 and 1738, he returned to England in January 1739 and staged an opera, Angelico e Medoro, with music by Giovanni Battista Pescetti from a libretto by Metastasio at Covent Garden.

Church of All Saints, Sutton Bingham

The Church of All Saints in Sutton Bingham in the civil parish of Closworth, Somerset, England dates from the 12th and 13th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Clas Ohlson

There are now 12 stores in England and Wales, including Manchester, Leeds, Watford, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Merry Hill, Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Commercial Cable Company

Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain.

Dan Mara

He was named NJCAA New England Women's Basketball Coach of the Year nine times, Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Coach of the Year six times, NJCAA District Coach of the Year three times and Converse District One Coach of the Year in 1994.

David Farrer

In 2008 Farrer was appointed vicar of the combined parishes of St Nicholas' Church, Arundel and St Leonard's Church, South Stoke, West Sussex and as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester in England.

David R. Ross

At the age of about 15, he became interested in the novels of Nigel Tranter, that inspired him to grow an interest in the history of Scotland, as he realised that the history curriculum in British schools was told from an England-centric perspective that ignored (or nearly so) the individual histories of the other countries forming the United Kingdom.

Felger

Michael Felger (born 1969), a television sports reporter and anchorman for Comcast SportsNet New England

Flag of Lancashire

The Red Rose of Lancaster is a symbol for the House of Lancaster, immortalised in the verse "In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th century War of the Roses).

Flag of New England

On 8 June 1989 the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) adopted a flag designed by Albert Ebinger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as the official flag of the New England Governors’ Conference.

Frances Swiney

She studied under James Danby, son of Francis Danby, R.A., and specialised in pictures of Indian scenery and life, exhibiting at Simla, Madras, and Birmingham, England.

Gartree

Gartree Hundred, a wapentake and later a hundred of Leicestershire, England

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Horningsea Park, New South Wales

He named his property Horningsea Park after his birthplace, the village of Horningsea in Cambridgeshire, England.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

Leon Baptiste

On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.

Leung Chen Nam

He caused an upset by defeating experienced German darts player Andree Welge 4–1 in the preliminary round, before being beaten 0–3 in sets in the first round by England's Kevin Painter.

Marshall MacDermott

At Argostoli, in the island of Cephalonia, he became acquainted with Lord Byron, who entrusted him with the three last cantos of Don Juan, to be delivered to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, a commission which MacDermott executed, having just then obtained leave of absence in order to visit England.

Marsk

Marske-by-the-Sea, a village in Redcar and Cleveland in north-east England.

Martin Hodge

Hodge’s excellent form at Wednesday made him a favourite to make the England squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, however Hodge missed out at the last minute when Gary Bailey recovered from injury.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Michel Fourniret

He was named as a suspect in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Englishwoman Joanna Parrish, whose body was found in an Auxerre river on 17 May 1990.

Order of St. Andrew

He witnessed first hand the awards ceremonies for England's Order of the Garter and Austria's Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awardees.

Poetry Records

He holds a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), where he studied with great guitarist Maestro Eliot Fisk.

Redfest

Redfest is an annual music festival at Robins Cook Farm, Kings Mill Lane, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey, England.

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Sean Bury

Sean Bury (born in Brighton, Sussex, England on 15 August 1954) is a British television and film actor, best known for his lead role as Paul Harrison in Lewis Gilbert's 1971 film Friends and the 1974 sequel Paul and Michelle.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Beauclerc

They had a large family, including John Scott, the eldest son who became the second Baronet of Beauclerc on the death of his father and Mason and William Martin Scott, England international rugby union players.

Stephen Paget

Stephen Paget (1855-1926) was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget.

Tandridge District

Tandridge is a local government district in Surrey, England containing part of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of the Weald and the towns of Warlingham, Caterham, Oxted, Godstone and Lingfield.

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

Vendace

:*Coregonus vandesius, in lakes of Scotland and England; arguably the same species as Coregonus albula

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

West Kirby railway station

West Kirby railway station is situated in the town of West Kirby, Wirral, England.

William Scroggs

Sir JF Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England (3 vols, London, 1883)

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).