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45 unusual facts about Essex


2010 Championship League

The 2010 Championship League professional non-ranking snooker tournament was played from 4 January to 25 March 2010 at the Crondon Park Golf Club, in Stock, England.

Austin Adams

Austin Adam's ancestors lived along the hills of the Chums River in Essex, England.

Beth Chatto Gardens

The gardens are located at White Barn House in the village of Elmstead Market, 6 miles east of Colchester in Essex, England.

Boxted

Boxted, Essex, a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England

Brooke Angus

Brooke Elizabeth Angus (born February 14, 1982) is a beauty queen from Essex, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA 2002 and Miss World 2006 pageants.

Cape Cod Knockabout

There is also a small racing fleet at the Split Rock Yacht Club in Essex, New York, on Lake Champlain.

Carters Coach Services

The company operates services over a wide area in both Suffolk and Essex.

Castle Park Cricket Ground

Due to the River Colne running alongside the ground, there used to be regular problems of drainage.

Chelmsford Radio

Chelmsford Radio broadcasts on 107.7 MHz from a mobile phone mast at Church Green in the village Danbury.

Corringham Light Railway

The CLR ran from a junction with the LTSR near Thames Haven to the Kynoch explosives works at Shell Haven, with branches east to Kynochtown (later Coryton) and west to Corringham.

Crass Records

Prior to the formation of Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher had published their creative works via their own Dial House based Exitstencil Press.

Daniel Faraday

While in Essex, Massachusetts, Daniel saw a news report covering the discovery of the apparent wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 in the depths of the Sunda Trench.

Dart Kitten

The Dart Kitten II G-AEXT received its authorisation to fly on 30 April 1937 and had a series of owners before being badly damaged in a crash at Willingale, Essex in November 1964.

Daws Heath

Daws Heath extends from the north side of Hadleigh towards the A127 London-Southend arterial road, and from where it adjoins Thundersley proper at the west end of Daws Heath Road eastwards to Belfairs Park, Leigh-on-Sea in Southend Borough.

Douglas XTB2D Skypirate

The Douglas TB2D Skypirate (also known as the Devastator II) was a torpedo bomber intended for service with the United States Navy's Midway and Essex class aircraft carriers; they were too large for earlier decks.

East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing

The school was founded by Morris and Lett-Haines on 12 April 1937 in an old house in the centre of Dedham, Essex.

Edith Pechey

Mary Edith Pechey was born in Langham, Essex, to William Pechey, a Baptist minister with an MA from Edinburgh University and his wife Sarah (née Rotton), a lawyer's daughter who, unusually for a woman of her generation, had studied Greek.

Edward Wilmot Pechey

Edward Pechey was born on 9 November 1841 in Langham near Colchester, Essex, England, the son of William Pechey and his wife Sarah (née Rotton).

Essex, Maryland

The Glenn L. Martin Company was the single biggest reason for the rapid growth of the area.

Essex, Massachusetts

Evan Dando, founder and frontman of the popular alternative rock band The Lemonheads, is an Essex native.

Essex, Ontario

The current Town of Essex was created on 1 April 1999 through the amalgamation of the former towns of Essex and Harrow, along with the former townships of Colchester North and Colchester South.

Essex, San Bernardino County, California

To commemorate this, the entire population of the town, including well-known residents Jerry and Virginia Smith, attended a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Fillol's Hall

Fillol's Hall or Felix Hall, Kelvedon, Essex was an English manor house.

Frinton Golf Club

Frinton Golf Club is a coastal golf club, located on the suburbs of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England.

Hadleigh Bus Depot

It is used by First Essex buses who operate many of the routes in the county of Essex and especially in the South East of the county.

Hans Multhopp

In 1949, the Glenn L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta) of Essex, Maryland made efforts to recruit Multhopp to their staff of aeronautical engineers.

History of local government in England

In County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Shropshire, Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, one or two major towns/cities were established as unitary authorities, with the rest of the county remaining two tier.

John Adey Repton

Before 1835, when he sent in designs for the new Houses of Parliament, he had retired to Springfield near Chelmsford; he gave his services as architect of Springfield church in 1843.

Layer Marney Tower

Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex, England.

London stock brick

In Stock, Essex there is a common belief that "Stock Bricks" originated there; bricks were certainly made there, but the name is a coincidence, stock being a common English word with many meanings and also a common place-name element.

Marks Hall

Marks Hall was a Jacobean country house some 3 km (2 miles) north of Coggeshall in Essex, England.

New Hall School

The school chapel runs weekly Sunday mass which are open to the public and serves the Parish of St Augustine of Canterbury, Springfield.

Noel Stephen Paynter

Noel Stephen Paynter had been born in Essex where his father, Canon F S Paynter, was rector of Springfield.

Optare Tempo

Regal Busways have bought three vehicles for use on their premier route 1 service between Chelmsford and Canvey Island in Essex.

Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist

Realising that such a situation could not continue, he went to Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, England to inspect a property; in the spring of 1959, the new Community of St John the Baptist was formed at the same property, under Metropolitan Anthony's omophorion.

It is located in Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, in England, and is the oldest Orthodox religious community in the UK.

Perry Green

Perry Green, Essex, a hamlet near the village of Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall

RAF Wormingford

The technical area was on the southern side of the airfield and the camp sites dispersed to the south and east in and around the village of Fordham.

Ricky Blues

On October 23, they unsuccessfully challenged Leather & Lace (Rich Carlisle and Adrian Hall) in Essex, Maryland for the then vacant MEWF Tag Team Championship, however, they won the titles a month later in Gaithersburg.

Robert Acklom Ingram

He was born on 6 June 1763 (others say 6 July 1761) in Wormingford, the son of Rev. Robert Ingram (1727–1804) of Boxted, Essex and Katherine Acklom (1727–1809).

Southend Urban Area

The Southend Urban Area is the informal name for the urban area including and surrounding Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England.

Stansted Transit

Stansted Transit operated 22 bus routes, in Essex and on the Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders, as well as many school bus contracts tendered by Essex County Council.

Stratford Langthorne Abbey

During the 13th century, the abbey acquired further grants of land in Essex and beyond, including the manor of Biggin in Chadwell St Mary.

Weathersfield, Vermont

The Connecticut town had taken its name, in turn, from Wethersfield, a village in the English county of Essex, the name of which derived from "wether", or in Old English wither, meaning a castrated lamb.

William Nightingale

In 1817, when he was 23 and she 29, he married Frances "Fanny" Smith (1789–1880), from Parndon in Essex, daughter of the abolitionist, Whig member of Parliament, William Smith.


Anjana Ahuja

Ahuja, who was educated at a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

Battle of Cropredy Bridge

With Essex and Waller in pursuit, he was still in danger, but on 7 June, the two Parliamentarian generals (who disliked each other) conferred at Stow on the Wold, and agreed that Essex would march westward to relieve the siege of Lyme Regis, while Waller shadowed the King.

Broadcloth

Around 1500, broadcloth was made in a number of districts of England, including Essex and Suffolk in southern East Anglia, the West Country Clothing District (Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, east Somerset - sometimes with adjacent areas), at Worcester, Coventry, Cranbrook in Kent and some other places.

Catherine Fillol

Catherine Fillol (or Filliol) (c. 1507 - c.1535) was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fillol (1453 - 9 July 1527), of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset, and of Fillol's Hall, Essex.

Comic Art Convention

Lovece, Frank, "Cons: New York 1974!",The Journal Summer Special, 1974 (fanzine published by Paul Kowtiuk, Maple Leaf Publications; editorial office then at Box 1286, Essex, Ontario, Canada N0R 1E0)

David Beetham

Closer to home, he joined Democratic Audit at the University of Essex in 1992 where he became Associate Editor, working closely with Director Stuart Weir.

East Anglian Railway Museum

The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury.

Edward Filmer

Filmer was born in or about 1657, was the second son of Sir Robert Filmer, 1st Baronet, of East Sutton, Kent, who died 22 March 1676, by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Maurice Tuke of Layer Marney, Essex.

Elizabethtown, New York

William Gilliland, an investor, bought up large tracts of land in Essex County.

Essex Park, New Jersey

In 2008, the township of Montclair was looking for ways to lower its budget and as part of a series of budget cuts and cancellations decided that the ice rink at Essex Park, the Clary Anderson Arena, should be privatized.

Essex Regiment

In March 1921 at Crossbarry in County Cork, the Essex regiment encircled the IRAs "West Cork Flying Column" with 1,200 troops and soon managed to expose a company sized element of the IRA.

Francis Newton Parsons

His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford, Essex, England.

General Amherst High School

GAHS has been recognized for a number of causes, including (but not limited to): the Canadian record of per capita student contributions in donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, championships in football, hockey, basketball, track & field, wrestling, tennis, cross country and volleyball; the recipient of several Essex County "Student Prime Minister of the Year" awards (2004, 2005, & 2009) and high rankings in the University of Waterloo Fermat Mathematics competition.

George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton

Grafton married Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (1761–1808), daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, on 16 November 1784 at Navestock, Essex.

Hopper Read

Despite the fact that Farnes could not help him owing to injury, Read and Stan Nichols stood alone as a pace-bowling duo and in a sensational match at Huddersfield, their sheer pace off the pitch bowled out the otherwise unbeaten Yorkshire eleven for 31 and 99, giving Essex a win by an innings and 204 runs.

Ilford

In 1965, the municipal borough was abolished and its former area was combined with that of Wanstead and Woodford, the northern extremity of Dagenham and a small part Chigwell Urban District around Hainault; it was removed from Essex and since then has formed the greater part of the London Borough of Redbridge in Greater London.

Illingworth St Mary's Cricket Club

Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).

Jeremiah Dyke

His father William Dyke was a minister at Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at Coggeshall; and Daniel Dyke was his brother.

John Leventhorpe

He was granted the manor of Ugley in Essex, and in 1399 he became constable of Odiham castle and keeper of the royal manor there.

John Mark Davies

Born in Halstead, Essex, England in 1840, Davies was the fifth eldest of the six boys and six girls of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett.

John Quinton

He rapidly became a Patrol Leader and attended camps at Gilwell Park, Essex, as well as the World Scout Jamboree in Holland in 1937.

Joubert and White Building

Empire Auto remained in business until 1935, dealing in such brands as Chevrolet, Cadillac, Essex, Hudson, and LaSalle automobiles, as well as GMC trucks.

Katie Jarvis

Jarvis was seen by a casting agent working for director Andrea Arnold at Tilbury Town railway station in Tilbury, Essex, following an argument with her boyfriend, Brian.

Lauren Etame Mayer

In November 2011, Lauren's Rolex Daytona watch was found and returned after six years by police after raids in Essex and East London.

Lindsey Stagg

The daughter of Barbara A. (née Leney) (born 1945) and Terence F. Stagg (born 1943), who married in 1966 at Rochford in Essex, she was discovered by Michael Napier Brown, the artistic director at the Royal Theatre in Northampton (who also discovered her co-star in the series, Gian Sammarco), who recommended her to Thames Television for the role of Pandora Braithwaite.

Louisa Aldrich-Blake

Born in Chingford, Essex, the daughter of a rector, she moved with her family to Welsh Bicknor.

Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan

He remained an Honorary Major in the Royal Horse Artillery (TA) and an Honorary Colonel in the 4th (Cadet) Battalion of the Essex Regiment and in the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment (TA).

Mel Hussain

Mel's younger brother Nasser Hussain captained England and Essex, while his father Jawad Hussain played once for Tamil Nadu in 1964-65 and another brother, Abbas Hussain, reached Second XI level with Essex.

Michael Giuliano

He was followed by Democrat Ralph DeRose (91,380), Wallwork (88,632), Democratic Assemblyman Frank J. Dodd (86,041), and Democratic Freeholder Wynona Lipman (85,644), with two Republicans and three Democrats winning the five Essex County Senate seats.

Nutley, East Sussex

For the township in Essex County, New Jersey, see Nutley, New Jersey.

Patrick Michael Hayes

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Hayes finished third in Essex-Kent, finishing 2,293 votes behind the winning candidate, Liberal Pat Hoy.

Pennyhole Bay

Pennyhole Bay is a stretch of water situated to the south of the ports of Harwich in Essex and Felixstowe in Suffolk, England where the rivers Stour and Orwell flow into the sea and just east of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

Perry McCarthy

Born in Billericay, Essex, McCarthy grew up to work for his father's company servicing North Sea oil rigs.

Peter Corry

Corry's production company, 'PC Productions" brought One Enchanted Evening to the Odyssey venue. Joanna Ampil, Barbara Dickson and Brian Kennedy shared the stage with Corry and a choir of 850 and "The Night of 1000 Voices" at the Odyssey Arena. It also staged "The Night of 1000 Voices" starrind David Essex and Sir James Galway.

Richard de Grey

Richard, 1 Dec 1202-8 Sep 1271, was the eldest surviving son of Henry de Grey of Thurrock, an Essex landowner owning the manors of Codnor in Derbyshire and Grimston in Nottinghamshire; and Isolda de Bardolf.

Rogation days

The then Archdeacon of Essex, Grindal of London, beseeched the church to explicitly label the tradition as a perambulation, so as to further distance itself from the Catholic liturgy.

Samuel Hoar

His son, Samuel Hoar (1927 - 2004), of Essex, Massachusetts also was a senior partner in the firm formerly known as Goodwin, Procter and Hoar.

Sæbbi of Essex

He despatched Jaruman, the Bishop of Mercia, who was assigned to reconvert the people of Essex to Christianity.

Sir George Honyman, 4th Baronet

His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards 27 December 1850, and died at Nice 27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an Admiral of the Red.

Squeegee

According to Guinness World Records, the world's fastest window cleaner is Terry Burrows of South Ockendon, Essex, England, who cleaned three standard 45-inch × 45-inch office windows set in a frame in 9.24 seconds at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in March 2005.

St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

Trench Chiswell

Chiswell was born Richard Muilman, but assumed the extra surnames of Trench and Chiswell by royal licence on 28 November 1772 after the death of his mother’s brother, Richard Chiswell, when he inherited a fortune of £120,000 and Debden Hall in Essex.

UCL Academy

In March 2010 Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Ilford, Essex, was appointed as the first Principal of the Academy, and Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL, as Chair of the Academy Governing Body.

William Coddington

During this visit to England he married in Terling, Essex, Mary Moseley who came back to New England with him in 1633, and who was admitted to the Boston church that summer.