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East Woodhay is a village and parish in Hampshire, UK, situated approximately six miles (10 km) south-west of Newbury in Berkshire. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,794. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
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Newbury is the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in the United Kingdom. ...
For other places named Berkshire, see: Berkshire (disambiguation) Berkshire (IPA: or ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in the south of England, to the west of London and also bordering on Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Surrey, Wiltshire and Hampshire. ...
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The village contains a school, St. Martins. Church of England Primary School, named after Martin of Tours) and an estate agent (formerly the "Axe and Compass" pub). The small, triangular village green contains a war memorial and was once the site of the village stocks. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
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Statue of Saint Martin cutting his cloak in two. ...
In the United States and parts of the Commonwealth (including Canada and Australia), a real estate agent is a person who advises and represents others in transactions involving real estate. ...
An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...
A photomodel in wooden stocks Public Stocks The stocks are a device used for public humiliation, corporal punishment, and torture. ...
The dialling code is 01635 and the postcode is RG20 (coming under the postal district of Berkshire, though the council is based in Hampshire).
Meaning of name East Woodhay
The name East Woodhay has changed over the years. The name may possibly be from the Old English "Wudeuhege" or "Wudeugehaeg" meaning "Wood enclosure" (using artitificial fences), or more likely from the earlier "widu" meaning "broad enclosure". (1) Events Louis VII capitulates to Pope Celestine II and so earns the popes absolution Pope Celestine II is succeeded by Pope Lucius II December 24 - Edessa falls to Zengi Montauban, France, is founded First recorded example of an anti-Semitic blood libel in England Normandy comes under Angevin control...
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East Woodhay: 1669 Thomas Ken (1637-1711) was briefly chaplain to Princess Mary, and later to the British Fleet. In 1685 he became Bishop of Bath and Wells. Thomas Ken (1637 - March 19, 1711), the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology, was born at Little Berkhampstead, Herts. ...
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The Bishop of Bath and Wells is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury. ...
He was one of several bishops imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to sign King James II’s “Declaration of Indulgence” (hoping to restore Catholicism in England). The Tower of London, seen from the river, with a view of the water gate called Traitors Gate. ...
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In 1669 he resigned from his post of Bishop of Brightstone in the Isle of Wight in order to become Prebendary of Winchester and incumbent of East Woodhay in Hampshire. A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ...
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East Woodhay: 1830 East Woodhay as described in "Rural rides" (1830) by William Cobbett (3). William Cobbett (March 9, 1763–June 18, 1835) was a radical agriculturist and prolific journalist. ...
"It was dark by the time that we got to a village, called EAST WOODHAY. Sunday evening is the time for courting, in the country. It not convenient to carry this on before faces, and, at farm-houses and cottages, there are no spare apartments; so that the pairs turn out, and pitch up, to carry on their negociations, by the side of stile or a gate. The evening was auspicious; it was pretty dark, the weather mild, and Old Michaelmas (when yearly services end) was fast approaching; and, accordingly, I do not recollect ever having before seen so many negociations going on, within so short a distance. At WEST WOODHAY my horse [had] cast a shoe, and, as the road was abominably flinty, we were compelled to go at a snail's pace; and I should have gone crazy with impatience, had it not been for these ambassadors and ambassadresses of Cupid, to every pair of whom I said something or other. I began by asking the fellow my road; and, from the tone and manner of his answer, I could tell pretty nearly what prospect he had of success, and knew what to say to draw something from him. I had some famous sport with them, saying to them more than I should have said by day-light, and a great deal less than I should have said, if my horse had been in a condition to carry me away as swiftly as ..." In the Christian calendar, Michaelmas (pronounced /mI.k@l. ...
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East Woodhay: 1870-1872 East Woodhay as described in John Goring's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales" (1870-72) (2)
"WOODHAY (East), a parish, with numerous hamlets and with Woolton-Hill chapelry, in Kingsclere district, Hants; 4½ miles [7 km] SSE of Kintbury r. station, and 4½ [miles (7km)] SW of Newbury. Post town, Newbury. Acres, 4,966 [20 km²]. Real property, £6,795. Pop., 1,533. Houses, 346. The property is much subdivided. A palace of the Bishops of Winchester was here. The living is a rectory, united with Ashmansworth, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £1,078.* Patron, the Bishop of W. The church's chancel was rebuilt in 1850. The vicarage of Woolton-Hill is a separate benefice. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, national schools, and charities £16. Bishops Hooper, Ken, and Lowth were rectors." The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. ...
Kingsclere is a small village in the South Downs in northern Hampshire, United Kingdom. ...
Kintbury is a small village in southern England, located near the western end of the Royal County of Berkshire. ...
Newbury is the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in the United Kingdom. ...
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Winchester Cathedral as seen from Cathedral Close Winchester is a city in southern England, and the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around 35,200. ...
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East Woodhay: 1900 (circa) East Woodhay as mentioned in "Highways and Byways in Hampshire" (1908) by H Moutray Read (4).
Afterwards the ladies met, and corresponded with eevery sign of mutual liking, a regards evidently not extended to Miss Pokckie; "such a low-bred, narrow-spirited woman", Dean Lyttleton wrote to Mrs Montagu, that she "would disgrace an episcopal house." The highly classical education on which her brother throve, appears to have had unhappy results for the sister! The word episcopal is derived from the Greek επισκοπος epÃskopos, which literally means overseer; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop. ...
Afterwards the ladies met, and corresponded with eevery sign of mutual liking, a regards evidently not extended to Miss Pokckie; "such a low-bred, narrow-spirited woman", Dean Lyttleton wrote to Mrs Montagu, that she "would disgrace an episcopal house." The highly classical education on which her brother throve, appears to have had unhappy results for the sister! The word episcopal is derived from the Greek επισκοπος epÃskopos, which literally means overseer; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop. ...
To appreciate Highclere one should not come down by the path of the downs but alight from a railway train and drive from Woodhay Station up the gravel road, by the fine timber, and through the large village of trim villas in a station cab! Wild spaces and dreams of primitive men accord but ill with orderly parterres and velvet lawns, and in the country along the Berkshire border we find again a modern England we all know and some us do not care about, the England of "desirable residences within easy reach of the railway station", and "on gravel soil," not forgetting "with fine views"; and the sport if the "sport" of syndicates. But as the railway line is left behind the country grows wilder, and the Downs are again approached; the rough lanes twine and tumble in and over the spurs and valleys that run up the dominating heights of Walbury and Inkpen. On one such rise stands the church of East Woodhay , well above that village. The grey, ivy-covered stones in the graveyard look venerable enough, but the church, as a table on the tower announces, was rebuilt in 1823, and the only possible word in its favour is that the brick of which its partly composed gives a touch of colour among the elms of the litten, where the rooks caw evident approval of the water-wheel that protrudes itself within a few feet of the tower. But if the church belongs to the genteel age of architecture, the yew by the rectory is said to have been planted by Bishop Ken, when that old friend of Rector Isaac Mills held the living. A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing pattern. ...
For other places named Berkshire, see: Berkshire (disambiguation) Berkshire (IPA: or ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in the south of England, to the west of London and also bordering on Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Surrey, Wiltshire and Hampshire. ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...
Gravel Gravel is rock that is of a certain size range. ...
Inkpen is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. ...
Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ...
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1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
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An overshot water wheel standing 42 feet high powers the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome, Georgia A water wheel (also waterwheel, Norse mill, Persian wheel or noria) is a hydropower system; a system for extracting power from a flow of water. ...
Thomas Ken (1637 - March 19, 1711), the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology, was born at Little Berkhampstead, Herts. ...
Trivia A Dr. Who episode called "The Pyramids of Mars" (featuring Tom Baker) was filmed at "Stargroves", a large estate at the top of East End. The Doctor Who 2005 television series logo. ...
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Stargroves in East End, Newbury, was the 1970s home of Mick Jagger, who recorded Exile On Main Street and five songs from Sticky Fingers there. ...
Until 7 March 1960 the village was served by East Woodhay station. See: Station (telecommunication) Radio station Television station Station (network) Primary station Control station Slave station Station (Australian ranch) (the Australian equivalent of the North American Ranch) Public transport railway station or train station metro station (underground or elevated ) bus station Ground station Space station Gas station Power station (see Battersea...
References - "The Place-names of Hampshire". Richard Coates. 1989
- "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales". John Goring. 1870-72
- "Rural rides". William Cobbett. 1830
- "Highways and Byways in Hampshire". H Moutray Read. 1908
- "A dictionary of English place-names". A D Mills. 1990
External links - East Woodhay parish council
- St. Martin's School
- St. Martins Church
- East Woodhay on Sir George Young's website
- Map sources for East Woodhay
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