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Hungerford is a market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, 10 miles (16 km) west of Newbury. It covers an area of 6,729 acres and, according to the 2001 census, has a population of 5,700 (2006 estimated at 6,000). The market town is a medieval phenomenon. ...
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Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. ...
Hungerford is best-remembered today for a particularly tragic aspect of the town’s history, the Hungerford massacre on 19 August 1987. The incident resulted in the murder of 16 people by a rampaging gunman named Michael Ryan, a local loner. Michael Robert Ryan The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on August 19, 1987. ...
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Geography
Hungerford is located on the River Dun in the Kennet Valley at grid reference SU337685. It is the westernmost town in Berkshire, situated on the border with Wiltshire, and lies within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The highest point in the entire South East England region is the 297 m (974 ft) summit of Walbury Hill, situated only 4 miles (7 km) from the town. The Kennet separates Hungerford from what might be described as the town's only suburb, the small hamlet of Eddington. There are two waterways acknowledged as the River Dun. ...
The Kennet is a river in the south east of England, and a tributary of the River Thames. ...
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Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. ...
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England. ...
Walbury Hill is the highest point in the South East England region of the UK at 297 m (974 ft) above sea level. ...
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The town marks the border of the South East England and South West England regions (it is situated only 3 km within South East England), being some 68 miles (109 km) west of central London and 55 miles( 88 km) east of Bristol on the A4 national trunk route. It is equidistant 10 miles (16 km) from the towns of Newbury and Marlborough, and lies 2.5 miles (4 km) south of junction 14 of the M4 motorway. South East England is one of the nine official regions of England. ...
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Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. ...
Marlborough on a Wednesday Market morning The town-centre of Marlborough Marlborough (pronounced Maulbruh - /ˈmÉ”Ëlbɹə/ in IPA) is a market town in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. ...
The M4 motorway is a motorway in Great Britain linking London with Wales. ...
The parish was formerly divided into four tithings: Hungerford or Town, Sanden Fee, Eddington with Hidden and Newtown and Charnham Street. North and South Standen and Charnham Street were always officially detached parts of Wiltshire until transferred to Berkshire in 1895. Leverton and Calcot were transferred to Hungerford parish from Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire in 1895. All the land south of the Kennet was formerly included in Savernake Forest. Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
Chilton Foliat is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ...
Savernake Forest, between Marlborough and Hungerford, is privately-owned by the Trustees of Savernake Estate - The Earl of Cardigan and his family solicitor. ...
Nearby places Towns: Marlborough, Newbury, Swindon, Reading, Lambourn. Marlborough is a market town in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. ...
Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. ...
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Lambourn is a small market town and civil parish in the northwestern corner of the ceremonial county of Berkshire in England. ...
Villages: Chilton Foliat, Great Shefford, Kintbury, Little Bedwyn, Froxfield, Ramsbury, Shalbourne, Stockcross, Ham, Inkpen, Aldbourne, Burbage, Hungerford Newtown. Chilton Foliat is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Great Shefford is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. ...
Kintbury is a small village in southern England, located near the western end of the Royal County of Berkshire. ...
Froxfield is a village and civil parish in the east of the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Ramsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Shalbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
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Ham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Inkpen Common, Inkpen, Berkshire Crown & Garter Pub, Inkpen, Berkshire Inkpen is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. ...
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Places of interest: Crofton Pumping Station, Wilton Windmill, Littlecote House, Hungerford Marsh, Walbury Hill. The pumping station viewed from the canal; showing tunnel under railway, boilerhouse, enginehouse and chimney Wilton Water, the canal and railway from the pumping station The boilerhouse The beam gallery with the 1812 engine in operation Crofton Pumping Station is a pumping station, located near the village of Great Bedwyn...
The Wilton windmill is a five floor brick tower mill with a round house located near the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire. ...
Littlecote House is a large 16th-century house and estate in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Walbury Hill is the highest point in the South East England region of the UK at 297 m (974 ft) above sea level. ...
Communications Hungerford is situated on several transport routes, of both historic and current importance, including the M4 motorway (junction 14), the Old Bath Road (A4), and the Kennet and Avon Canal (opened 1811). It also has a railway station, on the West of England Main Line; a reasonable rail service to Newbury, Reading and London means that the Hungerford has developed into something of a dormitory town which has been slowly expanding since the 1980s. Many residents commute to nearby towns such as Newbury, Swindon, Marlborough, Thatcham and Reading. The M4 motorway is a motorway in Great Britain linking London with Wales. ...
The A4 at Hotwells in Bristol The A4 crosses Picadilly Circus in central London The A4 is a major road in England, also known as the Great West Road. ...
The canal at Bathampton, near Bath The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. ...
Hungerford railway station is a railway station in the town of Hungerford in the county of Berkshire in England. ...
The West of England Main Line is the British railway line from London Waterloo to Exeter. ...
Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. ...
Reading is a town, unitary authority (the Borough of Reading) and urban area in the English county of Berkshire. ...
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This article or section should be merged with Bedroom community A dormitory town is generally a rural town where a large proportion of its population commute to nearby cities. ...
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Thatcham is a town in Berkshire, England located 3 miles (5km) east of Newbury and 15 miles (24km) west of Reading. ...
Reading is a town, unitary authority (the Borough of Reading) and urban area in the English county of Berkshire. ...
Local government Hungerford is part of the district administered by the unitary authority of West Berkshire. It is also a civil parish in its own right, with parish council responsibilities undertaken by Hungerford Town Council. A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. ...
West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, South East England, governed by a unitary authority (West Berkshire Council). ...
A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
Hungerford Town Council consists of fifteen volunteer councillors and committee members, supported by a full time clerk. The mayor is elected from amongst their numbers.
Town twinning Hungerford participates in town twinning to foster good international relations: Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm, Germany Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. ...
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Indre-et-Loire is a département in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers. ...
Member of Parliament Hungerford is part of the Newbury parliamentary constituency. Its MP is the Conservative Richard Benyon, son of Sir William Benyon of Englefield House. He has represented the two towns since 2005. Newbury is a UK parliamentary constituency consisting of Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford and a large part of the surrounding area of West Berkshire. ...
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The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
Richard Benyon making his victory speech at Newbury racecourse. ...
Englefield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. ...
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Hungerford is the only place in the country to have continuously celebrated Hocktide or Tutti Day (the second Tuesday after Easter). Today it marks the end of the town council's financial and administrative year, but in the past it was a more general celebration associated with the town's great patron, John of Gaunt (see below). Its origins are thought lie in celebrations following King Alfred's expulsion of the Danes. Hocktide was a mediaeval festival that may have celebrated the massacre of the Danes in England or the death of Harthacanute in the 11th century. ...
Hocktide was a mediaeval festival that may have celebrated the massacre of the Danes in England or the death of Harthacanute in the 11th century. ...
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John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (June 24, 1340 – February 3, 1399) was the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. ...
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The 'Bellman' (or Town Crier) summons the Commoners of the town to the Hocktide Court held at the town hall, while two florally decorated 'Tutti Men' and the 'Orange Man' visit every house with commoners' rights (almost a hundred properties). Originally they collected 'head pennies' to ensure fishing and grazing rights. Today, they largely collect kisses from each lady of the house. In the court, the town's officers are elected for the coming year and the accounts examined. The court manages the town hall, the John of Gaunt Inn, the Common, Freemen's Marsh, and fishing rites in the Rivers Kennet and Dun. A town crier is a person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets. ...
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Legends There is an old legend that Hingwar the Dane (alias Ivarr the Boneless) was drowned accidentally while crossing the Kennet here, and that the town was named after him. This stems from the mistaken belief that the Battle of Edington took place at Eddington in Berkshire rather than Edington in Wiltshire. English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries. ...
Ivar the Boneless (Ivar inn beinlausi) (c. ...
The Battle of Edington (May 878) was a battle which took place near Edington in the county of Wiltshire in the south-west of England. ...
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History Hungerford is a Saxon name meaning 'Hanging Wood Ford'. The town’s symbol is the six-pointed star and crescent moon. Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon[1], Old English: ) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...
The place does not occur in the Domesday Book, but certainly existed by 1173. By 1241, it called itself a borough. In the late 14th century, John of Gaunt was lord of the manor and he granted the people the lucrative fishing rights on the Kennet. A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
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John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (June 24, 1340 – February 3, 1399) was the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. ...
The title of Lord of the Manor arose in the English medieval system of Manorialism following the Norman Conquest. ...
Elizabeth I’s coachman died at Hungerford during a Royal visit. During the English Civil War, the Earl of Essex and his army spent the night here in June 1644. In October of the same year, the Earl of Manchester’s cavalry were also quartered in the town. Then, in the November, the King’s forces arrived in Hungerford on their way to Abingdon. During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, William of Orange was offered the Crown of England whilst staying at the Bear Inn here. Elizabeth I redirects here. ...
The English Civil War consisted of a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians (known as Roundheads) and Royalists (known as Cavaliers) between 1642 and 1651. ...
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, (January 11 1591 – 14 September 1646), was the son and heir of the unfortunate Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and succeeded to his fathers title in 1604, three years after the previous earl had been executed for treason. ...
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG (1602 – May 5, 1671), eldest son of the first earl by his first wife, Catherine Spencer, granddaughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, was born in 1602, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. ...
French Republican Guard - May 8, 2005 celebrations Cavalry (from French cavalerie) were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback in combat. ...
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Abingdon Town Councils coat of arms. ...
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The noble family of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford originated from the town, although they very early moved to Heytesbury in Wiltshire. Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford Sir Walter Hungerford was the son and heir of Sir Edward Hungerford. ...
Heytesbury is a village in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, in the Wylye Valley. ...
St Lawrence's Church stands next to the canal. It was rebuilt in 1814-1816 by John Pinch the elder in Gothic style and refurbished again in the 1850s. John Pinch the elder and John Pinch the younger were architects, father and son, working mainly in the city of Bath, England. ...
Gothic architecture characterizes any of the styles of European architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, in use throughout Europe during the high and late medieval period, from the 12th century onwards. ...
In the late 19th century, two policeman were shot by poachers in Eddington. Their memorial crosses still stand where they fell.
The Hungerford massacre occurred in on August 19, 1987. A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer, Michael Robert Ryan, armed with several weapons including an AK-47 rifle and a Beretta pistol, shot and killed sixteen people including his mother, and wounded fifteen others, then fatally shot himself. A report on this incident was commissioned by the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. It remains, along with the Dunblane massacre, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history. Michael Robert Ryan The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on August 19, 1987. ...
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930), is a senior British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. ...
The massacre led to the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988[1], which banned the ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted the use of shotguns with a magazine capacity of more than two rounds. The Hungerford Report had demonstrated that Ryan's collection of weapons was legally licensed.
Notable People - Ivarr the Boneless, Danish invader
- John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III
- Sir Robert de Hungerford, 14th century statesman
- Samuel Chandler, Nonconformist divine
- William Greatrakes, connected with the authorship of the Letters of Junius
- Robert Snooks, last highwayman to be hung in England, born in Hungerford 1761
- Thomas Hayward (literary editor) (d. 1779?), editor of The British Muse (1738) and lawyer in Hungerford
- Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, military aviator
- Michael Robert Ryan, mass murderer
- Will Young, singer
- Jane Buckle, just come off the council
Ivar the Boneless (Ivar inn beinlausi) (c. ...
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (June 24, 1340 – February 3, 1399) was the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. ...
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Samuel Chandler (1693 - May 8, 1766), English Nonconformist divine, was born at Hungerford, in Berkshire, where his father was a minister. ...
A nonconformist is an English or Welsh Protestant of any non-Anglican denomination, chiefly advocating religious liberty. ...
Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from January 21, 1769 to January 21, 1772. ...
Robert Snooks or Snooks, also known by the first name James, had the distinction of being the last man to be executed in England for highway robbery, on March 11, 1802. ...
RAF Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal (left) and Polish Commander in Chief Władysław Sikorski (right) visit an airbase of the 300th Polish Bomber Squadron in England. ...
Michael Robert Ryan Michael Robert Ryan, on 19 August 1987, armed with several weapons including an AK-47 rifle, went on a mass murder spree that became known as the Hungerford massacre and led to major changes to firearms law in the United Kingdom following the Hungerford Report. ...
William Robert Young (born January 20, 1979) is an English singer and actor. ...
See also Hungerford Town F.C. is a football club based in Hungerford, England. ...
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External links - Hungerford Town Council
- Hungerford in West Berkshire
- Hungerford Historical Association
- Royal Berkshire History: Hungerford
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