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Ashwell may refer to: Places *Ashwell, Devon *Ashwell, Hertfordshire *Ashwell, Rutland *Ashwell, Somerset *Ashwell, Queensland, a suburb of Ipswich, in Australia People *Gilbert Ashwell (1916–2014) *Lena Ashwell (1872–1957) *Richard Ashwell (died 1392) *Thomas Ashwell (1470s–16th-century) *Arthur Rawson Ashwell (1824–1879) *John Ashwell (died 1541) *Johnny Ashwell (born 1954) *Pauline Ashwell (born 1928) *Rachel Ashwell (born 1959) *Ashwell Prince (born 1977) Buildings *Ashwell (HM Prison) {{disambiguation, surname, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Devon
Ashwell is a village in Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ..., England. Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Ashwell is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire situated north-east of Baldock. History To the southwest of the village is Arbury Banks, the remains of an Iron Age hill fort which have been largely removed by agricultural activity. In 2002 a local metal detector, Alan Meek, found a silver Roman figurine of a goddess, Dea Senuna. A subsequent archaeological dig over four summers revealed 26 more gold and silver objects situated in a major open-air ritual site. The Buckinghamshire family of Nernewt (Nernuyt) held land here in the 14th century, which was originally part of the Abbot of Westminster's manor. This land became the manor of Westbury Nernewtes. The village has a wealth of architecture spanning several centuries. There was also a great fire of Ashwell on Saturday 2 February 1850, without fatalities. The village itself is mostly in a fine state of preservation, from the medieval cottage to the fine town house, plastered or timbered, thatched or tiled, in Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Rutland
Ashwell is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 290 at the 2001 census falling to 269 at the 2011 census. It is located about north of Oakham. The village's name means 'spring/stream with ash trees'. St Mary’s church is mainly of 14th-century origin, but in 1851 it underwent a major restoration by William Butterfield. James Adams, rector, who won a Victoria Cross in Afghanistan in 1879, is buried in the churchyard. Ashwell Hall stands in a small park about half a mile south of the village. It was built in 1879 in the Tudor style. Aviator Beryl Markham (''née'' Clutterbuck) was born in Westfield House and lived here until her family moved to Kenya when she was four years old. Ashwell Prison, a former Category C prison, was located about south of the centre of the village but actually in the parish of Burley. Previously the site was a Second World War US army base, home to part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Somerset
Whitelackington is a village and civil parish on the A303 one mile north east of Ilminster, in Somerset, England. The parish includes Dillington Park and the hamlets of Atherstone and Ashwell. Etymology The village's name is from Old English and is composed of two elements: the Old English personal name Hwitlāc and ''tun'' meaning "farm" but here in the sense of "estate, village". The name was recorded as ''Witelecintone'' in 1127. History Whitelackington was part of the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone. The village was the main home in the 17th century of the Speke family, including George Speke, Mary Speke and their son Hugh Speke. Rev. F. C. Johnson was vicar from 1825 to 1874. His wife was the elder sister of James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and their second son, Charles, succeeded him after his elder brother, John Brooke Johnson (later changed to Brooke) was disinherited. John is buried in the churchyard, along with some other family members. Governance The parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Queensland
Ashwell is a rural locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ... in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Ashwell had a population of 85 people. Geography Kunkala is a neighbourhood in the north of the locality () near the Kunkala railway station () on the now-closed Marburg branch railway line. History The origin of the name Ashwell is from a town in the United Kingdom by the name of Ashwell, Devon, Ashwell. Walter Loveday and Henry Stevens provided an acre each of land for a school in this district to be named Ashwell after Walter Loveday's farm titled Ashwell which he named after Ashwell, Devon, Ashwell, United Kingdom. Ashwell State School opened on 8 November 1887. The name ''Kunkala'' may be an Aboriginal word for ''running fresh water.'' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Ashwell
Gilbert Ashwell (July 16, 1916 – June 27, 2014) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his work with Anatol Morell in isolating the first cell receptor. Biography Ashwell was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1916. After high school, he went to college to further his education. He attended the University of Illinois, where he earned his B.A.in 1938 and M.S. in 1941. He then went to Columbia University in New York, which was closer to his hometown, to spend two years doing research. In 1950, Ashwell joined the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases.Kresge, Nicole, Robert D. Simoni, and Robert L. Hill. “Hepatic Carbohydrate Binding Proteins and Glycoprotein Catabolism: the Work of Gilbert G. Ashwell.” ''The Journal of Biological Chemistry''. n.d. Web. 11 March 2010. This Institute had grown and later split into two institutes, which are the National Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
