Freston Tower Aug 2007
Freston may refer to: * Freston, Suffolk, a village south of Ipswich, England * Freston (causewayed enclosure), a Neolithic site near the village of Freston * An alternative name for Friston, a village near Saxmundham, Suffolk, England People *Anthony Freston (1757–1819), English Anglican clergyman *Kathy Freston, American self-help author *Tom Freston, American television executive See also * Mission Freston was the code-name of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) military mission under the command of Col. Capt D.T. Bill Hudson., to German-occupied Poland (1939–1945) during World War II. * Freeston (other) * Frestonia Frestonia was the name adopted by the residents of Freston Road, London, when they attempted to secede from the United Kingdom in 1977 to form the Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia. The residents were squatters, many of whom eventual ...

Freston, Suffolk
Freston is a small village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England, located on the Shotley Peninsula, 4 miles south-east of Ipswich. In 2001 the parish had a population of 122, reducing slightly to 120 at the 2011 Census. History Bubonic plague Freston is notable as the location of the last outbreak of bubonic plague in England in 1910. The centre of the outbreak was Latimer Cottages, where it is thought plague-bearing rats may have come ashore with smuggled goods. However, the diagnosis of plague has been disputed. Amenities and places of interest * St. Peter's Church * The Freston Boot public house, which closed in 2010 and reopened in 2018 * Freston Wood * Freston Tower, either a lookout tower or a folly Transport For transport there is the B1456 road nearby. Notable residents *William Latymer (1499–1583), evangelical clergyman, Dean of Peterborough from 1560. He was chaplain to Anne Boleyn *Isaac Eastey (1627-1712), husband of Ma ...
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Freston (causewayed Enclosure)
Freston is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an archaeological site near the village of Freston, in Suffolk, England. Causewayed enclosures were built in England from shortly before 3700 BC until at least 3500 BC; they are characterized by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. Their purpose is not known; they may have been settlements, meeting places, or ritual sites. The Freston enclosure was first identified from aerial photographs in 1969, and was excavated in 2019. Background Freston is a causewayed enclosure,Oswald, Dyer, & Barber (2001), p. 155. a form of earthwork that was built in northwestern Europe, including the southern British Isles, in the early Neolithic period.Whittle, Healy, & Bayliss (2011), pp. 1–2.Oswald, Dyer, & Barber (2001), p. 3. Causewayed enclosures are areas that are fully or partially enclosed by ditches interrupted by gaps, or causeways, of unexcavated ground, often with ...
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Friston
Friston is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is southeast of Saxmundham, its post town, and northwest of Aldeburgh. The River Alde bounds the village on the south. The surrounding land is chiefly arable. The soil becomes partly marshy in the lower grounds. The village is noted for its early nineteenth century post mill. It is located next to the village of Knodishall. Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Frisetuna'' and seems to come from Anglo-Saxon ''Frīsa tūn'' = "the farmstead of the Frisians"; some of them may have come with the Angles and Saxons The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic * * * * peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor .... An alternative name for the parish is Freston. In 1887, John Bartholomew described Friston as:Frist ...
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Anthony Freston
Anthony Freston, né Brettingham (1757–1819) was an English Anglican clergyman. Life Freston was the son of Robert Brettingham of Norwich, and nephew of Matthew Brettingham, the architect of Holkham Hall, the Earl of Leicester's seat in Norfolk. While a child Anthony took the name of Freston, in pursuance of the will of his maternal uncle, William Freston of Mendham, who died in 1761, and devised to him his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk. He matriculated at Oxford as a commoner of Christ Church, 26 December 1775, and proceeded B.A. in 1780. Having married a Cambridge lady, the widow of Thomas Hyde, he removed in 1783 to Clare Hall in that university, where he was incorporated B.A., and graduated M.A. the same year. In 1792 he was licensed to the perpetual cure of Needham, Norfolk, in his own patronage, and in 1801 he was presented by a college friend to the rectory of Edgworth, Gloucestershire. George Huntingford George Isaac Huntingford (1748–1832) was successively of ...
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Kathy Freston
Kathy Freston is an American author and promoter of plant-based nutrition. Her books include ''The Lean'', ''Veganist'', ''Quantum Wellness'', ''Clean Protein'' and ''72 Reasons to Be Vegan''. Biography Early life Freston grew up in Doraville and later in Dunwoody, a suburb outside of Atlanta Her mother, Joan, and her father, Bill, worked together in a printing store they owned in Dunwoody; she has two younger brothers, Kevin and Jon. Freston started studying meditation in her spare time and began making her own guided meditation recordings. She said, "… I started creating tapes for friends and realized, "Hey, this is very useful to people". People "came to her for counselling," and so she became a meditation counsellor, helping people find relationships or create abundance, get pregnant, or deal with the disease. She helped Cyrinda Fox, ex-wife of Steven Tyler, find peace with her cancer diagnosis and became a minister long enough to preside over the wedding of Cyrinda Fox ...
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Tom Freston
Thomas E. Freston (born November 22, 1945) is an American media proprietor, businessman, and financier. Early life and education Freston grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Michael's College and an MBA from New York University. Freston began his career advertising at Benton & Bowles, which later merged with D'Arcy. In 1972, after a year of traveling, he moved to South Asia to start a textile and clothing business, Hindu Kush, and worked and lived in New Delhi, India and Kabul, Afghanistan. Career Returning to the United States in 1979, he joined the Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company (WASEC), a pioneer in the new field of cable television programming. He was one of the founding members of the team that created a music video channel MTV in 1981. As head of marketing, he worked on the " I Want My MTV" ad campaign that helped make the new network a cultural phenomenon. In 1987, he became the President and CEO of MTV Networks, a job he ...
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Mission Freston
Mission Freston was the code-name of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) military mission under the command of Col. Capt D.T. Bill Hudson., to German-occupied Poland (1939–1945) during World War II. The soldiers taking part in it were parachuted on 26/27 December 1944, about 30 km south-east of Częstochowa, near the town of Żarki. During World War II in February 1944, the Polish government-in-exile began efforts to obtain a British mission in German-occupied Poland. Seeing the reluctant attitude of Anthony Eden and the British Foreign Office, the head of SOE, Gen. Colin Gubbins, and the head of the Polish section of SOE, Lt. Col. Harold B. Perkins, decided to start their own preparations. Approval for the mission was probably obtained from Winston Churchill's office. Members of the mission parachuted on the night of 26/27 December 1944 to the receiving station "Ogórek" ("Cucumber"), about 30 km south-east of Częstochowa, in Bystrzanowice near Żark ...
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Freeston (other)
Freeston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Sir Brian Freeston (1892–1958), British colonial official *Jesse Freeston, Canadian video journalist and filmmaker *John Freeston (1512–1594), English barrister, founder of the Normanton Grammar School *Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978), English poet See also * Freeston Academy, a state-run, coeducational high school situated in Normanton, West Yorkshire * Freestone (other) *Freston (other) Freston may refer to: * Freston, Suffolk, a village south of Ipswich, England * Freston (causewayed enclosure), a Neolithic site near the village of Freston * An alternative name for Friston, a village near Saxmundham, Suffolk, England People *Ant ...