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List Of People From Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England. It is located approximately from Kings Cross, London. Founded in 1920, Welwyn Garden City was the second Garden city movement, garden city in England. In 1948, it was designated one of the first New towns in the United Kingdom, new towns under the New Towns Act 1946. The following notable people were born in, lived in, or are otherwise strongly associated with Welwyn Garden City. Academics * Jack Goody (1919–2015), social anthropologist * Jonathan M. Gregory, climate scientist * Klaus Hasselmann (born 1931), Nobel Prize laureate, grew up in Welwyn Garden City * Martin J. H. Mogridge (1940–2000), transportation researcher Arts * Chris Floyd (photographer), Chris Floyd (born 1968), photographer * Susanna Heron (born 1949), stone relief sculptor * Andy Lomas (born 1967), digital artist Media * Colin Berry (born 1946), disc jockey and newsreader * Alesha Dixon (born 1978), media presenter, singer, model * Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it forms part of the East of England region. Hertfordshire covers . It derives its name – via the name of the county town of Hertford – from a hart (stag) and a ford, as represented on the county's coat of arms and on the flag. Hertfordshire County Council is based in Hertford, once the main market town and the current county town. The largest settlement is Watford. Since 1903 Letchworth has served as the prototype garden city; Stevenage became the first town to expand under post-war Britain's New Towns Act of 1946. In 2013 Hertfordshire had a population of about 1,140,700, with Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Watford and St Albans (the county's only ''city'') each having between 50,000 and 100,000 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
