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Little Maplestead
Little Maplestead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. Amenities Little Maplestead once had a Knights Hospitaller establishment called Little Maplestead Preceptory. The round parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is one of only four medieval round churches in England now surviving. The circular nave has an arcade of six bays. The church dates from around 1335 but was practically rebuilt 1849–55. It was built by the Knights Hospitallers. The church is a Grade II* listed building. Some restoration took place in the 1850s, but the original design and composition of the rotunda that forms the nave remains, as do many of the earlier fittings. In March 2013 the church was granted £5,000 by the National Churches Trust towards the repair of the gutters. A total of £42,000 had been raised for a restoration project at the church, which was started by supporters two years before, with a fund-raising target of £100,000. In 1836, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braintree (district)
Braintree is a local government district in the English county of Essex, with a population (2011 census) of 147,084. Its main town is Braintree. The three towns of the district are Braintree, Halstead and Witham. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Braintree and Bocking, Halstead, and Witham and (for list of parishes) Braintree Rural District and Halstead Rural District. Council The council is controlled by the Conservatives who hold 34 of the 49 seats. The council is based at Causeway House on Bocking End in Braintree. The building was purpose-built for the council and opened in 1981. Wards There are 26 wards: * Bocking Blackwater *Bocking North *Bocking South * Braintree Central and Beckers Green *Braintree South *Braintree West *Bumpstead *Coggeshall *Gosfield & Greenstead Green *Great Notley & Black Notley *Halstead St Andrews *Halstead Trinity *Hatfield Peverel and Terling *Hedingham *Kelvedon and Feering * Rayne *Silver End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wallen (architect)
William Wallen FSA (1807–1888) was an English architect who practised in London and Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was also a campaigner for better architectural education and professional status. Biography William Wallen, the son of John Wallen (1785–1865) and Maria Adams (1780–1825) was baptised at St. Marys, Stepney in 1807. William received architectural training from his father. In 1830, William married Frances Gill (1802–1895) and the following year, their son, William Sowerby Wallen, was baptised at Whitechapel, London. They lived with John Wallen’s extended family in various homes in and around Norton Folgate, London. In 1838, William moved his practice to Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Frances had been born in nearby Notton, therefore, family connections may have influenced this move. By 1851, William, Frances, their son, William Sowerby and niece, Julia Gill, were living at 61 New North Rd, Huddersfield. During 1853, William ceased to practice and it was later as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Maplestead
Great Maplestead is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the English county of Essex. In the sixteenth century the Deane family were Lords of the Manor of Great Maplestead. Later in the century the manor passed by marriage to Sir John Tyndal, Master of the Court of Chancery. It was here in 1618 that Tyndal's daughter Margaret Tyndal Winthrop married John Winthrop, a crucial figure in the founding of Massachusetts. In the 1870s the ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' said that Great Maplestead "took its name from maple trees, which anciently flourished on or around its site; and has the repute of being a very healthy place". Location This village is located in the north of Essex, which is in the South East of England, and is near the town of Halstead and the villages of Sible Hedingham and Little Maplestead. The closest city to Great Maplestead is Chelmsford, which is in central Essex, though the town of Colchester is closer. There is a distanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pebmarsh
Pebmarsh is a small village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in Essex, England. It is situated to the north east of Halstead close to the A131. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Twinstead. Sir Ronald Storrs, an official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office, Governor of Jerusalem, and a colleague of Lawrence of Arabia, is buried in the village churchyard. A plaque on the church indicates the settlement of Pebmarsh was recorded, in some form, in the Domesday Book of 1086. Amenities It has a small village school, St. John the Baptist C of E primary school. There has been a school in Pebmarsh since the late 18th century, however the main part of the present school has been open and in operation since 1967, serving the surrounding villages of Pebmarsh, Lamarsh and Alphamstone. Pebmarsh has a large village hall which was built fairly recently to replace its run-down predecessor. There is a children's park in the vicinity, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halstead
Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. Its population of 11,906 in 2011Office for National Statistics: ''Census 2001: Population Density, 2011'' Retrieved 29 November 2015. was estimated to be 12,161 in 2019. The town lies near and Sudbury, in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickham St
Wickham may refer to: Places Australia * Wickham, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle * Wickham, Northern Territory, a locality * Wickham, Western Australia, a town * Wickham River, an ephemeral river in the Northern Territory Canada * Wickham Parish, New Brunswick ** Wickham, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community therein * Wickham, Quebec England * Wickham, Berkshire * Wickham, Hampshire * Wickham Bishops, Essex * Wickham Market, Suffolk * Wickham Skeith, Suffolk * Wickham St. Paul, Essex * East Wickham, south-east London * West Wickham, Cambridgeshire * West Wickham, south-east London Other Places * Wickham, West Virginia, in Raleigh County, U.S. * Wickham, Hampshire County, West Virginia * Wickham Island (other) People Characters * Bobbie Wickham, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories * George Wickham, principal villain in Jane Austen's 1813 novel ''Pride and Prejudice'' * William Wickham, recurring character of ''Poldark'' fifth season Given name * Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hicks
Barbara Hicks (12 August 1924 – 6 September 2013) was an English film actress. She appeared in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film ''Brazil'' and Merchant Ivory Productions's 1992 Bafta award-winning ''Howards End''. Biography Hicks was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and lived at Little Maplestead, Essex. She was educated at Adcote School, Shropshire. After training at the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art, she made her first appearance on stage in 1948 at the Royal Court, Liverpool in Leo Marks’ ''Written for a Lady'', which transferred to the Garrick Theatre, and became her West End debut. She was married for 40 years to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Taylor (25 January 1913 – 26 March 2010). He was an outstanding front line commander who won two MCs in Italy in 1944. Hicks appeared in ''Happy Birthday, Sir Larry'', a National Theatre birthday tribute to Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Cardle
Matthew Sheridan Cardle (born 15 April 1983) is an English pop singer. He was born in Southampton and grew up in Halstead, Essex. Cardle has been involved in music since his early teens and has been a member of two different bands; Darwyn and Seven Summers. Cardle rose to fame after winning the seventh series of ''The X Factor'', and received a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music and later signed a deal with Columbia Records. Following Cardle's victory on ''The X Factor'', the winner's single and his debut single, "When We Collide", was released. The track was made available to purchase on 12 December 2010, shortly after the show had ended. On 19 December 2010, the track debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, as well as on the Irish Singles Chart. The track also became the second biggest-selling single of 2010 with 815,000 copies sold within two weeks. In June 2012, it had sold 1 million copies, the fourth single by an ''X Factor'' contestant to have done so. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The X Factor (UK Series 7)
''The X Factor'' is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The seventh series started on ITV on 21 August 2010 and ended on 12 December 2010. The series saw the creation of the boy band One Direction, from boys who entered the competition as individuals. The winner of the competition was Matt Cardle. Cardle was mentored throughout the show by Dannii Minogue. After the victory, he released his debut single " When We Collide". A total of 15,448,019 votes were cast throughout the series. It was presented by Dermot O'Leary, with spin-off show '' The Xtra Factor'' presented by Konnie Huq on ITV2, who took over from Holly Willoughby. The competition was split into several stages: auditions, bootcamp, judges' houses and live shows. Auditions took place throughout June and July 2010, with Simon Cowell, Dannii Minogue, Louis Walsh and Cheryl Cole returning as judges. Minogue missed the auditions and bootcamp due to being on maternity leave, so Geri Halliwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Saint John (chartered 1888)
The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (french: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist. The order traces its origins back to the Knights Hospitaller in the Middle Ages, which was later known as the Order of Malta. A faction of them emerged in France in the 1820s and moved to Britain in the early 1830s, where, after operating under a succession of grand priors and different names, it became associated with the founding in 1882 of the St John Ophthalmic Hospital near the old city of Jerusalem and the St John Ambulance Brigade in 1887. The order is found throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, Hong Kong, the Republic of Ireland, and the United States of America, with the worldwide mission "to prevent and relieve sickness and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Churches Trust
The National Churches Trust, formerly the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, is a British registered charity whose aim is to "promote and support church buildings of historic, architectural and community value across the UK". It carries out this aim by providing financial grants to repair and modernise church buildings, supporting projects to enable churches to remain open, collaborating with local Churches Trusts and volunteer bodies, providing practical advice, support and information, and working to promote public awareness of the needs of churches. Its forerunner was the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, whose functions it has taken over, together with those of the Incorporated Church Building Society. History By the middle of the 20th century, the fabric of many British church buildings was in a poor state of repair. This had followed socioeconomic changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including population changes, followed by neglect during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Greater London to the south and south-west. There are three cities in Essex: Southend, Colchester and Chelmsford, in order of population. For the purposes of government statistics, Essex is placed in the East of England region. There are four definitions of the extent of Essex, the widest being the ancient county. Next, the largest is the former postal county, followed by the ceremonial county, with the smallest being the administrative county—the area administered by the County Council, which excludes the two unitary authorities of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea. The ceremonial county occupies the eastern part of what was, during the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex. As well as rural areas and urban areas, it forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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