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Piddington V Bates
Piddington may refer to: *Piddington (surname) *Piddington, Buckinghamshire *Piddington, Northamptonshire **Piddington railway station **Piddington Roman Villa *Piddington, Oxfordshire *Piddington and Wheeler End *Mount Piddington {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington (surname)
Piddington is an English surname, originally given to people from Piddington, Northamptonshire, or Piddington, Oxfordshire. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Piddington (1862–1945), Australian High Court Justice * Andrew Piddington (born 1949), English film director * Henry Piddington (1797–1858), British-Indian scientist * Jack Piddington John Hobart "Jack" Piddington (1910–1997), Australian research scientist * Marion Louisa Piddington, (1869–1950) Australian activist in sex education and eugenics * Phyllis Piddington (1910–2001), Australian novelist, poet and short story writer * Ralph Piddington (1906–1974), New Zealand psychologist, anthropologist and university professor * William Henry Piddington (1856–1900). Australian politician * William Piddington (1815–1887), Australian bookseller and politician * William Piddington, better known as Bill Tarmey (1941-2012), English actor * The Piddingtons Sydney Piddington (14 May 191829 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington, Buckinghamshire
Piddington is a hamlet (place), hamlet in the parish of Piddington and Wheeler End in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the main A40 road, A40 between Stokenchurch and West Wycombe. Piddington originally comprised a number of scattered farmsteads, a workhouse and manor house. Surviving buildings of which date to the 16th and 17th centuries. The Dashwood Arms pub was originally a coaching inn. At the turn of the century, a furniture factory was established and the hamlet grew under its influence. The factory is no more, but a small light industrial area now stands on its site. There are no shops in Piddington - the nearest being in West Wycombe or Lane End, Buckinghamshire, Lane End. However, there is a village hall (which hosts many regular events including the annual Piddington Horticultural Society Show) and a playing field. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington, Northamptonshire
Piddington is a village in the south of the English shire county of Northamptonshire (known as Northants) and just north of Buckinghamshire. It is south of Northampton town centre, in a cul-de-sac off the main road at the War Memorial in the village of Hackleton, and about south-west of there. It has a geographic size of and an average height of , rising steadily to in Salcey Forest. Demographics It is part of Hackleton (where the actual population is included) parish, which in total has a population of 1,568, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, and contains 606 dwellings. Governance The village is part of Hackleton Parish councils in England, parish council, which also covers the nearby villages of Preston Deanery and Horton, Northamptonshire, Horton. History The villages name means 'Farm/settlement connected with Pyda'. In a field near Piddington is the site of the Piddington Roman Villa. In Roman times, one of the most important roads in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington Railway Station
Piddington was a railway station on the former Bedford to Northampton Line. Despite its name, the station was located close to the village of Horton in Northamptonshire, approximately from the village of Piddington. History The line and station were opened in 1872 and operated by the Midland Railway which became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. The line closed to passengers in 1962. Until 1939 the western end of the line was at Northampton St Johns Street Station.That station closed in 1939 and the trains were diverted into Northampton Bridge Street Station and from there they ran into Northampton Castle Station. For a short while from December 1892, Piddington and Horton were also served by the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway, known as the "SMJR", with a station called Salcey Forest to the south west of Horton and south east of Piddington. This line ran from Towcester to Ravenstone Wood Junction on the Northampton to Bedford line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington Roman Villa
Piddington Roman Villa is the remains of a large Roman villa at Piddington, Northamptonshire, about south-east of Northampton, a county in the East Midlands of England. Location The villa is on the site of an earlier late Iron Age settlement. The museum is housed in an old de-consecrated Wesleyan chapel built in 1851, located in Chapel End on the north-eastern edge of the village. History Iron Age Excavation by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society since 1979 provides evidence that the area close to Piddington has been occupied for ca.10,000 years. Neolithic, ca.3500–1500 BC, and Bronze Age people, ca.1500–600 BC, left behind flint tools and arrowheads which they used for hunting. No houses survived, however. A late Iron Age settlement originated around the middle of the 1st century BC where people lived in round houses inside an enclosure with an outer ditch for protection. They were skilled at pottery and making bronze objects and traded with continental Europe. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington, Oxfordshire
Piddington is a village and civil parish about southeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. It lies close to the border with Buckinghamshire. Its toponym has been attributed to the Old English ''Pyda's tun''. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 370. Manor Just before the Norman Conquest of England, Hacun, a Dane, held the manor of Piddington, and also the nearby manor of Merton. The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of William I of England held the manor. After the Revolt of the Earls in 1075 Judith's husband Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria was executed and William the Conqueror betrothed her to Simon I de Senlis. She refused to marry him and fled England, so William confiscated her estates and allowed Simon to marry Judith's eldest daughter Maud. Simon received estates including Merton and Piddington as part of the honour of Huntingdon. In 1152 Simon II de Senlis inherited Piddington and almost immediately gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington And Wheeler End
Piddington and Wheeler End is a small civil parish within Wycombe District Council, Buckinghamshire, England. Within the parish are the main hamlets of Piddington and Wheeler End. The total voting population of the parish is 630. The parish council administers the common land in both villages including three popular allotment sites. It is also responsible for the war memorial at Wheeler End. The parish council together with the village hall A village hall is a public building in a village used for various things such as: United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, a village hall is usually a building which contains at least one large room (plus kitchen and toilets), is owned by a local ... publish a quarterly newsletter which goes out to the entire parish. References External linksParish website {{Wycombe [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
