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Somerford may refer to: Places England * Somerford, Cheshire, a civil parish ** Somerford Park, Cheshire, a former country house * Somerford, Dorset, a district of Christchurch * Somerford Booths, a civil parish in Cheshire * Somerford Hall, a mansion house in Staffordshire * Somerford Keynes, a village in Gloucestershire * Great Somerford, a village in Wiltshire * Little Somerford, a village in Wiltshire United States * Somerford Township, Madison County, Ohio Somerford Township is one of the fourteen townships of Madison County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 6,975 people in the township. Geography Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Pike Town ... People Surname * Thomas Somerford (1881–1948), British architect See also * Summerford (other) {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford Hall
Somerford Hall is an 18th-century Palladian style mansion house at Brewood, Staffordshire, which now serves as a wedding venue. It is a Grade II* listed building. Somerford is a name of Old English origin and the interpretation is obvious: "summer river-crossing". This probably means that the River Penk near this point was only fordable in the summer. The manor of Somerford was held from the 1120s, when Henry I granted land there to Richard de Somerford, until 1705 by the Somerford family, named after their place of residence. The old house, estate and attached manors were owned from 1696 by Sir Walter Wrottesley, 3rd Baronet (died 1712), who had bought the mortgages of John Somerford, after which all properties passed to Wrottesley's second wife Dame Anne who died in 1732. In 1734 the house was sold in trust by Dame Anne's brother Thomas, her daughter Anne, and Peter Meyrick of the Bank of England, to the lawyer Robert Barbor of the Inner Temple for £5400.Wrottesley, George (1903 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford, Cheshire
Somerford is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is adjacent to the north west of Congleton Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The town is by the River Dane, south of Manchester and north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 26,482. Top ..., from which town it has some housing overflow. According to the 2001 census, the population of the civil parish was 343,2001 Census figures for Somerford civil parish. Neighbourhood Statistics. Official UK government website. Retrieval Date: February 11, 2008. inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford Park, Cheshire
Somerford Park is situated off the A54 road midway between Congleton and Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. Somerfield Hall was a Georgian architecture, Georgian brick-built English country house, country house which used to stand in the park as the seat of the Shakerley Baronets family, but was demolished in 1926. The original house was built around 1720 for Peter Shakerley. The Shakerleys had owned land in the area since the reign of Henry III. Several generations of the Shakerley family had previously lived at Hulme Hall, Allostock, Hulme Hall near Northwich since the mid-15th century before the family moved to Somerford. The house was then extended in the 18th century by architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard and enlarged again around 1800 by Lawrence Robinson of Middleton, Lancashire by the addition of a large rectangular wing at right angles to the existing 9-bay house. The new front faced the park and boasted a central domed bow. The house was then altered by Anthony Salvin for Sir C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford, Dorset
Somerford is a district in the unitary authority of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. It lies in the historic county of Dorset. It borders with Mudeford and is intersected by the Somerford Road (B3059). On the north side is an area of residential housing, originally developed as a council estate in the 1950s. The district has three schools: Somerford Infants, Somerford Junior and The Grange School. The present day biggest employer is BAE Systems (previously as Plessey). Historically, the biggest employers were Airspeed, de Havilland and Gardner's. Origin of name Somerford was named after a ford over the River Mude which was only passable in summertime. Its approximate site is that of the current day Somerford Roundabout. Manor, grange, fishpond and farm Historically, Somerford was a manor extending from the east side of Christchurch Harbour in the west to Chewton in the east. It is first mentioned in a document dated AD 1140 which confirmed the grant of the estate to Christc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford Booths
Somerford Booths is a small civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In the census of 2001 it was recorded as having a population of 175. increasing to 181 at the 2011 Census. The civil parish holds a parish council meeting under a grouping scheme with the civil parish of Hulme Walfield, and so it is consequently called ''Hulme Walfield & Somerford Booths Parish Council.'' The parish is small and now consists of scattered farms and small groupings of houses, including the hamlet of Newsbank. It contains Somerford Booths Hall as well as Grove House Farm and Broomfield Farm which are shown as ancient buildings on the Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ... map of the area. See also * Listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford Keynes
Somerford Keynes (, ) is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, close to the River Thames and about 5 miles (8 km) from its source. It lies on the boundary with Wiltshire, midway between Cirencester, Swindon and Malmesbury. The parish population at the 2011 census was 479. A 2019 estimate put it at 558. Early history A series of salvage excavations at Spratsgate Lane in 1986–1988 revealed part of an Iron Age and Roman settlement. The earliest finds were a series of curvilinear enclosures from the early 1st to the early 2nd century CE, which may have formed part of a farmstead. A religious focus is also suggested by an unusually large number of coins and brooches, which may have been votive offerings. Stone sculptural fragments were found of an eagle and a shield. These could belong to a representation of the Roman Capitoline triad of the gods Jupiter, Juno and Minerva), which again points to a formal religious presence. The village first appears in writing i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Somerford
Great Somerford is a village and civil parish within Dauntsey Vale, Wiltshire, England,OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon, Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher: Ordnance Survey A2 edition (2007). near the south bank of the river Avon. It lies approximately southeast of Malmesbury and west of Swindon. The hamlet of Startley and the location of Seagry Heath are within the bounds of the parish. The parish boundaries to the northeast and east follow the Avon, or in some places the river's former course. In the northwest the boundary partly follows the Rodbourne stream, a small tributary which joins the Avon northwest of the village. The Brinkworth Brook joins the Avon in the northwest corner of the parish. History Eight estates were recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book at the Somerfords, with altogether 80 households. The mound of a motte castle, 40 metres in diameter and probably from the 12th century, stands immediately east of the church. South of the mound is the Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Somerford
Little Somerford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, southeast of Malmesbury and northeast of Chippenham. The northern boundary of the parish follows approximately the B4040 Malmesbury– Swindon road. The Bristol Avon forms part of the boundary to the west and south, and its tributary the Brinkworth Brook forms part of the southeastern boundary. History Eight estates were recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book at ''Sumreford'', with altogether 80 households. The 'Little' prefix began to be used in the 16th century to distinguish the parish from neighbouring Great Somerford. A school for 100 pupils was built in 1868 to replace an earlier schoolroom, and was extended in 1894. Children of all ages attended until 1954, when those aged 11 and over transferred to the secondary schools at Malmesbury. The school closed in 1982 when a new school was opened in Great Somerford to serve both villages. The South Wales Main Line railway from London to Bristol and South W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerford Township, Madison County, Ohio
Somerford Township is one of the fourteen townships of Madison County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 6,975 people in the township. Geography Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Pike Township - north * Monroe Township - northeast * Deer Creek Township - east * Union Township - south * Harmony Township, Clark County - southwest * Pleasant Township, Clark County - west * Goshen Township, Champaign County - northwest No municipalities are located in Somerford Township, although the census-designated place of Choctaw Lake and the unincorporated community of Summerford lie in the township's south. Name and history It is the only Somerford Township statewide. Government The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Somerford
Thomas Retford Somerford (1881 - 25 June 1948) was a British architect, best known for the temperance movement billiard halls he designed for the Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd. The Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd was a Pendleton, Lancashire company that as part of the wider temperance movement built billiard halls in the north of England and London. Somerford was initially an assistant to Norman Evans, and later was lead architect in his own right. Several of these former halls designed by Somerford are now Grade II listed buildings. His 1912-1914 hall at 134-141 King's Road, Chelsea, London is now a Grade II listed building. Somerford's hall at 411-417 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London is also still there, but the frontage has been sub-divided into a number of smaller shop units, and the upper storeys are used as a hotel. Together with fellow architect E A Stone, he designed the Astoria in Brixton, London in 1929 (now the Brixton Academy Brixton Academy (originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
