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Waddington (other)
Waddington may refer to: Places *Waddington, Lincolnshire, large village in Lincolnshire, England *RAF Waddington, airforce station a few miles from the above village *Waddington, Lancashire, small village in Lancashire, England * Waddington, California, unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States *Waddington, New York, town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States *Waddington (village), New York, village located in the town of Waddington, New York, United States *Waddington, New Zealand, village in Canterbury, New Zealand *Mount Waddington, mountain in British Columbia, Canada *Waddington Range, mountain range in British Columbia, Canada People * Waddington (surname) See also *Waddingtons Waddingtons was a British manufacturer of card games, card and board games. The company was founded by John Waddington of Leeds, England and the manager, actor and playwright Wilson Barrett, under the name ''Waddingtons Limited''. The name was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington, Lincolnshire
Waddington is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated approximately south of Lincoln on the A607 Grantham Road. The village is known for its association with RAF Waddington. At the 2001 Census Waddington had a population of 6,086, increasing to 6,122 at the 2011 census. History The name 'Waddington' means 'farm/settlement of the people of Wada'. The village is a documented settlement in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 and was mainly an agricultural community until the late 19th century. Horseracing also took place on the heathland areas, which are now part of the RAF station. At various times other activities including malting, brick-making and stone-quarrying have taken place in the village. Richard de Soham, a senior judge and Crown official in Ireland, was appointed parish priest of Waddington in 1303, and apparently retired there in 1305.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Waddington
Royal Air Force Waddington otherwise known as RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located beside the village of Waddington, south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England. The station is the RAF's Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) hub and is home to a fleet of aircraft composed of the Shadow R1, RC-135W Rivet Joint and operating base for the RAF's MQ-9 Reaper. Since October 2022, it has also been home to the RAF's Aerobatic Team the Red Arrows. History First World War RAF Waddington opened as a Royal Flying Corps flying training station in 1916. Student pilots, including members of the US Army, were taught to fly a variety of aircraft. The station came under the control of the Royal Air Force when it was created on 1 April 1918. It operated until 1920, when the station went into care and maintenance. During and after the First World War, the following squadrons operated from Waddington. * No. 82 Squadron RFC between 30 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington, Lancashire
Waddington is a small village, 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,028. Before the 1974 county boundary changes, Waddington fell just within the Bowland Rural District of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It covers approximately 2000 acres of the Forest of Bowland. It is home to both an Anglican church and a Methodist church, a social clubWaddington Club with bowling green, a cafe, a post office, a playing field on which both cricket and football are played. Also, within the village there are three popular pubs, thLower Buck Inn the Higher Buck and the Waddington Arms. The village is a regular winner of the Lancashire Best Kept Village awards. History Waddington was a mesne manor of the ancient Lordship of Bowland which comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors. These spanned eight townships and four parishes, covering an area of almost on the historic bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington, California
Waddington is a populated place in Humboldt County, California, United States. It is located on the floodplain along the south side of the Eel RiverDeLorme ''California Atlas and Gazetteer'' (1st edition) (2008) map 38 southwest of Fortuna Fortuna ( la, Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at ..., at an elevation of . A post office operated at Waddington from 1891 to 1940. The name honors Alexander Waddington, a local merchant. References Former settlements in Humboldt County, California {{HumboldtCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington, New York
Waddington is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 2,266 at the 2010 census. The town was named after its principal village. The Town of Waddington has a village, also called Waddington (village), New York, Waddington. Both town and village are on the northern edge of the county, north of Canton (village), New York, Canton. History The first settlement took place in 1797 near Hamilton village, later Waddington, but an anonymous family was already living there. The community of Waddington formally established itself as an incorporated village in 1839, while still part of the Town of Madrid. The town was formed in 1859 from the Madrid, New York, Town of Madrid. A Battle in the War of 1812 took place in Waddington, at the St. Lawrence River. The Bassmaster Elite Series Championships have taken place multiple times in Waddington at Whittaker Park. Geography According to the United States Census ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington (village), New York
Waddington is a Village (New York), village located in the Waddington (town), New York, Town of Waddington in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 972 at the 2010 census. The village is named after James Waddington. The Village of Waddington is at the northern edge of the town and is north of Canton (village), New York, Canton. History The first settlers arrived around 1798. The village was originally called "Hamilton" (after Alexander Hamilton), but was changed to Waddington in 1818. Joshua Waddington was a friend of Hamilton and one of the original landowners. The village was incorporated in 1839. When the Town of Waddington was formed afterwards, it adopted the name of the village. During the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway part of the village needed to be relocated and some of the old industrial area was destroyed. The Waddington Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Geography According to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington, New Zealand
Waddington is a small village located in the Selwyn District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, near the Waimakariri Gorge. Description Waddington was named by and for William Waddington, who purchased part of the Homebush run that had previously been held by John Deans, and laid out the township in 1873. Waddington has a close association with its neighbouring village Sheffield, which is further north-west along State Highway 73. The two villages share a community committee. The two villages are located between Darfield and Springfield on both State Highway 73 and the Midland Line railway. The towns were settled in the 19th century by farmers attracted to the area because of its suitability for sheep grazing. Waddington is situated at the intersection of three major roads (two of them popular tourist roads) that service the inland regions of Canterbury, including the Inland Scenic Route and the Great Alpine Highway / State Highway 73. Waddington's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Waddington
Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Although it is lower than Mount Fairweather and Mount Quincy Adams, which straddle the United States border between Alaska and British Columbia, Mount Waddington is the highest peak that lies entirely within British Columbia. It and the subrange which surround it, known as the Waddington Range, stand at the heart of the Pacific Ranges, a remote and extremely rugged set of mountains and river valleys. It is not as far north as its extreme Arctic-like conditions might indicate, and Mount Waddington and its attendant peaks pose some of the most serious expedition mountaineering to be had in North America — and some of the most extreme relief and spectacular mountain scenery. From Waddington's fang to sea level at the heads of Bute and Knight Inlets is only about 20 miles; across the gorges of the Homathko and the Klinaklini Rivers stand mountains almo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington Range
The Waddington Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is only about 4,000 km2 (1,545 sq mi) in area, relatively small in area within the expanse of the range, but it is the highest area of the Pacific Ranges and of the Coast Mountains, being crowned by its namesake Mount Waddington 4,019 m (13,186 ft). The Waddington Range is also extremely rugged and more a complex of peaks than a single icefield, in contrast to the other huge icefield-massifs of the southern Coast Mountains, which are not so peak-studded and tend to have more contiguous icemasses. History The difficulty of access to the core of the massif delayed actual sighting, measurement and climbing of Mount Waddington until 1936; it had only been espied from Vancouver Island by climbers in the 1930s and was at first referred to as Mystery Mountain - because its existence until then had been unknown. Apparently even in First Nations l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waddington (surname)
Waddington is an Olde English surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin. It is thought to derive from the Old English pre 7th Century personal name "Wada", plus "-ing", meaning the tribe or people of", and "tun or ham", a settlement; and hence, "The settlement of the Wada people". It may be connected to be connected with the pre-7th century Old English name "Wade", and the verb "wadan" (wada) meaning "to go", or as a habitational name from the Old English word "(ge)waed" meaning "ford". Origins and variants Wadington, Waddington, Wodington, Wadiham, Wadyngton, and Waddingham, this is an English locational surname, derived from the Olde English name Wadingtun or Wadingatun. It originates from any or all of the villages called Waddington in Lincolnshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Waddiham in Lincoln. Waditun (Waddington) an ancient hamlet at Craven in Yorkshire (quoted in Domesday Book A.D. 1086 as Widitun). When Surnames were first adopted, some 1,000 years ago, it was in or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
