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Aston Hall

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Aston Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean house in Aston, Birmingham, England, designed by John Thorpe and built between 1618 and 1635. [1]

31 relations: A38(M) motorway, Aston, Aston Villa F.C., Birmingham, Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Civic Society, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Museums Trust, Bracebridge Hall, Council House, Birmingham, English Civil War, English country house, Gilbert Barling, Jacobean architecture, James Watt, James Watt junior, John Thorpe, Kynoch, Listed building, M6 motorway, Pan (god), Perry Hall Park, Prodigy house, Project Gutenberg, The Gentleman's Magazine, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Thomas Holte, Villa Park, Washington Irving, William Bloye.

A38(M) motorway

The A38(M), also known as the Aston Expressway, is a motorway in Birmingham, England.

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Aston

Aston is a ward of Central Birmingham, England.

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Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans and The Lions) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham and Midland Institute

The Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI), is an institution concerned with the promotion of education and learning in Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is the local government body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974.

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Birmingham Civic Society

Birmingham Civic Society is a voluntary body in Birmingham, England, and is registered with the Civic Trust.

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham Museums Trust

Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom.

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Bracebridge Hall

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England, and published in 1822.

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Council House, Birmingham

Birmingham City Council House in Birmingham, England, is the home of Birmingham City Council, and thus the seat of local government for the city.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Gilbert Barling

Sir Harry Gilbert Barling, 1st Baronet CB CBE FRCS (30 April 1855 – 27 April 1940) was an English surgeon.

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Jacobean architecture

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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James Watt junior

James Watt Junior, FRS (5 February 1769 – 2 June 1848) was a Scottish engineer, businessman and activist.

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John Thorpe

John Thorpe or Thorp (c.1565–1655?; fl.1570–1618) was an English architect.

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Kynoch

Kynoch was a manufacturer of ammunition, later incorporated into ICI but remaining as a brand name for sporting cartridges.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45).

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Pan (god)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (Πάν, Pan) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs.

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Perry Hall Park

Perry Hall Park or Perry Hall Playing Fields is a park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at.

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Prodigy house

Prodigy house is a term for large and showy English country houses built by courtiers and other wealthy families, either "noble palaces of an awesome scale" or "proud, ambitious heaps" according to taste.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731.

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving.

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Thomas Holte

Sir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet (c. 1571 – 14 December 1654) was the original owner of Aston Hall (a Jacobean country house in Birmingham), the man after whom the Holte End stand of Villa Park is named, and the possessor of quite a legendary temper.

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Villa Park

Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, England, with a seating capacity of 42,682.

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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William Bloye

William James Bloye (8 July 1890 – 6 June 1975) was an English sculptor, active in Birmingham either side of World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Hall

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