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James Hall (historian)

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James Hall (20 February 1846 – 6 October 1914) was an English antiquary, historian and schoolteacher, best known for his history of the Cheshire town of Nantwich, which remains among the principal sources for the town's history. [1]

57 relations: Acton, Cheshire, Antiquarian, Baron Tollemache, Boston, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Cheshire County Council, Chester, Combermere Abbey, Condover Hall, Crewe, Delves Hall, Dictionary of National Biography, Domesday Book, Dorfold Hall, Edward Burghall, Elementary Education Act 1870, English Civil War, English Heritage, Foolscap folio, George Ormerod, John Parsons Earwaker, Joseph Partridge (historian), Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, England, Macmillan Publishers, Malbank School and Sixth Form College, Manchester, Market Drayton, Middle Ages, Misericord, Nantwich, Nantwich Castle, Nantwich Museum, Newhall, Cheshire, Notes and Queries, Nottinghamshire, Packet trade, Puritans, River Witham, Society of Antiquaries of London, St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam, St Mary's Church, Acton, St Mary's Church, Nantwich, Tabley Old Hall, The Athenaeum (British magazine), The National Archives (United Kingdom), Treswell, Nottinghamshire, Viscount Combermere, Waterman (occupation), Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), ..., Wesleyan Methodist Church, Nantwich, Westminster, Willaston, Cheshire East, Woolstanwood, World War II, Worleston, Wrenbury. Expand index (7 more) »

Acton, Cheshire

Acton is a small village and civil parish lying immediately west of the town of Nantwich in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Baron Tollemache

Baron Tollemache, of Helmingham Hall near Ipswich in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of London.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Cheshire County Council

Cheshire County Council was the county council of Cheshire.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Combermere Abbey

Combermere Abbey is a former monastery, later a country house, near Burleydam, between Nantwich and Whitchurch in Cheshire, England, near the border with Shropshire.

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Condover Hall

Condover Hall is an elegant Grade I litsted three-story Elizabethan sandstone building, described as the grandest manor house in Shropshire, standing in a conservation area on the outskirts of Condover village, Shropshire, England, four miles south of the county town of Shrewsbury.

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Crewe

Crewe ('Cryw' in Welsh) is a railway town and civil parish within the borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Delves Hall

Delves Hall, also known as Doddington Castle, is a fortified structure in Doddington Park to the north of Doddington Hall in the civil parish of Doddington, Cheshire, England.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Dorfold Hall

Dorfold Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Acton, near Nantwich, in Cheshire, UK.

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Edward Burghall

Edward Burghall (died 1665) was an English ejected minister, a Puritan who supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

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Elementary Education Act 1870

The Elementary Education Act 1870, commonly known as Forster's Education Act, set the framework for schooling of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales.

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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 Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Foolscap folio

Foolscap folio (commonly contracted to foolscap or folio and in short FC) is paper cut to the size of (for "normal" writing paper). This was a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonwealth, before the adoption of the international standard A4 paper.

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George Ormerod

George Ormerod (20 October 1785 – 9 October 1873) was an English antiquary and historian.

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John Parsons Earwaker

John Parsons Earwaker (1847–1895) was an English antiquary.

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Joseph Partridge (historian)

The Reverend Joseph Partridge (1724 – 25 October 1796) was an English waggoner, schoolteacher, clergyman, antiquary and historian.

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Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, and sometimes St.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and the county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Malbank School and Sixth Form College

Malbank School is a comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Nantwich, Cheshire with pupils of both sexes aged from 11 to 18.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Market Drayton

Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in north Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh and Staffordshire border.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Misericord

A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the Biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to support a person in a partially standing position during long periods of prayer.

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Nantwich

Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Nantwich Castle

Nantwich Castle was a Norman castle in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, built before 1180 to guard a ford across the River Weaver.

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Nantwich Museum

Nantwich Museum is a local museum in the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, northwest England.

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Newhall, Cheshire

Newhall is a village (at) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism".

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (pronounced or; abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west.

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Packet trade

Packet trade generally refers to any regularly scheduled cargo, passenger and mail trade conducted by ship.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

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River Witham

The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England.

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Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London (a building owned by the UK government), and is a registered charity.

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St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam

St Mary's and St Michael's Church is in the village of Burleydam in the civil parish of Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Cheshire, England.

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St Mary's Church, Acton

St Mary's Church is an active Anglican parish church located in Monk's Lane, Acton, a village to the west of Nantwich, Cheshire, England.

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St Mary's Church, Nantwich

St Mary's Church is in the centre of the market town of Nantwich, Cheshire, England.

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Tabley Old Hall

The ruin of Tabley Old Hall (more properly known as Nether Tabley Old Hall) is located on an island surrounded by a moat in the civil parish of Tabley Inferior, about to the west of Knutsford, Cheshire, England.

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The Athenaeum (British magazine)

The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Treswell, Nottinghamshire

Treswell is a village in north Nottinghamshire in England.

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Viscount Combermere

Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Waterman (occupation)

A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies.

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Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the majority Methodist movement in Great Britain following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements.

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Wesleyan Methodist Church, Nantwich

The Wesleyan Methodist Church, also known as the Wesleyan Chapel, is a former Wesleyan Methodist church on Hospital Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England (at). Built in 1808, a new façade was added in 1876.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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Willaston, Cheshire East

Willaston is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in north-west England.

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Woolstanwood

Woolstanwood (also Woolstan Wood) is a village (at) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies immediately to the west of Crewe, 1½ miles from the centre.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Worleston

Worleston is a village (at) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Wrenbury

Wrenbury is a village in the civil parish of Wrenbury cum Frith, the unitary authority of Cheshire East, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Hall's History of Nantwich.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hall_(historian)

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