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Ramsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. [1]

77 relations: Aldbourne, Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Anglo-Saxons, Archbishop of Canterbury, Axford, Wiltshire, Ælfric of Abingdon, Ælfric of Ramsbury, Ælfstan (bishop of Ramsbury), Æthelstan of Ramsbury, Berhtwald, Berkshire, Bertwald of Ramsbury, Bishop of Ramsbury, Bishop of Ramsbury (ancient), Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of Sherborne, Bishop of Winchester, Building society, Catholic Church, Centre Point, Church of England, Church of England parish church, Civil parish, David Fanshawe, Devizes (UK Parliament constituency), Diocese of Salisbury, Dutch elm disease, Ealdred (archbishop of York), Episcopal polity, Epping Forest, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Francis Burdett, H&M, Hamlet (place), Harry Hyams, Herman (bishop), History of Anglo-Saxon England, Hungerford, J. M. Dent, Littlecote House, Littlecote Roman Villa, Madison, New Jersey, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Michaelmas, Microbrewery, Nationwide Building Society, Oak, Oda of Canterbury, Old Sarum, Oswulf of Ramsbury, ..., Parish councils in England, Penguin Books, Portman Building Society, Pound sign, RAF Ramsbury, Ramsbury Manor, River Kennet, Robert Hooke, Sigeric the Serious, Sonning, Stefan Persson (magnate), Suffragan bishop, Swindon, The Royal British Legion, Titular see, Translation (ecclesiastical), Ulmus glabra, Unitary authority, United Kingdom census, 2011, Victoria County History, Whigs (British political party), William Darrell of Littlecote, William Jones (law officer), Wiltshire, Wiltshire Council, World War II, Wulfgar of Ramsbury. Expand index (27 more) »

Aldbourne

Aldbourne is a village and civil parish about north-east of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England.

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Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a nineteenth-century philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Axford, Wiltshire

Axford is a hamlet in the Kennet Valley about east of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire.

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Ælfric of Abingdon

Ælfric of Abingdon (died 16 November 1005) was a late 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Ælfric of Ramsbury

Ælfric died c. 950) was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury. Ælfric was consecrated between 941 and 949. He died between 949 and 950.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 220.

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Ælfstan (bishop of Ramsbury)

Ælfstan (died 981) was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury.

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Æthelstan of Ramsbury

Aethelstan was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury.

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Berhtwald

Berhtwald (died 731) was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Bertwald of Ramsbury

Bertwald of Ramsbury was an 11th-century Bishop of Ramsbury and saint.

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Bishop of Ramsbury

The Bishop of Ramsbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, in the Province of Canterbury, England.

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Bishop of Ramsbury (ancient)

The Bishop of Ramsbury was an episcopal title used by medieval English-Catholic diocesan bishops in the Anglo-Saxon English church.

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Bishop of Salisbury

The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bishop of Sherborne

The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England.

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Bishop of Winchester

The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England.

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Building society

A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Centre Point

Centre Point is a building in Central London, comprising a 33-storey tower; a 9-storey block to the east including shops, offices, retail units and maisonettes; and a linking block between the two at first-floor level.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish (outside meetings of the church) to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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David Fanshawe

David Arthur Fanshawe (19 April 1942 – 5 July 2010) was an English composer, ethnomusicologist and self-styled explorer.

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Devizes (UK Parliament constituency)

Devizes is a constituency in Wiltshire, England, which is represented in the House of Commons of the U.K. Parliament and includes four towns and many villages in the middle and east of the county.

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Diocese of Salisbury

The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury.

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Dutch elm disease

Dutch elm disease (DED) is caused by a member of the sac fungi (Ascomycota) affecting elm trees, and is spread by elm bark beetles.

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Ealdred (archbishop of York)

Ealdred (or Aldred; died 11 September 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.

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Episcopal polity

An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops.

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Epping Forest

Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland between Epping in the north and Wanstead in the south, straddling the border between Greater London and Essex.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university founded in 1942.

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Francis Burdett

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was an English reformist politician, the son of Francis Burdett and his wife Eleanor, daughter of William Jones of Ramsbury manor, Wiltshire, and grandson of Sir Robert Burdett, Bart.

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H&M

Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Harry Hyams

Harry John Hyams (2 January 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a British millionaire who initially made his money as a speculative property (real estate) developer.

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Herman (bishop)

Herman (died 1078) was a medieval cleric who served as the Bishop of Ramsbury and of Sherborne before and after the Norman conquest of England.

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.

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Hungerford

Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, west of Newbury, east of Marlborough, northeast of Salisbury and 67 miles (107 km) west of London.

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J. M. Dent

Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849 – 9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series.

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Littlecote House

Littlecote House is a large Elizabethan country house and estate in the civil parishes of Ramsbury and Chilton Foliat in the English county of Wiltshire, near to Hungerford.

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Littlecote Roman Villa

Littlecote Roman Villa is a Roman winged corridor villa and associated religious complex at Littlecote Park in the civil parish of Ramsbury in the English county of Wiltshire.

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Madison, New Jersey

Madison is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

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Michaelmas

Michaelmas (also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Sosa, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a minor Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September.

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Microbrewery

A microbrewery or craft brewery is a brewery that produces small amounts of beer (or sometimes root beer), typically much smaller than large-scale corporate breweries, and is independently owned.

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Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the world with over 15 million members.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Oda of Canterbury

Oda (or Odo; died 958), called the Good or the Severe, was a 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury in England.

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Old Sarum

Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England.

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Oswulf of Ramsbury

Oswulf was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury.

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Parish councils in England

A parish council is a civil local authority found in England and is the first tier of local government.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Portman Building Society

The Portman Building Society was a mutual building society in the United Kingdom, providing mortgages and savings accounts to consumers and offering loans to commercial enterprises.

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Pound sign

The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound sterling—the currency of the United Kingdom and previously of Great Britain and the Kingdom of England.

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RAF Ramsbury

Royal Air Force Station Ramsbury or more simply RAF Ramsbury is a former Royal Air Force station located east-northeast of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.

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Ramsbury Manor

Ramsbury Manor is a country house at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, on the River Kennet between Hungerford and Marlborough, in the south of England.

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River Kennet

The Kennet is a river in the south of England, and a tributary of the River Thames.

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Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke FRS (– 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.

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Sigeric the Serious

Sigeric (died 28 October 994) was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 990 to 994.

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Sonning

Sonning is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading.

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Stefan Persson (magnate)

Carl Stefan Erling Persson (born 4 October 1947) is a Swedish business magnate.

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Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop.

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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The Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion (RBL), sometimes called The British Legion or The Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants.

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Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".

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Translation (ecclesiastical)

Translation is the transfer of a bishop from one episcopal see to another.

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Ulmus glabra

Ulmus glabra, the wych elm, Scotch elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese in Greece; it is also found in Iran.

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Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Whigs (British political party)

The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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William Darrell of Littlecote

William Darrell (23 June 1539 – 1 October 1589) of Littlecote House, Wiltshire, later of Warwick Lane, London; was an English Member of Parliament for the constituency of Downton in 1572.

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William Jones (law officer)

Sir William Jones (1631 – 2 May 1682) was an English lawyer and politician.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council is a unitary authority in South West of England, created in 2009.

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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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Wulfgar of Ramsbury

Wulfgar was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury.

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References

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

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