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Wigginton, Hertfordshire

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Wigginton (Wigentone - 1086) is a large village and civil parish running north-south and perched at on the edge of the Chiltern Hills and aside the border with Buckinghamshire. [1]

36 relations: A41 road, Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Sutton Valpy, Baptists, Buckinghamshire, Champneys, Charles Harcourt, Chesham, Chiltern Hills, Civil parish, Court of Chancery, Dacorum, De Lucy, Domesday Book, Edith of Wessex, Grim's Ditch (Chilterns), Health club, Hertfordshire, High Sheriff of Warwickshire, Iron Age, James Osborne (VC), Knights Hospitaller, Little Gaddesden, Military history of South Africa, Naturopathy, Nonconformist, Robert, Count of Mortain, Rothschild family, Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, South West Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Thomas Cranmer, Tring, Tring Park, Victoria Cross, Wendover, William the Conqueror.

A41 road

The A41 is a major trunk road in England that links London and Birkenhead, although it has now in parts been superseded by motorways.

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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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Arthur Sutton Valpy

Arthur Sutton Valpy (28 March 1849 – 15 June 1909) was a canon of Winchester Cathedral.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Champneys

Champneys is an English country house and its associated estate near Tring, Hertfordshire.

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Charles Harcourt

Charles Harcourt (real name Charles Parker Hillier) (1838–1880) was a British actor.

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Chesham

Chesham is a market town in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England.

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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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Court of Chancery

The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law.

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Dacorum

The Borough of Dacorum is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England that includes the towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and the western part of Kings Langley.

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De Lucy

de Lucy or de Luci is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Lucé in Normandy, one of the great baronial Anglo-Norman families which became rooted in England after the Norman conquest.

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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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Edith of Wessex

Edith of Wessex (1025 – 18 December 1075) was a Queen of England.

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Grim's Ditch (Chilterns)

Grim's Ditch is a series of linear earthwork in the Chilterns (southeast England).

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Health club

A health club (also known as a fitness club, fitness centre, health spa, and commonly referred to as a gym) is a place that houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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High Sheriff of Warwickshire

The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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James Osborne (VC)

James Osborne VC (13 April 1857 – 1 February 1928) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Knights Hospitaller

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), also known as the Order of Saint John, Order of Hospitallers, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Hospitalier or Hospitallers, was a medieval Catholic military order.

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Little Gaddesden

Little Gaddesden is a village and civil parish in the Dacorum, Hertfordshire north of Berkhamsted.

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Military history of South Africa

The military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time.

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Naturopathy

Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine that employs an array of pseudoscientific practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", and as promoting "self-healing".

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Nonconformist

In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.

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Robert, Count of Mortain

Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on his mother's side) of King William the Conqueror.

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Rothschild family

The Rothschild family is a wealthy Jewish family descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Unlike most previous court factors, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons, who established themselves in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. The family was elevated to noble rank in the Holy Roman Empire and the United Kingdom. During the 19th century, the Rothschild family possessed the largest private fortune in the world, as well as the largest private fortune in modern world history.The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798–1848, Volume 1, Niall Ferguson, 1999, page 481-85The Secret Life of the Jazz Baroness, from The Times 11 April 2009, Rosie Boycott The family's wealth was divided among various descendants, and today their interests cover a diverse range of fields, including financial services, real estate, mining, energy, mixed farming, winemaking and nonprofits.The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty, By Frederic Morton, page 11 The Rothschild family has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories, many of which have antisemitic origins.

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Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt

Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, PC (December 1661 – 23 July or 28 December 1727) was Queen Anne's Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

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South West Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South West Hertfordshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by David Gauke, a Conservative.

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Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See.

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Tring

Tring is a small market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England.

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Tring Park

Tring Park is a public open space in Tring, owned by Dacorum Borough Council and managed by the Woodland Trust.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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Wendover

Wendover is a market town at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigginton,_Hertfordshire

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