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60 unusual facts about England


1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

1976 United Kingdom heat wave

Parts of the south west went 45 days without any rain in July and August.

1979–80 English League North season

The 1979–80 English League North season was the second season of the English League North (also known as the Midland League), the top level ice hockey league in northern England.

Ad orientem

In 7th century England, Catholic churches were built so that on the very feast day of the saint in whose honor they were named, Mass could be offered on an altar while directly facing the rising sun.

Alfred Dundas Taylor

Alfred Dundas Taylor was born August 30, 1825 in England, son of George Ledwell Taylor (1788–1873), a civil architect to the Admiralty in the UK.

He retired as Commander of the Indian Navy and died in England in 1898.

Angleterre

"Angleterre" - French name of England - a translation of the English name, "Angl" (as in "Anglo-") + "Terre" (land)

Anglo Swiss

Anglo Swiss or Anglo-Swiss describes people or things with joint English and Swiss connections.

Ann Baynard

Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - June 12, 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe

In 1644 she married her second cousin, Richard (later Sir Richard) Fanshawe (1608–1666), Secretary of War to Prince Charles.

Archibald Salvidge

Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge KBE PC (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an English politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party in Liverpool through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by Warden Chilcott, MP for Liverpool Walton).

Bahik

The agreement which was signed in the presence of Persian, Turkish, Russian, and English delegates stipulated that the village of Behik, in addition to a number of others, remain as a part of Persia, modern day Iran.

Belfast City Council

Belfast's modern history can be dated back to the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century which brought significant numbers of Protestant Scottish and English settlers to Ulster.

Birmingham Journal

The Birmingham Journal was the name of two separate and unrelated newspapers published in Birmingham, England.

Bretton Hall, Flintshire

Bretton Hall is located on the border of England and Wales close to the village of Bretton, Flintshire, Wales.

BRM P261

The BRM P261, also known as the BRM P61 Mark II, is a Formula One motor racing car, designed and built by the British Racing Motors team in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.

Brown Company

In 1954, European business began to purchase large amounts of stock in the company, therefore the Brown Company began to buy European businesses in England, Wales, and Italy.

Carwile

The name Carwile is a surname that originated in England following the Norman Conquest of 1066, but is most present today in the United States of America.

Catherine Tishem

Catherine Tishem (d. after 1577) was a Dutch woman who fled to England to escape religious persecution during the 16th Century.

Charles Warner

Charles Lickfold Warner (10 October 1846 – 12 February 1909), was an English actor.

Clare Imrie

In 1910 she funded the building and interior decorating of St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church in Liverpool, which is known as "the Vatican outside of Rome", because of the splendid artistry displayed in its interior.

Cultural movement

Began in Germany and spread to England and France as a reaction against Neoclassicism and against the Age of Enlightenment.

Death by Sheer Torture

Death by Sheer Torture (1981), also known simply as Sheer Torture, is a mystery novel by English writer Robert Barnard, the first of five novels, penned in the 1980s, featuring his recurring detective character Perry Trethowan.

District registry

a part of the High Court situated in various districts of England and Wales dealing with High Court family and civil business.

Edmund Roberts Larken

Larken and Boole also worked together in the 1850s on a plan to reduce the impact of prostitution in Lincoln.

F. W. Soutter

Francis William Soutter (23 April 1844 – 9 May 1932) was an English Radical activist.

Ferrari F1/87

Unfortunately, Barnard's relationship with the team was strained as he didn't work out of the factory in Maranello, but instead worked at the Ferrari Technical Office he had set up in Guildford in England.

George S. Talbot

George Thomas Surtees Talbot (1875 – 1918) was an English composer and writer.

Glenn Joseph Ellsworth

Ellsworth's ancestors originally came from England but made the move overseas in hopes to settle new land.

Gordon Baldwin

Gordon Baldwin (born 1932 in Lincoln) is an influential English studio potter.

Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity and St Luke

The Church of The Holy Trinity and St Luke is a Greek Orthodox church in the north of Birmingham, England, dedicated to The Holy Trinity and St Luke.

Henry Alleyne Lash

After leaving India, Henry Lash lived in Bridge End, Churt, Surrey, England.

In My Head It Works

In My Head It Works is the second album by English band The Race, and was released in 2009.

John Antes

In 1785, he was named warder of an entire Moravian community in Fulneck, England.

Kern AG

In the 1990s, the company expanded and extended its network of branches in Germany, USA; Switzerland, England, China and Netherlands.

Liege Hulett

Sir James Liege Hulett (17 May 1838 – 1928) was a sugar magnate and philanthropist in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, originally from Kent, England.

Lotus 100T

During the 1988 season, former three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart test drove the 100T at the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, England, which was Lotus's test track at the time.

Monte Cinto

On May 26, 1883, a party led by the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, and including the guide F. Devouassoud and the landscape painter Compton, also ascended the mountain by the pass that now bears Tuckett's name.

Nathaniel Crisp

Nathaniel "The Bishop" Crisp (1762-1819) - an 18th-century character in the city of Nottingham, England.

Nawojowa

It products of this institution were exported was to France and England.

Nicola Hall

Nicola Hall, born in 1969 in England, is a British classical guitarist.

Nirah

The National institute for research into aquatic habitats - A planned fresh water aquarium in England, to be the world's largest aquarium upon completion.

North Western Road Car Company

North Western Road Car Company may refer to one of two bus operators running within the north west of England in different eras.

Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

The equivalent infrastructure and representative body for voluntary sector organisations in Wales is WCVA, in Scotland is the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, SCVO and in England is NCVO or National Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Perry Henzell

Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar on Antigua, grew up on the Caymanas sugar cane estate near Kingston.

Phantom social workers

It is thought that reports of unidentified "social workers" attempting to take children away from their parents were merely scare stories or urban legends fuelled by the story of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician from Cleveland, England who diagnosed 121 children as being victims of sexual abuse from their parents without any evidence or reason.

Preston Lockwood

Preston Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996) was an English actor.

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme

Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) is a series of tests for the license to practice as solicitor in England and Wales designed for foreign licensed attorneys.

Ray Sonin

Ray Sonin (23 June 1907–20 August 1991) was an English-born broadcaster on Toronto radio station CFRB and hosted several very popular radio programs.

Registered Intermediaries

In England and Wales Registered Intermediaries are available to facilitate communication between the vulnerable person and the lawyers.

River Blyth

River Blyth is the name of several rivers in England.

Robert Hawker Dowling

Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, née Darke.

Rochester Airport

Rochester Airport, England (ICAO: EGTO) in Rochester, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Rother Valley

The Rother Valley is the valley of the River Rother, of which there are at least three in England.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.

State House, Bermuda

The State House was one of the sites (the others mostly being military) illustrated on a map of Bermuda (shown at left) published in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith in 1624.

Thomas McDonnell, Snr.

He later returned to England and was appointed Additional British Resident in New Zealand in late 1834 or early 1835.

Titus Kent

Nevertheless, England offered freedom to slaves who fought for their side.

Trimbak

In turn, Briggs delivered the diamond to Francis Rawdon-Hastings which then went to England.

Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire

The cricket ground has a significant slope and was tried by the BBC to see if it would be suitable for filming the cricket scene in the production of A. G. Macdonnell's England, Their England.


1729 in literature

John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart

1884–85 in English football

Note – Some sources credit England's third goal as a Joe Lofthouse goal, but match reports clearly state an Eames own goal.

1973 Thomas Cup

In the European zone England was upset 4–5 by a solid West German squad that featured a world class singles player in Wolfgang Bochow who won both of his matches, as well as a world class doubles team in Roland Maywald and Willi Braun who won the last match of the tie to clinch the victory.

A History of Everyday Things in England

A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (aka C. H. B.) between 1918 and 1934.

Alfred Whitmore

Major Alfred Whitmore (1876–1946) was an English pathologist who, together with C.S. Krishnaswami, identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in 1911.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm occasionally visited England to see the abbey's property there, as well as to visit Lanfranc, who, in 1070, had been installed as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Anti-fouling paint

One famous example of the traditional use of metal sheathing is the clipper Cutty Sark, which is preserved as a museum ship in dry-dock at Greenwich in England.

Arthur Frederick Dicks

This new direction saw him working as a set and costume designer in England, USA and Africa, spending some time in Nairobi.

Bigby

Bigby, Lincolnshire, one of the Thankful Villages in Lincolnshire, England

Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge

It was built in 1925, from a kit fabricated in England by David Rowell & Co., in order to shorten the distance sheep needed to be driven from southern Lafonia to the shearing sheds in Goose Green.

Buckinghamshire Junction Railway

Since then the Woodstock Road crossing (ex-A34 road now A44 road) has been replaced with a roundabout, part of the A4260 road has been built along the trackbed and part of the A34 road has been built across the trackbed.

Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset

After a second grand tour to continental Europe in 1737 and 1738, he returned to England in January 1739 and staged an opera, Angelico e Medoro, with music by Giovanni Battista Pescetti from a libretto by Metastasio at Covent Garden.

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

Confrontation Clause

The Confrontation Clause has its roots in both English common law, protecting the right of cross-examination, and Roman law, which guaranteed persons accused of a crime the right to look their accusers in the eye.

David R. Ross

At the age of about 15, he became interested in the novels of Nigel Tranter, that inspired him to grow an interest in the history of Scotland, as he realised that the history curriculum in British schools was told from an England-centric perspective that ignored (or nearly so) the individual histories of the other countries forming the United Kingdom.

Devon Railway Centre

The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway.

Felger

Michael Felger (born 1969), a television sports reporter and anchorman for Comcast SportsNet New England

Flag of Lancashire

The Red Rose of Lancaster is a symbol for the House of Lancaster, immortalised in the verse "In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th century War of the Roses).

Frances Swiney

She studied under James Danby, son of Francis Danby, R.A., and specialised in pictures of Indian scenery and life, exhibiting at Simla, Madras, and Birmingham, England.

Gadfield Elm Chapel

The Gadfield Elm Chapel near the village of Pendock in Worcestershire, England, is the oldest extant chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Gartree

Gartree Hundred, a wapentake and later a hundred of Leicestershire, England

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

H. Gordon Tidey

Herbert Gordon Tidey (1879-1971) was an English railway photographer.

Harry Feather

Harry (J.?) Feather won a cap for England while at Bradford F.C. in 1905 against Other Nationalities.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

Hipólito da Costa

However, the Portuguese ambassador in London, Bernardo José de Abrantes e Castro, Count of Funchal, was an extreme combatant of Costa's journal, and would create one of himself, entitled O Investigador Português em Inglaterra (The Portuguese Investigator in England), which ran from 1811 to 1819.

Indian cricket team in England in 2011

In winning the series by more than two clear matches, England took India's place at the top of the ICC Test Championship, while India dropped to third place.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

John Hartley Durrant

John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863 in Hitchin – 18 January 1928 in Putney) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

Leung Chen Nam

He caused an upset by defeating experienced German darts player Andree Welge 4–1 in the preliminary round, before being beaten 0–3 in sets in the first round by England's Kevin Painter.

Lirr

Leeds Inner Ring Road, a motorway and A-road circling Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Marshall MacDermott

At Argostoli, in the island of Cephalonia, he became acquainted with Lord Byron, who entrusted him with the three last cantos of Don Juan, to be delivered to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, a commission which MacDermott executed, having just then obtained leave of absence in order to visit England.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Millennium Communities Programme

The Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.

Mynydd y Glyn

It is the mountain which was used in The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain in which Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice star as English cartographers.

Old North

Hen Ogledd, the Welsh-speaking areas of northern England and southern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages

Plague, Poverty and Prayer: A Horrid History with Terry Deary

Plague, Poverty and Prayer is a Horrible Histories exhibition at the York Archaeological Trust's Barley Hall in York, England.

Preston baronets

The Preston Baronetcy, of Furness in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 April 1644 for George Preston.

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Sean Bury

Sean Bury (born in Brighton, Sussex, England on 15 August 1954) is a British television and film actor, best known for his lead role as Paul Harrison in Lewis Gilbert's 1971 film Friends and the 1974 sequel Paul and Michelle.

Silverwood Colliery

Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England.

Tamika Mkandawire

Born in Mzuzu, Mkandawire came to England aged three, with his English mother and Malawian father and was brought up in Rugby, Warwickshire.

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

William Scroggs

Sir JF Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England (3 vols, London, 1883)

Wyvern College

Wyvern College, Wiltshire, a secondary school near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).