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Chesterton
Chesterton may refer to: People *Chesterton (surname) **G. K. Chesterton **A. K. Chesterton **Cecil Chesterton **Frank Chesterton (architect) Places United Kingdom *Chesterton, Cambridge **Chesterton railway station * Chesterton, Gloucestershire *Chesterton, Huntingdonshire *Chesterton, Oxfordshire * Chesterton, Shropshire *Chesterton, Staffordshire *Chesterton, Warwickshire * Chesterton Rural District *Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridgeshire (1885–1918) *Chesterton (ward), an electoral ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme United States *Chesterton, Indiana **Chesterton Commercial Historic District *Chestertown, Maryland **Chestertown Historic District (Chestertown, Maryland) *Chestertown, New York **Chestertown Historic District (Chestertown, New York) Other uses *Chesterton Community College, a secondary school in the UK *Chesterton Academy of Buffalo, a Roman Catholic High School in Buffalo, New York See also *Chesterton, Cambridgeshire (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Huntingdonshire
Chesterton is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish of exactly 56 households in Cambridgeshire, England. The village lies approximately west-southwest of central Peterborough, near the city's Alwalton district. Chesterton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic counties of England, historic county of England. In the 17th century, Chesterton was the home of John Dryden's family, who lived in Chesterton manor. In the 1870s, Chesterton was described as : "a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon; on the verge of the county, and on Ermine-street and the river Nen, 2½ miles SE of Castor r. station, and 5½ SW of Peterborough. Post town, Castor, under Peterborough. Acres, 1, 330. Real property, £2, 447. Pop., 129. Houses, 22." History Chesterton is rich in Roman history, with the name Chesterton meaning "Roman site farm/settlement". MR A. Guest presents t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Indiana
Chesterton is a town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana, Westchester, Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana, Jackson and Liberty Township, Porter County, Indiana, Liberty townships in Porter County, Indiana, Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 14,241 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census. The three towns of Chesterton, Burns Harbor, Indiana, Burns Harbor, and Porter, Indiana, Porter are known as the Indiana Dunes, Duneland area. Etymology The name Chesterton comes from Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana, its township, with Chester deriving from Westchester and the -ton suffix denoting it as a town. History Chesterton was first settled under the name Coffee Creek in 1833, with its post office being established in 1835. The post office would eventually be renamed to Calumet in 1850, as which the town was platted when the railroad was extended to that point in 1852. Due to a town on the same railroad also being named Calum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Cambridge
Chesterton is a suburb in Cambridge, England. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 UK census, the suburb had a population of 18,620 people. History Archaeological evidence indicates that the area that is now Chesterton has been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age. In Anglo-Saxon times Chesterton formed part of a larger vill spanning the River Cam. The rest of the vill became the ancient borough, borough of Cambridge sometime after the 8th century, but Chesterton was excluded from the early borough. Chesterton was an ancient parish. The parish included the village and adjoining rural areas generally to the north of it; at the western end of the parish it included Cambridge Castle. Chesterton was governed by its parish vestry and manorial courts in the same way as most rural areas until 1880, when the parish was made a Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858, local government district, governed by an elected local board. Such districts were reconstituted as Urba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Oxfordshire
Chesterton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on Gagle Brook, a tributary of the Langford Brook in north Oxfordshire. The village is about southwest of the market town of Bicester. The village has sometimes been called Great Chesterton to distinguish it from the hamlet of Little Chesterton, about to the south in the same parish. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 850. Archaeology About west of the village, by the crossroads of Akeman Street and the former Oxford – Brackley main road (now the B430) is a prehistoric tumulus. Chesterton village is on the course of Akeman Street, the Roman road between Watling Street and Corinium Dobunnorum, Cirencester, about northwest of Alchester Roman Town. The road forms part of the southwest boundary of the parish. When the M40 motorway was extended from Wheatley, Oxfordshire, Wheatley to Birmingham in 1988–91, the motorway cut through Akeman Street about west of the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Chesterton
Cecil Edward Chesterton (12 November 1879 – 6 December 1918) was an English journalist and political commentator, known particularly for his role as editor of '' The New Witness'' from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marconi scandal. Life He was the younger brother of G. K. Chesterton, a first cousin once removed of A. K. Chesterton, and a close associate of Hilaire Belloc. While the ideas of distributism came from all three, and Arthur Penty, he was the most ideological and combative by temperament. His death, according to his widow, removed the theorist of the movement. He was born in Kensington, London, and educated at St Paul's School, then worked for a small publisher for a time. He then qualified as surveyor and estate agent, with a view to entering his father's business, which is still flourishing today. In 1901 he joined the Fabian Society, with which he was closely involved for about six years. From 1907 he wrote for A. R. Orage's ''The New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton Commercial Historic District
The Chesterton Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Chesterton, Indiana. Originally called Coffee Creek and located a little to the south of the current downtown, the name was changed some time after the post office was established in 1833 to Calumet, the river to the north. When the Lake Shore and Michigan Railroad came through the area in 1852, the town moved north to the current location and began to develop. The town's name was not changed to Chesterton until after the Civil War. There appears to have been confusion with Calumet, Illinois, further up the track.Porter County Interim Report, Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory; Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana; 1996 The town's location along the railroad helped industry to grow. Soon, there was a cooperage, sawmills, a washing machine factory, and an organ company. Among the better examples of the towns growth are the commercial building on the southwest corner of Broadway and Calumet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Staffordshire
Chesterton is a former Pit village, mining village on the edge of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in Staffordshire, England. Chesterton is the second largest individual ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. In the 2011 census, Chesterton's population stood at 7,421. History Roman Chesterton Chesterton was the site of a Castra, Roman fort, built on an area now occupied by Chesterton Community Sports College. There is little indication of how long the fort was in use but it is believed to have been constructed in the late 1st Century AD. A vicus was built at nearby Holditch (ward), Holditch, where it is believed that some inhabitants may have coal mining, mined for coal. There have been various excavations at the site. Excavations in 1895 revealed the fort's vallum, fosse (moat) and parts of the east and west defensive structures. Later excavations in 1969 uncovered further sections of the eastern ramparts. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Chesterton may refer to: People * Chesterton (surname) ** G. K. Chesterton ** A. K. Chesterton ** Cecil Chesterton ** Frank Chesterton (architect) Places United Kingdom *Chesterton, Cambridge ** Chesterton railway station * Chesterton, Gloucestershire * Chesterton, Huntingdonshire * Chesterton, Oxfordshire * Chesterton, Shropshire * Chesterton, Staffordshire * Chesterton, Warwickshire * Chesterton Rural District * Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridgeshire (1885–1918) * Chesterton (ward), an electoral ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme United States *Chesterton, Indiana ** Chesterton Commercial Historic District *Chestertown, Maryland Chestertown is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,532 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Kent County, the oldest county in Maryland. History Founded in 1706, Chestertown ... ** Chestertown Historic District (Chestertown, Maryland) * Chestertown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton (ward)
Chesterton may refer to: People *Chesterton (surname) **G. K. Chesterton ** A. K. Chesterton ** Cecil Chesterton ** Frank Chesterton (architect) Places United Kingdom *Chesterton, Cambridge **Chesterton railway station * Chesterton, Gloucestershire * Chesterton, Huntingdonshire *Chesterton, Oxfordshire * Chesterton, Shropshire *Chesterton, Staffordshire *Chesterton, Warwickshire * Chesterton Rural District *Chesterton (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridgeshire (1885–1918) * Chesterton (ward), an electoral ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme United States *Chesterton, Indiana ** Chesterton Commercial Historic District *Chestertown, Maryland ** Chestertown Historic District (Chestertown, Maryland) * Chestertown, New York ** Chestertown Historic District (Chestertown, New York) Other uses *Chesterton Community College Chesterton Community College is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Chesterton, Cambridge, in the county of Cambridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Warwickshire
Chesterton is a small village in Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 123. It is about five miles south of Leamington Spa, near the villages of Harbury and Lighthorne. Parish The parish of Chesterton and Kingston includes the agricultural area of Kingston east of the village. The parish forms a roughly rectangular block, nearly four miles in length from north-west to south-east and two miles broad. It is home to the notable Chesterton Windmill, built in 1632 from a design attributed to Inigo Jones, just off the Fosse Way and a Listed building, Grade I listed building. The altitude of the parish ranges from 64 metres in the west to 122 metres in the east being mainly rolling low hills but slightly flatter where the Fosse Way dissects it. History There was a Roman Britain, Roman town on the Fosse Way less than a mile from the present village of Chesterton and this was mentioned in the Domesday Book o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton Community College
Chesterton Community College is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Chesterton, Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It was established in 1935 as two separate schools for boys and girls, which merged in 1974 to form a mixed comprehensive school and adult centre. Chesterton was granted Community College status in 1983, and became an academy in 2011. Background Chesterton Community College is a state non-selective mixed school for pupils aged 11 to 18. Over 90 languages are spoken by Chesterton pupils and over 25% of pupils come from homes where English is not the first language. The staff comprises over 50 teachers, 60 community tutors and 50 support staff. The college received the Investors in People Award in July 1999. The college provides a range of community education to the county, with over 3000 members of the local community using the site each week. At the last Ofsted inspection on 7 July 2017, Chesterton received '1' (Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Chesterton (architect)
Frank Sidney Chesterton (1877 – 11 November 1916) was an English architect. Early life He was born in 1877 in Kensington, London, the son of Sidney Rawlins Chesterton and Katherine Eleanor Chesterton. His first cousin was the author G. K. Chesterton. Career Chesterton designed the entire terrace of 12-54 Hornton Street, now listed building, Grade II listed, and built from 1903. Chesterton served in the First World War, as a second lieutenant with the Royal Field Artillery, and died on 11 November 1916, aged 39, in the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte. Personal life Chesterton was married to Nora Chesterton, and they lived at 28 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, London, and later at Scarsdale Villas, Kensington. He was the father of Sir Oliver Chesterton, fifth-generation head of the family's estate agency business, and chairman of the Woolwich Building Society. References 1877 births 1916 deaths Architects from London British Army person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
