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Worlingworth
Worlingworth is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, located around ten miles south-east of Diss, Norfolk, Diss. In 2011 it had a total population of 802 people. The village has a primary school called Worlingworth CEVC Primary School. The school was judged by Ofsted to be 'Outstanding' in all areas in March 2016. The school's motto is "Cherish All, Achieve Together". The local church of St. Mary is a grade I listed building and the chancel, the oldest surviving part, dates to the late 13th century. Between 1908 and 1952 the village was served by Worlingworth railway station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway. History In Old English, the meaning of Worlingworth is an 'enclosure of the followers of Wilhere'. Broken down, 'Wilhere' is a personal name, '-ingas' means 'the people of' or 'the people called after' and 'worð' is for 'an enclosure'. The Domesday Book of 1086 states Worlingworth to be "quite large", with a population of ...
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The Swan Inn, Worlingworth
The Swan Inn is a public house in the village of Worlingworth, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H .... By the end of the eighteenth century the Swan had become a focal point of community life in Worlingworth. It had gained a reputation for hosting sports, games, and other amusements as well as providing avenue for other social or business occasions. While Robert Chaplin was landlord, the Inn hosted the first committee meeting of the Loyal Worlingworth Volunteers on 15 May 1798. This was attended by John Henniker-Major. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Swan Inn, The Grade II listed pubs in Suffolk Mid Suffolk District ...
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Edward Lee French
Sir Edward Lee French, KCVO (22 July 1857 – 17 May 1916) was an English-born senior officer in the Indian Police Force and a first-class cricketer. Life Edward Lee French was born on 22 July 1857,''Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, Etc. of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1923), p. 340. the son of Rev. Frederic French (1823–1907), JP, rector of Worlingworth with Southolt, in Suffolk, and his wife, Anna Maria (d. 1901), eldest daughter of John Davis, JP, DL (d. 1864), of Cranbrooke Park, Essex. He was baptised at Worlingworth. The Rev. French's family came from Eye, Suffolk; his father Thomas was banker to the Henniker family, patrons of Worlingworth's rectory. This connection helped secure Frederic French, newly graduated from the University of Cambridge (BA 1847, MA 1850), the living at Worlingworth, which he held from 1853 to his death in 1907. Following schooling at Marlborough, Edward French entered the Indian Police in 1879. He was appointed Deputy Inspector-General ...
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Worlingworth Railway Station
Worlingworth railway station was a station located in Worlingworth, Suffolk. It was on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway (MSLR) was a standard gauge railway intended to open up an agricultural area of central Suffolk; it took advantage of the reduced construction cost enabled by the Light Railways Act 1896. It was launched with consi ... between Kenton and . It opened on 29 September 1908, and closed on 28 July 1952, 44 years after it had opened for passenger traffic. References External links History Group Disused railway stations in Suffolk Former Mid-Suffolk Light Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1908 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 1908 establishments in England {{EastEngland-railstation-stub ...
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Baron Henniker
Baron Henniker, of Stratford-upon-Slaney in the County of Wicklow, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Sir John Henniker, 2nd Baronet, who had previously represented Sudbury and Dover in the House of Commons. His son, the second Baron, also sat as a Member of Parliament. In 1792 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Major (which was that of his maternal grandfather; see below). He was childless and was succeeded by his nephew, the third Baron. He assumed the additional surname of Major by Royal licence in 1822. His son, the fourth Baron, represented Suffolk East in Parliament. In 1866 he was created Baron Hartismere, of Hartismere in the County of Suffolk, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave him and his descendants an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Baron. He also sat as Member of Parliament for Suffolk East and later held minor office in the Conservative administrations o ...
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Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway (MSLR) was a standard gauge railway intended to open up an agricultural area of central Suffolk; it took advantage of the reduced construction cost enabled by the Light Railways Act 1896. It was launched with considerable enthusiasm by local interests, and was to build a network, but actual share subscription was weak, and the company over-reached its available financial resources. It opened of route from Haughley to Laxfield in 1904 to goods traffic only, and income was poor, further worsening the company's financial situation. The Board continued to harbour ambitions to complete the planned network, but crippling interest on loans and capital repayments falling due forced the company into receivership in 1906. Passenger operation was started in 1908, but this too was disappointing. At the grouping of the railways in 1923, the MSLR was still in receivership, and there was a protracted dispute over the liquidation of the debt, but in 1924 the Comp ...
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Central Suffolk And North Ipswich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Patrick Spencer of the Conservative Party, currently suspended and sitting as an Independent. Constituency profile Central Suffolk and North Ipswich is considered a safe seat for the Conservative Party at the parliamentary level, primarily made up of rural farming communities and retirement properties. At the local government level, the Ipswich wards are generally divided between the Conservatives and Labour, whilst the rural wards were previously dominated by the Conservatives but have seen large-scale gains by the Green Party in the 2020s. History The county constituency was formed for the 1997 general election, largely from eastern parts of the abolished constituency of Central Suffolk, including the north-western wards of the Borough of Ipswich. It also included western fringes of Suffolk Coastal. Sir Michael Lord, knighted in 2001, who had held ...
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Frederick Barlee
Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee (6 February 1827 – 8 August 1884) was Colonial Secretary of Western Australia from 1855 to 1875; Lieutenant-Governor of the British Honduras (now Belize) from 1877 to 1882; and Administrator of Trinidad in 1884. Frederick Barlee was born in Worlingworth, Suffolk, England on 6 February 1827. He was educated privately and at local schools, and in 1845 he entered the public service as a clerk to the Ordnance Department in Chatham and Woolwich. In 1851, Barlee married Jane Oseland. Later that year he was posted to Sierra Leone, where he served initially as a barrack-master and storekeeper. In 1853 he became clerk to the Executive and Legislative Councils, and private secretary to the Governor of Sierra Leone Arthur Edward Kennedy. In 1855, Kennedy was appointed Governor of Western Australia, and he arranged for Barlee to be appointed Colonial Secretary. Both men arrived in Western Australia in June 1855, and commenced work the following month. ...
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Hoxne Hundred
Hoxne was a hundred (subdivision), hundred of Suffolk, with an area of . Hoxne Hundred was a fertile district averaging about in length and breadth. It was bounded on the north by the River Waveney which separates it from Norfolk, on the east by Wangford (hundred), Wangford and Blything (hundred), Blything Hundreds, on the south by Plomesgate (hundred), Plomesgate, Loes (hundred), Loes and Thredling (hundred), Thredling Hundreds and on the west by Hartismere (hundred), Hartismere Hundred. The parishes of Carlton, Suffolk, Carlton and Kelsale form a detached region to the south east of the hundred. The area is watered by several streams flowing northward to the Waveney. On its southern side are the sources of the River Alde and near Laxfield the principal source of the River Blythe. The soil is primarily loam. The only town of any size is Stradbroke. It falls into the Deanery of Hoxne, the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and the Diocese of Norwich. Listed as ''Hoxana'' in the Domesday B ...
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Colin Campbell (priest)
Colin Arthur Fitzgerald Campbell (17 June 1863 – 6 January 1916) was the inaugural Archdeacon of Wisbech. Campbell was the tenth child, and sixth son, of Colonel Sir Edward Campbell, 2nd Baronet and Georgiana Charlotte Theophila, second daughter of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Bt. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was a teacher at Spondon School from 1885 to 1889; and Private Secretary to the Governor of South Australia, the Earl of Kintore from 1889 to 1892. He was ordained deacon in 1893 and priest in 1894. After a curacy in Hartlebury he was: Senior Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1884 to 1886; Private Chaplain to the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1886 to 1893; Rector of Thornham Magna cum Parva from 1895 to 1902; Rector of Street, Somerset from 1902 to 1908; Rector of Worlingworth from 1908 to 1912 (and Rural Dean of Hoxne from 1909 to 1912; and Rector of Feltwell Feltwell is a vi ...
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George Burr (cricketer)
George Frederick Burr (5 November 1819 – 5 December 1857) was an English first-class cricketer and Anglican priest. Burr was born in Marylebone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He was awarded a cricket blue in 1840, appearing for Cambridge University in three first-class matches in 1840 and 1841. After graduating he was ordained as a Church of England priest and was curate at Frittenden, Kent, 1844–55. He became curate at Worlingworth with Southolt, Suffolk, in 1856 but died at Dennington Dennington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is north of Framlingham and north-east of Ipswich in the east of the county. It lies along the A1120 road around west of the road's junction with the main A12 roa ..., also in Suffolk, in 1857. Notes 1819 births 1857 deaths Cambridge University cricketers English cricketers People educated at Maidstone Grammar School Alumni of St John's College, Cambrid ...
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Colonial Secretary Of Western Australia
The colonial secretary of Western Australia was one of the most important and powerful public offices in Western Australia, in the time when Western Australia was a British colony. The colonial secretary was the representative of the British Colonial Office in Western Australia, and was usually appointed from Britain. He was responsible for all official correspondence between the colony and the Colonial Office. He was at all times a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council and the Executive Council of Western Australia. After Western Australia gained responsible government Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments (the equivalent of the executive br ... in 1890, the office of Colonial Secretary became a ministerial portfolio. The responsibilities of the office changed substantially, and it was ...
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