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    Ampton is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk District of Suffolk, England, about five miles north of Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall...
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    Ampton Hall is a Grade II-listed Jacobean style manor house in Ampton, Suffolk, England. Ampton Hall was the birthplace in 1805 of Robert FitzRoy, who...
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    land sales claimed by British settlers. Robert FitzRoy was born at Ampton Hall, Ampton, Suffolk, England, into the upper echelons of the British aristocracy...
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  • descendants of the Calthorpes who held the manors of Cockthorpe, Norfolk, and Ampton, Suffolk, and who were also sometime Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston. The...
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  • Derry which opts out of Radio Ulster. Cambridgeshire Essex Norfolk North- -ampton Suffolk    Three Counties Derby Leicester Nottingham London Cumbria Newcastle...
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    Museum are also in the town. Point to point racing takes place at Higham and Ampton. Speedway racing has been staged in Suffolk since at least the 1950s, following...
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    early August. He and his wife lived there for the winter at 4 (now 33) Ampton Street, Kings Cross, in a house built by Thomas Cubitt. The death of Carlyle's...
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  • in 1782. Calthorpe first came to reside at his family's ancestral home, Ampton Hall, in 1736, and immediately set about improving his mansion and estate...
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    All Saints, Margaret Street, London, 1850–1859, by William Butterfield Ampton Road no. 12, Edgbaston, Birmingham, the UK, by John Henry Chamberlain, 1855...
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    The Lacy Baronetcy, of Ampton in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created 23 June 1921 (as part of the...
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    "cobbler's awls", meaning "balls" (as in testicles); and "hampton" (usually "'ampton") meaning "prick" (as in penis) originates from "Hampton Wick" (a place...
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    (demolished) and died of a diabetic coma[citation needed], aged 61, at 10 Ampton Road, Edgbaston in 1914. In 1880, he married Maria Adney Cropper. He was...
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  • Cromwellian soldier, James Calthorpe, brought him the Suffolk manor of Ampton, as well as lands in Ireland. He was Equerry to Catherine of Braganza from...
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  • also Acton, Akenham, Aldeburgh, Alderton, Aldham, Aldringham, Alpheton, Ampton, Ashbocking, Ashby, Ashfield, Aspall, Assington, Athelington, Audley End...
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    developed by Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera at the latter's home in Ampton Road, Edgbaston as early as 1859, but although Gem was a member of The Archery...
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    address the social welfare needs of the community. On 11 April 1844, at 17 Ampton Street off London's Grays Inn Road, they facilitated a public meeting to...
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    boats were sometimes built a little larger. Wharf boats or more usually 'Amptons, operated on the Wolverhampton level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations...
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    (1708–1765)] Bowling Iron Works [descent from uncle George (1708–1765)] Ampton Hall [descent from uncle George (1708–1765)] "Langcliffe: William Paley...
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    Brandon Bury St Edmunds Clare Haverhill Mildenhall Newmarket Civil parishes Ampton Bardwell Barnardiston Barnham Barningham Barrow Barton Mills Beck Row, Holywell...
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  • Lodge Wrottesley Hall Wychnor Hall Abbas Hall Acton Place (demolished) Ampton Hall Ancient House, Clare Ancient House, Ipswich Angel Corner Assington...
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  • James Calthorpe (died 1658) of Ampton who was Sheriff of Suffolk, in 1656, during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he was knighted at Whitehall...
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    prose romance, and two devotional prose narratives. Calthorpe was born in Ampton, Suffolk on 28 December 1648 to James Calthorpe and Dorothy Reynolds. Her...
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  • 17 June 1921 1064 Renwick of Newminster Abbey 22 June 1921 1065 Lacy of Ampton 23 June 1921 1066 Vestey of Shirley 27 June 1921 1067 Beckett of Kirkdale...
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    Brandon Bury St Edmunds Clare Haverhill Mildenhall Newmarket Civil parishes Ampton Bardwell Barnardiston Barnham Barningham Barrow Barton Mills Beck Row, Holywell...
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    Brandon Bury St Edmunds Clare Haverhill Mildenhall Newmarket Civil parishes Ampton Bardwell Barnardiston Barnham Barningham Barrow Barton Mills Beck Row, Holywell...
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    families claim descent from the Hiberno-Norman Lacys. The Lacy baronets of Ampton Hall, granted their title in the 20th century, derive from a Wexford Lacy...
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    Brandon Bury St Edmunds Clare Haverhill Mildenhall Newmarket Civil parishes Ampton Bardwell Barnardiston Barnham Barningham Barrow Barton Mills Beck Row, Holywell...
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    Haverhill, Mildenhall and Newmarket all take the style "town council". Ampton Bardwell Barnardiston Barnham Barningham Barrow Barton Mills Beck Row, Holywell...
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    Brandon Bury St Edmunds Clare Haverhill Mildenhall Newmarket Civil parishes Ampton Bardwell Barnardiston Barnham Barningham Barrow Barton Mills Beck Row, Holywell...
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  • Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham in Hampshire (12 August 1655 in Ampton – 1719) was a Whig Member of Parliament for Hindon. He was the third and youngest...
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