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    John Norden (c. 1547 – 1625) was an English cartographer, chorographer and antiquary. He planned (but did not complete) a series of county maps and accompanying...
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  • Norden (born 1933), German speed skater Heinz Norden (1905–1978), American author Hermann Norden (1868/1869–1931), American travel writer John Norden...
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  • John Norden (1612 – 20 June 1669) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1669. Norden...
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    The Norden Mk. XV, known as the Norden M series in U.S. Army service, is a bombsight that was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the...
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    the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "goals" in Cornish hurling. Carew described...
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    generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into...
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    biographer, Martin Norden, considers him to be "perhaps the most influential and idolized actor of his day". Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth in the...
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    the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "goals" in Cornish hurling. Carew described...
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    government. The castle descended to Michael Stanhope, who commissioned John Norden to carry out a survey of his family's estates. The earliest surviving...
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  • According to Thomas Fuller, he was "an incomparable engineer", and John Norden praised him as "an excellent engineer". Elizabeth I awarded him an annual...
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  • Peter Edward Van Norden (born December 16, 1950) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s, including...
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    by John Norden (1548—1625). It was intended to take the form of a series of county maps, accompanied by place-by-place written descriptions. Norden was...
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    the population of which at the 2011 census was 3,375. John Norden In 1584 map maker John Norden wrote, 'The peninsula is called by the pretty name of...
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    materials. Tourism began to develop in the late 16th century and, in 1593, John Norden noted that the county was attracting visitors to its "divers devices...
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    gatehouse commemorates the events. The noted cartographer and chorographer, John Norden produced a plan of the castle and its precincts in 1617. It shows, amongst...
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    Essex and redistributed among the King's favoured nobles. Shown on John Norden's 1594 map with the second word insula (with the traditional medial "ſ")...
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    detailed 1540s survey of the Cerne Abbey lands and a 1617 land survey by John Norden, refer to the giant, despite noting the Trendle and other landmarks....
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    adversaria nova (1571), John Norden (such as his 1595 map of Sussex), John Speed's History of Great Britaine (1611) and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole...
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    rally held in Hendon Park – "Rout the Rumour". Hendon House was home to John Norden, a 16th-century cartographer, but was demolished and replaced with Hendon...
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  • and its mounds have been recorded on maps since at least 1601, when John Norden included it in his survey of Sir Michael Stanhope's estates between Woodbridge...
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    area of high ground identified in a survey of 1607 by the cartographer, John Norden) and "—ley" (a suffix found in local toponyms, such as Frimley and Yateley...
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    now Whitehall, and on the south side of what is now Trafalgar Square. John Norden in about 1590 described it as the "most stately" of the series, but by...
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    use during the Anglo-Saxon period. As early as 1593 the cartographer John Norden had commented in his Speculum Britanniae that the dilapidated St Pancras...
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    along a route very similar to the present-day one, by the surveyor John Norden in a 1595 map. During the 18th century, various efforts were made to...
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    Britanniae (1596) of the Tudor era English cartographer and topographer John Norden (1548–1625) had an alphabetical list of places throughout England with...
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    40/799, with John Lyon as plaintiff, line 3, in Latin; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no799/aCP40no799fronts/IMG_0727.htm John Norden, Speculum Britanniæ:...
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    Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster...
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    English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, and engraved by William Kip and William Hole (who also engraved the...
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  • metres north of St John village is an area of high ground called Vanderbands, the site of an Iron Age castle mentioned by John Norden (an English topographer...
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    William Camden praised the county mapmakers Christopher Saxton and John Norden as "most skilfull (sic) Chorographers"; and Robert Plot in 1677 and Christopher...
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