England Facts - Part 1

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Paul Higgins Posts: 9 Joined: 30th Dec 2006	quotePosted at 04:09 on 10th November 2007 The Battle of Hasting wasn't fought at Hastings. It was fought on Senlac Hill (sometimes known as Senlac Ridge) approximately six miles North-North West of Hastings. (Close to the village of Battle, named after… the battle! More accurateley after Battle Abbey that William had built as a sort of penance) Hastings was where William the Bastard (whoops! Sorry- that’s what the French called him due to his dubious parentage. His father was Duke Robert I of Normandy, and his mother Herleve (also known as Arlette), daughter of a tanner in Falaise.) Ahem! the Conqueror marched from to meet Harold Godwinson and his army. Quite interesting, as Stephen Fry might say! My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Paul Higgins Posts: 9 Joined: 30th Dec 2006	quotePosted at 05:14 on 10th November 2007 Guy Fawkes wasn’t caught in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament. The building we know by that name now is a 19^th century construction. The House in 1605 didn’t have a cellar. It had an undercroft. This was a storeroom at ground level; the House the politicians sat in being effectively the first floor. A technicality, I know. But still fact. So much I was taught at school has turned out to be inaccurate. And the truth is so often much more interesting. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK	quotePosted at 23:55 on 10th November 2007 Going back to dinosaurs---the first formally identified one was in 1677 when a bone of a Megalosaurus was found at Cornwell, near Oxford. The first American one was discovered in 1858 in New Jersey. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK	quotePosted at 00:06 on 11th November 2007 The oldest continuously inhabited village in England appears to be Thatcham, Berkshire with remains found of people once living there going back to 7700 BC. Some years ago when the sewer works were being dug on the southern edge of Thatcham, alsorts of prehistoric things were found along with remains of some rather unusual animals for England which included Hippopotamus, Elk, Beaver, Wolf, and Pine Marten. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Derek Nash Posts: 19 Joined: 13th Oct 2005 Location: UK	quotePosted at 13:20 on 11th November 2007 King John (signed the Magna Carta) is buried in Worcester Cathedral!! My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
poe Posts: 1132 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England	quotePosted at 16:38 on 11th January 2008 St Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire, has the tallest parish church tower in England (often called the Boston Stump) at 272 ft high. Picture by Anna Chaleva My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Dennis Bailey Posts: 115 Joined: 25th Dec 2007 Location: UK	quotePosted at 07:28 on 14th January 2008 Sheerness have the biggest pile of decaying explosives in the world sitting in a wreck a few yards offshore Picture by Dennis Bailey My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Mick Bean Posts: 188 Joined: 1st Jun 2007 Location: England	quotePosted at 18:09 on 15th January 2008 The late Queen Mother always carried a winkle with her. She was a member of the Hastings (East Sussex) winkle club and would be fined if she could not produce it when asked. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK	quotePosted at 21:39 on 29th March 2008 My village Barton-le-Clay (or Barton in the Clay as it is sometomes called) is named in the Doomsday book and has a church called St Nicholas' built in 1067 which was ransacked by William the Conqueror on his ruthless quest during his reign, and the only piece of stained glass window left is still in the church on display. Barton Hills/Springs just north of the village is a protected Nature Reserve where there is a rare orchid that grows called the 'Pasque' for which there is a local Hospice named after it. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England	quotePosted at 22:15 on 29th March 2008 Hi to Paul and Derek Its certainly been a while since there has been any communication for you guys, so a belated WELCOME to the best website and forum on the net. You have both provided some interesting information which apart from POE, Dennis, Mick and Lyn seems to have gone unnoticed......until now that is! C'mon fellow POE members lets hear it for Paul and Derek! My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions