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Town arms from 1776, on the Yelde Hall. The hall was built in around 1450. [2] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing onto the Market Place with the right hand section projected forward; the right hand section, which consisted of two bays, featured a short flight of steps leading up to a doorway in the left bay with a horizontal window above the doorway and two small gables ...
Chippenham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, part of East Cambridgeshire district around 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Newmarket and 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Cambridge. History
Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Bath, 86 miles (138 km) west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, where some form of settlement is believed to have existed since before Roman times.
After significant population growth, largely associated with the cloth trade, Chippenham became a municipal borough in 1835. [2] In this context, civic leaders decided to accept the offer of the local member of parliament, Joseph Neeld, who had recently bought the nearby Grittleton House estate, to pay for a new town hall to replace the ageing Yelde Hall in the Market Place. [3]
Jul. 3—A new casino coming to the shuttered Sears at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua will be called The Nash Casino. The charitable gaming venue will take up 130,000 square feet of the 180,000 ...
Chippenham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) in South West England, serving the town of Chippenham, Wiltshire. It is 93 miles 76 chains (93.95 mi; 151.2 km) down the line from the zero point at London Paddington and is situated between Swindon and Bath Spa on the GWML. [ 1 ]
Aug. 14—Plans to open a charitable gaming facility in the former Sears at the Pheasant Lane Mall had many ready to speak at the last Nashua Planning Board meeting, but the presentation was moved ...
Maud Heath's Causeway crossing the River Avon flood plain at Kellaways. Maud Heath's Causeway is a pathway dating from the 15th century in rural Wiltshire, England.On both sides of its crossing of the River Avon, just west of Kellaways, the path rises above the floodplain on sixty-four brick arches (built 1812, largely reconstructed in the 20th century) [1] alongside an undistinguished country ...