Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Andover (/ ˈ æ n d oʊ v ər / AN-doh-vər) is a town in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England.The town is on the River Anton, a major tributary of the Test, and lies alongside the major A303 trunk road at the eastern end of Salisbury Plain, 18 miles (29 km) west of the town of Basingstoke.
An advertisement for Boots from 1911. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. [7] After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10, helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, [8] which was incorporated as Boot and Co. Ltd in 1883, becoming Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1888.
Chantry has a public library, several pubs, shopping parades, a community centre and health care providers. It is well served by public transport. Several churches are located in the area, including St. Francis [ 2 ] in Hawthorn Drive, [ 3 ] Shepherd Drive Baptist Church, [ 4 ] St Mark's Roman Catholic church in Hawthorn Drive, Chantry ...
Morpeth Chantry also known as All Saints Chantry is a Grade I listed building situated adjacent to the site of the ancient bridge across the River Wansbeck at Morpeth, Northumberland. [1] It was built in about 1296 and served both as a chapel dedicated to All Saints and as a toll house for the river crossing. The duties of the appointed ...
Bury Hill is the site of a former Iron Age hillfort about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the centre of Andover, Hampshire. The site encloses about 22 acres (8.9 ha). The site encloses about 22 acres (8.9 ha).
A chantry is an ecclesiastical term that may have either of two related meanings: [1] a chantry service , a set of Christian liturgical celebrations for the dead (made up of the Requiem Mass and the Office of the Dead ), or
The site of John Hanson's "Andover Free School" is now a shrubbery. In 1845 the school was renamed Andover Grammar School and Martha Gale, a resident of Church Close, donated a house to provide a new site for the school, as well as money for development. The house is now Andover Museum, which was opened by former pupil Lord Denning in 1981.
St Swithun's Chantry Chapel, on the York road, was near Clarke Hall. [8] In the 14th century the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin was built on the medieval bridge across the River Calder on the road to Doncaster and the south. Wakefield's medieval nine-arched bridge is 320 feet (98 m) long, was built in stone between 1342 and 1356.