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The Martin Down Enclosure is an archaeological site on Martin Down, near the village of Martin, in Hampshire, England. It is near the boundaries with Dorset and Wiltshire. The site is a scheduled monument, [1] and it is one of several archaeological features on Martin Down, such as Bokerley Dyke. [2]
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The Ontario Archives was not returned to a solid footing until the late 1940s under Helen McClung. [ 4 ] The Archives moved to the Canadiana Building (14 Queen's Park Crescent West) on the University of Toronto campus in 1951, at which time it was known as the Department of Public Records and Archives.
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Martin is surrounded by prehistoric sites, including Bokerley Dyke, [12] and the very long Grim's Ditch which extends into Dorset and Wiltshire. [12] Knap Barrow is 95 metres long and is the longest barrow in Hampshire. [10] The name Martin probably derives from Old English "Maeretun" meaning "boundary farm", or "Meretun" meaning "pond farm". [13]
The three-quarter share of the estate passed down through the Long family to Catherine Tylney-Long, [10] a wealthy early seventeenth-century heiress courted by the Prince of Wales, who later married William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington. After her death, her husband was involved in a court battle for custody of their ...
Martin and Tidpit Downs is a 367.5-hectare (908-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. [1] [2] Martin Down is a 341-hectare (840-acre) national nature reserve [3] and an area of 115 hectares (280 acres) is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] Bokerley Dyke, a prehistoric linear earthwork and scheduled monument, runs through the ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...