From there it spread to England, where Henry VIII owned, in an inventory of 1549, an agate cup with a " fote and Couer of siluer and guilt enbossed with Rebeske worke ", and William Herne or Heron, Serjeant Painter from 1572 to 1580, was paid for painting Elizabeth I's barge with " rebeske work ".

The pub was built in 1840 on Norwood Lane as it was then known, which was a muddy track leading to Herne Hill.

McDowall was born at 204 Herne Hill Road, Herne Hill, London, England, the son of Winsfriede Lucinda ( née Corcoran ), an Irish-born aspiring actress, and Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman.

In 2007, the new synagogue of the Jewish community of Bochum, Herne und Hattingen was opened.

Like most other cities in the region Herne was a tiny village until the 19th century.

For the first time Herne was called a city.

In 1975 Wanne-Eickel, by then a city with over 70, 000 inhabitants, was incorporated into Herne.

Herne was targeted by the RAF on 4 June 1940, early in World War II.

* There is a statue to Wallis in Herne Bay, Kent just a short distance from Reculver where his bouncing bomb was tested.

In attempting to keep their creditors at bay, the family moved around the country, going to Herne Bay in Kent, then to Swanage in Dorset, and on to Bournemouth ( which was then in Hampshire ), where Archibald ’ s brother, Richard Francis Pechey ( 1872 – 1963 ), had become the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in 1912.

Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries ; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park, and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch.

When the London sewerage system was constructed during the mid-19th century, its designer Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated flows from the River Effra into his ' high-level interceptor sewer ', also known as the Effra sewer, running from Herne Hill eastwards under Peckham and New Cross to Deptford.

Born in Herne Hill, South London, Jones was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford where he studied Natural Sciences.

From Herne there was easy access by road to the city of Canterbury, or to Dover, where further passage by boat could then be obtained across the English Channel to France.

The London businessmen intended to rename the town St Augustine's, but the name was unpopular with residents and the " Herne Bay " remained.

There was a type of beach boat unique to Herne Bay and nearby Thanet, known as the Thanet wherry, a narrow pulling boat about long.

The village of Herne was often called Herne Street around this time.

In 1912, the first " Brides in the Bath " murder by George Joseph Smith was committed in Herne Bay.

During World War II, a sea-fort was built off the coast of Herne Bay and Whitstable, which is still in existence.

The coastal village of Reculver, to the east of Herne Bay, was the site of the testing of the bouncing bomb used by the " Dam Busters " during the war.

Herne Bay was the hometown of the three main characters in the 1990s BBC sitcom, Game On.

“ The story of this Herne, who was keeper in the forest in the time of Elizabeth, runs thus :-That having committed some great offence, for which he feared to lose his situation and fall into disgrace, he was induced to hang himself on this tree .”

Herne however is a localised figure, not found outside Berkshire and the regions of the surrounding counties into which Windsor Forest once spread.

The arrival of the railways transformed Herne Hill from a wealthy suburb with large residential estates into a densely populated urban area.

On 12 July 1925, a 660-volt third-rail system came into operation on both routes through Herne Hill: from Victoria to Orpington on the Chatham Main Line and along the entire length of the City Branch.

By 1959, the pattern of commuter services at Herne Hill had taken the shape it would hold into the 21st century: all-stop trains from Victoria to Orpington and from the City of London to Wimbledon and Sutton ( but, unlike the modern Sutton Loop, via West Croydon ).

The parish was broken up in 1310, when chapelries at Herne and, on the Isle of Thanet, St Nicholas-at-Wade and All Saints were converted into parishes, though Hoath was still a perpetual curacy belonging to Reculver parish in the 19th century.

To the south is the heart of Auckland City, with the Auckland waterfront, as well as coastal suburbs such as Mission Bay, Parnell, Herne Bay and Point Chevalier ( east to west ), the latter of which lies on a short triangular peninsula jutting into the harbour.

The Americans, who at the time, were using the Hydro Majestic Hotel in Medlow Bath as a hospital, relocated and moved into the first section of the Herne Bay premises in May 1943.

* In 2011 the pagan metal band Herne released an album called Face of the Hunter, " inspired by the 1980s TV series ' Robin of Sherwood '"; the album introduction describes the famous falling whole tone motif that occurs in each episode.

In it, Robin of Loxley is called by Herne to take on the mantle of " the Hooded Man ", which Robin's father had predicted beforehand.

It is Herne who encourages Loxley to become ' Robin i ' the Hood ' and to use his band of outlaws to fight for good against the evil Norman oppressors.

He also appeared as Herne the Hunter in HTV's Robin of Sherwood.

* In the light opera Merrie England by Sir Edward German ( 1902 ), the librettist Basil Hood introduces another impersonation of Herne as a device to induce a change of heart in Queen Elizabeth I.

* One of the earliest recordings by British progressive rock band Marillion is an instrumental song titled " Herne the Hunter " based on the legend.

* Singer-songwriter Kenny Klein has written and recorded two different songs about the legend of Herne, one of which, " Herne's Oak ", is featured on the soundtrack of the documentary " Deep Down: A Story From The Heart " by Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin.

* Independent Movie: Call of the Hunter ( the legend of Herne the Hunter

* Herne the Hunter and other references to English folklore and Arthurian legend can be found in Susan Cooper's books, The Dark Is Rising.

* Herne the Hunter is also featured as a guiding character in John Masefield's novel The Box of Delights and the 1984 BBC TV adaptation.

Game On was a British television sitcom about the lives of three 20-somethings from Herne Bay sharing a flat in Battersea in South-West London.

Herne has appeared in various books, TV series and other media since his first mention by Shakespeare.

* Herne the Hunter appears in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence where he plays a key part in the end of the book by the same name and the series ' ending Silver on the Tree.

* Herne the Hunted is a parody of Herne the Hunter in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

* Herne the Hunter appears as a supporting character in Simon Green's Nightside series.

* Herne the Hunter, also named as Cenneros, is a character in Michael Scott's series of The Alchemist, the Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flammel.

Herne featured in 17 of the 26 episodes of the series and was shown to have various magical abilities.

* Herne is a forest spirit in issue # 26 of the Green Arrow comic book series.

* In The Elder Scrolls, a role-playing video game series, the deity known as the Daedric Prince Hircine, Spirit of the hunt, seems to be based on Herne, as a deer-headed hunter spirit.

A Blue Plaque at 51 Herne Hill ( by the junction with Danecroft Road ) marks the former home of author Sax Rohmer ( a. k. a. Arthur Henry Ward ), most famous as author of the series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.