The town of Wenham, originally settled in 1635 and incorporated in 1643, has retained much of its historic character and rural scenery.

Wenham was first settled in 1635 and officially incorporated in 1643.

The first person to experiment in this fashion was Francis Herbert Wenham, who in doing so constructed the first wind tunnel in 1871.

Wenham was also a member of the first professional organization dedicated to aeronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society of the United Kingdom.

Gordon Wenham in his commentary on Leviticus expresses the idea that Christianity removed the need for animal sacrifice in these words: " With the death of Christ the only sufficient " burnt offering " was offered once and for all, and therefore the animal sacrifices which foreshadowed Christ's sacrifice were made obsolete.

J. Wenham asserts that Luke was " one of the Seventy, the Emmaus disciple, Lucius of Cyrene and Paul's kinsman.

" Not all scholars are as confident of all of these attributes as Wenham is, not least because Luke's own statement at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke () freely admits that he was not an eyewitness to the events of the Gospel.

* J. Wenham, " The Identification of Luke ", Evangelical Quarterly 63 ( 1991 ), 3 – 44

Francis Herbert Wenham ( 1824 – 1908 ), a Council Member of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, addressed these issues by inventing, designing and operating the first enclosed wind tunnel in 1871.

Wenham and his colleague Browning are credited with many fundamental discoveries, including the measurement of l / d ratios, and the revelation of the beneficial effects of a high aspect ratio.

* An Age of Kings ( 1960 ): Elizabeth is portrayed by Jane Wenham.

Alastair Sim starred as Inspector Goole, renamed " Poole " for the film, with Jane Wenham as Eva Smith, Eileen Moore as Sheila Birling, Arthur Young as Arthur Birling, Brian Worth as Gerald Croft, Olga Lindo as Sybil Birling and Bryan Forbes as Eric Birling.

Wenham ( IVP New Bible Commentary ) execution was normal for rape cases, so Potiphar may have had doubts about his wife's story.

Baz Luhrmann directed a series of international hits and returned to Australia for the production of 2008's Australia, which showcased a host of Australian stars including Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and David Wenham and went on to become the second highest grossing film in Australian cinematic history.

Gettin Square also featured rising star David Wenham who demonstrated versatility with a string of critically acclaimed roles including the title role in Paul Cox's 1999 biopic Molokai: The Story of Father Damien and the 2001 thriller The Bank, directed by the politically conscious film director Robert Connolly.

Essex then comprised the towns of Salem, Lynn, Wenham, Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, Gloucester, and Andover, which were subdivided over the centuries to produce the modern composition of cities and towns.

It is now used by Beverly as a storage site and is under the scrutiny of many environmental organizations, as it and the surrounding areas — such as Casco Chemical — have polluted the groundwater, which could be potentially hazardous to the nearby Wenham Lake water supply.

A large portion of Wenham Lake, as well as several other lakes and ponds lie within the city.

Besides Massachusetts Bay to the south, Beverly is bordered by Manchester-by-the-Sea to the east, Wenham to the north, Danvers to the west and Salem to the south.

Along the Newburyport portion of the line is the North Beverly stop, just south of the Wenham town line.

Beverly is home to Beverly Municipal Airport, though parts of the airfield itself lie within Danvers, as well as a very small portion of the north runway in Wenham.

* 1872 Atlas of Essex County Map of Beverly Cove, plate 95, at the bottom of the page of the Map of Wenham.

Hamilton is closely tied to its sister town, Wenham, sharing a school system, library, recreation department and commuter rail station.

In 1921 the Mandell family built the Community House in memory of the eight men in Hamilton and Wenham who died in military service during World War I, including their son, Sam.

Hamilton is bordered by Ipswich to the north, Essex to the east, Manchester-by-the-Sea to the southeast, Wenham to the south, and Topsfield to the west.

In 1638, after conferring with Williams, Anne Hutchinson, William Coddington, John Clarke, Philip Sherman, and other religious dissidents settled on Aquidneck Island ( then known as Rhode Island ), which was purchased from the local natives, who called it Pocasset.

This debate on the respective roles of contrition and attrition, which had not been settled by the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 1563 ), was one of the motives of the imprisonment in May 1638 of Saint-Cyran, the first leader of Port-Royal, by order of Cardinal Richelieu.

The island was named in the prince's honor by Dutch explorers in 1598 and was first settled by Dutch emigrants in 1638.

Originally settled by Puritans as part of the town of New Haven, Hamden was purchased by Theophilus Eaton and the Reverend John Davenport in 1638 from the local Quinnipiack Native American tribe.

Hamilton was first settled in 1638 and was originally a section of Ipswich known as " The Hamlet ".

Portsmouth Compact memorial at Founder's Brook. Portsmouth was settled in 1638 by a group of religious dissenters from Boston Colony, including Dr. John Clarke, William Coddington, and Anne Hutchinson.

It was settled by the English in 1638 as Merrimac, after the Merrimack River, and incorporated in 1639 as Salisbury, after Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.

Robert Smith settled in Topsfield in 1638.

At some point in 1638 or afterward, he settled at Rocky Nook on Jones River, within the limits of Kingston, a few miles from Plymouth.

In 1638, it began to be settled by Swedes, Finns, Dutch, and Walloons and became the colony of New Sweden, though this was not officially recognized by the Dutch Empire who re-asserted control in 1655.

English colonists first settled on present-day Aquidneck Island in 1638 in the region called by the Natives " Pocasset " ( meaning " where the stream widens "), the northern part of Portsmouth.

In 1638, the Spanish returned for a third time to take the island and rid it of all French and newly settled Dutch.

Large landowning families and various religious orders played an important role in the development of Pápa as a city: the Franciscans settled here in 1475 and the Paulines in 1638.

Jonathan Norcross is a descendant of Jeremiah Norcross, the English progenitor of the Norcross family who settled upon Watertown, the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( 1638 ); a land proprietor of Cambridge before 1642 ; who was an admitted freeman of that town in 1652.

His ancestors came from England to the United States, where they settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1635 ; they later helped found Quinnipiac Colony in 1638, and lived in Vermont before moving to New York in 1795.

Although his family had settled in the American colonies as early as 1638, his family's most prestigious quality was that there were nine blacksmiths in his ancestry.

Other early towns settled in the Rhode Island area were Portsmouth ( 1638 ), Newport ( 1639 ), and Warwick ( 1642 ).