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Aston Clinton is a village and civil parish close to the main A41 road in Buckinghamshire, England between Tring and Aylesbury.
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The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Clinton Hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.
Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton, and the pair decided to make their own vehicles.
The Tring bypass ends with the border of Hertfordshire, at the junction with the B4635, B4009 ( former route through Aston Clinton ) and B488.
On 3 October 2003, the dual carriageway section was extended to the £ 25m Aston Clinton Bypass, which was originally intended to be built at the same time as the two sections further south.
It crosses the Grand Union Canal, and there is a junction with the B489, and finishes at a roundabout, becoming Aston Clinton Road.
* Highways Agency – Aston Clinton scheme page.
* CBRD – Futures – A41 Aston Clinton Bypass.
Many modern roads follow the Icknield Way, for example the B489 from Aston Clinton to Dunstable and the A505 from Baldock to Royston.
* Buckinghamshire: Aston Clinton, Bledlow, Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp, Great Kimble, Horsenden, The Lee, Marsworth, Monks Risborough, Pitstone, Princes Risborough, Saunderton, Stoke Mandeville, Weston Turville
After the fall of the Roman Empire, it became a Saxon settlement and remains of a Saxon cemetery were found during the construction of the Aston Clinton Bypass.
The manor, later to be known as Aston Clinton, was for a short period after 1100 under the control of Edward de Salisbury, who was King Henry I ’ s standard-bearer.
However by 1237 the manor was owned by the de Clinton family, hence the name at that time of Aston de Clinton.
William de Clinton separated out from Aston Clinton a new manor called Chivery as a dowry for his daughter Alice.
Successive families owned the manor, passing by marriage from the Hastings to the Barringtons, Gerards, and then to Lord Lake of Aston Clinton later to become Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake.
On 22 September 1934 a Handley Page W. 10 a twin-engined biplane airline named Youth of New Zealand of Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Displays, crashed into a field near the canal at Aston Clinton.
The modern parish of Aston Clinton was created in 1934.
Of the other medieval manors :- Dundridge ; Chivery ; St Leonards and Vaches, historically all closely associated with Aston Clinton, only Chivery and Vaches have remained distinct parts of Aston Clinton, which now forms part of Aylesbury Vale District.
Aston and is
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England.
With capacity to produce up to 5, 000 engines a year by 100 specially trained personnel, like traditional Aston Martin engine production from Newport Pagnell, assembly of each unit is entrusted to a single technician from a pool of 30, with V8 and V12 variants assembled in under 20 hours.
On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.
He is currently President of Birmingham-Southern College after his stint as a non-executive director of English association football club Aston Villa.
; (" Sūjin ", used by Aston, is not the standard pronunciation ) also known as Mimakiiribikoinie no Sumeramikoto or Hatsukunishirasu Sumeramikoto ; was the tenth emperor of Japan.
This group is composed of Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur.
In Dan Neils 22 May 2010 review of the Aston Martin Rapide in the Wall Street Journal " The Aston's stitched leather interior is simply magnificent, like they rolled the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch into a stockyard.
In the United Kingdom, Jardine Motors is one of the country ’ s largest retail dealership groups with a portfolio of specialist franchises that includes Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and, most recently, McLaren.
He was then replaced in 1988 by the former manager of German computer company Nixdorf Computer AG, Arno Bohn, who made some costly miscalculations that led to his dismissal soon after, along with that of the development director, Dr. Ulrich Bez, who was formerly responsible for BMW's Z1 model, and today is CEO of Aston Martin.
George Aston explains that when Murasaki retired from court she was again associated with Ishiyama-dera: " To this beautiful spot, it is said, Murasaki no Shikibu retired from court life to devote the remainder of her days to literature and religion.
Optima is also used as the official branding typeface for Estée Lauder Companies, the University of Calgary, by Aston Martin.
* Robinson, Tony and Aston, Mick, Archaeology is Rubbish ( Channel 4 Books, 2002 ).
The following exchange between Aston and Davies in The Caretaker is typical of Pinter:
Aston Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The township is covered by two ZIP Codes: 19014 ( Aston Post Office, which also covers parts of Upper Chichester and Bethel Townships not covered under the current Boothwyn, Pennsylvania and the new Garnet Valley post offices ) and 19063 ( Media ).
The Pennsylvania State University has an undergraduate satellite campus located in the north-central portion of the township, while Neumann College, a private co-educational Franciscan college, is located in nearby Aston Township.
The Texas historian B W Aston is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery near Tolar.
From Old Turn Junction, 13 locks drop the level of the canal by, after which there is a short flat stretch from St Chads Cathedral to Aston Junction.
Holborn Hill bridge carries the railway to Aston station over the canal, just before the bottom lock of the flight is reached.
* Guy Whittingham is a retired professional footballer with over 450 appearances for a number of English clubs including Premier League Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday.
Alliance with Aguta Emishi, Tsugaru Emishi and Watarishima Emishi is formed by Abe who then storms a settlement of Mishihase ( Su-shen in the Aston translation of the Nihongi ) a people of unknown origin, who are defeated.
The area is generally known simply as Anston, although the Post Office now officially recognises South Anston in its own right ( this change occurred due to postal confusion with nearby Aston and also because of petitions of local residents ).
The Faculty of Business and Law is based in the Hugh Aston Building ; a £ 35 million investiture officially opened in March 2010 by Patrick McKenna, founder and Chief Executive of Ingenious Media, one of the country's leading media investment companies.
Aston and village
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Borough was part of Aston Township, though this northernmost section of Aston did not have a village aspect as such.
Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music.
Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music.
Since 2003, the family have lived in the Oxfordshire village of Aston Tirrold.
The car manufacturer Aston Martin took one part of its name from the village combining it with that of its co-founder Lionel Martin.
There are several motor vehicle garages in Aston Clinton, Triumph which is for motorbikes only and JP Marques who sold second hand cars, however JP Marques main garage shut and has now been demolished to make way for six new homes and the company has now moved locations further east in the village and now specialises in Minis.
“ A woman of the parish of Earl Shilton, in the County of Leicester, has been subject for some years to a disorder resembling the bite of the tarantula, and so astonishing the ignorance of many, that they imagine that she has been bewitched by an old lady in the neighbouring village of Aston.
Aston, a village and township, three and a half miles north-east of Mucklestone, and eight miles ( 13 km ) south-west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, contains.
Aston Sandford is a small village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England, about east of Haddenham and northwest of Princes Risborough.
At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the village was known as Cold Aston, and both it and Haddenham were owned by the same manor, suggesting that Aston got its name from being the farming estate to the east of Haddenham.
It was from this time that the village became known as Aston Sandford.
when civil parishes were established in 1896 the village was assigned to the parish of Aston Clinton and St Leonards.
Its may denote, Eastern or Ash tree Ridge, referring to the situation of the village on the ridge of a hill or could derive from previous associations with the manor of nearby Aston Clinton.
Aston Abbotts ( or Aston Abbots ) is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.
The village name ' Aston ' is a common one in England, and is Anglo-Saxon for Eastern Estate.
* Aston Abbotts village website
The village near the boundary with Hertfordshire, close to Aston Clinton.
However Starey and Viccars, in their study of the village point to the geography of the local area and the fact that in 1086 Stokenchurch was a woodland in the chapelry of Aston Rowant.
Located to the north of the village on the Brook End road leading to Aston Clinton is the hamlet of Bye Green.
Wingrave C of E Combined school is the only primary school in the village, and takes children from Wingrave, Cublington, Rowsham and Aston Abbotts.
Gilmore was born in Oxford to Irish parents and lived in the village of North Aston, Oxfordshire.
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