* In England, Wales and Scotland, the private ownership of most handguns was banned in 1997 following a gun massacre at a school in Dunblane and an earlier gun massacre in Hungerford in which the combined deaths was 35 and injured 30.

Owen was probably born in about 1400, and may have gone to war in the service of Henry V's steward Sir Walter Hungerford in 1421 in France.

To the south of Charing Cross was the Hungerford Market, established at the end of the 16th century ; and to the north was the King's Mews, a royal stable.

It was designed by Hidalgo Moya, Philip Powell and Felix Samuely, and fabricated by Painter Brothers of Hereford, England, between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge.

Lady Margaret was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of the George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and the former Isabella Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, his wife, who inherited the Earldom of Warwick.

In 1860, Brunel's Hungerford suspension bridge, over the Thames in London, was demolished to make way for a new railway bridge to Charing Cross railway station, and its chains were purchased for use at Clifton.

James Smithson was born about 1765 to Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland and Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie.

In the will, which was written in 1826, Smithson stated that Hungerford or Hungerford's children would receive his inheritance, and if Hungerford did not live, and had no children to receive the fortune, he would donate it to the United States to have an educational institution called the Smithsonian Institution founded.

Hungerford died on June 5, 1835, unmarried and leaving behind no children, and the United States was the recipient.

But Hungerford and Whittingham held Alnwick until Warwick was forced to withdraw when de Breze and Angus arrived on 5 January 1463.

Astley was imprisoned and Hungerford resumed command.

He was thought to have largely inspired Joni Mitchell's song Real Good For Free, while busking solo on the old footbridge which formed part of the Hungerford Bridge between Waterloo and Charing Cross.

In 1788 the so-called " Western Canal " was proposed to improve trade and communication links to towns such as Hungerford, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Calne, Chippenham and Melksham.

The Newbury to Hungerford section was completed in 1798, and was extended to Great Bedwyn in 1799.

The canal was reopened from the Thames to Hungerford Wharf in July 1974.

Claims, since proven at best to be speculative, at worse outright media fabrication, relating to the Hungerford massacre and the murder of James Bulger ( the 1991 film Child's Play 3 was held up as influencing the perpetrators ) provided an additional impetus to restrict films and as late as December 1997, the Board claimed it " has never relaxed its guidelines on video violence, which remain the strictest in the world ".

The original station building was built on the site of the Hungerford Market by the South Eastern Railway and opened on 11 January 1864.

The Hungerford killings in 1987 was followed by the Firearms Act 1988 which banned centre-fire self-loading and pump action rifles and extended compulsory security to shotguns.

The perpetrator of the Hungerford massacre was 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan, an unemployed labourer and antiques dealer.

He was born at Savernake Hospital in Marlborough, Wiltshire, near Hungerford, Berkshire on 18 May 1960.

Press reports claimed that he was obsessed with the Rambo film First Blood, which was erroneously described as featuring events similar to the Hungerford massacre, when in fact there was no evidence that Ryan even owned a video recorder, let alone that he had seen the film.

The last series were thus left somewhat empty of familiar characters, often with only Bergerac himself and Charlie Hungerford remaining.

In 1987, 27-year-old Michael Ryan, armed with two semi-automatic rifles ( a Type 56 sporter, and an M1 carbine ), and a Beretta 92 pistol, dressed in combat fatigues and proceeded around the town of Hungerford killing 16 people, wounding fifteen and shooting himself, in what became known as the Hungerford massacre.

The Korat was introduced to the UK by Betty Munford of the High Street, Hungerford.

The Barony of Hungerford was created in the Peerage of England on 7 January 1426 for Walter Hungerford, who was summoned to parliament, had been Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House and invested as Knight of the Order of the Garter before and was made Lord High Treasurer one year before he became a peer.

Jones attended Hungerford High School, where he played football, baseball, and basketball.

The first shooting occurred seven miles ( 11 km ) to the west of Hungerford in Savernake Forest in Wiltshire, at 12: 30 in the afternoon of 19 August.

Leverton and Calcot were transferred to Hungerford parish from Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire in 1895.

The noble family of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford originated from the town ( c. 1450 – 1450 ), although after three generations the title passed to Mary, Baroness Hungerford who married Sir Edward ( afterwards Lord ) Hasting and the family seat moved to Heytesbury in Wiltshire.

Radio West had not made any profit since it started and looked set to close, when the neighbouring local station Wiltshire Radio, based in Swindon made an approach to merge the two stations, creating a station covering from Weston-super-Mare in the west to Swindon and Hungerford in the east, with opt out programming for the two areas.

Great Bedwyn is on the River Dun about south-west of Hungerford and south-east of Marlborough, Wiltshire.

When the Vale of White Horse was transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974 Lambourn became the westernmost parish in Berkshire bordering Wiltshire to the south and west and Oxfordshire to the north and west, the only adjacent parishes in Berkshire are East Garston to the east and Hungerford to the southeast.

The parish shares boundaries with the Berkshire parishes of East Garston and Hungerford, with the Wiltshire parishes of Chilton Foliat, Ramsbury and Baydon, and with the Oxfordshire parishes of Ashbury, Compton Beauchamp, Woolstone, Uffington, Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Childrey and Letcombe Bassett.

Littlecote House is a large Elizabethan country house and estate in the civil parishes of Ramsbury and Chilton Foliat in the English county of Wiltshire ( the latter formerly Berkshire ) near to Hungerford.

In 1788 the so-called " Western Canal " was proposed to improve trade and communication links to towns such as Hungerford, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Calne, Chippenham and Melksham.

The owner of Corsham Court in the mid-seventeenth century was the commander of the Parliamentarian New Model Army in Wiltshire ; his wife, Lady Margaret Hungerford, built what came to be known as the Hungerford Almshouses in the centre of town.

Inkpen is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire about southeast of Hungerford, close to the county boundaries with Wiltshire and Hampshire.

In the Civil War, Sir Edward Hungerford ( 1596-1648 ) commanded the Parliamentary forces of Wiltshire briefly.

Hungerford was the son of Walter de Hungerford of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, by his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Adam Fitz-John of Cherhill in the same county.

The Hungerford family was seated in Wiltshire by the twelfth century, and Hungerford's father sat for the county in the parliaments of 1331 / 2, 1333 / 4, and 1336.

An uncle, Robert, sat for Wiltshire in the parliament of 1316, was a commissioner to inquire into the possessions of the Despensers after their attainder in 1328, and gave much land to the hospital at Calne in memory of his first wife, Joan, to the church of Hungerford, Wiltshire, and to other religious foundations.