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Nether Stowey may have been a borough as early as 1157 or 1158 but by 1225 it is officially recorded as such.
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In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey.
Robert Persons ( 24 June 1546, Nether Stowey, Somerset – 15 April 1610, Rome ), later known as Robert Parsons, was an English Jesuit priest.
The parish of Nether Stowey covers approximately 4 km², with a population of 1, 423 ( 2001 census ).
During the " Bloody Assizes " in the autumn of 1685, in the aftermath of Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion men from Nether Stowey who were caught up in the rebellion are said to have been hanged, drawn and quartered in the village after they were sentenced to death by Judge Jeffries.
Thomas Poole was a local tanner who became wealthy and founded the Nether Stowey Women's Friendly Society in 1807.
The village is twinned with Theillay in the Loir-et-Cher départment of France, and the Nether Stowey Twinning Association was established in 1996 by Glyn Legge and Steve Darch.
Every year Theillay and Nether Stowey organise an annual trip to each village ( Taking turns every year ).
In 1797 he contributed additional blank verse to the second edition, and met the Wordsworths, William and Dorothy, on his short summer holiday with Coleridge at Nether Stowey, thereby also striking up a lifelong friendship with William.
The route begins in Nether Stowey and crosses the Quantocks, the Brendon Hills and Exmoor before finishing in Porlock.
* Coleridge Way, from Nether Stowey in the Quantocks across the Brendon Hills and the fringes of Exmoor National Park to the coast at Porlock.
The Coleridge Way is a footpath which follows the walks taken by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Porlock, starting from Coleridge Cottage at Nether Stowey, where he once lived.
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived nearby at Nether Stowey ( between Bridgwater and Minehead ), was interrupted during composition of his poem Kubla Khan by " a person on business from Porlock ", and found afterward he could not remember what had come to him in a dream.
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The forts at Vindolanda ( Chesterholm ) and Nether Denton have been shown to date from about the same time as Corstopitum and Luguvalium, in the 70s AD and 80s AD.
Settlement in the valley consists of several booths, originally established in the 13th century as ' vaccaries ' ( cattle farms ) along the valley of the River Noe, which have since developed into the hamlets of Upper Booth ( once Crowdenley Booth and Over Booth ), Barber Booth ( once Whitmorely Booth ), Grindsbrook Booth, Ollerbrook Booth and Nether Booth ( also known as Lady Booth and, formerly, Lower Booth ).
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Hutton inherited from his father the Berwickshire farms of Slighhouses, a lowland farm which had been in the family since 1713, and the hill farm of Nether Monynut.
The neighbouring village of Upper Poppleton has been referred to as " Land Poppleton " and Nether Poppleton as " Water Poppleton ", indicating the villages ' position relative to the river.
Upper Poppleton has been referred to as " Land Poppleton " and the neighbouring village of Nether Poppleton as " Water Poppleton " indicating their position relative to the river.
In late 1771 Bernard was bequeathed the manor at Nether Winchendon upon the death of a cousin to whom he had been close since childhood.
Nether Winchendon has been a frequent setting for television and film production, including two Midsomer Murders episodes ( as different houses ), Lady Pat's house in Forever Green and the BBC series Chef!
Divided into two wards, Nether and Upper, it had historically been a district of Scotland, the largest in Scotland and a Sheriffdom in its own right.
By the time of Warren's death the manor of Nether Tabley, comprising the estate and the halls, had been owned by the Leicester family for almost exactly 700 years.
The name Hutchesoune was applied to the district called Nether Carmyle, having been added in or about the year 1579, to the lands now owned by Thomas Hutcheson.
After being owned by his son, the estate was sold to in 1744 to merchant William Crawfurd of Birkhead, who in 1749 acquired Easter Nether Possil, he thus reunited the lands which had been subdivided in 1588.
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Dewsbury's boundaries were expanded to include the urban districts of Ravensthorpe, Thornhill, Soothill Nether and part of Soothill Upper in 1910 and it was elevated to county borough status in 1913.
The civil parishes of Kirkland and Nether Graveship were abolished in 1908 and became part of Kendal Civil Parish whose boundaries were after that the same as the borough.
* From the borough of Macclesfield-Alderley Edge, Chelford, Dean Row, Fulshaw, Handforth, High Legh, Hough, Knutsford Bexton, Knutsford Nether, Knutsford Norbury Booths, Knutsford Over, Lacey Green, Mere, Mobberley, Morley and Styal, and Plumley
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The early North Gate, giving access to the Nether Bailey, contained the original castle kitchens, which were probably linked to the Great Hall.
Nether Street has one claim to fame as the childhood home of the actor Terry-Thomas who received some of his early education at Fernbank School in Hendon Lane.
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