* Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire

The NCB's research establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire was founded in 1950 with Jacob Bronowski as Director of Research.

Nearby villages include Uckington, Stoke Orchard, and Tredington.

Murder Meadow ( or Murder Ground ) belongs to one of the small-holdings in Elmstone-Hardwicke, but is in fact just over the boundary in Stoke Orchard.

Stoke Orchard is a village or hamlet north-west of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.

Stoke Orchard is in the borough of Tewkesbury, the Cheltenham post town, and on the Coombe Hill, Cheltenham, telephone exchange.

Stoke Orchard neighbours Elmstone-Hardwicke, Tredington and Bishop's Cleeve.

Politically the village is twinned with neighbouring Tredington, as Stoke Orchard parish.

Stoke Orchard, in common with many villages in this part of Gloucestershire, has a sizeable church but no shops or pubs.

The village is still home to Stoke Orchard Garage, owned by the Stojanov family who also own the former school at Elmstone-Hardwicke.

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Neighbouring villages include Stoke Orchard and Gotherington.

The village school opened in 1880, and is located half way between Tredington and Stoke Orchard in order to serve both communities.

Tredington Community Primary School, as it is now known, is a tiny school serving ( at least ) the villages of Tredington, Stoke Orchard, Elmstone-Hardwicke and Uckington.

He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby ’ s Manor House School at Stoke Newington, then a suburb four miles ( 6 km ) north of London.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

His powerful shot into the top corner was saved by the Stoke goalkeeper and Hurst's international team-mate Gordon Banks, who succeeded in deflecting the ball over the bar.

They were defeated and de la Pole killed at the difficult Battle of Stoke, where the loyalty of some of the royal troops to Henry was questionable.

Lemmy was born on Christmas Eve in 1945 in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England.

What was originally a self-standing village ( which has now been subsumed within the city ) lies to the north of the toll bridge, originally built by Sir Piers Edgcumbe in 1525, that crossed what used to be the Deadlake or Stonehouse Creek, to the west of Pennycomequick, the south of Stoke village and to the east of Stoke Church.

Scott was born on 6 June 1868, the third child out of six and elder son of John Edward and Hannah ( née Cuming ) Scott of Stoke Damerel, near Devonport, Devon.

Katharine was almost certainly arrested at Raglan Castle immediately after the Battle of Stoke Field in June 1487 and John was executed in 1491, both on the orders of Henry VII.

Although the group purported to represent " the autonomous working class ", when the police arrested nine suspected members of the group, only one, ( Jake Prescott, who was arrested in Notting Hill ) came from the working class ; the other eight, four men and four women ( arrested together in Stoke Newington ) were middle-class student drop-outs from the universities of Cambridge and Essex.

Mitchell was born in Stoke Newington, London.

The pioneer of this approach was Sir Ludwig Guttmann of the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England.

This was the origin of the Stoke Mandeville Games, which evolved into the modern Paralympic Games.

The Battle of Stoke Field ( 16 June 1487 ) may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was to be the last engagement in which a Lancastrian king faced an army of Yorkist supporters, under the pretender Lambert Simnel.

However, there is some dispute whether the Battle of Stoke Field was the last battle in the Wars of the Roses, as a number of historians consider the Battle of Bosworth, two years previously, as the real last remaining battle in the Wars of the Roses.

That was his last trophy with the club, although they narrowly missed out on more in the following years, losing in the 1972 League Cup final to Stoke City and in the semi-finals of the same competition to Norwich City a year later.

* In 1993 Menuhin was made a life peer, as Baron Menuhin of Stoke d ' Abernon in the County of Surrey.

Stoke, a suburb within today's Guildford, appears in the Book as Stoch, and was also held by William.

Stoke was listed as being in the King's park, with a rendering of £ 15.

In 1987 she was elected to the House of Commons, replacing the deselected serving Labour MP Ernest Roberts as MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington.

In May 2010, she was re-elected in her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, with a doubled majority on an increased turn-out.

There were several reasons for positioning a new station at Stoke Gifford: trains to London were quicker than on the longer route from Temple Meads, via Bath and Chippenham before reaching Swindon ; a larger car park than at Temple Meads could be provided ; the population on the northern fringes of the city was growing, especially with the building of a new town at Bradley Stoke ; and it was within easy access of the M4 and M5 motorways.

His father left when he was two and he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, the formerly wealthy daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish diamond dealers, in Stoke Newington.

The competition has been formerly known as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games, the Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games, the Stoke Mandeville Games, the World Wheelchair Games, and in the 1960s and 1970s was often referred to as the Wheelchair Olympics.

There is currently an Indian Restaurant called Shensha on Stoke Road which was formerly a fifth public house, The Old Plough and Harrow ( previously the Whistling Duck and before that The Plough and Harrow ).

Coleshill ( formerly Stoke ) is a village and civil parish within Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England.

The golf course at Stoke Park Club ( formerly Stoke Poges Golf Club ) also appeared in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, during a crucial golf match played between the principal characters.

In 1776, he bought the old pottery works at Stoke which had formerly been the property of William Banks ( in partnership with Turner ), on the same site as the later Spode factory which continued operating into modern times.

More precisely he was the first to introduce a perfected method to Stoke, ( with the help of engraver Thomas Lucas and printer James Richards, formerly of Caughley, Shropshire ), using improvements recently developed at nearby Shelton by or for Ralph Baddeley.

Shooting was largely carried out near Bath, England, on the recently closed Bristol and North Somerset Railway branch line along the Cam Brook valley between Camerton and Limpley Stoke, formerly part of the Great Western Railway.

GuilFest, formerly the Guildford Festival of Folk and Blues is a music festival held in Stoke Park, Guildford, England each July.