Poe's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8, 1827.

The last remaining gunpowder mill at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey was damaged by a German parachute mine in 1941 and it never reopened.

Lynch was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, the fifth of William and Margaret Lynch's six children.

Taylor was a student at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, U. S. A., from 1972 to 1977, earning a degree in economics.

The only PDP-3 was built by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, MA to process radar cross section data for the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in 1960.

There is a legend that Henry I of England met an elderly monk at Waltham Abbey, who was in fact a very old Harold.

Interleaf's headquarters was in Cambridge, Massachusetts and later moved to Waltham, Massachusetts.

Davis was awarded a scholarship to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she was one of three black students in her freshman class.

In Great Britain cordite was developed for military use at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and at the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills from 1889 onwards.

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts ( it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts ) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

He was born at Waltham Abbey, Essex in 1900 where his father was a major in the Royal Artillery and at the time the assistant superintendent of the gunpowder factory there.

The Foundation acquired the campus of the Middlesex University in Waltham, which was almost defunct except for the Middlesex Veterinary and Medical College.

Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel " Danny " Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis's doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product called the Connection Machine.

Chingford Rugby Club was also founded in 1928, having their ground at Waltham Way, Chingford.

In 1965, the Municipal Borough of Leyton was abolished and was combined with that of Walthamstow and Chingford to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest, within the new county of Greater London.

The Sony Distribution Centre in the Innova Business Park, near Waltham Cross, was burnt to the ground.

In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area merged with that of the Municipal Borough of Chingford and the Municipal Borough of Leyton to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest in Greater London.

Waltham Forest was one of six local authorities to set up a Housing Action Trust under the Housing Act 1988.

Their first gig was at Waltham Forest Technical College, London supporting Wishbone Ash on 4 December.

The development was chiefly the work of Col. ( later Sir ) William Congreve, son of the Comptroller of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, who set on a vigorous research and development programme at the Arsenal's laboratory ; after development work was complete, the rockets were manufactured in quantity further north, near Waltham Abbey, Essex.

The village of Waltham was originally about a mile east of where it sits now.

As originally devised, it extended from Waltham Cross in the north to Carshalton in the south and from Romford in the east to Southall in the west.

The RSAF was originally all situated on the east side of the Lea, in the county of Essex in Waltham Abbey parish, Sewardstone hamlet.

* Lady Waltham ( Amanda Donohue )-An aristocratic lady and the sister of the deceased Clayton ( originally intended to be his widow ) who wants revenge on Tarzan for killing her brother ( at least, in her own mind ).

Historically a rural Essex parish, it gained Urban District status in 1894, and between 1938 and 1965 formed the core of the Municipal Borough of Chingford, Chingford now forms part of the north-east London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Chingford is part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, which also includes the areas of Walthamstow, Leyton, and Leytonstone.

Leyton is an area of east London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, located north east of Charing Cross.

The main route through the town is the High Road, which forms part of the ancient route to Waltham Abbey.

A small part falls within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Leyton High Road, Hoe Street, Chingford Road, Chingford Mount ( passing south-north through Walthamstow and its neighbouring towns ) form part of an ancient route from London to Waltham Abbey.

Spinney was born Caroll Edwin Spinney in Waltham, Massachusetts ( part of the greater Boston area ) on December 26, 1933.

Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex, who lived at Copt Hall, near Waltham, gave him what remained of the books of the lord treasurer his father ; and through the good offices of the marchioness of Hertford, part of his own pillaged library was restored to him.

A map of Maidenhead from 1945The Maidenhead urban area includes urban and suburban regions within the bounds of the town, called Maidenhead Court, North Town, Furze Platt, Pinkneys Green, Highway, Tittle Row, Boyn Hill, Fishery and Bray Wick ; as well as suburbs in surrounding civil parishes: Cox Green and Altwood in Cox Green parish, Woodlands Park in White Waltham parish, and part of Bray Wick in Bray parish.

Leytonstone is an area of east London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Leytonstone became part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in 1965 upon the creation of Greater London.

Anthony Trollope ( 1815 – 1882 ) who lived for some time at nearby Waltham Cross, set part of his novel Phineas Finn ( 1869 ), which parodies corrupt electoral procedures, in a fictitious Loughton.

The name " Epping Forest " was first recorded in the 17th century ; prior to this it was known as Waltham Forest ( which gives its name to the present-day London Borough of Waltham Forest, which covers part of the modern forest ).

He became an accountant and auditor for the boroughs of Waltham Forest, Hackney and Haringey, then later for the union NALGO ( became part of UNISON in 1993 ).

Woodford Green, formerly in the county of Essex, is part of the North East London suburb of Woodford, on the edge of Epping Forest, mostly within the London Borough of Redbridge with a part on the western side of the green within the London Borough of Waltham Forest ( this area is known as Woodford Side ).

In that year the greater part of the village was absorbed by Grimsby, with a small part being attached to the parish of Waltham.

It was formed on April 1, 1974, and covered Cleethorpes itself along with a wider area including Humberston, Laceby, Stallingborough, New Waltham, and Immingham ( formerly part of the Grimsby Rural District ).

The initial aim of reopening the line from Louth to Grimsby is no longer feasible in the short to medium term, as part of the section between Grimsby and New Waltham was designated by Humberside County Council for the building / construction of the A16 Peaks Parkway Road, which was completed in 1998.

* Epping Forest part of Waltham Forest

Wood Street railway station is in Walthamstow, now part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north east London.

The main sorting office is in Ilford and the area served includes much of the London Borough of Redbridge, the western part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the southwestern part of the Epping Forest district of Essex, while the western part of IG8 covers a small part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.