Similarly to many former mining communities this is a blow that Willington has struggled to recover from.

Willington has its own football club Willington F. C.

* Willington Island: Formed from the sand deposited when Cochin Port was deepened, Willington Island has a naval base, a railway terminus, a port, and customs offices.

Due to the opening of the nearby Toyota car factory ( on the A38 / A50 ) in 1992 between Willington ( on the former Derby airfield at Burnaston ) and Findern, the village has prospered and expanded since the 1980s.

MCC has the largest service area of the Connecticut Community Colleges, being the primary community college for the towns of Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Hebron, Mansfield, Marlborough, Rockville, South Windsor, Storrs, Tolland, Union, Vernon, and Willington, in addition to Manchester.

Throughout its history, Millonarios has had famous players, including: Alfredo di Stéfano, Adolfo Pedernera, Juan Gilberto Funes, " El Búfalo ", Willington Ortiz, Arnoldo Iguarán, Daniel " Tito " Onega, Fernando Areán, Carlos Valderrama, Carlos Ángel López, Alfredo Castillo, Sergio Goycochea, Delio " Maravilla " Gamboa, Miguel Angel Converti, Jaime Morón, Amadeo Carrizo, Alejandro Brand, René Higuita, Mario Vanemerak, John Mario Ramírez and Pedro Alberto Vivalda.

Willington is a former-pit town in County Durham, England.

Willington is a village and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England.

McKean was born in Willington, County Durham, England and emigrated in 1902 to Canada to join his brother.

Mike Neville, MBE ( born 17 October 1936, Willington Quay, North Tyneside ) is a retired British television presenter who worked mainly on regional news programmes in North East England.

Several urban sanitary districts were formed in the parish in the late 19th century: Willington Quay, Howdon and Wallsend itself.

The first two joined to form the Willington Quay urban district under the Local Government Act 1894, with the portion of the parish outside any urban sanitary district forming the parish of Willington in Tynemouth Rural District.

Wallsend became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1901, and in 1910 took over Willington Quay and Willington, and also part of the parish of Longbenton.

* Crook North, Crook South, Howden, Hunwick, St John ’ s Chapel, Stanhope, Tow Law and Stanley, Wheatbottom and Helmington Row, Willington Central, Willington West End, and Wolsingham and Witton-le-Wear from the former Wear Valley district

The Willington Island contains the modern port serving Cochin city of Kerala.

The village contains two churches, one primary school, a community centre, a doctors ' surgery, a chemist, a local store, a butchers shop, four public houses — The Boot *, The Farmers Arms, The Lord Binning ( previously The Morris Dancer ) and The Royal Oak ( previously The Oak )— a hotel ( Willington Hall Hotel *) and a farm shop ( Willington Fruit Farm Shop *, a family-run business established over 50 years ago ).

His primary education came at Southworth School and he later attended Willington Academy where John C. Calhoun had matriculated a generation earlier.

In 1964, Wade Hampton Academy was charted in Orangeburg ; the school later merged with Willington Academy in 1986 to become Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc.

The railway was built in 1838, the station being called Repton and Willington and brought the scholars to nearby Repton School.

Mercia Marina, with berths for several hundred narrow boats, is expected to have a great impact on the village and nearby Willington.

A borough charter was granted in 1739 by King George II, which changed the name of the settlement from Willington, after Thomas Willing the first developer of the land who organized the area in a grid pattern similar to that of its northern neighbor Philadelphia, to Wilmington, presumably after Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington.

The administrative centre of the area, often referred to as Flintshire Detached, was Overton and it included the villages of Bangor on Dee, Bettisfield, Bronington, Hanmer, Knolton, Penley, Tybroughton, Willington and Worthenbury.

John Wetton of rock band Asia was born in Willington in 1949.

She married John Gostwick of Willington.

He had married Joan de Willington ( née la Warr ), half-sister to John la Warr, 4th Baron De La Warr, before 2 May 1384, when they were pardoned for marriage without license.

He was for a time at Willington, Bedfordshire, and his works may later have been read by John Bunyan.

Elementary and middle school-aged residents attend schools in the Willington School District.

Prior to the community's affiliation with Regional School District 19, Willington offered its high school-aged students a choice attending one of the four institutions.

Started at Willington Parkside School in County Durham, The Edge existed in varying incarnations of Jeff Walker, Gem ’ s high-spirited, best friend also on guitar, with a local doctor ’ s son Michael Chesters on drums.

In 1802 he married Frances ( Fanny ) Henderson and moved to Willington Quay, east of Newcastle.

Burning Spear was originally Rodney's group, named after a military award given by Jomo Kenyatta, the first Prime Minister and President of an independent Kenya, and including bass singer Rupert Willington.

In late 1976, Rodney split from both Ruby and group members Willington and Hinds, and from that point on used the name Burning Spear for himself alone.

Ellington is bordered by the towns of East Windsor, South Windsor, Vernon, Tolland, Willington, Stafford, Somers, and Enfield.

Willington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.

Willington is about 25 miles northeast of Hartford on Interstate 84, which also provides a connection to Boston, via the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Willington was incorporated in May, 1727.

Willington is home to Troop 82 of the Boy Scouts of America.

Willington is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in McCormick County, South Carolina, United States.

Willington is located at ( 33. 968197 ,-82. 453232 ).

Similar locomotives were built for collieries at Orrell near Wigan by Robert Daglish under license from Blenkinsop, and at Newcastle-upon-Tyne after Willington was sold to Kenton and Coxlodge Colliery.

Picken, ' The Descent of the Devon Family of Willington from Robert Earl of Gloucester ' in ' A Medieval Cornish Miscellany ', Ed.

Establishments marked with an asterisk are technically in neighbouring Willington.

To the south of Howdon lies Willington Quay which, as it name suggests, once served shipping but which is now dominated by industry and housing.

East Howdon forms a small enclave between Willington Quay and North Shields.