Fenstanton, the Glossary
Fenstanton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, south of St Ives in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and historic county.[1]
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Administrative county
An administrative county was a first-level administrative division in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974, and in Ireland from 1899 until 1973 in Northern Ireland, 2002 in the Republic of Ireland.
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Alconbury Weald
Alconbury Weald is a new settlement in Cambridgeshire, England, lying to the north-west of the town of Huntingdon. Fenstanton and Alconbury Weald are Huntingdonshire.
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Boudica
Boudica or Boudicca (from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as italics) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.
Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.
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Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council for non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Capability Brown
Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.
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Census in the United Kingdom
Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 (during the Second World War), Ireland in 1921/Northern Ireland in 1931, and Scotland in 2021.
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Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.
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Crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.
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Earl of Northampton
Earl of Northampton is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created five times.
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First-past-the-post voting
First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.
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Godmanchester
Godmanchester is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. Fenstanton and Godmanchester are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
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Hereward the Wake
Hereward the Wake (Traditional pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɛ.ward/, modern pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɪ.wəd/) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England.
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Hilton, Cambridgeshire
Hilton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Fenstanton and Hilton, Cambridgeshire are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
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Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.
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Hundred (county division)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.
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Huntingdon
Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. Fenstanton and Huntingdon are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)
Huntingdon is a constituency west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire and including its namesake town of Huntingdon.
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Huntingdon and Peterborough
Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative and geographical county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom.
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Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right.
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Huntingdonshire District Council
Huntingdonshire District Council is the local authority for the district of Huntingdonshire in Cambridgeshire, England. Fenstanton and Huntingdonshire District Council are Huntingdonshire.
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Isle of Ely
The Isle of Ely is a historic region around the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England.
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John Howland
John Howland (February 23, 1673) was an English indentured servant who accompanied the English Separatists and other passengers when they left England on the to settle in Plymouth Colony.
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Jonathan Djanogly
Jonathan Simon Djanogly (born 3 June 1965) is an English politician and solicitor, who was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 2001 to 2024.
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Launcelot Brown
Launcelot Brown (13 January 1748 – 28 February 1802) was an English politician.
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Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.
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Lolworth
Lolworth is a small village and civil parish in the district of South Cambridgeshire, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, located approximately northwest of Cambridge city centre. Fenstanton and Lolworth are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire.
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).
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Mayflower
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.
Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Non-metropolitan district
Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.
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Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
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Parish council (England)
A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government.
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Pilgrim
A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth (historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
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River Great Ouse
The River Great Ouse is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse".
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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St Ives, Cambridgeshire
St Ives is a medieval market town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England, east of Huntingdon and north-west of Cambridge. Fenstanton and St Ives, Cambridgeshire are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
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Via Devana
Via Devana is the name given to a Roman Road in England that ran from Colchester in the south-east, through Cambridge in the interior, and on to Chester in the north-west.
Westminster system
The Westminster system, or Westminster model, is a type of parliamentary government that incorporates a series of procedures for operating a legislature, first developed in England.
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William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror (Bates William the Conqueror p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenstanton
Also known as Fen Stanton.