51°37′58″N 0°46′39″W / 51.63278°N 0.77750°W / 51.63278; -0.77750 Desborough Hundred is a hundred in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the south of...
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"exceedingly obscure". The three Chiltern Hundreds were Stoke Hundred, Desborough Hundred, and Burnham Hundred. The area had been Crown property as early...
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Desborough College is a secondary school with academy status located on Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Until 2009 it was an all-boys...
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of Little Missenden. Hazlemere was a small hamlet in the ancient Desborough Hundred, and the name is recorded as long ago as the 13th century. The crossroads...
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Risborough and Stone hundreds Buckingham Hundred Cottesloe Hundred Newport Hundred Burnham Hundred Desborough Hundred Stoke Hundred Cambridgeshire was divided...
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Chiltern hundreds around the 13th century, the others being Burnham hundred and Desborough hundred. Even before this time these individual hundreds had become...
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John Desborough (1608–1680) was an English soldier and politician who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. He was the son of...
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William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, DL (30 October 1855 – 9 January 1945) was a British athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician...
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Desborough Island is a 112-acre (0.45 km2) manmade island in the River Thames on the reach above Sunbury Lock in Surrey, England. It was formed in the...
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island were named after Lord Desborough who was chairman of the Thames Conservancy at the time and who opened it. "The Hundred of Spelthorne: Shepperton"...
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