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HUNGERFORD , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Newbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Berkshire, See also:England, extending into See also:Wiltshire, 61 m. W. by S. of See also:London by the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (19o1) 2906. It is beautifully situated in the narrow valley of the Kennet at the junction of tributary valleys from the See also:south and south-See also:west, the second of which is followed by the See also:Bath road, an important See also:highway from London to the west. The town, which lies on the Kennet and See also:Avon See also:canal, has agricultural See also:trade. See also:John of Gaunt, See also:duke of See also:Lancaster, presented to the citizens manorial rights, including See also:common pasture and fishing. The fishing is valuable, for the See also:trout of the Kennet and other streams
in the locality are numerous and carefully preserved. See also:Hunger-See also:ford is also a favourite See also:hunting centre. A See also:horn given to the town by John of Gaunt is preserved in the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, another horn dating from 1634 being used to summon the manorial See also:court of twelve citizens called feoffees (the See also:president being called the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable), at Hocktide, the Tuesday following See also:Easter See also:week. In 1774, when a number of towns had taken See also:action against the See also:imposition of a See also:fee for the delivery of letters from their See also:local See also:post-offices, Hungerford was selected as a typical See also:case, and was first relieved of the imposition.
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