The natives of which English county are known as Moonrakers?
"""Provincial Glossary"". Research by Wiltshire Council's Community History Project shows that a claim can be made for the Crammer, a pond at Southbroom, Devizes, as the original location for the tale. Other accounts naming the village of Bishops Cannings 2½ miles to the north-east of Devizes, which has no pond, are explained by a change in the parish boundaries in 1835, which transferred the Crammer from that parish into the town. However, many other places in the county have laid claim to the story. Moonrakers Moonrakers is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county in the West Country"
"moon from the canal' and definitely not as 'fishing out smuggled brandy'. A ""Moonraker"" is now the official nickname for a native of the village. Similar stories and nicknames exist for the neighbouring villages of Golcar (""Lillies""), Marsden (""Cuckoos"") and Linthwaite (""Leadboilers""). The legend is also known in Wiltshire, where the locals are also known as 'Moonrakers'. An apocryphal story associated with Slaithwaite is that in the 19th century, when tenants came to the village to pay their annual rent, The 5th Earl of Dartmouth would provide 'rent dinners' and that the shoulder of mutton was the most favoured with"
"common command for light infantry to advance while skirmishing, was to ""spring up"". The nickname Moonrakers came from the Wiltshire region itself. According to a local legend, customs officials had come across some yokels raking a pond to retrieve some kegs of alcohol. The men explained themselves by pointing to the reflection of the moon in the water and claiming they were trying to retrieve the roundel of cheese there. Hence the name, ""Moonrakers"". When the regiment was affiliated with Wiltshire, the nickname followed. The second battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment (formerly the 99th Regiment of Foot) brought its own"
"of origin of the legend of the Moonrakers. Next to the pond is the 15th-century church of St James, which was a chapelry of Bishops Cannings. Historically, the parish was part of the Potterne and Cannings hundred of Wiltshire. A detailed parish history was published in 1953 by the Wiltshire Victoria County History. Bishops Cannings is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for almost all significant local government functions. The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin is Grade I listed. Originating"
"that event. Most English counties have nicknames for their people, such as a ""Tyke"" from Yorkshire and a ""Yellowbelly"" from Lincolnshire. The traditional nicknames for people from Cambridgeshire are ""Cambridgeshire Camel"" or ""Cambridgeshire Crane"", referring to the wildfowl that were once abundant in the fens. The term ""Fenners"" was often applied to those who come from the flat country to the north of Cambridge. Since the late 20th century, this term is considered to be derogatory and has been discouraged in use. Original historical documents relating to Cambridgeshire are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies. Large areas of the"
"BBC Four TV series ""Detectorists"", an episode of ""Kavanagh QC,"" and the films ""Iris"" and ""Drowning by Numbers"". The Rendlesham Forest Incident is one of the most famous UFO events in England and is sometimes referred to as ""Britain's Roswell"". The song ""Castle on the Hill"" by singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was referred to by him as ""a love letter to Suffolk"", with lyrical reference to his hometown of Framlingham and Framlingham Castle. Suffolk Suffolk () is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to"
"metal group, Cradle of Filth, singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, and coloratura soprano Christina Johnston. Hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood is originally from Suffolk and the influential DJ and radio presenter John Peel made the county his home. Contemporary painter, Maggi Hambling, was born, and resides, in Suffolk. Suffolk's contributions to sport include Formula One magnate Bernie Ecclestone and former England footballers Terry Butcher, Kieron Dyer and Matthew Upson. Due to Newmarket being the centre of British horse racing many jockeys have settled in the county, including Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori. Significant ecclesiastical figures from Suffolk include Simon Sudbury, a former Archbishop"
"(Lords Carrick), Butler of Maidenhall, Butler (Lords Mountgarret), Butler (Earls of Ormonde), Cuffe (Lords Desart), De Montmorency, Flood of Farmley, Langrishe of Knocktopher, Loftus of Mount Juliet, McCalmont of Mount Juliet, Ponsonby (Earls of Bessborough), Power of Kilfane, Smithwick of Kilcreene, St George of Freshford and Wandesforde of Catlecomer. The song ""The Rose of Mooncoin"" is the traditional anthem of the county at GAA fixtures. The recently released, ""Kilkenny by the Nore"" sang by Alice O'Hanlon is also now considered an anthem. In hurling, by far the dominant sport in the county, Kilkenny GAA compete annually in the All-Ireland Senior"
"them to July.<br> And the name of Paddy Mulligan took half of Ireland's pride. Pat of Mullingar Pat of Mullingar is an Irish rebel song has been sung and recorded by many different folk artists, including the Irish Rovers, Derek Warfield and The Wolfe Tones You may talk and write and boast about your Fenians and your clans,<br> And how the boys from County Cork beat up the Black and Tan.<br> And view a little codger who came out without a scar.<br> His name is Paddy Mulligan, the man from Mullingar. <br> The Peelers chased him out of Connemara,<br> For"
"Leek. The region also encompasses five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Wye Valley, Shropshire Hills, Cannock Chase, Malvern Hills, and parts of the Cotswolds. Warwickshire is home to the towns of Stratford upon Avon, birthplace of writer William Shakespeare, Rugby, the birthplace of Rugby football and Nuneaton, birthplace to author George Eliot. The official region contains the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire. There is some confusion in the use of the term ""West Midlands"", as the name is also used for the much smaller West Midlands county and conurbation which is in the"
"(née Cadden), who was from Munterconnaught. She had been a student in Munterconnaught National School in the 1940s. Munterconnaught Munterconnaught () is a civil and ecclesiastical parish of County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. It is located between the southern shores of Lough Ramor and the county boundary with County Meath. The name Munterconnaught has often been mistaken as being derived from the Irish ""Muintir"" meaning people and Connacht being the western province. However, it actually has nothing to do with this and is named after Choncur, one of the 13 sons of the O'Reilly's of Breffni. The O'Reilly"
"Seac"""" and made famous by the song 'The Rose of Mooncoin'. Mooncoin gives its name to a townland, and the Roman Catholic parish of Mooncoin. Mooncoin is situated in the Suir Valley, at the south of County Kilkenny in the province of Leinster in the south-east of Ireland. The linear town, which lacks a traditional village centre, stretches along the N24 national primary road with little development north and south. It is away the Waterford City and south of the county town Kilkenny. Located in the barony of Iverk, Mooncoin is in the civil parishes of Pollrone, Rathkieran, and Ballytarsney."
"Barry Coope and ultimately Ian Carter, all members of the Ram's Bottom Band. Barry Coope eventually joined the circle by working in duo with John Tams. Muckram Wakes Muckram Wakes was a folk band from the north-west midlands of England. The original line up of Muckram Wakes was Roger and Helen Watson and John Tams. Their album ""Map of Derbyshire"", on Trailer Records, contributed greatly to the promotion of folk music from that county. The name Muckram Wakes derived from a small township in the region of Somercotes where Tams originated and Wakes, the local and northern word for a"
"in this county. Since this date the viscounty has been held by the Devereux family, and the holder ranks as the premier viscount of England. The families of Clifford, Giffard and Mortimer figured prominently in the warfare on the Welsh border, and the Talbots, Lacys, Crofts and Scudamores all had important seats in the county, Sir James Scudamore of Holme Lacy being the original of the Sir Scudamore of Spenser's Faerie Queene. Sir John Oldcastle, the leader of the Lollards, was sheriff of Herefordshire in 1406, before arrest and execution for treason by Henry V. Herefordshire has been included in"
"the White Rose of York, is derived from the Yorkists, giving the house a special affinity within the culture of Yorkshire. Especially celebrated is the Yorkist king Richard III who spent much of his life at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire. Since that time the title has passed through the hands of many, being merged with the crown and then recreated several times. The title of Duke of York is given to the second son of the British monarch. Yorkshire Yorkshire (; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest"
"for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon. Even today, road signs at the county boundary describe Warwickshire as ""Shakespeare's County"". The county has also produced other famous figures such as Aleister Crowley (from Royal Leamington Spa), George Eliot (from Nuneaton), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and Michael Drayton (from Hartshill). The poet Philip Larkin lived in Warwick (born in nearby Coventry), and Elizabeth Gaskell went to school in Barford and Stratford. Folk musician Nick Drake, who record for Island records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, lived and died in Tanworth-in-Arden. Warwickshire Warwickshire (; postal abbreviation Warks.) is"
"Helen Titchener in the programme. Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and"
"Various things are named after their county of origin, for example Cheshire Cat, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Yorkshire pudding and Worcestershire Sauce. Worcestershire, the home county of the author J. R. R. Tolkien, was the inspiration for The Shire, a region of fictional Middle-earth, described in ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"". From the time of the Scientific Revolution, England and Scotland, and thereafter the United Kingdom, have been prominent in world scientific and technological development. The Royal Society serves as the national academy for sciences, with members drawn from different institutions and disciplines. Formed in 1660, it is"
"Mummerset Mummerset refers to a fictional rustic English county and, more commonly, to the English dialect supposedly spoken there. Mummerset is used by actors to represent a stereotypical English West Country accent while not specifically referencing any particular county. The name is a portmanteau of mummer (an archaic term for a folk actor) and Somerset, a largely rural county. Mummerset draws on a mixture of characteristics of real dialects from the West Country, such as rhoticism, forward-shifted diphthongs, lengthened vowels, and the voicing of word-initial consonants that are voiceless in other English dialects. Word-initial ""S"" is replaced with ""Z""; ""F"""
"Mooncoin Mooncoin () (pop. 1,000) is a census town in County Kilkenny, in Ireland. The population had increased to 1,166 at the 2011 census. Historically part of the Gaelic kingdom of Osraige, today it is in the far south of the county of Kilkenny, located in the valley of the River Suir. It is surrounded by the uplands of the Slievenamon and Comeragh Mountains, just north of Waterford City along the N24 national primary road (Waterford to Limerick), and it is south of Kilkenny. The town's name derives from an anglicized version of the Irish """"Móin Choinn"""" which means ""Coyne’s"
"Henshaw (from Ancoats) and Liam and Noel Gallagher from Burnage band Oasis. The actor Caroline Aherne (raised in Wythenshawe) spoke with a softer, slower version of the accent. Stretford raised Morrissey – like many Mancunians, from an Irish background – has a local accent with a noticeable lilt inherited from his parents. Salford-born Tony Wilson retained his Manchester accent albeit somewhat modified by his upbringing in Marple and his Cambridge education. Salford poet John Cooper Clarke is another fine example of a working-class Mancunian accent as can be heard in his spoken-word recordings. Also from Salford is comedian Jason Manford,"
"Munterconnaught Munterconnaught () is a civil and ecclesiastical parish of County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. It is located between the southern shores of Lough Ramor and the county boundary with County Meath. The name Munterconnaught has often been mistaken as being derived from the Irish ""Muintir"" meaning people and Connacht being the western province. However, it actually has nothing to do with this and is named after Choncur, one of the 13 sons of the O'Reilly's of Breffni. The O'Reilly Clan ruled the area of Cavan and Leitrim which was known as Breffni for centuries. Munterconnaught consists of"
"Oates Collection, dedicated to the explorer Lawrence Oates. Journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens was born into a naval family in Portsmouth. Broadcasters Philippa Forrester, Amanda Lamb and Scott Mills also are from the county. Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital of England. After the metropolitan counties and Greater London, Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county (1.84 million in 2017) in the United Kingdom. Its two largest settlements, Southampton and Portsmouth, are administered separately as unitary authorities and the rest"
"were employed making pillow lace. Walter Drawbridge Crick was born in Hanslope on 15 December 1857. He was an English businessman (shoemaker), amateur geologist and palaeontologist who published with Charles Darwin. He was the grandfather of Francis Crick, the molecular geneticist. Although Hanslope remains in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, it has since 1997 been part of the unitary authority area of the Borough of Milton Keynes. This gives the Borough of Milton Keynes responsibility for the provision of all local government services. Voters registered in Hanslope are represented on the unitary authority's council, Milton Keynes Council, which is from"
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"Simonside Dwarfs The Simonside Dwarfs, also known as Brownmen, Bogles and Duergar, are a race of ugly dwarfs, particularly associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland, in northern England. Their leader was said to be known as ""Roarie"". In F. Grice's telling of the traditional story ""The Duergar"" in ""Folk Tales of the North Country"" (1944), one of them is described as being short, wearing a lambskin coat, moleskin trousers and shoes, and a hat made of moss stuck with a feather. The legendary dwarfs of Simonside were mentioned in the local newspaper, the ""Morpeth Gazette"", in 1889, and in"
"His nephew Ebenezer Henderson (1809–1879), a science writer and historian born in Dunfermline, wrote ""The Annals of Dunfermline"". In popular culture, the singer Barbara Dickson; actor Kenneth Cranham; Dan McCafferty and Peter Agnew from the Scottish rock band Nazareth; Ian Anderson the singer of the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull and Moira Shearer, ballerina and actress were all born in the town. Manny Charlton the producer of Nazareth emigrated to the town with his family in the 1960s and Stuart Adamson, rock guitarist with the Skids and frontman with Big Country was brought up in nearby Crossgates and moved"
"between powerful Marcher Lords, the Earls of March and successive monarchs. The county contains a number of historically significant towns, including Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth and Ludlow (which was the seat of the Council of Wales and the Marches). Additionally, the area around Coalbrookdale in the county is seen as highly significant, as it is regarded as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. The village of Edgmond, near Newport, is the location of the lowest recorded temperature (in terms of weather) in England and Wales. Shropshire is first recorded in the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" annal for 1006. The origin of the"
"the southern counties of England attracted by the generally lower property prices and the slower and more relaxed pace of life. The relatively high proportion of elderly and retired people is reflected in many of the services, activities and events. Sleaford is considered one of the fastest-growing towns in the East Midlands, with many professional people moving there to benefit from the (relatively) low house prices and crime rate, and the selective education. Those born in Lincolnshire are sometimes given the nickname of Yellowbellies (often spelt ""Yeller Bellies"", to reflect the pronunciation of the phrase by the typical Lincolnshire farmer)."
"Meonwara Meonwara or Meonsæte is the name of a people of the Meon Valley, in southern Hampshire, England, during the late 5th century and early 6th century. ""Meonwara"" means ""People of the Meon"" in Old English. There is controversy over the origins and character of the ""Meonwara"". The ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" records a series of landings by Anglo Saxon settlers, during the years 449–514, in the area that became ""Meonwara"". Those involved the earlier landings are now generally considered to be Jutes (rather than the Saxons who settled in surrounding areas during the same period). According to the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" the"
"History of Yorkshire Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings. The name comes from ""Eborakon"" (c. 150) an old Brythonic name which probably derives from ""Efor"" or ""the place of the yew-trees."" Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse due to the Viking influence in this region. The name ""Yorkshire"", first appeared in writing in the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" in 1065."
"Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and seventeen miles west of Felpersham."
"by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. He was mentioned in the Starz original series, ""Outlander"" season two, episode two. The Alloa branch of Wetherspoons is named 'The Bobbing John'. John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732) John Erskine, Earl of Mar, KT (1675May 1732) was a Scottish Jacobite who was the eldest son of Charles, Earl of Mar (who died in 1689), from whom he inherited estates that were heavily loaded with debt. He was the 23rd Earl of Mar in the first creation of the earldom. He was also the sixth earl in the seventh creation (of 1565). Other"