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    Great and Little Wigborough is a civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, about 6 miles (10 km) from Colchester. The parish...
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    Little Wigborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great and Little Wigborough, in the Colchester borough of Essex, England and...
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    Great Wigborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great and Little Wigborough in the Colchester borough of Essex, England. The...
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    Fingringhoe Fordham Great and Little Wigborough Great Horkesley Great Tey Langenhoe Langham Layer Breton Layer de la Haye Layer Marney Little Horkesley Marks...
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  • *Salcott, Virley, Peldon, Great and Little Wigborough are governed by the joint Winstred Hundred Parish Council. **Abberton and Langenhoe are governed by...
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    to the west and Layer Marney neighbouring Layer Breton to the East. Layer Breton also touches parishes Birch and Great and little Wigborough. The village...
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    Havering-atte-Bower and the boroughs of Colchester, Harwich, and Maldon. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation...
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  • used by the Ordnance Survey. The "List Entry Number" is a unique number assigned to each listed building and scheduled monument by Historic England....
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  • to the Manor House of Mulsham, at Great Wigborough in Essex, where he purchased estates at Loftes in Great and Little Totham. These estates remained in...
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  • German bombing of Britain, 1914–1918 (category Aerial operations and battles of World War I)
    1:15 a.m. in a field close to New Hall Cottages, Little Wigborough. The airship was set alight and the crew headed south before being arrested by police...
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    is a village and civil parish in the Colchester borough of Essex, England. With Salcott, Virley, Great Wigborough and Little Wigborough, it forms part...
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    Zeppelin LZ 76 (category Accidents and incidents involving balloons and airships)
    dropping guns and equipment, Bocker calculated that the ship would not make it safely across the North Sea, and he landed in Little Wigborough, Essex, the...
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  • Manor House Westcombe House Whitestaunton Manor Widcombe Manor House Wigborough Manor House Woodspring Priory Woolston Manor The Abbey, Charlton Adam...
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    As it headed towards Chelmsford it began to lose height and came down close to Little Wigborough. The airship was set alight by its crew, but inspection...
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    Farm, Little Wigborough on the night of 23 September 1916. On 15 April 1918 Thomson married Jessie I. Hislop, the sister of his great friend and fellow...
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    followed by larger sites at Tollesbury and Orplands (1995), Freiston Shore (2001) and Abbott's Hall Farm, at Great Wigborough in the Blackwater Estuary, it is...
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    List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation (category Political and cultural purges)
    Protestant theologian and activist John Foxe described "the great persecutions & horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs, and other such thinges" in...
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    Island during the war. In 1916, a Zeppelin crash landed at nearby Great Wigborough to the northwest of the island. The survivors were stationed at Mersea...
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  • airship to be shot down while bombing England. The SL 11 was based at Spich and commanded by Hauptmann Wilhelm Schramm. In the early hours of 3 September...
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    No. 39 Squadron RAF (category Military units and formations established in 1916)
    already damaged by anti-aircraft fire, with L.33 force landing at Little Wigborough, Essex, and being destroyed by its crew. On the night of 1/2 October 1916...
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    from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2015. "Great Wigborough henge". Historic England. Archived from the original on 29 November...
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  • Zeppelin LZ76 carrying military number L 33 makes a forced landing at Little Wigborough in Essex; its crew are the only armed enemy personnel to set foot...
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  • English Poor Law Unions. Note for table: 'PLU' stands for Poor Law Union and 'PLP' stands for Poor Law Parish. Link to 1888 map showing Bedfordshire PLUs;...
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  • been flying. They are not included here, as they are not rigid airships and do not represent a continuity of design from the ones listed here. Usage:...
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    family and the owner of Faulkbourne Hall in Essex. Born about 1580, he was the elder son of Edward Bullock of Wigborough and Loftes in Great Totham and Joan...
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  • Billericay, and Second Lieutenant Alfred Brandon damaged Zeppelin L.33 sufficiently for her crew to make a forced landing at Little Wigborough, and set her...
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    Newcome's School (category Buildings and structures demolished in 1820)
    Trinity College, Cambridge and assistant master of Charterhouse School; he was vicar of Rodmersham and then Little Wigborough. In his time it was known...
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    antiaircraft fire, came down at Little Wigborough. Although the crew tried to set fire to it, little hydrogen was left in its gasbags and examination of the wreckage...
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    Zeppelin LZ 72 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in 1916)
    (April 2004). "Decisions at Potters Bar". Tom Morgan's HELLFIRE CORNER GREAT WAR WEB-PAGES. Retrieved 5 March 2019. "Death of A Zeppelin – The L-31 is...
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    Zeppelin LZ 95 (category Accidents and incidents involving balloons and airships)
    defence, since 11 December 1916. Watkins shot down L 48 over water near Great Yarmouth on 17 June 1917 but it crashed near Theberton, Suffolk, a village...
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