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Definition: Guildford from The Columbia Encyclopedia

(gĭl'fӘrd), town (1991 pop. 61,509) and district, Surrey, SE England, on the Wey River. The county seat of Surrey, Guildford is a market and residential commuter town of London. Manufactures include knitwear, plastics, and engineered goods. Sheep and cattle fairs are held in the town. The Univ. of Surrey is in Guildford, which is also where Lewis Carroll is buried.

Guildford

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Cathedral city and county town (since 1257) of Surrey, southeast England, on the River Wey, 48 km/30 mi southwest of London; urban population (2001) 69,400; borough population (2001) 129,700. Industries include telecommunications, engineering, and the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceuticals. Features include a ruined Norman castle, a cathedral (founded in 1936 and consecrated in 1961), the main campus of the University of Surrey (1966), and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (opened in 1965). Features Only the ruined 12th-century Norman keep remains of the castle, once a royal residence. Guildford's museum includes relics of the author Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) who died in Guildford in 1898. The Guildhall has a 17th-century facade and a gilded clock dating from 1683 projecting over the street. An inscription over the gate of the Royal Grammar School attributes its foundation to Edward VI in 1552, but it is thought to have been originally founded by Robert Beckingham (d. 1528) and the…
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Full text Article Guildford

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
Probably ‘golden (i.e. sandy) ford’, OE gylde ‘yellow, golden’ + FORD . A town (pronounced ‘gilfəd’) in Surrey, on the River WEY 1 , about 40 km (25 miles) southwest of London and 11 km (7 miles) south of Woking. It stands at the northern edge of the NORTH DOWNS , and is overlooked from the west by…
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Full text Article Guildford

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Cathedral city and county town (since 1257) of Surrey, southeast England, on the River Wey, 48 km/30 mi southwest of London; urban population (2001) 69,400; borough population (2001) 129,700. Industries include telecommunications, engineering, and the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceuticals. …
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Full text Article Howell, David, Howell of Guildford

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British politician. In 1966 he was elected Conservative member of Parliament for Guildford and between 1970 and 1974 he was successively a government whip, parliamentary secretary in the Civil Service Department, parliamentary under secretary in the Department of Employment, parliamentary under…
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Full text Article Guildford Four

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On 5 October 1974 two IRA bombs killed five people in two Guildford pubs. A month later two were killed in an IRA bomb attack on a Woolwich pub. Patrick Armstrong, Gerald Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson were subsequently arrested, charged with murder in both incidents and sentenced to life…
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Full text Article Guildford Four, the

From Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
On 5 October 1974 two IRA bombs killed five people in two pubs in Guildford, Surrey. A month later two people were killed by an IRA bomb attack on a Woolwich pub. Paddy Armstrong, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson, all Irish people living in England, were subsequently arrested and…
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Full text Article Guildford

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DAVID ARTHUR RUSSELL HOWELL , PC, son of late Col Arthur Howard Eckford Howell, DSO, TD ( see Bowater, Bt, cr 1939, 1985 Edn ); b 18 Jan 1936; ed Eton, and King's Coll, Camb (BA 1959); 2nd Lieut Coldstream Gds 1954–56; worked in Economic Section of Treasury 1959–60; Leader Writer Daily Telegraph…
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da of Osmund Hailstone, and Sydney Mary Ellen, née White b. 21 November 1938 Tonbridge Girls' GS, Newnham Coll Cambridge (MA) 1962, Thomas Sharp; 2 da asst princ Bd of Trade and HM Treasy 1960–63, lectr in economics LSE 1963–72, pt/t guest fell Brookings Instn Washington DC 1973–76, econ advsr NEDO…
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Full text Article Guildford Four

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Full text Article Guildford Borough

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