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Cheadle Hulme was the site of the first purpose built Waitrose store in northern England, opened in 2007. Their very first store (Waite, Rose and Taylor) was opened in Acton in 1904.
A tree grown as a seedling from the Panshanger Oak (reputedly the largest unpollarded oak in Britain) was planted at Speech House, near Ruspidge in the Forest of Dean, in 1861 in memory of the Prince Consort.
The United Kingdom's first speeding fine was handed out by Tonbridge Petty Sessions court in 1896. The guilty driver was Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, who was fined one shilling for speeding at 8 miles per hour in a 2 mph zone in Paddock Wood, in his Karl Benz powered car. Mr Arnold was apprehended by a policeman who had given chase on his bicycle.
Plaxtol CC are currently in the Second Division of the Kent County Village League, as are Cudham Wyse CC, who play at the Recreation Ground, Cudham, Kent.
Fenstanton rose in support of Hereward the Wake's revolt against the Normans in about 1070, but Hereward's campaign ended with defeat by William the Conqueror's army at Ely.
HMS Whippingham was a "ham" class minehunter, built in the 1950s. Next on the class list was HMS Wintringham, named after a village in North Yorkshire.
The church at Frosterley is dedicated to St Botolph. Botolph (aka Botwulf) founded a monastery at Iken in Suffolk in about 653AD. The church there is also dedicated to him.