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Old Fordham Village is a section of Fordham that dates back to the English colonial era. It is centered on the intersection of the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road.Fordham Village extends north to about 196th Street, south to about 187th Street, east to Southern Boulevard, and west to Jerome Avenue.
England. Cambridgeshire. 52°19′N 0°23′E / 52.32°N 0.38°E / 52.32; 0.38. Fordham is a village in rural Cambridgeshire, England. Fordham is part of the East Cambridgeshire district. It is four miles north of Newmarket, as well as being close to the settlements of Soham, Burwell, Isleham, Mildenhall and Chippenham.
Fordham is a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England, six miles north-west of Colchester. Its population was recorded as 835 in the 2011 Census [1] and estimated at 823 in 2019. [2] The parish includes the nearby hamlets of Fordham Heath and Hemp's Green.
Northwest Bronx: the northern half of the West Bronx; the area north of Fordham road and west of the Bronx River; Southwest Bronx: the southern half of the West Bronx; the area south of Fordham road and west of the Bronx River; Northeast Bronx: the northern half of the East Bronx; the area north of Pelham Parkway and east of the Bronx River
In 1839, Hughes, then 42 years old, had purchased the 106-acre Rose Hill Manor farm in the village of Fordham, New York for $29,750. [24] His intent was to establish St. Joseph's Seminary following the model of Mount Saint Mary's University, of which he was an alumnus. [25] "Rose Hill" was the name originally given to the site in 1787 by its ...
Designated NYCL. February 15, 1966. The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (or Poe Cottage) is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, [2] a short distance from its original location, and is now in the northern part of Poe Park.
In 1847, Fordham's first school in Manhattan opened. The school became the independently chartered College of St. Francis Xavier in 1861. It was also in 1847 that the American poet Edgar Allan Poe arrived in the village of Fordham and began a friendship with the college Jesuits that would last throughout his life.
Official name. Fordham War Memorial. Designated. 31 January 1984. Reference no. 1331743. Fordham War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Fordham in Cambridgeshire in eastern England. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with sculpture by Sir George Frampton and closely resembles Hove War Memorial in East Sussex ...