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The town of Wingham, New South Wales settled in 1841, was named after Wingham in Kent and was originally laid out in a similar way. [ 12 ] Wingham Wildlife Park is a zoo northeast from the village which houses animals such as tigers , snakes , penguins , lemurs , crocodiles , meerkats , tapirs , monkeys , flamingos , reindeer , and wolves .
The Palmer Baronetcy, of Wingham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1621 for Thomas Palmer. [1] The third Baronet was High Sheriff of Kent in 1691. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Kent and Rochester. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1838.
Thomas Palmer was the third son of Sir Henry Palmer of Wingham, Kent, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Windebank of Guisnes, and was nephew of Sir Thomas Palmer (died 1553) and Abbess Katherine Palmer of Syon Abbey. [2] He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1595, and in the following year went on the expedition to Cadiz, when he was knighted.
Arms of Palmer of Wingham: Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable [1] Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham (5 July 1682 – 8 November 1723) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1723.
Named after Wingham in Kent, England, it was proclaimed a village in 1844 but allotments were not made until 1854, the same year that Henry Flett laid out Taree as a private settlement. In the meantime, Tinonee had also been established as a government settlement and in 1866 had a population of 100, compared to 90 at Wingham and 150 at Taree.
The Old Canonry, Wingham. Possibly one of the residences for the Canons of the College. In 1282 a College of Canons was founded by John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury. The college originally consisted of a Provost and six canons, and they used St Mary's as their church.
Ash is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of east Kent about three miles west of Sandwich.. The civil parish has a population of 2,767, increasing to 3,365 [1] at the 2011 Census, and includes the villages of Ash, Westmarsh, Ware, Hoaden and Richborough.
1936 Wingham cabriolet Daimler 15 note distinctive Wingham quarter-lights. Martin-Walter was a long established, 1773, firm of harness makers in Folkestone, Kent which switched to building bespoke bodies for motor cars when horse-drawn vehicles began to disappear. As well as bespoke bodies they built short runs for various motor manufacturers.