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Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon or Bradford upon Avon [2] [3]) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset, which had a population of 10,405 at the 2021 census. [1] The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists.
Bradford-on-Avon 9 – name given by Mendip Cave Rescue. Ruins – the older lower section was known by this name by the mushroom workers. ST86SW468 – SMR number, Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Search. Woodside Quarry – Gripwood was the underground and Woodside the opencast; the name Woodside sometimes applies to both.
Alex Moulton was the great-grandson of the rubber pioneer Stephen Moulton, the founder of the family business called George Spencer, Moulton & Co. Ltd, based at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Moulton was educated at Marlborough College and the University of Cambridge [1] where he was an undergraduate at King's College. [9]
The company acquired the Sirdar Rubber Works at Greenland Mill in Bradford on Avon in 1915. [2] The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1933. It acquired the rival company of George Spencer, Moulton & Co. in 1956, bringing with it Abbey Mills and Kingston Mills in Bradford on Avon, and a jointly owned plant in Paris. [2]
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The Moulton space frame in the MoMA. Moulton is an English bicycle manufacturer based in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.The company was founded in 1962 by Alex Moulton (1920–2012) who had designed the "Hydrolastic" and rubber cone suspension systems for the BMC Mini motorcar. [1]
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Bradford Lock (grid reference) is on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. It was in Bradford on Avon that the first sod was cut for the Kennet and Avon Canal in 1794. The lock has a rise/fall of 12 ft 6 inches (3.81 m). [1] There are moorings above and below Bradford Lock.