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Hungerford es una localidad situada en la autoridad unitaria de Berkshire Occidental, en Inglaterra (Reino Unido), con una población estimada a mediados de 2016 de 5093 habitantes. [1] Se encuentra ubicada al sur de la región Sudeste de Inglaterra, en el condado de Berkshire, al oeste de Londres.
Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) west of Newbury, 9 miles (14 km) east of Marlborough, 27 miles (43 km) north-east of Salisbury and 60 miles (97 km) west of London.
The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Wiltshire and Berkshire, United Kingdom, which occurred on 19 August 1987 when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot and killed sixteen people, including an unarmed police officer and his own mother, before killing himself.
18 de ago. de 2012 · With the anniversary this weekend, visit Hungerford today and you will find a town which remembers the tragedy, but respectfully consigns the horrific events to the history books.
One of the earliest prominent members of the Hungerford family is the fourteenth-century patriarch Sir Thomas Hungerford (c. 1328–1398), who represented the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset during his political career and was the first recorded Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Hungerford Bridge crosses the River Thames in London, and lies between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (who use its official name of Charing Cross Bridge ) it is a steel truss railway bridge flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge ...
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford KG (1378 – 9 August 1449) was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer.
