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Listings are completely free and you can add your details via the simple strictly forbidden. form at: http://www.atozguide.org/free-listing Back to website 2 Back to Index FORDINGBRIDGE A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL SPONSORS INDEX Index STONE FLOORING & PAVING OFFICE STATIONERY DT Stone Ltd SPONSORS Sponsors Fordingbridge, Hampshire SP6 1RA, UK X Consumables Ltd 01425 654011 Fordingbridge, Hampshire SP6 1QX, UK http://www.dtstone.co.uk 01425 652662 Natural stone flooring and stone paving supplier. http://www.xconsumables.co.uk Local HistoryLocal We supply Sandstone, Limestone, Slate, and Travertine We are an independent Office Stationery supplier with HISTORY tiles and paving and provide a 3-5 day delivery service over 20,000 lines next day. We supply everything from nationwide. pens to printers and Coffee to Laminators. We also provide print services everything from fliers to banners. 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CARPET CLEANING BED & BREAKFAST Local AdvertsLocal LOCAL FIRMS LOCAL Mr Clean And Tidy October House Alderholt, Dorset SP6 3DQ, UK South End, Hampshire SP6 3HW, UK Useful Numbers 01425 650020 01725 518810 KEY NUMBERS http://www.mrcleanandtidy.com http://www.octoberhousebandb.com Unique to other carpet cleaners who wet clean carpets October House Bed and Breakfast is run as part of our that may take up to 5 days for the carpet to be dry. family home. We have one double guest suite - separate Since 1991 I have been using a dry system method to very from the main house - and you will be treated as our successfully clean carpets, so much so that I still service guests during your stay. Expect the warmth, welcome some of my customers from that very early date. and personal service as if staying with friends but with Immediately after cleaning the carpets are ready for use. privacy, peace and quite and total freedom! Free Listing Free ADD ENTRY No FUSS and No INCONVENENCE. We are on the edge of the tranquil village of Damerham in the Cranborne Chase Area of Natural Beauty. How many other carpet cleaning companies can proudly boast credentials such as that. Back to website 3 Back to Index FORDINGBRIDGE A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL SPONSORS INDEX Index SHIPPERS & PACKERS LOCAL SPONSORS SPONSORS Sponsors Incare International North Gorley, Fordingbridge, Hampshire SP6 2PD, UK Tel: 01 425 479932 http://www.incare.co.uk/ Local HistoryLocal INCARE INTERNATIONAL is an independent family run HISTORY business which was established 30 years ago and offers a combined wealth of over 50 years’ experience. We are Export, Import and Customs Clearance Agents and we have the expertise and knowledge to organise shipment of: Personal Effects, Household Effects, Fragile Items, Fine Art & Antiques, Cars & Motorcycles, Boats, Machinery & Plant, Containers 20’, 40’ A TO Z A to Z LOCAL SPONSORS YOU? This space could be yours! 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The SPONSORS manor then stayed solidy in the Brune Sponsors family until the death of Charles Brune in 1769, when the family became extinct in the male line. By his will his estates eventually devolved onto his grand-nephew the Rev. Charles Prideaux-Brune of Prideaux Place, Padstow, Cornwall, and the manor then remained in the possession of the Prideaux-Brune family. HistoryLocal HISTORY The lord of the manor had a market before 1273, it was held weekly first on Saturday and then on Friday until the middle of the 19th century, when it was discontinued. A fair was held on 9 Since 1982 Fordingbridge has been Fordingbridge is a town and civil September. From the 13th to the 15th twinned with Vimoutiers in Normandy. parish in Hampshire on the banks of century Fordingbridge was governed by Fordingbridge is also home to the River Avon. a bailiff, and then in later centuries by Fordingbridge Turks FC, one of the a constable chosen yearly at the court 50 oldest football clubs in England, The first Great Bridge, from which leet of the manor of Lower Burgate. A TO Z established circa 1868. The Turks A to Z the town received its present name, The constable was the chief officer name seems to derive from wishing to was built in mediaeval times, and is until 1878, when government by Local emulate the determination shown by upstream from the ford. The bridge is District Council was established. A fire in Ottoman forces at Siege of Plevna. a major feature of the town with its the town in the 18th century destroyed seven graceful arches, which can be many of the houses, which were never The parish of Fordingbridge contains seen very easily from the town’s large rebuilt.[4] The Town Hall, built in 1879, the hamlets of Burgate to the north, riverside park where one can walk along is almost in the centre of the town. the riverbank draped with willows and Criddlestyle to the east, Bickton to the south, and Ashford to the west. Burgate AdvertsLocal waterside plants. Close by is a children’s Cloth was made here in the 16th FIRMS LOCAL and Bickton are settlements dating back play area, secluded memorial gardens, century, and in the 19th century there to the time of the Domesday Book, and parks and sports playing fields.