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Housing Units (2000): 177
Land area (2000): 1.831789 sq. miles (4.744312 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.831789 sq. miles (4.744312 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35420
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.399122 N, 96.077019 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Hungerford
Wikipedia
Hungerford is a market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, centred west of Newbury and 67 miles (107 km) west of London. Its amenities include shops, cafés, restaurants, schools and sports teams or clubs in the main national sports. It has a railway station which is a minor stop on the London to Exeter (via Taunton) Line and part of the upper River Kennet flows through the town which has the confluence of its main river, the River Dun which is through the town deepest and widest as the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hungerford may refer to:
Hungerford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anne Bassett Hungerford (1521-1558), mistress of Henry VIII
- Bruce Hungerford, pianist
- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855–1897), Irish novelist
- Ralph Hungerford, 33rd Governor of American Samoa
- Thomas Hungerford (1330–1397), First recorded Speaker of the House of Commons
- Thomas W. Hungerford (1936-2014), American mathematician
- Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (1378–1449), Speaker of the House of Commons
- Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury (1503–1540), first Englishman to be executed for homosexuality
Usage examples of "hungerford".
Tommy Hungerford, smiling at the new seating arrangements, remained standing at the bar.
Bernice Hungerford, who had hovered anxiously behind the row of chairs during my short concert, led the applause.
He’d managed to park the car not far away, and I spent the swift journey to Hungerford wondering about Clarissa Williams.
It lay now beside my bed in Hungerford emitting bleeps at odd intervals and telling me which way was north.
I put the letters into the gemology magazine’s large envelope and added to them some similar unfinished business that I’d found in the drawer under the telephone, and reflected ruefully, putting it all ready to take to Hungerford, that I loathed paperwork at the best of times.
I’d planned originally that if we found the Rover he would take it on the orbital route direct to Hungerford and I would drive into London and go on home from there after I got back from York.
The plugs having changed that plan near Ipswich, it was now Brad who would go to Hungerford in my car, and I would finish the journey by train.
No one who lived in Hungerford would ever discount the possibility of being randomly slaughtered.
And how could he know I would be in a car between Lambourn and Hungerford on Sunday afternoon?
After that tidbit came a rehash of the Hungerford massacre and a query, “Is this a copycat killing?
I said that of course they would compare the bullets the Hungerford police had taken from the Daimler with those just now dug out of Greville’s walls, and those no doubt to be retrieved from Nicholas Loder’s silent form.
The Hungerford police, I told the superintendent, were looking for a gray Volvo.
He did not dare to stop in the town in case she gave him the slip and hired another car or went on by train, but when they were well out in the country again he meant to telephone the Duke, who must have arrived at Pangbourne by this time, and urge him to follow as far as Hungerford at once—then sit tight at The Bear until he received further information.
De Richleau had heard all he had to tell and was ordering him to return to Hungerford as best he could, there to await instructions at The Bear.
Rex was pedalling furiously along the road to Hungerford with all the strength of his muscular legs.