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Bessie Dorrington Bangay was an English church worker. At the time of her death, she was the last of the original cohort of Bishop's messengers in the Church of England, licensed during World War I.
Latimer House is a large country house at Latimer, Buckinghamshire. It is now branded as De Vere Latimer Estate and functions as a countryside hotel used for country house weddings and conferences. Latimer Place has a small church, St Mary Magdalene, which was built by Lord Chesham, in the grounds.
Latimer and Ley Hill, formerly just Latimer, is a civil parish under Buckinghamshire Council, in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish includes Latimer, Ley Hill and Tyler's Hill. As of 2020, it has a population of 986. Until 2020 it was in the Chiltern district.
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- ↑ "Tylers Hill | Latimer and Ley Hill Parish Council" . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ↑ Montagu, H. (1890). "Find of Gold Coins Near Chesham, Bucks". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society. 10: 48–50. ISSN 2054-9172. JSTOR 42679618.
- ↑ Records of Buckinghamshire. BPC Letterpress. pp. 261–262.
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