Aston Abbotts
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Aston Abbotts or Aston Abbots is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 4 miles north of Aylesbury and 2.5 miles south-west of Wing. The parish includes the hamlet of Burs
St James the Great Parish Church
James Clark Ross
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Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir James Clark Ross was a British naval officer and explorer who explored both the North and South Poles. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, J
Aston Abbotts
…cast the fourth bell in 1739 and the tenor in 1740. John Taylor & Co of Loughborough cast the treble and second bells in 1929. The polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross is buried in the churchyard of St James the Great. In the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Dr Edvard Beneš, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia…
Commander James Clark Ross, R.N., Discoverer of the North Pole by J R Wildman, 1834
Illustration of the discovery of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula in 1831, from Robert Huish's 1835 book
Ross expedition in the Antarctic, 1847, by John Carmichael
"E.I. 1849": Enterprise and Investigator, inscribed by a crew member of the Ross expedition on Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada