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Hungerford

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Hungerford

Town in West Berkshire, England, 14 km/9 mi northwest of Newbury; population (2001) 5,560. Hungerford is a centre for the breeding and stabling of racehorses and offers angling on the River Kennet. The ancient name for Hungerford was Ingleford, meaning ‘Ford of the Angles’.

In 1986 a local man, Michael Ryan, ran amok in Hungerford, shooting dead 13 people before killing himself.



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The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and Hungerford Market being a very different place in those days, there was a low wooden colonnade before the door (not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live, in the old weather-glass), which pleased Mr.
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She paused and, slackening her steps, looked at the lighted train drawing itself smoothly over Hungerford Bridge.
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Hungerford came all the way over from Norwich to beg for the infirmary there, and he gave her nothing.
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