Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ANCASTER

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Definitions of ANCASTER

1. A village and civil parish in, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9844).
2. A town in the city of, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Examples of Using ANCASTER in a Sentence

• The family moved from Ancaster to Erindale Woodlands, Toronto Township when Kain was in grade 6 (age 11, 1962) so she could begin training at the National Ballet School of Canada.
• By 1823, due to its accessible waterpower and location at the juncture of prehistoric trading routes, Ancaster had become Upper Canada's largest industrial and commercial centre.
• It skirts Ancaster then rejoins the B6403 south of Ancaster to a point just south of RAF Barkston Heath.
• A part of the office of Lord Great Chamberlain came into the Cholmondeley family through the marriage of the first Marquess of Cholmondeley to Lady Georgiana Charlotte Bertie, daughter of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
• Beeston, Lenton, Lincoln, Derby, Rutland, Sherwood, Newark, Southwell, Ancaster and Melton halls fall into the former category; Hugh Stewart, Cripps, Cavendish, Nightingale, Florence Boot, Wortley and Willoughby into the latter.
• Breithaupt, believed that Schoerg and Betzner, after arriving in Upper Canada, travelled from Ancaster westward through Beverley Township to a point on the Grand River near where Paris would later be founded, using a road cut through the wilderness the previous year by two Englishmen named Ward and Smith.
• Peter's wife Priscilla was a daughter of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and Duchess Mary Panton.
• This hereditary honour came into the Cholmondeley family through the marriage of the first Marquess of Cholmondeley to Lady Georgiana Charlotte Bertie, daughter of General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
• However, over its residents' strenuous objections, the City of Stoney Creek was amalgamated with Glanbrook, Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough and Hamilton to form the City of Hamilton.
• In 1715, he employed Sir John Vanbrugh to design a baroque front to his house at Grimsthorpe to celebrate his ennoblement as first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
• The Highway403 designation was first applied in 1963 to a short stub of freeway branching off the QEW at Burlington, and the entire route was completed on August15, 1997, when the section from Brantford to the then-still independent Town of Ancaster was opened to traffic.
• In 2003, the Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) named a bridge on the west-end Rail Trail crossing Binkley Hollow and the Ancaster Creek for Powers.
• However, in 1715, Robert Bertie, the 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, employed Sir John Vanbrugh to design a Baroque front to the house to celebrate his ennoblement as the first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
• Abbey, Aby, Acthorpe, Addlethorpe, Ailby, Aisby (South Kesteven), Aisby (West Lindsey), Aisthorpe, Alford, Algarkirk, Alkborough, Allington, Althorpe, Alvingham, Amber Hill, Amcotts, Ancaster, Anderby, Anwick, Anton's Gowt, Apley, Appleby, Asgarby, Sleaford, Asgarby and Howell, Asgarby, Spilsby, Ashby by Partney, Ashby cum Fenby, Ashby de la Launde, Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm, Ashby Puerorum, Ashington End, Aslackby, Asterby, Aswarby, Aswarby and Swarby, Aswardby, Atterby, Aubourn, Aubourn and Haddington, Aunby, Aunsby, Authorpe, Axholme, Aylesby.
• It crosses the A607 at the A153 junction and Minnetts Wood north of Heath Farm, tops Honington Heath to meet Ancaster, and runs across RAF Barkston Heath.
• Much of the land around Comrie was owned by the Drummond family, Earls of Perth, latterly Earls of Ancaster, whose main seat was Drummond Castle, south of Crieff.
• Her godparents were Prince Charles of Mecklenburg (her maternal uncle, who was visiting England), The Queen-consort of Denmark (her paternal aunt, for whom the Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven, Mistress of the Robes to The Queen, stood proxy) and The Hereditary Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (her paternal aunt, for whom the Duchess of Northumberland, Lady of the Bedchamber to The Queen, stood proxy).
• Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1756–1779), who never married as he died from scarlet fever while engaged to Lady Anna Waldegrave, daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave.
• Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby was a son of Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster, and American heiress Eloise Lawrence Breese.
• As well as being used for the church at Ancaster and a number of village buildings, there have also been many great works of architecture constructed from Ancaster stone, including Wollaton Hall, Belton House, Harlaxton Manor, Mentmore Towers, St Pancras Station, Norwich Cathedral and St John's College, Cambridge.

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