Wallingford
Americannoun
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She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclusive boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, and went to Barnard College in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Born in Torquay, Devon, in 1890, she died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, aged 85 in 1976.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
PC Harper, from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, was killed while responding to a quad bike theft in Berkshire in 2019.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024
The Lertsirisin brothers started it as a walk-up window in Wallingford during COVID, then moved it out to a small Shilshole Bay spot with a modicum of seating.
From Seattle Times • May 9, 2024
“They en’t CCD. They’re called summing like the Security of the Holy Spirit, summing like that. They guard religious places—seminaries, nunneries, schools, that sort of place. They prob’ly come from Wallingford, from the priory there.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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