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2 days ago · William Stukeley died in 1538 seised of the manors of Stukeley, Nokes and Presteleyes, the heir, his son Matthew, being a minor. Matthew died in the following year, and his inheritance passed to William's sister Katherine, wife of Henry Torkington, afterwards Katherine Broughton.
2 days ago · The following were found in the garden of 9 Barnhill (97), at that time the home of William Stukeley: in June 1743, a possible Roman urn in a stone cist, 7 ft. below the surface, and a few days later a Roman coin in the same area; early in 1744, another 'whiteish' urn, also said to be Roman (Surtees Soc., LXXVI (1883), 330).
1 day ago · His friend and contemporary William Stukeley (1687–1765), vicar of All Saints' from 1730 to 1747, did not publish any of his work on Stamford.
1 day ago · A century later William Stukeley surveyed Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments, but it was not until 1874–77 that Flinders Petrie made the first accurate plan of the stones. In 1877 Charles Darwin dug two holes in Stonehenge to investigate the earth-moving capabilities of earthworms.
2 days ago · Beckhampton Avenue – a long run of Late Neolithic stones curving broadly south-west from Avebury – is both famous and enigmatic: only a few stones remain standing, but, thanks in large part to William Stukeley’s 1743 bird’s-eye imagining of the landscape, the wider setting looms large in the imagination.
1 day ago · In 1726, Newton told William Stukeley about the apple incident, which Stukeley included in his 1752 biography, "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life." Stukeley recalled Newton saying that after dinner, they sat under apple trees, where Newton explained how seeing an apple fall once made him think about gravity.
3 days ago · Album containing 122 engravings by Stukeley, many in proof, assembled by the artist himself. Contents include 85 engravings from Itinerarium Curiosum and 23 from Stonehenge, a Temple Restor’d to the British Druids.
