20-627: Waterstock House Training Centre (WHTC) is situated in the village of Waterstock in Oxfordshire , England . It is a well used venue for local and national equestrian training events and clinics. It was once owned by Lars Sederholm and was a very well known training centre for horses and riders alike. Many of the royal family have ridden at WHTC and competitions are regularly held there. 51°43′29″N 1°08′02″W / 51.72472°N 1.13389°W / 51.72472; -1.13389 This article about an Oxfordshire building or structure
40-473: A " Rhenish helm " roof reminiscent of a Saxon tower . Many of the villagers used to collect water from it until the village's mains water supply was installed in 1951. Opposite the church are Church Farm Cottages and the Old Rectory, a substantial stone-built 18th-century house, the only other 'gentlemen's house'. In the 20th century it was the home of the violinist Manoug Parikian , his wife Diana Parikian ,
60-518: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Waterstock Waterstock is a village and civil parish on the River Thame about 4.5 miles (7 km) west of the market town of Thame in Oxfordshire . The parish is bounded to the north and west by the river, to the south largely by the A418 main road, and to the east largely by the minor road between Tiddington and Ickford Bridge across
80-643: Is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was most likely on the same site as the current mill, which is a 15th-century building on a small island in the River Thame. The mill a two-storey L-shaped building, with a timber frame filled in with brick nogging . It was rebuilt in the Elizabethan period. In 1957 it was converted and sold. Many of the parish's fields show ridge-and-furrow strip cultivation. In 1279 there were probably about 200 inhabitants, but after
100-636: The 2008 New Year Honours , a Fellow and Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science in 2018, and an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024. Ellis wrote When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn (Princeton University Press 2022) in which he describes the observational progress made by astronomers over his career of five decades in probing galaxies to ever greater distances, and hence to earlier periods of cosmic history. The story culminates with
120-517: The Black Death the population decreased to 51 persons over the age of 14. Waterstock's oldest buildings are the two thatched cottages, one thought to date from late in the 13th or early in the 14th century and the other from the 16th. Orchard End is a medieval cruck house, its smoke-blackened beams showing that it was originally a two-bay open hall house . The village's single street is flanked by cottages built of stone or local brick, some retaining
140-559: The M40 motorway and Oxford Services motorway service station are in the parish. There is also a public golf course . The Oxfordshire Way traverses the parish and crosses the River Thame by Bow Bridge near Waterstock Mill. There is a Waterstock and Tiddington Women's Institute . [REDACTED] Media related to Waterstock at Wikimedia Commons Richard Ellis (astronomer) Fellow Institute of Physics 1998 Fellow University College London 1999 Fellow American Association for
160-696: The Thirty Meter Telescope - a collaborative effort involving Caltech, the University of California , Canada , Japan , China and India destined for Mauna Kea, Hawaii. If constructed this will be the largest ground-based optical and near-infrared telescope in the northern hemisphere. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995, appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in
180-645: The University of Cambridge as the Plumian Professor and became a professorial fellow at Magdalene College . He served as director of the Institute of Astronomy from 1994 to 1999, at which point he moved to Caltech. Shortly after his arrival at Caltech, he was appointed as director of the Palomar Observatory which he later reorganized as the Caltech Optical Observatories taking into account
200-521: The universe , and the nature and distribution of dark matter . He worked on the Morphs collaboration studying the formation and morphologies of distant galaxies. Particular interests include applications using gravitational lensing and high-redshift supernovae . He was a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project whose leader, Saul Perlmutter , shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for
220-643: The Advancement of Science 2001 Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) Durham University 2002 Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay , Wales ) is Professor of Astrophysics at the University College London . He previously served as the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was awarded the 2011 Gold Medal of
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#1733092681133240-740: The Royal Astronomical Society , in 2022 the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and in 2023 the Gruber Prize in Cosmology . Ellis read astronomy at University College London and obtained a DPhil at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford in 1974. In 1985 he was appointed professor at the University of Durham (with two years at the Royal Greenwich Observatory ) for his research contributions. In 1993 he moved to
260-525: The Thame. On the north side of the parish, the river forms the county boundary with Buckinghamshire as well as the parish boundary with Ickford and Worminghall . Waterstock village is on a minor road north of the A418 and is surrounded by open farming land. In the village are about 50 houses and a farm along one main street. Waterstock's toponym is derived from the Old English for "Waterplace". Waterstock Mill
280-564: The antiquarian bookseller, and their two sons, until his sudden death on Christmas Eve 1987. He is buried in St Leonard's churchyard. Richard Ellis the Californian astronomer lived in the Old School House while a graduate student at Oxford from 1971 to 1974. Waterstock seems to have had a parish church since at least 1190. The current Church of England parish church of Saint Leonard
300-480: The church, records the families of local squirearchy who inhabited the manor house and retained its patronage until 1957. As well as regular church services, meetings and concerts are held in the church. Many of the houses in Waterstock have their own stables . Waterstock House Training Centre was once the main equestrian centre of the area, and was once owned by the horse trainer Lars Sederholm . Junction 8A of
320-456: The growing importance of Caltech's role in the Thirty Meter Telescope . After 16 years at Caltech, in September 2015 he returned to Europe via the award of a European Research Council Advanced Research Grant held at University College London (UCL). Ellis works primarily in observational cosmology , considering the origin and evolution of galaxies , the evolution of large scale structure in
340-532: The servants' quarters were converted into the present substantial residence. The stone-built stables are 18th-century and probably contemporary with the 1787 house. They are now the Waterstock Equestrian Centre. Near Waterstock Mill is Bow Bridge: a small, single-arch brick bridge built for Diana Ashhurst in 1790. By the entrance to Waterstock House is the Pump House dated 1898, a small building with
360-410: The small buildings in the gardens, originally privies or pig-sties. At one end of the village, Home Farm is a 17th-century timber-framed house with its thatched barn and 17th-century granary. The 18th-century Park Farm is beyond. The grounds of Waterstock House are next to the church. The manor house was built in 1787 to designs by the architect SP Cockerell . It was demolished in 1953 or 1956 after
380-467: The team's surprising discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. His most recent discoveries relate to searches for the earliest known galaxies, seen when the Universe was only a few percent of its present age. At Caltech, Ellis was director of the Palomar Observatory from 2000 to 2005 and played a key role in developing the scientific and technical case, as well as building the partnership, for
400-564: Was built at the end of the 15th century. The nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1790, and in 1858 the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street restored the building. It is the burial place of the early-17th-century Puritan writer William 'Eternity' Tipping . Remnants of medieval window glass were recovered after the English Reformation and have been inserted above the armorial Ashurst window. This window, together with monuments in
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