Spencers Wood - Famous Residents

Famous Residents

English comedian Lenny Henry CBE and his comedienne wife, Dawn French, lived in Shinfield (the parish adjacent to Spencers Wood) with their family, before moving to Cornwall in 2008.

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    The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.
    Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.
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