In 1707, Jedediah Buxton, the legendary mental calculator, was born here (a blue plaque was erected in his honour in 2011 after a public poll).
He measured the whole lordship of Elmton, consisting of some thousand acres (4 km²), simply by striding over it, and gave the area not only in acres, roods and perches, but even in square inches.
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A blue plaque was erected in Jedediah's honour in Elmton in 2011 after a public poll.
Buxton | Adam Buxton | Jedediah Smith | Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton | Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton | Charles Roden Buxton | Buxton, Sofia | Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet | Buxton, Guyana | Sir Robert Buxton, 3rd Baronet | Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet | Ron Buxton | Peter Buxton | Nigel Buxton | Jedediah Hotchkiss House | Jedediah Buxton | Harry Buxton Forman | Harry Buxton Forman | Glen Buxton | D. Gregg Buxton | Buxton Opera House | Buxton, Norfolk | Buxton Memorial Fountain | Buxton, Maine |