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Allerton may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Allerton, Liverpool **Allerton railway station *Allerton, West Yorkshire, a suburb of Bradford, England *Allerton Bywater, a village in West Yorkshire * Allerton Mauleverer, a parish between Harrogate and York in England **Allerton Castle *Chapel Allerton, part of the city of Leeds, England *Chapel Allerton, Somerset, a village in southwest England *Moor Allerton, an area of Leeds, England *Northallerton, a town in North Yorkshire, England, formerly Allerton **Allerton (wapentake), an ancient subdivision of the North Riding of Yorkshire United States * Allerton, Illinois, a village located in Champaign County * Allerton, Iowa, a city located in Wayne County * Allerton, a neighborhood in Hull, Massachusetts * Allerton Garden in Hawaii, named after Robert and John Gregg Allerton * Allerton, The Bronx, a neighborhood in New York City, New York Other *Allerton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois * Allerton (surname) * Baron Allerton Baron Allert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton, Liverpool
Allerton is a suburb of Liverpool, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located southeast of the city centre and is bordered by the suburbs of Garston, Hunt's Cross, Mossley Hill, and Woolton. It has a number of large houses in the prestigious Calderstones Park area, with mainly 1930s semi-detached housing around the shopping area of Allerton Road. It is paired with Hunts Cross to form the Allerton and Hunts Cross city council ward, which had a population of 14,853 at the 2011 census. History In the Domesday Book, Allerton appears as ''Alretune'', meaning "the alder enclosure". This was derived from the Old English ''alr'', meaning "alder", and ''tún'', meaning "enclosure or village". It was made an urban district by the Local Government Act 1894, and added to the county borough of Liverpool on 9 November 1913. Over the course of the 2010s, many new bars and restaurants opened on Allerton Road, increasing its popularity. Education *New Heys *Calderstones School Attr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton (wapentake)
Allertonshire or Allerton was a wapentake and liberty in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Northallerton, current name of Allerton, was historically associated with the Bishopric of Durham, being an ecclesiastical peculiar and exclave until the 19th century. The shires central location in the North Riding (1889-1974) and its successor North Yorkshire (1974-present) allowed the town to become the administrative centre for both counties. The contiguous part of the wapentake included the ancient parishes of: * Birkby *Kirby Sigston * Leake *Northallerton * Osmotherley *North Otterington *Thornton-le-Street The wapentake also included exclaves of: *the extra parochial area of Hutton Conyers *the parish of West Rounton *the parish of Sessay *the Yorkshire part of the parish of Sockburn (townships of Girsby and Over Dinsdale) The wapentake also included part of the parish of Kirklington, including the vill of Howgrave. See also * Hallamshire * Howdenshire * Hullshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton Hotel
The Warwick Allerton - Chicago (formerly Allerton Hotel and Warwick Allerton Hotel Chicago and Allerton Crowne Plaza Hotel) is a 25-story hotel skyscraper on the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was the first building in the city to feature pronounced setbacks and towers resulting from the 1923 zoning law. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 29, 1998. When the Allerton Hotel first opened, it had fourteen floors of small apartment-style rooms for men and six similar floors for women, with a total of 1,000 rooms. The hotel also boasted social events, gold, sports leagues, a library, solarium, and an in-house magazine. An early resident was Louis Skidmore, founder of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In the 1940s and 1950s, the hotel housed a swanky lounge on its top floor, called the "Tip Top Tap". Although the lounge closed in 1961, the sign proclaiming its existence is still displayed on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton, The Bronx
Allerton is a working-class neighborhood geographically located in the East Bronx section of the Bronx, New York City. It is named in honor of Daniel Allerton, an early Bronx settler who purchased and farmed this area with his wife Hustace. It consists of two subsections called Bronxwood and Laconia. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are Adee Avenue, Boston Road, and Gun Hill Road to the northeast; the IRT Dyre Avenue Line () to the east; Waring Avenue to the south; and Bronx River Parkway to the west. White Plains Road and Boston Road are the primary thoroughfares through Allerton. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 11, and its ZIP Code is 10467. The area is patrolled by the NYPD's 49th Precinct. The local subway is the IRT White Plains Road Line, served by the . History Allerton Avenue was ethnically divided in the 1950s through the 1980s by a distinct separation of Jewish and Italian residents. Primarily a commercial avenue west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton Garden
Allerton Garden, also known as Lāwai-kai, is a botanical garden, originally created by Robert Allerton and John Gregg Allerton, located on the south shore of Kauai, Hawaii. The garden covers an area and is situated beside the Lāwai Bay, in a valley transected by the Lāwai Stream. It is one of the five gardens of the non-profit National Tropical Botanical Garden. Garden history Queen Emma of Hawaii resided above this valley for a short interval, and a modest house that was perhaps her residence has subsequently been moved to the valley floor and renovated. The entire valley, including what is now the adjacent McBryde Garden, was purchased by the McBryde family in the late 19th century for a sugarcane plantation. Robert Allerton, who had a lifelong passion for garden design, sculpture, and landscape architecture had already expressed it at "The Farms" estate and sculpture gardens in Illinois (now Robert Allerton Park). His adopted son John Gregg Allerton had studied archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull, Massachusetts
Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor. Its population was 10,072 at the 2020 census. Hull is the smallest town by land area in Plymouth County and the fourth smallest in the state. However, its population density is nearly four times that of Massachusetts as a whole. Hull is home to the popular resort community of Nantasket Beach and has been the summer home to several luminaries throughout the years, including Calvin Coolidge and former Boston mayor John F. Fitzgerald (also known as "Honey Fitz"), the father of Rose Kennedy and father-in-law of Joseph Kennedy Sr. History The Massachuset tribe called the area ''Nantasket'', meaning "at the strait" or "low-tide place". It is a series of islands connected by sandbars forming Nantasket Peninsula, on which the Plymouth Colony established a trading post in 1621 for trade with the Wampanoags. The town was first settled in 1622 and officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton, Iowa
Allerton is a city in Wayne County, Iowa. The population was 430 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography Allerton is located at (40.707108, -93.367263). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Allerton reservoir and Bob White State Park are located approximately three miles west of Allerton. Transportation Allerton was served by Iowa Highway 40 until it was turned over to Wayne County and made a county road. There is a network of paved farm to market roads starting in Allerton and connecting with the surrounding towns. Allerton was a division point on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad until the bankruptcy of the line in 1980. The old Golden State Route that ran east from Allerton through Seymour, Fairfield and Chicago was then abandoned. There had been some talk of relaying the track from Allerton to Seymour on the old Rock Island right of way to provide a connection between the Canadian Pacific (old Milwaukee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton, Illinois
Allerton is a village in Sidell Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. A small portion of the village extends into Champaign County. The population was 262 at the 2020 census. History Samuel W. Allerton was a wealthy landowner in Vermilion County who had made his fortune on the agricultural and livestock markets. He was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Chicago and Co-founder of the Chicago Union Stockyards. The town was founded on a tract of land in the southwestern part of the county which Allerton purchased in 1880. It had formerly been known as Twin Grove Farm (because of two very similar groves of trees in the area). When the C&EI railroad came through the area, he gave them a right-of-way through his land, and then established a grain elevator and platted the village; later he provided land for a park, established a bank, provided funds for a new brick school in 1894, and installed a water system. Allerton himself continued to live in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northallerton
Northallerton ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It had a population of 16,832 in the 2011 census, an increase from 15,741 in 2001. It has served as the county town of the North Riding of Yorkshire and, since 1974, of North Yorkshire. Northallerton is made up of four wards: North, Broomfield, Romanby and Central. There has been a settlement at Northallerton since Roman times; however its growth in importance began in the 11th century when King William II gifted land to the Bishop of Durham. Under the Bishop's authority Northallerton became an important religious centre. Later, it was a focus for much conflict between the English and the Scots, most notably the Battle of the Standard, fought nearby in 1138, which saw losses of as many as 12,000 men. In later years trade and transport became more important. The surrounding area was discovere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton Railway Station
Allerton railway station was a railway station on the City Line of the Merseyrail network, located in the suburbs of Liverpool, England. History It opened on 15 February 1864 with the opening of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway's extension to Edge Hill. Despite the name, it was not located in the suburb of Allerton, but in neighbouring Garston. The station was located at the Allerton Junction of the routes from Liverpool to Manchester and Crewe. Prior to closure, the station was served by the hourly Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Oxford Road service. A stopping service to Crewe ran for many years, but was withdrawn in the early 1990s. Allerton lost much of its traffic in 1978 when the nearby Garston station reopened on Merseyrail's Northern Line, offering a faster, more frequent service to Liverpool Central. Despite the low passenger numbers, the station retained a staffed booking office - open all day when trains were running - in accordance with the policy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moor Allerton
Moor Allerton is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The area is situated in North Leeds, near to King Lane and the Leeds Outer Ring Road. Description The majority of Moor Allerton is situated in the Alwoodley ward of Leeds City Council and the southern part (below the Outer Ring Road) is in the Moortown ward. Both wards make up the Leeds North East parliamentary constituency. The area is mainly made up of 1950s/60s housing as well as a proportion of modern housing. In the 1990s much of the area's Shopping Centre was rebuilt. It now has a large Sainsbury's, a Homebase, several other retailers, a library and a public house called The Penny Fun. The centre has previously had a Jones of Oakwood (electronic retailers) and a Burger King. The earlier part of the centre was opened by Mr Arthur Craven (director of library services) on 5 March 1982. By 1985 the library had become the busiest branch library in Leeds. Moor Allerton is situated along King Lane, on the outside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Allerton, Somerset
Chapel Allerton is a village and civil parish, south of Cheddar in the English county of Somerset. The parish includes the hamlets of Ashton and Stone Allerton. History The name comes from "''Aelfweard's settlement''", with the chapel prefix being added in 1708 to distinguish it from the adjoining Stone Allerton. The manor was brought in 1492 by John Gunthorpe and passed to the Bishop of Wells. Chapel Allerton was part of the hundred of Bempstone. Chapel Allerton forms part of Sedgemoor district and is located southwest of Cheddar. It is noted for the striking Ashton windmill nearby. Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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