|
A168 Road
The A168 is a major road in North Yorkshire, England. It runs from Northallerton to Wetherby, acting as a local access road for the A1(M). History The majority of it was built during A1 upgrades as parts of it between Dishforth and Walshford are originally part of the old A1 southbound carriageway until it was upgraded to the A1(M) several feet to the west. The original route ran from Topcliffe to Northallerton, the current southern section of the A167. Route Heading northwards, it begins at the roundabout with the A659 (''Wattlesyke'' for Collingham) near junction 45 of the A1(M). This section of road was built when the A1 was improved to A1(M) in the Bramham to Wetherby section of the A1 Darrington to Dishforth scheme which was completed in December 2009. At Sweep Farm it follows the route of the former A1. It meets the eastern terminus of the A58 at a roundabout, and follows the former A1 Wetherby bypass across the River Wharfe, built in 1959. It runs next to the motorw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walshford
Walshford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Great Ribston with Walshford, in the Harrogate district, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is north of Wetherby, north-east of Knaresborough, and south of Boroughbridge. History Walshford is on the A168 road (originally the A1 road, which now by-passes Walshford) and on the River Nidd. Historically, the hamlet was in the parish of Hunsingore, in the wapentake of Claro. However, it is now in the civil parish of Great Ribston with Walshford, which had an estimated population of 70 in 2015. The hamlet does not appear in the Domesday Book, the name first being recorded in 1214 as ''Walleford''. The name means ''ford of the Welshmen'', though the ford has long since disappeared. A bridge was first recorded at Walshford in the 13th century (around the same time as the name), and later a chapel built by the Knights Templar was erected (probably near to the bridge), but this was removed during the Dissolution, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knaresborough
Knaresborough ( ) is a market and spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, England, on the River Nidd. It is east of Harrogate. History Knaresborough is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Chenaresburg'', meaning "Cenheard's fortress", in the wapentake of Burghshire, renamed Claro Wapentake in the 12th century. Knaresborough Castle is Norman; around 1100, the town began to grow. It provided a market and attracted traders to service the castle. The parish church, St John's, was established around this time. The earliest identified Lord of Knaresborough is around 1115 when Serlo de Burgh held the Honour of Knaresborough from the King. Hugh de Morville was granted the Honour of Knaresborough in 1158. He was constable of Knaresborough and leader of the group of four knights who murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170. The four knights fled to Knaresborough and hid at the castle. Hugh de Morvil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A6055 Road
The A6055 is a stretch of road in North Yorkshire that runs from Knaresborough to Boroughbridge, with a break, then starts up again at Junction 50 of the A1(M) to run parallel with A1(M) acting as a Local Access Road (LAR) going between Junction 50 and 56 at Barton. Responsibility for the route rests with the Highways Agency, as it is designated as a primary route associated with the A1(M) upgrade. Route It runs in a North-northeast direction from the A59 at Bond End in Knaresborough where it is called Boroughbridge Road, through the Stockwells Estate. It exits Knaresborough just past Greengate Lane where it turns directly north, before once again resuming a northeasterly direction at a sharp bend on the junction with Farnham Lane. It passes the Knaresborough Golf Club, before going through Ferrensby Lodge, and taking another Northerly turn before reaching Ferrensby itself. Beyond Ferrensby the road is called Harrogate Road, and it continues in a more or less exact northeaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafton, North Yorkshire
Grafton is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the city of York and north-east of the market town of Knaresborough. The village is joined with Marton and forms the civil parish of Marton cum Grafton. Grafton was first mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086. The toponym is from the Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ... ''grāf'' and ''tūn'', meaning "farmstead in the wood". References External links * *{{Genuki, county=WRY, Marton, } Villages in North Yorkshire Borough of Harrogate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marton, Harrogate
Marton is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the city of York and north-east of the market town of Knaresborough. The village is joined with Grafton and it forms the civil parish of Marton cum Grafton. Village pub The village public house is called ''Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn'', a sixteenth-century inn which still contains a number of original features. The lease was part owned by Neil Morrissey until the business went into liquidation on 22 October 2009. The original experience of buying the lease and setting up the pub/microbrewery were turned into a TV programme ''Neil Morrissey's Risky Business'' which aired late 2008 on Channel 4. History There is an active village history group which is engaged in a number of activities as detailed on its website. In 2007 a Roman lead coffin burial was discovered very close to the village, which was widely reported in the local and national press: the village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkendale
Arkendale is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Harrogate town, and a had a population of 278 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 394 at the 2011 census. It consists of a Pub, a Village Hall, a Church and is close to Staveley village. The first part of the toponym originates from Old English , meaning probably "precious, noble, true", and cognate to the name Archibald Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and ''bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop of .... References External links *http://www.arkendale.org.uk * Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{harrogate-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaxby
Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1(M) motorway and east of Knaresborough. Flaxby was once part of the wapentake A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, C ... of Claro. It is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Goldsborough (St Mary). In 1994, an Early Iron Age farmstead of the 7th–6th centuries BC was discovered by archaeologists, but the site was abandoned until the late Roman period. Proposals have been put forward to develop the land to the east of Flaxby, north of the A59 road and west of the A1(M) motorway into a new town called Flaxby Park. The developers have announced their intention to build 2,500 - 3,000 homes on of land that would also see a primary school, a medical centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton Castle
Allerton Castle, also known as Allerton Park, is a Grade I listed nineteenth-century Gothic or Victorian Gothic house at Allerton Mauleverer in North Yorkshire, England. It was rebuilt by architect George Martin, of Baker Street, London in 1843–53. It is east of Harrogate and just east of the A1(M), at its junction with the A59 York-Knaresborough road and a late 20th-century block used for education and corporate functions. Outside is St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer. History Pre-1786 The Allerton estate belonged to the Mauleverer family from the time of the Norman Conquest. The nearby church of St Martin contains several tomb-monuments to them. When Richard Mauleverer died heirless in 1692, Allerton passed to his wife, who left the estate to Richard Arundell, her son by her second marriage. Arundell rebuilt the house in the 1740s, and in 1745 remodelled the church in Norman revival style. The mid-18th century interior of the church remains unaltered to this d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerton Mauleverer With Hopperton
Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton is a civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 130, increasing to 150 at the 2011 Census. As its name suggests, the parish includes the villages of Allerton Mauleverer and Hopperton. The parish falls under the parliamentary constituency of Selby and Ainsty, represented since 2010 by Nigel Adams of the Conservative Party. It is in the ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish priest ... of Whixley with Green Hammerton, in the Diocese of Leeds. References Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{harrogate-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arthur Watts
John Arthur Watts (19 April 1947 – 8 September 2016) was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1983 and 1997. After boundary changes in 1983, Watts defeated Joan Lestor, the former Labour MP for Eton and Slough Eton and Slough was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system. History The House of Commons (Redi ..., to win the new constituency of Slough. John Watts decided not to contest the Slough seat at 1997 General Election due to unfavourable boundary changes and contested Reading East where the sitting Conservative MP was retiring; however, he was defeated in Reading East by Jane Griffiths in 1997. Watts died in September 2016 at the age of 69. References * 1947 births 2016 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Sloug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMEC
Amec Foster Wheeler plc was a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In October 2017, it was acquired by Wood Group. It was focused on the Oil, Gas & Chemicals, Mining, Power & Process and Environment & Infrastructure markets, with offices in over 55 countries worldwide. Roughly a third of its turnover came from Europe, half from North America and 12% from the rest of the world. Amec Foster Wheeler shares were publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. History Amalgamated Mechanical Engineering and Construction (AMEC) was formed from the 1982 amalgamation of Leonard Fairclough & Son (founded 1883) and the William Press Group (founded 1913). In 1988, AMEC went on to acquire Matthew Hall Group. In 1996, AMEC took a 40% stake in Spie Batignolles from Schneider in association with a management buyout. Amec launched the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_002.JPG "Click for more on -> Knaresborough")
.jpg "Click for more on -> Allerton Castle")
