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Beatrice Wood (tennis)
Beatrice Mary Ann Draffen (1865 – 13 July 1962) (nee Beatrice Wood) was a British tennis player from Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England active from 1884 to 1897. She was a two time semi finalist in the women's singles at the 1895 Wimbledon Championships and 1896 Wimbledon Championships. She won 10 career singles titles. Career Beatrice was born in 1865 in Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She played her first tournament at the Northern Championships held at the Liverpool Cricket Club grounds in June 1884 in Liverpool where she lost to Ann Dod in the first round. In major tournament singles events she played at the 1892 Wimbledon Championships under the name of Mrs G.A. Draffen and reached the quarter-finals before losing to Blanche Hillyard. At the 1894 Wimbledon Championships she reached the quarter-finals stage of the competition before she was beaten in straight sets by Constance Bryan. At the 1895 Wimbledon Championships she progressed to the semi-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ackworth, West Yorkshire
Ackworth is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It stands between Pontefract, Barnsley and Doncaster on the River Went. It has four parts: High Ackworth, Low Ackworth, Ackworth Moor Top, and Brackenhill. The 2001 census gave it a population of 6,493, which rose to 7,049 at the 2011 Census. There is also a city ward called Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton, with a 2011 Census population of 16,099. History Name The name of the village may derive from one of two sources. The first is from the Anglo-Saxon words ''ake'' or ''aken'', meaning oak, and ''uurt'', equivalent to "worth", meaning an enclosure or homestead.English place names , The Anglo Saxons The other possibility is from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Acca'', to make Acca's worth or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badsworth Hunt Tournament
Badsworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 583, increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census. The village is located south of Pontefract. The name "Badsworth" has its roots in Old English and means "Enclosure of a man called Bæddi". The first element is the person's name ''Bæddi''; the second is the word ''worth'', meaning an enclosure, or enclosed farmstead or settlement. The village was recorded as ''Badesuuorde'' in the Domesday Book of 1086.'Oxford Dictionary of British Place-Names', A.D. Mills, Oxford University Press. See also *Listed buildings in Badsworth Badsworth is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contains ten listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade&n ... References External links * * Villages in We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Female Tennis Players
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century British Sportswomen
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
