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Bottomley Home Orphanage
Bottomley and its homophone Bottomly are English surnames. They come from the placename formed by combining geographic terms "List of geographical bottoms, bottom" and "Ley (landform), ley", and which refers to two small settlements each on opposite sides of a hill near Walsden and Halifax, West Yorkshire. It first appears in written records from 1277. Notable people with these surnames include: *Arthur Bottomley (1907–1995), British Labour politician *Christine Bottomley (born 1979), English actress *Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet *Horatio Bottomley (1860–1933), British journalist, newspaper proprietor and fraudster, MP for Hackney South *James Bottomley (diplomat) (1920–2013), British diplomat *James Thomson Bottomley (1845–1926), British physicist *Jim Bottomley (1900–1959), baseball player *John Bottomley, Canadian singer-songwriter *John Bottomly, claimant in Bottomly v. Passamaquoddy Tribe *John Wallace Bottomley (1934–2017), English television presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Geographical Bottoms
Bottom is used in the name of several geographical features: *Bottom, North Carolina, small unincorporated community in the Stewarts Creek Township of northern Surry County, North Carolina * Bottom Bay, on the southeast coast of Barbados, between Cave Bay and Palmetto Bay * Bottom Creek, West Virginia, unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA * Bottom Points railway station, railway station on the Zig Zag Railway in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales * Bottom Wood, woodland in the English county of Buckinghamshire, near the hamlet of Studley Green *The Bottom (formerly Botte), the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, the Caribbean Netherlands A number of valleys or low-lying areas are described as bottoms, as are their associated settlements: *American Bottom, the flood plain of the Mississippi River in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois * Aunt Mary's Bottom, an biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England *Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |