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Central Alliance
The Central Alliance was a football league in England, covering the East Midlands. History The league was established in 1911 with twelve clubs, most of which had previously been members of the Notts & Derbyshire League; Derby County Reserves, Grantham, Grantham Avenue, Ilkeston United, Long Eaton St Helens, Mansfield Mechanics, Mansfield Town, Nottingham Forest Reserves, Peterborough GN Loco, Sutton Junction, Sutton Town and Walsall Reserves.The Central Alliance 1911–1925 Non-League Matters Following the outbreak of World War I the league was played in two series in 1915–16, with the nine clubs playing each other once; however, three clubs dropped out before the second series, and the remaining six only playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after The Football Association (The FA). Since 2015, it has been known as The Emirates FA Cup after its headline sponsor. A concurrent women's tournament is also held, the Women's FA Cup. The competition is open to all eligible clubs down to Level 9 of the English football league system with Level 10 clubs acting as stand-ins in the event of non-entries from above. Included in the competition are 20 professional clubs in the Premier League (level 1), 72 professional clubs in the English Football League (levels 2 to 4), and all clubs in steps 1–5 of the National League System (levels 5 to 9) as well as a tiny number of step 6 clubs acting as stand-ins for non-entries above. A record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirebrook Miners Welfare F
Shirebrook is a town in the Bolsover district in Derbyshire, England. Close to the boundaries with the districts of Mansfield and Bassetlaw of Nottinghamshire,OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): it had a population of 13,300 in 2001, reducing to 9,760 at the 2011 Census. It is on the B6407, and close to the A632 road, between Mansfield and Bolsover. The town is served by Shirebrook railway station, on the Robin Hood Line. Economy History According to David Mills in ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names'', the area was first named in records in 1202 written in Old English as Scirebroc. This can be interpreted as Boundary or Bright Brook. Prior to the intense and swift development of the Colliery at the turn of the 20th century, Shirebrook, even as late as 1872 it was little more than a chapelry of the larger Pleasley. Wilsons' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870–72 describes "SHIREBROOK, a chapelry in Pleaseley parish, Derby; 3¾ miles NNW of Mansfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne Town F
Bourne may refer to: Places UK * Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town ** Bourne Abbey ** Bourne railway station * Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex * Bourne SSSI, Avon, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Burrington, North Somerset * Bourne, a hundred in Farnham, Surrey * Bournes Green, a hamlet in Gloucestershire; also (separately) a suburb of Southend-on-Sea, Essex US * Bourne, Massachusetts, a town ** Bourne (CDP), Massachusetts, a census-designated place in the town ** Bourne High School ** Bourne station * Bourne, Oregon, a ghost town * Bourne Field, an ex-military airstrip on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands Fiction * Jason Bourne, a fictional character in novels by Robert Ludlum and the film adaptations * ''Bourne'' (novel series), a series of novels originally by Robert Ludlum * ''Bourne'' (film series), a film series based on the novels Other uses * Bourne (stream), an intermittent stream, flowing from a spring * Bourne (surname) * Bourne baronets * Bourne Co. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matlock Town F
Matlock may refer to: Places *Matlock, Derbyshire, a town in England **Matlock Bath, a village south of Matlock, Derbyshire, England **Matlock Bank, an area on a hill in Matlock, Derbyshire, England **Matlock Bridge, a bridge and surrounding area in Matlock, Derbyshire, England *Matlock, Iowa, a small city in the United States *Matlock, Manitoba, a community in Canada *Matlock, Victoria, a town in Australia *Matlock, Washington, a small town in the United States People *Matlock (surname) Other uses * ''Matlock'' (TV series), American television series **Ben Matlock, the title character of the TV series by the same name *Matlock Cable Tramway, cable tramway that served the town of Matlock between 1893 and 1927 *Matlock Town F.C. Matlock Town Football Club is a association football, football club based in Matlock, Derbyshire, Matlock, Derbyshire, England. Nicknamed 'the Gladiators', they are currently members of the and play at Causeway Lane. History The club was esta ..., a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belper Town F
Belper is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent. As well as Belper itself, the parish also includes the village of Milford and the hamlets of Bargate, Blackbrook and Makeney. As of the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 21,823. Originally a centre for the nail-making industry since Medieval times, Belper expanded during the early Industrial Revolution to become one of the first mill towns with the establishment of several textile mills; as such, it forms part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. History At the time of the Norman occupation, Belper was part of the land centred on Duffield held by the family of Henry de Ferrers. The Domesday Book of 1086 records a manor of "Bradley" which is thought to have stood in an area of town now known as the Coppice. At that time it was probably within the Forest of East Derbyshire which covered the whole of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skegness Town A
Skegness ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is east of Lincoln and north-east of Boston. With a population of 19,579 as of 2011, it is the largest settlement in East Lindsey. It also incorporates Winthorpe and Seacroft, and forms a larger built-up area with the resorts of Ingoldmells and Chapel St Leonards to the north. The town is on the A52 and A158 roads, connecting it with Boston and the East Midlands, and Lincoln respectively. Skegness railway station is on the Nottingham to Skegness (via Grantham) line. The original Skegness was situated farther east at the mouth of The Wash. Its Norse name refers to a headland which sat near the settlement. By the 14th century, it was a locally important port for coastal trade. The natural sea defences which protected the harbour eroded in the later Middle Ages, and it was lost to the sea after a storm in the 1520s. Rebui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heanor Town F
Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies north-east of Derby and forms, with the adjacent village of Loscoe, the civil parish and town council-administered area of Heanor and Loscoe, which had a population of 17,251 in the 2011 census. History The name Heanor derives from the Old English ''hēan'' (the dative form of ''hēah'') and ''ofer'', and means " lace at/nowiki> the high ridge". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as ''Hainoure'', with its entry stating: 6M In CODNOR and Heanor and Langley n Heanorand 'Smithycote' n Codnor Park8 thegns had 7 carucates of land to the geld efore 1066 here island for as many ploughs. There are now 3 ploughs in demesne, and 11 villains and 2 bordars and 3 sokemen having 5½ ploughs. There is a church and 1 mill endering12d and of meadow ndwoodland pasture 2 leagues long and 3 furlongs broad. TREin Latin Tempore Regis Edwardi – in the time of King Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creswell Colliery F
__NOTOC__ Creswell may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Creswell, Derbyshire * Creswell Crags * Creswell Model Village * Creswell, Staffordshire United States * Creswell, also called Smyrna, Jefferson County, Indiana * Creswell Township, Cowley County, Kansas * Creswell, Kentucky * Creswell, Maryland * Creswell, North Carolina * Creswell, Oregon * Creswell, Pennsylvania Elsewhere * Creswell Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada * Creswell Gardens, Adelaide, Australia Other * Creswell (surname) Creswell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carolyn Creswell (born 1973), Australian entrepreneur, television host and philanthropist * Cathy Creswell, British psychologist * Charles Creswell (1813–1882), English cricketer * ... * Creswell High School (other) * HMAS ''Creswell'', a Royal Australian Navy base on the South Coast of New South Wales See also * Cresswell (other) * Carswell {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ransome & Marles F
Ransome may refer to: * Ransome, Queensland, Australia, a suburb of Brisbane * 6440 Ransome, an asteroid * Ransome Airlines, a regional airline in the United States * Ransome (surname) * Ransome Gillett Holdridge (1836–1899), an early San Francisco school painter * Ransome Judson Williams (1872–1970), American politician and 102nd Governor of South Carolina * Ransome the Clown, a character from the game ''Thimbleweed Park'' * Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, a major British work vehicle and machinery maker, ended 1998 * Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of childre ... (1884-1967), author See also * Ransom (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilkeston Town F
Ilkeston is a town in the Borough of Erewash, Derbyshire, England, on the River Erewash, from which the borough takes its name, with a population at the 2011 census of 38,640. Its major industries, coal mining, iron working and lace making/textiles, have now all but disappeared. The town is close to both Derby and Nottingham and is near the M1 motorway and the border with Nottinghamshire. The eastern boundary of Ilkeston is only two miles from Nottingham's western edge and it is part of the Nottingham Urban Area. History and culture Ilkeston was probably founded in the 6th century AD, and gets its name from its supposed founder, Elch or Elcha, who was an Anglian chieftain ("Elka's Tun" = Elka's Town). The town appears as Tilchestune in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was owned principally by Gilbert de Ghent. Gilbert also controlled nearby Shipley, West Hallam and Stanton by Dale.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. pp. 753–4 Ilkeston was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linby Colliery Welfare F
Linby is a small village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. The nearest town is Hucknall which is immediately to the south-west. The village grew up around the mills on the River Leen, from which Linby's name is derived. Small streams known as Linby Docks run on both sides of the main street. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 232. History In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Linby: The local parish church is dedicated to St. Michael and is a Grade II* listed building. Containing a number of features which date to the 13th century, the church has been extended several times, including restorations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are two crosses in the village. The "Top Cross", a Grade II listed structure, is dated to the 14th century and was restored in the late 19th century. The "Bottom Cross" is inscribed with the date 1663, and may have been dedicated to the restoration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitwick Colliery F
Whitwick is a large village in Leicestershire, England, close to the town of Coalville in the northwest of the county. It lies in an ancient parish which formerly included the equally historic villages of Thringstone and Swannington. It was an important manor in the Middle Ages, which once included Bardon and Markfield, parts of Hugglescote, Donington le Heath, Ratby, Bocheston, Newtown Unthank and Whittington. As early as 1293, Whitwick had a weekly market and a four-day fair. The population of Whitwick, according to the 2001 census was 10,815 persons. 8,092 of these fell into the 16-74 working age range, although only 4,689 were employed. The population of the village at the 2011 census had fallen to 8,612. History One of the earliest mentions of the place, as ''Witewic'', is in the Domesday Book, the name of the settlement possibly meaning either ''guardhouse''"wite, v.2." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2020. Web. 13 February 2021."wic, n.2." OED Online. Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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