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Cooper's Hill (other)
Cooper's Hill or Cooper Hill may refer to: * Cooper's Hill, Bedfordshire, UK, a site of Special Scientific Interest * Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, Gloucestershire, UK **Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake an annual event in Brockworth * Cooper's Hill, near Englefield Green, Surrey, UK * Cooper's Hill (football ground), a former football ground in West Bromwich, once occupied by West Bromwich Albion F.C. * Royal Indian Engineering College, known colloquially as Cooper's Hill * ''Cooper's Hill'', a 1642 poem by John Denham (poet), John Denham * Cooper Hill, Missouri, a community in the United States {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper's Hill, Bedfordshire
Cooper's Hill is an biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ampthill in Bedfordshire. It was notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in 1984, and the planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council. A smaller area of 12.7 hectares is also a Local Nature Reserve, Part of the site is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. The site is described by Natural England as the best surviving example in Bedfordshire of heathland on the thin acidic soils of the Lower Greensand Group, Lower Greensand Ridge. It also has areas of marsh and woodland. There is access from Alameda Road and Station Road. References External links Wildlife Trust of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire website {{Coord, 52.027, -0.503 , type:landmark, display=title Local Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper's Hill, Brockworth
Brockworth is a village and parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, situated on the old Roman road that connects the City of Gloucester with Barnwood. It is located southeast of central Gloucester, southwest of Cheltenham and north of Stroud. The population taken at the 2011 census was 7,387. The population increased to 9,422 at the 2021 Census. Since the mid-20th century, Brockworth has been known locally for the annual rolling of Double Gloucester cheese down Cooper's Hill. During World War II the nearby village of Hucclecote at the Gloster Aircraft Company produced the famous Hawker Hurricane#Production, Hawker Hurricane fighter, and following the war it gained renewed fame for producing several notable aircraft, including Britain's first Gloster Meteor, jet aircraft, which was test flown here. Brockworth is also the birthplace of actor, comedian and writer Simon Pegg. Governance An Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling And Wake
The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Bank holiday#In the United Kingdom, Spring Bank Holiday at Brockworth, Gloucestershire#Cooper's Hill, Cooper's Hill, at Brockworth near Gloucester, England. Participants race down the long hill chasing a wheel of Gloucester cheese, Double Gloucester cheese. It is uncertain when the tradition first began, and is possibly much older than its earliest known written attestation in 1826. The event has a long tradition, held by the people of the village, but now people from a wide range of countries take part in the competition as well. ''The Guardian'' in 2013 called it a "world-famous event," with winners coming from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States. The event is called ''Cheese-Rolling and Wake'' because it includes the cheese rolling race itself, and the festive gathering that follows. The word "wake" can mean an annual festival and holiday, originally one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Englefield Green
Englefield Green is a large village in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, approximately west of central London. It is home to Runnymede Meadow, The Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial, The Savill Garden,and Royal Holloway, University of London. The village grew from a hamlet in the 19th century, when much of Egham ( to the east) was sold by the Crown Estate. History The village grew from a hamlet (place), hamlet and medieval farmed swathe of land, known as a tithing, of the same name, combined with was a much wider, that is eastern tranche of its area associated with the former Great South West Road and its neighbouring land known as ''Egham Hill'', both in Egham in the 19th century, when much of its land, principally in the western half, was parted with by sale from the Great Park in the Crown Estate. Parts of it in the west remain Crown Estate, mainly the entire south-east quarter of the Great Park (that non-built-up land seen in the map, shown, which is not in neighb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper's Hill (football Ground)
From their formation in 1878 as West Bromwich Strollers, until their move to The Hawthorns in 1900, West Bromwich Albion F.C. occupied five different grounds. All of these early grounds were close to the centre of West Bromwich. List of grounds Cooper's Hill The club's first groundCooper's Hillwas situated between Walsall Street and Beeches Road.Matthews (1987) pp233–234 The site is now occupied by St Philip's Church. Dartmouth Park From 1879 to 1881, Albion played additionally at Dartmouth Park, appearing to alternate between here and Cooper's Hill during this time. A local pub, the Globe Inn on Reform Street, served as the teams' changing rooms. Bunn's Field Albion's third ground was at Bunn's Field. The ground became known as The Birches, and the team played there for a single season in 1881–82. With a capacity of between 1,500 and 2,000,''Full Throstle'' DVD 0:06:37 it was their first enclosed ground, allowing the club to charge an entrance fee for the first time.Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Indian Engineering College
The Royal Indian Engineering College (or RIEC) was a British college of Civil Engineering run by the India Office to train civil engineers for service in the Indian Public Works Department. It was located on the Cooper's Hill estate, near Egham, Surrey. It functioned from 1872 until 1906, when its work was transferred to India. The college was colloquially referred to as Cooper's Hill and I.C.E. College (I.C.E. being an acronym for Indian Civil Engineering). History A Public Works Department was created in India in 1854, with responsibility for the construction of roads, canals and other civil engineering projects. It experienced difficulties in recruiting suitably qualified staff from the United Kingdom, and in 1868 a scheme was proposed for a dedicated training college in England. The chief advocate of this scheme, and effective founder of the college, was Sir George Tomkyns Chesney. The India Office bought the Cooper's Hill estate for £55,000 in 1870; and the college was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Denham (poet)
Sir John Denham Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier, who wrote an acclaimed pastoral epic in his poem ''Cooper's Hill''.'Denham, 1615-1668', in S. Johnson, ed. P. Cunningham, ''Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'', 3 vols (John Murray, London 1854), Ipp. 67-78(Google). During the Civil War he served the Royalist cause in various capacities, enjoying the trust and favour of Charles I of England, Charles I and Henrietta Maria and assisting in their embassies and secret correspondence. Having lost most of his estates by sequestration for delinquency (in supporting the royal cause) and through a disposition to gambling, at the Restoration he recovered his fortunes, and became Office of Works, Surveyor of the King's Works (between the terms of office of Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren). The happiness of his last years was tainted by his young wife's adulterous affair with the Duke of York, whom Denham had per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
