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Stour Catchment
Stour may refer to: * River Stour (other), several rivers * HMS Stour (1905), HMS ''Stour'', a Royal Navy River-class destroyer purchased in 1909 * Stour class destroyer, ''Stour''-class destroyer, the sub-class of Royal Navy destroyers of which HMS ''Stour'' was the lead ship * Stour (narrowboat), ''Stour'' (narrowboat), a canalboat at the Black Country Living Museum, England See also * East Stour (other) * Papa Stour * Stour Brook * Stour Row * Stour Valley (other) * West Stour (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Stour (other)
River Stour may refer to: *River Stour, Dorset, a river in the English county of Dorset *River Stour, Kent, a river in the English county of Kent, and its upper reaches and tributaries: **River East Stour **River Great Stour **River Little Stour *River Stour, Suffolk, a river in the English counties of Suffolk and Essex *River Stour, Warwickshire, a river in the English county of Warwickshire *River Stour, Worcestershire, a river in the English county of Worcestershire *Stour Brook, in Suffolk and Essex, England *Stour River, in New Zealand See also *Stour (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Stour (1905)
HMS ''Stour'' was a Laird-type River-class destroyer purchased by the Royal Navy under the 1908 – 1909 Naval Estimates in December 1909. Named after the River Stour in West Central England near the city of Birmingham, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy. Construction Built on speculation, she was laid down on 5 December 1904 at the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead and launched on 3 June 1905. She was purchased and completed in December 1909. Pre-War Upon commissioning she was assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla of the 1st Fleet based at Harwich. She remained until displaced by a ''Basilisk''-class destroyer by May 1912. She went into reserve assigned to the 5th Destroyer Flotilla of the 2nd Fleet with a nucleus crew. On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. The ships of the River class were assigned to the E class. After 30 September 1913, she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stour Class Destroyer
Two ''Stour'' class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. They were built by Cammell Laird in 1905 and purchased by the Admiralty in 1909 to replace losses. and displaced 570 tons, were 220 feet long and their Normand boilers generated 7,000 HP to produce 26 knots. They were armed with four twelve pounders and two torpedo tubes. They carried 134 tons of coal and 66 tons of oil. They served in home waters during the Great War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ... and were sold off in 1919. References * {{River class destroyer (1903) Destroyer classes Ship classes of the Royal Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stour (narrowboat)
The ''Stour'' is an all-wooden motor narrow boat powered by a Bolinder 11 kW diesel engine. It was built as a tar tanker in 1937 by Fellows Morton & Clayton at their Uxbridge dockyard for fuel oil carriers Thomas Clayton Ltd of Oldbury. The hull has oak planked sides, elm bottoms, and a pine deck with a fully fitted traditional boatman's cabin. It was one of a large fleet of all wooden boats used by that Company for liquid cargo carrying, the main hold area being fully decked over. When new, it would have carried refined fuels such as gas oil for powering machinery but was later used for carrying heavier lubricating oil from the fuel distribution plants on the Manchester Ship Canal. It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, in Dudley, where it is based and can be seen dockside in the Lord Ward's Canal Arm at the museum. The Stour is on the '' National Historic Ships National Historic Ships UK is a government-funded independent organisation that advises UK gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Stour (other)
East Stour may refer to: *East Stour, Dorset, a village in the English county of Dorset *East Stour, Kent The River East Stour is one of the tributary, tributaries of the River Stour, Kent, Great Stour in Kent. The East Stour, 10.3 miles (16.5 km) long, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papa Stour
Papa Stour ( sco, Papa Stour) is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s. Located to the west of mainland Shetland and with an area of 828 hectares (3.2 square miles), Papa Stour is the eighth largest island in Shetland. Erosion of the soft volcanic rocks by the sea has created an extraordinary variety of caves, stacks, arches, blowholes, and cliffs. The island and its surrounding seas harbour diverse populations of wildlife. The west side of the island is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and the seas around the island are a Special Area of Conservation. The island has several Neolithic burial chamber sites, as well as the remains of Duke Hakon's 13th-century house dating from the Norse occupation of the island. The population reached 380 or more in the nineteenth century, when a fishing station was opened at Crabbaberry in West Voe. Subsequently, ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stour Brook
Stour Brook is a river that starts north west of the town of Haverhill, Suffolk just over the Cambridgeshire border in the parish of West Wickham. After leaving Haverhill, it quickly joins the River Stour by the village of Wixoe, Essex. During its course through Haverhill, most of the natural channel of this river has been replaced with a concrete channel. Course The brook rises in the hills just east of West Wickham in Cambridgeshire, only half a mile to the south of the source of the River Stour. It flows east for around ⅔ of a mile (1 km) before crossing into Suffolk and turning south east. It passes alongside the parish church of St Mary at Withersfield, before continuing to Haverhill, where it follows the course of the former railway track through the town centre, though a portion of it has been culverted. It then passes the old railway station at Sturmer and flows into the River Stour only 50 yards or so after it has begun to mark the border between Essex and Suffolk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stour Row
Stour Row is a village in north Dorset, England, situated beside Duncliffe Hill southwest of Shaftesbury. It lies within the parish of the neighbouring village of Stour Provost. Stour Row has approximately 150 houses and 300 residents. It has a village hall, which is used to run regular social events. Today it has few other amenities, but it had a petrol station, pub and shop prior to the early 1980s. It has a church, All Saints, which was built in 1867 but which has now closed due to falling congregation numbers. The last service was held in the church on 15 October 2015. Stour Row lies within the SP7 postcode area on the edge of the Blackmore Vale. History Stour Row developed as a small hamlet along the Shaftesbury to Marnhull road, some west of Shaftesbury. Originally, known as Stower Row, it was part of the manor of Stour Provost which itself is mentioned in the Domesday Book simply as ‘Stur’. The manor and lands of Stower had been granted to Eton College by Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stour Valley (other)
Stour Valley may refer to *The valley of one of the various Stour rivers *Stour Valley Line *Stour Valley Railway *Stour Valley Walk * Stour Valley Path *Stour Valley Way The Stour Valley Way is a long-distance footpath in southern England. From Stourton, Wiltshire, the path travels southeast through Dorset to Hengistbury Head near Christchurch. The path uses public rights of way and permissive paths to foll ... * Stour Valley Community School {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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