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Cockerton
Cockerton is an area, or township, of north-west Darlington in the borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The Cocker Beck flows through the area and empties into the River Skerne via The Denes, an area and string of valleyed parks donated for the town in the early 20th century. It is also near Mowden, Branksome, West Park and Faverdale. Etymology The -''ton'' of ''Cockerton'' is from Old English ''tūn'' 'estate'; the ''cocker-'' element is less certain but seems to have been a Cumbric river-name, still represented as the name of Cocker Beck. Allen Mawer, ''The place names of Northumberland and Durham'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), s.v.; Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html). Cockerton Village The original village layout, known still as "Cockerton Village", rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faverdale
Faverdale is a suburb of Darlington in County Durham, England. It is situated in the north west of Darlington, north of Cockerton. The area was rural until the 20th century, a large wagon works was established in the 1920s, with housing development starting at the same time. The wagon works closed in the 1960s and further industrial and commercial development took place expanding from the brownfield site. As of 2012 the area has a mixture of industrial, residential and rural land use. Geography The modern suburb is bounded by the former Stockton and Darlington Railway (now part of the Tees Valley Line, also known as the Bishop Auckland branch line) to the east, and by the defunct Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway (later known as 'Darlington & Tebay branch') to the south. The A1(M) road marks the extreme western fringe of the area. The area is between above sea level.Ordnance Survey, 1:25000, c.2000; 1:10000, 1991 As of 2012 the area contain a mixture of housing (southwes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Park, Darlington
West Park is an affluent residential area at the North West fringe of Darlington, County Durham, England. West Park is designed as a sustainable community development, consisting of residential properties, commercial properties, and a multi award winning nature reserve. It is one of the most recent developments in Darlington, having commenced in 2002. The site covers 49 hectares (121 acres) of land, consisting of: * 37 hectare West Park Village: at least 700 residential properties, a mix of commercial properties, and other facilities. * 12 hectare West Park Nature Reserve: the first new park to be created in Darlington in the last 100 years. * A hospital West Park Hospital, opened 2004. * A school, 'West Park Academy', opened 2005. The West Park development has won several national awards, including a Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Sustainable Communities Award, and a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Gold Award For Regeneration. Geography and demographic Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwent substantial industrial development, spurred by the establishment there of the world's first permanent steam-locomotive-powered passenger railway: the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Much of the vision (and financing) behind the railway's creation was provided by local Quaker families in the Georgian and Victorian eras. In the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 92,363 (the county's largest settlement by population) which had increased by the 2020 estimate population to 93,417. The borough's population was 105,564 in the census, It is a unitary authority and is a constituent member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority therefore part of the Tees Valley mayoralty. History Darnton Darlington started as an Anglo-Saxon settlement. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branksome, County Durham
Branksome is a suburb of Darlington in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north-west of the town, close to Mowden, Cockerton, West Park and Faverdale. It is largely made up from council owned properties and service buildings started in the late 1940s through to the 1970s. Although some of the council built houses and flats have been sold to tenants since the 1980s under the government 'right to buy' scheme, many are still retained as rented properties by the Housing Department of Darlington Borough Council (unitary authority). This management situation was consulted on in 2003-04 and the Housing Dept. retained management after consultations with tenants throughout the borough who expressed a desire to remain under local authority management rather than the alternatives. It lies in the Cockerton West Ward of the Darlington Borough and elects two councillors every four years. Adjacent to Branksome on the Northern side lies the old Darlington to Barnard Castl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darlington School Of Maths And Science
Wyvern Academy is a coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ... secondary school with academy status, located in the Branksome area of Darlington, County Durham, England. It schools pupils aged 11 to 16, and is the default school for most residents living in the Branksome/Faverdale/Cockerton areas of Darlington. The school was originally known as Branksome Comprehensive School until renamed the Darlington School of Maths and Science in 2011. History In 1977, the school was used as the location for an edition of We Are the Champions (TV series). In 2009, the school was officially designated as a Science and Mathematics College. The school converted to academy status in January 2012. In 2011, the school was renamed from Branksome Comprehensive School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Denes
The Denes is a centrally located area of Darlington in the borough of Darlington, County Durham,England. It consists mainly of semi-detached and 1900s terraced housing, surrounding valley areas of wooded public park and Cocker beck. The area runs parallel to and between Woodland Road to the south and Brinkburn Road to the north from Cockerton to High Northgate. At the easterly end the southerly border is often judged around Corporation Road, by local estate agent descriptions. The area is close to Faverdale and Mowden. Geography The Denes is one of the most heavily populated areas of the Darlington Borough due to the close proximity of 1900s terraced streets, 1930s semis and new build housing. The Denes has pleasant surroundings due to the wooded/beck area which runs from Hopetown lane (to the east) and West Auckland Road (to the west). Parks There are six parks in this area which are called 'The Denes', sometimes known locally as the following:- *Tennis Dene - adjacent to De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mowden, County Durham
Mowden is an area of west Darlington in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. Nearby areas include Hummersknott to the south, Branksome to the north and Cockerton to the north-east. Houses here date back to the 1960s. The area has a pre-school, primary school, a row shops and two local pubs, thMowdenand the Model T. Former rugby ground Mowden was previously home to Darlington Mowden Park Rugby Club. In late 2012, the Club sold their ground at Yiewsley Drive to a housing developer and relocated to The Darlington Arena, a 25,000 all-seater stadium which was previously owned by Darlington Football Club. Mowden hall Mowden Hall is a Victorian hall designed by Alfred Waterhouse for the Pease family, it is located on Staindrop Road. The hall was one of multiple buildings built for notable Quaker families in Darlington, another example being Polam Hall (now home to Polam Hall School). John Beaumont Pease bought the farmland in the 1840s on which Mowden Hall stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Mawer
Sir Allen Mawer (8 May 1879 − 22 July 1942) was an English philologist. A notable researcher of Viking activity in the British Isles, Mawer is best known as the founder of the English Place-Name Society, and as Provost (education), Provost of University College London from 1929 to 1942. Early life Allen Mawer was born at Bow, London, on 8 May 1879. He was born the second child and eldest son of five children, to George Henry Mawer of South Hackney and Clara Isabella Allen. His father was a commercial traveller in fancy trimmings and secretary of the Country Towns' Mission. Mawer's parents were of strong religious feeling who valued education. Through them, he acquired an abiding love for literature and history, and early knowledge of Ancient Greek, Greek and Latin. Education Mawer entered Coopers' Company and Coborn School, Coopers' Company Grammar School at the age of ten, where he won a scholarship at the end of his first term. In 1897 he sat as an external candidate for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hummersknott School
Hummersknott Academy is a secondary school in Darlington in the north east of England. It schools approximately 1,250 pupils aged eleven to sixteen. It has had specialist Language College status since 2005 and holds accreditations for Artsmark Silver, Eco-schools Silver, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents silver award for Health and Safety and an International School Award. History The school began as the Darlington High School for Girls in 1955, a girls' grammar school. It was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 15 November 1955. In 1968 it was reorganised by the then Darlington County Borough to form one of six 11–16 co-educational comprehensive schools, with the Boys' Grammar School becoming a sixth form college nearer the town centre and near to the College of Technology, now known as QE (Queen Elizabeth). New build In July, 2007 a £15 million scheme to demolish and replace some school buildings and renovate others was initiated. The bulk of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel RC Technology College
Carmel College (formerly Carmel RC College) is a secondary school on ''The Headlands'' in Hummersknott, Darlington, England. It also has a sixth form, Carmel College Sixth Form admitting about 150 students each year. Following an OFSTED inspection in 2013, Carmel was graded as outstanding in all categories. It is part of the Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust (formerly Carmel Education Trust) which includes 35 schools in the North East Region. The current principal is Melanie Kane. Admissions Carmel College is the town's only Catholic secondary school. It has four main feeder schools at Primary level. These are St Teresa's RC Primary, St Bede's RC Primary, St Augustine's RC Primary and Holy Family RC Primary. There is also another school, Abbey Road Junior School, which feeds Carmel; although this school is not Catholic, it is local to Carmel. Carmel also has a sixth form. Carmel College has eight forms which consist of C, A, R, M, E, L and J, P (from former Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blockbuster Inc
Blockbuster LLC, formerly known as Blockbuster Video, was an American-based provider of home video and video game rental services. Services were offered primarily at video rental shops, but later alternatives included DVD-by-mail, streaming media, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. Previously operated by Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., the company expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of 9,094 stores and employed approximately 84,300 people: 58,500 in the United States and 25,800 in other countries. Poor leadership and the impact of the Great Recession were major factors leading to Blockbuster's decline, as was the growing competition from Netflix's mail-order service, video on demand, and Redbox automated kiosks. Significant loss of revenue occurred during the late 2000s, and the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010. The following year, its remaining 1,700 stores were bought by satellite television pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton. A coral "group" is a colony of very many genetically identical polyps. Each polyp is a sac-like animal typically only a few millimeters in diameter and a few centimeters in height. A set of tentacles surround a central mouth opening. Each polyp excretes an exoskeleton near the base. Over many generations, the colony thus creates a skeleton characteristic of the species which can measure up to several meters in size. Individual colonies grow by asexual reproduction of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning: polyps of the same species release gametes simultaneously overnight, often around a full moon. Fertilized eggs form planulae, a mobile early form of the coral polyp which, when m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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