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Eyre
Eyre may refer to: Name *Eyre (given name) *Eyre (surname) Places Australia National *Eyre Highway, a highway connecting South Australia and Western Australia South Australia * Eyre Peninsula (other) *Eyre, South Australia, a suburb * Lake Eyre (other) Western Australia *Electoral district of Eyre *Esperance Plains, biogeographic region of Australia also known as Eyre Botanical District *Eyre Bird Observatory * Eyre Telegraph Station Elsewhere * Eyre, Raasay, a location in Highland, Scotland *Eyre, Saskatchewan, Canada *Eyre, Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland *Eyre Creek (other) *Eyre Hall, home of the Eyre family in Virginia *Eyre River (other) *Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland *Leyre (river), France Other uses *Eyre (legal term), in medieval England *Jane Eyre (other) See also *Eyre legend, about the Eyre/Ayre family *Eyre Methuen, a publishing company *Éire, island of Ireland *Ayre Ayre ( ; gv, Inver Ayre) is one of the six s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Highway
Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highways 1 and A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first European to cross the Nullarbor by land, in 1840–1841. Eyre Highway runs from Norseman in Western Australia, past Eucla, to the state border. Continuing to the South Australian town of Ceduna, it then crosses the top of the Eyre Peninsula before reaching Port Augusta. The construction of the East–West Telegraph line in the 1870s, along Eyre's route, resulted in a hazardous trail that could be followed for interstate travel. A national highway was called for, but the federal government did not see the route as important enough until 1941, when a war in the Pacific seemed imminent. The highway was constructed between July 1941 and June 1942, but was trafficable by January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Legend
Eyre is a surname with legendary origin from the Norman conquest of England. Origin The legend of the person who was the founder of the Eyre and Ayre families, and who was supposedly previously known by the surname "Truelove" (or "True Love"), is a story that appears in genealogies. However, there is no definitive historical evidence confirming the existence of this person. After the battle William told him "thou shalt hereafter instead of Truelove be called Eyre because thou hast given me the ''air'' I breathe." Truelove the "Eyr" or "Heyr" was granted land in Derby as a reward for his services, together with a Coat of Arms featuring "a human leg in Armour couped at the thigh quarterly argent and sable spurred", in reference to the sacrifice of his limb. Some of these features may persist in one of the current Eyre coats of arms, which features three gold quatrefoils on a black chevron with a white background. Another variation of the story of the origin of the Eyre crest is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre (surname)
Eyre is a surname with legendary origin from the Norman conquest of England. Origin The legend of the person who was the founder of the Eyre and Ayre families, and who was supposedly previously known by the surname "Truelove" (or "True Love"), is a story that appears in genealogies. However, there is no definitive historical evidence confirming the existence of this person. After the battle William told him "thou shalt hereafter instead of Truelove be called Eyre because thou hast given me the ''air'' I breathe." Truelove the "Eyr" or "Heyr" was granted land in Derby as a reward for his services, together with a Coat of Arms featuring "a human leg in Armour couped at the thigh quarterly argent and sable spurred", in reference to the sacrifice of his limb. Some of these features may persist in one of the current Eyre coats of arms, which features three gold quatrefoils on a black chevron with a white background. Another variation of the story of the origin of the Eyre crest is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Eyre (other)
''Jane Eyre'' is a novel by Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre may also refer to: *Jane Eyre (character), the novel's protagonist Film and television adaptations * ''Jane Eyre'' (1910 film), starring Irma Taylor * ''Jane Eyre'' (1921 film), starring Mabel Ballin * ''Jane Eyre'' (1934 film), starring Virginia Bruce * ''Jane Eyre'' (1943 film), starring Joan Fontaine * ''Jane Eyre'' (1956 TV series), starring Daphne Slater * Jane Eyre (1963 TV series) ''Jane Eyre'' is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1963. It is an adaptation of the 1847 novel of the same title by Charlotte Brontë. Episodes 2 and 3 are missing, believed lost. Cast * Ann Bell as Jane Eyre * Richard ..., starring Ann Bell * ''Jane Eyre'' (1970 film), starring Susannah York * ''Jane Eyre'' (1973 miniseries), starring Sorcha Cusack * ''Jane Eyre'' (1983 TV serial), starring Zelah Clarke * ''Jane Eyre'' (1996 film), starring Charlotte Gainsbourg * ''Jane Eyre'' (1997 film), starring Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Hall
Eyre Hall is a plantation house located in Northampton, Virginia, close to Cheriton, and owned by the Eyre family since 1668. The property is one of the state's best preserved colonial homes with gardens among the oldest in the United States. The plantation was placed on the National Register on November 12, 1969. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on March 2, 2012. History The property where Eyre Hall is located was first patented to the three sons of Thomas Eyre I in 1668 and included . A tract was purchased by Littleton Eyre, a great grandson of Thomas, in 1754 with the purpose to build a family seat and a working plantation. Eyre reported holding 106 enslaved Africans that year; some of them were moved to the plantation. The original structure built in 1760 was a -square structure and was a 2½ story wooden home. The house was expanded, an intermediary section was raised to two stories in 1790 and a two-story unit was added in 1807. The house was modernized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Bird Observatory
Eyre Bird Observatory is an educational, scientific and recreational facility in the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, Western Australia. Cocklebiddy is the nearest locality on the Eyre Highway, to the north. It is in the Hampton bioregion, which is sandwiched between the Nullarbor Plain to the north and the Great Australian Bight to the south, in one of the least populated places on the Australian continent. It was established in 1977 by Birds Australia in the disused Eyre Telegraph Station as Australia's first bird observatory, to provide a base for the study and enjoyment of the birds of the area. Western Australia's official lowest temperature of −7.2 °C (19.0 °F) was recorded at Eyre Bird Observatory on 17 August 2008. History During their nearly journey overland from Adelaide to Albany in 1841, 26-year-old Edward John Eyre and his party - companion John Baxter and three Aboriginal men - found fresh water beneath a coastal sand dune, and camped there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Eyre
Eyre was an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It was in existence for three separate periods (1950 to 1962, 1989 to 2005, and 2008 to 2017), on each occasion covering large portions of south-eastern Western Australia. Eyre was a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party in its first two incarnations, but during its third incarnation was a marginal seat between the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), Liberal Party and the National Party of Australia (WA), National Party. History Eyre was first created for the 1950 Western Australian state election, 1950 election, mostly replacing electoral district of Kanowna, Kanowna, and abolished ahead of the 1962 Western Australian state election, 1962 election. Labor MP Emil Nulsen, the former member for Kanowna, was the district's only member over the period, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Square
Eyre Square (; ga, An Fhaiche Mhór, also known as John F. Kennedy Memorial Park) is a city public park in Galway, Ireland. The park is within the city centre, adjoining the nearby shopping area of William Street and Shop Street. Galway railway station is adjacent to Eyre Square. The park is rectangular, surrounded on three sides by streets that form the major traffic arteries into Galway city centre; the west side of the square was pedestrianised in 2006. History The origin of the square comes from medieval open space in front of a town gate, known as the Green. Markets mostly took place in the northern part of the space. The earliest endeavour to formally enclose it was recorded in 1631. Some ash-trees were planted and the park was enclosed by a wooden fence. The plot of land that became Eyre Square was officially presented to the city in 1710 by Mayor Edward Eyre, from whom it took its name. In 1801, General Meyrick erected a stone wall around the square, which was later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyre (river)
The Eyre is a coastal river that flows through the Landes of Gascony, in Aquitaine, southwest France. The river is generally presented as the confluence of: * the Grande Leyre (''Large Leyre''), its principal course, upstream from Moustey * the Petite Leyre (''Small Leyre''), its main tributary The combined watercourse Eyre-Grande Leyre is long. Name ''Eyre'' is an Aquitanian hydronym. It can be found in such names as '' Eyres-Moncube'', Landes, or the ' (''Eyron ditch'') in Lacanau, Gironde. Note that ''Leyre'' is a variant of the name ''Eyre'', affected by an agglutination of the Romance article. Geography The basin of the Eyre in included in the parc régional des Landes de Gascogne (''National Park of the Moors of Gascony''). The river takes form in the ''Plantiet Marsh'', in ''Grande Lande'' near Sabres, Landes. It flows north into the Bassin d'Arcachon, a large bay on the Atlantic coast, in the Pays de Buch, Gironde. Its delta of contains the Le Teich ornitholog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Telegraph Station
The Eyre Telegraph Station is a building on the remote south coast of Western Australia, on the Great Australian Bight. Built in 1897 of local limestone, it is a substantial one-storey structure, with a wide timber-framed verandah and a corrugated iron roof, that housed a telegraph repeater station on the line between Adelaide, South Australia, and Albany, Western Australia. It is now within the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, below the Nullarbor Plain escarpment, and is surrounded by mallee woodland and sand dunes. The station is south of Cocklebiddy, close to "Eyre’s Sand Patch", the site where explorer Edward John Eyre found water and rested for three weeks in 1841 during his epic 3200 km overland journey along the coast of the Great Australian Bight. The building replaced an earlier and less substantial wooden one built when the telegraph was first constructed in 1875–1877. It would have been manned by a Telegraph Master with one or more assistants. After operating for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre, Isle Of Skye
Eyre ( gd, Eighre) is a settlement on the eastern shore of Loch Snizort Beag on the northern coast of Skye in Scotland. The two Eyre standing stone A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright rock (geology), stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. T ...s ( gd, Sornaichean Coir' Fhinn) are situated next to Loch Eyre. It is said that there was once a third stone here, although there is now no trace. References External links Canmore - Eyre, Skye site record Populated places in the Isle of Skye {{Highland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre (legal Term)
An eyre or iter, sometimes called a general eyre, was the name of a circuit travelled by an itinerant justice in medieval England (a justice in eyre), or the circuit court over which they presided, or the right of the monarch (or justices acting in their name) to visit and inspect the holdings of any vassal. The eyre involved visits and inspections at irregular intervals of the houses of vassals in the kingdom. The term is derived from Old French ''erre'', from Latin ''iter'' ("journey"), and is cognate with errand and errant. Eyres were also held in those parts of Ireland under secure English rule, but the eyre system seems to have largely gone into abeyance in Ireland at the end of the thirteenth century, and the last Irish eyre was held in 1322. Eyre of 1194 The eyre of 1194 was initiated under Hubert Walter's justiciarship to restore royal justice following the anarchy of Prince John's rebellion. Within two months, justices on eyre had visited every shire in England. The Arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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