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Gallows Hill (other)
Gallows Hill may refer to: Place names ;British Isles * Gallows Hill SSSI, Wiltshire, England, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire * Gallows Hill, Lower Brailes, Warwickshire, England, on the B4035 *Gallows Hill, Cratloe, County Clare, named for execution of rebels by Cromwellian forces here ''circa'' 1650 * Gallows Hill, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, place where Pendle witches were hanged *Gallows Hill, Otley, site of the gallows, now a nature reserve * Gallows Hill, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, place where 300 were hanged, 1570 * Gallow Hill Tain, Ross-shire, The last hanging took place in 1762 when, Katherine Ross, a young mother, was hanged for the murder of her child. In more recent times it was surmounted by a flagstaff but that has now disappeared. Today it is still occasionally used for rolling Easter Eggs and, when weather conditions permit, for sledging. ;United States * Gallows Hill, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania * Gallows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallows Hill SSSI, Wiltshire
Gallows Hill SSSI is a Site of Special Scientific Interest on the north side of the River Ebble, Ebble Valley in south Wiltshire, England. Its Calcareous grassland, chalk grassland and Shrubland, scrub contain a number of animal and plant species that are nationally rare. The site was notified in 1965. The site The site includes three areas of a series of slopes, with a range of aspects, on a long ridge of Lower, Middle, and Upper Chalk Group#Subdivisions, Chalk formations. The site lies in Alvediston parish and within the Cranborne Chase, Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Ordnance Survey National Grid, OS grid reference for the site is ST 952 244. Importance The site is important as an example of a species-rich downland habitat. This type of habitat has been reduced across the country because of changes in agricultural practice. The site is notable for (in the grassland areas) ''Festuca ovina'' (sheep's fescue), ''Avenula praten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging (14 women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five people died in jail. Arrests were made in numerous towns beyond Salem and Salem Village (known today as Danvers), notably Andover and Topsfield. The grand juries and trials for this capital crime were conducted by a Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 and by a Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, both held in Salem Town, where the hangings also took place. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of colonial North America. Only fourteen other women and two men had been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. The episode is one of Colonial America's most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galgenberg (other)
Galgenberg is a German name corresponding to the English "Gallows Hill". Galgenberg may refer to: * Galgenberg (Elbingerode), a hill near Elbingerode in the Harz Mountains of central Germany * Galgenberg (Heilbronn), a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Galgenberg (Lütte), a hill in Bad Belzig, Brandenburg, Germany * Galgenberg (Schwarzenberg), a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany * Galgenberg Formation, a fossiliferous geologic formation in Germany * Ouvrage Galgenberg, a portion of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line See also * Gallows Hill (other) Gallows Hill may refer to: Place names ;British Isles * Gallows Hill SSSI, Wiltshire, England, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire * Gallows Hill, Lower Brailes, Warwickshire, England, on the B4035 *Gallows Hill, Cratloe, County Clar ... * Venus of Galgenberg, a prehistoric figurine discovered in 1988 near Stratzing, Austria * {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallow Hill
Gallow Hill is one of the hills of the Sidlaw range in South East Perthshire, Scotland. At . Gallow Hill is located near Newbigging and is smaller than Craigowl Hill Craigowl Hill is a summit towards the eastern end of the Sidlaw Hills in Angus, Scotland. Northeast of Kirkton of Auchterhouse and approximately eight kilometres north of Dundee, Craigowl Hill represents the highest point in the range. It also .... References Mountains and hills of Angus, Scotland {{Angus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallows Hill (film)
''The Damned'', also known as ''Gallows Hill'', is a 2013 American horror film directed by Víctor Garcia. The film stars Peter Facinelli, Sophia Myles, Nathalia Ramos, and Carolina Guerra. The film features a family and group of friends stranded in a storm and looking to seek refuge in a house inhabited by an ancient evil presence. The film was produced by Peter Block, Andrea Chung, and David Higgins, and is a joint Colombian and American production. The film had its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival on October 17, 2014. and was released on video on demand on July 25, 2014, before a limited release by IFC Midnight on August 29, 2014. Plot American photographer David Reynolds and his British fiancee Lauren go to Colombia to persuade David's teenage daughter, Jill, to return to America so she can attend their wedding. They find her with David's former sister-in-law, Gina, a television reporter, and Gina's cameraman Ramón, whom Jill is dating. Annoyed that her fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallows Hill (novel)
''Gallows Hill'' (1997) is a supernatural thriller novel for young adults by Lois Duncan. It was her first and only young adult novel written after the death of her daughter. It was written eight years after her previous young adult novel, '' Don't Look Behind You''. It is about a girl who moves to a small town with a secret. Plot Sarah Zoltanne is an extraordinary girl. Her widowed mother, Rosemary, decides to move to Pinecrest because of Ted Thompson. When Sarah starts school as the new pupil, she makes no friends. Role-playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, who is posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions that can predict the future. Frightened, the other students brand her a witch, setting off a chain of events that mirror the centuries-old Salem witch trials in more ways than one. Reception ''Gallows Hill'' has received several honors and awards. In 1997, ''Gallows Hill'' was designated a Junior Library Guild Selection. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rocks, Sydney
The Rocks is a suburb, tourist precinct and historic area of Sydney's city centre, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, immediately north-west of the Sydney central business district. Boundaries The formal boundaries of the suburb named "The Rocks" cover the western side of Sydney Cove (Circular Quay) east of the Sydney Harbour Bridge approaches. In the north it extends to the southern base of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, in the east to the shoreline of Circular Quay and George Street, in the south to Jamison Street (thus including the area known as "Church Hill"), and in the west to southern approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Western Distributor overpass. History The Rocks became established shortly after the colony's formation in 1788. It was known as Tallawoladah by the Cadigal people. The original buildings were first traditional vernacular houses, of wattle and daub, with thatched roofs, and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tappan, New York
Tappan ( ) is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York. It is located northwest of Alpine, New Jersey, north of Northvale, New Jersey and Rockleigh, New Jersey, northeast of Old Tappan, New Jersey, east/southeast of Nauraushaun and Pearl River, south of Orangeburg, southwest of Sparkill, and west of Palisades; Tappan shares a border with each. The population was 6,673 according to the 2020 census. History Early history The Tappan tribe were a Lenape people who inhabited the region radiating from the Hudson Palisades and the New York – New Jersey Highlands at the time of European colonization in the 17th century. "Tappan" is derived from the Lenape word "tuphanne" thought to mean "cold water." The first Orange County courthouse was built in 1691 in Tappan, though by 1737, sessions alternated between Tappan and Goshen. The first school house in Rockland County was built in 1711 in Tappan. It was used as a school until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallows Hill, Pennsylvania
Gallows Hill is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Gallows Hill is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 412 Pennsylvania Route 412 (PA 412) is a north–south state route located in Northampton and Bucks counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its southern terminus is at PA 611 in the Nockamixon Township community of Harrow. Its northern termin ... and Stony Garden Road/Gallows Hill Road. Etymology The community's name was derived from an 18th-century traveler who hanged himself from a tree. References {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brailes
Brailes is a civil parish about east of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, England. It includes the two villages of Lower and Upper Brailes but is often referred to as one village as the two adjoin each other. The parish includes the village of Winderton about northeast of Brailes, and the deserted medieval village of Chelmscote about north of Brailes. The parish is bounded to the east by Ditchedge Lane and Beggars' Lane, which are a historic ridgeway that also forms part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire. The northeastern boundary is a minor road, part of which follows the course of a Roman road. The River Stour forms part of the southern boundary, and another part is formed by Sutton Brook, a tributary of the Stour. To the west, north and the remainder of the south the parish is bounded by field boundaries. Brailes is surrounded by hills. Upper Brailes is on the side of Brailes Hill, which at high is the fourth-highest point in Warwickshire. The east side of the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tain, Ross-shire
Tain ( Gaelic: ''Baile Dhubhthaich'') is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. Etymology The name derives from the nearby River Tain, the name of which comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'flow'. The Gaelic name, ''Baile Dubhthaich'', means 'Duthac's town', after a local saint also known as Duthus. History Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's oldest royal burgh, commemorated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The 1066 charter, granted by King Malcolm III, confirmed Tain as a sanctuary, where people could claim the protection of the church, and an immunity, in which resident merchants and traders were exempt from certain taxes. Little is known of earlier history although the town owed much of its importance to Duthac. He was an early Christian figure, perhaps 8th or 9th century, whose shrine had become so important by 1066 that it resulted in the royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripon, North Yorkshire
Ripon () is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city is noted for its main feature, Ripon Cathedral, which is architecturally significant, as well as the Ripon Racecourse and other features such as its market. The city was originally known as ''Inhrypum''. Bede records that Alhfrith, king of the Southern Northumbrian kingdom of Deira, gave land at Ripon to Eata of Hexham to build a monastery and the abbot transferred some of his monks there, including a young Saint Cuthbert who was guest-master at Ripon abbey. Both Bede in his Life of Cuthbert and Eddius Stephanus in his Life of Wilfred state that when Eata was subsequently driven out by Alhfrith, the abbey was given to Saint Wilfrid who replaced the timber church with a stone built church. This was during the time of the Anglian king ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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