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Holme St Cuthbert School
Holme St. Cuthbert School is a primary school which serves the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in the county of Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately one-and-a-quarter miles north-east of the village of Mawbray, the largest settlement in the parish, and twenty-three miles south-west of the city of Carlisle, Cumbria's county town. As of the 2018-19 academic year, there were sixty-two pupils enrolled in the school. This is just short of the school's capacity of sixty-six pupils. The current headteacher is Mrs Lynn Carini, who took over from Mrs Sheila Daniel in 2014. History The school was founded in 1845, the same year as the parish church which is next door. Both are constructed from locally quarried sandstone, though recent additions to the school are built from more modern building materials. In 1995, the school celebrated its 150th anniversary. The school was rated as "outstanding" by school regulator Ofsted following an inspection in 2007, the highest poss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holme St Cuthbert - Geograph
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Newtown, Allerdale
Newtown is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately two miles north-east of the village of Mawbray, a little over half-a-mile as the crow flies to the south-east of Beckfoot, and twenty-five miles west of the city of Carlisle. The B5300 coast road runs approximately three-quarters of a mile to the west of the hamlet, which goes to Maryport, nine-and-a-quarter miles to the south-west, and Silloth-on-Solway, approximately four miles to the north. History and etymology Newtown was first recorded in a 1538 survey of the Manor of Holm Cultram, and in the past has been known as New Mawbray. The name "Mawbray" comes from the Old English ''mæge-burh'', meaning "the maidens' stronghold", or "maidens' castle", and the "New" prefix was added to distinguish the settlement from its namesake. Additional variant spellings include New Mawbrough, Newton, Newtowne, and Newtowene. The hamlet was created after the sea shifted sands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Schools In Cumbria
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Fellow Of The Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Fellow, Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wilson (English Academic)
William Wilson Royal Society, FRS Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, FHAS (1 March 1875 – 14 October 1965) was a leading figure in academic circles. He was born at Goodyhills, in the Abbeytown, Abbey Holme district of Cumberland in 1875. He was educated at the Holme St Cuthbert School, village school at Holme St Cuthbert, Cumberland, before attending the Aspatria Agricultural College, Aspatria, Cumberland. Early years William Wilson was born at Goodyhills, in the Abbeytown, Abbey Holme district of Cumberland in 1875; the eldest of eleven children to be born to William Osmotherley Wilson and his wife Isabella. William had taken his middle name from his grandmother who was a member of a prominent Quaker family which can trace their ancestry back to Ranulph de Osmundwerlaw and Agnes de Langrigg in the thirteenth century. He began his education at the Holme St Cuthbert School, village school at Holme St Cuthbert, Cumberland, where he excelled. On the recommendation of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigton
Wigton is a market town in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies just outside the Lake District in the borough of Allerdale. Wigton is at the centre of the Solway Plain, between the Caldbeck Fells and the Solway coast. It is served by Wigton railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, and the A596 road to Workington. The town of Silloth-on-Solway lies to the west, beyond Abbeytown. Etymology Wigton is "Wicga's tūn". "Wicga" is an Old English pre-7th-century personal name meaning "a beetle" (as in "earwig"), while "tūn" is Old English for a demarcated plot, a "homestead" or "village", so Wigton is "the hamlet belonging to Wicga". History On the River Wampool and Wiza Beck ( beck being a dialect word meaning "brook" or "stream" – from the Old Norse ''bekkr''), the market town of Wigton is an ancient settlement and evolved from a pre-medieval street plan, which can still be traced today. The Romans had a cavalry station, Maglo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Thomlinson School
The Nelson Thomlinson School is a comprehensive secondary school located in the market town of Wigton, Cumbria, England. The school's motto is the Latin phrase ''Fide et Operis'', "Faith and Works". The position of Headteacher has been occupied by David Samuel Northwood since September 2011, after the former head, Janet Downes, retired at the end of the previous academic year. Students As with many older British Secondary schools, The Nelson Thomlinson School has a prefect system drawn from the Sixth Form. However, instead of one Head Prefect or a Head Boy & Girl pair, there are five Head Prefects who each take charge on a particular day of the week. Former pupils of the school include TV presenter Melvyn Bragg and BBC newsreader Anna Ford. There were approximately 1400 pupils aged 11–18 attending Nelson Thomlinson as of the 2014-15 academic year. Catchment area Most pupils at Nelson Thomlinson are from Wigton and the smaller communities within a few miles of the town wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silloth-on-Solway
Silloth (sometimes known as Silloth-on-Solway) is a port town and civil parish in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the county of Cumberland, the town is an example of a Victorian era, Victorian seaside resort in the Northern England, North of England. Silloth had a population of 2,932 at the 2001 Census, falling slightly to 2,906 at the 2011 Census. Location It sits on the shoreline of the Solway Firth, north of Workington and west of Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle. The town of Maryport lies south, down the B5300 road, B5300 coast road which also passes through the villages of Blitterlees, Beckfoot, Mawbray, and Allonby. Wigton is east, along the B5302 road, which also passes through the village of Abbeytown, southeast. History Silloth developed in the 1860s onwards around the terminus of the railway from Carlisle and associated docks which had begun construction in 1855 to replace Port Carlisle as the deep-water por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solway Community Technology College
Solway Community School is a mixed secondary school located in Silloth in the English county of Cumbria. It is a comprehensive community school administered by Cumberland Council. Solway Community School offers GCSEs and vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils. The school previously held specialist status as a Technology College In the United Kingdom, a Technology College is a specialist school that specialises in design and technology, mathematics and science. Beginning in 1994, they were the first specialist schools that were not CTC colleges. In 2008, there were 59 ..., and was called Solway Community Technology College during this period. Notable former pupils * John O'Neil, former rugby player References External linksSolway Community School official website Secondary schools in Cumberland (unitary authority) Community schools in Cumberland (unitary authority) Silloth {{Cumbria-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salta, Cumbria
Salta is a hamlet in the parish of Holme St Cuthbert in northwestern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is southwest of the village of Mawbray, and southwest of the city of Carlisle. It has a population of about 35 people. Salta can only be accessed from the lane from Mawbray, which goes on to join the B5300 coast road, although two public bridleways provide access over the fields from Hailforth and Mawbray. The hamlet consists of mainly bungalows, and a farm is still in operation in the vicinity. A caravan park, Manor House Park, is situated across the Moss to the southeast, to the southwest of the hamlet of Edderside. The settlement's name is derived from "sēalt-tir", meaning "salt land" in Old English, as during Anglo-Saxon times, salt making was a major industry on the Solway Plain. Fortified during the Roman period, in the 1550s, Salta participated in a system called "seawake", a night watch to guard the coast against incursions across the Solway by the Scots. Salta Moss w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodyhills
Goodyhills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert, in northern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located 1.5 miles east of the village of Mawbray, and 23 miles west of the city of Carlisle. A quarter of a mile to the north-west is the parish seat of Holme St Cuthbert, where the local primary school and parish church are located, and half a mile to the south-east is the small hamlet of Jericho. At nearby Newtown, there is a farm park and tea room called the Gincase. Goodyhills has no nearby public transport links; the closest railway station is at Aspatria, and the closest stop on a regular bus service is on the B5300 coast road at Mawbray. William Wilson, noted English academic, was born in Goodyhills in 1875, and attended nearby Holme St Cuthbert primary school. He attained his PhD at Leipzig University in Germany in 1902, and went on to become a lecturer at King's College, London. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923, and ended his career at Bedfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community School (England And Wales)
A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate. The formal use of this name to describe a school derives from the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.School Standards and Framework Act 1998 Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Board School 
In the mid-19th century, government involvement in schooling consisted of annual grants to the
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