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Kerswell , Devon
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Kerswell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Rich Kerswell (born 20th century), British fluid mechanics scientist * Sarah Kerswell (born 1965), British swimmer * Henry Grant Kerswell (born 1978), British Opera Singer Other uses * Kerswell, East Devon, a small village in Broadhembury parish, Devon, England ** Kerswell Priory, near the village of Kerswell, Devon * Kerswell Green, a village in Worcestershire, England * Kings Kerswell, alternative (older) spelling of Kingskerswell Kingskerswell (formerly Kings Carswell, or Kings Kerswell) is a village and civil parish within Teignbridge local government district in the south of Devon, England. The village grew up where an ancient track took the narrowest point across a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerswell Priory
Kerswell Priory (''alias'' Carswell) was a small Cluniac priory in the parish of Broadhembury in Devon, England. History According to the Ecclesiastical historian George Oliver (d.1861), the priory was founded between 1119 and 1129 as a cell of the Cluniac Montacute Priory in Somerset. However, according to the Devon historian Pole (d.1635), it was a cell belonging to the Augustinian Canonsleigh Abbey in the parish of Burlescombe, Devon. According to John Parker, the land was given to the church by Matilda Peverel, the daughter of Pagan (or Payne) Peverel of Sampford Peverell in Devon, a knight who fought in the First Crusade. The priory was valued at £2 1s 8d in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291–1292 when it held land in Kerswell, Monk Culm and Sampford Peverell(property which is now in the Parish of Holcombe Rogus).Dugdale During the 14th and 15th centuries as an alien priory it was seized by the crown during a period of wars in Aquitaine but was restored to the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerswell Green
Kerswell Green is a village in the Malvern Hills District of Worcestershire, England. It is within the civil parish of Kempsey. Kerswell Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed timber-framed, painted brick building dating from late medieval times and extended in the 17th century. The listing details show it as gable ended and with a thatched roof. St John the Baptist, Church of England was built circa 1884 as a chapel of ease or mission church to Kempsey parish church. It is closed for worship. On 23 July 1933 there was a dispute over the erection of a fence barring a footpath. Some parishioners wanted to enforce a claimed right of way Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another. A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ... but were met with determined opposition. The report in the ''Evesham Standard'' said two palings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Kerswell
Sarah Kerswell (born 6 August 1965) is a British swimmer. Kerswell competed in the women's 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She represented England in the individual medley events and the 400 metres freestyle, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References External links * 1965 births Living people British female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living people) Commonwealth Games competitors for England 20th-century British women {{UK-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Kerswell
Richard Kerswell FRS is a British fluid mechanics scientist and the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and was a mathematics professor in the University of Newcastle from 1992 to 1996 and in Bristol University from 1996 until he moved to the University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ... in 2017. at the University of Cambridge References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kerswell, Rich[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadhembury
Broadhembury is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England, north-west of Honiton. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Kerswell, Dulford, Crammer Barton, Colliton and Luton, all to the west of the village. According to the 2001 census the civil parish had a population of 654. ''Broadhembury'' is part of the electoral ward of Tale Vale. The total population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,514. It is within the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. History Broadhembury is set in the centre of a horseshoe of the hills of Hembury Fort and North Hill, which rise to 1000 feet and create a sheltered valley. Hembury Fort, a prehistoric hill fort dating from 3000 BC, was also used by the Romans. After the departure of the Romans, this area of Devon was sparsely occupied by the Celtic people. In those years Hembury Fort was called Handria. With the arrival of the Saxons, little wattle churches were built and the villagers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Grant Kerswell
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: ** Henry I of Castile ** Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
