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Killingworth (other)
Killingworth is a town in North Tyneside, England. Killingworth may also refer to: Places *Killingworth Village, a village in North Tyneside, England *Killingworth, New South Wales, Australia * Killingworth, Connecticut, United States People with the surname * Boyd Killingworth (born 1992), Australian rugby union player *Grantham Killingworth Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist. Life A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effecte ... (1699–1778), English Baptist controversialist See also * Killingsworth (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killingworth
Killingworth, formerly Killingworth Township, is a town in North Tyneside, England. Killingworth was built as a planned town in the 1960s, next to Killingworth Village, which existed for centuries before the Township. Other nearby towns and villages include Forest Hall, West Moor and Backworth. Many of Killingworth's residents commute to Newcastle or to its surrounding area. Killingworth has also developed a sizeable commercial centre, with bus links to the rest of Tyne and Wear. The town is not on the Tyne and Wear Metro network; its nearest stations are Palmersville and Benton. The town of Killingworth in Australia is named after the British original because of its extensive coal mines; it lies west of Newcastle, New South Wales, so-named for the same reason. Culture Killingworth was used as a filming location for the 1973 BBC sitcom ''Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?'', with one of the houses on Agincourt on the Highfields estate featuring as the home of Bob a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killingworth Village
Killingworth Village is a small village in the borough of North Tyneside in the United Kingdom. It lies between Forest Hall to the south and the modern Killingworth, which derives its name from the village, to the north. The West Lane runs through the village from Forest Hall and on to Backworth. For local government, it is located within Killingworth ward. St John's Church Until the mid nineteenth century the village was part of Longbenton parish, but became a parish in its own right in 1865. Four years later, in 1869, Killingworth parish church was built; it was designed by London architect Bassett Keeling, and named St John's after John the Evangelist. The walls are built of sandstone, adorned with red bands, and the roof is Slate industry in Wales, Welsh slate. The building cost £2032 (or roughly £250,000 in 2021 Pound sterling, sterling). It was inaugurated on 28 December 1869, one day after St John's feast day. File:Killingworth Village St John 2.jpg, St John's Churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killingworth, New South Wales
Killingworth is a small town located south of West Wallsend, New South Wales and east of the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. It is part of the West Ward of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area in Greater Newcastle. History Killingworth owes its origins to coal mining, which took place there from 1888 until the Great Depression, when it ceased for a time, and thereafter until the great slump in the industry in the 1960s. Caledonian Collieries Limited purchased the original unworked shafts at Killingworth in 1895 and continued its sinking to a depth of 880 feet. Two seams were subsequently mined, production commencing at Killingworth Colliery in October 1897. It was renamed West Wallsend Extended Colliery about 1915, although large K C letters continued to adorn the engine rooms. Their coal was shipped via its own branch which connected with the main private railway from Seahampton and West Wallsend to the government's main line at Cockle Creek. A huge gas explosion occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killingworth, Connecticut
Killingworth is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 6,174 at the 2020 United States Census. History Killingworth was established from the area called Hammonasset, taken from the local Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe of the same name. The area originally incorporated the area of the present town of Clinton, Connecticut, Clinton, which was separated from Killingworth along ecclesiastical borders in 1838.Killingworth Historical Society :File:Killingworth ct historical town sign1.jpg, Town of Killingworth Historical Sign, 1981 Part of New London County, Connecticut, New London County prior to May 1785, Killingworth was then included in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Killingworth
Boyd Killingworth (born 6 April 1992) is an Australian professional rugby union player. He completed his high school education at The King's School, Parramatta in Sydney's west. He represents Australia in Sevens Rugby. Born in Collaroy, NSW and playing for Warringah Rats at a club level, he debuted for Australia in December 2015. As of December 2019, he currently has 20 caps. Boyd played every game for the North Harbour Rays in the 2015 National Rugby Championship The 2015 National Rugby Championship (known as the Buildcorp National Rugby Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of Australia's National Rugby Championship, involving nine professional rugby union teams from around Austra .... In Rugby Sevens, the Sydneysider also represented New South Wales in the National Sevens Championship in March 2015, helping his side win the title at the Sydney Academy of Sport in Narrabeen. Representative Honours include NSW 7s (2015), NRC North Harbour Rays (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantham Killingworth
Grantham Killingworth (1699–1778) was an English lay Baptist controversialist. Life A grandson of Thomas Grantham, he was born in Norwich. He was a layman, and a personal friend of William Whiston, whom he supplied with evidence of cures effected through "prayer, fasting, and annointing with oyl" by a Unitarian Baptist minister, William Barron (died 7 February 1731, aged 51).Alexander Gordon, ‘Killingworth, Grantham (bap.1698, d. 1778)’, rev. Emma Major, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 4 June 2014/ref> Killingworth died in 1778, leaving an endowment to the Priory Yard General Baptist chapel, in Norwich. Works Killingworth wrote on the perpetuity of baptism, against Thomas Emlyn; in favour of adult baptism, against John Taylor, and Michajah Towgood; and on close communion, against James Foster, John Wiche, and Charles Bulkley Charles Bulkley (1719–1797) was an English Baptist minister. Life The fourth son of Thomas Bulkle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
