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King's Wood (other)
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King's Wood may refer to ;in England: * King's Wood, Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire *King's Wood, part of the King's Wood and Urchin Wood SSSI, North Somerset *King's Wood School, Harold Hill, Essex *King's Wood, a forest near Molash, Kent *King's Wood, a wood at Micklefield, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire * King's Wood, Corby, a local nature reserve in Northamptonshire *King's Wood, on the Trentham Estate, Staffordshire and part of the King's and Hargreaves Woods SSSI ;other things: * King's Wood Symphony, a musical composition See also *Kingswood (other) Kingswood may refer to: Places Australia *Kingswood, New South Wales *Kingswood (Tamworth), New South Wales * Kingswood Park, New South Wales *Kingswood, South Australia Canada *Kingswood Music Theatre *Kingswood Drive Public School, an elementar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Wood, Heath And Reach
King's Wood is an area of ancient woodland in the parish of Heath and Reach in Bedfordshire, England. The wood lies north of the village of Heath and Reach and east of Great Brickhill and with neighboring Bakers Wood forms the largest area of ancient woodland in Bedfordshire. Much of the wood lies withiKings Wood and Rushmere National Nature Reserve jointly owned and managed by the Greensand Trust, Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, Central Bedfordshire Council and Tarmac Aggregates. Kings Wood and many parts of the National Nature Reserve are part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest named Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths, which also includes Rammamere Heath in Buckinghamshire and Shire Oak Heath in Bedfordshire. References See also *List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire *List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire is a county in south-east England, surrounded by Northamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Wood And Urchin Wood SSSI
King's Wood and Urchin Wood SSSI () is a 128.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the villages of Cleeve and Congresbury, North Somerset, notified in 1990. The site has long been renowned for its botanical interest and records date back to the County Flora of 1893. The woodland supports a particularly high diversity of vascular plants, including populations of the nationally rare plant Purple Gromwell ''(Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum)'' and the scarce Angular Solomon's seal ''(Polygonatum odoratum)''.English Nature citation sheet for the site . Retrieved 19 July 2006. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Wood School
King's Wood School was a secondary school in Harold Hill near Romford, London Borough of Havering, England. It was a mixed school of non-denominational religion. The School's last Headteacher was Mrs Marian Spinks, who had been the Headteacher since January 2008, returning from a secondment as Senior Inspector (Performance) with Havering Inspection and Advisory Service. History The school was originally opened in 1953-54 as Harrowfield Secondary Modern School (there were separate boys' and girls' schools). Because of falling roll numbers, in 1973 Harrowfield was merged with the nearby Quarles School to form the Neave Comprehensive School; by 1976, all Quarles pupils had moved to the Harrowfield site. King's Wood School was under special measures in 2004, but with the hard work of staff and students the school came out of special measures six months ahead of schedule and became a specialist technology college September 2007. Ofsted revisited the school to monitor progress and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molash
Molash is a civil parish and village in Kent, South East England. It contains a small part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - the North Downs - and is on the A252 road between Canterbury, Ashford and Faversham. Each of these is centred away. Geography Molash is a scattered semi-rural community buffered and characterised by its own farmland and a borderland forest called ''King's Wood'' almost all part of the higher, more wooded village, Godmersham, which was historically a royal hunting forest. The hunt was for deer, and a large herd of Fallow Deer still run free in the wood. The far south is well-marked and maintained as the Pilgrims' Way and North Downs Way pass through the forest as they follow the ridge of the North Downs. Amenities In the village, St. Peter's Church, built in the 13th century, with a Norman font and mostly 14th-century stained glass windows, was probably built on the site of an earlier church. The Yew trees in the churchyard are 2,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micklefield, High Wycombe
Micklefield is a ward of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, located on the eastern side of the town. Surrounded on one side by the Chiltern Hills and King's Wood, it neighbours the villages of Penn and Tylers Green, as well as being adjacent to Wycombe Marsh. Some points in the Micklefield area rise to an altitude of some 450 feet, and there are some great views over the Wycombe valley. Amenities include a Jet petrol station with an attached supermarket, a combined first and middle school (Ash Hill Primary School), and three churches – St Peter's (Church of England), Micklefield Christian Fellowship (Elim Pentecostal Church) and a Seventh-day Adventist church – and a shopping area next to a community library. The library was earmarked for closure by Bucks County Council, but was saved by a local campaign to keep it running. It has been awarded National Lottery grants to rebuild a larger library. In 2006, Micklefield was the subject of international media interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Wood, Corby
King's Wood is a 31.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Corby in Northamptonshire. It managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. More than 250 plant species have been recorded at this remnant of the Royal Forest of Rockingham, including ones characteristic of ancient woods including yellow archangel and wood anemone. There are diverse invertebrates such as green-veined white butterflies and common blue damselflies, and birds include treecreepers The treecreepers are a family (biology), family, Certhiidae, of small passerine Aves, birds, widespread in wooded regions of the Northern Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa. The family contains eleven species in two genus, genera, ''Certhia'' and ..., long-tailed tits, green woodpeckers and tawny owls. Access points include one at the junction of Danesholme Road and Gainsborough Road. References {{Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trentham Estate
The Trentham Estate, in the village of Trentham, is a visitor attraction located on the southern fringe of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. History The estate was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. At the time it was a royal manor, with a value of 115 shillings. An Augustinian priory originally occupied the site, followed by a convent. Trentham Priory occupied land on the Trentham estate from the 11th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Trentham Hall The property was sold in 1540 to James Leveson, a Wolverhampton wool merchant. The Leveson family occupied the property and Sir Richard Leveson built a new house in 1634. The Leveson heiress Frances married Sir Thomas Gower Bt leading to the creation of the Leveson Gower family. It was a large Elizabethan house, which was probably demolished to make way for a later Georgian house. Their son, Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet, built a new house on the site in 1690. Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Wood Symphony
''King's Wood Symphony'' is a musical composition by Matthew King, specifically designed to be performed in a large open, outdoor space and lasting approximately an hour. The original scoring is for a minimum of 19 French horns with electronics, percussion and wind-up gramophones. The electro-acoustic score (realised by the composer Nye Parry working in collaboration with Matthew King) consists of horn sounds, treated and altered electronically to suggest an ensemble of invisible and mysteriously ‘different’ horns. The gramophone installation (devised by composer Mike Roberts working in collaboration with Matthew King and students from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama) features sonic sculptures produced in workshops with children from two secondary schools - St Marylebone School for Girls, London and Norton Knatchbull School, Kent. The composition (commissioned jointly by Stour Valley Arts in Kent and the Wigmore Hall in London) draws on the historical connotations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
