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Keswick Royals
Keswick may refer to: Places Australia *Keswick, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide **Keswick railway station, Adelaide **Adelaide Parklands Terminal (formerly Keswick Rail Terminal) Canada *Keswick, Edmonton, Alberta *Keswick, Ontario * Keswick, New Brunswick, on the Saint John River near Fredericton *Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick United Kingdom *Keswick, Cumbria *Keswick, North Norfolk, part of Bacton *Keswick, South Norfolk United States *Keswick, California *Keswick, Iowa *Keswick, Baltimore, Maryland *Keswick, Michigan * Keswick, Pennsylvania, see Keswick Theatre *Keswick, Virginia ** Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places People *Keswick family, descendants of the founders of Jardine Matheson Other uses *Keswick Christian School, Florida *Keswick Convention The Keswick Convention is an annual gathering of conservative evangelical Christians in Keswick, in the English county of Cumbria. The Christian theological tradition of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, South Australia
Keswick() is an inner south-western suburb of Adelaide, adjacent to the park lands, and located in the City of West Torrens. The suburb is home to the Keswick Barracks, the headquarters of the Royal District Nursing Service, the Keswick Cricket Club and Richmond Primary School. The Adelaide Parklands Terminal for interstate passenger trains, formerly known as Keswick Terminal, was within the boundary of the suburb until 1987 when, inclusive of adjacent business sites and covering a total area of , it was declared a suburb in its own right. History The area was inhabited by the Kaurna people before settlement by Europeans. Keswick railway station was opened on Sunday 6 April 1913. It serviced the local Adelaide train network before being eventually closed and demolished in March 2013. The District Headquarters of the 4th Military District, known as Keswick Barracks or "The Home of the Brass Hats", was completed in 1913, and was the first substantial Commonwealth building t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Iowa
Keswick is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 242 at the time of the 2020 census. History The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Keswick in 1879 The town is named for Keswick, England, the home town of a local woman who had offered lodging to the track-laying crew. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 246 people, 105 households, and 69 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 118 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.6% White, 1.2% Native American, and 1.2% from two or more races. There were 105 households, of which 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.5% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.7% had a male househol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Christian School
Keswick Christian School is a private, pre-Kindergarten-twelfth grade, Christian school in the outlying area of St. Petersburg, Florida. It was founded as Grace Livingston Hill Memorial School in 1953. It had an enrollment of around 650 students in 2007. It has an interdenominational student body, mostly of Protestant background. The campus spans , set among tall oak trees reminiscent of its once rural surroundings, and is about half of a mile outside Seminole, Florida, whose city council annexed the school into its city limits in 2000.Norton, Wilma (July 13, 2000). "School's Growth Concerns Neighbors." ''St Petersburg Times''. Retrieved April 9, 2007, from Lexis Nexis Academic. The school is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Founding Following a temporary location started with help from Roy Gustafson and her other friends at "the Baptist Church on 22nd Avenue South" in St. Petersburg in 1952, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Family
The Keswick family (pronounced with a silent "w", "Kezzick") are a business dynasty of Scottish origin associated with the Far East region since 1855 and in particular the conglomerate Jardine Matheson. As tai-pans of Jardine Matheson & Company, the Keswick family have at some time been closely associated with the ownership or management of the HSBC, the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd., the Canton Insurance Office Ltd, (now the HSBC Insurance Co), The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, Star Ferry, Hong Kong Tramway, the Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co Ltd, and the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co Ltd. First generation The Hon. William Keswick (1834–1912) The founder of the dynasty, William Keswick was born in 1834, in Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Lowlands. His grandmother, Jean Jardine Johnstone was an older sister of Dr. William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson & Company His father Thomas Keswick had married Margaret Johnstone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)
Keswick is a historic plantation house near Powhatan, in Chesterfield County and Powhatan County, Virginia, US. It was built in the early-19th century, and is an H-shaped, two-story, gable-roofed, frame-with-weatherboard building. It is supported on brick foundations and has a brick exterior end chimney on each gable. Also on the property are a contributing well house, a smokehouse, the circular "slave quarters," a kitchen, a two-story brick house, a shed, and a laundry. an''Accompanying photo''/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. History The builder and first owner of "Keswick" was Charles Clarke, who received a grant of 1,500 acres on the south bank of the James River in both Henrico and Goochland Counties (today Chesterfield and Powhatan Counties) sometime in the early eighteenth century. In the middle of the eighteenth century, Clarke married Marianne Salle (a member of one of the Huguenot families settled in Powhatan County). To house h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Virginia
Keswick is a Census-designated place in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, about six miles east of Charlottesville. Community Keswick has few businesses, and lacks a central business district. It is predominantly residential, with a mixture of large farms, estates, middle-income, and low-income housing. Since many of the parcels of land in Keswick are large, it is relatively undeveloped and retains its natural environment, which includes views of the Southwest Mountains. The drive through Keswick "has often been cited as one of the most scenic in America," writes the ''New York Times.'' Many of the estates were plantations in the 18th century. No major development took place in Keswick until the 1990s, and the development since then has been subject to strict scrutiny by Albemarle County officials. The town includeKeswick Hall a club and estate which includes a golf course. The town is also home tKeswick Vineyards a family owned and operated vineyard and winery. Oakland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Theatre
The Keswick Theatre is a privately owned theater in the Keswick Village section of Glenside, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Horace Trumbauer designed the exterior in the Tudor Revival Style, which has remained essentially unaltered. When opened it had 1,366 seats. The first performance was on Christmas Day in 1928 in a private event held for the Kiwanis Club. The Keswick Theatre opened to the public on December 27 with vaudeville and the film '' Glorious Betsy''. Shot as a silent film with some speaking sequences, the Keswick showed a silent version as the sound equipment was not yet ready. In 1955 the theatre was renovated to show CinemaScope films. The theatre operated until 1980. After closing it was threatened with demolition until a community group formed to re-open it as a live performance venue. During this period the Keswick presented performances by Fred Waring and the Young Pennsylvanians and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The venue also hosted performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Michigan
Bingham Township is a civil township of Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 2,425. The township is named for Kinsley S. Bingham, a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator and Governor of Michigan. Communities *Keswick was a small community that began in 1872 when Reverend John Lawrence moved here from Keswick, New Brunswick, Canada. A gristmill was built nearby, and a post office operated from September 1889 until November 1910. At its peak, Keswick's population was 200, but by 1910 it had dropped to 40. Today, only the Keswick Methodist Church (founded 1888) remains, located on County Road 633 (Old M-22) between Bingham and Suttons Bay. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 39.3 square miles (101.8 km2), of which 23.6 square miles (61.1 km2) is land and 15.8 square miles (40.8 km2) (40.06%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, Baltimore
Keswick is a residential neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. The area is mostly surrounded by, and sometimes considered a part of, the Roland Park Roland Park is a community located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb. The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. History J ... neighborhood. It also borders the Evergreen, Baltimore, Evergreen neighborhood to the north and Guilford, Baltimore, Guilford to the east. Keswick is delineated as south of West Cold Spring Lane, east of Kittery Lane, north of Overhill Road, and west of Stony Run stream. History The Roland Park Company purchased most of the land surrounding what is today Keswick. By 1915, Roland Park had been largely completed the company looked to purchase the Allen L. Carter property between St. Mary's Female Orphan Asylum and the Stony Run stream. During the 1920s and 1930s the Carter property was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick, California
Keswick is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California. Keswick sits at an elevation of . Its population is 188 as of the 2020 census, down from 451 from the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2), 96.41% of it land and 3.59% of it water. Demographics The 2010 United States Census reported that Keswick had a population of 451. The population density was . The racial makeup of Keswick was 389 (86.3%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 23 (5.1%) Native American, 6 (1.3%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 4 (0.9%) from other races, and 29 (6.4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14 persons (3.1%). The Census reported that 451 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 179 households, out of which 56 (31.3%) had children under the age of 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Railway Station, Adelaide
Keswick railway station was a station on the Adelaide-Wolseley line and served by Adelaide Metro Belair, Noarlunga and Tonsley line services. It was located in the inner western Adelaide suburb of Keswick, 3.8 kilometres from Adelaide station. History Keswick station was opened on 6 April 1913. Within months of opening, a station master was appointed to manage bulk goods business, including firewood and sand bricks. A ticket office was added in 1927. The station lay adjacent to Adelaide Parklands Terminal. The station was closed and demolished in March 2013 during the closure of the Noarlunga) and Tonsley lines, in preparation for the electrification of those lines. At the time of its closure, it was the only station on the Adelaide suburban system without wheelchair access, the steep terrain and sparse patronage being prohibitive. A new Adelaide Showground station south of the Keswick Bridge The Keswick Bridge carries the Anzac Highway over the Adelaide-Wolseley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
