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Loxley (other)
Loxley may refer to: Places * Loxley, Alabama, a town in the United States * Loxley, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Loxley, South Yorkshire, a village and a suburb of the city of Sheffield, England, traditionally the birthplace of Robin Hood ** River Loxley, a river in South Yorkshire * Loxley, Warwickshire, a village in England Buildings * Loxley Hall, an early-19th-century country house near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England * Loxley House, a Georgian building in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England * Loxley House, Nottingham, the administrative home of Nottingham City Council Organisations * Loxley PLC, a public company and one of largest trading conglomerates in Thailand People * Alicia Loxley (born 1981), Australian journalist and news presenter * Bert Loxley (1934–2008), English footballer and manager * John Loxley (1942–2020), Canadian economist See also * Lacksley Castell (1962–1984) (sometimes misspelled as Loxley Castell), Jamaican reggae singer * Low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxley, Alabama
Loxley is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 1,632. It is part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area. Loxley is becoming a popular location for the expansion of the suburbs from Daphne and Spanish Fort, Alabama, because it is served by an Interstate 10 exit and is almost directly between the cities of Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida. History 19th century In 1870, a man from Chicago by the name of John Loxley established a lumber camp in the area previously known as Bennet. The lumber camp included a commissary and saw mill. The men that traveled with Loxley settled in what later became the town of Loxley. John Loxley returned to Chicago when the lumber was exhausted. 20th century The train depot opened on May 5, 1906, on the Fort Morgan Line. Before that, there were only wagon roads to Bay Minette. Also in 1906, the Loxley post office was opened by Octavia Sauer. She served as the postmistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxley, South Yorkshire
Loxley is a village and a suburb of the city of Sheffield, England. It is a long linear community which stretches by the side of the River Loxley and along the B6077 (Loxley Road) for almost . Loxley extends from its borders with the suburbs of Malin Bridge and Wisewood westward to the hamlet of Stacey Bank near Damflask Reservoir. The centre of the suburb is situated at the junction of Rodney Hill and Loxley Road where the old village green stands and this is located north west of Sheffield city centre. The suburb falls within the Stannington ward of the City of Sheffield. Loxley was a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire under the jurisdiction of Wortley Rural District Council, until it became part of the City of Sheffield in the 1974 boundary changes brought on by the Local Government Act 1972. Today the suburb is within Bradfield Parish Council and consists almost exclusively of residential housing but it did have some industrial activity in the past. Much of the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Loxley
The River Loxley is a river in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its source is a series of streams which rise some to the north-west of Sheffield on Bradfield Moors, flowing through Bradfield Dale to converge at Low Bradfield. It flows easterly through Damflask Reservoir and is joined by Storrs Brook at Storrs, near Stannington, and the River Rivelin at Malin Bridge, before flowing into the River Don at Owlerton, in Hillsborough. The Loxley valley provided the initial course of the Great Sheffield Flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before its completion in March 1864. Water supply The upper river is marked by the presence of four large reservoirs, used for the impounding of drinking water. Drinking water for the people of Sheffield was provided by five small reservoirs on a site close to Langsett Road. Others were added as the population grew, but by 1830, they could not keep up with the demand. Sheffield Water Company became respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxley, Warwickshire
Loxley, Warwickshire, is a village and civil parish near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The population taken at the 2011 census was 399. Loxley gave its name to a hall of residence at the University of Warwick, within the Westwood campus. The settlement is first mentioned in the late 8th century, as King Offa of Mercia gave it to Worcester Cathedral. The Domesday Book records the community as including a resident priest. Ownership later passed to Kenilworth Abbey. The parish church was consecrated in 1286, built on the foundation of the earlier Anglo-Saxon church. In 1538, Loxley manor was owned by Robert Croft, later passing to the Underhill family and in 1664 to Edward Nash of East Greenwich. A village school was built in the 1830s. In the 1850s, the former parish lands were divided between seven farms. In 1910 the village had 59 households. As of 2011, there were 150 households with a total population of 399. While the Robin Hood is mostly associated with L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxley Hall
Loxley Hall is an early-19th-century country house near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, now occupied by a Staffordshire County Council special school for boys with learning difficulties. It is a Grade II* listed building. An early manor house on the site was owned by the Ferrers family and from the 14th century following the marriage of the Ferrers heiress, by a branch of the Kynnersley family (Sneyd-Kynnersley from 1815). In the 18th century a substantial mansion was built on the site, the main entrance front to the south having eleven bays, the central three bays pedimented, and two storeys with dormers. The east wing was of five bays. Alfred Tennyson wrote the Locksley Hall poems after a mansion of the same name in Staffordshire,The Parliament of Man, by Paul Kennedy former country house of Thomas Kynnersley. In the early 19th century the house was remodelled and enlarged. A third storey under a hipped roof was added and the east wing was extended to seven bays. See also *Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxley House
Loxley House is a Georgian building situated off Ben Lane in the Wadsley area of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade Two Listed building. Sheffield Council website. Gives details of listed buildings in Sheffield. History The present building was built in 1826 but the first house on the site was constructed in 1795 by the Reverend Thomas Halliday the Unitarian minister for . This original structure was an imposing building which stood at the head of a drive which led off Ben Lane. Halliday was something of a local entrepreneur who would later construct the Robin Hood Inn at Little M ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxley House, Nottingham
Loxley House is the administrative office of Nottingham City Council and an office base for the Department of Work and Pensions and Nottingham City Homes in the south of Nottingham city centre. It is situated opposite Nottingham railway station on Station Street. The Council acquired the building from Capital One Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean, Virginia with operations primarily in the United States. It is on the li ... in 2009 at a cost of £22.5 million and began moving staff there shortly afterwards. References Government buildings in England Buildings and structures in Nottingham {{Nottinghamshire-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Loxley
Alicia Loxley (née Gorey) is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Loxley is currently weekend news presenter on ''Nine News Melbourne'' and '' Nine Afternoon News Melbourne''. Career Loxley was born in Melbourne and made her first media appearance on Radio National's ''The Sports Factor''. From there she joined the ABC in Mildura. It was a stint as a reporter on Triple J radio that was the impetus for her move to Perth. Loxley presented her first ''ABC News'' bulletin in late 2003 and in 2005 she was appointed to the position of weekend news presenter on ''ABC News'' in Western Australia. In February 2006, she replaced Paul Lockyer as weeknight presenter of ''ABC News'' in Western Australia. In addition to presenting news each night, Loxley took on a new role at ABC Radio in mid-2007 where she hosted the statewide regional drive program on ABC Local Radio. Loxley resigned in May 2008 to move back to Melbourne and was replaced by Karina Carvalho. In July 2008, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Loxley
Herbert Loxley (3 February 1934 – 9 October 2008) was an English footballer and manager. As a player, Loxley spent the majority of his career at Notts County, where he played more than 250 first-team games as a wing-half. Loxley made his debut for the Magpies during the 1954–55 season. In 1964, he left Notts County, and had a brief spell on the books of Mansfield Town. Following a spell in non-league football, Loxley returned to the professional game in October 1966, when he joined Lincoln City as a member of the coaching staff. However, due to an injury crisis, Loxley had to resume his playing career, and played seven times for the Imps during the 1966–67 season. ''Lincoln City Official Site'', 10 October 2008. In 1970, Loxley was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Loxley
John Loxley (194228 July 2020) was a Canadian economist. Loxley obtained a doctorate in economics at the University of Leeds, completing his doctoral dissertation, ''The development of the monetary and financial system of the East African currency area 1950 to 1964'' in 1966. He began teaching at the University of Manitoba in 1977. Over the course of his career, Loxley was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, received the Distinguished Academic Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT; french: Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université, ACPPU) is a federation of independent associations and trade unions representing approximately 70,000 teachers, l ... in 2008, followed by the Progressive Economists' Forum's 2008 Galbraith Prize in Economics and Social Justice. In 2019, the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues at the Manitoba office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Altern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacksley Castell
Lacksley Castell, sometimes misspelled Laxley, Lacksly, Lasky or Locksley Castel (10 April 1959 – November 1983) was a Jamaican reggae singer best known for his work in the early 1980s. Biography Lacksley Castell was born in 1959, (although some sources claim 1962.) The third of five brothers, Castell grew up on Dilliston Avenue in Kingston's Waterhouse district,Campbell, Howard (2019)Castell does ode to brother, ''Jamaica Observer'', 22 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019 the area also home to artists such as Black Uhuru and The Travellers; Castell recorded in what was known as the "Waterhouse style". He became friends with Hugh Mundell who helped both him and his friend Junior Reid to get started in the music business. That resulted in Castell's first single releases in 1978, "Babylon World" and "Love in Your Heart", recorded with Augustus Pablo. In 1979, he recorded "Jah Love Is Sweeter" at Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark Studios, which was a pre-release reggae chart hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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