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Monkton And Prestwick , Wiltshire
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Monkton may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom *Monkton, Devon, England *Monkton, Kent, England *Monkton, Pembroke, Wales * Monkton, South Ayrshire, Scotland * Monkton, Tyne and Wear, England * Monkton, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ;Canada * Monkton, Ontario ;United States *Monkton, Maryland *Monkton, Vermont People * Edward Monkton See also *Moncton (other) *Monckton (other) *Monkton, Brisbane, a heritage-listed house *Monkton House *Monkton Combe, Somerset, UK *Monkton Combe School, Somerset, UK *Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire *Monkton Heathfield, Somerset *Bishop Monkton and Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire *West Monkton, Somerset *Winterborne Monkton, Dorset *Winterbourne Monkton Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about north of Avebury Stone Circle and northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton, Devon
Monkton is a village and civil parish on the River Otter, about 2 miles north east of Honiton railway station, in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 169. The parish touches Cotleigh, Upottery, Honiton, Offwell and Luppitt. The parish is in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Features There are 5 listed buildings in Monkton. History The name "Monkton" means 'Monks' farm/settlement' and is likely to have been of Ango-Saxon origin. The parish was historically in the Colyton hundred. On the 24th of March 1884 an area from Combe Raleigh Combe Raleigh () is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England. The village lies about 1.5 miles north of the town of Honiton, and the parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Luppitt, Honiton Honito ... parish was transferred to the parish. The transferred area contained 4 houses in 1891. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton, Brisbane
Monkton is a heritage-listed timber-framed domestic house at 7 Ardoyne Road, Corinda, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Elina Mottram and built in 1925 for William and Margaret Dunlop. It is designed by Elina Emily Mottram, who was the first woman in Queensland to establish her own architectural practice. It is historically significant because of its association with the entry of women into the local professions in Queensland, especially so into the architectural profession. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 July 2008. Monkton is located at the northern end of Ardoyne Road at Corinda. It has a symmetrical front that comprises double-sided gables that face the road on both sides of a projecting porch. Bay windows flank either sides of the porch. These architectural qualities are significant as they are still intact in form and detailing of a timber residence. Monkton has been described as having a focus on utility and comfort, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Monkton
West Monkton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north east of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district. The parish includes the hamlets of Monkton Heathfield, Bathpool, and Burlinch and the western parts of Coombe and Walford, and had a population of 2,787 at the 2011 census. History The charter for West Monkton was given to Glastonbury Abbey by the Saxon king Centwine in 682. The monks from the abbey gave the village its name Monkton, and it was called West as being west of the other estates of the abbey. The parish of West Monkton was part of the Whitley Hundred. After the dissolution of the monasteries the manor was granted to William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester, passing in 1616 to the Warres of Hestercombe and in 1872 to Viscount Portman of Orchard Portman. Milling at Bathpool in the River Tone had a chequered history. There had been a mill at this location for several centuries, which had been rebuilt or adapted as required. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nun Monkton
Nun Monkton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated northwest of York at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Nidd. Cottages and houses are grouped around a village green of with a duck pond and a maypole. The Ouse is navigable for another and river traffic played an important part in the village's life until the middle of the twentieth century. Until 1974 Nun Monkton was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. History Some sort of settlement has probably existed since the earliest times. The name "Monkton" appears to reflect a pre-Viking or Anglian settlement in the 8th and 9th centuries. The village is mentioned in the late 11th-century ''Domesday Book'' where it is referred to – like most villages in northern Yorkshire – as ''vastatus'' i.e. deliberately wrecked by the invading Normans to prevent uprisings against them. Medieval Benedictine nunnery A hermitage or small monastic settlement may have existed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Monkton
Bishop Monkton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, about five miles south of Ripon. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 775, increasing slightly to 778 at the 2011 Census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 760. Main features of the village include a beck which runs through the centre of the village, two churches (St John the Baptist of Eand a Methodist church), a newly built village hall and playing fields, a primary school, two pubs and two caravan sites. It is within easy reach of Ripon and Harrogate (via the A61). Leeds and York are both less than an hour's drive. Littlethorpe and Burton Leonard are the nearest villages. History The settlement is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the then Archbishop of York. The name ''Monucheton'' predates the survey (listed in 1030) as the ''Town of the monks''. It is thought that 13th century, the archbishop resided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton Heathfield , Wiltshire
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Monkton may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom *Monkton, Devon, England *Monkton, Kent, England * Monkton, Pembroke, Wales * Monkton, South Ayrshire, Scotland * Monkton, Tyne and Wear, England * Monkton, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ;Canada * Monkton, Ontario ;United States *Monkton, Maryland *Monkton, Vermont People * Edward Monkton See also *Moncton (other) *Monckton (other) *Monkton, Brisbane, a heritage-listed house *Monkton House *Monkton Combe, Somerset, UK *Monkton Combe School, Somerset, UK *Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire *Monkton Heathfield, Somerset *Bishop Monkton and Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire *West Monkton, Somerset *Winterborne Monkton, Dorset *Winterbourne Monkton Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about north of Avebury Stone Circle and northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton Farleigh
Monkton Farleigh is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, on high ground northwest of Bradford-on-Avon, and a similar distance east of the city of Bath. The parish includes the hamlets of Farleigh Wick and Pinckney Green. In the west and northwest the parish is bounded by Somerset. It is known for its underground mines of Bath Stone, which were converted into one of the largest Ministry of Defence underground ammunition stores in the country. History The Roman road from Silchester to Bath, and later earthworks which may be part of Wansdyke, run east–west and form the northern boundary of the modern parish. Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a settlement of 24 households, and land held by Brictric and his brother Alwy. The manor passed to the Bohun family, and was held by Humphrey I de Bohun around 1120. The Bohuns founded the Priory of St Mary Magdalene thereafter, and it had a church by c.1150. In the early 13th century the priory was rebuilt with a larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton Combe School
(Thy Word is Truth) , established = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , founder = The Revd Francis Pocock , head_label = Head Master , head = Christopher Wheeler (Senior School), Catherine Winchcombe (Prep School) , colours = Red, white, blue , enrolment = 711 (all three schools from September 2015) , gender = Coeducational , lower_age = 2 , upper_age = 18 , city = Monkton Combe, near Bath , county = Somerset , country = England , postcode = BA2 7HG , faculty = , free_label_1 = Former pupils , free_1 = Old Monktonians , free_text = , information = , houses = Eddystone (MSS Boys) Farm (MSS Boys) Grange (MSS Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton Combe
Monkton Combe is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in north Somerset, England, south of Bath, Somerset, Bath. The parish, which includes the Hamlet (place), hamlet of Tucking Mill, had a population of 554 in 2013. It was formerly known as Combe, owing to its geography, while it was also known as Monckton Combe and Combe Monckton until last century. History The pre-Saxon history of Monkton Combe is poorly recorded. It lay close to the Roman road from Bath to London, which has prompted the construction of a Roman villa in Combe Down. More activity is noted in the Sub-Roman Britain, sub-Roman period, when it formed the end of the western section of the protective Wansdyke (earthwork), Wansdyke, which had been designed to protect Somerset from Saxon invasion. Combe was settled and cultivated by the Anglo-Saxon period, when it formed part of the Hundred (county subdivision), hundred of Bath Forum (hundred), Bath Forum. It was probably given to Bath Abbey, along w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton House
Monkton House in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England is a Grade II* listed 16th-century house. History In the 12th century Cluniac monks of the Order of Saint Benedict founded a monastery at Monkton Farleigh, acquiring land in the neighbourhood. On the Dissolution of the Monasteries the priory and abbey land, including the manor of Monkton, were given to Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford. Seymour leased it in 1600 to Edward Long, son of a wealthy Wiltshire clothier, Henry Long of Whaddon. Edward had already purchased the manor of Rood Ashton three years before. Long later bought the house on 15 May 1615 and left it to his two sons Edward and John, who occupied it in succession. John appears to have carried out an extensive building programme in or around 1647 (marked by a plaque on the wall of the house) involving repairs, alterations, re-roofing and an extension on the eastern side. A chimney-piece with heavy carving, believed to be part of an altar tomb from Monkt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monckton (other)
Monckton is an English surname. People * Bridget Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland (1896–1982) * Christopher J. Monckton (born 1954), musician, distant cousin of the Viscounts of Brenchley * Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 1952), UKIP politician * Edward Monckton (1744–1832), Staffordshire politician and landowner * Edward Monckton (North Northamptonshire MP) (1840–1916) * Francis Monckton (1844–1926), politician, from the Viscounts of Galway family * John Monckton (1955–2004), murdered financier, cousin of the Viscounts of Brenchley * John Monckton (swimmer) (1938–2017), Australian swimmer * John Monckton (town clerk) (1832–1902), Town Clerk of London, father of Lionel Monckton * John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway (1695–1751) * George Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (1805–1876) * George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway (1844–1931) * George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (1882&nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkton, Kent
Monkton is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. The village is located at the south-west edge of the Isle of Thanet and is situated mainly along the B2047 road, leading off the A253 road between Canterbury and Ramsgate. The civil parish stretches south to the River Stour and northwards towards Acol. The hamlet of Gore Street is included in the parish. Community Monkton was subject to an explosion during 2007, and was largely evacuated as a result. Kent Fire and Rescue Service said that crews were faced with "a well developed fire in a large single-storey building", which was among the largest in the village. Monkton Nature Reserve, run by the environmental charity, Thanet Countryside Trust, is situated on chalk hills to the north of the village. The reserve is set in a abandoned chalk quarry which has been reclaimed by nature. It is notable for its geology and many important habitats, a pond and rare orchids. It also houses the Thanet Astronom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
