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Newdegate Agri Station
Newdigate is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England. Newdigate or Newdegate may also refer to: * Newdigate (surname), for people with that name (both spellings) * Newdigate Prize, a prize for English verse awarded to University of Oxford students * Newdigate baronets, a Baronetage of England * Newdegate, Western Australia, a town * Electoral division of Newdegate The Electoral division of Newdegate was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1946, when the three-member seat of Hobart was split to create three single-member seats, to 1999, when it was abolishe ..., an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia See also * Newdigate-Reed House, near Maysville, Kentucky * * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newdigate
Newdigate is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley borough of Surrey lying in a relatively flat part of the Weald to the east of the A24 road between Dorking and Horsham, ESE of Guildford and south of London. Neighbouring parishes are Charlwood, North Holmwood, South Holmwood, Leigh and Capel. History Etymology The name of Newdigate refers to a place at the gate or path to a wood. Surviving manuscripts such as manorial rolls, Assize Rolls and Feet of Fines give forms including Newdegate (13th century), Newedegate and Neudegate (15th century) and Nudgate (16th century). The name ''Ewood'' (''Iwode'' in Feet of Fines 1312) occurs in the parish and might derive from Old English for a forest of yew-trees, in which case the 'N' survives from a prefix such as 'in' (''O.E.'' 'on') or 'at the' (''O.E.'' 'be þane'). Alternatively, the word may refer to a 'New wood'. Early history In early history Newdigate was at the western heart of the Weald a much more dense w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newdigate (surname)
Newdigate (also spelled Newdegate) is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the name Newdigate include: * John Newdigate (1600–1642), English politician * Roger Newdigate (1719–1806), English politician and collector of antiquities * Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet (1602–1678), MP for Tamworth, 1660 * Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet (1644–1710), MP for Warwickshire, 1681–85 and 1689–90 * Richard Newdigate (1679–1745), MP for Newark-on-Trent, 1710–15 * Sebastian Newdigate (1500–1535), Carthusian monk Notable people with the name Newdegate include: * Charles Newdigate Newdegate (1816–1887), British politician * Edward Newdegate (1825–1902), British general * Francis Newdegate (1862–1936), British Conservative politician, Governor of Tasmania and Western Australia * Francis FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry Francis Humphrey Maurice FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry (17 December 1921 – 15 February 2000), was a British peer who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newdegate, Western Australia
Newdegate is a townsite in the Great Southern agricultural region, 399 km south-east of Perth and 52 km east of Lake Grace in Western Australia. The townsite was gazetted in 1925 and honours Sir Francis Newdegate, the Governor of Western Australia from 1920 to 1924. The Department of Agriculture and Food operates one of its 13 research stations in the area of Newdegate. Newdegate is situated in the heart of the south-eastern wheatbelt of Western Australia – about halfway between Perth in the west and Esperance in the south-east. It is a very successful grain and sheep farming area. Newdegate is central to the Western Mallee subregion of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia. It is a sparsely populated subregion with an area of about . The local hall was opened in 1926 by Mr. B Carruthers from Lake Grace. A gold reef was found to the north east of town the same year. In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Newdegate
The Electoral division of Newdegate was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1946, when the three-member seat of Hobart was split to create three single-member seats, to 1999, when it was abolished since the Council was reduced from 19 to 15 seats. It took its name from Francis Newdegate, a former Governor of Tasmania. Members See also *Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions The Tasmanian Legislative Council has fifteen single member constituencies, called divisions. Current divisions The fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions as of the 2016-17 redistribution are:''Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries A ... ReferencesPast election results for Newdegate {{DEFAULTSORT:Newdegate Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1999 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
