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Oulton, West Yorkshire
Oulton is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England, between Leeds and Wakefield. It is at the junction of the A639 and A642 roads. Though now adjoining the village of Woodlesford, it was once quite separate. The village formed part of the Rothwell Urban District until its merger into the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in 1974 and today sits in the Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council. It is also in the Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency. Oulton Hall was built in 1850 and is now a hotel and conference centre. Notable and former residents * Richard Bentley theologian, critic and scholar, who became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. * The cricketer and Anglican clergyman Henry Bell was born in Oulton. * Francis Ingram slave trader and privateer. File:Oulton Edrus Tailor 2016.jpg, Half-Timbered house on the Leeds Road, Oulton File:Oulton The Three Horseshoes 2016.jpg, Three Horseshoes inn, Oulton File:Oulton M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oulton Aberford Road 2016
Oulton may refer to: Places *Oulton, Cumbria, England *Oulton, Norfolk, England * Oulton, Norbury, in Norbury, Staffordshire, England * Oulton, Stone Rural, Staffordshire, England *Oulton, Suffolk, England *Oulton, West Yorkshire, England *Oulton Dyke, Suffolk, England Persons * Brian Oulton (1908–1992), English character actor *Derek Oulton (1927–2016), British senior civil servant *Michael Oulton (born 1959), Anglican Bishop of Ontario *Thérèse Oulton (born 1953), English painter *Walley Chamberlain Oulton (1770?–1820?), Irish playwright and theatre historian *Wilfrid Oulton (1911-1997), RAF officer See also *Oulton Broad North railway station, Suffolk * Oulton Broad South railway station, Suffolk *Oulton College, Canadian private post secondary college situated in Moncton, New Brunswick * Oulton Estate, former house and grounds in Cheshire - containing **Oulton Park, Motor racing circuit *Oulton Hall, West Yorkshire *Oulton Park, motor racing track in Little Budworth, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred". Bentley's ''Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris'', published in 1699, proved that the letters in question, supposedly written in the 6th century BCE by the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, were actually a forgery produced by a Greek sophist in the 2nd century CE. Bentley's investigation of the subject is still regarded as a landmark of textual criticism. He also showed that the sound represented in transcriptions of some Greek dialects by the letter digamma appeared also in Homeric poetry, even though it was not represented there in writing by any letter. Bentley became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700. His aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Places In Leeds
City of Leeds, West Yorkshire is a large city in England that includes several separate towns and villages and many other identifiable areas. Divisions of Leeds The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council. The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, as is a postcode-to-ward tool. Leeds is represented by eight Members of Parliament. Since boundary changes made before the 2010 general election, the constituencies are Elmet and Rothwell, Leeds Central, Leeds East, Leeds North East, Leeds North West, Leeds West, Morley and Outwood (three out of five wards) and Pudsey. The constituency boundaries coincide with ward boundaries, so that each constituency comprises four or five complete wards; the Morley and Outwood constituency includes three Leeds wards and two Wakefield wards. Leeds City Council divides the city into ten "Management areas" (Inner and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GENUKI
GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphasis on primary sources, or means to access them, rather than on existing genealogical research. Name The name derives from "GENealogy of the UK and Ireland", although its coverage is wider than this. From the GENUKI website: Structure The website has a well defined structure at four levels. * The first level is information that is common to all "the United Kingdom and Ireland". * The next level has information for each of England (see example) Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. * The third level has information on each pre-1974 county of England and Wales, each of the pre-1975 counties of Scotland, each of the 32 counties of Ireland and each island of the Channel Islands (e.g. Cheshire, County Kerry an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Rothwell, West Yorkshire
Rothwell is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 40 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. In addition to the town of Rothwell, the parish contains the villages of Carlton, Oulton, and Woodlesford, and the surrounding area. Most of the listed buildings are houses and cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include churches and a gravestone, a row of almshouses, a former poorhouse, former schools, the clock tower from a former workhouse In Britain, a workhouse () was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. (In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses.) The earliest known use of the term ''workhouse' ..., and a war memorial. __NOTOC__ Key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oulton Academy
Oulton Academy (formerly Royds Academy, Royds School), founded in 1956, is a co-educational secondary school located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The school serves approximately 1,300 pupils. Royds School was originally a secondary modern and is now a non-selective school serving Rothwell, south Leeds and the surrounding areas. The school originally gained Specialist Language College status in 2003. This was removed in 2014. On 3 November 2010 Royds School was visited by American popstar singer and songwriter Alexis Jordan, performing 'Good Girl' and 'Happiness', as part of a 96.3 Radio Aire campaign for 100% school attendance through November. Royds School became a Premier UK Rock Challenge school in 2011 after winning the Northern Open Heat and Northern Open Final. Royds maintained this prestigious title until the school was stripped of its premier status in 2014 due to not competing. Royds School qualified to their second Northern Open Final in April 2015 by being t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton, Rothwell
Carlton is a village in the south of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles (13 km) from Leeds city centre. Geography Carlton has a Wakefield WF3 postal address. Carlton was previously part of Rothwell Urban District. Today it sits in the Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency. It is celebrated for its rhubarb growing, and is at the centre of the Rhubarb Triangle. Due to Carlton's rhubarb growing and farming heritage, the area has seen a recent influx of Eastern European migrants, who make a living working on the numerous farms. Etymology The name of Carlton is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Carlentone''. As with the nearby example of West Carlton and East Carlton in Yeadon, the name comes from the Old Norse word ''karla'' (genitive plural of ''karl'' 'commoner, churl A churl (Old High German ), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Preston
Great Preston is a small rural village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It has incorporated the once neighbouring hamlet of Little Preston. Location Great Preston is situated 9 miles south east of Leeds city centre and is 2 miles south of the town Garforth. The villages of Kippax and Swillington are also in close proximity, and, due to development of land into housing to the south of the village, Great Preston now borders Allerton Bywater. The village is in the LS26 Leeds postcode area, and forms part of the civil parish of Great and Little Preston, which had a population of 1,463 at the 2011 Census. Etymology The name of Great Preston is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the form ''Prestun'' and similar variants. The name comes from the Old English words ''prēost'' ('priest') and ''tūn'' ('farmstead, estate'). Thus it once meant 'estate belonging to a priest'. The name ''Little Preston'', coined to differentiate this settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley, West Yorkshire
Stanley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is about north-east of Wakefield city centre. Stanley was an Urban District in the West Riding of Yorkshire before 1974, being made up the four electoral wards of Lake Lock, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe. The Lofthouse / Stanley area of West Yorkshire has a combined population of 22,947. The ward remaining at the 2011 Census was called Stanley and Outwood East. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 15,314. Geography and amenities Stanley's physical footprint is larger than that of its parent City Wakefield. Whilst often considered being a village, Stanley is actually an array of individual settlements such as The Grove, Stanley Ferry, Lee Moor and Lane Ends. Lane Ends is often perceived as the "village" centre Stanley consists of the main village and neighbouring areas including Lee Moor, Lane Ends, The Grove and Stanley Ferry. Sometimes Bottom Boat is considered p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airey House
An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following the Second World War. Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the canvas tilt frames of military trucks. A series of shiplap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope. In 1947, the Central Office of Information commissioned a propaganda film, ''Country Homes''. The directoral debut of the later acclaimed documentary maker Paul Dickson, the film promotes the building of Airey houses in rural areas as a solution to the poor condition (due to the 1930s depression followed by wartime neglect) of much of the housing stock outside Britain's conurbations, due to the ease with which the prefabricated sections could be transported to remote locations. Today the Airey houses are life expired and many are in disrepair. The hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "vesting day", 1 January 1947. In 1987, the NCB was renamed the British Coal Corporation, and its assets were subsequently privatised. Background Collieries were taken under government control during the First and Second World Wars. The Sankey Commission in 1919 gave R. H. Tawney, Sidney Webb and Sir Leo Chiozza Money the opportunity to advocate nationalisation, but it was rejected. Coal reserves were nationalised during the war in 1942 and placed under the control of the Coal Commission, but the mining industry remained in private hands. At the time, many coal companies were small, although some consolidation had taken place in the years before the war. Formation and organisation The NCB was one of a number of public corporations c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ingram
Francis Ingram (1739–1815) was an English slave trader and privateer. Ingram was responsible for at least 108 slave voyages, carrying around 34,000 enslaved people, of whom around 5,000 died on his ships. He was a member of the African Company of Merchants. In 1778, the Anglo-French War began and the UK slave trade was disrupted. In response he became a privateer. He was part owner of a ship called ''Enterprise'' that captured a number of vessels. Early life Ingram was born in Oulton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1739. Slave trade Francis Ingram was responsible for at least 108 slave voyages. He bought around 34,000 enslaved people, of these around 5,000 died in transit. He had a career lasting 39 years, a time span exceeded by only three other Liverpool slave traders. Ingram pioneered the British slave trade at Porto-Novo in the Bight of Benin, in the 1780s fewer than 200 enslaved people were bought each year from the township, but by the 1790s this number had increased t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
