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Royds Hall Court
Royds may refer to: *Royds, Bradford, a ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England *Cape Royds, a dark rock cape forming the west extremity of Ross Island, *High Royds Hospital, former psychiatric hospital south of the village of Menston, West Yorkshire, England *Royds Hall School Royds Hall Academy is a mixed secondary school for pupils aged 11 – 16. It is located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, and on the north side of the Colne Valley towards Milnsbridge. History Royds Hall was a large farmhouse in the P ..., comprehensive school in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England * High Royds railway station, former station near Barnsley on the South Yorkshire Railway * High Royds Hospital Railway, short railway connecting the West Riding County Asylum near Leeds in West Yorkshire with the Midland Railway * Royds (surname) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royds, Bradford
Royds (population 16,350 - 2001 UK census) is a ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 17,360. Starting from the north end of Royds, the areas covered are Horton Bank Bottom which is shared with Great Horton Ward, then Buttershaw which makes the bulk of the ward, then a portion of the south-west side of Wibsey village. South of Halifax Road is Woodside, east of which is part of Low Moor village, the rest of which is in Wyke ward. At the south end of the ward is the more rural hamlet of Royds Hall. Councillors Royds ward is represented on Bradford Council by three Labour Party councillors; Ruth Wood, Angela Tait and Andrew Thornton. indicates seat up for re-election. See also *Listed buildings in Bradford (Royds Ward) Royds is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 29 listed buildings that are record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Royds
Cape Royds is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) and named for Lieutenant Charles Royds, Royal Navy, who acted as meteorologist on the expedition. Royds subsequently rose to become an Admiral and was later Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London. There is a hut at Cape Royds built and used by Ernest Shackleton and his team during their 1907–1909 expedition. Shackleton's Hut When Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908, having failed to land on King Edward VII Land, he decided to build a hut at Cape Royds, a small promontory twenty-three miles north of Hut Point where Scott had stayed during the Discovery Expedition. The whole shore party lived in this hut through the winter of 1908. When spring came stores were sledged to Hut Point, so that should the sea-ice break up early between these two places they might not be left in an awkward pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Royds Hospital
High Royds Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital south of the village of Menston, West Yorkshire, England. The hospital, which opened in 1888, closed in 2003 and the site has since been developed for residential use. History The estate on which the asylum was built was purchased by the West Riding Justices for £18,000 in 1885. The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards and the large gothic complex of stone buildings was formally opened as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 8 October 1888. The administration building, which is Grade II listed, features an Italian mosaic floor in the main corridor which is intricately decorated with the Yorkshire Rose and black daisies - the latter of which provided inspiration for the title of ''Black Daisies'', a television screenplay filmed at High Royds which took as its subject the experiences of sufferers of Alzheimer's disease. The hospital was intended to be largely self-sufficient, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royds Hall School
Royds Hall Academy is a mixed secondary school for pupils aged 11 – 16. It is located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, and on the north side of the Colne Valley towards Milnsbridge. History Royds Hall was a large farmhouse in the Paddock and Longwood area of Huddersfield, adjoining Royds Wood. It was rebuilt as a grander mansion (still called Royds Hall, but also known as 'Royds Wood'. It was still referred to on the town plan published in 1890 as Royds Hall), whose philanthropic mill owner served the increasingly industrialised and expanding town. The building was formerly Royds Hall Mansion, built in 1866 by Sir Joseph Crosland, the Conservative MP for the Huddersfield constituency from 1893–95. On his death in 1904 he left the property to his nephew Thomas Pearson Crosland, who sold it to Huddersfield Corporation in 1915 for £17,000. The Hall served as a military hospital during and after the First World War. Royds Hall Grammar School opened on 20 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Royds Railway Station
:''High Royds'', a small mining community near Barnsley in South Yorkshire is not to be confused with High Royds, near Menston in West Yorkshire, served by the Wharfedale Line and the site of a former mental health institution. High Royds railway station was situated on the South Yorkshire Railway The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Initially promoted as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway in 1845, the railway was enabled by an act of 1847 as the South Yorkshire Doncaster and ...'s Blackburn Valley line between and . The station opened on 4 September 1854 and closed just two years later, one of the most short-lived stations in the county. Route References *"The South Yorkshire Railway", D.L.Franks, Turntable Enterprises, 1971. Disused railway stations in Barnsley Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1856 Former South Yorkshire Railway station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Royds Hospital Railway
The High Royds Hospital Railway was a short railway connecting the West Riding County Asylum near Leeds in West Yorkshire with the Midland Railway line between Menston and Guiseley on the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway (nowadays the Wharfedale Line). The line opened in 1883 and ran for just over , it was constructed to and was a single line throughout. The line closed in the 1930s in the face of road competition and increasing maintenance costs but reopened again in 1939 when the outbreak of war led to a fuel shortage for road transport. Final closure came in 1951. Usage The line was originally built to supply building materials during the construction of the hospital and later for the carriage of supplies such as flour and mostly coal for fuel in the hospital boilers. Coal wagons arriving at the hospital discharged in coal hoppers under the railway and any coal that did not empty by gravity had to be unloaded by hand, this was normally a job for male patients of the hospit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
