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Sandford (other)
Sandford may refer to: People * Baron Sandford * Baron Mount Sandford * Sandford (surname) * Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor of Standard Time Places Australia * Sandford, Tasmania * Sandford, Victoria Canada * Sandford, Nova Scotia England * Dry Sandford, Oxfordshire *Sandford, Cumbria, village in Eden district * Sandford, Devon * Sandford, Dorset * Sandford, Hampshire * Sandford, Isle of Wight * Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire * Sandford Orcas * Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordshire * Sandford, Somerset * Sandford, Whitchurch, near Whitchurch, location of Sandford Hall, home of the Sandford family * Sandford, Gloucestershire, a fictional village in the film ''Hot Fuzz'' * Sandford, a mockup village in Cheshire used for training police, part of Bruche Police National Training Centre Ireland * Sandford Park School, Dublin Scotland * Sandford, South Lanarkshire * An older spelling of St Fort, Forgan, Fife * An older spelling of St Ford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Sandford
Baron Sandford is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1891 when Sir Francis Sandford, a civil servant who played an important role in the implementation of the Elementary Education Act 1870, was made Baron Sandford, of Sandford in the County of Salop. He was the son of Sir Daniel Sandford, politician and Greek scholar, the grandson of the Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh, the brother of Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania, and the first cousin of the Right Reverend Charles Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar. He was childless and the title became extinct on his death in 1893. The second creation came in 1945 when the Conservative politician Sir James Edmondson was created Baron Sandford, of Banbury in the County of Oxford. Lord Sandford was son of James Edmondson who amassed a fortune building new communities in the London commuter belt. The family had originally been farmers in Cumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford, Somerset
Sandford is a village between Churchill and Banwell on the A368 in North Somerset, England. The Parish of Winscombe and Sandford, centred on the Parish Church of Saint James, includes the villages of Barton, Oakridge, Sandford, Sidcot and Woodborough. The Sandford Parish Church of All Saints was built in 1883–85 by Hans Price, and is a Grade II listed building. It was constructed as a Chappel of ease to St James the Great in Winscombe It is believed the name Sandford means 'The sand ford' from the Old English ''sand'' and ''ford''. Sandford is home to one of the region's main cider producers, Thatchers Cider. Sandford once had its own railway station on the Cheddar Valley line, which ran from Yatton to Wells. The now-disused station is a Grade II listed building. It is the subject of some controversy in the village as developers submit plans for its redevelopment. The ''Railway Inn'' is the only public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford (other)
Sanford may refer to: People *Sanford (given name), including a list of people with the name *Sanford (surname), including a list of people with the name Places United States * Sanford, Alabama, a town in Covington County * Sanford, Colorado, a statutory town in Conejos County * Sanford, Florida, the county seat of Seminole County ** Orlando Sanford International Airport, in Sanford, Floria * Sanford, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Sanford, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Pawnee County * Sanford, Maine, a city in York County ** Sanford (CDP), Maine, a former census-designated place in downtown Sanford * Sanford, Michigan, a village in Midland County * Sanford, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Covington County * Sanford, New York, a town in Broome County * Sanford, North Carolina, a city in Lee County * Sanford, Texas, a town in Hutchinson County * Sanford, Virginia, a census-designated place in Accomack County * Mount Sanford (Alaska), a shield vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandyford (other)
Sandyford is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Sandyford may also refer to: * Sandyford, Glasgow, Scotland * Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne, England * Sandyford, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England * Sandefjord, Norway See also * * Sandford (other) * Sandiford (other) * Sanford (other) Sanford may refer to: People *Sanford (given name), including a list of people with the name *Sanford (surname), including a list of people with the name Places United States * Sanford, Alabama, a town in Covington County * Sanford, Colorado, ... * Standiford (other) * Zandvoorde (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandiford (other)
Sandiford may refer to: * Sandiford, Queensland, a locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia People with the surname Sandiford * Benedict Sandiford, British actor * Jacinta Sandiford (1932–1987), Ecuadorian high jumper * Keith A. Sandiford (born 1947), a Barbadian writer living in the United States * Keith A. P. Sandiford (born 1936), a Barbadian writer living in Canada * Lindsay Sandiford, British woman convicted in 2013 of drug smuggling in Indonesia * Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (born 1937), Barbadian politician * Robert Edison Sandiford (born 1968), Canadian writer See also *Sandford (other) *Sandyford (other) Sandyford is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Sandyford may also refer to: * Sandyford, Glasgow, Scotland * Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne, England * Sandyford, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England * Sandefjord, Norway See also * * Sandford (dis ... * Standiford (other) {{disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford, Indiana
Sandford is an unincorporated community in Fayette Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The community is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. A small portion of Sandford, now known as West Sandford or “Stringtown”, is in Illinois. History Sandford was established in 1854 at the state line between Illinois and Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s .... With the building of the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad, it became an important town in the area. In 1890 it had a population of approximately 250. A post office was established at Sandford in 1855, and remained in operation until 1995. On Jan. 19, 1907, at least 30 people were killed when nitroglycerin exploded in a freight car as a passenger train passed. Geography Sandf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilconquhar
Kilconquhar ( or ; sco, also Kinneuchar, from the gd, Cill Dhúnchadha or gd, Cill Chonchaidh, Church of (St) Duncan or Conchad) is a village and parish in Fife in Scotland. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the parishes of Elie, Ceres, Cameron, St Monans, Carnbee, Newburn and Largo.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Kilconquhar It is approximately 9 miles from north to south. Much of the land is agricultural or wooded. The village itself is situated inland, north of Kilconquhar Loch. Also in the civil parish are Colinsburgh and Largoward, the latter since 1860 being a separate ecclesiastical parish. The coastal village and royal burgh of Earlsferry was formerly in the parish, but in 1891 the burgh and that part of the parish south of the (now disused) Fife Coast Railway line and Cocklemill Burn was transferred to the parish of Elie.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Fort
St Fort (, , or ) is a rural area, largely in Forgan parish, Fife. The current form of the name is late eighteenth century, the origin being a sandy ford on the Motray Water, in all likelihood the ford earlier known as ''Adnectan'' or Nechtan's ford. St Fort Hill lies immediately to the south of Newport-on-Tay and William Burn’s St Fort House, a large baronial mansion, demolished in 1953, lay on its southern slopes. The Home Farm, to its west, survives. Further south, the area was formerly served by St Fort railway station, on the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line. The triangular adjunct of the St Fort junctions, connecting the now-defunct Newburgh and North Fife Railway, lay to the station's south-east. Baillie Scott’s Arts and Crafts style Sandford House Hotel, taking the earlier form of the area's name, lies immediately to the station's west, just into Kilmany parish. Its restoration as a residence and holiday cottages was documented in the BBC television series Restorat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford, South Lanarkshire
Sandford is a village near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire in Scotland. It lies approximately southeast of Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul .... It has 50 houses and 200 inhabitants. Sandford also has two parks and a bus shed which houses 5 buses overnight. The village is home to one of the oldest mills in Avondale. The village is a part of Sandford and Upper Avondale Community Council. In 2002-3 the council was successful in winning a grant of £21,000 to restore a footpath between the village and the small town of Strathaven around away. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford Park School
Sandford Park School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational secondary school, located in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1922. History The school was founded in 1922 by Alfred Le Peton, who served as its first headmaster. He had previously served as joint headmaster of Earlsfort House School alongside Ernest Exshaw. It was decided to move the school from the terraced city-centre property of Earlsfort House to the 2.5 hectare Ranelagh property of Sandford Park, originally designed in 1894 by Thomas Edmund Hudman for James P. Pile, a property developer and Hudman’s brother-in-law. The school was founded as non-denominational, to contrast with the majority of schools in Ireland at the time, which had religious patronages. In its first year of teaching, the school had enrolled fifty-three boys. Le Peton resigned as headmaster in 1925. In 2013, the school began accepting enrolment for girls in all year groups, and in 2021 there were 429 students atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruche Police National Training Centre
Bruche Police Training Centre, Warrington, Cheshire was a training complex for probationary police officers in the United Kingdom. The site in a suburb of Warrington was operated by CENTREX, the 'Central Police Training and Development Authority'. It opened in January 1946 and closed in May 2006. Accommodation Bruche was originally opened to provide accommodation for U.S. Air Force officers during the Second World War. It opened as a police training college in January 1946, as a temporary site to accommodate the number of police officers being trained after the Second World War. In 1955, it was one of the two UK police training centres that accommodated female police officers. Curriculum Police forces from the northern part of England and Wales sent new recruits to the centre for the main part of their basic training, which consisted of the development of important attitudes and behaviours, law training and officer safety tactics. Training included several role-play scenario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Fuzz
''Hot Fuzz'' is a 2007 action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg. Starring Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, and Jim Broadbent, the film centres on two police officers investigating a series of mysterious and gruesome deaths in a West Country village. It is the second and most successful film in the '' Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy, succeeding ''Shaun of the Dead'' (2004) and followed by '' The World's End'' (2013). Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for developing the script. Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset – Wright's hometown – over eleven weeks in early 2006. Visual effects were developed by ten artists to expand on or add explosions, gore and gunfire scenes. The film opened on 16 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 20 April in the United States to box office success, grossing US$80 million worldwide against a budget of $12–16 million. The film was praised by critics. In 2020, ''Empire'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
