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Smeaton may refer to: * Smeaton, East Lothian, a village and estate in Scotland * Smeaton House, East Lothian, a historic site * Smeaton, Saskatchewan, a Canadian community * Smeaton, Victoria, an Australian town * Smeaton (surname), people with the surname See also * Great Smeaton and the neighbouring Little Smeaton, Hambleton Little Smeaton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Etymology The name of Little Smeaton is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Smidetun'', ''Smidetune'', and ''Smitune''. The first attestation of the 'litt ... in North Yorkshire * Kirk Smeaton and the neighbouring Little Smeaton, Selby, in Selby district, North Yorkshire {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smeaton, East Lothian
Smeaton is a village and country estate in East Lothian, Scotland. It is off the B roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, B1407, near East Linton, and very close to Prestonkirk Parish Church as well as the National Trust for Scotland properties Preston Mill and Phantassie Doocot. The Estate The Smeaton Estate belonged to the Hepburn family for 400 years, until 1934. It is now owned by the Gray family, but it remains to be called "Smeaton-Hepburn Estate". The mansion no longer exists, but there is Smeaton House. Smeaton Lake and parkland Smeaton Lake is one of a handful of "lakes" in Scotland - most are referred to as lochs. With the exception of the Lake of Menteith, they are all artificial. In 1764, George Buchan-Hepburn succeeded George Hepburn as laird of Smeaton. He was a passionate farmer and agricultural reformer. His descendants continued his work, and in 1820, a lake was created with a circular walkway. It is renowned for the variety of mature specimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smeaton House
Smeaton House, also known as Smeaton Castle, and now as Dalkeith Home Farm, is a courtyard castle dating from the fifteenth century, about north of Dalkeith, and south of Inveresk in East Lothian, Scotland.Coventry, Martin (2001) ''The Castles of Scotland''. Goblinshead. p.379 History In 1450 the lands on which Smeaton Castle are built were the property of the Abbey of Dunfermline. Thereafter they passed to the Richardsons. The buildings now form part of a farm. Robert Richardson (d. 1578) was treasurer of Scotland, and was said to have built a new house at Smeaton in 1577. He raised money for Regent Moray by pawning the personal jewellery of Mary, Queen of Scots. These items included a gold chain belt of pearl knots and a hair garnishing with 57 diamonds which his son James Richardson returned to Holyrood Palace on 18 March 1580. The inhabitants of Smeaton, Inveresk, and Monktonhall complained about the Richardsons in 1581 to the Privy Council. By long tradition they wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smeaton, Saskatchewan
Smeaton ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Torch River No. 488 and Census Division No. 14. It is at the foot of Hanson Lake Road, which ends at Creighton near Flin Flon, Manitoba). Narrow Hills Provincial Park is 70 km north. History Smeaton incorporated as a village on March 7, 1944. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ..., Smeaton had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Smeaton recorded a population of living in of its total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smeaton, Victoria
Smeaton is a rural town in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, near the town of Creswick, Victoria, Creswick. At the , Smeaton had a population of 231. The found that of the 231 population, 117 were male, and 115 were female. Their median age was 53, compared to the national median of 38. A breakdown of resident heritage showed that 21.3% claimed Australian heritage, 31.5% English heritage, 12.7% Scottish, 9.3% Irish and 4.6% Italian. However, 79.7% of residents were born in Australia; the only other responses for country of birth were England 2.6%, New Zealand 1.8% and Croatia 1.8%. The most common response for religion was "No Religion" (26.6%). The town was founded by Scottish settler Captain John Stuart Hepburn, John Hepburn who was a colonial squatting (pastoral), squatter in the 1840s. Hepburn held under Government licence about 20,000 acres (80 km²) for his sheep and cattle run which he drove overland from Sydney. He built Smeaton House in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smeaton (surname)
Smeaton also Smeton or Smieton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Smeaton, Irish author and academic * Bruce Smeaton, Australian composer * Cooper Smeaton, Canadian ice hockey referee and coach * George Smeaton (footballer) (1917–1978), Australian footballer * George Smeaton (theologian) (1814–1889), Scottish theologian * John Smeaton (1724–1792), English civil engineer * John Smeaton (umpire), Australian cricket umpire * John Smeaton (born 1976), Scottish baggage handler who assisted police during the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack * Mark Smeaton, English alleged royal adulterer * Thomas Smeaton, also Thomas Smeton or Smieton, (1536–1583) a Scottish minister and Principal of Glasgow University * Thomas Drury Smeaton (c. 1831–1908), banker and amateur scientist in South Australia * Thomas Hyland Smeaton (c. 1857–1927), South Australian politician * William Henry Oliphant Smeaton William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (24 October 1856 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Smeaton
Great Smeaton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District, Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on elevated ground near the River Wiske, which is a tributary of the River Swale. The parish population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 187. Etymology The name of Great Smeaton is first attested in the Durham Liber Vitae for the years 966–72 in the phrase 'on smiþatune' ('in Smeaton'). The first attestation of the 'great' element is found in 1231, in the Latinised form ''Smithetuna Magna''; this element distinguishes Great Smeaton from the neighbouring Little Smeaton, Hambleton, Little Smeaton. The name comes from the Old English words ''smiþ'' ('craftsman, smith') in its genitive plural form ''smiþa'' and ''tūn'' ('estate, village'). Thus the name once meant 'smiths' estate'. History The A167 road, A167 (Darlington Road) passes through the village, which is about halfway between Darlington and Northallerton. It once stood on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Smeaton, Hambleton
Little Smeaton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Etymology The name of Little Smeaton is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Smidetun'', ''Smidetune'', and ''Smitune''. The first attestation of the 'little' element is found two years later in the phrase 'in litle Smithetun' in the Durham Liber Vitae; this element distinguishes Little Smeaton from the neighbouring Great Smeaton. The name comes from the Old English words ''smiþ'' ('craftsman, smith') in its genitive In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can al ... plural form ''smiþa'' and ''tūn'' ('estate, village'). Thus the name once meant 'smiths' estate'.A. H. Smith, The Place-Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire', English Place-Name Society, 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Smeaton
Kirk Smeaton is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It is located at the southern end of the county close to South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire. Historically the village was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. Geography Kirk Smeaton and its sister village Little Smeaton face each other across the River Went, the most southerly boundary of the Celtic Kingdom of Elmet. A footbridge links the two, providing both villages with walks to Brockadale Nature Reserve and Wentbridge. The Doncaster / North Yorkshire boundary lies close to the south of the village and, to the east, it begins to follow the River Went all the way to the River Don. A railway from the Leeds - Doncaster line past Drax Power Station used to run close to the south of the village, with a railway station that opened in 1885 and part of the Hull and Barnsley Railway. The station was closed to passengers in 1932 and the line closed completely in 1959. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |