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The Common
The Common may refer to: Places * The Common, Brinkworth, England * The Common, Broughton Gifford, England *The Common, Queensland, suburb of Rockhampton, Australia * The Common, Suffolk, England, in Little Blakenham parish *The Common, Winterslow, England * The Common, a nickname of such places as the: ** Boston Common **Cambridge Common **The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Periodicals * ''The Common'' (magazine), Amherst, Massachusetts See also * Common (other) *Common law (other) Common law is a legal system named after judge-made law, which plays an important role in it. Common law may also refer to: * Common-law marriage * ''Jus commune'', a type of broad, underlying law * ''The Common Law'' (Holmes), an 1881 book by Ol ... * Commons (other) * Commonwealth (other) * Comyn (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Common, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common, Brinkworth
Brinkworth is a village and civil parish in northern Wiltshire, England. The village lies between Royal Wootton Bassett and Malmesbury, about north of the M4 motorway and west of Swindon. The west end of Brinkworth village is Causeway End. The civil parish of Brinkworth includes the hamlets of Braydon Side, Callow Hill, The Common, and the tithing of Grittenham, a rural community to the south of the village of Brinkworth. Much of Brinkworth village is a linear settlement along the east-west B4042, extending for some . The village is sometimes described as the longest in England although others such as Meopham, Kent make the same claim. History Brinkworth Manor was given to Malmesbury Abbey by the nobleman Leofsige, sometime before the Domesday Book survey. The abbey held the land until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time it was granted to William Stumpe. It then passed into the family of the Earl of Berkshire and Suffolk, until it was sold privately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common, Broughton Gifford
Broughton Gifford is a village and civil parish about west of Melksham in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Norrington Common and The Common. History Formerly much of Broughton Gifford and the surrounding area was covered with woodland. Much of this was felled during the First and Second World Wars. Villagers long used the common to graze their livestock and grow their crops. Although the common was not included when the rest of the parish's lands were inclosed in 1783, eventually its agricultural uses died out. Railway The Wessex Main Line railway was opened across the south-east of the parish in 1848, following the Avon valley. In October 1905 a small station, , was opened for the newly introduced steam railcar service between Chippenham and Trowbridge. The halt was south-east of the village at the Mill Lane bridge, near the road between Melksham and Bradford-on-Avon; it was closed on 7 February 1955 but the line remains open. Geography The village ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common, Queensland
The Common is a parkland suburb of Rockhampton in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the The Common had a population of 0 people. Geography The Common is on the north side of Rockhampton, to the east of the Rockhampton central business district but separated by the Fitzoy River. It is bounded to the north by the former North Rockhampton to Emu Park railway line and to the east, south and west by the River. The Rockhampton–Emu Park Road also runs along the northern boundary. The Devils Elbow is a reach where the Fitzroy River has a sharp bend () at the north-eastern corner of the suburb. Fishing Point is the southernmost part of the suburb alongside the Fitzroy River (). Kalka is a neighbourhood roughly within the centre of the suburb (). The land in the east of the suburb is somewhat marshy and undeveloped. The council landfill and sewage plant are in the northern part of the suburb with the recreational facilities in the west and south of the suburb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common, Suffolk
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Blakenham
Little Blakenham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ... in eastern England. Located around two miles north-west of Ipswich and a mile south-west of its larger sister village Great Blakenham, in 2005 its population was 310. The parish also contains the hamlets of Inghams and The Common. The tiny village nestles at the base of gentle hillside. The church tower is visible for some distance, rising out of the trees. The parish is long and narrow, stretching some three miles from its south-western limit, not far from Flowton Church, to its north-eastern extremity, beside the River Gipping near Claydon. The Grade I listed church of St Mary The Virgin is set upon a grassy chalky bank beside a narrow lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common, Winterslow
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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