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Vale Of Belvoir
The Vale of Belvoir ( ) covers adjacent areas of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England. The name derives from the Norman-French for "beautiful view" and dates back to Norman times. Extent and geology The vale is a tract of low ground rising east-north-east, with a somewhat ill-defined area. Its vale-like form can be viewed from either its south-east to eastern flank (the Belvoir "ridge") or from the north-west along the A46 (Roman Fosse Way) from which it is less conspicuous. It is the product of geological processes, being occupied in the main by the sedimentary mudstones and thin limestones of the Liassic (Lias), with a northern fringe from the upper parts of the Triassic (Mercia Mudstone and Rhaetic). The south-eastern margin is the most clearly defined because it is formed by a conspicuous scarp slope, on which Belvoir Castle sits about 330 feet (100 m) above the valley floor. Its resistance to erosion is due to a capping of relatively thick Jurassic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belvoir Castle From Jones' Views (1819) - Distant View
Belvoir (french: beautiful view, link=no; and counterpart of ''fairview'') may refer to: France *Belvoir, Doubs, France, a commune **Belvoir Castle ( in French; 12th-17th century) in the commune Israel *Belvoir Castle (Israel), a Crusader (Hospitaller) castle in the Jordan Valley **Battle of Belvoir Castle, a military campaign involving that castle *Belveer/Beauverium, a Crusader castle near Jerusalem: see Al-Qastal, Jerusalem United Kingdom *Belvoir Park Golf Club, Belfast, Northern Ireland * HMS ''Belvoir'', Royal Navy'' ships * Vale of Belvoir, England ** Belvoir, Leicestershire, a village in England **Belvoir Castle, Belvoir village **Belvoir Priory, near the castle **Belvoir Hunt, a fox hunt in the Vale of Belvoir ** Belvoir High School, in the Vale of Belvoir ** Belvoir Rural District (1894–1935) United States * Belvoir (Saffold Plantation), Alabama *Belvoir, Kansas, a ghost town *Belvoir (Crownsville, Maryland), a historic home *Belvoir Township, Pitt County, North C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cropwell Bishop
Cropwell Bishop is a village and civil parish in the borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 1,853. The village has one of a select six creameries that produce Stilton cheese. Geography It is 1.2 miles to the east of the A46 in the NG12 postcode. The next village to the north is Cropwell Butler. Both villages form part of the Vale of Belvoir. The Grantham Canal runs along the edge of the village. History Composed of 12 households, ''Crophille'' was in Bingham Wapentake Bingham was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. It was in the south-east of the county, to the south of the River Trent. Constituents The original meeting place was on the Toot Hill ridge, we ... in 1086. In the 12th or 13th century, the wapentake became known as Bingham Hundred until the end of the 19th century. The Cinema Museum in London holds film of a point-to-point held at the village on April 14th 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarrington
Scarrington is an English civil parish and village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. Its 973 acres (394 ha) had a population in 2011 of 183. It lies at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK7341 in the undulating farmland of the Vale of Belvoir, some 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of the Roman Fosse Way (A46) between Newark and Leicester.Scarrington Appraisal and Management PlaRetrieved 1 January 2016./ref> It is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham. Governance Most local government functions are performed by Rushcliffe Borough Council. The borough election results on 7 May 2015 confirmed Conservative control. Scarrington lies in Bingham East ward and its small population qualifies it only for a twice-yearly Parish Meeting, not a Parish Council. The member of Parliament (MP) for Newark, the constituency in which Scarrington is located in, is the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owthorpe
Owthorpe is a small English village and civil parish in the Wolds of the East Midland county of Nottinghamshire. The population of about 90 was included in the civil parish of Cotgrave in the 2011 Census. Location and governance Owthorpe is adjacent to the parishes of Cropwell Bishop, Stanton on the Wolds, Cotgrave, Kinoulton and Colston Bassett, two miles (3.2 km) south-east of Cotgrave and nine miles (14.5 km) south-east of Nottingham. It forms part of the borough of Rushcliffe. The Grantham Canal lies to its east, as does the Fosse Way, a Roman road whose line is largely followed by the A46 trunk road between Leicester and Lincoln. In 2006 the borough council recorded a population of 90 for Owthorpe, so that the parish is too small to have a parish council and has a parish meeting instead. Amenities There are low-frequency weekday bus services to Cotgrave and Keyworth and term-time school buses to Bingham. The nearest railway station is at Radcliffe on Trent (4 miles, 6. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orston
Orston is an English village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, 15 miles (24 km) east of Nottingham. It borders the parishes of Scarrington, Thoroton, Flawborough, Bottesford and Elton on the Hill. The population at the 2011 census was 454. Governance Orston has a parish council and belongs under Rushcliffe Borough Council. The member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark constituency, to which Orston belongs, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick. History The place-name Orston seems to contain an Old English personal name, ''Osica'', with ''-ingtūn'' (Old English), a settlement called after, or connected with..., so probably, "farm/settlement connected with Osica". Some early spellings are ''Oschintone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, ''Orskinton'' in 1242, ''Orston'' in 1284, and ''Horston'' in 1428. It lay in Bingham Wapentake (hundred) until such units were abolished under the Local Government Act 1894. The population of Orston was 351 in 1801, 391 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langar, Nottinghamshire
Langar is an English village in the Vale of Belvoir, about four miles (6.4 km) south of Bingham, in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The civil parish of Langar cum Barnstone had a population of 980 at the 2011 Census. This was estimated at 1010 in 2019. Geography In the south, on Langar Airfield, the parish of Langar-cum-Barnstone borders Clawson, Hose and Harby, the district of Melton and Leicestershire. At Hose Lane it meets Colston Bassett. It passes north, crossing Harby Lane, and follows a tributary of the River Smite. At Langar Lane Bridge it briefly adjoins Cropwell Bishop, then the parish of Wiverton Hall, following the upper reach of the River Smite and a short length of Bingham Road at Wiverton Smite Bridge. It passes the western edge of Northfield Farm, then the east of Smite Hill Farm, which is outside the parish. Near the point where the old Bingham–Melton railway crossed the River Smite, it adjoins Whatton-in-the-Vale, then Granby at Granby Lane, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinoulton
Kinoulton is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 10 miles south east of the city of Nottingham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,037. 2004 estimates indicate a population of 990. The population taken at the 2011 census was 1,050. The name Kinoulton probably has Saxon origins and 'Cynhildestun (Cynhilds Farm) is a suggested starting point. The name having weathered though many variations over the years to become Kinoulton. The original settlement was close to the Roman Fosse Way, now the A46 trunk road, just north of its junction with the present day A606 Nottingham to Melton Mowbray road. It was close to the site of a civil war skirmish by the Lodge on the Wolds near the present day A46. Around the time when the Grantham Canal was opened in 1797, connecting the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire with the River Trent at Nottingham, the centre of the village migrated eastwards, downhill into the Vale of Belvoir. Some suggest highwaymen o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilvington
Kilvington is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, part of the Newark and Sherwood district. Dr Robert Thoroton in ''Antiquities of Nottinghamshire'' mentions enclosure 'about the Year 1750', but an Act of Parliament to enclose about 400 acres was passed in 1804 and the Award, mentioning 410 acres of the township of Alverton in Staunton, together with Kilvington, is dated 1810.R. Thoroton, revised by J. Throsby, ''The antiquities of Nottinghamshire'' (1790–96), vol.1, p.321; W. E. Tate (ed., M.E. Turner), ''Domesday of English Enclosure Acts and Awards'' (Reading, 1978), p.208 It is combined with its neighbouring parish of Alverton to form an area for a parish meeting A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend. In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish cou .... Population information is included i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hickling, Nottinghamshire
Hickling is a village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It is located close to the border with Leicestershire, approximately northwest of Melton Mowbray; the Vale of Belvoir is also nearby. It has a population of around 550, measured at 511 in the 2011 Census. The disused Grantham Canal passes through the village and there is a large basin adjacent to the main road. This would have facilitated loading and mooring when the canal was in use. The basin now attracts a substantial population of swans and ducks. Plans to put the canal back to water include the building of a swing bridge on the main road through the village. Like many bridges along the canal the original one has been flattened and therefore presently prevents navigation of the cut. Some nearby bridges, like the one elsewhere on this page, will need little work to put back to use. Further details of the plan for the area are available here Much of the village lies within a Protected area, conserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire
Hawksworth is an English conservation village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. It lies 10 miles (16 km) south of Newark-on-Trent, adjacent to the villages of Flintham, Sibthorpe, Thoroton, Scarrington and Screveton. Description Setting Hawksworth comes within the South Nottinghamshire Farmland Character Area which is described as being "a prosperous lowland agricultural region with a simple rural character of large arable fields, village settlements and broad alluvial levels." The Conservation Appraisal states that "the surrounding flat landscape has been divided into large arable fields." White's Directory of Nottinghamshire, written in 1853, describes Hawksworth as follows:Hawkesworth, anciently called Hocheword, is a small village parish 4 miles north-east of Bingham, and 8 miles south-south-west of Newark. It was of the fee of Walter D'Ayncourt, and partly soc to Aslacton. It now contains 171 inhabitants, and about 800 acres of land, most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granby, Nottinghamshire
Granby is a small village in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir. Toponymy The place-name Granby seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, ''Gráni '' and ''bȳ'' (Old Norse), a farmstead or village. Population and facilities The parish has a population of about 300 people – 328 in the 2001 census and 485 (including Sutton-cum-Granby and Elton on the Hill) in the 2011 census. It lies about 14 miles east of Nottingham. Earlier census returns suggest a peak population of 439 in the 1891 census and a low point of 248 in 1951. The civil and church parishes of Granby include the hamlet of Sutton-cum-Granby, a mile to the north. Both these parishes are run by councils. Present development in Granby is governed by the ''Granby cum Sutton Village Plan'' adopted by Rushcliffe Council. Since December 2019, the member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe constituency, to which Granby belongs, is the Conservative Ruth Edwards. Granby no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flintham
Flintham is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district in Nottinghamshire, 7 miles (11 km) from Newark-on-Trent and opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. It had a population of 597 at the 2011 Census and estimated at 586 in 2019. The village name was taken by the Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham. Amenities The Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury and has "a Victorian nave attached to a Norman tower and chancel." It now belongs to the Fosse Group of parishes, with St Peter's Church, East Bridgford, St Helen's Church, Kneeton, St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton, and St Mary's Church, Car Colston. A service is held about once a month. The village has a primary school, currently closed, a village hall (the old school building), and a cricket pavilion. Its one pub, the ''Boot and Shoe Inn'', is in Main Street. There is also a voluntarily run Flintham Community Shop and a museum of rural life. Several gardens are normally open to the public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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