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Aller
Aller may refer to: Places Rivers * Aller (Germany), a major river in North Germany *Aller (Asturian river), a river in Asturias, Spain *River Aller, a small river on Exmoor in Somerset, England Inhabited places in the United Kingdom *Aller, Devon, a village in Devon, England *Aller, Dorset, a village in Dorset, England *Aller, Somerset, a village and parish in Somerset, England **Aller and Beer Woods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England **Aller Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England *Aller Grove, a village in Devon, England *Aller Park, Devon, also known as Aller, near Newton Abbot, Devon, England Inhabited Places elsewhere * Aller, Asturias, a municipality in Asturias, Spain Other uses * Aller (surname) * Aller Media, a Danish publishing company, publishers of ''Allers'' magazine * All England Law Reports, law reports covering England and Wales, cited as ''All ER'' See also *Allers (surname) Allers is a surname. Notable people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller (Germany)
The Aller is a river in the states of Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony in Germany. It is a right-hand, and hence eastern, tributary of the Weser and is also its largest tributary. Its last form the Lower Aller federal waterway (''Bundeswasserstraße''). The Aller was extensively straightened, widened and, in places, dyked, during the 1960s to provide flood control of the river. In a section near Gifhorn, the river meanders in its natural river bed. History Meaning of the name The river's name, which was recorded in 781 as ''Alera'', in 803 as ''Elera'', in 1096 as ''Alara'', has two possible derivations: # A shortened form of ''*Eleraha'', where ''*Eler'' in Old German ''*olisa'' or Old Slavic ''olsa'' (Polish: ''olsza'') would mean ''Erle'' ("alder") and ''aha'' (pronounced in German: ''Acha'') is an old word frequently used in river names to mean "water" (c.f. the Latin ''aqua''). The name of the tree passed into Low German as ''Eller'', which is very close to the word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller Media
Aller Media is a magazine publisher in the Nordic countries, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. It publishes ''Elle'', ''Cafe'', ''Familie Journalen'', '' Femina'', ''Allers'' and ''Se og Hør''. History Aller Media was founded in Copenhagen in 1873 by Carl Aller and his wife Laura Aller. It expanded into Sweden and Norway in the 1890s and into Finland in 1992. In August, 2009, Aller Press A/S changed its name to Aller Media A/S. The same year Aller moved into a new headquarters at Havneholmen. The building is designed by PLH Architects. Magazines and newspapers Aller's publications are among the most read in Sweden. It publishes 34 magazines every month which are read by over 4 million people including the best selling magazine in Sweden as of 2004, the TV Guide ''Se & Hör'', which is published in Norway and Denmark as ''Se og Hør''. ''Allers'' magazine is distributed in Norway and Sweden for the mature female market group. It traces its origins from the Danish weekly '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller, Asturias
Aller ( Asturian: ''Ayer'') is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Mieres, on the south by the province of León, on the east by Laviana, Caso, and Sobrescobio, and on the west by Lena. Geography The municipality is crossed by the Aller River, which flows into the Caudal. Near the confluence, the Aller forms a deep valley between steep hillsides covered with forest. The municipality, along with those of Lena and Mieres, forms the coal-rich basin of the Caudal. The principal economic activity has been coal mining, especially in the lower part of the valley, while agriculture and ranching are also important. The towers of coal mines and the buildings of the mining communities dominate the landscape. Upriver is the municipal capital, Cabañaquinta, in the direction of which the landscape gradually transforms into a high mountain valley, which culminates in the San Isidro Pass (1,520 m), which lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller (Asturian River)
The Aller is a river in northern Spain flowing through the Autonomous Community of Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in nor .... Rivers of Spain Rivers of Asturias {{Spain-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller, Devon
Aller is a village in the civil parish of Kentisbeare in the historic county of Devon, England. Aller is situated about east of Cullompton Cullompton () is a town and civil parish in the district of Mid Devon and the county of Devon, England. It is north-east of Exeter and lies on the River Culm. In 2011 the parish as a whole had a population of 8,499 while the built-up area of t .... Historically, it has been known by other names, such as ''Aulers'' during the 15th century. ''Alre, Alra, Avra, and Avvra'' have all been used since the 10th century. References External links * Villages in Devon Mid Devon District {{Devon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller, Somerset
Aller is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated west of Somerton on the A372 road towards Bridgwater in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 410. The parish includes the hamlet of Beer (sometimes ''Bere'' or Bere Aller) and the deserted medieval village of Oath on the opposite bank of the River Parrett. History Aller was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Alre'', meaning 'The alder tree' from the Old English ''alor''. The parish of Aller was part of the hundred of Somerton. Most of the valuable meadows had been enclosed by 1577, but the surrounding fields were not enclosed until 1797. Between 1614 and 1616 there was a struggle between the lord, Sir John Davis, who had recently purchased the manor, and the tenants over the building of hedges and gates to increase the value of the remaining of common ground. The meadows remained open and Davis sold the manor to John Stawell of Cothelstone in 1623. Oath Lock marks the tidal limit of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller And Beer Woods
Aller and Beer Woods () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. off the A372 Othery to Langport road near Aller in Somerset. It was notified in 1952. This Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve, which is about north-west of Langport and south-east of Bridgwater, consists of large blocks of semi-natural ancient woodland along the west-facing slope of Aller Hill, overlooking King's Sedgemoor. The reserve is about 40 ha (99 acres) and the underlying geology of most of it is Lias limestone. Prior to the twentieth century it appears to have been managed for centuries as traditional coppice woodlandd. Aller and Beer Woods are outstanding examples of ancient, escarpment woodland managed in a traditional coppice-with-standards system. The woodland is a variant of the calcareous ash/Wych elm stand-type, with pedunculate oak (''Quercus robur''), and ash (''Fraxinus excelsior'') the dominant canopy trees throughout, and with scattered concentrations of Wych elm (''Ulmus glabra'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Aller
The River Aller is a small river on Exmoor in Somerset, England. It rises as several small streams around Tivington and Huntscott and flows through the Holnicote Estate passing Holnicote and through Allerford, where it passes under a packhorse bridge of medieval origin. It then joins the River Horner, which flows into Porlock Bay near Hurlstone Point on the Bristol Channel The Bristol Channel ( cy, Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England. It extends from the lower estuary of the River Seve .... Because of the surrounding geology the area has been at risk of flooding. To help manage this risk telemetry monitoring of flows and a siren warning system have been proposed. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Aller, River Rivers of Somerset Exmoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller, Dorset
Aller is a village in Dorset, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b .... Villages in Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller Hill
Aller Hill () is an 18.4 hectare (45.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Aller in Somerset, notified in 1988. The site contains three species of plant which are nationally rare and a further three which are of restricted distribution in Somerset. The central area contains a sward dominated by sheep's fescue (''Festuca ovina'') in combination with yellow oat grass (''Trisetum flavescens'') and quaking-grass (''Briza media''). Salad burnet (''Sanguisorba minor'') forms a major component of the sward with rough marsh-mallow (''Althaea hirsuta'') and nit-grass (''Gastridium ventricosum''), two nationally rare species, also present. Aller and Beer Woods on the slopes of the hill are also designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller Grove
Aller Grove is a village in Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ..., England. References Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aller Park, Devon
Aller Park (also known as ''Aller'') was a village in Devon, England, southeast of the town of Newton Abbot. The name is shared with the Aller Brook, which joins the River Teign at Newton Abbot. Today it is a suburb of the town, within Newton Abbot civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority .... References {{authority control Villages in Devon Newton Abbot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
