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Walcot (other)
Walcot may refer to: Places * Walcot, Bath, a suburb of the city of Bath, England * Walcot, Lincolnshire, near Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England * Walcot, North Lincolnshire, a hamlet in the civil parish of Alkborough, Lincolnshire, England * Walcot, Oxfordshire, a hamlet in Oxfordshire near Charlbury * Walcot, Shropshire, a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England * Walcot, Swindon, a suburb Derived names * Walcot Hall, Southorpe, now in Peterborough, England * Walcot Hall, a Georgian country house near Alkborough, North Lincolnshire * Walcot Hall, a Georgian country house in Lydbury North parish, Shropshire, England People * Thomas Walcot (1629–1685), British judge and politician * Thomas Walcot (Lieut Colonel) (1625-1683), British soldier * William Walcot (1874–1943), British architect, graphic artist and etcher See also * Walcott, Lincolnshire * Walcote (other) * Walcott (other) Walcott may refer to: People * Walcott (sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walcot, Bath
Walcot is a suburb of the city of Bath, England. It lies to the north-north-east of the city centre, and is an electoral ward of the city.Bath and North East Somerset Council District Council Elections The Paragon and, continuing out of the city, London Road are part of the . The other main thoroughfare is Walcot Street, which adjoins the city centre and is well known for its artisan shops. Walcot Street and London Road are believed to be a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walcot, Lincolnshire
Walcot is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies west from the A15, south from Sleaford, east from Grantham, and 1 mile north from Folkingham. The population is included in the civil parish of Newton and Haceby. History According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Walcot is derived from the Old English 'walh' with 'cot', which means "cottage(s) of the Britons". Walcot is a probable site of prehistoric or Roman settlement. Earthworks indicating rectilinear ditched enclosures and a circular dwelling have been found, evidenced through crop marks and aerial photographs. Medieval ridge and furrow field systems have also been recorded. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village is written as "Walecote". In 1086 it consisted of 6 villagers, 14 freemen and 5 smallholders, land for 6 plough teams, a meadow and a church. In 1066 lordship of the manor was held by the Abbey of St Peter, Peterborough, being transferr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walcot, North Lincolnshire
Alkborough is a parish of 458 people in 192 households (2011 census) in North Lincolnshire, England, located near the northern end of The Cliff range of hills overlooking Trent Falls, the confluence of the River Trent and the River Ouse. Alkborough, with the hamlet of Walcot about south, forms a civil parish which covers about . The village was once thought to be the location that the Romans called ''Aquis'', but that name is now usually associated with the town of Buxton in Derbyshire ('' Aquis Arnemetiae''). Toponymy The place-name Alkborough seems to contain an Old English personal name, ''Aluca'' or ''Alca'', + ''berg '' (Old English), a hill, a mound; an artificial hill; a tumulus, so 'Alca's hill'. Cameron derived the place-name Walcot from "the cottage, hut or shelter of the Welshman" and suggested that the name might represent an isolated group of Welshmen, identifiable as such in Anglo-Saxon England. Alkborough appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as ''Alcheb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walcot, Oxfordshire
Charlbury () is a town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the River Evenlode, Evenlode valley, about north of Witney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the edge of Wychwood, Wychwood Forest and the Cotswolds. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,830. Place name Toponymy, Toponymic evidence suggests that Charlbury was an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon settlement from an early date, and may be associated with 'Faerpinga in Middelenglum' listed in the Tribal Hidage of the 7th to 9th centuries. The name is a compound of two Old English elements. ''Burh'' is a fortified place. ''Ceorl'' (probably pronounced ) is a "freeman of the lowest class", but other sources suggest it was also a personal name. For this reason some hold the latter two pronunciations more valid than the former, and the current spelling not phonetic, preferring "Chorlbury". The similarity between "Ceorl" and the personal name "Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walcot, Shropshire
Walcot is a small village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The village is situated equidistant between Shrewsbury and Wellington. Surrounding villages include Allscott, Withington, and Wrockwardine; Walcot forms part of the parish of Wrockwardine. Walcot Bridge (Graded II Listed) Designed by William Hayward (circa 1740–1782). Road bridge over the River Tern, not far from the confluence of the River Roden. Ashlar with 3 rusticated round-arches with keyblocks. Cutwaters have semi-circular section 'pilasters' above in the spandrels. String course and low parapet with panel at centre inscribed with date MDCCLXXXII (Roman for year 1782) and inscription "the last Edifice erected by that ingenious Architect William Hayward". The abutments splay outwards and are terminated with square piers. William Hayward also designed the bridge over the River Tern at Atcham, Shropshire and the bridge over the Thames at Henley, Oxfordshire in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindon
Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon unitary authority area had a population of 233,410 as of 2021. Located in South West England, the town lies between Bristol, 35 miles (56 kilometres) to its west, and Reading, Berkshire, Reading, equidistant to its east. Recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as ''Suindune'', it was a small market town until the mid-19th century, when it was selected as the principal site for the Great Western Railway's repair and maintenance Swindon Works, works, leading to a marked increase in its population. The new town constructed for the railway workers produced forward-looking amenities such as the UK’s first lending library and a ‘cradle-to-grave' health care centre that was later used as a blueprint for the National Health Service, NHS. After the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walcot Hall
Walcot Hall is a Grade I listed Carolean country house in the hamlet of Southorpe. It lies 2 km (1 mile) south of the village of Barnack, Cambridgeshire, UK. The house is now within the boundary of the Peterborough unitary authority area of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire but it was part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It is constructed of limestone ashlar in 2 storeys with attic with a rectangular floor plan of 9 by 5 bays and a Collyweston stone roof. It stands in some 120 acres of wooded parkland as part of a 1400-acre agricultural estate. History George Whetstone (1544? – 1587) was an English dramatist and author. He was the third son of Robert Whetstone (d. 1557), a member of a wealthy family that owned the manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. George appears to have had a small inheritance which he soon spent, The original hall on the site was owned by the Browne fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alkborough
Alkborough is a parish of 458 people in 192 households (2011 census) in North Lincolnshire, England, located near the northern end of The Cliff range of hills overlooking Trent Falls, the confluence of the River Trent and the River Ouse. Alkborough, with the hamlet of Walcot about south, forms a civil parish which covers about . The village was once thought to be the location that the Romans called ''Aquis'', but that name is now usually associated with the town of Buxton in Derbyshire ('' Aquis Arnemetiae''). Toponymy The place-name Alkborough seems to contain an Old English personal name, ''Aluca'' or ''Alca'', + ''berg '' (Old English), a hill, a mound; an artificial hill; a tumulus, so 'Alca's hill'. Cameron derived the place-name Walcot from "the cottage, hut or shelter of the Welshman" and suggested that the name might represent an isolated group of Welshmen, identifiable as such in Anglo-Saxon England. Alkborough appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as ''Alchebar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydbury North
Lydbury North is a village and a geographically large civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 695. The parish is locally called Lydbury, and there is no settlement called Lydbury South. It lies in the southwest corner of the county, near to the small towns of Clun and Bishop's Castle. The B4385 road runs through the village, as does the Jack Mytton Way. To the west is the village and parish of Colebatch. There is a part-time post office, community shop, school and church. Also there is a public house called the ''Powis Arms''. The parish church, St Michael and All Angels, contains a small Catholic chapel. The village is at and lies between 155m and 165m above sea level. Whilst the land to the south is flat, to the north it rises steeply. Settlements Priors Holt, Priors Holt Hill and Churchmoor are at the northeastern extremities of the parish. Other settlements include Acton, Choulton, Eyton, Plowden and Walcot. Etym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walcot
Sir Thomas Walcot SL (6 August 1629 – 6 September 1685) was an English judge and politician. Family Thomas Walcot, born 6 August 1629, was the second son of Humphrey Walcot (1586-1650) and his wife Anne Docwra (d.1675), whose mother, Jane (née Peryam) Docwra, was the daughter of Sir William Peryam.. Walcot had an elder brother, John, and a younger brother, William. Career Walcot entered Trinity College, Cambridge on 16 May 1646, became a member of the Middle Temple on 12 November 1647, and was called to the Bar there on 25 November 1653. On 15 February 1662 he became Attorney-General of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and in April 1676 a Justice of the North Wales circuit. On 3 September 1679 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow, becoming a Serjeant-at-Law in May 1680 and a Justice of the King's Bench on 22 October 1683, a position he held until his death on 6 September 1685. Marriage and issue On 10 December 1663, Walcot married Mary Littleton (d. 1695), the dau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walcot (Lieut Colonel)
Col. Thomas Walcot (1625 – July 20, 1683) born in Warwickshire, the fourth son of Charles Walcot and Elizabeth Games, was a Puritan and Lt. Col. in the Parliamentary Army. Thomas married Jane Blayney, (daughter of Thomas Blayney, niece of Edward Blayney, 1st Baron Blayney and grand-niece of Adam Loftus (bishop)) purchased Ballyvarra Castle in 1655, and in 1659 was at Dunmurry. He settled at Croagh, Co. Limerick, Ireland where he had an estate of £800 per annum. He also had lands at Amogan in the Barony of Lower Conneloe. He was offered the Governorship of Province of Carolina, but declined it. Arrested in 1672 on allegation of planning a Dutch invasion of Ireland. Spent eight months in Tower of London before being exonerated. Walcot was arrested on July 8 or 10, 1683 for his part in the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and his brother, James, Duke of York, as they traveled from the Newmarket races to London past Rye House in Hertfordshire. Walcot stood tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Walcot
William Walcot (10 March 1874 – 21 May 1943) was a Scottish architect, graphic artist and etcher, notable as a practitioner of refined Art Nouveau (Style Moderne) in Moscow, Russia (as Вильям Францевич Валькот). His trademark Lady's Head keystone ornament became the easily recognisable symbol of Russian Style Moderne. In 1920s–1930s, he concentrated on graphic art and was praised as "the best architectural draftsman" in London. Biography Russia William Walcot was born at Lustdorf, near Odessa in a mixed Scottish-Russian family. He grew up in Western Europe and South Africa, returning to Russia at the age of 17, and studied arts and architecture under Leon Benois at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Later, he attended art schools in Paris. Walcot's career as an architect in Moscow lasted only six years, but he managed to leave a lasting heritage of refined, pure Art Nouveau. Unlike contemporary architects like Fyodor Schechtel, Walc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
