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Woolley may refer to: Places England * Woolley, Cambridgeshire, a hamlet * Woolley, Cornwall * Woolley, Derbyshire * Woolley, Somerset * Woolley, West Berkshire *Woolley, West Yorkshire, near Wakefield and Barnsley * Woolley, Wiltshire * Woolley Colliery, South Yorkshire *Woolley Hall, a country house in West Yorkshire *Woolley, a street and area in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire Canada * Mount Woolley, a mountain in Alberta People and fictional characters *Woolley (surname) See also *Wooley (other) *Woolly Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool. As an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolley, Cambridgeshire
Woolley is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barham and Woolley, in Cambridgeshire, England. Woolley lies approximately west of Huntingdon. The hamlet is in Huntingdonshire, which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 29. A 12th century church dedicated to St Mary was demolished in 1962 due to dwindling population and the deteriorating fabric of the building. History In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolley, Somerset
Charlcombe is a civil parish and small village just north of Bath in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 422 in 2011, and includes the villages of Woolley and Langridge and the hamlet of Lansdown (not to be confused with the Bath suburb of the same name). History Charlcombe is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name "Cerlecume", meaning in Old English "valley of the ceorls" (freemen or peasants). Langridge and Woolley were part of the hundred of Bath Forum, while the parish of Charlcombe was part of the hundred of Hampton. The Battle of Lansdowne (1643) was fought in the Lansdown Hill area and is commemorated by Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument (1720). From about 1720 until the early 19th century, Woolley was the site of a gunpowder mill. In 1848 the village had a population of 84, and covered . Woolley is one of 52 thankful villages for having lost no residents during World War I, and one of only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolley, West Yorkshire
Woolley is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 575 in 2001, which increased to 1,339 at the 2011 Census. It is north of Barnsley, and south of Wakefield. History Historically Woolley, mentioned as "Weludai" in the '' Domesday Book'', was part of the Staincross Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the late 19th century it was part of the Roystone parish. By 1881 it had become a civil parish in its own right, which covered an area of about . Until 1974 it formed part of the rural district of Wakefield. Geography No major roads pass through the village. The A61 runs about east of it, the M1 motorway about west. West of the village is the escarpment known as Woolley Edge, which has given its name to the nearby Woolley Edge service station on the M1 motorway. Also 2 miles (3 km) to the south west is Woolley Colliery village that straddles the boundary between West and South Yorks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolley Colliery
Woolley Colliery is a village on the border between the Barnsley and Wakefield districts in Yorkshire, England. The village is now in South Yorkshire, while the former colliery was in the Wakefield Rural Ward in West Yorkshire. The village is known locally as Mucky Woolley, as a tribute to its coalmining heritage and to distinguish it from the more affluent village of Woolley two miles away. Coal mines were worked as early as 1850, and at about that time the village was established when two rows of small terrace cottages were built to accommodate miners. There are several coal seam outcrops on the hillside and coal had probably been mined in the area for many years before, but only on a small scale until railway transport began. The pit grew to become one of the largest in West Yorkshire. In 1980 it employed 1514 men underground and 428 on the surface. The colliery began when two tunnels or drifts were dug into the Barnsley bed seam in the hillside. Vertical shafts were su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolley Hall
Woolley Hall is a country house in Woolley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. Overview In the mid-fourteenth century, the nucleus of what became the Woolley estate belonged to Sir William de Notton, a man of local origin who achieved wealth and fame as a lawyer, and was later appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He derived his name from Notton, the village to the east of Woolley.Geoffrey Markham, Woolley Hall: The Historical Development of a Country House, Wakefield Historical Publications, 1979, p3 His lands in Woolley and Notton passed in 1365 to Sir William Fyncheden, by whose executor they were sold in 1377 to John Woodrove (or Woodroffe / Woodruffe) of Normanton. Despite owning these extensive lands, however, John Woodrove was not Lord of the Manor of Woolley, although his descendants would be. The lordship of the manor, together with the initial manor house in Woolley, is first documented as owned by the Popeley family, of whom Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford-on-Avon
Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon or Bradford upon Avon) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset, which had a population of 9,402 at the 2011 census. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists. The history of the town can be traced back to Roman origins. It has several buildings dating from the 17th century, when the town grew due to the thriving English woollen textile industry. Geography The town lies partly in the Avon Valley, and partly on the hill that marks the Vale's western edge, southeast of Bath, in the hilly area between the Mendip Hills, Salisbury Plain and the Cotswold Hills. The local area around Bath provides the Jurassic limestone known as Bath stone, from which the older buildings are constructed. The River Avon (the Bristol Avon) runs through the town. The larger town of Trowbridge is nearby to the southeast. The town includes the suburbs of Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Woolley
Mount Woolley is a mountain in Alberta, Canada, located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km south of Diadem Peak and is part of Winston Churchill Range of the Canadian Rockies. History The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Herman Woolley. Woolley, a former football player, climbed extensively with Collie during his 1898 and 1902 expeditions into the Canadian Rockies. The first ascent was made in 1925 by a Japanese team consisting of S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita and N. Okabe. They were guided by Hans Fuhrer, H. Kohler and J. Weber. Geology Mount Woolley is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Climate Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Woolley is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolley (surname)
Woolley is the surname of: People * Albert Woolley (footballer), English footballer *Alma S. Woolley, American nurse, educator, historian and author * Bennie L. Woolley, Jr., American trainer of racing horses *Benjamin Woolley, author, media journalist, television presenter *Bruce Woolley (born 1953), English writer, performer and record producer * Cam Woolley, Ontario Provincial Police officer *Claud Woolley, English cricketer *Edmund Woolley, early American architect and master carpenter * Édouard Woolley, Canadian tenor, actor and composer * Edwin D. Woolley, elected to the Utah Territorial Legislature *Frank Woolley (1887–1978), English Cricketer *Geoffrey Harold Woolley, British Victoria Cross recipient *George Cathcart Woolley, British colonial administrator and ethnographer *Hannah Woolley, early English writer of household management books *Harry George Woolley, Canadian Lacrosse player and advocate * Helen Thompson Woolley (1874-1947), psychologist and behavioural researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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