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Amberley
Amberley may refer to: Places Australia *Amberley, Queensland, near Ipswich, Australia *RAAF Base Amberley, a Royal Australian Air Force military airbase United Kingdom * Amberley, Gloucestershire, England * Amberley, Herefordshire, England * Amberley, West Sussex, England * Amberley railway station, in West Sussex, England * Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, near Arundel in West Sussex, England Elsewhere * Amberley, New Zealand, in north Canterbury * Amberley, Ohio, US, a village in the Cincinnati metropolitan area * Amberley, Ontario, Canada People * John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842–1876), British politician and writer * "Viscount Amberley", a courtesy title attached to that of Earl Russell * Amberley Lobo (born 1990), Australian TV presenter * Amberley Snyder (born 1991), American barrel racer Other * Josiah Amberley, the title character in ''The Adventure of the Retired Colourman'' by Arthur Conan Doyle * Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre Amberley Museum is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley, New Zealand
Amberley (Māori: ''Kōwai'') is a town located in the Hurunui District in north Canterbury, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 1 approximately 50 km north of Christchurch. It is the seat of the Hurunui District Council. The nearest town to the north of Amberly via state highway one is Waipara (11 km) and the nearest town to the south is Leithfield (5.7 km). History Amberley was established in 1864 by Mrs. Frederica Josephine Carter who owned freehold land north of the Kowai river. Mrs. Carter subdivided and sold her pastoral run for eight pounds per quarter acre. This price was very attractive as it made the land some of the cheapest in Canterbury. The town was named Amberley after Mrs. Carter's family farm in Oxfordshire, England. The earliest residents included a blacksmith, a wheelwright and a carpenter. A courthouse was established in 1870. The town developed slowly at first until the railway, built by Cant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Amberley Museum is an open-air industrial heritage museum at Amberley, near Arundel in West Sussex, England. The museum is owned and operated by Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, a not-for-profit company and registered charity, and has the support of an active Friends organisation. The items in the Museums collection are held by The Amberley Museum Trust The museum was founded in 1978 by the Southern Industrial History Centre Trust and has previously been known as the Amberley Working Museum, Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, and Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre. It is located within historic chalk quarries. Chalk was extracted and processed for lime on site for more than 100 years, and the museum still houses a number of its original lime kilns. In addition, holdings and exhibitions at the museum cover a diversity of industrial and local heritage collections, including narrow gauge railways, local bus services, and a multitude of light and rural industrial subjects. Locati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley Lobo
Amberley "Ambo" Lobo (born 30 October 1990) is an Australian television presenter best known for her role as a host on Australian children's television program ''Studio 3'', which was on ABC 3. Early life Lobo was born in Perth, Western Australia, and grew up in South Hedland. Her father is from India and her mother is from New Zealand. Her television career began in 2009 after she was selected from a nationwide search conducted by the ABC. Lobo graduated from Rossmoyne Senior High School in Perth in 2007 and joined the Western Australia Police where she worked as a police cadet. She dropped out of Curtin University after studying journalism for one semester. Career In 2009 the ABC launched a nationwide campaign called ''Me On 3'', which was looking for fresh personalities to become the face of a new digital kids channel, ABC3. The competition was entered by over 5,700 people Australia-wide. Entrants had to send in a video audition for the chance to host the new channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley Snyder
Amberley Snyder (born January 29, 1991) is a championship barrel racer. She also competed in pole bending and breakaway roping. In 2010, Snyder suffered a car crash that paralyzed her from the waist down. She adapted to the injury and kept competing. In 2015, she competed at a high level when she won a fan exemption to compete at The American Rodeo. Snyder is now a motivational speaker. Early life Amberley Snyder was born January 29, 1991, in California to Tina and Cory Snyder. She is the second-oldest of her five siblings, Ashley, JC, Taylor, Aubrey, and Autumn. Rodeo career Snyder first rode a horse at 3 and began competing in rodeo barrel racing when she was 7 years old. After that, she spent summer weekends barrel racing, pole bending, and breakaway roping. She won the 2009 All-Around Cowgirl World Championship in the National Little Britches Rodeo Association. She was the 2009–2010 Utah State FFA President. Car crash and recovery On January 10, 2010, she was driving from U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley, Gloucestershire
Amberley, Gloucestershire is a small village about two miles south of Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on the edge of Minchinhampton Common, known for its Golf Club and course. Places of interest * War memorial to the soldiers who died in World War II * Holy Trinity Church, Amberley. The author P C Wren, who wrote ''Beau Geste'', is buried in the churchyard, as is Sir Fabian Ware, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil .... * The Black Horse Pub * The Amberley Inn Hotel * Amberley Parochial School References External linksAmberley website, including history, news, local information, and many photographs [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley, Herefordshire
Amberley is a settlement in the civil parish of Marden in Herefordshire, England. Recorded in the Domesday Book, it was in the hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ... of Tornelaus. In the National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland of 1868, it was listed as being in the hundred of Broxash, about east of the village church of Marden. Amberley has a Grade II* listed chapel built between the 12th and 14th centuries, and restored in 1865. Amberley Court is a 14th-century, Grade I listed country house. References External links * Amberley Herefordshire - A vision of Britain Through TimeAmberley - Explore BritainGeograph images for OS Grid SO5447 Hamlets in Herefordshire {{Herefordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley, Queensland
Amberley is a suburb in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Amberley had a population of 253 people. Geography Australia's biggest air force base, the RAAF Base Amberley is situated here and the Bureau of Meteorology has a weather observation station in Amberley. To the south of Amberley is the Fassifern Valley. The Jeebropilly coal mine is located just to the west of Amberley. History The suburb is named after Amberley in the United Kingdom. The name was used by James and Martha Collett for their residence in the 1850s as it was their hometown. Previously the area was known as ''Three-Mile Creek'', referring to it being three miles along on the Old Toowoomba Road from Ipswich''.'' In 1861, a school commenced at Willowbank on a sheep and cattle station owned by Darby McGrath. McGrath then asked the Queensland Government to take over and donated land for the construction of a new building, resulting in the opening of Warrill Creek State School opened on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley, Ohio
Amberley, locally known as Amberley Village, is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,840 at the 2020 census. History Amberley was incorporated as a village on April 5, 1940. The town was named after Amberley, a village in England. Amberley was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation in 2004. Amberley is home to French Park, owned by the city of Cincinnati. Geography Amberley is located at (39.199259, -84.420601). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics The village has a large Jewish population. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 3,585 people, 1,385 households, and 1,084 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,466 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 85.7% White, 9.5% African American, 0.1% Native American, 3.0% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 1.4% from two o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAAF Base Amberley
RAAF Base Amberley is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located southwest of Ipswich, Queensland in Australia and southwest of Brisbane CBD. It is currently home to No. 1 Squadron (operating the F/A-18F Super Hornet), No. 6 Squadron (operating the EA-18G Growler), No. 33 Squadron (operating the Airbus KC-30A), No. 35 Squadron (operating the C-27J Spartan) and No. 36 Squadron (operating the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III). Amberley is also home to Army units making up the 9th Force Support Battalion (9 FSB). Located on , RAAF Amberley is the largest operational base in the RAAF, employing over 5,000 uniformed and civilian personnel. There are a variety of other formations on the base such as training colleges and maintenance areas. Amberley's largest squadron in terms of personnel is No. 382 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF (ECSS) providing both garrison and deployed combat support. Amberley was one of only two airfields in Australia (the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley, West Sussex
Amberley is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, north of Arundel. Its neighbours are Storrington and West Chiltington. The village is noted for its thatched cottages. A house named "The Thatched House" is one of the village's few non-thatched houses. One of the attractions is Amberley Working Museum. Amberley has a railway station on the Arun Valley Line, with regular services to Bognor Regis, Portsmouth and London. To the north of the village is the tidal plain of the River Arun, known as Amberley Wild Brooks. The wetland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest which floods in winter and is known for its wildfowl. Amberley Castle is now a hotel. The castle was a fortified manor house next to which is the Norman St Michael's Church. Cultural links William Champion Streatfeild, who became Bishop of Lewes was vicar of Amberley with Houghton from 1897 to 1902. His daughter, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberley Railway Station
Amberley railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England. It serves the village of Amberley, about half a mile away, and was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The Amberley Working Museum – a museum of industry – is accessed from the former station goods yard. It is down the line from via on the Arun Valley Line. History Opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 3 August 1863, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station had two platforms connected with a footbridge, a signalbox (now closed) is situated on Platform 2, under the station canopy. There was a goods yard with connections into a "chalk and lime works" to the south of the station and "Amberley Lime Works", now the Amberley Working Museum to the north east. The goods yard was equipped to take most sorts of goods including live stock and had a 1 ton crane. The station was host to a Southern Railway camping coach fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Russell, Viscount Amberley
John Russell, Viscount Amberley (10 December 1842 – 9 January 1876), was a British politician and writer. He was the eldest son of John Russell, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and father of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Amberley is known for his unorthodox views on religion and for his active support of birth control and women's suffrage, which contributed to the end of his short career as Liberal Member of Parliament. Childhood and education John Russell was born on 10 December 1842 at Chesham Place, London, the first son of Lord John Russell, himself the son of the 6th Duke of Bedford. His mother was Lord Russell's second wife, Lady Frances, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto. In 1846, his father became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and served as such twice. Due to Lord John's elevation to peerage as Earl Russell in 1861, his son and heir apparent became known as Viscount Amberley. After a home education, he was sent to Harrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
