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Egloskerry
Egloskerry ( kw, Egloskeri) is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately northwest of Launceston. Egloskerry parish consists of the village itself and many outlying hamlets and farms, including Tregeare, Badharlick and Trebeath. There are of land and of water in the parish. Population During the earliest census of 1801, the parish had 307 inhabitants. The population increased to a peak in 1841, when 552 people were recorded in the parish. Thereafter, the population steadily decreased to its lowest point of only 275 people in 1981. Since then, there has been a consistent increase in people living in the parish, with 374 persons residing there in 2001. History of Egloskerry and Penheale In the village is the 15th century church of St Keri and St Petroc with original Norman wall and transept. The name comes directly from the Celtic Cornish language Eglos meaning church (the equivalent in modern Welsh being Eglwys). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egloskerry Church 1870's Photo
Egloskerry ( kw, Egloskeri) is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately northwest of Launceston, Cornwall, Launceston. Egloskerry parish consists of the village itself and many outlying hamlets and farms, including Tregeare, Badharlick and Trebeath. There are of land and of water in the parish. Population During the earliest census of 1801, the parish had 307 inhabitants. The population increased to a peak in 1841, when 552 people were recorded in the parish. Thereafter, the population steadily decreased to its lowest point of only 275 people in 1981. Since then, there has been a consistent increase in people living in the parish, with 374 persons residing there in 2001. History of Egloskerry and Penheale In the village is the 15th century church of St Keri and Saint Petroc, St Petroc with original Norman wall and transept. The name comes directly from the Celtic Cornish language Eglos meanin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penheale Manor
Penheale Manor is a grade I listed manor house and historic building one mile north of Egloskerry, Cornwall. History The manor was mentioned as one of 284 manors in Cornwall by the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. The current manor house occupies a medieval site, but was built in the early 17th century. It can be dated to c. 1620-1640. There were alterations in the 18th century. The Rev. Henry Addington Simcoe, son of John Graves Simcoe, purchased the estate in 1830 and was curate of Egloskerry. He married twice and had eleven children, and wrote and published many books from his own printing press at Penheale. Norman Colville purchased Penheale in the 1920s and made significant alterations, with the help of Sir Edwin Lutyens. His additions are largely to the south, and reportedly contain a stair of a similar design, but smaller scale, to that of Castle Drogo. The manor is a Grade I listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egloskerry Railway Station
The North Cornwall Railway was a railway line running from Halwill in Devon to Padstow in Cornwall via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge, a distance of . Opened in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was part of a drive by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) to develop holiday traffic to Cornwall. The LSWR had opened a line connecting Exeter with Holsworthy in 1879, and by encouraging the North Cornwall Railway it planned to create railway access to previously inaccessible parts of the northern coastal area. "There are few more fascinating lines than the one which leads to North Cornwall from Okehampton" says T.W.E. Roche in his popular tribute to the network of railway lines operated by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in North and West Devon and North Cornwall. History First railways In the nineteenth century, Padstow was an important fishing port, but it was hampered by lack of land communication with its markets. The Bodmin and Wadebridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Cornwall Railway
The North Cornwall Railway was a railway line running from Halwill in Devon to Padstow in Cornwall via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge, a distance of . Opened in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was part of a drive by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) to develop holiday traffic to Cornwall. The LSWR had opened a line connecting Exeter with Holsworthy in 1879, and by encouraging the North Cornwall Railway it planned to create railway access to previously inaccessible parts of the northern coastal area. "There are few more fascinating lines than the one which leads to North Cornwall from Okehampton" says T.W.E. Roche in his popular tribute to the network of railway lines operated by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in North and West Devon and North Cornwall. History First railways In the nineteenth century, Padstow was an important fishing port, but it was hampered by lack of land communication with its markets. The Bodmin and Wadebridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badharlick
Badharlick ( kw, Bos Harlek, meaning ''Harlek's dwelling'') is a hamlet in the parish of Egloskerry, Cornwall, situated halfway between the villages of Tregeare and Egloskerry Egloskerry ( kw, Egloskeri) is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately northwest of Launceston. Egloskerry parish consists of the village itself and many outlying hamlets and farms, in ....Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' References External links Hamlets in Cornwall {{NorthCornwall-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tregeare Methodist Chapel - Geograph . An area with a diameter of 500 ft is enclosed by two banks and ditches. As it is overlooked by higher ground to the northwest it may have been used as a cattle enclosure rather than a fortification.Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 223
Tregeare ( kw, Treger) is a hamlet in the parish of Egloskerry in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. To the east is the hill Tregearedown Beacon. Tregeare Rounds is an Iron Age earthwork half a mile northeast of Pendoggett in the parish of St Kew St Kew ( kw, Lanndohow)Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) References Hamlets in Cornwall {{Cornwall-g ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tregeare . An area with a diameter of 500 ft is enclosed by two banks and ditches. As it is overlooked by higher ground to the northwest it may have been used as a cattle enclosure rather than a fortification.Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 223
Tregeare ( kw, Treger) is a hamlet in the parish of Egloskerry in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. To the east is the hill Tregearedown Beacon. Tregeare Rounds is an Iron Age earthwork half a mile northeast of Pendoggett in the parish of St Kew St Kew ( kw, Lanndohow)Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) References Hamlets in Cornwall {{Cornwall-geo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Colville
Captain Norman Robert Colville MC (27 January 1893 – 1974) was a British Army officer and art collector. He left the University of Cambridge to join the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the First World War. Colville received the Military Cross in 1915 for bravery in making a number of reconnaissances of the Hohenzollern Redoubt. After the war he joined his family's steel-making firm, but moved to Cornwall for health reasons, having been badly gassed during the war. He acquired Penheale Manor which he had extended by Sir Edwin Lutyens to form a house and gallery for his extensive art collection. Colville held works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Fra Bartolomeo as well as a large collection of Near and Middle Eastern artefacts, including the Burney Relief. Early life and army career Norman Robert Colville was born at Jerviston House near Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1893. He matriculated at the University of Cambridge in 1913. On 15 August 1914, shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alston Rivers
Alston Rivers Ltd. was a London publishing firm. The firm originally consisted of the Hon L.J. Bathurst and R.B. Byles and had brought out the novels of Whyte Melville and the Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which '' H.M.S. Pin ... operas. In 1904 it was reconstituted, with Bathurst and Archibald Marshall putting up the money and Byles as business manager and partner.Archibald Marshall, ''Out and About'', p. 111 They published a range of works including travel books, poetry and novels. They published from Brooke St, Holborn Bars, and in 1905 moved to 13 Arundel St. They continued publishing books until 1930. References Publishing companies of the United Kingdom {{UK-publish-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest George Henham
Ernest George Henham (1870–1948) was a Canadian-British author who wrote novels at the beginning of the 20th century about Dartmoor and Devon, England. He also published literary works under the pseudonym John Trevena.John Clute,Henham, Ernest G in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''. Retrieved 25 January 2018. General background Thomas Ernest George Henham, otherwise Ernest George was born on 14 December 1870 The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/6969g and his writings include a series of novels based on Dartmoor, the moorland in Devon, England, where he lived much of his life. He created a pseudonym, John Trevena, for many of his books. It was probably no coincidence that the surname he chose was the original name for Tintagel, the legendary location of King Arthur's castle. Henham wrote more than two dozen books, which were published between 1897 and 1927. He was considered a recluse, but often used people he encountered in real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwall Council
Cornwall Council ( kw, Konsel Kernow) is the unitary authority for Cornwall in the United Kingdom, not including the Isles of Scilly, which has its own unitary council. The council, and its predecessor Cornwall County Council, has a tradition of large groups of independent councillors, having been controlled by independents in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the 2021 elections, it has been under the control of the Conservative Party. Cornwall Council provides a wide range of services to the approximately half a million people who live in Cornwall. In 2014 it had an annual budget of more than £1 billion and was the biggest employer in Cornwall with a staff of 12,429 salaried workers. It is responsible for services including: schools, social services, rubbish collection, roads, planning and more. History Establishment of the unitary authority On 5 December 2007, the Government confirmed that Cornwall was one of five councils that would move to unitary status. This was enacted by st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. Life Early life and education Betjeman was born John Betjemann. He was the son of a prosperous silverware maker of Dutch descent. His parents, Mabel (''née'' Dawson) and Ernest Betjemann, had a family firm at 34–42 Pentonville Road which manufactured the kind of ornamental household furniture and gadgets distinctive to Victorians. During the First World War the family name was changed to the less German-looking Betjeman. His father's forebears had actually come from the present day Netherlands more than a century earlier, setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
