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Bretton Woods Conference Room
Bretton may refer to: Places England *Bretton, Derbyshire *Bretton, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire * Monk Bretton in South Yorkshire * West Bretton in West Yorkshire * Bretton Hall College of Education * Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire *Monk Bretton Priory, South Yorkshire Wales *Bretton, Flintshire Other uses *Bretton (name), list of people with the name * ''Bretton'' (EP), a 2008 record by Lower Than Atlantis *Bretton's Bretton's was a high-end department store in Canada from 1985 to 1996. The first two Bretton's stores were opened in Ottawa in 1985 by the parent company, Comark Incorporated. Comark (founded 1976), owned by the Brenninkmeijer family of the Nethe ..., former Canadian high-end department store See also * Bretton Woods (other) * Bretton Hall (other) * Bretten (other) * Brenton (other) * Breton (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton, Derbyshire
Bretton, Derbyshire is a hamlet in Derbyshire, 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 .... Set on a ridge with a panoramic view, it has few inhabitants but boasts a pub called the Barrel Inn, and thBretton youth hostel References External links Hamlets in Derbyshire Towns and villages of the Peak District Derbyshire Dales {{Derbyshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton, Peterborough
Bretton is a settlement and civil parish on the north western edge of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Bretton has been designed as a green environment; the major roads (Bretton Gate and Way) are tree-lined and there are several large parks and playing fields. It consists of two main areas; North Bretton and South Bretton, these are divided by Bretton Centre. North Bretton has the larger population and is home to the industrial estates and most leisure facilities as well as the Crematorium. The main entrance to Milton Hall is from Bretton Way in South Bretton and Nene Park is accessed via an under pass beneath the A47. Bretton Centre's main building is The Cresset multi-purpose venue, holding a large stage and seating, shops, a church, children's entertainment and places to eat. Bretton centre was heavily redeveloped in the early to mid 2000s.. History There is evidence found by archaeologists of Iron Age and Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monk Bretton
Monk Bretton is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately two miles north-east from Barnsley town centre. History Monk Bretton has been a settlement since medieval times and was originally known as just 'Bretton'. It is sometimes thought to have taken its name from the twelfth-century Adam fitz Swain de Bretton, whose family owned much land in the area and who also founded Monk Bretton Priory. However, in the Domesday Book of 1086 the area is already known as Brettone, and the name may have originally meant 'Farmstead of the Britons', suggesting that a remnant of the old Romano-British population may have lived here into the Anglo-Saxon period. According to Domesday Book, the local Saxon lord in 1066 had been an individual called Wulfmer, who by 1086 had been replaced by a Norman lord, Illbert de Lacey, a major landholder associated with many other locations in the county. By 1225 the village was referred to as Munkebre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bretton
West Bretton is a village and civil parish near Barnsley, West Yorkshire, England. It lies close to junction 38 of the M1 motorway at Haigh. It has a population of 546, reducing to 459 at the 2011 Census. There is a school in the village, West Bretton Junior and Infant School, and a church, which is an Anglican-Methodist local ecumenical partnership. History Toponymy Bretton derives from the Old English ''Brettas'', the Britons and ''tūn'' meaning an enclosure, farmstead, village or estate. The Briton's farm or settlement was recorded as ''Bretone'' in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 and ''West Bretton'' in 1200. Manor This part of Yorkshire was laid waste in the Harrying of the North after the Norman conquest of England. Most of West Bretton was granted to the de Lacys, lords of the Honour of Pontefract by William I and a small part to the Manor of Wakefield. After the devastation, growth was slow but more land was eventually cultivated to sustain a growing population. A w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton Hall College Of Education
Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training college in 1949 with awards from the University of Leeds. The college merged with the University of Leeds in 2001 and the campus closed in 2007. History In 1949 Bretton Hall College, a teacher training college founded by Alec Clegg specialising in innovative courses in design, music and the visual and performance arts, opened in the historic Bretton Hall in West Bretton, Yorkshire. It became an affiliated college of the University of Leeds, which validated its degrees. The college had financial difficulties, and, with the support of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), merged with the University of Leeds in August 2001. Most of the music, fine art and teacher training courses were moved to the Leeds campus, but visual and performing arts education and creative writing remained at the Bretton site, which be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds (2001–2007). It is a Grade II* listed building. History In the 14th century the Bretton estate was owned by the Dronsfields and passed by marriage to the Wentworths in 1407. King Henry VIII spent three nights in the old hall and furnishings, draperies and panelling from his bedroom were moved to the new hall. A hall is marked on Christopher Saxton's 1577 map of Yorkshire. The present building was designed and built around 1720 by its owner, Sir William Wentworth assisted by James Moyser to replace the earlier hall. In 1792 it passed into the Beaumont family, (latterly Barons and Viscounts Allendale), and the library and dining room were remodelled by John Carr in 1793. Monumental stables designed by George Basevi were built between 1842 and 1852. The hall was sold to the West Riding Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monk Bretton Priory
Monk Bretton Priory is a ruined medieval priory located in the village of Lundwood, and close to Monk Bretton, South Yorkshire, England. History Originally a monastery under the Cluniac order, Monk Bretton Priory is located in the village of Lundwood, in the borough of Barnsley, England. It was founded in 1154 as the Priory of St. Mary Magdelene of Lund by Adam Fitswane, sited on the Lund, from Old Norse. In the course of time, the priory took the name of the nearby village of Bretton to be commonly known as Monk Bretton Priory. The Notton bequest John de Birthwaite was Prior of Monk Bretton in 1350. In that year Sir William de Notton, a powerful local landowner, who was later Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and his wife Isabel, conveyed to him lands at Fishlake, Monk Bretton, Moseley and Woolley. The purpose of the grant was to build a chantry chapel at Woolley Church. Notton directed that prayers were to be said for the souls of himself, Isabel, their children, and also K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In Northern England, it is on the east side of the Pennines. Part of the Peak District national park is in the county. The River Don flows through most of the county, which is landlocked. The county had a population of 1.34 million in 2011. Sheffield largest urban centre in the county, it is the south west of the county. The built-up area around Sheffield and Rotherham, with over half the county's population living within it, is the tenth most populous in the United Kingdom. The majority of the county was formerly governed as part of the county of Yorkshire, the former county remains as a cultural region. The county was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It was created from 32 local government district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton, Flintshire
Bretton is a village in Flintshire, Wales. It is located to the west of the city of Chester, near the border with Cheshire, England. Along with the nearby village of Broughton, the population was 5,791 at the 2001 Census. History The placename Bretton is probably derived from the Old Norse (ON) ''Bretar'' 'relating to the Britons (historical), the Welsh (people)' and the Old English language (OE) ''tūn'' 'farm or estate' The original settlers in Bretton were Viking welshmen, possibly second or third generation expatriates, distinctive in origin, culture, dress, accent or speech, who may well have called themselves, or been described by the English (and perhaps the Welsh), as ON ''Bretar'' rather than OE ''Walas'' or OE ''Cumbras''. Bretton Canal (also known as Sir John Glynne's Canal) was the western end of the waterway that crossed the Saltney Marsh on a route for two miles, and then turned to meet the new channel of the Dee a short distance away. It was used to transport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton (name)
Bretton is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Bretton Byrd (1904–1959), British composer and musician * Bretton Richardson, American baseball coach * Mark de Bretton Platts (born 1947), British philosopher Surename * Raphaël Bretton (1920–2011), French set decorator * Sally Bretton Sally Davis (born 1975/1976), known professionally as Sally Bretton, is a British actress. She is best known for appearing as Lucy Adams in the long-running BBC television sitcom '' Not Going Out'' since 2007, and as Martha Lloyd in the BBC1 cri ... (born 1975/1976), English actress * William Bretton (1909–1971), New Zealand clergy {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton (EP)
''Bretton'' is the first EP by British rock band Lower Than Atlantis, released in 2008. Background and production Lower Than Atlantis formed in August 2007 in Watford,''Rhythm'' 2009 while the members were attending college. Guitarist Ben Sansom asked guitarist Mike Duce if he wished to form a band with Ben's brother Luke, who would provide vocals.Patashnik 2013, p. 60 Alongside them was bassist Richard Wilkinson and drummer Matt Britz. In April 2008, the group signed to Small Town Records, with whom they were aiming to release their forthcoming EP through. Following line-up changes, such as the addition of drummer Joshua Pickett, bassist Stephen Minter, and Duce becoming the band's frontman,Patashnik 2013, p. 61 they began working on what would become their first EP, ''Bretton''. All of the songs on ''Bretton'' were written by Lower Than Atlantis, with lyrics by Duce and Luke Sansom. Duce taught himself how to sing and play guitar at the same time while playing along to the band' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bretton's
Bretton's was a high-end department store in Canada from 1985 to 1996. The first two Bretton's stores were opened in Ottawa in 1985 by the parent company, Comark Incorporated. Comark (founded 1976), owned by the Brenninkmeijer family of the Netherlands, had owned many retail chains including Ricki's, Bootlegger, Clark Shoes, Collacut Luggage and D'Aillards. The family also owns the C&A chain of department stores in Europe.''The Globe and Mail'', "Meet the Green Family", 10 September 2008, p.B1 Brettons sold clothing and cosmetics, in order to focus on high-margin, high-turn merchandise. Their stores were typically 60,000 square feet (6,000 m²), smaller than a typical department store. Comark aimed to establish 40 to 50 branches of Bretton's, but was blocked by existing department stores who generally had clauses in their shopping centre leases allowing them to approve or reject leases to other stores Locations *Ottawa: Rideau Centre *Ottawa: St. Laurent Shopping Centre *T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
