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Coton Hill, Shropshire
Coton Hill is a suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The River Severn flows to the west, and Bagley Brook, the original river bed of the Severn, to the east. History and development The area is believed to have been populated before the Norman Conquest, and its occupants were described as being cotters (someone who farmed or reared cattle). Coton Hill had an unusual number of public houses in proximity to each other, thanks to being on the historic route from Ellesmere and Chester. Pubs include the Woodman Inn, Bird in Hand, Royal Oak and Severn Apprentice. The Severn Apprentice closed in 2009 and was later gutted by fire, with the site it occupied being redeveloped for housing. A strangely named passage exists in the old former village – "Pig Trough". The Shropshire Agricultural Showground is just outside Coton Hill, and this is used once a year, usually in May, to hold the Shropshire County Show. Council houses were built in the suburb after the First World War. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shropshire (district)
Shropshire is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Shropshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England. It was created on 1 April 2009 from the former districts of Bridgnorth District, Bridgnorth, North Shropshire, Borough of Oswestry, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham and South Shropshire. The district is governed by Shropshire Council. It contains 188 civil parishes. Geography The district covers the towns of Oswestry, Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Ellesmere, Shropshire, Ellesmere, Wem, Whitchurch, Shropshire, Whitchurch, Much Wenlock, Shifnal, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Clun, Knighton, Powys, Knighton (part), Bishop's Castle, Cleobury Mortimer, Market Drayton and Shrewsbury. Governance The council has been under Conservative control since its creation in 2009, with the most recent 2021 Shropshire Council election, elections taken place in 2021. References {{Coord missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrewsbury To Chester Line
Shrewsbury ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, northwest of Wolverhampton, west of Telford, southeast of Wrexham and north of Hereford. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the parish had a population of 76,782. It is the county town of the ceremonial county of Shropshire. Shrewsbury has Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon roots and institutions whose foundations, dating from that time, represent a cultural continuity possibly going back as far as the 8th century. The centre has a largely undisturbed medieval street plan and over 660 Listed buildings in Shrewsbury, listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively by the Normans, Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town is the birthplace of Charles Darwin. It has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagley, Shrewsbury
Bagley is an area of Shrewsbury, county town of Shropshire. It is part urban, part rural and extends out from the town centre in a northwest direction. Though not clearly defined, it is often regarded as including Coton Hill, Shropshire, Coton Hill, Greenfields and Gravelhill. The Shropshire Agricultural Showground is located between Coton Hill and Gravelhill. Bagley is a Shropshire Council Wards of the United Kingdom, electoral division, which until 2009 included Coton Hill and the town centre of Shrewsbury. It now covers a smaller area, though includes the northern half of the Mount Pleasant housing estate. The same area covered by the electoral division also forms the town council ward of Bagley. It is named after the Bagley Brook which flows through the area and into the River Severn at Chester Street. Parts of the area are prone to flooding. On a small estate in the area named Herongate the positioning of the old river can be seen. As of 2009 a new housing development ("E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Botstiber
Hugo Botstiber (21 April 1875 in Vienna – 15 January 1941 in Shrewsbury, UK) was an Austrian Jewish musicologist, who studied under Robert Fuchs and Guido Adler. He was the secretary general of the Wiener Konzerthaus The Konzerthaus is a concert hall located in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both traditional and .... In 1938, he left Nazi Austria. Literary works * ''Beethoven im Alltag'', 1927; * ''J. Haydn'', 1927 (the 3rd volume for the work of Carl Ferdinand Pohl, based on the notes of him); * He revised the "''Musikbuch aus Österreich''" between 1904 and 1911; External links Botstiber, Hugoat aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at at ezines.onb.ac.at:8080 Austrian musicologists Jewish musicologists Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom Writers from Vienna 1875 births 1941 deaths {{Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wingfield (cricketer, Born 1834)
William Wingfield (30 September 1834 – 18 April 1913) was a Welsh-born clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1855 and 1862. He was born at Llanllwchaiarn, Newtown, Powys and died at Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Wingfield was educated at Rossall School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, Wingfield was a right-handed middle-order batsman and, in his early career at least, a wicketkeeper. He cemented his place in the 1855 University team with an innings of 69 in only his second first-class game, the match against the MCC, and this remained his highest score. He played in the University Match against Oxford University in each of his three seasons at Cambridge, but only in his last year did he make much impact, though his 54 in Cambridge's second innings was insufficient to prevent a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Williams (antiquary)
Edward Williams (1762 – 3 January 1833) was an English antiquarian. Biography Williams was the son of Edward Williams of Eaton Mascott, Shropshire, by his wife Barbara Letitia, daughter of John Mytton of Halston. He was born at Eaton Mascott, and baptised at Leighton on 8 September 1762. He was educated at Repton School, matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, on 28 October 1779, and graduated B.A. in 1783 (M.A. 1787). He subsequently obtained a fellowship at All Souls' College, which he held until 1818. Entering holy orders, he was appointed by his kinsman, John Corbet of Sundorne, in 1786 to the perpetual curacies of Battlefield and Uffington in Shropshire; and on 13 June 1817 All Souls' College presented him to the rectory of Chelsfield in Kent, all of which livings he held until his death. At an early age Williams became interested in the study of antiquities and topography; and, though he did not print any works, he left behind him a great many manuscripts on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Benbow
Vice-Admiral John Benbow (10 March 16534 November 1702) was an English Royal Navy officer. He joined the Navy in 1678, seeing action against Barbary pirates before leaving to join the Merchant Navy in which Benbow served until the 1688 Glorious Revolution, whereupon he returned to the Royal Navy and was commissioned. Benbow fought against the French Navy during the Nine Years' War, serving on and later commanding several English warships and taking part in the battles of Beachy Head and Barfleur and La Hogue in 1690 and 1692. He went on to achieve fame during his military accomplishments, which included fighting against Barbary pirates such as the Salé Rovers, besieging Saint-Malo and seeing action in the West Indies against the French during the War of the Spanish Succession. Benbow's fame and success earned him a promotion to the rank of vice-admiral. He subsequently fought at the action of August 1702, in which a number of his captains refused to support him in attackin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coton Hill Rail Crash
__NOTOC__ The Coton Hill rail crash was a train crash which occurred on 11 January 1965, at Coton Hill, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England. It happened when a heavily loaded freight train ran out of control on the 1 in 100 Hencote incline, and was derailed on a set of trap points, eventually demolishing a signal box. The signalman on duty was killed, and the driver of the train seriously injured. The accident At approximately 05:50, the 03:56 Saltney to Pontypool Road freight train, formed of Class 47 diesel locomotive D1734 with 46 wagons, weighing a total of 775 tons, was approaching Coton Hill. At the top of the Hencote downhill gradient, freight trains of Class 5 (modern equivalent Class 7) such as this one were required to obey a stop sign, but the train passed the sign and entered the Coton Hill goods loop at speed. Despite emergency brake applications being made, the train eventually derailed on the trap points at the exit of the goods yard and continued f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its southern suburbs were transferred from Derbyshire to the city council. It is the largest settlement in South Yorkshire and the third largest of Northern England. The city is in the North Midlands, in the eastern foothills of the Pennines and the valleys of the River Don with its four tributaries: the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin and the Sheaf. Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park and is the fifth-largest city in England. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, which is estimated to contain around 4.5 million trees. Sheffield played a crucial role in the Industrial Revolution, developing many signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinsley Marshalling Yard
Tinsley was a railway marshalling yard near Tinsley in Sheffield, England, used to separate railway wagons from incoming trains and add them to new trains. It was sited immediately west of the M1 motorway, about one mile north of the Catcliffe junction. It was opened in 1965, as a part of a major plan to rationalise all aspects of the rail services in the Sheffield area; it closed in stages from 1985, with the run-down of rail freight in Britain. It was also the site of Tinsley Traction Maintenance Depot ( TMD), which was closed in 1998; at its peak, 200 locomotives were allocated to this depot. As of 2011, an intermodal road-rail freight terminal Sheffield International Rail Freight Terminal (SIRFT) is located on part of the site; it was built c2008. A set of sidings is operated by DB Schenker Rail (UK) serving the nearby Outokumpu steel works. History In 1961, a tenth of the rail-borne freight in Britain originated in the Sheffield district. However, as with many areas, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theale
Theale () is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. It is southwest of Reading and 10 miles (16 km) east of Thatcham. The compact parish is bounded to the south and south-east by the Kennet & Avon Canal (which here incorporates the River Kennet), to the north by a golf course, to the east by the M4 motorway and to the west by the A340 road. Toponymy The name is thought to come from the Old English ''þelu'' meaning planks. As with the village of Theale in Somerset, this probably refers to planks used to create causeways on marshes or flood plains. A local legend suggests the name Theale refers to the village's coaching inns, and its position as the first staging post on the Bath Road out of Reading – literally calling the village The ale. History Romans The old significance of the position of Theale is that it lay at the junction of two ancient natural routes, one following the Kennet Valley from east to west and another which exploited the valley o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayston Hill
Bayston Hill is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is south of the county town Shrewsbury and located on the main A49 road, the Shrewsbury to Hereford road. Occupied continuously since before the Middle Ages, the village had a population of 5,079 residents in 2,172 households in the 2011 census. Bayston Hill has three public houses, two built churches (Church of England and Methodist), one primary school called Oakmeadow, and a public library. Lyth Hill lies to the south of the village. History Early history There is remaining evidence of both an ancient British Iron Age hillfort and a Roman settlement located on the village's high grounds. In the Middle Ages the heavily wooded Bayston Hill and Condover area was established as a Royal hunting forest. A busy rope works, complete with its own windmill built in 1835, existed on Lyth Hill in the 19th century, supplying the many mines, farms and barge owners across the district. Standing on the east side i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
