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Inskip Station, Oregon
Inskip may refer to: *Inskip, Lancashire Inskip is a small village in the Fylde area of Lancashire, England. It is part of the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Inskip-with-Sowerby. The village is close to the former RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar), RNAS Inskip airfield, which stil ..., a village in England ** RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar), a Royal Navy installation near Inskip, Lancashire, England * Inskip, California, a small town in the United States * Inskip Peninsula in Queensland, Australia * Inskip (surname) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inskip, Lancashire
Inskip is a small village in the Fylde area of Lancashire, England. It is part of the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Inskip-with-Sowerby. The village is close to the former RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar), RNAS Inskip airfield, which still serves the armed forces as a tri-service communication centre. It is home to one of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets training centres. Etymology The first part of the name ''Inskip'' may be the Common Brittonic, Brittonic ''ïnïs'' meaning "island" (Welsh language, Welsh ''ynys''), in place names generally referring to dry land in a marshy flood-prone area. Suffixed may be the Brittonic ''*cib'' meaning any rounded receptacle, presumably with some topographic sense, Old English ''-cy:pe'' or Anglo-Latin ''cuppa'', with the sense "fish-trap" recorded for both. History Inskip was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Inscip''. Its area was estimated in that survey to be two carucates of land. From 1281, the manorialism, manor was owned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar)
Royal Naval Air Station Inskip (RNAS Inskip, also known as HMS ''Nightjar''), was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm airbase near the village of Inskip, Lancashire, England. It saw considerable aircrew training activity towards the end of the World War II, Second World War. In the 1960s and 70s it was a Royal Navy transmitting station known as HMS ''Inskip''. It is now a military high frequency radio transmitting station known as Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), MOD Inskip. History On 4 June 1942 Admiralty (United Kingdom), the Admiralty acquired of farmland between Preston, Lancashire, Preston and Blackpool from John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby, Lord Derby. It planned to build an airfield, to be called RNAS Elswick, for the training of Anti-submarine warfare, anti-submarine and two-seat strike crews. The location was chosen because of the relatively quiet airspace in the north-west of England and the proximity of coastal ranges in the Morecambe Bay area. Construction of the runwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inskip, California
Inskip is a ghost town in Butte County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4,777 feet (1,456 m) in the northern Sierra Nevada near Lassen National Forest. The main surviving building is the Inskip Hotel, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist .... History Historical variants to the name suggest the community's history may have included mining. Variant names listed include Enskeeps Diggins and Inskip Town. The town was named in 1857 for the discoverer of gold here, Mr. Enskeep. A post office operated at Inskip from 1862 to 1915, with a brief interruption in 1873. At the bottom of the ravine runs the West Branch of the Feather River. ''Inskip Pioneer Cemetery'' is located almost exactly due south of town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inskip Peninsula
Inskip Point is a peninsula in the north of the locality of Inskip to the north of the town of Rainbow Beach in south-east Queensland, Australia. It is the vehicular gateway to K'Gari (formerly known as Fraser Island) via a barge service. The area became notorious for its near-shore landslides in which the beach collapses into the ocean. The worst event occurred in 2015 when campsites, cars and trailers fell into the ocean. Geography It lies between Tin Can Bay to the South West and Great Sandy Strait to the North and curves back towards Rainbow Beach and the Coral Sea to the East. The southern tip of Fraser Island, Hook Point lies some 1,200 metres north of Inskip Point, the northern tip of the peninsula. Two ferry services run between Inskip Point and Hook Point during daylight hours. Fauna The black-breasted buttonquail, a restricted-range endemic buttonquail Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
