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Three Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire And Buckinghamshire)
Three Counties may refer to: England *Three Counties (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire) The three English agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire are often grouped as the three counties. * Three Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) The three English home counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are also referred together as the Three Counties by locals **BBC Three Counties Radio, serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire shares this name as a result. *Three Counties System, a set of caves spanning Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire *Three Counties Asylum, a former psychiatric hospital serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire **Three Counties railway station (disused), named after the asylum China *The Sanyi Sanyi () or Nanpanshun (), also known by Cantonese romanizations such as Sam Yup and Nam Pun Shun, refers to the three districts (former counties) of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Counties (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire And Worcestershire)
The Three Counties of England are traditionally the three agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Including towns and cities such as Worcester, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Hereford, Leominster, Stourbridge, Evesham, Malvern and Kidderminster, they extend from the southern boundaries of Birmingham in the north to Bristol in the south. Traditionally rugby union and cricket playing areas, there is a Three Counties Showground situated in the Worcestershire town of Malvern that holds an annual agricultural show, and the area is also referred to in the names of local businesses and in the Three Counties Cider and Perry Association – the popular apple and pear derived alcoholic beverages, many of which are made in this area. The Three Choirs Festival is a festival of sacred choral music which has been held since 1724.'' Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable''. 16th edition. London: Cassell, 1999, p. 1174. It rotates between the three county towns (Worce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire And Buckinghamshire)
Three Counties may refer to: England *Three Counties (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire) The three English agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire are often grouped as the three counties. * Three Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) The three English home counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are also referred together as the Three Counties by locals **BBC Three Counties Radio, serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire shares this name as a result. *Three Counties System, a set of caves spanning Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire *Three Counties Asylum, a former psychiatric hospital serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire **Three Counties railway station (disused), named after the asylum China *The Sanyi Sanyi () or Nanpanshun (), also known by Cantonese romanizations such as Sam Yup and Nam Pun Shun, refers to the three districts (former counties) of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Three Counties Radio
BBC Three Counties Radio is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Grove Park in Dunstable. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 125,000 listeners and a 5.8% share as of December 2023. History BBC Radio Bedfordshire (1985–1993) The station launched as "Radio Bedfordshire" on 24 June 1985, serving the whole of Bedfordshire plus (despite the name) North Buckinghamshire and the northern parts of Hertfordshire. Therefore Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Milton Keynes, Knebworth, Berkhamsted, Tring, Harpenden, Leighton Buzzard, Aylesbury, Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth Garden City, Stevenage and Hitchin were served by the new station. In 1992, the station became known as "BBC Radio Bedfordshire with Herts and Bucks". BBC Three Counties Radio (1993–present) The station changed to its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Counties System
The Three Counties System is a set of inter-connected limestone solutional cave systems spanning the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire and North Yorkshire in the north of England. The possibility of connecting a number of discrete cave systems in the area to create a single super-system that spans the county borders was first proposed by Dave Brook in 1968, and it was achieved in 2011. The system is currently about long, making it the longest in the UK and the thirty-fourth longest in the world, and there continues to be scope for considerably extending the system. Description The Three Counties System's most southerly entrance is currently North by North End Pot (, NGR SD 6830 7654) on the northerly flank of Kingsdale in North Yorkshire, and the most northerly entrance is currently Bull Pot of the Witches (, NGR SD 6623 8131) beneath Barbon Low Fell in Cumbria – a distance of over . Between the two, the system passes beneath Leck Fell which is in Lancashire. The system runs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Counties Asylum
Fairfield Hospital in Fairfield, Bedfordshire, England was a psychiatric hospital from 1860 to 1999. It is a Grade II listed building. History Construction of ''The Fairfield Three Counties Asylum'' by William Webster on a site between Letchworth, Arlesey and Stotfold commenced in 1856. The new hospital replaced the Bedford Lunatic Asylum in Ampthill Road in Bedford, which had been built in 1812. The Fairfield Hospital was designed by George Fowler Jones with the longest corridor in the United Kingdom, at half a mile long. The clay for its bricks came from the nearby Arlesey Pits. The hospital, which catered for patients from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, opened with the transfer of 6 male and 6 female patients from Bedford Lunatic Asylum on 8 March 1860. By 1861 the number of patients had expanded to 460, with 248 female and 212 male patients. At this time the asylum employed about 256 local people from the surrounding villages, including 66 men in its g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Counties Railway Station
Three Counties railway station is a disused railway station near Arlesey in Bedfordshire, England. It served the southern environs of Arlesey. These included the Three Counties Lunatic Asylum, which was finally subsequently known as the Fairfield Hospital. The station was north of Hitchin on the "London-Peterborough" line. It opened in 1866, and closed to passengers in 1959. History The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on 1 April 1866, originally being named ''Arlesey Siding''. On 1 July 1886, the station was renamed ''Three Counties'', taking its new name from the nearby Three Counties Asylum, which itself was so named because it was a joint project of three counties - Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire. The GNR became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed to passengers, together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
