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Wigmore, Luton
Wigmore is a suburb of Luton about east north-east of the town centre, and a Ward (electoral subdivision), ward of the Borough of Luton, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. The suburb is roughly bounded by Telscombe Way and Someries Hill to the north, Wigmore Park to the south, Buckingham Drive and Wigmore Lane to the west, and rural Hertfordshire to the east. History Until the 1970s Wigmore was agricultural. Wigmore Hall made way for housing; however, the neighbouring early 19th century Wigmore Hall Farmhouse still stands. In the 1970s extensive development began, consisting mostly of suburban low-density residential housing. The 1980s saw further development and the estate now stretches to the county border. Local area The neighbouring Wigmore Park District Centre includes a health centre, supermarket, smaller shops and eating places. The Wigmore Place office development comprises three interlinked four storey buildings named Marlborough House, Eaton House and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Of Luton
Luton () is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Bedfordshire, England. The borough had a population of 225,262 at the 2021 census. Luton is on the River Lea, about north-west of London. The town's foundation dates to the sixth century as a Saxon settlement on the river, from which Luton derives its name. Luton is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Loitone'' and ''Lintone''. One of the largest churches in Bedfordshire, St Mary's Church, Luton, St Mary's Church, was built in the 12th century. There are local museums which explore Luton's history in Wardown Park Museum, Wardown Park and Stockwood Discovery Centre, Stockwood Park. Luton was once known for hatmaking and also had a large Vauxhall Motors factory. Car production at the plant began in 1905 and continued until its closure in 2002. Production of commercial vehicles IBC Vehicles, continues and the head office of Vauxhall Motors is in the village of Chalton, Bedfordshire, Chalton on the northern b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcareous Grassland
Calcareous grassland (or alkaline grassland) is an ecosystem associated with thin basic soil, such as that on chalk and limestone downland. There are large areas of calcareous grassland in northwestern Europe, particularly areas of southern England, such as Salisbury Plain and the North and South Downs. The machair forms a different kind of calcareous grassland, where fertile low-lying plains are formed on ground that is calcium-rich due to shell sand (pulverised sea shells). Biodiversity Plants on calcareous grassland are typically short and hardy, and include grasses and herbs such as clover. Calcareous grassland is an important habitat for insects, particularly butterflies and ants, and is kept at a plagioclimax by grazing animals, usually sheep and sometimes cattle. Rabbits used to play a part but due to the onset of myxomatosis their numbers decreased so dramatically that they no longer have much of a grazing effect. The lichen flora of chalk grasslands represents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Hopkins
Rachel Louise Hopkins (born 30 March 1972) is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South and South Bedfordshire, formerly Luton South, since 2019. Hopkins was a Member of Luton Borough Council from 2011 to 2021, on which she served as Executive Member for Public Health. She served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2021 to 2023. Early life and career Rachel Hopkins was born on 30 March 1972 in Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, Luton, and raised in Biscot. Her father, Kelvin, served as Labour MP for Luton North from 1997 to 2019. Her grandfather, Harold, was a physicist twice nominated for a Nobel Prize. She attended Denbigh High School and then Luton Sixth Form College, before going on to study at the University of Leicester. Her first full-time job was at TSB Bank. She later studied part-time for a master's degree from the University of Bedfordshire. Hopkins previously worked at the Electoral Commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity. That legislative body, the state's constitution, or a body established for that purpose determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. The district representative or representatives may be elected by single-winner first-past-the-post system, a multi-winner proportional representative system, or another voting method. The district members may be selected by a direct election under wide adult enfranchisement, an indirect election, or direct election using another form o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats, colloquially known as the Lib Dems, are a Liberalism, liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988. They are based at Liberal Democrat Headquarters (UK), Liberal Democrat Headquarters, in Westminster, and the leader is Ed Davey. They are the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom, party in the United Kingdom, with 72 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. They have members of the House of Lords, 5 in the Scottish Parliament, 1 in the Welsh Senedd, and more than 3,000 local council seats. The party holds a twice yearly Liberal Democrat Conference, at which policy is formulated. In contrast to its main opponents, the Lib Dems Liberal Democrat Conference#All-member Conference voting system, grant all members attending Conference the right to vote on policy, under a one member, one vote#United Kingdom, one member, one vote system. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putteridge
Putteridge is a suburb at the north-eastern edge of Luton, in Bedfordshire, England. Putteridge is a little over from Luton town centre and bordered by Central Bedfordshire district to the north and North Hertfordshire district to the east. Wigmore Lane and Hayling Drive form the southern boundary and Cannon Lane and Stapleford Road the western. Local area Many of Putteridge's houses were built in the 1930s by Janes Builders of Luton. The area is home to one of Luton's cemeteries, The Vale. The University of Bedfordshire's Putteridge Bury Campus is just over the border in Hertfordshire. The area is surrounded by green space including Butterfield Green, a new industrial development currently being built. This is hoped to help boost the local economy of the area and Luton as a whole. Putteridge Primary School and Putteridge High School serve the local areas including Stopsley, Round Green and Wigmore. Putteridge Bury The house at Putteridge Bury was built in the styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramridge End, Luton
Ramridge End is a small suburb in the east of Luton, in Bedfordshire, England. The area is roughly bounded by Brays Road to the north, Someries Hill to the south, Ashcroft Road to the west, and Wigmore Lane to the east. History The area was a former hamlet before being engulfed by Luton. Much of the land in the area was part of Ramridge End Farm, which was owned by a William Barber in the 19th century. Local area The local area is mainly residential, although Someries Infant and Junior Schools are in the area. There are also allotments on Wigmore Lane, and a post office and shop at the corner of Wigmore Lane and Croft Road. Politics Ramridge End straddles the border of the Round Green and Wigmore wards. The wards form part of the parliamentary constituency of Luton South and the MP is Rachel Hopkins Rachel Louise Hopkins (born 30 March 1972) is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South and South Bedfordshire, formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napier Park
Napier Park is a suburb of Luton, in the south of the town, in Bedfordshire, England. It is roughly bounded by Harrowden Road to the north, the Midland Main Line to the south, Luton Airport to the east, and Devon Road to the West. Napier Park is currently under construction (as of 2018), and is one of the newest suburbs of the town. History Napier Park was built on the former site of the Vauxhall Motors Car Factory. The factory first operated on the site in 1905 after Vauxhall moved its operations from Vauxhall in London. Vauxhall Motors was a major employer in Luton for a hundred years, with a commercial vehicle plant also operating in the Dunstable area, an aftersales warehouse in Tophill, and the Vauxhall headquarters in Park Town. Production ceased on the car factory site in 2002, and the large area of the town was cleared and lay empty for over ten years. In 2014 planning permission to redevelop the site was granted, and construction started in the late 2010s. The new area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vauxhall Park, Luton
Vauxhall Park is a suburb in east Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The area is roughly bounded by Crawley Green Road to the north, London Luton Airport to the south, the Vauxhall Way to the west, and Wigmore Lane to the east. History The area was historically the site of Eaton Green Farm, which today is commemorated in Eaton Green Road which runs through the area. The area was built up in the 1950s as part of the rapid post-war growth of Luton. It was named Vauxhall Park after the Vauxhall Motors factory which was nearby at the time, now the site of neighbouring Napier Park. Local area The area is mainly residential, with a small shopping precinct at its centre on Lyneham Road. Vauxhall Park has a church on Carteret Road, St. Francis Parish Church, and a community centre on Raynham Way. The south of the area consists of many industrial buildings and businesses close to the airport, part of the Luton Enterprise Zone. Politics Vauxhall Park is split between Crawley and Wigmore war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balancing Lake
A balancing lake (also flood basin ) is a term used in the UK to describe a retention basin used to control flooding by temporarily storing flood waters. The term balancing pond is also used, though typically for smaller storage facilities for streams and brooks. In open countryside, heavy rainfall soaks into the ground and is released relatively slowly into watercourses (ditches, streams, rivers). In an urban area, the extent of hard surfaces (roofs, roads) means that the rainfall is dumped immediately into the drainage system. If left unchecked, this has the potential to cause flooding downstream. The function of a balancing lake as part of a '' sustainable urban drainage scheme'' is to contain this surge and release it slowly. Failure to do this, especially in older settlements without separate storm sewers and foul sewers, can cause serious pollution as well as flooding. Engineering At its simplest, a balancing lake can be constructed by creating a dam across a drain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornbeam
Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the plant genus ''Carpinus'' in the family Betulaceae. Its species occur across much of the temperateness, temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Common names The common English name ''hornbeam'' derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to Horn (anatomy), horn) and the Old English ''beam'', "tree" (cognate with Dutch ''Boom'' and German ''Baum''). The American hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood, the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American beech ''Fagus grandifolia'', the other two from the hardness of the wood and the muscled appearance of the trunk and limbs. The botanical name for the genus, ''Carpinus'', is the original Latin name for the European species, although some etymologists derive it from the Celtic for a yoke. Description Hornbeams are small, slow-growing, understory trees with a natural, rounded form growing tall and wide; the exemplar species—the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
