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Ardley Tunnel
Ardley is an English toponym and may refer to: Places * Ardley Cove, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Ardley Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Ardley, Alberta, Canada * Ardley, Oxfordshire, UK ** Ardley Castle Ardley Castle was a castle to the southwest of the village of Ardley, Oxfordshire, England. At present only some of its ruins, most notably an oval enclosure in diameter, with a shallow ditch with an average depth of , a derelict moat and the e ... ** Ardley railway station * Ardley End, Essex, UK Other uses * Ardley United F.C., British football club See also * Ardley (surname) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponym
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''wikt:toponym, toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage, and types. ''Toponym'' is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all cosmographical features. In a more specific sense, the term ''toponymy'' refers to an inventory of toponyms, while the discipline researching such names is referred to as ''toponymics'' or ''toponomastics''. Toponymy is a branch of onomastics, the study of proper names of all kinds. A person who studies toponymy is called ''toponymist''. Etymology The term ''toponymy'' comes from / , 'place', and / , 'name'. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records ''toponymy'' (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876 in the context of geographical studies. Since then, ''toponym'' has come to replace the term ''place-name'' in profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley Cove
Ardley Cove () is a cove that lies north of Ardley Island in Maxwell Bay (Antarctica), Maxwell Bay, King George Island (Antarctica), King George Island. It was named Caleta Ardley by an Argentine expedition (about 1957) in association with Ardley Island. References * Coves of Antarctica {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley Island
Ardley Island is an island long, lying in Maxwell Bay close off the south-west end of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted as a peninsula in 1935 by Discovery Investigations personnel of the '' Discovery II'' and named for Lieutenant R.A.B. Ardley, Royal Naval Reserve, an officer on the ship in 1929–31 and 1931–33. Aerial photography has since shown that the feature is an island with Braillard Point being the headland forming the northeast end of Ardley Island. It has been designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 150) because of the importance of its seabird colonies. Birds The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 4,600 pairs of gentoo penguins, as well as smaller numbers of Adélie and chinstrap penguins, southern giant petrels, Wilson's and black-bellied storm petrels, Cape petrels, brown and south polar skuas, and Antarc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley, Alberta
Ardley is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Red Deer County. It is located west of Highway 21, approximately east of Red Deer. The community's name may be a transfer from Ardley, England. Ardley's population was enumerated at 16 in the last census, and the community is considered a ghost town. Demographics Ardley recorded a population of 17 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada. See also *List of communities in Alberta *List of hamlets in Alberta Hamlet (place), Hamlets in the Canadian province of Alberta are Unincorporated area, unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, Specialized municipalities of Alberta, specialized municipalities or List of communit ... References Hamlets in Alberta Red Deer County Ghost towns in Alberta {{CentralAlberta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley, Oxfordshire
Ardley is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about northwest of Bicester. The parish includes the village of Fewcott, which is now contiguous with Ardley. The United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 Census recorded the population of Ardley parish as 740. Geography and natural history The two villages of Ardley and Fewcott are on either side of a stream that rises at Fritwell, flows south to Ardley, then turns east through Stoke Lyne to Fringford. There it joins Crowell Brook, which continues east into Buckinghamshire and ultimately becomes part of the River Great Ouse, Great Ouse. The Cotswold stone, limestone quarry at Ardley has yielded a significant find of dinosaur tracks (ichnites), discovered in 1997 and thought to have been left by Megalosaurus and possibly Cetiosaurus. Some of these are on display in the dinosaur garden at the The Oxfordshire Museum, Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. There is a site of special scient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley Castle
Ardley Castle was a castle to the southwest of the village of Ardley, Oxfordshire, England. At present only some of its ruins, most notably an oval enclosure in diameter, with a shallow ditch with an average depth of , a derelict moat and the earthworks remain. According to sources, the castle was a motte and bailey fortification erected in the 12th century during the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda at the site of Offa of Mercia's old encampment. It was initially a manor site raised to a small castle by Hugh of Avranches, Earl of Chester to protect his lands from the chaos of war. It may have been constructed without the consent and permission of the monarch, making it an adulterine castle. During the war between Stephen and Matilda the castle was occasionally used by Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester. In 1136 the castle was attacked, but the attackers were repulsed. After the death of Ranulf, it was decided in the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153 that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley Railway Station
Ardley railway station was a railway station serving the village of Ardley in Oxfordshire, England. It was on what is now known as the Chiltern Main Line, south of Ardley Tunnel. History Ardley was one of six new stations that the Great Western Railway provided when it opened the high-speed Bicester cut-off line between Princes Risborough and Kings Sutton in 1910. It was the last station under the jurisdiction of the London District of the GWR on this route. The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.It had sidings by 1951. British Railways closed Ardley station and sidings in 1963, but in an odd oversight, Ardley continued to appear in the weekly special traffic notices of the London Midland Region right up until 1982, nineteen years after its closure. The site today Trains of the Chiltern Main Line The Chiltern Main Line is a railway line which links London () and Birmingham (Birmingham Moor Street railway station, Moor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley End
Ardley End is a hamlet in the Uttlesford area of Essex, England. It is approximately half a mile from the village of Hatfield Heath Hatfield Heath is a village, civil parish, and an Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, and at its west is close to the border with Hertfordshire. In close proximity ar .... Uttlesford Hamlets in Essex {{Essex-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardley United F
Ardley is an English toponym and may refer to: Places * Ardley Cove, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Ardley Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Ardley, Alberta, Canada * Ardley, Oxfordshire, UK ** Ardley Castle Ardley Castle was a castle to the southwest of the village of Ardley, Oxfordshire, England. At present only some of its ruins, most notably an oval enclosure in diameter, with a shallow ditch with an average depth of , a derelict moat and the e ... ** Ardley railway station * Ardley End, Essex, UK Other uses * Ardley United F.C., British football club See also * Ardley (surname) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
