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Bickerton East, Nova Scotia , Canada, a small community
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Bickerton may refer to: Places * Bickerton, Cheshire, village and civil parish in England, United Kingdom **Bickerton Hill, Cheshire * Bickerton, Devon, England, United Kingdom * Bickerton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom *Bickerton Island, small island off Australia *Cape Bickerton, Adélie Land, Antarctica People *Bickerton (surname) *Bickerton baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of Great Britain *Derek Bickerton, linguist Other * HMS ''Bickerton'' (K466), a British Captain-class frigate of the Second World War *Bickerton (bicycle), a folding bicycle manufactured in the UK between 1971 and 1991 See also *Port Bickerton, Nova Scotia Port Bickerton is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Saint Mary's in Guysborough County. Port Bickerton consists of two adjoining communities: Port Bickerton proper, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickerton, Cheshire
Bickerton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, about north of Whitchurch in Shropshire. The parish also includes the small settlement of Gallantry Bank,Genuki: Bickerton (accessed 21 February 2008) with a total population of over 200. The two s also lie partly within the civil parish. History 
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Bickerton Hill
Bickerton Hill refers to two low red sandstone hills that form the southern end of the Mid Cheshire Ridge in Cheshire, north-west England. The high point, Raw Head, lies on the northerly hill and has an elevation of 227 metres. Parts of the southerly hill are also known as Larkton Hill. There is evidence of settlement on the hills dating as early as the Neolithic or Bronze Age. The earthworks of an Iron Age hill fort, Maiden Castle, are located on the summit of the southerly hill; they are a Scheduled Monument. The hills have been quarried and mined for copper since the 17th century, and a grade-II-listed engine house chimney remains as a remnant of the mining industry. Several caves occur in the sandstone, some of which have a history of habitation. The Sandstone Trail, a long-distance footpath, runs along the ridge, and the area is popular with walkers. A large area of the southerly hill is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its biological imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickerton, North Yorkshire
Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the civil parish of Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, in the Harrogate district, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The nearest town is Wetherby. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation. History Bickerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers. The name of the village derives from the Old English of ''bīcere'' and ''tūn''; the town of the bee-keepers. Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Ainsty, in what was the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is now in the Borough of Harrogate The Borough of Harrogate is a local government district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England. Its population at the census of 2011 was 157,869. Its council is based in the town of Harrogate, but it also includes surrounding towns and ... of North Yorkshire, some west of York, and north-east of Wetherby. The road to the immediate south of the village was part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickerton Island
Bickerton Island is 13 km west of Groote Eylandt and 8 km east of the mouth of Blue Mud Bay in eastern Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is about 21 by 21 kilometres in size, with deep bays and indentations, and has an area of 215 km2. The largest bays are South Bay and North Bay. Bickerton Island was named by Matthew Flinders for Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, Bt. Flinders actually called it "Bickerton's Island", and noted as follows in Voyage to Terra Australis II: "In passing the south side of Bickerton's Island, we observed in it a deep bight or bay which would afford shelter in the north-west monsoon, if there be depth sufficient for a ship; and the hills at the back being high and woody, there was a probability of its receiving a stream of fresh water. The country round the entrance of the bight, had the appearance of being sandy and sterile." The Aboriginal community of Milyakburra was established in 1975 as a family outstation. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Bickerton
Cape Bickerton () is an ice-covered point 5 nautical miles (9 km) east-northeast of Gravenoire Rock which marks the north extremity of the coastal area close east of Victor Bay. Charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest ... under Mawson, 1911–14, and named by him for F. H. Bickerton, engineer of the expedition and leader of the Western Party which sighted the cape from its farthest west camp. Headlands of Adélie Land {{AdélieLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickerton (surname)
Bickerton is a surname which may refer to: The name Bickerton is derived from the Old English beocere, which means bee-keeper, and tun, which originally translated to an enclosure or fence. However this came to mean a fence around a house, homestead, village or town at an early date. Thus the name can be understood to mean village of the bee-keeper. The last name originated in Malpas, Cheshire during the Norman Conquest of England, where they held a seat. The name is also estimated to have originated in Rothburg in Northumberland and Bilton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Notable names: * Alexander William Bickerton (1842–1929), first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, teacher of Ernest Rutherford *Ashley Bickerton (1959-2022), American artist, son of Derek Bickerton * Arthur Bickerton (1919–1992), Australian politician *Derek Bickerton (1926–2018), U.S. linguist *Francis Howard Bickerton (1889–1954), British Antarctic explorer *Jane Howard, Duchess of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickerton Baronets
The Bickerton Baronetcy, of Upwood in the County of Huntingdon, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 29 May 1778 for Sir Richard Bickerton, a successful British naval commander who later rose to the rank of rear admiral and represented Rochester in the British House of Commons. His son, Sir Richard Bickerton, 2nd Baronet, also became a Royal Navy officer before succeeding to the baronetcy in 1792. He became a Lord of the Admiralty, represented Poole in the House of Commons, and rose to the rank of admiral. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1832. Bickerton baronets, of Upwood (1778) *Sir Richard Bickerton, 1st Baronet Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, 1st Baronet (23 June 172725 February 1792) was a British naval officer who finished his career as a rear admiral in the Royal Navy and was ennobled as the first Baronet Bickerton of Upwood. He served in sever ... (1727–1792) * Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, 2nd Baronet (1759–1832) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton (March 25, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an English-born linguist and professor at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the originator and main proponent of the language bioprogram hypothesis according to which the similarity of creoles is due to their being formed from a prior pidgin by children who all share a universal human innate grammar capacity. Bickerton also wrote several novels. His novels have been featured in the works of the Sun Ra Revival Post Krautrock Archestra, through spoken word and musical themes. Background Bickerton was born in Cheshire in 1926. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, England in 1949, Derek Bickerton entered academic life in the 1960s, first as a lecturer in English Literature at the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bickerton (K466)
HMS ''Bickerton'' was a of the Royal Navy. She served during the World War II as a convoy escort and anti-submarine warfare vessel in the Battle of the Atlantic and was an effective U-boat killer, being credited with the destruction of two U-boats during a service career of just 10 months. ''Bickerton'' was lost in action on 22 August 1944. Name Originally this ship was provisionally given the name USS ''Eisele'' (this name was reassigned to ). However the delivery was diverted to the Royal Navy before launch, and she was renamed for Sir Richard Bickerton commander of at the First Battle of Ushant during the American Revolutionary War.. Construction ''Bickerton'' was ordered on 10 January 1942, as DE-75, a long-hulled turbo-diesel ( TE) type destroyer escort, one of more than 500 such vessels built for ASW to a collaborative British-American design. She was laid down on 3 May 1943, by the Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard in Hingham, Massachusetts. She was launched on 24 July and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickerton (bicycle)
The Bickerton, also called the Bickerton Portable, was a portable aluminium folding bicycle designed by Harry Bickerton and manufactured in the UK and Australia between 1971 and 1989. Bickerton, an accomplished engineer, suffered a three year driving ban in 1970 following a car crash, and invented the bike for himself, to be carried onto public transport or stored in the trunk of a car as small as an Austin Mini. Origins The Bickerton was a portable bicycle launched when folding bicycles tended to be step-through frames with a simple hinge, such as the folding variant of the Raleigh Twenty. The first Bickerton was made entirely of aluminium profiles, without any welds. The prototype was unique, lightweight (8.8kg, 18lb) and with a small folded size (76cm x 51cm x 23cm). For its day, it broke new ground in bicycle manufacturing. Production history Production started in 1972 in Codicote, Hertfordshire at around 300 units in the first two years. The weight was 9.1kg, streng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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