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Sandford Fleming Award Recipients
Sandford may refer to: People * Baron Sandford * Baron Mount Sandford * Sandford (surname) * Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor of Standard Time Places Australia * Sandford, Tasmania * Sandford, Victoria Canada * Sandford, Nova Scotia England * Dry Sandford, Oxfordshire * Sandford, Cumbria, village in Westmorland and Furness district * Sandford, Devon * Sandford, Dorset * Sandford, Hampshire * Sandford, Isle of Wight * Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire * Sandford Orcas * Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordshire * Sandford, Somerset * Sandford, Whitchurch, near Whitchurch, location of Sandford Hall, home of the Sandford family * Sandford, Gloucestershire, a fictional village in the film ''Hot Fuzz'' * Sandford, a mockup village in Cheshire used for training police, part of Bruche Police National Training Centre Ireland * Sandford Park School, Dublin Scotland * Sandford, South Lanarkshire * An older spelling of St Fort, Forgan, Fife * An old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Sandford
Baron Sandford is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1891 when Francis Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford, Sir Francis Sandford, a civil servant who played an important role in the implementation of the Elementary Education Act 1870, was made Baron Sandford, of Sandford, Whitchurch, Sandford in the County of Shropshire, Salop. He was the son of Daniel Sandford (scholar), Sir Daniel Sandford, politician and Greek scholar, the grandson of the Right Reverend Daniel Sandford (bishop of Edinburgh), Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh, the brother of Daniel Sandford (Bishop of Tasmania), Daniel Sandford, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, Bishop of Tasmania, and the first cousin of the Right Reverend Charles Sandford (bishop), Charles Sandford, Bishop in Europe, Bishop of Gibraltar. He was childless and the title became extinct on his death in 1893. The second creation came in 1945 when the Conservative Party (UK), Conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford, Somerset
Sandford is a village between Churchill and Banwell on the A368 in North Somerset, England. The Parish of Winscombe and Sandford, centred on the Parish Church of Saint James, includes the villages of Barton, Oakridge, Sandford, Sidcot and Woodborough. The Sandford Parish Church of All Saints was built in 1883–85 by Hans Price, and is a Grade II listed building. It was constructed as a Chapel of ease to St James the Great in Winscombe. It is believed the name Sandford means 'The sand ford' from the Old English ''sand'' and '' ford''. Sandford is home to one of the region's main cider producers, Thatchers Cider. Sandford once had its own railway station on the Cheddar Valley line, which ran from Yatton to Wells. The now-disused station is a Grade II listed building. It is the subject of some controversy in the village as developers submit plans for its redevelopment. The ''Railway Inn'' is the only public house A pub (short for public house) is in severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford (other)
Sanford may refer to: People * Sanford (given name), including a list of people with the name * Sanford (surname), including a list of people with the name Places United States * Sanford, Alabama, a town in Covington County * Sanford, Colorado, a statutory town in Conejos County * Sanford, Florida, the county seat of Seminole County ** Orlando Sanford International Airport, in Sanford, Florida * Sanford, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Sanford, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Pawnee County * Sanford, Maine, a city in York County ** Sanford (CDP), Maine, a former census-designated place in downtown Sanford * Sanford, Michigan, a village in Midland County * Sanford, Mississippi Sanford is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Mississippi, United States. History Early history The Sanford community was very sparsely populated at the turn of the 18th century. The "founding families" began arriving in the e ..., an unincorporated community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandyford (other)
Sandyford is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Sandyford may also refer to: * Sandyford, Glasgow, Scotland * Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne, England * Sandyford, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England * Sandefjord, Norway See also * * Sandford (other) * Sandiford (other) * Sanford (other) Sanford may refer to: People * Sanford (given name), including a list of people with the name * Sanford (surname), including a list of people with the name Places United States * Sanford, Alabama, a town in Covington County * Sanford, Color ... * Standiford (other) * Zandvoorde (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandiford (other)
Sandiford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benedict Sandiford, British actor * Jacinta Sandiford (1932–1987), Ecuadorian high jumper * Keith A. Sandiford (born 1947), a Barbadian writer living in the United States * Keith A. P. Sandiford (born 1936), a Barbadian writer living in Canada * Lindsay Sandiford, British woman convicted in 2013 of drug smuggling in Indonesia * Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (born 1937), Barbadian politician * Robert Edison Sandiford (born 1968), Canadian writer See also * Sandford (other) *Sandyford (other) Sandyford is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Sandyford may also refer to: * Sandyford, Glasgow, Scotland * Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne, England * Sandyford, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England * Sandefjord, Norway See also * * Sandford ( ... * Standiford (other) {{surname, Sandiford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford, Indiana
Sandford is an unincorporated community in Fayette Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The community is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. A small portion of Sandford, now known as West Sandford or “Stringtown”, is in Illinois. History Sandford was established in 1854 at the state line between Illinois and Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s .... With the building of the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad, it became an important town in the area. In 1890 it had a population of approximately 250. A post office was established at Sandford in 1855, and remained in operation until 1995. On Jan. 19, 1907, at least 30 people were killed when nitroglycerin exploded in a freight car as a passenger train passed. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilconquhar
Kilconquhar (, locally also ) is a village and parish in Fife in Scotland. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the parishes of Elie, Ceres, Cameron, St Monans, Carnbee, Newburn and Largo.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Kilconquhar It is approximately 9 miles from north to south. Much of the land is agricultural or wooded. The village itself is situated inland, north of Kilconquhar Loch. Also in the civil parish are Colinsburgh and Largoward, the latter since 1860 being a separate ecclesiastical parish. The coastal village and royal burgh of Earlsferry was formerly in the parish, but in 1891 the burgh and that part of the parish south of the (now disused) Fife Coast Railway line and Cocklemill Burn was transferred to the parish of Elie.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Earlsferry History The name, first recorded in the 12th century as ''Kilconcat'', c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Fort
St Fort (, , or ) is a rural area, largely in Forgan parish, Fife. The current form of the name is late eighteenth century, the origin being a sandy ford on the Motray Water, in all likelihood the ford earlier known as ''Adnectan'' or Nechtan's ford. St Fort Hill lies immediately to the south of Newport-on-Tay and William Burn’s St Fort House, a large baronial mansion, demolished in 1953, lay on its southern slopes. The Home Farm, to its west, survives. Further south, the area was formerly served by St Fort railway station, on the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line. The triangular adjunct of the St Fort junctions, connecting the now-defunct Newburgh and North Fife Railway, lay to the station's south-east. Baillie Scott’s Arts and Crafts style Sandford House Hotel, taking the earlier form of the area's name, lies immediately to the station's west, just into Kilmany parish. Its restoration as a residence and holiday cottages was documented in the BBC television series Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford, South Lanarkshire
Sandford is a village near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire in Scotland. It lies approximately southeast of Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom .... It has 50 houses and 200 inhabitants. Sandford also has two parks and a bus shed which houses 5 buses overnight. The village is home to one of the oldest mills in Avondale. The village is a part of Sandford and Upper Avondale Community Council. In 2002-3 the council was successful in winning a grant of £21,000 to restore a footpath between the village and the small town of Strathaven around away. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandford Park School
Sandford Park School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational secondary school, located in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan .... It was founded in 1922. History The school was founded in 1922 by Alfred Le Peton, who served as its first headmaster. Le Peton had previously served as joint headmaster of Earlsfort House School alongside Ernest Exshaw. It was decided to move the school from the terraced city-centre property of Earlsfort House to the 2.5 hectare Ranelagh property of Sandford Park, originally designed in 1894 by Thomas Edmund Hudman for James P. Pile, a property developer and Hudman’s brother-in-law. The school was founded as non-denominational, to contrast with the majority of schools in Ireland at the time, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruche Police National Training Centre
Bruche Police Training Centre, Warrington, Lancashire was a training complex for probationary police officers in the United Kingdom. The site in a suburb of Warrington was operated by CENTREX, the 'Central Police Training and Development Authority'. It opened in January 1946 and closed in May 2006. Accommodation Bruche was originally opened to provide accommodation for U.S. Army Air Force officers during the Second World War. It opened as a police training college in January 1946, as a temporary site to accommodate the number of police officers being trained after the Second World War. In 1955, it was one of the two UK police training centres that accommodated female police officers. Curriculum Police forces from the northern part of England and Wales sent new recruits to the centre for the main part of their basic training, which consisted of the development of important attitudes and behaviours, law training and officer safety tactics. Training included several role-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Fuzz
''Hot Fuzz'' is a 2007 buddy cop action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the film with Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, an elite London police officer, whose proficiency makes the rest of his team look bad, causing him to be re-assigned to a West Country village where a series of gruesome deaths take place. Nick Frost stars alongside him as Police Constable Danny Butterman, Angel's partner. Jim Broadbent co-stars. ''Hot Fuzz'' is the second and most commercially successful film in the ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy, succeeding ''Shaun of the Dead'' and followed by ''The World's End (film), The World's End''. Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for the script. Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset for eleven weeks and ten artists worked on visual effect, VFX, which involved explosions, gory gunfire scenes and a flip book. Released on 16 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 20 April in the United States, ''Hot Fuzz'' rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
