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Highfield - American Authors
Highfield may refer to: Places ;Places in England * Highfield, Bolton * Highfield, Burntwood * Highfield, Derbyshire * Highfield, Gloucestershire *Highfield, Southampton * Highfield, Hertfordshire, a neighbourhood in Hemel Hempstead * Highfield, Oxfordshire * Highfield, Sheffield * Highfield, Tyne & Wear * Highfield, Wigan * Highfield, North Yorkshire *Highfield Boarding House, Uppingham School ;Places in Northern Ireland * Highfield, Belfast ;Places in Scotland * Highfield, North Ayrshire ;Places in United States of America *Highfield-Cascade, Maryland ;Places in Zimbabwe *Highfield, Harare ;Places in New Zealand * Highfield, New Zealand Other uses * Highfield (surname) * Highfield (Birmingham) - focus of a notable literary scene in the 1930s * Highfield Leadership Academy, a secondary school in Blackpool, England *Highfield Road, a former association football stadium in Coventry, England * The Highfield School, a secondary school in Letchworth, England * Highfield (stadium) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield, Belfast
Court is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north and west of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballygomartin, Clonard, Falls, Forth River, Shankill, and Woodvale. Court is split between the Belfast North and Belfast West constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament. History The DEA was created for the 1985 local elections. It initially contained six wards, three of which came from the abolished Area E, with the remainder from Area G. From the 1993 through 2011 local elections, it contained five wards, namely Crumlin, Glencairn, Highfield, Shankill and Woodvale, following the abolition of the Saint Anne's ward. For the 2014 local elections, the Crumlin ward was abolished, the Glencairn ward was replaced by Forth River ward and the Highfield ward was replaced by Ballygomartin ward. These four wards were joined by the Falls and Clonard wards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Highfield School
The Highfield School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The Highfield School teaches from Year 7 through to Year 13. The school is part of the Letchworth Sixth Form Consortium with Fearnhill School. It received a with outstanding features OFSTED grade. Original buildings The original school buildings were designed using a system of standard prefabricated components, and construction work started in May 1964. The prefabrication system used was ''SEAC Mark 1 (2' 8" Steel)''. The buildings In January 2017 the school moved into a new purpose-built £15 million building beside the old one, the latter being consequently demolished. The new building was fully financed by the Education Funding Agency. Originally North Hertfordshire District Council turned down the application on the grounds that the development would have a detrimental effect on neighbouring residential areas "due to its size and proximity to nearby buildings." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield Road
Highfield Road was a football stadium in the city of Coventry, England. It was the home ground for Coventry City for 106 years. History It was built in 1899 in the Hillfields district, close to the city centre, and staged its final game on 30 April 2005 when Coventry City beat Derby County 6–2 in the Football League Championship with the last goal appropriately being scored by Andy Whing, a product of Coventry City's youth academy. A concert by pop star Elton John was held at the stadium afterwards. The club then moved to the Ricoh Arena, at Foleshill in the north of the city. Highfield Road had one of the largest playing surfaces in the English leagues and was the English league's first all-seater stadium (the first all-seater in the UK was Clydebank's Kilbowie Park). The all-seater policy introduced by Jimmy Hill was later abandoned when Leeds United A.F.C., Leeds United fans tore-out several hundred seats after losing their First Division game to Coventry City 4–0 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield Leadership Academy
Highfield Leadership Academy is a co-educational secondary school located in Marton, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. History It was originally known as Highfield High School. In 2004 the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) awarded the school specialist school status as a Humanities College, focusing on the teaching and study of History, Geography and Religious Education. The school was subsequently renamed Highfield Humanities College. In 2007 the school featured in the DCSF list of schools that had made the best sustained improvements in their GCSE results over the previous four years. In August/September 2012 the school moved into a new building on the old playing field. The old school building, which stood for nearly eighty years, was demolished shortly after. Previously a community school administered by Blackpool Borough Council, in April 2016 Highfield Humanities College closed and converted to academy status and was renamed Highfield Leadership A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield (Birmingham)
''Highfield'' was a large house situated at 128 Selly Park Road in the Selly Park area of Birmingham, England. Built in the 1860s, it was bought in 1929 by Philip Sargant Florence and his wife Lella Secor Florence after Sargant Florence was appointed as a professor at the nearby University of Birmingham. Under the Florence's ownership Highfield became a focal point for the cultural life of Birmingham in the 1930s, a period when the city was the focus of great intellectual ferment. Secor Florence let self-contained flats within the house out to other members of the university and held regular unplanned and informal parties for "huge numbers" of students, academics and other guests, that could involve anything from dancing, to picnics on the lawn, to skating on the frozen lake in the house's four acres of grounds. ''Highfield'' also formed a focus for political activity; in 1932 the dining room was converted into a studio where artists painted anti-war posters which were paraded thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield (surname) (born 1958), Welsh writer and museum executive
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Highfield is a surname of British origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Highfield (born 1981), New Zealand footballer * Arnold R. Highfield (born 1940), American academic, historian, writer and poet * Ashley Highfield, British newspaper publisher *Liam Highfield (born 1990), English snooker player *Roger Highfield Roger Ronald Highfield (born 1958 in Griffithstown, Wales) is an author, science journalist, broadcaster and Science Director at the Science Museum Group. Education Highfield was educated at Chase Side Primary School in Enfield and Christ's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield, New Zealand
Highfield is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury district and Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Economy Retail The Highfield Village Mall includes a New World supermarket. Demographics Highfield covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Highfield had a population of 3,609 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 189 people (5.5%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 81 people (2.3%) since the 2006 census. There were 1,473 households, comprising 1,650 males and 1,959 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.84 males per female, with 600 people (16.6%) aged under 15 years, 546 (15.1%) aged 15 to 29, 1,545 (42.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 924 (25.6%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 91.2% European/Pākehā, 6.5% Māori, 1.4% Pasifika, 4.3% Asian, and 2.6% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. The percentage of people born overseas was 14.7, compared with 27.1% nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield, Harare
Highfield is a high-density suburb or township in Harare, Zimbabwe built to house Rhodesians of Ethnic groups of Africa, African origin. Highfield was founded on what used to be Highfields Farm. Location It is in southwest Harare and is bordered by Glen Norah (formerly Baxter Farm) to the southwest, Waterfalls to the southeast, Willowvale, Harare, Willowvale and Southerton in the north. Notable people Politics, religion and business * Ezekiel Guti - founding father of indigenous African pentacostalism * Joshua Nkomo – founding father, former vice-president of Zimbabwe, former president of PF ZAPU. * Robert Mugabe – founding father, president of Zimbabwe; lived in Highfield before becoming president in 1980. * Enos Nkala – nationalist, ZANU PF founded in his Highfield house. * George Tawengwa - owner of Mushandirapamwe Hotel, was the first black person to buy a farm in then Rhodesia * Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo – nationalist, political prisoner, philanthropist, entre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield-Cascade, Maryland
Highfield-Cascade is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The CDP is, however, more commonly referred to as just Cascade, MD. The official CDP name encompasses two closely-spaced unincorporated communities, Highfield and Cascade. The population of the CDP was 1,082 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Demographics At the 2020 Census there were 1,082 people and 447 households living in the CDP. The population density was . There were 447 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.1% White, 1.9% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.6% Asian, and 3.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.4%. Of the 447 households 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.2% were married couples living together, 21.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.2% were non-families. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield, North Ayrshire
Highfield is a small village or hamlet in North Ayrshire, Parish of Dalry, North Ayrshire, Dalry, Scotland. It is situated between the settlements of Barkip and Dalry on the A737 at a junction with the B777. It lies in the lands of the old The Barony of Kersland, Barony of Kersland, the ruins of Kersland Castle and East Kersland Mill being situated nearby at East Kersland. History A William Stewart of Hiefield is recorded in 1649. Highfield is a hamlet of around twenty-five households at a crossroads on the old Beith to Dalry A737 turnpike, about half a mile from Dalry. A pub was once located here known as the Highfield Inn with a shop attached.Dalry History Group, Page 106 A part of the settlement on the B777 road to Kilwinning is known as the 'Creepies' or 'Little Acre.' Creepie is a Scots work for the hedge sparrow. The village had some miner's cottages at the 'Creepies', long since demolished. Southfield, once the name of the whole settlement of 374 inhabitants in the 19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highfield Boarding House, Uppingham School
Highfield may refer to: Places ;Places in England *Highfield, Bolton *Highfield, Burntwood *Highfield, Derbyshire *Highfield, Gloucestershire *Highfield, Southampton *Highfield, Hertfordshire, a neighbourhood in Hemel Hempstead *Highfield, Oxfordshire *Highfield, Sheffield *Highfield, Tyne & Wear *Highfield, Wigan *Highfield, North Yorkshire *Highfield Boarding House, Uppingham School ;Places in Northern Ireland *Highfield, Belfast ;Places in Scotland *Highfield, North Ayrshire ;Places in United States of America *Highfield-Cascade, Maryland ;Places in Zimbabwe *Highfield, Harare ;Places in New Zealand *Highfield, New Zealand Other uses *Highfield (surname) *Highfield (Birmingham) - focus of a notable literary scene in the 1930s *Highfield Leadership Academy, a secondary school in Blackpool, England *Highfield Road, a former association football stadium in Coventry, England *The Highfield School, a secondary school in Letchworth, England *Highfield (stadium) - a former ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
