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Portway (company)
Portway or Port Way may refer to: Places in England * Portway, Worcestershire, a hamlet in Beoley parish, near Redditch Roads in England *Port Way, a Roman road between London and Weymouth *Portway, Bristol, a road from Bristol to Avonmouth *Derbyshire Portway, an ancient track *H5 Portway, part of the grid road system in Milton Keynes Sporting clubs *Portway Bristol F.C., a defunct football team Transport infrastructure * Portway Park & Ride, bus service in Bristol, England * Portway Park & Ride railway station in Bristol, England People *Joshua Portway Joshua Portway (born 1967) is an artist and game designer. He is a frequent collaborator with Lise Autogena, for example on their Black Shoals stock market. He is also the author of thNoodle series of interactive music pieces, which was originally ... (born 1967), British artist and game designer * Thomas Portway (by 1524–1557), English politician {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beoley
Beoley is a small village and larger civil parish north of Redditch in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire. It adjoins Warwickshire to the east. The 2001 census gave a parish population of 945, mostly at Holt End. The parish includes the hamlet of Portway, adjacent to the A435 road. It adjoins the Redditch suburb of Church Hill and the civil parishes of Alvechurch, Tanworth-in-Arden, Mappleborough Green and Wythall. History Manor The estates of the Benedictine Pershore Abbey included lands at ''Beoleahe'' from the 10th century at the latest, when Edgar the Peaceful restored them to the monks in AD 972. The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the abbey held 21 hides of land at ''Beolege'' and Yardley. An ancient castle, of which very slight traces remain, belonged successively to the noble families of Mortimer, Beauchamp, and Holland. Roger Mortimer (died 1214), Lord of Wigmore first appears in the pipe roll for 1174–1175, when he owned land in Shropshire and Worces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Way
Port Way (also known as the Portway) is an ancient road in southern England, which ran from Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, in modern-day Hampshire) in a south-westerly direction to Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum, Wiltshire). Often associated with the Roman Empire, the road may have predated the Roman occupation of Britain. By the time of the Roman occupation of Calleva Atrebatum and Sorbiodunum, the road formed part of a longer route between Londinium (London) and Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter). The term "Port Way" is sometimes used to refer to this whole route, although the section between Londinium and Calleva Atrebatum is correctly known as The Devil's Highway, and the section between Sorbiodunum and Vindocladia (Badbury Rings) is Ackling Dyke. The road was studied by antiquarians such as Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Henry MacLauchlan, Charles Roach Smith, Thomas William Shore, Thomas Codrington, and Ivan Margary, and much of the route can still be traced. The section east of Hannington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portway, Bristol
The Portway is a major road in the City of Bristol. It is part of the A4 and connects Bristol City Centre to the Avonmouth Docks and the M5 motorway via the Avon Gorge. The road was constructed following World War I in order to provide improved access to the ports at Avonmouth Docks, which had replaced Bristol Harbour as the major local centre for commercial shipping. Upon opening on 2 July 1926, it was the single most expensive road project in Britain, costing £800,000 (now about £ million). The construction posed a number of significant engineering challenges, including long and deep rock cuttings, a viaduct over the River Trym, and retaining walls against the gorge adjacent to the River Avon. Falling rocks have since been a problem along the Portway, particularly at the southern end close to the Clifton Suspension Bridge, with concrete canopies constructed to prevent loose rock and assist with remedial work. The Portway remains an important route to and from Bristol, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derbyshire Portway
The Derbyshire Portway is a pre-historic trackway that runs for over 40 miles across the Peak District of England. History The well-known section of the trackway runs from Mam Tor in north Derbyshire through the Peak District via Wirksworth to the Hemlock Stone near Nottingham and is said to have existed since the Bronze Age before falling out of regular use in the Middle Ages. However, there is evidence to suggest that the trackway originally extended to Manchester at the northern end and to Nottingham in the midlands. The trackway takes in several historic locations, amongst others: * Mam Tor * Robin Hood's Stride *Nine Stones Close *Alport Height * Dale Abbey * Hemlock Stone The Portway was the subject of a 2017 episode of the Channel 4 programme ''Britain's Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson ''Britain's Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson'' is a television documentary series presented by Sir Tony Robinson. The first series, consisting of three episodes, was broadcast in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H5 Portway
The Milton Keynes grid road system is a network of predominantly national speed limit, fully landscaped routes that form the top layer of the street hierarchy for both private and public transport in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The system is unique in the United Kingdom for its innovative use of street hierarchy principles: the grid roads run in between districts rather than through them. These facilitate higher speed limits due to the absence of buildings close to the roads, although more recently the initial concept has been eroded somewhat by making some of the grid roads 40mph. The grid road system also serves an important purpose of discouraging traffic from travelling through housing districts and reducing traffic noise and pollution from pedestrian areas. Traffic is segregated from pedestrian and leisure cycling traffic, which uses the alternative Milton Keynes redway system. All grid junctions are roundabouts, and the absence of traffic lights (from most) enables rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portway Bristol F (by 1524–1557), English politician
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Portway or Port Way may refer to: Places in England * Portway, Worcestershire, a hamlet in Beoley parish, near Redditch Roads in England * Port Way, a Roman road between London and Weymouth *Portway, Bristol, a road from Bristol to Avonmouth ** Portway Bristol F.C., a defunct football team **Portway park and ride ** Portway Park and Ride railway station *Derbyshire Portway, an ancient track * H5 Portway, part of the grid road system in Milton Keynes People *Joshua Portway (born 1967), British artist and game designer *Thomas Portway Thomas Portway (by 1524 – 1557), of Dover, Kent, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover in March 1553. He was mayor of Dover Mayors of the town of Dover, Kent, England. Before the 19th century *September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portway Park & Ride
The Portway park and ride site is on the A4 Portway at Shirehampton, to the north-west of Bristol, England, close to junction 18 of the M5 motorway. History The site opened in April 2002 with 300 car parking spaces as part of the Bristol park & ride network. There had been considerable opposition from local residents. The site was expanded in 2008 to provide 830 car parking spaces to coincide with the opening of the Cabot Circus shopping mall in Broadmead. Services were operated by First West of England until CT Plus took over in April 2012. First West of England resumed operating the services in September 2016. Service One regular service operates from the site, using buses with green livery. The site opens at 6:00am with the first bus leaving at 6:15am Monday to Saturday. On Sunday, the site opens at 9:00am with the first bus leaving at 9:30am. The last bus leaves Bristol city centre at 8:30pm Monday to Saturday and 6:00pm on Sunday. The site closes at 9:30pm. The site a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portway Park & Ride Railway Station
Portway Park & Ride is a railway station on the Severn Beach line in the Avonmouth district of Bristol, England. The station is about north-west of Bristol city centre and close to the M5 motorway. It serves the Portway park and ride facility on the A4 Portway, and opened on 1 August 2023 as part of the MetroWest package of improvements to railways in the area. History The railway through the site was inaugurated on 6 March 1865, when services began on the Bristol Port Railway and Pier (BPRP), a self-contained railway which ran along the north bank of the River Avon to a deep-water pier on the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth. The route was standard gauge single-track. The BPRP encountered difficulties in 1871, when the terminal pier at Avonmouth became difficult to use due to a build-up of silt. With no prospect of a proper dock being funded without a connection to the national railway network, the Clifton Extension Railway (CER) was approved. This was a joint venture by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Portway
Joshua Portway (born 1967) is an artist and game designer. He is a frequent collaborator with Lise Autogena, for example on their Black Shoals stock market. He is also the author of thNoodle series of interactive music pieces, which was originally created as a part of larger world music project at Peter Gabriel's Real World Multimedia studio. Although the main project didn't see the light of day, Noodle was released as an interactive track on a number of Real World CDs, and later evolved intNoodle Heaven By 1984, he had written and published the game "Sim" for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, which reached number 2 in the charts in 198 In 2002 he was nominated (along with Lise Autogena) for the Alternative Turner Prize [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
