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Somerset Wildlife Trust
Somerset Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Somerset, England. The trust, which was established in 1964, aims to safeguard the county's wildlife and wild places for this and future generations and manages almost 80 nature reserves. Examples include Westhay Moor, Long Wood and Langford Heathfield. It has over 20,500 members and 500 volunteers. The Somerset Wildlife Trust is part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership of 46 wildlife trusts in the United Kingdom. In 2010 the organisation won a Biffa Award for their "Restoring Habitat for Dormice in Somerset" scheme. In 2011 the Trust appealed for £100,000 from local residents and businesses to restore former peat diggings on the Somerset Levels. Nature reserves The Nature reserves include: (* = Reserves designated as Sites of Scientific Interest) See also *List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset __NOTOC__ This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Somerset, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taunton, Somerset
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the Bishops of Winchester. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the Museum of Somerset and Somerset Military Museum. For the Second Cornish uprising of 1497, Perkin Warbeck brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497. On 20 June 1685 the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England here in a rebellion, defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall. The Grand Western Canal reached Taunton in 1839 and the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1842. Today it hosts Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset County Cricket Club, is the base of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, and is home to the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office on Admiralty Way. The popular Taunto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brimley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Clement Samuel Brimley (1863–1946), American zoologist * Herbert Hutchinson Brimley (1861–1946), American zoologist * Wilford Brimley (1934–2020), American actor See also * Brimley Halt railway station, railway station that served the village of Brimley, South Devon, England * Brimley Road, a north–south street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Brimley, Michigan {{surname, Brimley * Brimley, a residential village within Teignbridge, Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Breach And Copley Woods
Great Breach and Copley Woods () is a 64.8 hectare (160 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest 1 km south of Compton Dundon and 5 km south-east of Street in Somerset, England, notified in 1972. Description Great Breach and Copley Woods is an area of ancient and semi-natural broadleaved woodland. it was largely planted in the 19th Century as an oak plantation but was cleared and large parts of it were replanted with conifers. The site has two woodland types which have a restricted distribution in Britain and the has a locally important invertebrate fauna. The assemblage of fungi in the woods is also interesting. The site occupies a plateau and steep slopes which face west and is it the eastern end of the Polden Hills. The soils are poorly drained and lime rich and the underlying rock strata are Lower Lias and Keuper Marl. Flora and fauna Great Breach and Copley Woods many nationally scarce species of invertebrates, an interesting ground flora more typical of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilling Down
Gillingr (Old Norse: ; also Gilling) is a jötunn in Norse mythology, and the father of Suttungr. Gillingr and, later, his wife are murdered by the dwarfs Fjalar and Galar. In revenge, his son Suttungr tortures the dwarfs into giving him the mead of poetry. Name The Old Norse name ''Gillingr'' has been translated as 'screamer'. It is a related to the Old Norse verb ''gjalla'' ('to scream, yell'; compare with Icelandic ''gjalla'', Norwegian ''gjella'', or Swedish ''gälla''). Attestations Prose Edda In ''Skáldskaparmál'' (The Language of Poetry), the dwarfs Fjalar and Galar In Nordic mythology, Fjalar ( non, Fjalarr ) and his brother Galar ( non, Galarr ), were wicked dwarfs who killed Kvasir and turned his blood into the mead of poetry, which inspired poets. They appear in ''Skáldskaparmál''. Myth Fjalar and ... kill Gillingr by overturning his boat. When his wife hears of the news, she is "greatly distressed" and "weeps loudly" and the dwarf Galar, "weary o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fivehead Arable Fields
Fivehead Arable Fields () is a 10.3 hectare (25.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Fivehead in Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_ ..., notified in 1990. This site has one of the most important assemblages of arable weeds in Britain, several of which are now nationally rare or scarce. There is a large population of the nationally rare Broad-fruited Cornsalad (''Valerianella rimosa''). References External links Fivehead Arable Fields from Somerset Wildlife Trust {{SSSIs Somerset biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edford Woods And Meadows
Edford Woods and Meadows () is a 54.3 hectare (134.1 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, between Nettlebridge, Holcombe and Stoke St Michael, Somerset, notified in 1957. This site is important for the occurrence of a wide range of types of semi-natural ancient woodland and for unimproved meadows and pastures of a type which is now uncommon in Britain. The forests in Edford Wood are dominated by Ash and Alder trees, with Pedunculate Oak and Sessile Oak growing there as well. Hazel and other plants form a lush and varied undergrowth, with different species living in the moist soil of the valley floor rather than in the drier soil further up the hill sides. The rare herb monk's hood ''Monk's Hood'' is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in December 1138. It is the third novel in The Cadfael Chronicles. It was first published in 1980 (1980 in literature). It was adapted for television in 1994 by Central for IT ... grows in abundance in the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundon Beacon
Dundon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bill Dundon (born 1934), American bobsledder *Ed Dundon (1859–1893), American baseball player *Gus Dundon (1874–1940), American baseball player *Kevin Dundon, Irish chef *Michael Dundon Dr Michael Dundon (November 12, 1854 – April 5, 1936) was a Maltese politician of Irish birth. He was the 7th surviving child of William and Ellen Dundon, Barnakyle, Patrickswell, County Limerick, Ireland. He was educated at Queen's College ... (1854–1936), Maltese politician * Thomas Dundon (born 1972), American businessman {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draycott Sleights
Draycott Sleights () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Draycott in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, notified in 1987. The name is pronounced locally as "Slates", presumably a variation on the Saxon word Slade meaning amongst other things hillside, rather than in the same manner as the Yorkshire place of the same spelling. The Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve lies south east of Cheddar. It includes Draycott Sleights, , and Draycott Housegrounds, . Draycott Sleights is part of the Draycott Sleights Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Draycott Housegrounds is a County Wildlife Site. The entire reserve is within the Mendips Scarp Prime Biodiversity Area (PBA) and Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Draycott Sleights supports extensive areas of traditionally managed species-rich unimproved calcareous grassland. Additional interest lies in a rich invertebrate fauna. The site is situated on steep south-west facing slopes of the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dommett Wood (25 June 1933 – 2 November 2015) British Chief Scientist
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Dommett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Joel Dommett (born 1985), British comedian, television presenter and actor * John Dommett (1946–2004), Australian actor, writer and director * Leonard Dommett (1928–2006), Australian violinist, conductor and teacher * Roy Leonard Dommett CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cook's Fields
Thomas Cook Group plc was a global travel group, headquartered in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its formation on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG — successor to Thomas Cook & Son — and MyTravel Group until 23 September 2019, when it went into compulsory liquidation. The group operated as a tour operator and airline, and also operated travel agencies in Europe. At the time of the group's collapse, approximately 21,000 worldwide employees were left without jobs (including 9,000 UK staff) and 600,000 customers (150,000 from the UK) were left abroad, triggering the UK's largest peacetime repatriation. After the collapse, segments of the company were purchased by others, including the travel stores in the UK, the airlines, the Thomas Cook name and logo, the hotel brands and the tour operators. Thomas Cook India has been an entirely separate entity since August 2012, when it was acquired by Fairfax Financial and thus was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
