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Cusop
Cusop is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England that lies at the foot of Cusop Hill next to the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales. It is a short walk from Hay, the distance between bus stops, and can be reached by walking or driving out of Hay towards Bredwardine, and turning right into Cusop Dingle. Etymology and history The village is possibly first recorded in Domesday Book, as "Cheweshope", and certainly attested in the later twelfth century as ''Kiweshope'', in 1292 as ''Kywishope'', and as ''Kusop'' and ''Cusop'' from 1302. The second element of the name is agreed to originate as the Old English word ''hōp'' 'valley'. The origin of the first element, however, is uncertain. One possibility is that the first part of the name was once the name of a stream which ran through the eponymous valley, perhaps one of a number of examples of Brittonic river-names corresponding to the Welsh word ''cyw'' 'young of an animal'. The Manor of Cusop formed part of the Ewyas L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hay-on-Wye
Hay-on-Wye, or simply Hay (; or simply ), is a market town and community (Wales), community in Powys, Wales. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as a book town, "town of books"; it is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. The community had a population of 1,675 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. The town is List of twin towns and sister cities in Wales, twinned with Redu, a village in the Municipalities of Belgium, Belgian municipality of Libin, Belgium, Libin, and with Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa. Hay-on-Wye is often named as one of the best places to live in Wales and has been named as one of the UK's best Christmas destinations. Location The town lies on the south-east bank of the River Wye and is within the north-easternmost tip of the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains, Wales, Black Mountains. The town is just on the Wales-England border, Welsh side of the border with Herefor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Rowse Armstrong
Herbert Rowse Armstrong TD MA (13 May 1869 – 31 May 1922) was an English solicitor and convicted murderer, the only solicitor in the United Kingdom ever hanged for murder. He was living in Cusop Dingle, Herefordshire, England, and practising in Hay-on-Wye, on the border of England and Wales, from 1906 until his arrest on 31 December 1921 for the attempted murder of a professional rival by arsenic poisoning. He was later also charged with, and convicted of, the murder of his wife, the crime for which he was executed.''The Murder Almanac'' p. 7 Early life and career Armstrong was born at 23 Princes Square, Plymouth, Devon, on 13 May 1869 to a family of modest means. The family later moved to Edge Hill, Liverpool. He was admitted as a sizar to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, in 1887, gaining a BA degree in law, and qualified as a solicitor in February 1895. He gained an MA (Cantab.) from St Catharine's in 1901. Initially practising in Liverpool, later Newton Abbot, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewyas Lacy
Ewyas Lacy was an ancient hundred in south-west Herefordshire. It was part of the ancient Welsh region of Ewyas claimed by the de Lacy family following the Norman Conquest. It equated to the modern civil parishes of Craswall, Cusop, Llancillo, Llanveynoe, Longtown (with Clodock), Michaelchurch Escley, Newton, Rowlestone, St Margarets, and Walterstone. Ewyas Lacy ceased to be used as an administrative entity with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888. The final residual copyhold Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is derived from the act of giving a copy of the relevant title deed that is recorded in the ...s were converted to freeholds in the Law of Property Act 1922. References External links * * {{coord, 52.005, -3.001, type:landmark_region:GB-HEF, display=title History of Herefordshire De Lacy family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cornewall
Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet (8 November 1748 – 26 August 1819) of Moccas Court, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807. Origins Born George Amyand, he was the eldest son and heir of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (1720–1766) by his wife Anna Maria Korteen, daughter of John Abraham Korteen, a Hamburg merchant. In 1766 he succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet and inherited his interest in the banking firm of Amyand, Staples and Mercer. Career Amyand was educated at Eton College then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts in 1769. On 18 July 1771 he married Catherine Cornewall, only daughter and heiress of Velters Cornewall of Moccas in Herefordshire, MP. In 1771 he assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Cornewall in lieu of his patronymic, in accordance with the bequest from his father-in-law, an inheritance which included Moccas Park in Herefordshire. In 1773 he received a Doctorate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Chetwode
Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, Lady Betjeman (14 February 1910 – 11 April 1986) was an English travel writer. She was the only daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, and the wife of poet laureate Sir John Betjeman. She was born at Aldershot and grew up in northern India, returning to the region in later life. Career She is best known for ''Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia'' (1963), her account of travelling through southern Spain on horseback in the summer of 1961. The book has been widely praised: ''The Independent'' called it "a classic work of adventure and humour" while Kate Kellaway, in ''The Guardian'', called it "a charming, intrepid story." In 2012, ''Two Middle-Aged Ladies'' was reissued by Eland Books. Chetwode travelled extensively in Himachal Pradesh, India, and wrote ''Kulu: The End of the Habitable World'' (1972), an account of her trek from Shimla to the head of the Rohtang Pass. She was also keenly interested in temple architecture of the western Him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herefordshire
Herefordshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire and Powys to the west. The city of Hereford is the largest settlement and county town. The county is one of the most rural in England, with an area of and a population of 187,034, giving a density of 88/km2 (228/sq mi). After Hereford (53,112) the largest settlements are Leominster (10,938), Ross-on-Wye (10,582), and Ledbury (8,862). For Local government in England, local government purposes Herefordshire is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area. The centre of Herefordshire is lowland which is crossed by the River Wye and its tributary, the River Lugg, Lugg. To the east are the Malvern Hills, a National Landscape, national landscape, which straddle the boundary with Worcestershire. The south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Lycett Green
Candida Rose Lycett Green (''née'' Betjeman; 22 September 194219 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including ''English Cottages'', ''Goodbye London'', ''The Perfect English House'', ''Over the Hills and Far Away'' and ''The Dangerous Edge of Things''. Her television documentaries included ''The Englishwoman and the Horse'', and ''The Front Garden''. ''Unwrecked England'', based on a regular column of the same name she wrote for ''The Oldie'' from 1992, was published in 2009. Green has been described as "the finest writer of our time on the English countryside". She edited and introduced the letters and prose of her father John Betjeman which were published in three volumes. She was a commissioner of English Heritage for nine years and her proudest achievement was the role she played in the regeneration of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-On-Trent. She was a member of the Performing Rights Society through her writing of lyrics for songs and was a Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motte-and-bailey
A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy to build with unskilled labour, but still militarily formidable, these castles were built across northern Europe from the 10th century onwards, spreading from Normandy and Anjou in France, into the Holy Roman Empire, as well as the Low Countries it controlled, in the 11th century, when these castles were popularized in the area that became the Netherlands. The Normans introduced the design into England and Wales. Motte-and-bailey castles were adopted in Scotland, Ireland, and Denmark in the 12th and 13th centuries. By the end of the 13th century, the design was largely superseded by alternative forms of fortification, but the earthworks remain a prominent feature in many countries. Architecture Structures A motte-and-bailey castle wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale University Press publishes approximately 300 new hardcover A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bookbinding, bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other clo ... and 150 new paperback books annually and has a backlist of about 5,000 books in print. Its books have won five National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards and eight Pulitzer Prizes. The press maintains offices in New Haven, Connecticut and London, England. Yale is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe. It was a co-founder of the dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who suffers a significant consequence in protest or support of a cause. In the martyrdom narrative of the remembering community, this refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of an individual by an oppressor. Accordingly, the status of the 'martyr' can be considered a posthumous title as a reward for those who are considered worthy of the concept of martyrdom by the living, regardless of any attempts by the deceased to control how they will be remembered in advance. Insofar, the martyr is a relational figure of a society's boundary work that is produced by collective memory. Originally applied only to those who suffered for their religious b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Architecture
The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries. In particular the term is traditionally used for English Romanesque architecture. The Normans introduced large numbers of castles and fortifications including Norman keeps, and at the same time monastery, monasteries, abbeys, churches and cathedrals, in a style characterised by the usual Romanesque rounded arches (particularly over windows and doorways) and especially massive proportions compared to other regional variations of the style. Origins These Romanesque architecture, Romanesque styles originated in Normandy and became widespread in northwestern Europe, particularly in England, which contributed considerable development and where the largest number of examples survived. At about the same time, Hauteville family, a Norman dynasty that ruled in Sicily produced a distinctive va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
