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Grange Hill Characters
Grange may refer to: Buildings * Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906 * Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682 * The Grange (Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, built in 1817 * Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to a monastery Geography Australia * Grange, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide * Grange, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane Ireland County Westmeath * Grange, Kilbixy, a townland in Kilbixy civil parish, barony of Moygoish * Grange, Kilcumreragh, a townland in Kilcumreragh civil parish, barony of Moycashel * Grange, Lackan, a townland in Lackan civil parish, barony of Corkaree Other counties * Grange, either of two townlands in County Laois, in the baronies of Ballyadams and Tinnahinch * Grange, Cork, a residential neighborhood in Douglas, County Cork, a suburb of the city of Cork * Grange stone circle in County Limerick near Lough Gur * Grange, County Sligo * Grange, County Tipperary * Grange, County Waterford United Kingdom Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange House
Grange House (also known as Grangepans, Grange, Old Grange, and Grange Hamilton) was an estate house near Bo'ness, West Lothian (now Falkirk council area), in Scotland. The original house was built in 1564 for Sir John Hamilton. It was demolished in 1906. Hippolyte Blanc submitted designs to the Cadell family for additions to the house. Photographic copies of these designs survive, and are held by the National Monuments Record of Scotland The National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) was the term used for the archive of the sites, monuments and buildings of Scotland's past maintained by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The Commission was .... References {{coord, 56.0145, -3.5922, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Houses completed in 1564 16th century in Scotland Houses in Falkirk (council area) Demolished buildings and structures in Scotland Hippolyte Blanc buildings Buildings and structures demolished in 1906 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange, Merseyside
Grange (historically known as Caldy Grange, which gives its name to the local grammar school) is a suburb of West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. The suburb is contiguous with Newton to the north east. Historically part of the county of Cheshire, it is within the local government ward of West Kirby and Thurstaston and the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West. History According to the Domesday Book of 1086, Grange (also called Great Caldy, or Caldy Grange) was one of the estates owned by Hugh Delamere, consisting of a single household. The land later passed into the hands of Basingwerk Abbey, until the dissolution of the Monasteries. In the seventeenth century it became the property of William Glegg who also founded Calday Grange Grammar School, and it remained the property of the Gleggs until 1785, when it was bought by John Leigh, a Liverpool solicitor and property speculator, who refounded the grammar s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Townlands In County Down
In Ireland, Counties are divided into Civil Parishes and Parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of townlands in County Down, Northern Ireland: __NOTOC__ A Acre McCricket, Aghacullion, Aghandunvarran, Aghavilly, Aghlisnafin, Aghnaleck, Aghnamoira, Aghnatrisk, Aghyoghill, Angus Rock, Annacloy, Annadorn, Annaghanoon, Annaghbane, Annaghmakeonan, Annahunshigo, Ardaghy, Ardarragh, Ardbrin, Ardgeehan, Ardglass, Ardigon, Ardilea, Ardkeen, Ardkeeragh, Ardmeen, Ardminnan, Ardquin, Ardtanagh, Ardtole, Attical, Audley's Acre, Audleystown, Aughintober, Aughnacaven, Aughnacloy, Aughnadarragh, Aughnadrumman, Aughnafosker, Aughnagon, Aughnahoory, Aughnaloopy, Aughnaskeagh, Aughnavallog, Aughrim B Backaderry - Balloonigan Backaderry, Backnamullagh, Ballaghanery, Ballaghanery Upper, Ballaghbeg, Balleevy, Balleny, County Down, Balliggan, Ballinarry, Ballincurry, Ballincurry Upper, Ballindoalty, Ballindoalty Upp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange St Colmcille's GAC
St Colmcille's GAC, Grange () is a Gaelic Athletic Association club near Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is part of Armagh GAA and takes its name from the local Roman Catholic parish.Grange page on Armagh GAA website Their ground is St Colmcille's Park, Grange (). The club plays in the Armagh Senior Championship, and also has Ladies' and underage teams. History The club was formed at a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thedden Grange
Thedden Grange is a privately owned country house and estate in the civil parish of Bentworth, on the outskirts of Alton, Hampshire, England. Since renovation in the mid-1970s the original house, outbuildings and land have been divided into seven separate properties plus additional flats. The house and grounds have been used as locations in a number of films and television programmes. The estate covers 40 acres of land, among which are 9 acres of ornamental garden. History Thedden has a long history going back to at least the 15th century, when it is recorded that William Estone paid rent for lands at the manor. In the 19th century Thedden Grange was owned by industrialist John Wood. During the Second World War the house was used as a prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creech Grange
Creech Grange is a country house in Steeple, south of Wareham in Dorset at the foot of the Purbeck Hills. Historic England designate it as a Grade I listed building. The park and gardens are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. History The house was built by Sir Oliver Lawrence (1507–1559), who acquired the land from the former Bindon Abbey, near Wool, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. Lawrence was the brother-in-law of Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. Lawrence was an ancestor of the first American president, George Washington, and the joint arms of the two families - the stars and stripes of Washington's signet ring and the American flag - appear in memorials at Steeple and Affpuddle. Creech Grange was sold to Nathaniel Bond in 1691, and the family still hold their Purbeck estates. It was Thomas Bond who in Stuart times laid out the London Street over fields of swamp and refus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange Villa
Grange Villa is a village situated in County Durham, England. It is located between the towns of Stanley and Chester-le-Street. History Grange Villa was built to house miners; Stone Row first, then the top block of Queen Street, followed by the rest of the streets. The Handen Hold Colliery was to the north of the village past the Binney burn toward West Pelton. It closed in 1968; the Alma Pit, to the south of the village toward Twizell Burn, closed in the 1950s. A railway line ran from the Alma Pit, behind Front Street towards the Pelton Fell landings. Miners were still using carbide lamp A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C2H2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2) with water (H2O). Acetylene gas lamps were used to illuminate buildings, as lighthouse beac ...s to work by down the mine in the late 1950s. There was a cinema, snooker hall, fish shop, a clothing factory, several newsagents, bakers, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange-over-Sands
Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District Lake District National Park, National Park. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census the parish had a population of 4,114, increasing at the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 census to 4,279. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, the town became administered as an Urban district (England and Wales), urban district in 1894. Though the town remains part of the Duchy of Lancaster, since 2023 it has been administered as part of the Westmorland and Furness Council area. Travelling by road, Grange-over-Sands is to the south of Kendal, to the east of Ulverston, to the east of Barrow-in-Furness and to the north of Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster. History The town developed in the Victorian era from a small fishing village and the arrival of the railway in 1857 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange In Borrowdale
Grange, often called Grange in Borrowdale, is a village in Borrowdale in the English Lake District. It lies just off the B5289 road to the south of Derwent Water and south of Keswick, in the county of Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, The village is overlooked by Grange Fell and Castle Crag, which flank either side of the narrow section of Borrowdale in which it sits. Its origins date back to medieval times, when the monks of Furness Abbey built a monastic grange on the site. The double-arched bridge that links the village to the B5289 across the River Derwent was built in 1675. Holy Trinity Church followed in 1861. The novelist Hugh Walpole owned Brackenburn, a large house about to the north of Grange, and lived there from 1924 until his death in 1941. Governance Grange in Borrowdale is within the Penrith and Solway UK Parliamentary constituency. For Local Government purposes it is in the Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange Chine
Grange Chine and Marsh Chine form a geological feature on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, England. They lie to the south of the village of Brighstone. These two chines form the largest chine feature on the Isle of Wight. The Grange Chine starts at the southern edge of Brighstone and runs south-west, crosses under the A3055 road#Military Road, A3055 Military Road at the hamlet of Marsh Green, Isle of Wight, Marsh Green then continues for about five hundred metres to reach the beach at Brighstone Bay. The Marsh Chine starts to the east of Marsh Green alongside the A3055 and runs west where it joins the larger Grange Chine before it reaches the beach. Both chines have much shallower sides than other chines on the Isle of Wight and are extensively covered with hardy bushes, stunted trees and scrub. The Chines drain water from the southern slopes of Brighstone Down and from as far as Shorwell to the east. The stream ( the Buddle Brook) formed is significant enough to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrington
Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east of Liverpool and the same distance west of Manchester. The population in 2021 was recorded as 174,970 for the built-up area and 210,900 for the wider borough, the latter being more than double that of 1968 when it became a New towns in the United Kingdom, new town. Warrington is the largest town in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. Warrington was founded by the Roman Britain, Romans at an important crossing place on the River Mersey. A new settlement was established by the Saxons, Saxon Wærings. By the Middle Ages, Warrington had emerged as a market town at the lowest bridging point of the river. A local tradition of textile and tool production dates from this time. The expansion and urbanisation of Warrington coincided with the Industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
