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Doveridge
Doveridge is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, near the border with Staffordshire and about east of Uttoxeter. Its name may come from its having a bridge over the river Dove (i.e. Dove(B)ridge), a tributary of the River Trent. The civil parish population (including Oaks Green) as taken at the 2011 Census was 1,622. Doveridge has a pub, the "Cavendish Arms", a village shop, and a working men's club. The village also has a football team and a cricket team, both quite successful in their local leagues. History Doveridge was recorded in the Domesday Book, under the old English name "Dubbige", as belonging to Henry de FerrersHenry was given a large number of manors in Derbyshire including Tissington, Hartshorne, Cubley, Aston-on-Trent and Cowley, and being worth one hundred shillings.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.746 According to legend, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were married under the old yew tree in the churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Doveridge
Doveridge is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 24 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, a .... Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Doveridge and the surrounding countryside. Apart from a church, a cross in the churchyard, and a public house, all the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Cuthbert's Church, Doveridge
St Cuthbert's Church, Doveridge is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Doveridge, Derbyshire. History The church dates from the late 12th century. It comprises a west steeple, a clerestoreyed nave with aisles and chancel. It was restored in 1840 and again in 1869. Parish status The church is in a joint parish with *St John's Church, Alkmonton * St Andrew's Church, Cubley *St Giles’ Church, Marston Montgomery *St Paul's Church, Scropton *St Peter's Church, Somersal Herbert *All Saints’ Church, Sudbury Memorials *Katherine Wall (d. 1713) *Ralph Okeover (d. 1487) *William Davenport (d. 1640) *Arabella Cavendish (d. 1739) *Francis Cavendish (d. 1650) *Rev. John Fitzherbert (d. 1785) *Rev. Thomas Cavendish (d. 1850) by C Maile Sc of London *Thomas Milward (d. 1658) Organ The pipe organ was built by Steele and Keay and dates from 1867. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. See also *Grade I listed churches in De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet (13 April 1707 – 31 May 1776) was a British politician who held several appointments in the Kingdom of Ireland. Biography Cavendish was the son of William Cavendish and Mary Tyrell. He was descended from Sir William Cavendish, an ancestor shared with the Dukes of Devonshire. Cavendish studied at University College, Oxford, matriculating on 17 August 1724. He held the office of High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1741. He was responsible for the construction of Doveridge Hall, in Doveridge, Derbyshire. He subsequently moved to Ireland, where he became Teller of the Exchequer in the Irish government and Collector for Cork in 1743. He became Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland in 1747. Cavendish was created a baronet on 7 May 1755, of Doveridge in the County of Derby, in the Baronetage of Great Britain. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Lismore in 1761, serving until 1768. He was invested as a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove Bridge
Dove Bridge is a medieval bridge across the River Dove on the boundary of Staffordshire and Derbyshire in England. A river crossing has existed here since before the 1086 Domesday Book, on the road between Derby and Newcastle-under-Lyme. The current structure, a six-arch bridge, is thought to date from the 15th century, though it has been subject to later repairs and significant widening work in 1913. A larger replacement bridge was constructed in the 1970s and now carries the A50 dual carriageway. Dove Bridge is now only used by pedestrian and farm traffic. Description The current bridge consists of six arches. The outer four arches are pointed and medieval in origin, the central two arches are rounded and later in style. The bridge is constructed of sandstone blocks laid in regular courses. It rises slightly towards its centre. One of the older arches is ribbed, typical of Romanesque architecture. The cutwaters, located on both sides of the bridge between each a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowley, Derbyshire
Cowley is a small dispersed hamlet Retrieved 2018-03-27. in North East Derbyshire, consisting of a few private houses and functioning farms strung out along Cowley Lane, which runs between the village of and the "Hill Top" neighbourhood of the town of Dronfield (where the population is included). Until 2001 it held an annual [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartshorne, Derbyshire
Hartshorne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,888. It is north of the town of Swadlincote. The name is pronounced Harts-horne; the sh is not a digraph, as this is a compound. Amenities Local pubs include "The Admiral Rodney" named after the 1st Baron Rodney (1719–1792), "The Mill Wheel" (with an 18th-century mill wheel measuring 20 feet in diameter), "The Bulls Head" and "The Greyhound". "The Chesterfield Arms" was demolished in September 2009. The "Snooty Fox" (formerly the "Dominoes") was demolished in 2009. The "New Inn" closed in the 1960s and was then used as a hairdressing salon before being demolished in 1975 to make a car park extension for the "Admiral Rodney". The Old Manor House in the northern part of the village is a Grade II* listed 17th century timbered building on Main Street. It was built for one John Benskin in 1629 according to parish rate records. Sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales ( ) is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 71,116. Much of it is in the Peak District, although most of its population lies along the River Derwent. The borough borders the districts of High Peak, Amber Valley, North East Derbyshire and South Derbyshire in Derbyshire, Staffordshire Moorlands and East Staffordshire in Staffordshire and Sheffield in South Yorkshire. The district also lies within the Sheffield City Region, and the district council is a non-constituent partner member of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. A significant amount of the working population is employed in Sheffield and Chesterfield. The district offices are at Matlock Town Hall in Matlock. It was formed on 1 April 1974, originally under the name of West Derbyshire. The district adopted its current name on 1 January 1987. The district was a merger of Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock and Wirksworth urban distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts of England, districts and metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England, counties, or their combined form, the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of Parish (Church of England), ecclesiastical parishes, which historically played a role in both secular and religious administration. Civil and religious parishes were formally differentiated in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894, which established elected Parish councils in England, parish councils to take on the secular functions of the vestry, parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove, Biddulph and Stone, which form a conurbation around the city. Stoke is polycentric, having been formed by the federation of six towns in 1910. It took its name from Stoke-upon-Trent where the main centre of government and the principal railway station in the district were located. Hanley is the primary commercial centre; the other four towns which form the city are Burslem, Tunstall, Longton and Fenton. Stoke-on-Trent is the home of the pottery industry in England and known as The Potteries. Formerly a primarily industrial conurbation, it is now a centre for service industries and distribution centres. History Toponymy and etymology The name ''Stoke'' is taken from the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC East Midlands
BBC East Midlands is the BBC English Region covering Derbyshire (except High Peak, North East Derbyshire and the northern areas of the Derbyshire Dales), Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire (except Bassetlaw), Rutland, southern parts of South Kesteven in Lincolnshire and some northern parts of Northamptonshire. Services Television ''BBC East Midlandss television output consists only of the flagship regional news service '' East Midlands Today''. The television area is bigger than the region's radio area, because of the coverage from Waltham over Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. In reality, Radio Leicester covers much the same area as TV reception from Waltham, including all of Northamptonshire. Radio The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Leicester. On weekdays, each local radio station will have three standardised programme blocks with a total of three presenters for daytime as follows: * 6am Breakfast * 10am Mid-mornin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Independent Television
ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television, Carlton Central, ITV1 for Central England and commonly referred to as simply Central, is the Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands. It was created following the restructuring of ATV and began broadcasting on 1 January 1982. The service is owned and operated by ITV plc under the licensee of ''ITV Broadcasting Limited''. Historically Central made a major contribution to the ITV network schedule - especially in entertainment and drama - but today its main responsibility is the regional news service. History Background During the 1970s ATV, the previous Midlands licence holder, was often criticised for its lack of regional output and character. Although ATV had purpose-built a modern colour production complex in the centre of Birmingham, most of its major productions were recorded at its main studios at Elstree in Hertfordshire, a legacy of the period when the company had also served London at the weeke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital East Midlands
Capital East Midlands was a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network, broadcasting to the East Midlands from studios in Nottingham. It launched on 3 January 2011 following the merger of Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM. In April 2019, the station was merged with a sister Capital station in Birmingham to form Capital Midlands. History The regional station originally broadcast as three stations – Radio Trent began broadcasting to Nottinghamshire in July 1975, later expanding its coverage area to central and southern Derbyshire in March 1987 with split local programming introduced for the area. The Derbyshire station was relaunched in 1994 as Ram FM. Leicester Sound was launched in Leicestershire in September 1984, just over 11 months after the county's first ILR station, Centre Radio, went into receivership. Both Trent FM and Leicester Sound were owned by Midlands Radio until a takeover by Capital Radio plc led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
