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Lowick Bridge
Lowick may refer to: * Lowick, Cumbria * Lowick, Northamptonshire *Lowick, Northumberland * Lowick, Germany, part of Bocholt, Germany Bocholt () is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, part of the district Borken. It is situated 4 km (2½ miles) south of the border with the Netherlands. Suderwick is part of Bocholt and is situated at the border an ... {{geodis it:Pianeti di Guerre stellari#Lowick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowick, Cumbria
Lowick is a village and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. Prior to 1 April 1974 it was part of Lancashire, the change being as a result of the Local Government Act 1972. The village appears in records as early as 1202 as ''Lofwik'', and later as ''Laufwik'': the name derives from the Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ... "Lauf-vík" ( en, Leafy Bay). In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 224, increasing slightly at the 2011 census to 227. The parish is made up of several small hamlets, including Woodgate, Lowick Bridge and Lowick Green. Lowick Green has a red phone box, one of a number surviving in rural Britain. For hundreds of years, Lowick was a two-pub parish, with the "Red Lion" at Lowick Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowick, Northamptonshire
Lowick is a village and civil parish forming part of the district of North Northamptonshire, England, about north-west of Thrapston. It appears in the Domesday Book as ''Luhwik'', and later as ''Lofwyk'' and in 1167 as ''Luffewich''. The name derives from Old English "Luhha's or Luffa's dwelling place", wic being cognate to ''vicus'' in Latin. At the time of the 2011 census, the parish's population was 298 people. Buildings Drayton House is south-west of the village. St Peter's Church was built by the Greene family of Drayton between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The former school building in Drayton Road was built by Sir John Germaine and his wife and dates from 1717 to 1725. The George Eliot book ''Middlemarch ''Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life'' is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowick, Northumberland
Lowick () is a village in Northumberland, north east England. Lowick lies on the B6353 road, about south of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Anglican St John the Baptist's Parish Church dates from 1794, but a chapel was built in the 12th century by monks of Lindisfarne. The Grade II* listed Barmoor Castle, a castellated Tudor style country house is about a mile to the west of the village. History Lowick appears in records in 1181 as ''Lowich'', and in 1242 as ''Lowyc''. The Roman era Devil's Causeway passes through the village. It was used by monks travelling from Lindisfarne Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important ... to Durham. In 1851 the village had a population of 720 people, growing to 1,310 by 1891. Geography Lowick is on the B6353 road, about southwest of Berwick-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocholt, Germany
Bocholt () is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, part of the district Borken. It is situated 4 km (2½ miles) south of the border with the Netherlands. Suderwick is part of Bocholt and is situated at the border annex to Dinxperlo. Geography The northern border of the city of Bocholt is the German border with the Netherlands. Bocholt borders the district of Wesel, in the administrative region of Düsseldorf, in the southwest. Bocholt is bordered in the north by the Dutch municipalities of Aalten and Winterswijk, in the east by the city of Rhede, in the south by the city of Hamminkeln, and in the west by the city of Isselburg. The climate in the region of Bocholt and West Münsterland is temperate with distinct maritime influences, with very mild winters in comparison to other German regions because of the proximity to the ocean and the low elevation. Summers are moderately warm. The average temperature in January is 2.7 °C (37 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
