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New Ash Green
New Ash Green is a village in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 8 miles south west of Gravesend. History Building of the village began in 1967, with Span as the developer and Eric Lyons as the designer. The architectural design of New Ash Green was innovative for its time, and its original concept was intended as a prototype for a new way of living in the latter twentieth century. The first buildings were created to be airy, pleasant and modern. There was generous landscaping and cars were separated from pedestrians in the streets and in the shopping precinct. The village is arranged in twenty four neighbourhoods. Punch Croft and Over Minnis are some of the original Span-designed sections. The development soon ran into difficulties. Originally, the Greater London Council was going to buy 450 of the properties for renting. This idea was dropped when the leadership of the GLC went into Conservative hands. This reduced the financial viability of the developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash-cum-Ridley
Ash-cum-Ridley is a civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 7,070, reducing to 6,641 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes four main settlements: * Ash is a small village including the London Golf Club. * New Ash Green, a planned settlement * Hodsoll Street is a hamlet including the Green Man pub * Ridley, another small village. New Street is another hamlet, east of Ridley and north of Hodsoll Street; OS grid reference TQ6264. Ash and Ridley were formerly separate parishes. Both were part of Dartford Rural District and Axstane Hundred. Gallery St Peter and St Paul, Ash (geograph 3300759).jpg, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Ash The Green Man, Hodsoll Street - geograph.org.uk - 326821.jpg, The Green Man, Hodsoll Street St Peter's Church, Ridley (Geograph Image 2208446 b077c83e).jpg, St Peter's Church, Ridley Ridley may refer to: Education * Ridley College (Ontario), a university preparatory bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bovis Homes Group
Vistry Group, formerly Bovis Homes Group, is a British home construction company based in Kings Hill, England. Bovis Homes completed a deal to acquire Galliford Try's housing arm in January 2020, renaming the combined business Vistry. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It is one of the biggest housebuilders in the UK. Vistry issued three profit warnings in late 2024, and was removed from the FTSE 100 share index. History Vistry Group was the result of a 2019 merger of Bovis Homes and Galliford Try's housing businesses. Bovis Homes Bovis Homes’ origins lay in the early post-war housing operations of Bovis Holdings (see also Bovis Construction). Bovis had been acquiring housing land in the early 1950s but the level of housebuilding was modest until 1967 when it acquired Frank Sanderson’s Malcolm Sanderson Developments and the much larger RT Warren. Frank Sanderson rapidly expanded Bovis’s housing through acquisition inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alestorm
Alestorm are a Scottish heavy metal band formed in Perth in 2004. Their music is characterised by a pirate theme, and as a result, they have been dubbed a "pirate metal" band by many critics and their fanbase. The group currently consists of lead vocalist/keytarist Christopher Bowes, bassist Gareth Murdock, drummer Peter Alcorn, keyboardist/harsh vocalist Elliot Vernon and guitarist Máté "Bobo" Bodor. After signing to Napalm Records in 2007, their debut album, '' Captain Morgan's Revenge'', was released on 25 January 2008. '' Black Sails at Midnight'', the band's second album, was released on 27 May 2009. The band's third album, '' Back Through Time'', was released on 3 June 2011. The fourth album from the band, '' Sunset on the Golden Age'', was released in August 2014. Their fifth album, '' No Grave But the Sea'', was released on 26 May 2017. Their sixth album, ''Curse of the Crystal Coconut'', was released on 29 May 2020. Their seventh album, '' Seventh Rum of a Seventh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longfield
Longfield is a village in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located 6 miles south east of Dartford and the same distance south-west of Gravesend. History The place in Kent is recorded as ''Langanfelda'' in the Saxon Charters of 964–995, and as ''Langafel'' in the Domesday Book of 1086. It had been proposed by town planner Patrick Abercrombie as part of the Greater London Plan in the mid-1940s to build a new town in the Longfield area, however other satellite areas around London were selected instead. Localities Longfield and New Barn is a civil parish named after the adjacent villages it covers, the eastern part being New Barn, it also covers the smaller settlement, the neighbourhood of Longfield Hill. Longfield is the ancient village, situated on the road between Dartford and Meopham; the historic church there is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. New Barn is larger in population than Longfield, although has little in the way of services, being a comparatively rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluewater
Bluewater(s) or Blue Water(s) may refer to: Maritime * Blue water, the global deep oceans *Blue Water 24, an American sailboat design * Blue-water navy, a navy that can operate in deep waters of open oceans * , a Panamanian tanker in service 1952-59 Places and structures Australia * Bluewater, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville ** Bluewater Beach, Queensland, a town within Bluewater Barbados * Blue Waters, Christ Church, Barbados, a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados Canada * Bluewater, Ontario, a town near Sarnia * Bluewater Route (Ontario Highway 21), a tourist trail along the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario * Blue Water Bridge, linking Canada and the United States South Africa * Bluewater Bay, Eastern Cape, a seaside suburb of Port Elizabeth United Kingdom * Bluewater Shopping Centre, a large shopping centre in Kent, England United States * Bluewater, Arizona, census-designated place * Bluewater, California, census-designated place * Bluewater, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go-Coach
Go-Coachhire Limited, trading as Go-Coach, is a bus operator running a total of 40 bus services (including school services) across Kent and Sussex. The majority of these services are operated on behalf of Kent County Council from their depot in Swanley. History Go-Coach was founded on 1 February 2008 by Austin Blackburn. The company began operating as a coach hire company initially just using a single coach.A decade of Go '' Coach & Bus Week'' issue 1350 19 July 2018 pages 16-23 In April 2010, Go-Coach began operating bus services for the first time when they took over the Kent County Council tendered routes 401 ( Sevenoaks to Westerham) and 421 (Sevenoaks to Swanley) from Arriva Southern Counties. In May 2011, Go Coach extended route 421 to Dartford to replace the Arriva Southern Counties route 423 bringing the operator into the town for the first time. The companies Dartford services were further boosted with the instruction of the ''Dart'' local town services in 2014. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longfield Station
Longfield railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the villages of Longfield, Hartley, and New Ash Green. It is down the line from and is situated between and . The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern. History Although situated in Longfield, the station was originally named after Fawkham when it opened in June 1872. The name of a nearby village was chosen as a local land owner had offered land and cash for provision of a station. The original station was destroyed by fire around 1900, but rebuilt in the same location. The railway line through Fawkham station was electrified in 1939 under the Southern Railway with electric trains operating between Victoria and Gillingham. Steam trains continued to pass through the station on their way to/from the Kent Coast until June 1959 when those services were then also turned over to electric operation under British Railways. With the start of summer timetable in 1961, the true loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Rail
National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, a group representing passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales. The TOCs run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board, from 1965 using the brand name British Rail. Northern Ireland, which is bordered by the Republic of Ireland, has a different system. National Rail services share a ticketing structure and inter-availability that generally do not extend to services which were not part of British Rail. The brand has a dedicated website (see below) referred to as nationalrail.co.uk. Its brand name used to be 'National Rail Enquiries' denoted by the nomenclature 'NRE'. While today it is more commonly referred to as 'National Rail' by news and media, it is still known by the initials 'NRE'. National Rail and Network Rail ''National'' Rail should not be confused with ''Network'' Rail. National Rail is a brand used to promote pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absentee Landlord
In economics, an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit-earning property, but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen's 1923 book of the same name, ''Absentee Ownership''. Overall, tax policy seems to favour absentee ownership. However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land. Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss. Ireland Absentee landlords were a highly significant issue in the history of Ireland. In the 16th and 17th centuries, much of Ireland's land was confiscated from Catholic landowners by the Crown during the plantations of Ireland and given to Protestant settlers from Great Britain. Many of these settlers and their descendants eventually moved back to Britain while continuing to own their Irish estates, renting them out to local tenants. In 1782, Anglo-Irish politician Henry G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Needs School
Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs. This involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, and accessible settings. These interventions are designed to help individuals with special needs achieve a higher level of personal self-sufficiency and success in school and in their community, which may not be available if the student were only given access to a typical classroom education. Special education aims to provide accommodated education for disabled students such as learning disabilities, learning difficulties (such as dyslexia), communication disorders, emotional and behavioral disorders, physical disabilities (such as osteogenesis imperfecta, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater London Council
The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985 and its powers were devolved to the London boroughs and other entities. A new administrative body, known as the Greater London Authority (GLA), was established in 2000. Background In 1957 a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London had been set up under Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley, Sir Edwin Herbert to consider the local government arrangements in the London area. It reported in 1960, recommending the creation of 52 new London boroughs as the basis for local government. It further recommended that the LCC be replaced by a weaker strategic authority, with responsibility for public transport, road schemes, housing development and regeneration. The Greater London Group, a research centre of ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevenoaks (district)
Sevenoaks is a local government district in west Kent, England. Its council is based in the town of Sevenoaks. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Sevenoaks Urban District, Sevenoaks Rural District and part of Dartford Rural District. Geography The area is approximately evenly divided between buildings and infrastructure on the one hand and woodland or agricultural fields on the other. It contains the upper valley of the River Darenth and some headwaters of the River Eden. The vast majority of the district is covered by the Metropolitan Green Belt. In terms of districts, it borders Dartford to the north, Gravesham to the northeast, Tonbridge and Malling to the east, briefly Tunbridge Wells to the southeast. It also borders two which, equal to it, do not have borough status, the Wealden district of East Sussex to the south and the Tandridge district of Surrey to the southwest. It borders the London Boroughs of Bromley and Bexley to the northwes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
