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Stoneleigh (cyclecar)
Stoneleigh may refer to: Places Australia *Stoneleigh, Darlinghurst, a heritage-listed house in Sydney, New South Wales *Stoneleigh, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region Canada *Stoneleigh, Ontario United Kingdom *Stoneleigh, Surrey, England *Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England United States *Stoneleigh (Stanleytown, Virginia), USA, the former abode of Governor Thomas B. Stanley *Stoneleigh (Charleston, West Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 *Stoneleigh: A Natural Garden, a 42-acre former estate owned by Natural Lands *Stoneleigh Historic District, Towson, Maryland Other uses *Stoneleigh Park, an agricultural exhibition ground and conference centre in Warwickshire, England *Stoneleigh Abbey, a country mansion situated to the southwest of the village of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England See also * {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh, Darlinghurst
Stoneleigh is a heritage-listed residence at 1 Darley Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Darlinghurst in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1860. It is also known as Greencourt. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Description Stoneleigh is a storey Victorian Regency style house, freestanding, with a hipped corrugated steel roof, a bank of 12 paned timber framed double hung windows to the first floor, and arched colonnade to the ground floor. It features a Victorian cast iron palisade fence. The colonnade extends around one side of the building. The building is constructed of stone and rendered brick. The columns to the colonnade are octagonal with moulded caps. The building also features articulated quoins. Significance Stoneleigh is historically significant as a fine example of the mid Victorian villas of the wealthy, one of the earliest layer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh, Queensland
Stoneleigh is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stoneleigh had a population of 124 people. Geography The terrain is hilly ranging from with two similarly-named but distinct peaks: * Parkers () in the centre of the locality * Parkers Hill () in the south of the locality Wyangapinni is a neighbourhood in the north-west of the locality (). It takes its name from Mount Wyangapinni (which is in neighbouring Rossvale to the north-west). The Gore Highway forms a small part of the south-eastern boundary of the locality. The McEwan State Forest is in the south-east of the locality. Apart from that protected area, the land use is predominantly agricultural involving both crop growing and grazing. History Stoneleigh Provisional School opened in 1906, becoming Stoneleigh State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1919. In July 1935, local farmer Victor George Hawkes of Turallin shot and killed his wife, his two children and his father-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh, Surrey
Stoneleigh is a suburban area southwest of London, situated in the north of the Epsom and Ewell borough in the county of Surrey, England. It is situated approximately from centre of London, central London. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census, the population was 8,741. The area was formerly part of the Great Park and Little Park of Nonsuch in the Tudor era. Nonsuch Park today is situated on the site of the Little Park in the east of the suburb, extending into East Ewell and Cheam. The construction of the Stoneleigh railway station, railway station, in 1932, was responsible for initiating the development of most of Stoneleigh, which was largely completed by the onset of World War II in late 1939. History Early history The Roman road Stane Street (Chichester), Stane Street passed through the eastern area of what is now Stoneleigh (along the modern day London Road/A24 road (England), A24) on its way from London to Chichester via the nearby spring at Ewell. Between t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh, Warwickshire
Stoneleigh, or Stoneleigh-in-Arden, is a small village in Warwickshire, England, on the River Sowe, situated 4.5 miles (7.25 km) south of Coventry and 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Leamington Spa. The population taken at the 2011 census was 3,636. The village is about northeast of the confluence of the River Sowe and the River Avon. The village's church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Stoneleigh has no public house: all three were closed by Lord Leigh more than 100 years ago, after his daughter was laughed at by drunks when she was going to church on a tricycle. However it has a social club, which meets in the evenings on Vicarage Road. Stoneleigh was the site of the most destructive tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the ... of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh (Stanleytown, Virginia)
Stoneleigh, the former abode of Governor Thomas B. Stanley, began its construction in 1929 and it was completed in 1932. It was built in the Tudor Revival-style and crafted out of stone from the nearby Smith River. Stanley inhabited this 25-room mansion until his death in 1970, after which his children took ownership. They donated the house to Ferrum College Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia. The college was established in 1913 as the "Ferrum Training School" (also referred to as the "Ferrum Institute" by its board of trustees) for primary and secondary education to serve the ... in 1980 In 1993 Bill and Barbara Topa had plans on making Stoneleigh into a four-star lodging and dining facility when they purchased the home in 1993. The Topas' plan did not get completed, and in 1998 Kevin and Whitney Witasick bought Stoneleigh for 800,000. The couple's ownership of the estate was cut short when Mr. Witasack was charged with tax evasion, tax perjury, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh (Charleston, West Virginia)
Stoneleigh, also known as the Charles E. Ward House or Ruffner Payne House, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1917 as the residence of Charles E. Ward, a leading West Virginia industrialist. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1984 as part of the South Hills Multiple Resource Area. References Houses in Charleston, West Virginia Houses completed in 1917 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, West Virginia Tudor Revival architecture in West Virginia {{KanawhaCountyWV-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Natural Garden
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh Historic District
Stoneleigh Historic District is a national historic district at Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a cohesive residential neighborhood in Central Baltimore County. The first section of Stoneleigh was platted in 1922 and later enlarged in 1954 with the central of land, on which the Italianate-style Stoneleigh Villa once stood. Domestic buildings in Stoneleigh extends from the 1920s to infill housing of the mid-1980s and are suburban examples of the Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, French Revival, Spanish Mission Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Craftsman styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. See also * Stoneleigh-Rodgers Forge, Maryland, a former Census-designated place enumerated in 1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneleigh Park
Stoneleigh Park, known between 1963 and 2013 as the National Agricultural Centre, is a business park located south-west of the village of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England. It is home to the Stoneleigh conference and exhibition centre. History The park was once part of the much larger Stoneleigh Abbey estate which was created in 1154 when Henry II granted land in the Forest of Arden to a group of Cistercians monks from Staffordshire. It was separated from the rest of the estate and developed only in 1963 when the Royal Agricultural Society of England decided to permanently base their previous nomadic Royal Show there, after it had been on tour annually since 1839. The popular annual Town and Country Festival started on the site in 1973. In 1978 it hosted the outdoor European Archery Championships, being the first UK venue to do so. 2003 saw the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales move their headquarters to the park. The Royal Show was held for the last time in 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
