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Tuthill Quarry
Tuthill Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the County Durham district of north-east County Durham, England. It lies just over 1 km east of the village of Haswell. The site occupies part of a disused quarry, in which have developed areas of primary and secondary magnesian limestone grassland. Such grassland is largely confined to County Durham and increasingly scarce even there. The grasslands at Tuthill Quarry are typical of the type, being characterised by the presence of blue moor-grass, ''Sesleria albicans'', and small scabious, ''Scabiosa columbaria'', but a number of less common species are also present, including common butterwort, '' Pinguicula vulgaris'', and adder's-tongue fern, ''Ophioglossum vulgatum''. There is a small patch of the nationally scarce bird's-eye primrose, ''Primula farinosa'', and one of the few records from lowland Durham of lesser clubmoss, ''Selaginella selaginoides ''Selaginella selaginoides'' is a non-flowering plant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterlee
Peterlee is a town in County Durham, England. It lies between Sunderland to the north, Hartlepool to the south, the Durham Coast to the east and Durham to the west. It gained town status in 1948 under the New Towns Act 1946. The act also created the nearby settlement of Newton Aycliffe and later Washington, Tyne and Wear. History The case for founding Peterlee as a new town was put forward in ''Farewell Squalor'' by Easington Rural District Council Surveyor C. W. Clarke, who also proposed that the town be named after the celebrated Durham miners' leader Peter Lee. It is one of the few places in the British Isles to be directly named after a recent individual, and unique among the post-Second World War new towns in having its existence requested by local people through their MP. A deputation, mostly if not wholly consisting of working miners, met the Minister of Town and Country Planning to put the case for a new town in the district. The Minister, Lewis Silkin, responde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Site Of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. SSSI/ASSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in the United Kingdom are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation. The acronym "SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I". Selection and conservation Sites notified for their biological interest are known as Biological SSSIs (or ASSIs), and those notified for geological or physiographic interest are Geological SSSIs (or ASSIs). Sites may be divided into management units, with some areas including units that are noted for both biological and geological interest. Biological Biological SSSI/A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Durham (district)
County Durham is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Durham, North East England. It covers the former non-metropolitan county and its seven districts: Durham (city), Easington, Sedgefield (borough), Teesdale, Wear Valley, Derwentside, and Chester-le-Street. It is governed by Durham County Council and has 136 civil parishes. The district is in a ceremonial county with three boroughs: Borough of Darlington, Borough of Hartlepool & Borough of Stockton-on-Tees (area north of the River Tees). The area is 2,232.6 km2 (862 sq m). History The district was created on the 1 April 2009, following the merger of all the borough and districts (Excluding the boroughs of Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees) which were already unitary authorities and the towns of Gateshead, Jarrow, South Shields and the city of Sunderland were already part of the Tyne and Wear metropolitan county from 1974. Geography The district has multiple hamlets and villages. Settlements w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Durham
County Durham ( ), officially simply Durham,UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. is a ceremonial county in North East England.North East Assembly �About North East England. Retrieved 30 November 2007. The ceremonial county spawned from the historic County Palatine of Durham in 1853. In 1996, the county gained part of the abolished ceremonial county of Cleveland.Lieutenancies Act 1997 . Retrieved 27 October 2014. The is the of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haswell, County Durham
Haswell is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated east of the city of Durham, south of the city of Sunderland and north-west of the town of Peterlee. Haswell was the birthplace of world champion road racing cyclist Tom Simpson, born 30 November 1937, who died aged 29 on Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France. It was also the home of the first coal mine in the world with a steel cable down its mine shaft. Coal Coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as stratum, rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen ... was discovered in the early 19th century. References External links *www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Haswell and surrounding area {{authority control Villages in County Durham Civil parishes in County Durham 1844 disasters in the United Kingdom 1844 in England Coal mining disaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sesleria Albicans
''Sesleria albicans'' is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae which can be found throughout Europe. Description The species is perennial and caespitose with erect and slender culms that are long. It have a ligule that goes around the ciliolate membrane and is long. Leaf-blades are flat and are long and wide. The panicle is capitated, oblong, ovate and inflorescenced with a diameter being by . Spikelets are oblong, solitary, and are long with pedicelled fertile ones. Sterile spikelets grow in pairs and carry 2–3 fertile florets. Both upper and lower glumes are long and are also ovate, membranous, glaucous, with a single keel and vein, and with acuminated and muticous apexes. Fertile lemma is ovate, membranous, and is long. Flowers have three stamens, two stigmas, and are hairy. The fruits have caryopses which have an additional pericarp Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit. Fruits are the mature ovary or ovaries of on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scabiosa Columbaria
''Scabiosa columbaria'', called the small scabious or dwarf pincushion flower, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the genus ''Scabiosa'', native to Europe, Africa, and western Asia, from Sweden to Angola. In the garden it is a short-lived deciduous perennial. In the wild in Europe it prefers to grow in calcareous grasslands. Growing to tall by , it has simple branched grey-green leaves, and pale lavender or blue multi-petalled flowers from summer to autumn. Subspecies The following subspecies are currently accepted: *''Scabiosa columbaria'' subsp. ''banatica'' (Waldst. & Kit.) Diklic *''Scabiosa columbaria'' subsp. ''caespitosa'' Jamzad *''Scabiosa columbaria'' subsp. ''columbaria *''Scabiosa columbaria'' subsp. ''pratensis'' (St.-Lag.) Braun-Blanq. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q159263 columbaria A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased. The term can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinguicula Vulgaris
''Pinguicula vulgaris'', the common butterwort, is a perennial carnivorous plant in the bladderwort family, Lentibulariaceae. Description It grows to a height of 3–16 cm, and is topped with a purple, and occasionally white, flower that is 15 mm or longer, and shaped like a funnel. This butterwort grows in damp environments such as bogs and swamps, in low or subalpine elevations. Being native to environments with cold winters, they produce a winter-resting bud ( hibernaculum). There are three forms originating from Europe: ''P. vulgaris'' f. ''bicolor'' which has petals that are white and purple; ''P. vulgaris'' f. ''albida'' which has all white petals; and ''P. vulgaris'' f. ''alpicola'' which has larger flowers.''The Savage Garden, Revised: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants''. Random House LLC, 2013. The taxonomic status of these forms is not universally recognised - see e.g. The Plant List. Common butterwort is an insectivorous plant. Its leaves have glands that excret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ophioglossum Vulgatum
''Ophioglossum vulgatum'', commonly known as adder's-tongue, southern adders-tongue or adders-tongue fern, is a species of fern in the family '' Ophioglossaceae''. The adder’s tongue fern is generally believed to have the largest number of chromosomes wit1262 compared to the human’s 46. Distribution It is native to many regions with a wide scattered distribution: throughout temperate through tropical Africa and throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere in Europe, northeastern North America, temperate Asia, and Eurasia. This small, hard-to-spot plant can occur singly in unimproved pastures, rock crevices and grassy path-sides, but also can occur in colonies of hundreds of plants in sand dunes. Description ''Ophioglossum vulgatum'' grows from a rhizome base to 10–20 cm tall (rarely to 30 cm). It consists of a two-part frond, separated into a rounded diamond-shaped sheath and narrow spore-bearing spike. The spike has around 10-40 segments on each side. It r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primula Farinosa
''Primula farinosa'', the bird's-eye primrose, is a small perennial plant in the family Primulaceae, native to Northern Europe and northern Asia, and (rarely) farther south at high altitudes in the mountains of southern Europe. This primrose thrives on grazed meadows rich in lime and moisture. Growth This small, Arctic–alpine primrose grows from in height. The leaves are set in rosettes and are long and broad, smooth on top, powdery-white on the underside. The violet-blue flower A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism ...s appear in early spring, and often in rounded clusters on top of a powdery stem when the plant is older. References External linksMajvivafrom guteinfo.com farinosa Alpine flora Medicinal plants Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selaginella Selaginoides
''Selaginella selaginoides'' is a non-flowering plant of the spikemoss genus ''Selaginella'' with a wide distribution around the Northern Hemisphere. It resembles a moss in appearance but is a vascular plant belonging to the division Lycopodiophyta. It has a number of common names including lesser clubmoss, club spikemoss, northern spikemoss, low spikemoss and prickly mountain-moss. This plant has one close relative, ''Selaginella deflexa'', native to Hawaii. These two plants form a small clade that is sister to all other ''Selaginella'' species. Description It is a small, delicate, low-growing plant. Its perennial sterile stems are short, slender and irregularly branched reaching up to 15 cm in length. They creep along the ground but usually turn upwards near the tip. They have small, pointed, triangular leaves about 1–2 mm long, each bearing a ligule on its upper surface near the base. The plant also produces annual fertile shoots. They are more robust th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sites Of Special Scientific Interest In County Durham
Site most often refers to: * Archaeological site * Campsite, a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area * Construction site * Location, a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere * Website, a set of related web pages, typically with a common domain name It may also refer to: * Site, a National Register of Historic Places property type * SITE (originally known as ''Sculpture in the Environment''), an American architecture and design firm * Site (mathematics), a category C together with a Grothendieck topology on C * ''The Site'', a 1990s TV series that aired on MSNBC * SITE Intelligence Group, a for-profit organization tracking jihadist and white supremacist organizations * SITE Institute, a terrorism-tracking organization, precursor to the SITE Intelligence Group * Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate, a company in Sindh, Pakistan * SITE Centers, American commercial real estate company * SITE Town, a densely populated town in Karachi, Pakistan * S.I.T.E Indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
