Parish Wharf Ghoul Pool
A charity event to turn our pool purple to raise money for @HeartUK
Parish Wharf Open Day July 2016
A fantastic free Open Day. Classes, cakes, fun in the sun along with a 5 hour charity cycle.
Landmarks of Redcliffe and the 'Floating Harbour' - Bristol
Redcliffe, Bristol:
Redcliffe, also known as Redcliff, is a district of the English port city of Bristol, adjoining the city centre. It is bounded by the loop of the Floating Harbour (including Bathurst Basin) to the west, north and east, the New Cut of the River Avon to the south. Most of Redcliffe lies within the city ward of Lawrence Hill, although the westernmost section, including the cliffs and hill from which the area takes its name, is in Cabot ward.[1][2] Bristol Temple Meads station is located in Redcliffe.
Redcliffe takes its name from the red sandstone cliffs which line the southern side of the Floating Harbour, behind Phoenix Wharf and Redcliffe Wharf. These cliffs are honey-combed with tunnels, known as the Redcliffe Caves, constructed both to extract sand for the local glass making industry and to act as store houses for goods. Part of the last remaining glass kiln in the area is now the Kiln Restaurant of the Ramada Bristol City Hotel in Redcliffe Way.[3][4]
The parish church of St. Mary Redcliffe is one of Bristol's best known churches, with a spire soaring to a height of 292 ft (90m), making it the tallest building in the city.
Bristol Harbour:
Bristol Harbour is the harbour in the city of Bristol, England. The harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28.3 ha). It has existed since the 13th century but was developed into its current form in the early 19th century by installing lock gates on a tidal stretch of the River Avon in the centre of the city and providing a tidal by-pass for the river. It is often called the Floating Harbour as the water level remains constant and it is not affected by the state of the tide on the river.
United States:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside.
Portishead Parish Wharf Boating Rights Explained by Cllr Cruse
Portishead residents have the opportunity to apply for free boat storage annually during the winter months. Portishead people also have the free right to use the dock at Parish Wharf (near the Mirage Building) at any time but it seems from this summary that our right has been diminished and now we have to negotiate terms with the owners of the marina. The marina manager currently gives dates to the sailing club when it is possible for them to launch craft into the water at Pill Park when the level of water is at optimum height. Or they can launch off the slipway by H & W which has a charge. Cllr Cruse says both current arrangements for people using the water is only by prior arrangements. But what about kayaks and canoes? Or dinghys? Do we need permission to take up our free right to use the water, from Quay Marinas? The matter is in the hands of three town councillors (Oyns (oh dear), Clark and Cruse, R) but they will not interfere at this stage. So who is fighting the case for the people because if we leave it to North Somerset Council, the people will lose out and the wealthy marina owners will win again. Quay Marinas incidentally implemented the charge at the car park on the dock, against public opinion, when it was previously free. Quay Marinas who refused to negotiate the charge.
Portishead Open Air Pool Refurbishment - Spring 2017
Our 55 year old lido was leaking and the tiles and scum channels badly needed repairing. The pool plant also dated back to the 1960s. Our major refurbishment this spring included skimmers to replace the scum channels, a new butyl tank liner, underwater lights, and new plant filters and pipework to meet current standards. The work was carried out by CP Pools and the plant room was refurbished by DG Pools. We recorded the transformation with two timelapse cameras and used them to create this film along with extra video clips. Special thanks to Ben Maliphant (benm.photo) who converted the timelapse into video clips, and Stuart Walsh (SASI films) who produced the finished video.
Places to see in ( Fleetwood - UK )
Places to see in ( Fleetwood - UK )
Fleetwood is a town and civil parish within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. The site of the town has been continuously inhabited since the Middle Ages. Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal landowner Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, High Sheriff and MP, conceived an ambitious plan to re-develop the town to make it a busy seaport and railway spur. He commissioned the distinguished Victorian architect Decimus Burton to design a number of substantial civic buildings, including two lighthouses. Hesketh-Fleetwood's transport terminus schemes failed to materialise.
Decline of the fishing industry began in the 1960s, hastened by the Cod Wars with Iceland, though fish processing is still a major economic activity in Fleetwood. The town's most notable employer today is Lofthouse of Fleetwood, manufacturer of the lozenge Fisherman's Friend which is exported around the world.
Fleetwood is located on the Fylde Peninsula, 8 miles (13 km) north of Blackpool, on the western side of the mouth of the River Wyre. The town itself is on a peninsula, almost 2 miles (3 km) wide, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea, to the north by Morecambe Bay and to the east by the River Wyre. Access to Fleetwood is thus restricted, and for many years there were only two roads into and out of the town. A large sandbank, the North Wharf, extends some 2 1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) north into Morecambe Bay, and is exposed at low tide.
Fleetwood's economy still revolves around the traditional areas of fishing, tourism, port activity and light industry, but since the early 1970s the town has continued to struggle economically. A government report in 2006 stated that three of the town's five wards fall into the 5% to 10% most deprived wards in England. The town's largest and most prominent single employer is Lofthouse's of Fleetwood Ltd., manufacturers of Fisherman's Friend—a menthol lozenge popular worldwide and especially in Japan.
The Mount and the entire length of Fleetwood Promenade has an uninterrupted view across Morecambe Bay, a view described by author Bill Bryson in Chapter 23 of his book Notes From a Small Island as easily one of the most beautiful in the world, with unforgettable views across to the green and blue Lakeland hills: Scafell, Coniston Old Man, the Langdale Pikes. Directly across the Esplanade from the Mount lies the Marine Hall and Marine Gardens, Wyre Borough's largest entertainment venue, opened in 1935.
The 13 hectares of Fleetwood Memorial Park was developed out of the earlier Warrenhurst Park, itself an early-C20 park designed by Thomas Lumb of Blackpool. In 1917 the park was renamed Memorial Park in memory of those who died in the First World War. The memorial statue was added a few years later and memorial trees planted by the children who lost relatives. Fleetwood Pier, also known as 'Victoria Pier', was a feature of the town from its construction in 1910 until it was destroyed by fire in September 2008.
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Places to see in ( Highbridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Highbridge - UK )
Highbridge is a small market town situated on the edge of the Somerset Levels near the mouth of the River Brue. It is in the County of Somerset, and is approximately 20 miles north east of Taunton, the county town of Somerset. being situated approximately 7 miles (11.3 km) north of Bridgwater, the district's administrative centre. Highbridge closely neighbours Burnham-on-Sea, forming part of the combined parish of Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge and shares a town council with the resort town. In the 2001 census the population was 5,986. In the 2011 census the population of the town was included in the ward of Highbridge and Burnham Marine, which totalled 7,555.
There is archaeological evidence of occupation around the Highbridge area at least as far back as the Roman period. A bridged crossing over the River Brue at this location has existed since the 14th century and it has always been an important crossing on the route from Bristol to the South West. The town that sprung up around this crossing takes it name from the bridge. An older name for the local manor was Huish a contraction of the phrase Huish jaxta altum pontem (next to a high bridge). There are historical references to a wharf at this site and to usage of the river as part of the drainage plan for the Somerset Levels by the Monks of Glastonbury.
Highbridge grew in importance as a regional market and industrial town during the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. Important employers included the livestock and cheese market, Highbridge Wharf, Buncombe's Steamrollers, and the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway rail works, which closed in 1930 with the loss of 400 jobs. Heavy industry and transport declined in Highbridge after the Second World War as the Wharf proved too small for the newer generation of ships, with the last cargo of timber arriving in 1948 and the wharf was closed to shipping the following year, and commercial freight moved away from the railways. Since the 1970s close proximity to the M5 motorway has driven a growth in light industry and in the town's commuter population.
Highbridge was historically a hamlet and chapelry in the large ancient parish of Burnham. It briefly became a separate civil parish in 1894, but in 1896 the civil parish was abolished and divided between the new civil parishes of North Highbridge and Burnham Without. The town had by then expanded south of the River Brue into the parish of Huntspill, and in 1896 the new parish of South Highbridge was carved out of Huntspill parish. North Highbridge and South Highbridge together formed the Highbrige Urban District. The 1931 census listed a population of 2,585. In 1933 the Urban District was abolished and merged into Burnham-on-Sea Urban District. In the 1974 local government reforms, this became a civil parish within the new District of Sedgemoor. The civil parish is now known as Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge, with a single town council.
Highbridge was originally the seaward terminus of the Glastonbury Canal and the Somerset Central Railway. The Canal was established first and was designed to improve drainage along the River Brue. It was also designed to create a trade link between Glastonbury and the sea. A new straight channel, with a clyce (the local name for a sluice), which runs from the present day tidal gates to the location of the current station, was cut in 1801 and the original course of the river was as the site for of Highbridge Wharf. The Canal opened in 1833 and while initially successful it later suffered from financial and engineering problems. Only the 1801 clyce remains of the Glastonbury Canal at Highbridge.
Highbridge town centre clusters around the crossroads formed by Church Street and Market Street. At their meeting point is a roundabout which marks the location of the town's original three-faced town clock. A modern concrete replacement clock, also with three faces and topped with the town's coat of arms stood in nearby Jubilee Gardens until its replacement with a more traditional four-faced clock in 2012.
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Places to see in ( Edgware - UK )
Places to see in ( Edgware - UK )
Edgware is a district of north London, in the London Borough of Barnet. Edgware is centred 9.5 miles north-northwest of Charing Cross and has its own commercial centre. Edgware has a generally suburban character, typical of the rural-urban fringe.
Edgware was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. The community benefits from some elevated woodland on a high ridge marking the Hertfordshire border of gravel and sand. Edgware is identified in the London Plan as one of the capital's 35 major centres. Edgware is principally a shopping and residential area and one of the northern termini of the Northern line.
Edgware has a bus garage, a shopping centre called the Broadwalk, a library, a hospital—Edgware Community Hospital, and two streams—Edgware Brook and Deans Brook, both tributaries of a small brook known as Silk Stream, which in turn merges with the River Brent at Brent Reservoir.
Edgware succeeds to the identity of the ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. Edgware is a Saxon name meaning Ecgi's weir. Ecgi was a Saxon and the weir relates to a pond where Ecgi's people caught fish. Edgware parish formed part of Hendon Rural District from 1894. It was abolished in 1931 and formed part of the Municipal Borough of Hendon until 1965. The Romans made pottery at Brockley Hill, thought by some to be the site of Sulloniacis. Canons Park, to the north-west, was developed as an estate by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos and was the site of his great palace Cannons.
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Places to see in ( Modbury - UK )
Places to see in ( Modbury - UK )
Modbury is a market town and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county of Devon. It is situated on the A379 road, which links it to Plymouth and Kingsbridge. The current parish population is approximately 1,500. The name Modbury is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon name, Moot burgh from 'Moot' meaning either 'Mud' or 'meeting' and 'bury' meaning 'fortified enclosure'.
Modbury is recorded in the Domesday Book. It has had permission to hold a weekly fair since before 1199. The population of the town was greatly reduced as a consequence of the Black Death in the 14th century. Modbury was the site of two battles in the English Civil War. The first battle was a minor royalist victory on 9 December 1642, when a small Royalist force put to flight a smaller Parliamentarian force.
By 1801, the population of Modbury had risen to 1,813, with almost half engaged in the wool trade. The impact of the mechanisation of the wool industry was to have a dramatic effect on the economic prosperity and population of the town in the mid-1820s and later. Many workers left the town and headed to large cities in search of employment; others left the country altogether, emigrating to America. The railway line bypassed Modbury, contributing still further to this decline. Modbury remained an important market town until as late as 1944 when the cattle market ceased.
The manor of Modbury was long held by the Vautort (alias Valletort) family, feudal barons of Harberton, Devon, and feudal barons of Trematon, Cornwall. It was granted, together with Bridford by Sir Roger de Vautort to Alexander de Okeston, of Okeston (alias Oxton), Devon, the second husband of Joan de Vautort, widow of Ralph de Vautort, Sir Roger's elder brother.
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Judo Event 7th June 2008
Judo Event
7th June 2008
Parish Wharf Leisure Centre
Harbour Road
Portishead
Bristol
BS20 7DD
Tora Judo Kai
Places to see in ( Totnes - UK )
Places to see in ( Totnes - UK )
Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Totnes is about 22 miles (35 km) south southwest of Exeter and is the administrative centre of the South Hams District Council.
Totnes has a long recorded history, dating back to AD907 when its first castle was built; it was already an important market town by the 12th century. Indications of its former wealth and importance are given by the number of merchants' houses built in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Today, the town of Totnes is a thriving centre for music, art, theatre and natural health. It has a sizeable alternative and New Age community, and Totnes is known as a place where one can live a bohemian lifestyle. Two electoral wards mention Totnes (Bridgetown and Town).
Totnes is built on a hill rising from the west bank of the River Dart, which separates Totnes from the suburb of Bridgetown. It is at the lowest bridging point of the river which here is tidal and forms a winding estuary down to the sea at Dartmouth. The river continues to be tidal for about 1 mile (1.6 km) above the town, until it meets Totnes Weir, built in the 17th century. Today there are two road bridges, a railway bridge and a footbridge over the river in the town. Totnes Bridge is the nearest bridge to the sea and is a road bridge built in 1826–28 by Charles Fowler.
Totnes is said to have more listed buildings per head than any other town. The Norman motte-and-bailey Totnes Castle, now owned by English Heritage, was built during the reign of William I, probably by Juhel of Totnes. The late medieval church of St Mary with its 120 feet (37 m) high west tower, visible from afar, is built of rich red Devonian sandstone. A prominent feature of the town is the Eastgate—an arch spanning the middle of the main street. This Elizabethan entrance to the walled town was destroyed in a fire in September 1990, but was rebuilt.
The ancient Leechwell, so named because of the supposed medicinal properties of its water, and apparently where lepers once came to wash, still provides fresh water. The Butterwalk is a Tudor covered walkway that was built to protect the dairy products once sold here from the sun and rain. Totnes Elizabethan House Museum is in one of the many authentic Elizabethan merchant's houses in the town, built around 1575.
The A38 passes about 7 miles (11 km) to the west of Totnes, connected to the town by the A384 from Buckfastleigh and the A385 which continues to Paignton. The town also lies on the A381 between Newton Abbot and Salcombe. Totnes railway station is situated on the Exeter to Plymouth line, and has trains direct to London Paddington, Penzance and Plymouth, and as far north as Aberdeen. Nearby, Totnes (Riverside) railway station is at the southern end of the South Devon Railway Trust which runs tourist steam locomotives along the line that follows the River Dart up to Buckfastleigh.
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Places to see in ( Sleaford - UK )
Places to see in ( Sleaford - UK )
Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England. Sleaford is on the edge of the fertile Fenlands, about 11 miles north-east of Grantham, 16 miles west of Boston, and 17 miles south of Lincoln. Sleaford is the largest settlement in the North Kesteven district. Bypassed by the A17 and the A15, it is connected to Lincoln, Newark, Peterborough and King's Lynn. Sleaford railway station is on the Nottingham to Skegness (via Grantham) and Peterborough to Lincoln Lines.
n the medieval period, records differentiate between Old and New Sleaford, the latter emerging in the areas around the present day market place and St Denys' Church. Sleaford Castle was constructed in the 12th century for the Bishops of Lincoln, who owned the manor. Granted the right to hold a market in the mid-12th century, New Sleaford developed into a market town and became locally important in the wool trade, while Old Sleaford declined.
The Sleaford Navigation brought economic growth until it was superseded by the railways in the mid-1850s. In the 20th century, the sale of farmland around Sleaford by Bristol Estates led to the development of large housing estates. The subsequent availability of affordable housing combined with the town's educational facilities and low crime rates made it an attractive destination for home-buyers. As a result, the town's population underwent the fastest growth of any town in the county in the 1990s.
Sleaford was primarily an agricultural town until the 20th century, supporting a cattle market, with seed companies, such as Hubbard and Phillips, and Sharpes International Seeds, being established in the late 19th century. The arrival of the railway made the town favourable for malting. Industry has declined, and in 2011 the most common occupations are in wholesale and retail trade, health and social care, public administration and defence and manufacturing. Regeneration of the town centre has led to the redevelopment of the old industrial areas, including the construction of the National Centre for Craft & Design on an old wharf.
Sleaford is the principal market town in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Holdingham to the north east and the village of Quarrington to the south east, both of which merge with the town. The A17 road from Newark-on-Trent to King's Lynn bypasses Sleaford from Holdingham Roundabout to Kirkby la Thorpe.
The railways arrived in the 19th century. Early proposals to bring a line to Sleaford failed. Sleaford is a stop on the Peterborough to Lincoln Line and the Poacher Line, from Grantham to Skegness. A small number of medieval buildings remain standing in the town. St Denys' Church and St Botolph's in Quarrington date to the 12th and 13th centuries respectively.
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Annette Hennessy at Portishead Parish Wharf And Pill Park Which NSC vetoed for a Skate & Wheels Park
Some written evidence to remembers:
1. Arthur Terry said in writing in 22.11.14, “When I proposed to,the Town Council that it should open discussions with NSC about this land I did so in good faith having been unable to establish just what the objections to it were”. Astounding with his access to archive material, NSC officers and PSP member Liese Stanley locally who could have reminded him. He knew it was a red herring.
2. Arthur Terry said, “I am also aware that it could potentially have a detrimental affect (sic) on residents in Station Road”. Definitely a red herring.
3. Arthur Terry states in the same letter, “Unfortunately before the letter to Cllr Ashton was sent the local ward member (Reyna Knight) intervened with Cllr Peter Bryant and encouraged a large number of local residents to object directly to him. This included residents of the Mirage building and the flats on the opposite side of the docks and well away from the area of land I hoped we could discuss. As a result I believe Cllr Bryant vetoed any further discussion on it. I am not aware that he sought the views of other Portishead members before taking this action”. Firstly, why didn’t Arthur Terry find out those answers? Secondly, why didn’t Arthur Terry complain as ardently when the same happened at Kilkenny Fields? Thirdly, why didn’t Arthur Terry moan when David Pasley on the Lake Grounds site was liaising directly with Peter Bryant and Nigel Ashton to scupper progress?
4. Strange that the Lake Grounds did not meet with Arthur Terry’s approval not within 100 meters of nearest house yet on Station Road, which he admits would “detrimentally affect the residents”, he had no problem. Heaven help us from councillors like Arthur Terry.
5. On Parish Wharf, David Pasley was written to by Mark Ponsford, NSC Evironmental Officer, on the 5.09.07 about the unsuitability of the site for a skatepark. Yet David Pasley continued to progress it. In fact on the 21st September that year, NSC officer David Tate was recommending the Lake Grounds as a site!
6. Mark Ponsford met with PSP, councillors and David Tate confirming he was unlikely to support a skatepark at Parish Wharf due to noise levels. The notes of the meeting on the 2nd April 2007 circulated to attendees started, “It would be impossible to attenuate noise reaching the new high rise building at the end of the dock which was about 50m from the proposed skatepark”. Plus, “The Water body would also offer no attenuation to noise reaching the buildings on the east side of the dock”.
7. “Developing case law was indicating a minimum separation from residential housing of 100m”.
8. The Lake Grounds was specified as being a good alternative that met the criteria “with around 175m to the nearest house and attenuation from the boar house and surrounding vegetation”.
9. When NSC officer Ian Edser confirmed Parish Wharf was being deleted from possible sites, plus the Village Quarter” because of close proximity to homes, politics stepped in with the shoes of David Pasley sarcastically saying on the 20th July 2007, “Is it not common practice to keep ward members adequately consulted on issues that might have significant changes in their wards?” The political games, meddling and obstruction continued and on to current problems. From that date, NSC officers were under political influence rather than being able to use their own professional judgment. Remember that when the next election comes. Political Party Line comes first before reasonable and fair decision making. If you are in any doubt of this, the email dated 24th July from Elfsn Ap Rees to Ian Edser and copied to his Tory councillors, threatens the job of another NSC officer Tony Moore by saying, “if they have time to spend on such projects then perhaps we should more closely look at their work load”. A demotion is then mentioned for that offucer go Uphill Hill Warden. How disgraceful that the same councillor who wrote that email is still in post and still Deputy NSC Leader.
10. There is much documentation on this land during the dark years of the skatepark scandal. More than enough for a book on the subject. Please let’s have nobody else misleading the public and wasting more time and that of our young people, by suggesting again Parish Wharf or Station Road. Read the history and facts on what constitutes a viable site.
Places to see in ( Chipping Sodbury - UK )
Places to see in ( Chipping Sodbury - UK )
Chipping Sodbury is a market town in the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, south-west England, founded in the 12th century by William Crassus. The villages of Old Sodbury and Little Sodbury are nearby. At the 2001 census the population of Chipping Sodbury was 5,066, but in the last decade the town has become part of a much larger built-up area due to the rapid expansion of nearby Yate, with which it is contiguous to the west. At the census the combined population of Yate and Chipping Sodbury was 26,855.
Chipping Sodbury is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Sodbury, which also includes the village of Old Sodbury. Little Sodbury is a separate civil parish. Sodbury parish council has elected to be known as Sodbury Town Council.
East of the town is the Chipping Sodbury Tunnel, a railway tunnel under the Cotswolds 2 miles 924 yards (4.06 km) long, which was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1902. The tunnel is notorious for flooding in wet weather, often leading to disruption of services on the main railway line to and from South Wales. Chipping Sodbury had a railway station from 1903 to 1961. Yate station, on the Bristol to Birmingham main line, closed in January 1965 but reopened in May 1989.
Chipping Sodbury hosts a twice yearly Mop Fair, usually the last weekends of March and September. The town holds a Festival Week in early June. There is a farmers' market twice a month, on the second and fourth Saturdays. Chipping Sodbury has two government funded primary schools and a secondary school. Chipping Sodbury School, the secondary school, caters for children aged 11 to 18 and describes itself as a 'Specialist Technology School'.
A Victorian Evening is held on the first Friday in December. The event starts in the afternoon when school choirs perform in the street. The evening's events begin with the arrival of Father Christmas when snow is guaranteed (from a blower). The streets are lined with stalls from local charities and organisations and old time amusements, including a Ferris wheel, Helter Skelter and two children's rides. Choirs sing, bands play, and stalls bring a market feel. A Hog Roast is held.
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Places to see in ( Devizes - UK )
Places to see in ( Devizes - UK )
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in the heart of Wiltshire, England. Standing on a hill at the east edge of the Vale of Pewsey, the town of Devizes is about 10.5 miles southeast of Chippenham and 11 miles east-north-east of the county town of Trowbridge.
Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops and has an open market place where a market is held once a week. Devizes has nearly five hundred listed buildings, some notable churches, a Town Hall and a green at the heart of the town. Devizes development has grown around the 11th century Norman castle.
Devizes Castle was built by Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury in 1080, but the town is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. During the 12th and 13th centuries, the town of Devizes developed outside the castle with craftsmen and traders setting up businesses to serve the residents of the castle. Devizes has four Church of England parish churches, and has had nonconformist congregations since the 17th century.
Devizes has a small and steady economy, mainly made up of manufacturing, retail, services and a small amount of tourism. Devizes has always been a market town and the market square exists today; markets are held every Thursday. The town attracts some tourism due to its proximity to Avebury, Stonehenge and Salisbury. Local attractions include Wiltshire Museum, Caen Hill Locks, the Kennet and Avon Canal, seasonal crop circles, and the White Horse, with its shire horses, operates a visitor centre.
The building of a by-pass line through Westbury in 1900 removed most traffic from the Devizes line and British Rail closed it in 1966. Devizes station was destroyed in 1970. Today the nearest railway stations are at Melksham, Chippenham and Pewsey. Devizes has connections to surrounding towns including Swindon (via Avebury), Salisbury, Bath and Chippenham, each of which have rail services. Devizes also has a daily National Express coach service to and from London Victoria, via Heathrow Airport. There is a regular bus service to and from Stonehenge. Devizes is approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the M4. Several main roads pass through the town, including the A360, A361 and A342.
The Kennet and Avon Canal was built under the direction of John Rennie between 1794 and 1810, linking Devizes with Bristol and London. Near Devizes the canal rises 237 feet (72 m) by means of 29 locks, 16 of them in a straight line at Caen Hill. The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust run a museum at The Wharf in Devizes. The town is the starting point of the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Marathon.
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Bolton skyline from top of the Parish Church
Penzance, Cornwall
Penzance, or Pensans to give it its Cornish name, is a major Cornish town located at the start of the Penwith peninsula and beside the coast. Penzance is located next to Newlyn, one of the largest fishing ports in Britain.
Penzance is located in Mount's Bay, a large bay between the Penwith and Lizard peninsulas. It is the first and last train stop in the UK and the last major town.
The town was granted a number of royal charters from 1512, however the town was incorporated on 9th May 1614. In the 2011 census, Penzance had a population of 21,200.
The name Penzance derives from its Cornish name, Pensans, which means 'holy headland'. There was once a chapel here, dedicated to St Anthony, around where Penzance Harbour now is however that chapel has been long gone.
The first recording of inhabitants in Penzance is during the Bronze Age, approximately 3,000 years ago, and a number of Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the town, especially in the Alverton area. During the Iron Age, an iron age round called Lescudjack Castle was built. This is located at the end of a housing estate and, although partly destroyed, it is still very much visible as an Iron Age round.
One of Penzance's most famous children is Sir Humphry Davy, the inventor of the miners safety lamp and Nitrous Oxide, which he named 'Laughing Gas' after it made him laugh when experimenting with it. He also isolated for the first time ever the elements of Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Magnesium, Boron and discovering the elemental nature of Chlorine and Iodine, which shaped Science forever.
Penzance's town centre consists mainly on six streets. These six streets are Market Jew Street, The Greenmarket, Causewayhead, Alverton Street, Chapel Street and Wharf Road. There is also a shopping centre here called Wharfside Shopping Centre which is used to get from the car park by Penzance Harbour to the town centre.
Penzance is made up of two parishes, St Mary's and St John's, with the majority of the town being part of St Mary's parish, which is associated with St Mary's Church, the largest church.
Penzance has one beach, Wherrytown Beach, which is a rocky beach situated between the town and Newlyn. There is also another beach which comes at low tide by Battery Rocks, however this is very stony.
Penzance is one of Cornwall's largest towns and is approximately 2 miles long by 1.4 miles wide.
Festival of Lights Attracts Thousands to Bristol Waterfront
metra4.com Jointly sponsored by the City of Burlington and the Borough of Bristol, this event will be celebrated on both sides of the river. Spectators can cheer on the racers and enjoy the food, music, and fun at both the Burlington Promenade, NJ and Bristol Lions Park, PA. This was another great event in the area. The rain stopped just in time and the temperature cooled just enough for all to enjoy.
Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon /ˈwɪmbəldən/ is a suburban district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Merton, located south of Wandsworth, east of Kingston upon Thames, west of Mitcham and north of Sutton. It is situated within Greater London. It is home to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in London. The residential area is split into two sections known as the village and the town, with the High Street being part of the original medieval village, and the town being part of the modern development since the building of the railway station in 1838.
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