name Batheaston population 2,625 population ref ref name popn cite web url http www.bathnes.gov.uk ... East Somerset UK Parliament constituency North East Somerset Batheaston is a village and civil parish ... is an area known as Northend. Batheaston has been Twin towns and sister cities twinned with Oudon in France ... ref History Batheaston was named Estone in the Domesday Book . Batheaston was part of the Hundred ... Box in Wiltshire before finally merging with the River Avon, Bristol River Avon in Batheaston. The Roman road of the Fosseway descends into Batheaston via the Bannerdown hill, before joining the London ... Batheaston journal Proceedings of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society year 1963 ... carriageway Batheaston Swainswick bypass opened in summer 1996. It joins the main A4 road Great Britain ... . Religious sites The parish church of Batheaston is St John the Baptist with St Catherine. It was built ... cite web title Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Batheaston work Images of England url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk ... studios in Batheaston have been used by several musicians to record their albums including Mighty ReArranger by Robert Plant . Batheaston House was built in 1712 for Henry Walters 1667 1753 a wealthy clothiers who succeeded to the property of Batheaston through his grandfather, Henry Blanchard. ref cite web title Batheaston House work Images of England url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk Details ... Josias Conybeare 1779 1824 , became vicar of Batheaston, and was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo ... Rural Community Batheaston with St Catherine year 1969 publisher Bath University Press External links Commons category Batheaston GENUKI http www.genuki.org.uk big eng SOM Batheaston index.html Batheaston http users.bathspa.ac.uk batheaston index.asp Batheaston Historic Buildings Survey http www.23rdbathscouts.org Batheaston Scout Group Category Villages in Bath and North East Somerset Category Civil parishes in Somerset nl Batheaston pl Batheaston ... more details
John Josias Conybeare 1779 1824 , elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare , was educated at Christ Church, Oxford . He was an accomplished scholar, became vicar of Batheaston , and was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo Saxon Professor of Anglo Saxon 1808 1812 , and afterwards Professor of Poetry 1812 1821 , at university of Oxford Oxford . Works He published a translation of Beowulf in English and Latin verse 1814 Like his brother, he was a student of geology and communicated papers to the Annals of Philosophy and the Transactions of the Geological Society of London Obituary in Ann. Phil. vol. viii., Sept. 1824, p. 162. He gave the Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1824, which were published posthumously. References 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Conybeare, John Josias ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1779 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1824 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Conybeare, John Josias Category 1779 births Category 1824 deaths Category Anglo Saxon studies scholars Category Translators from Old English Category English geologists Category English Anglican priests Category Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Category Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford Category Rawlinsonian Professors of Anglo Saxon England bio stub UK geologist stub UK Christian clergy stub ... more details
Otheruses Infobox French commune name Oudon image TourOudon.jpg image size 170px region Pays de la Loire department Loire Atlantique arrondissement Ancenis canton Ancenis INSEE 44115 postal code 44521 mayor Michel Dupont term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality Pays d Ancenis longitude 1.2858 latitude 47.3472 elevation min m 2 elevation max m 74 area km2 22.12 population 3062 population date 2006 demonym Oudonnais, Oudonnaises website http www.oudon.fr Oudon is a Communes of France commune in the Loire Atlantique Departments of France department in western France . Gallery gallery File ChateauDeOudon 20120401.jpg Oudon Castle gallery Town twinning flagicon GBR Batheaston , Great Britain See also Communes of the Loire Atlantique department Loire Atlantique communes Category Communes of Loire Atlantique LoireAtlantique geo stub br Oudon ca Oudon ceb Oudon de Oudon es Oudon eu Oudon fr Oudon it Oudon Loira Atlantica la Oudon ms Oudon nl Oudon oc Oudon pl Oudon Loara Atlantycka sk Oudon sv Oudon uk vi Oudon vo Oudon war Oudon ... more details
infobox historic subdivision Name Bathavon Rural District HQ Government Origin Status Rural district Start 1933 End 1974 Code CodeName Replace Motto Divisions DivisionsNames DivisionsMap Image Map Arms Civic PopulationFirst PopulationFirstYear AreaFirst convert 46276 acre km2 AreaFirstYear 1933 DensityFirst DensityFirstYear 1933 PopulationSecond PopulationSecondYear AreaSecond AreaSecondYear DensitySecond DensitySecondYear PopulationLast PopulationLastYear AreaLast AreaLastYear DensityLast DensityLastYear Bathavon was a rural district in Somerset , England, from 1933 to 1974. It was created in 1933 with the abolition of Bath Rural District and Keynsham Rural District. In 1974 it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 , becoming part of Wansdyke District which itself was abolished in 1996 with the creation of Bath and North East Somerset . It contained the parishes of Bathampton , Batheaston , Bathford , Camerton, Somerset Camerton , Charlcombe , Claverton, Somerset Claverton , Combe Hay , Compton Dando , Corston, Somerset Corston , Dunkerton, Somerset Dunkerton , Englishcombe , Freshford , Hinton Charterhouse , Kelston , Keynsham , Marksbury , Monkton Combe , Newton St Loe , North Stoke, Somerset North Stoke , Peasedown St John , Priston , Saltford , Shoscombe , Southstoke South Stoke , St Catherine, Somerset St Catherine , Swainswick , Wellow, Somerset Wellow , Weston, Bath Weston and Whitchurch, Bristol Whitchurch . References http www.visionofbritain.org.uk relationships.jsp?u id 10173176&c id 10001043 Bathavon Rural District at Vision of Britain Local Government Act 1972 Category Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Category History of Somerset Category Local government in Somerset ... more details
John Pinch the younger 1796 &ndash 1849 was an architect, working mainly in the city of Bath, England , and surveyor to the Pulteney and Darlington estate. He was the son of John Pinch the elder , also an architect and surveyor to the Pulteney and Darlington estate Biography John Pinch was in joint practice with his father, John Pinch the elder , by 1819, later joined by his younger brother Charles 1807 &ndash 1854 . He succeeded his father as surveyor to the Darlington estate on the latter s death in 1827. Along with his father he was responsible for many of the later Georgian buildings in Bath, especially in Bathwick . Works In the 1820 he worked with his father. His first independent commission was work on The Nunnery, Douglas on the Isle of Man in 1828. Closer to his home he worked on various local churches including St Saviour s Church, Larkhall St Saviour s Church , Larkhall, Bath between 1829 and 1831 probably on designs by his father, and Church of St John the Baptist, Midsomer Norton St John the Baptist Church in Midsomer Norton in 1830. ref name robionsonwj cite book title West Country Churches last Robinson first W.J. year 1915 publisher Bristol Times and Mirror Ltd location Bristol pages 48 53 ref Also in 1830 he worked on several buildings which make up the west side of Queen Square Bath Queen Square in Bath. ref cite web title Queen Square west side work Images of England url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk details default.aspx?id 443386 publisher English Heritage accessdate 13 January 2011 ref Further work on churches in Somerset and Wiltshire followed including the north aisle of St John the Baptist Church in Batheaston during 1834, ref cite web title Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Batheaston work Images of England url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk Details Default.aspx?id 32147 publisher English Heritage accessdate 13 January 2011 ref and, in 1836, the church of St Mary the Virgin in Grittleton . In the same year he designed additions to the ... more details
died at Batheaston , Somerset at the age of 83. Cochrane married in 1895 Ethel Noble youngest daughter ... OF BIRTH 26 January 1865 PLACE OF BIRTH Moka DATE OF DEATH 14 December 1948 PLACE OF DEATH Batheaston ... more details
BC. The hill is near the Fosse Way Roman Road as it descends Bannerdown hill into Batheaston on its ... cite web title Scrub Clearance at Solsbury Hill, Batheaston at Solsbury Hill url http www.btcv.org.uk ... more details
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About the second English architect of this name other people with similar names John Wood disambiguation Use British English date August 2011 Use dmy dates date August 2011 File BathRoyalCrescentAirial morecontrast.jpg thumb right 250px Aerial view of the Royal Crescent John Wood, the Younger 25 February 1728, Bath, England Bath 18 June 1782, Batheaston was an English architect, working principally in the city of Bath, Somerset . He began his work as an assistant for his father, the architect John Wood, the Elder . Among his works which survive today is the Royal Crescent , ref cite web title Royal Crescent work Images of England url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk details default.aspx?id 447275 accessdate 14 November 2006 ref Bath Assembly Rooms ref cite web title Assembly Rooms work Images of England url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk details default.aspx?id 442119 accessdate 5 November 2007 ref and Buckland House in Buckland, Oxfordshire . ref cite web title Buckland Park url http www.berkshirehistory.com castles buckland park.html work Royal Berkshire History last Ford first David Nash year 2001 accessdate 19 September 2008 ref He also finished The Circus Bath The Circus which was designed by his father and completed in 1767. ref cite web url http www.imagesofengland.org.uk Details Default.aspx?id 442451 title The Circus work Images of England publisher English Heritage accessdate 19 July 2009 ref There is an off campus dormitory complex belonging to the University of Bath named John Wood Complex, on Avon Street. References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wood, John 2 ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Architect DATE OF BIRTH 1728 02 25 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1782 06 18 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wood, John 2 Category 1728 births Category 1782 deaths Category English architects Category People from Bath, Somerset Category History of Bath, Somerset UK architect stub de John Wood der J ngere it John Wood il Giovane ... more details
About path in Somerset and Gloucestershire the path in Derbyshire Limestone Way Infobox Hiking trail Name Limestone Link Photo Limestonelink.JPG Caption Footpath sign for the Limestone Link Location South West England Designation Length convert 36 mi km 0 Start End Points Mendip Hills Cotswolds Use Hiking ElevChange HighPoint LowPoint Difficulty Moderate to Strenuous Season Months Sights Mendip Hills Hazards The Limestone Link is a convert 36 mi km 0 Long distance footpaths in the United Kingdom long distance footpath from the Mendip Hills in Somerset to Cold Ashton in Gloucestershire . It is marked by an Ammonite waymarker. The Mendip section starts between Churchill, Somerset Churchill and Rowberrow , near Dolebury Warren and passes, roughly west to east, above the villages of Blagdon and Compton Martin close to the northern boundary of the Mendip Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and passes through West Harptree . It then passes through Temple Cloud , Hallatrow and Durcott before turning north through Dunkerton, Somerset Dunkerton and Southstoke south of Bath, Somerset Bath . The path then follows Cam Brook, Somerset Cam Brook to Midford and then along Midford Brook before joining the Avon Walkway at the Dundas Aqueduct going north alongside the River Avon, Bristol River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal past Claverton, Somerset Claverton and the Claverton Pumping Station to Bathampton where it crosses the A4 road Great Britain A4 and goes through Batheaston and then following a small river through Northend, Somerset Northend and St Catherine, Somerset St Catherine . The final part of the path goes past Monkswood reservoir and alongside St Catherines Brook to Cold Ashton. It connects with the Mendip Way , and the Cotswold Way . External links http www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk publications up 134556 limestone lo.pdf Map of Mendip section from Mendip Hills AONB http www.jbutler.org.uk e2e som w9 index.shtml Description of walk from Temple Cloud to Bath http www.ldw ... more details
John Harington or Harrington floruit fl. 1550 was an English official working for Henry VIII , and husband to one of his reputed illegitimate children, Ethelreda Malte . ref The Mistresses of Henry VIII by Kelly Hart, p.77 ref Life Harrington lived at Stepney , and filled the post of treasurer to the king s camps and buildings. While holding that office Harington employed John Bradford . Accounts differ on their professional relationship it is said by Bradford s biographers that he compelled Harington about 1549 to make a restitution to the crown of a sum of money which Harington had misappropriated. John Strype , however, represents that Bradford was himself guilty of misappropriating public moneys, which Harington made good to shield his clerk from punishment. Harington seems to have been a confidential servant of Henry VIII, and to have risen by marrying a natural daughter of the king, Etheldreda Malte , daughter of Joanna Dyngley or Dobson, who was brought up by the king s tailor, John Malte, as a daughter of his own. Henry granted her the monastic forfeitures of Kelston , Batheaston , and Katharine in Somerset, and on his marriage in 1546 Harington settled at Kelston, near Bath, on his wife s estate. Etheldreda later died, leaving behind her husband, and daughter Hester, whom died in 1568, her lands went to her husband. Harington entered the service of Elizabeth I of England Princess Elizabeth . He was a cultivated man and a poet, who in his visits to Elizabeth at Hatfield House Hatfield turned his talents to the praises of her six gentlewomen, but soon singled out among them Isabella Markham , daughter of Sir John Markham of Gotham. He married her early in 1559. Five years before their marriage he was imprisoned in the Tower at the same time as the Princess Elizabeth his first wife and Isabella, both being her Ladies in Waiting, had accompanied the princess. In 1561 their son John Harington writer John was born, and Elizabeth, who had now ascended the throne, ... more details
Use British English date August 2011 Use dmy dates date August 2011 Jane Bowdler born 14 February 1743 and died 1784 at Ashley , near Bath, Somerset was a poet and essayist Family Jane was the eldest daughter of Thomas Bowdler of Bath, Somerset 1706 1785 and his wife Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, n e Cotton died 1797 , a religious writer. Jane was the sister of John Bowdler the Elder 1746 1823 , a religious pamphleteer, and Thomas Bowdler 1754 1825 , who is remembered for publishing expurgated editions of William Shakespeare Shakespeare , edited largely by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler Harriet , and of other works. ref Sidney Lee Bowdler, Jane 1743 1784 . Revised by Rebecca Mills Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford Oxford University Press, 2004, online e. January 2008. http www.oxforddnb.com view article 3029. Retrieved 9 January 2011. ref The non literary member of the family was another sister, Frances born c. 1747 , ref ODNB entry for their mother, Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler http www.oxforddnb.com view article 74743 Retrieved 9 January 2011. Subscription required. ref She was presumably the lively, unconventional Miss Bowdler of Bath who features in a diary that the twenty year old Frances Burney kept of a lengthy visit to Teignmouth , Devon, in 1773. ref The Early Diary of Frances Burney 1768 1778 . Edited by Annie Raine Ellis, Vol. I. London G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1913, p. 231 ff. ref Posthumous success Jane Bowdler took to writing when she lost her voice for a period of four years in about 1777. She had suffered from intermittent ill health since contracting smallpox in 1759. She died in 1784 at Ashley and was buried in the family vault in London. ref ODNB entry. ref Jane s Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased was published by her family for charity in 1786 and reprinted 16 times up to 1830. ref Ruth Avaline Hesselgrave Lady Miller and the Batheaston Literary Circle , 1927, 59 60. The British Library has copies published in Bath in 1786 and 178 ... more details
William Henry Hewlett 16 January 1873 13 June 1940 was a Canadian organist , conducting conductor , composer , and music educator of English birth. ref name CE cite web url http www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params U1ARTU0001611 title William Hewlett work The Canadian Encyclopedia author Elizabeth Mullin accessdate 25 April 2010 ref Early life and education Born in Batheaston , Hewlett was a Boy soprano treble in the choir at Bath Abbey as a boy. In 1884, at the age of 11, he emigrated to Canada where his family ultimately settled in Toronto . As a teenager he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music TCM where he graduated with the gold medal for organ performance in 1893. Among his teachers were Francesco D Auria orchestration , Arthur Elwell Fisher music theory , Albert Ham music theory , and A. S. Vogt piano and organ . He later went to Europe to pursue advanced studies with pianist Ernst Jedliczka and composer Hans Pfitzner in Berlin, and in London with pianist Vladimir Cernikoff . ref name CE Career While a student at the TCM, Hewlett held the post of organist choirmaster at Carlton St Methodist Church from 1890 1895. In 1894 he co founded the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir , serving as the ensemble s served first accompanist from 1895 1897. In 1895 he moved to London, Ontario to assume the position of organist choirmaster at Dundas Centre Methodist Church. From 1896 1902 he was the conductor of the London Vocal Society. Around this time he also served as accompanist for singers Ernestine Schumann Heink and Dame Clara Butt in their Canadian recital tours. ref name CE In 1902 Hewlett relocated to Hamilton to assume the position of music director at Centenary Methodist Church where he remained until 1938. In 1907 he, along with J. E. P. Aldous and Bruce Carey , became co director of the Royal Hamilton College of Music . He became sole director in 1918, a position he held until 1939. From 1922 1935 he served as the conductor of the Bach Elgar C ... more details
she was involved, like her former husband, in the campaign against the Batheaston Transport Batheaston Bypass in the mid 1990s. During the eighties and nineties she wrote six novels and made ... more details
About the English geologist the administrator in Australia William Lonsdale colonist Infobox scientist name William Lonsdale image birth date 9 September 1794 birth place Bath, Somerset Bath death date 11 November 1871 death place Bristol residence citizenship nationality English ethnicity field geology work institutions alma mater doctoral advisor doctoral students known for Devonian system influences influenced prizes religion William Lonsdale 9 September 1794, Bath, Somerset Bath 11 November 1871, Bristol , English geologist and palaeontologist , won the Wollaston Medal Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals. sfn Seccombe 1893 p 130 Biography He was educated for the army and in 1810 obtained a commission as ensign in the 4th King s Own regiment. He served in the Peninsular War at the battles of battle of Salamanca Salamanca and battle of Waterloo Waterloo , for both of which he received medals and he retired as lieutenant. sfn Woodward 1911 p 987 Residing afterwards for some years at Batheaston he collected a series of rocks and fossil s which he presented to the Literary and Scientific Institution of Bath. He became the first honorary curator of the natural history department of the museum, and worked until 1829 when he was appointed assistant secretary and curator of the Geological Society of London at Somerset House . There he held office until 1842, when ill health led him to resign. sfn Woodward 1911 pp 987,988 The ability with which he edited the publications of the society and advised the council on every obscure and difficult point was commented on by Roderick Impey Murchison Murchison in his presidential address 1843 . In 1829 Lonsdale read before the society an important paper On the Oolitic District of Bath Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. 2, vol. iii. , the results of a survey begun in 1827 later he was engaged in a survey of the Oolitic strata of Gloucestershire 1832 , at the instigation of the Geological Society, and he ... more details
Infobox scientist name Christopher Edmund Broome birth date birth date 1812 7 24 mf y birth place Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire death date death date and age 1886 11 15 1812 7 24 residence UK nationality United Kingdom British field Mycology known for Contributions to taxonomy taxonomic mycology author abbreviation bot Broome Christopher Edmund Broome 24 July 1812 15 November 1886 was a British mycology mycologist . Background and education C.E. Broome was born in Berkhamsted , the son of a solicitor . He was privately schooled in Kensington and in 1832 was sent to read for Holy Orders with the curate of Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire . Conscientious scruples prevented him from entering the ministry, however, and later the same year he enrolled at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he completed his degree in 1836. ref Venn id BRM832CE name Broome, Christopher Edmund ref He married Charlotte Horman the following year and the couple lived at Rudloe Cottage, near Box, Wiltshire Box , then at Wraxall Lodge, Clifton, Bristol Clifton , and finally in 1848 at Elmhurst, near Batheaston , where he remained for the rest of his life. ref anon. 1887 . Obituary Christopher Edmund Broome. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1886 7 34 35. ref ref Murray, G. 1887 . Christopher Edmund Broome. Journal of Botany 25 148 150. ref Researches in mycology Broome became interested in natural history whilst at Swaffham Prior and later, with his friend George Henry Kendrick Thwaites G.H.K. Thwaites , in Clifton. He developed an expertise in fungi, sending many of his collections to the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley M.J. Berkeley . Together, Berkeley and Broome published a series of Notices of British Fungi over a 37 year period, jointly describing no less than 550 new species. The two mycologists also collaborated on descriptions of fungi collected in Sri Lanka by Thwaites and on collections from Brisbane , Australia. Broome published little on his own, mainly accounts of local fungi from So ... more details
Infobox military conflict conflict Battle of Lansdowne image Image Battlefield of Lansdown.JPG 300px caption The battlefield, today partof English Civil War date 5 July 1643 place Lansdown, Somerset Lansdowne Hill , near Bath, Somerset Bath , Somerset result Pyrrhic Royalist victory combatant1 Roundhead Parliamentarians combatant2 Cavalier Royalists commander1 Sir William Waller commander2 Ralph Hopton Ralph, Lord Hopton Wounded in action strength1 2,500 horse br 1,500 foot br unknown number of guns strength2 2,000 horse br 4,000 foot br 300 dragoons br 16 guns casualties1 20 killed br 60 wounded casualties2 200 300 killed br 600 700 wounded Campaignbox First English Civil War The English Civil War battle of Lansdowne or Lansdown was fought on 5 July 1643, near Bath, Somerset Bath , southwest England . Although the Cavalier Royalists under Ralph Hopton Lord Hopton forced the Roundhead Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller to retreat from their hilltop position, they suffered so many casualties themselves and were left so disordered and short of ammunition that an injured Hopton was forced to retire. Campaign and Battle By late May, 1643, Lord Hopton s royalist army had captured most of the south west of England. Joined by the Earl of Hertford, he now advanced eastward into Parliamentarian held territory. Sir William Waller s army held Bath, to obstruct their further advance. On 2 July the Royalists seized the bridge at Bradford on Avon . On 3 July, skirmishes took place at Claverton, Somerset Claverton and at Waller s positions south and east of Bath. Waller retired to a strong position on Lansdown Hill, northwest of Bath while the main Royalist force moved north through Batheaston to Marshfield, Gloucestershire Marshfield . ref name barratt Hopton s forces encountered this position on 4 July and were unpleasantly surprised at its strength. They withdrew convert 5 mi km north east to Marshfield, while their rearguard repulsed an attempt by Waller s cavalry to pu ... more details
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