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 KILLIGREW, SIR ROBERT - LoveToKnow Article on KILLIGREW, SIR ROBERT
KILLALOEKILLIGREW, SIR H. KILLALOE, a town of county Clare, Ireland, in the east parliamentary division, at the lower extremity of Lough Derg on the river Shannon, at the fpot of the Slieve Bernagh mountains.
Adjoining the town is the mansion of the earl of Kenmare.
from the town, lie in a basin between several lofty mountain groups, some of which rise abruptly from the water's edge, and all clothed with trees and shrubbery almost to their summits.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KI/KILLIGREW_SIR_ROBERT.htm   (1437 words)

  
 London Tube Stations Guide Asia Travel Europe
Kentish Town lies between Highgate to the North, Camden Town to the South, Holloway to the East, and Hampstead to the West.
Kentish town is populated by a large number of immigrant families from Greek Cyprus and Ireland.
Embankment underground station is beside Charing Cross station, which has recently been rebuilt, and the impressive high arched roof of the offices built over the tracks now dominates the the Embankment.
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 Kentish Town -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Kentish Town is a place in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London in the (Click link for more info and facts about London Borough of Camden) London Borough of Camden.
Kentish Town was a prime site for development as the Kentish Town Road was the main route for the growing city of London to the South.
Kentish Town was to see further modernisation in the post- (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II period.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ke/kentish_town.htm   (863 words)

  
 London Borough of Camden
Camden's town hall is located on Euston Road near Kings Cross.
King's Cross railway station, St Pancras station, Euston station
Neighbouring areas are the City of Westminster and the City of London to the south, Brent to the west, Barnet and Haringey to the north and Islington to the east.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/l/lo/london_borough_of_camden_1.html   (128 words)

  
 Camden
Kentish Town station Kentish Town is a London Underground station and mainline station in the London Borough of Camden.
Kentish Town was a prime site for development as the Kentish Town Road was the main route for the growing city of London to the North.
railway station: Brondesbury station Kilburn High Road railway station External Links Tourist information Kilburn Kilburn is a place in north-west London, England in the London Boroughs of Brent and Camden (the boundary between the two boroughs runs along the Kilburn High Road, the area's main thoroughfare running northwest-southeast).
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 North_London_Line
Previous Tube maps have also shown the Thameslink line from Kentish Town to London Bridge and Elephant and Castle, and the Waterloo and City Line prior to its transfer to London Underground.
West Hampstead railway station (West Hampstead tube station, Jubilee Line) is adjacent, and West Hampstead Thameslink railway station is a short walk away.

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 WESTERHAM
The branch was a single track with 3 stations – Westerham, the end of the line and serving the small town,  Brasted over half a mile from the village, with sidings and a coal merchant, and Chevening, a simple halt one mile from Chevening Park and half a mile north of Chipstead village.
The station was mainly used for commuters travelling to London, with passengers transferring at Dunton Green to trains bound for Charing Cross.   This service was usually provided by a two carriage push-pull train.
However a regular shipment of maggots was carried on the railway destined to feed the Churchill’s goldfish.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Pointe/1271/Westerham   (924 words)

  
 GREAT BRITISH PIERS - PIER TOWNS - TORBAY INDEX
From the middle of the nineteenth century and with the arrival of the railway in the mid-1850`s progress was rapid and today the town is firmly established as one of the leading resorts in the South West.
England is bounded on the north by Scotland; on the west by the Irish Sea, Wales, and the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the English Channel; and on the east by the North Sea.
www.greatbritishpiers.co.uk /pt01torbayindex.html   (7037 words)

  
 wrair10.txt
For a time he remained crouching, and when at last he looked out again the little town was very small and travelling, with the rest of lower Germany, in a circular orbit round and round the car--or atleast it appeared to be doing that.
As he trailed, Bert saw ahead of him one of the most attractive little towns in the world--a cluster of steep gables surmounted by a high church tower and diversified with trees, walled, and with a fine, large gateway opening out upon a tree-lined high road.
She maintained two immense fleets east and west, and internally she was in violent conflict between Federal and State governments upon the question of univiorsal service in a defensive militia.
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 British Railway Journal Volume 5
The crossing at the Cambrian Railways station at Portmadoc was with the Tremadoc Tramway extension of the Gorsedau Tramway.
A new station was opened at Portland in 1905 with the opening of the Easton and Church Hope Railway on 1 August 1902.
307) on similarity of station architecture at Lymington Town with that at Queensborough on Isle of Sheppey..
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 Underground Ghost Stations and Lines
Between Kentish Town and Camden Town, this station opened in 1907 with the rest of the line but was closed in June 1924.
During the war, the sub-surface accommodation at the station was used by the Railway Executive Committee and by Churchill and the War Cabinet.
The Jubilee was originally to be called either the Fleet Line or the River Line and the original plans were for the line to continue eastwards from Charing Cross through the City and on into East London.
www.londonrailways.net /ghost.htm   (1625 words)

  
 Historic Kent - Villages - W
That was because the village hovered on the verge of becoming one of the county's mining villages and a railway station was built to serve the intended colliery.
The three stations remained open for more than twenty years, until they were all closed when the railways were nationalised and Wingham went off the rails, in the nicest possible way, for good.
West Malling was rather more obviously deserving town status in the days when local industry included tanning, brewing, glass blowing, clock-making and the manufacture of straw hats.
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 Historic Kent - Villages - P
Yet, such was the change brought by the railway that by 1851 there was a sizable village and by 1900 Paddock Wood was established as the hub of a network of branch lines throughout the Weald, many of which have since fallen victim to British Rail economies.
The manor (now owned by the National Trust) was once owned by the Culpepper family, which looms large in Kentish history and whose menfolk were rumoured to have founded their fortunes as the biggest landowners in Kent and Sussex by marrying all the available heiresses of the day.
Her Bayhall, once the home of the great Kentish Culpeper family and also the Duke of Buckingham, is today a ruin, said to be haunted by her ghost.
www.historic-kent.co.uk /vill_p.htm   (2390 words)

  
 Kentish_Town_railway_station
Kentish Town station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the London Borough of Camden.
Kentish Town station is styled in distinctive Edwardian red tiling.
Train times (http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=KTN) for Kentish Town station from National Rail
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 LondonTown.com Kentish Town Road Guide Kentish Town Road London, NW1, England, UK London Streets by Street London hotel and vacation experts
The nearest underground station to Kentish Town Road is 'Camden Town ' which is about 11 minutes to the South West.
Kentish Town tube, Kentish Town Road, (12 mins to the North East)
Kentish Town Road is located in the borough of Camden
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/kentish_town_road_cf6.html   (439 words)

  
 BBC NEWS England London Engineering work disrupts rail line
Between this weekend and July 2004 services running to and from Bedford will begin and end at West Hampstead or Kentish Town.
This is to allow work to begin on a Eurostar station and a Thameslink station at St Pancras.
From September 2004, a concrete enclosure will be constructed underground between the existing King's Cross Thameslink station and St Pancras station.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/3143416.stm   (276 words)

  
 chinesisch-18
However there has been no fall in visitor numbers, and it is necessary to close Camden Town tube station to inbound passengers on Sunday afternoon.
Camden Town Administration Borough: Camden County: Greater London Region: Greater London Nation: England Other Ceremonial County: Greater London Traditional County: Middlesex Postal County: London Camden Town is a place in the London Borough of Camden.
The proposal involved the compulsory puchase of the whole block on which the station is situated and would have required demolition of the Electric Ballroom and the reallocation of Buck Street Market.
www.travellingchina.com /chinesisch-18   (851 words)

  
 Jim Higgins: Transport - Art for BR's sake (1976)
There was one such station on the North London Line called Kentish Town West.
And then, several years ago, Kentish Town West burned down.
The oil deficit, pollution and the well-being of the populace would all be improved if the stations were brightened up, thus attracting the customers off the roads and into the subway.
www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1976/01/artforbr.htm   (1263 words)

  
 London Bloggers
Stations: Caledonian Road, Camden Road, Camden Town, Kentish Town, White City
Stations: Caledonian Road, Camden Road, Camden Town, Holloway Road, Kentish Town
Stations: Camden Town, Kentish Town, Kentish Town West, Warren Street
londonbloggers.iamcal.com /station.php?id=9   (352 words)

  
 A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
WACO and WARE are the only U. radio station call letters that exactly spelled the cities in which they were located (Waco, Texas, and Ware, Massachusetts).
It is a town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave" or "St. Mary's (Church) by the white aspen over the whirlpool, and St. Tysilio's (Church) by the red cave" in Welsh.
The voters of Mullens, West Virginia, voted to retain the spelling, rather than switch to "Mullins," which is how the person for whom the town is named spelled his name.
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 Transport Plans for the London Area - North
Dangerous overcrowding has caused entrance to Camden Town station to be barred at certain times on Sundays.
The train station would be refurbished at a cost of £0.75m, and the existing footbridge north of the roundabout would be demolished at a cost of £0.04m (forty thousand pounds!).
In March 2000, hopes for a station rose (although nothing was certain) as Pickett's Lock was chosen as the venue for the 2005 World Athletics Championships, and as Britain's possible candidate for the 2012 Olympics.
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 Links to UK Main Railways
Darlington Railway Centre and Museum  A celebration of the part played by the railways in the history and development of the town and the major role which the town played in the development of those railways.
National Railway Museum   The National Railway Museum is the largest railway museum in the world, boasting a host of railway icons and literally millions of artifacts, a history from Rocket to the Eurostar.
Institute of Railway Studies  Leading international centre for the study of the history and heritage of railways and other transport modes, a partnership between the NRM and the University of York.
www.uklocos.com /moc/main-rlys.htm   (5302 words)

  
 The Online Guide to Canterbury - Domestic Rail
Both Stations are an easy walk into the town and neither is better situated or closer than the other.
The East Station is situated just outside the south-eastern city walls and the West Station is situated just to the northwest of the city walls.
The journey from London to the East Station normally takes one and a half hours and goes via the historic city of Rochester and on some journeys there is a train swop in Faversham.
www.thycotic.com /guide/trans/drail.html   (242 words)

  
 Camden New Journal
Accident on the North London Railway bridge over Camden Road, August 16, 1884.
In terms of the capital as a whole Camden Town is a relatively modern area; most of its streets were laid out in the early to mid 19th century.
As Camden Town grew, along with the rest of London from the start of the 19th century it began to attract professional middle-class and artistic families.
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk /archive/f181203_1.htm   (759 words)

  
 SAINTONGE - Online Information article about SAINTONGE
Street Camden Town, Kentish Town Road, and Highgate Road, runs from south to north; Euston Road crosses it in the south, and Camden Road and See also:
west London hospital, Kentish Town, and, in Euston Road, the See also:
body the lordship of the manors of Cantelows (Kentish Town) and Totenhall (Tottenham Court) was also invested.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAC_SAR/SAINTONGE.html   (3288 words)

  
 William James Bone
In 1867, when their son Thomas Henry was born, they were living at 1, Hadley Street South in Kentish Town.
The 1881 Census finds them living at 6, Haverstock Place, to the west of Kentish Town, named simply as "James" and "Eliza".
In 1894 he was described a railway porter on Thomas Henry's marriage certificate, which misnames him "James William Bone".
www.doc.ic.ac.uk /~cjh/woodhurst/wjb.html   (661 words)

  
 Sopwell House / Hotel / How to find us
On arrival at St Albans there is a taxi rank outside the railway station and the journey to Sopwell House will take approximately 6-10 minutes depending on traffic.
There is also a local service from Kentish Town, West Hampstead, Cricklewood, Hendon, Mill Hill Broadway, Elstree & Borehamwood, Radlett and St Albans
Thameslink Trains operate a direct service between London St Pancras to St Albans City Station.
www.fivelakes.co.uk /sopwell/hotel_findus.htm   (131 words)

  
 Citikey London - Camden - Public Transport
King's Cross Station is the gateway between London and the Eas...
Euston Station is a maninline terminus for train routes to the...
St Pancras Station offers train services provided by GNER and...
www.citikey.com /search/area/Camden/category/20028/city/London/filter/feature/page/4   (245 words)

  
 transport-london
The station was relocated in March 1941 to improve the interchange with the tube lines (at that time the Northern and Piccadilly).
East London The East London Line is eight km (five miles) in length and serves seven stations (eight in peak periods) between Whitechapel (Shoreditch in peak periods and on Sunday mornings) and New Cross or New Cross Gate.
Victoria The Victoria Line is 21 km (13.1 miles) in length and serves 16 stations between Walthamstow Central and Brixton.
www.jammed.com /usenet/faq/uk/transport-london   (2900 words)

  
 1st Metropolitan Mortgage
It included Tottenham Court Road, Camden Town, St Pancras, Kings Cross, Somers Town, Kentish Town, Euston, and part of Regent's Park.
The Railway was incorporated in 1853 as the ‘North Metropolitan Railway’ and was re-incorporated on 7 August 1854 as a mixed-gauge line: it was opened in January 1863 from a junction with the main line Great Western Railway (GWR) at Bishops Road, Paddington to Victoria Street (later Farringdon Street) in the City of London.
The oldest section of the ‘’’Metropolitan Railway’’’ (MetR) - the precursor of the Metropolitan Line - opened in 1863, running between Farringdon and Paddington, and was the world's oldest underground railway.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/0/1st-metropolitan-mortgage.html   (1125 words)

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