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Topic: Lonsdale (hundred)


In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Simon Dew | Other Places | Forgotten Shires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hundred or wapentake in the Northern Division of Lancashire.
It is one of nine Hundreds in the county.
The area was subdivided, probably sometime in the 12th century, into three hundreds: Trigg, Lesnewth and Stratton.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jabadaw/shires.htm   (482 words)

  
 SeaBus. Who is SeaBus? What is SeaBus? Where is SeaBus? Definition of SeaBus. Meaning of SeaBus.
The SeaBus crosses Burrard Inlet from a dock 100 metres southeast of the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.
The cost of the trip is a two-zone fare, ranging from $3.00 for adults, and $2.00 for children.
Four hundred passengers can be taken on each journey; passengers are automatically counted by a turnstile as they enter the boarding area.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/SeaBus   (184 words)

  
 Charles Darwin - Volcanic Islands Page 74   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lonsdale has had the kindness to examine the corals; they consist of six undescribed species, belonging to three genera.
The shores of Storm Bay are skirted, to the height of a few hundred feet, by strata of sandstone, containing pebbles of the formation just described, with its characteristic fossils, and therefore belonging to a subsequent age.
Near Hobart Town, I observed one dike, nearly a hundred yards in width, on one side of which the strata were tilted at an angle of 60 degrees, and on the other they were in some parts vertical, and had been altered by the effects of the heat.
charles-darwin.classic-literature.co.uk /volcanic-islands/ebook-page-74.asp   (526 words)

  
 Walks in Yorkshire - Circular around Kirkby Lonsdale from Devil's Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Follow this path for a further few hundred metres where the path leaves the fence to go around the right-hand side of a large tree.
The landscape is as a result of the formation hundreds of millions of years ago of the ancient rocks of the Howgills and Middleton Fells to the left and the later limestone Hills of Gragareth and Ingleborough to the right.
The higher ground and the valleys were gradually eroded and weathered by glaciers and rainwater over many thousands of years, with the soil being removed and deposited to from fertile meadows in Middle Lunesdale in front of Ruskin's View.
www.daleswalks.co.uk /walks/walk17/walk.html   (764 words)

  
 Lonsdale's group is funded by George W. Bush's buddies: 8/ 25/ 2004
Lonsdale writes, "The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is independent of any political party." While admitting that "a few hundred thousand dollars was supplied by two Republicans," Mr.
Lonsdale said that John Kerry "was among the finest of those swiftboat drivers," according to the front page New York Times article.
I respect the risks that Adrian Lonsdale took for his country, and I sincerely regret that he is soiling his achievement by getting caught up in the insanity of partisan politics.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-04/08-25-04/a15op989.htm   (605 words)

  
 Walks in Yorkshire - Circular around Whernside from Twistleton Scar End   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A further two hundred yards along the track a house comes into view ahead at a point where about twenty yards up the hill on the left a solitary large boulder resides.
The path splits and a further hundred yards on comes back together just before passing about twenty yards to the right of a solitary tree.
The path is currently almost bisecting two parallel walls, which are running along about one hundred and fifty yards either side of the path.
www.daleswalks.co.uk /walks/walk21/walk.html   (1236 words)

  
 Images Of Cumbria - Parish of Burton-In-Kendal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
PRESTON PATRICK is a large township and chapelry, containing the small hamlets of Gatebeck, Goose Green, Millness, and Nook, with a number of dispersed dwellings extending from four to six miles N. by E. of Burton, on the E. side of the river Belo.
It was sold in the 18th century to the Charteris family, of Hornby castle, one of whom, in 1773, enfranchised the tenants for the sum or £5130.
The Earl of Lonsdale is now lord of the manor, and owner of the Preston hall estate, occupied by a farmer.
www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk /cumbria/burton.html   (2146 words)

  
 Geographic History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lancashire used the term Hundred to define an ancient area of administration which probably derives from the area having to supply 100 armed knights to serve the monarch or similar.
For taxation purposes, the Hundred was used for division until into the 19th century.
Blackburn, (hundred of) adjoins on the W. to Amounderness hundred, on the S.W. to Leyland hundred, and on the S. to Salford hundred, and on the N.-N.E. and E. it is bounded by the County of York.
users.pgen.net /bill.lee/geographichistory.htm   (621 words)

  
 knight: July 31, 2000
HALIFAX -- Along with a couple of hundred thousand other people, I passed a pleasant Saturday night gazing upon a fireworks display framed by the majestic masts, spars and stays of one of a hundred tall ships in Halifax harbour.
At Tall Ships 2000, the waterfront boardwalks and piers were teeming with humanity from all over the world, with a stroll of a mere hundred paces yielding at least half a dozen different languages overheard in passing.
Police conducted literally hundreds of spot checks on vessels and not a single charge of drinking and boating was laid.
www.nsnews.com /issues00/w073100/knight.html   (1037 words)

  
 Lonsdale Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning with Genealogy & Family History Resources by Ancestor Search
Derived from the town of Lonsdale, in Westmoreland, England, so named from the river Lon on which it is situated, and dale--the dale on the Lon.
Trace your Lonsdale genealogy with up to six generations of your family tree with U. census images from 1790 to 1930.
Search for your Lonsdale ancestor's passenger list or naturalization records and learn the country of immigration and immigrant ship name as well as immigrant details such as physical description, age, and occupation.
www.searchforancestors.com /surnames/origin/lonsdale.php   (618 words)

  
 Point Lonsdale Surf Life Saving Club Incorporated
Records of who were the first members for that season are unclear, but eleven Point Lonsdale members gained their Surf Bronze in February of 1948.
In March of 1953, a mass rescue alarm was raised by the Lonsdale Lighthouse keeper.
Point Lonsdale was the first Victorian (and in fact the first club outside of NSW) to win a Senior Men’s Surf Boat title at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships.
www.pointlonsdaleslsc.asn.au /history.htm   (2066 words)

  
 Images Of Cumbria - Barony and Parish of Kendal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is a large Gothic structure, about one hundred and forty feet in length, and one hundred and ten in breadth, "with fine alleys, each of them being parted by a row of eight fair pillars;" and it is said that there are only five similar churches in the kingdom.
It is one hundred and forty-eight feet long and thirty-seven feet broad, having its principal entrance ornamented with a receding balcony, fronted with columns and pilasters of the Ionic order, supporting a pediment surmounted with a handsome lantern, which gives light to the Billiard Room.
The Earl of Lonsdale is lord of the manor, in which Burn says, there is a copper vein, which was formerly wrought.
www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk /cumbria/kendal_f.html   (15817 words)

  
 Pelobates - Issue 59 - Return to the Caves - Croydon Caving Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When we got to the head of this gill, we were ftopt by a deep chafm called Ginglepot, at the bottom of a precipice: It is of an oblong and narrow form; an enterprizing perfon with a fteady head and active heels, regardlefs of the fatal confequences from a falfe ftep, might leap over it...
We plummed it to the depth of a hundred and fixty five feet, fourty three of which were in water, and this in an extraordinary dry feafon...
It is a fine amphitheatre of perpendicular limeftone rock on the fide of the moor, at leaft a hundred yards high in the middle...
www.croydoncavingclub.org.uk /Archive/Pelobates/059/Return.htm   (4871 words)

  
 Formation of the Oosterbeek Perimeter - Wednesday 20th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Despite the ferocity of these attacks, the Lonsdale Force remained firm and stood its ground, and in so doing had prevented the Germans from driving into the otherwise unprotected eastern sector of the Perimeter and cutting off the Division from the River.
Its men were so weakened by this onslaught, however, that they were obliged to withdraw closer to the Perimeter to take up positions around the Church on the outskirts of Oosterbeek, directly behind which lay the Division's artillery in the form of Sheriff Thompson's Light Regiment.
This move was successful, however the one hundred and fifty men that subsequently entered the hollow were pinned down for the next eight hours, and half of them became casualties.
www.arnhemarchive.org /depth_formation.htm   (1264 words)

  
 "The Gospel of Barnabas"
Lonsdale and Laura Ragg’s preface gives a detailed appraisal of the book, its origin and content, showing it to be a forgery.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the pope of the Roman Church, Boniface the Eighth, decreed that the "jubilee" must be observed once very hundred years.
In AD 1343, this decree was countermanded by a subsequent Roman pope, Clemens the sixth, decreeing that it must again be observed every fifty years.
members.aol.com /d4web4sm/queries/barnabas.htm   (799 words)

  
 Surf Club
A meeting was held, with the assistance of Mr Alex Lowe, who was the proprietor of the General Store in Point Lonsdale, however there was not a great deal of community interest in the idea.
This training program was a major initiative to the club as it trained children in surf awareness, surf life saving competition, basic first aid and resuscitation, as well as being an avenue to membership recruitment.
Point Lonsdale was the first Victorian club to receive a place in the Australian Titles, when Mr Des Webb gained a third place in the Senior Belt Race Title.
www.zades.com.au /bellhs/plslsc.html   (1783 words)

  
 [No title]
549 to Lonsdale Avenue, thence south on Lonsdale Avenue to Sixth Street, thence along sixth street to the lane east of Lonsdale Avenue.
There shall be attached to each of said debentures, coupons signed by the Mayor of the City only, for each and every payment of interest which may become due, and such signature may be written, stamped, printed or lithographed.
This Bylaw shall be known and cited for all purposes as “City of North Vancouver Keith Road, Lonsdale Avenue and Sixth Street, Sanitary Sewer Local Improvement Debenture Bylaw, 1931”.
www.cnv.org /bylaws/bylaws/1264.doc   (391 words)

  
 History of Blackpool
The Hundred of Leyland, south of the river and including Southport and halfway across the Centre Strip of the County.
A Hundred is one hundred rouds of Cultivable land at that date when Cultivation was all by hand, and in batches over a large area including the rough land in between, which the Head Man of the district had to keep clear of outlaws and Merenders.
The population of Poulton was seven hundred and nine.
www.rmhh.co.uk /blackpool.html   (2731 words)

  
 PORT PHILLIP SHIPWRECKS
The Rip as it is appropriately called is flanked by Lonsdale reef on the west and Nepean reef on the east, with less than one kilometre of navigatable water between them, at a depth not exceeding 30 metres.
This in itself should pose no major problem, however it is the depth that creates havoc: a deep trough across the entrance, extending down to a hundred metres, creates turmoil on the surface as the tide moves forward, and the seas pound down and rise upward with then tide.
The tug struck the Point Lonsdale Reef and was so seriously damaged that she was forced to release the tow line and make for Queenscliff, leaving the barque helpless in the fog, with the result that she herself ran on to the reef.
oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /portphillip-wrecks.html   (18598 words)

  
 [No title]
The Raggs are Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, translators of the Gospel of Barnabas.
The purpose of the marginal glosses is 'somewhat mysterious' to the translators, and in an article before the publication of the book, Lonsdale Ragg quotes F.C. Burkitt's remark that 'their function may have been to protect the MS from destruction at the hands of Moslems ignorant of western languages'.
He considers the description of the pains and cries of the damned in the gospel 'strongly reminiscent' of the Italian poet; the picture of hell in Barnabas is remarkably similar to that in the master's Inferno.
www.cs.rutgers.edu /pub/soc.religion.christian/faq/gospel-barnabas   (5382 words)

  
 Liverpool - Margaret Grogan's Ancestors
This county comprises a variety of soil and face of country; there being mountains of more than 2000 feet high, in the north and eastern parts, with wide moorlands or heaths amongst them; extensive bogs or mosses, which yield only turf for fuel, and are very dangerous; and some most fertile land for agricultural purposes.
Hundreds or Wapentakes: Lancashire used the term Hundred to define an ancient area of administration which probably derives from the area having to supply 100 armed knights to serve the monarch or similar.
For Taxation purposes, the Hundred was used for division until into the 19c.
www.sci.net.au /mgrogan/liverpool.htm   (545 words)

  
 Lonsdale Boxing - About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lonsdale Boxing Club is a boxing club which offers the training of Olympic style boxing to youth ages eleven (11 yrs) and up.
Lonsdale Boxing Club is named after the English boxing fan—Lord Lonsdale—who was the first to introduce modern rules of boxing in 1867.
Lonsdale Boxing Club provides quality structured boxing training to uphold and enforce the principles of sportsmanship, fair play, and self- discipline.
www.lonsdaleboxingclub.com   (241 words)

  
 Woodclose Park - Holiday Accommodation in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, English Lake District
"...the valley of the Lune at Kirkby Lonsdale is one of the loveliest scenes in England, therefore in the world.
Whatever moorland, hill and sweet river, and English forest foliage can be at their best is gathered there; and chiefly seen from the steep bank, which falls to the streamside from the upper part of the town itself.
Those words penned over a hundred year ago by John Ruskin, whose life might be said to have been devoted to beauty, still hold absolutely true today.
www.woodclosepark.com   (178 words)

  
 Rootenberg Rare Books/Medicine & Allied Subjects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Addison" and is inscribed on the front endpaper, presumably by her, "To Dr. Lonsdale one of the Author's best and kind friends".
Addison died in 1860 and was buried at the family village of Lanercost, about ten miles from Carlisle.
Lonsdale, forced by ill health to leave a teaching post in Edinburgh, returned to his home in Carlisle in 1845, and took the position as a physician to the Cumberland Infirmary.
www.rootenbergbooks.com /Rootenberg_Books_Medicine.html   (2463 words)

  
 John Saul books on Archivesinc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Brainchild: Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.
One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done.
Nathaniel: For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel's name in wonder and fear.
www.archivesinc.com /pg/johnsaul.html   (867 words)

  
 Olbermann Watch: Olbermann Changes Subject to Fox and Swift Vets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was mainly won because of the bravado and the courage of the young officers that ran the boats, the swift boats and the Coast Guard cutters.
Lonsdale, but back in 1996 showed courage, bravado and was one of the finest swift boat drivers.[...]
I fired a few hundred rounds when the mine first went off.
www.olbermannwatch.com /archives/002218.html   (1575 words)

  
 07189704   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A mid-afternoon bomb scare forced several hundred shoppers to postpone their purchases at two North Vancouver Safeway stores Wednesday.
When police discovered the bomb threat was made from a pay phone on the periphery of the Lonsdale Safeway parking lot, police checked that grocery store as well.
Lonsdale Safeway assistant manager Peter Lemon said the incident was his first bomb scare and praised the store's staff for remaining calm and getting everyone out quickly.
www.nsnews.com /issue/w072197/07189704.html   (350 words)

  
 UCSD Science & Engineering
Other members of the astronomer team included Colin Lonsdale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Haystack Observatory, Carol Lonsdale of Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, and Philip Diamond of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
A sort of family project, Carol Lonsdale is Smith’s wife and Colin Lonsdale’s sister.
The competing theory suggests that these ultra-radiant galaxies are illuminated by young, hot stars and powerful supernovae that are born from shockwaves moving through large masses of gas in colliding galaxies.
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/science/farp.html   (1019 words)

  
 Jorrocks.com - Foxhunting: Vol 7 of the Lonsdale Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Of the few animal painters they have elected, not all to-day find favour with the connoisseurs of any form of art, nor do their pictures to-day fetch a pound for the hundreds that are bid for the works of those whom they scorned.
His “Leicestershire Coverts,” recently sold for eight hundred pounds, are the best views of this hunting paradise and give, even to the non-hunting man, a true idea of the “acres of woodlands and oceans of grass” of which Whyte-Melville sings.
This picture was subscribed for by twenty Meltonians, who each put down a hundred guineas, and when it was finished threw dice to decide which of them should be the lucky owner.
www.jorrocks.co.uk /books/FH/33   (7597 words)

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