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Falinge Park High School

Falinge Park High School is an 11–16 mixed comprehensive school in the Shawclough area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom and is part of the Watergrove Trust. The school has been recognised as an Investor in People and has gained the International School Award, as well as Artsmark Gold, Sportsmark Gold and the Healthy Schools status. In 2010 Ofsted inspection it was found to be "a good school where pupils rise to the high expectations of the headteacher and staff". History The school was founded as Rochdale Municipal High School for Girls in 1935. In 1953 it became Rochdale Grammar School for Girls, with an intake of 350 and in the 1970s it became a 13- to 18-year-old mixed sex school called Greenhill Upper School. Over the years the school's capacity increased to 1,200 through a number of additional buildings. On 31 August 1988 it was renamed Falinge Park Upper School as a result of an amalgamation with another school. The school was renamed again to the school's current name, Falinge Park High School on 31 August 1990, due to a borough reorganisation and the intake changed to the current 11–16 age range. Location The school is located in the Shawclough area of Rochdale, bordering Falinge. It is named after the nearby Falinge Park and is situated just across the road from the park itself. The majority of pupils come from the Shawclough, Falinge and Spotland areas of Rochdale, though some pupils travel from areas such as Syke and Norden. The town centre is approximately 10 minutes walk from the main gate to the school, which makes it ideal for the pupils and staff who have to travel via public transport. School rebuild Starting August 2012 the school was rebuilt with the construction of a new three-storey building on the site, and a refurbishment of the existing sports hall and gym. The existing specialist ICT accommodation and dance studio were retained. The rebuild project was due to be complete January 2014,. The demolition of old buildings began April 2014 and was completed by June 2014. Pupils moved into the 'New Build' in January 2014. A new Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) block has been recently added. Notable former pupils Michael Ratu is a professional rugby league player, who plays for Hull Kingston Rovers. He attended the school until 2004. Watergrove Trust Falinge Park High School became part of the Watergrove Trust on the 1st October 2024. Greenhill School Michelle Holmes, actress who played Sue (blonde hair) in Rita, Sue and Bob Too Liz Kershaw, radio presenter on 6 Music, and formerly Radio 1 Nick Nuttall, executive at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Berlin References External links Official website Official Facebook page
Falkner Square

Falkner Square is a square in Canning on the border of Liverpool city centre and Toxteth. Falkner Square Gardens occupy the centre of the square. The Square was completed in 1830 and in 1835 the central area was acquired as a park, one of the first areas so acquired by the council. History Falkner Square is named after Edward Falkner, soldier and Sheriff of Lancashire, who mustered 1000 men in a single hour for the defence of Liverpool in 1797 when a French invasion threatened. He wanted it called Wellington Square. It dates from 1835 and was one of the city's first open public spaces. However, at the time it was unpopular and considered too far out of town, especially as regards the long uphill hike for horse-drawn vehicles. The townspeople nicknamed it Falkner's Folly, on account of the land being formerly known as Moss Lake Fields. Following construction, many of the houses remained vacant as prospective buyers were concerned the houses may subside due to being built on marshy ground; in response, Falkner drained part of the land and redirected the creek, and in due course the area become popular. During World War II, the public garden was utilised as a location for air-raid shelters, though it was fully reinstated after the war and now forms part of the Georgian Quarter. Today, the area is maintained by Liverpool City Council, who have restored cobbles and original period street furniture. In 1993, on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic a war memorial was installed to commemorate black and Commonwealth seamen who served during World War 2. References Citations Sources 53.3982°N 2.9629°W﻿ / 53.3982; -2.9629
Fanhams Hall

Fanhams Hall is an 18th-century Queen Anne style country house in Wareside, Hertfordshire, in the south east of England. It is a Grade II* listed building which is now operating as a hotel. History Built in the early 18th century, the house was subsequently enlarged in 1901, when the original brick building was encased and extended as a three-storey Jacobean style country house, roughcast with stone dressings. The interior was decorated in the Arts and Crafts style with plasterwork by L A Turner and stained glass by Morris and Co. in the library. Fanhams Hall is noteworthy for being the birthplace and home of the first Lord Croft, Sir Henry Page-Croft, who was the youngest son of Richard Benyon Croft (benefactor of Richard Hale School) and who was Winston Churchill's appointed Under-Secretary of State for War until 1945. The south-east wing of the house served as his living quarters, and the present-day bedrooms numbered 207-210 were Lord Croft's maisonette. In 1874, Fanhams Hall was also the birthplace and home of his sister, Anne, who later became the second wife of Liverpool Brewer Sir Charles Nall-Cain; they lived at Brocket Hall, Welwyn until Lord Brocket's death in 1934, when Lady Brocket returned to Fanhams Hall where she resided until her death in 1949. The house was sold as a training centre to the Westminster Bank in 1951, to the Chartered Building Society Institute in 1971, and to J Sainsbury plc in February 1986. J Sainsbury undertook a comprehensive scheme of extension and restoration at the site, to designs of the architect Nicholas Ray, including further bedrooms and a restaurant and meeting room pavilion wing, completed in Spring 1993. Garden Lady Brocket's interest in horticulture influenced the employment of Japanese gardeners to create the Hall's formal gardens. Her ornamental lakes and choice of trees (such as Japanese maples) can still be seen in the present-day formal grounds, as can the "Fuji-yama Mound (Fujizuka)" which was built with earth from the Hall's lakes. The gardens at Fanhams Hall are cited as one of the most famous examples of a Japanese Garden in England and includes separately Grade II listed terracing and steps, stone Japanese lanterns, two bridges and three follies (two Japanese and one Austrian). J Sainsbury undertook a restoration of the gardens, under the direction of landscape architects; Higson Pearson, with the resulting scheme being awarded the President's Award for Design in 1993 by the Landscape Institute. The garden is listed grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Current use The Hall currently serves as a hotel and events venue, and is owned by the hotel group Exclusive Hotels and Venues. The Hall is still open to the public as a local meeting point. For example, the local branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters holds meetings within the grounds. References External links Official website
Fantasy Island (Lincolnshire)

Fantasy Island ist ein Freizeitpark in Ingoldmells (Lincolnshire, England, Vereinigtes Konigreich Vereinigtes Königreich), der 1995 eröffnet wurde. Betreiber des Parks ist Mellors Group Events. Achterbahnen Ehemalige Achterbahnen Weblinks Die offizielle Parkwebsite (englisch)
Fantasy Island (amusement park)

Fantasy Island Resort is a resort theme park located in Ingoldmells on the east coast of Lincolnshire, UK. It opened in 1995 and is owned by the Mellors Group. The park features an outdoor selection of rides as well as an indoor entertainment complex situated in a steel pyramid. The park has several rides both inside its central pyramid and the surrounding outdoor space. Fantasy Island first opened in 1995 and was developed by Blue Anchor Leisure. It was later sold to Conduit Skegness Ltd, before the company went into administration in 2014 and sold the park to the Mellors Group for an undisclosed sum in 2016. Three main attractions added by the Mellors Group in 2021 included Starflyer, Magic, and Firebowl. In September 2023, the Volcano launch tower experienced a technical fault after the emergency stop was activated, leading to several guests being offered first aid. In 2024, the website Outdoor Toys listed Fantasy Island among the top 10 theme parks for children in the United Kingdom. The resort includes rides and what it claims to be "Europe's largest seven-day market". References
Faraday Building, Manchester

The Faraday Building is a university building in central Manchester. It is part of the campus of the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. The Faraday Building's architect was Harry Fairhurst, of the long-established Manchester firm of H.S. Fairhust & Son. It was constructed in 1967 by J. Gerrard & Sons. The building housed, until mid-to-late 2007, part of the University of Manchester School of Chemistry. The School of Chemistry is now located mainly at the Chemistry Building on Brunswick Street, however a significant number of former Faraday-based academics researching biologically related chemistry are now based in the nearby Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre. Appropriately, given its chemistry roots, the building housed a mural called The Alchemist's Elements (1967) by Hans Tisdall. As part of the closure of the North Campus, the building was closed in 2015, and partially demolished in 2016. References
Fareham College

Fareham College is a further education college situated on a 22-acre (89,000 m2) campus on the western side of the town of Fareham in Hampshire, England. History Fareham College was formed in 1984 as a merger between an earlier technical college (Fareham Technical College) on the same site and the sixth-form college at the historic Price's School, a boys' grammar school on Park Lane, (before the latter's site was sold to developers), and became the sole state provider of post-16 education in Fareham (a tertiary college). Price's School became a sixth form college in 1976. Fareham Grammar School for Girls was on Birdwood Grove, and became Cams Hill School. Principals Peter Watkins, Principal from 1980 to 1974 of Price's Sixth Form College (Head from 1974 to 1979 of Chichester High School For Boys and from 1969 to 1974 of King Edward VI Five Ways) Carl Groves (2002–2011) Nigel Duncan (2012– ??) Andrew Kaye ( ??- Academic performance The latest Ofsted report (2017) rated Fareham College as an 'Outstanding' college. Alumni Price's School Neil Astley, who founded Bloodaxe Books Rear admiral Roger Dimmock, commanded HMS Hermes from 1982 to 1983, and RNAS Culdrose from 1980 to 1982 Robert Goddard (novelist) Peter Long, businessperson References External links College website Former Price's School EduBase
Farfield Friends Meeting House

Farfield Friends Meeting House is a redundant Quaker meeting house now cared for by the Friends of Friendless Churches. It is located some 2 miles (3 km) north of the village of Addingham, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History In 1666, Anthony Myers of Farfield Hall, Addingham, provided a plot of land to be used as a Quaker burial ground. Twenty-three years later, in 1689, the Act of Toleration was passed giving the right to Nonconformists to build places of worship. In that year Anthony Myers gave a further adjacent plot of land for building a meeting house; the construction of this was completed during the same year. Architecture and furnishings The small meeting house is typical of rural Quaker meeting houses of the period, poignant in its simplicity. It is constructed in stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is in a single storey with three bays. There is one door, and the three windows have mullions; at the corners of the building are quoins. The interior consists of a single cell. At its east end is a dais with settles and turned balusters. External features In the graveyard to the northeast of the meeting house are five joined chest tombs to the Myers family dated between 1687 and 1737. They are designated as a Grade II listed building. This style of tomb is unusual in Quaker burial grounds as it was considered to be ostentatious and was later discouraged by the movement. Present day The building was owned by the Historic Chapels Trust who have restored it and aim to preserve it in perpetuity, as part of the physical evidence of British religious life. It is now owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches, who took ownership of the site in December 2024. It can be visited during daylight hours. Three car parking spaces and picnic area are adjacent. A long-distance footpath, the Dales Way, passes through the grounds. In 2018 Historic England placed the meeting house in the top ten of the Faith and Belief category of its A History of England in 100 Places project. See also Grade II* listed buildings in West Yorkshire Listed buildings in Addingham List of chapels preserved by the Historic Chapels Trust References External links Media related to Farfield Friends Meeting House at Wikimedia Commons Newspaper article about the title deed for the building
Newbury Manor School

Newbury Manor School is a specialist education school for pupils with an autistic spectrum diagnosis, situated in Newbury, near Mells, seven miles from Frome, in the English county of Somerset. The school is co-educational, approved by the Department for Education, and supports up to 65 students between the ages of six and 19. Newbury Manor School is run by Aspris Children’s Services. History The school has its origins in Ravenscroft School, founded at Yelverton, Devon, in the 1930s and later moved to Beckington Castle and then to Farleigh House at Farleigh Hungerford, near Bath. This began as a prep school, but in the 1970s it found a new role as a special school specializing in teaching dyslexic children, and in 1996 it was re-organised as Farleigh College, a new institution which took over its staff, pupils, and premises. Farleigh College was launched in September 1996 with forty children, of whom thirty were dyslexic and ten had been diagnosed with Asperger's, and at the outset it had a five-year lease on Farleigh House. The name of Farleigh College was kept after September 2000, when the school moved to Newbury House, near Mells, an 18th-century Grade II* listed country house. In 2013, the name of the secondary school was changed to Newbury Manor School, while the "Farleigh College" identity was kept for the later years. Farleigh Further Education College Originally launched in September 2000 on the Farleigh House site to meet the needs of young people with Asperger's, a year later Farleigh Further Education College moved to Frome. It is still operated by the Priory Group as a Further Education College for students aged 16 to 19 (upon entry) with Asperger syndrome and associated disorders. This is registered with the Learning and Skills Council and is a full member of the National Association of Specialist Colleges of Further Education (NATSPEC). The main boarding house is North Parade; others are Tallowood, Maple, Ashleigh Grove, Sandusky Mews, Bridgwater and Delta Close. Students go to a mainstream college during the day, choosing their course during their enrolment before the start of year one. Most students go to Wiltshire College in Trowbridge, where there is a base room solely used by Farleigh Further Education College. Other college choices are Strode College and Bath College. See also Ravenscroft School References External links Newbury Manor School Official Website
Farleigh School

Farleigh School is a Catholic preparatory day and boarding school in Andover, Hampshire, England. Situated in 60 acres (240,000 m2) of parkland in the Test Valley, Hampshire, it educates around 430 children. The current school comprises a pre-prep department (ages 3–6) and the main prep school (ages 6–13). History Farleigh was founded as a boys' boarding school in 1953 at Farleigh House, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, the seat of the earls of Portsmouth, by the late Jocelyn Francis Trappes-Lomax. It started out with 35 boys. Since moving to Red Rice in 1982, the school has acquired an indoor swimming pool, a new art and DT facility, and a new headmaster. Father Simon Everson, in addition to his duties as headmaster at Farleigh School, also takes responsibility as chaplain at the school. Since 1982 it has been located in a Georgian country house previously named Red Rice House, where the future George IV of the United Kingdom (then still Prince of Wales) was believed to have secretly – and illegally – married the Roman Catholic Maria Anne Fitzherbert in 1785. The legend was disproved in 1905 when Mrs Fitzherbert's papers were made public. The house is situated in the hamlet Red Rice, near Andover, Hampshire. Boarding Boarding is available to both boys and girls aged 7 (Year 3) and above. Around 40% of pupils board either full-time or on weekdays. The younger boarders are housed separate sections of the Junior House. Boarders in Year 7 and above reside in two senior houses (1 for boys and 1 for girls). Notable alumni Rupert Allason Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith Cressida Bonas Rupert Everett Francis Fitzherbert, 15th Baron Stafford Tarka L'Herpiniere Alexander Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh Earl Jellicoe (which one?) John Home Robertson Will Stuart, rugby union player Hugh Vyvyan Former staff The former Hampshire cricketer and Crystal Palace and Southampton footballer, Bernard Harrison, was for many years a teacher of Mathematics and Sports at the school. References External links School Website Profile on the ISC website ISI Inspection Reports
Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Farleigh Hungerford Castle, nogle gange kaldet Farleigh Castle eller Farley Castle, er en middelalderborg, der ligger i Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England. Borgen blev opført i to faser: den indre borggård blev bygget mellem 1377 og 1383 af Sir Thomas Hungerford, der skabte sin formue som steward for John of Gaunt. Borgen blev opført med en kvadratisk design, der allerede på dette tidspunkt var lidt gammeldags, på stedet for en eksisterende herregård med udsigt til floden Frome. Der var også anlagt en dyrehave i forbindelse med borgen, der krævede at man nedrev landsby. Sir Thomas' søn, Sir Walter Hungerford, der var ridder og medlem af Henrik 5.'s hof, blev rig under hundredårskrigen med Frankrig, udvidede borgen yderligere med en ydre borggård, der fik inkluderet sognekirken. Ved Walters død i 1449 blev borgen rigt dekoreret med vægmalerier. Borgen forblev hovedsageligt i Hungerford-familiens eje i de næste to århundrede på trods af perioden med rosekrigene, hvor kronen overtog borgen som attainder og henrettede medlemmer af familie. Ved udbruddet af den engelske borgerkrig i 1642 blev fæstningen moderniseret til tudor- og stuart-stil, og var ejet af Sir Edward Hungerford. Edward erklærede sin støtte til parlamentet og blev leder for rundhovederne i Wiltshire. Farleigh Hungerford blev erobret af kavalererne i 1643, men blev generobret af rundhovederne uden kamp mod slutningen af konflikten i 1645. Som resultat af dette undgik den de bevidste ødelæggelser som mange andre fæstninger i det sydvestlige England blev udsat for i et forsøg på at forhindre at de blev brugt militært. Det sidste medlem af Hungerford-familien der ejede borgen var Sir Edward Hungerford, der arvede den i 1657, men hans gambling og ekstravagante livsstil tvang ham til at sælge ejendommen i 1686. I 1700-tallet blev borgen ikke længere brugt til beboelse for ejerne, og den gik i forfald; i 1730 blev den købt af Houlton-familien, der var klædehandlere fra Trowbridge, og en stor del af borgen blev brugt som stenbrud. I 1800- og 1900-tallet blev borgruinen en mål for antikvarer og turister. Borgen kapel blev repareret i 1779, og det blev et raritetskabinet med vægmalerierne da de blev genopdaget i 1844, og en række sjældne antropomorfiske kister fra 1600-tallet. I 1915 blev Farleigh Hungerford Castle solgt til Office of Works og et kontroversielt restaureringsprojekt blev igangsat. Den ejes i dag af English Heritage, der driver den som turistattraktion. Borgen er en listed building af første grad og et Scheduled Ancient Monument. Se også Borge og slotte i England Referencer Eksterne henvisninger
Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Farleigh Hungerford Castle är ett slott i Storbritannien. Det ligger i grevskapet Somerset och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet, 150 km väster om huvudstaden London. Farleigh Hungerford Castle ligger 49 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Farleigh Hungerford Castle är platt. Närmaste större samhälle är Bath, 8,2 km nordväst om Farleigh Hungerford Castle. Trakten runt Farleigh Hungerford Castle består till största delen av jordbruksmark. Kommentarer Källor
Farley Hall, Swallowfield

Farley Hall is a large 18th-century Grade I listed country house in the English village of Farley Hill, in the civil parish of Swallowfield, Berkshire. The Hall was built in 1720s for Charles Lannoy. Plans for the landscaping were drawn up by the landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman. Formal gardens covering over 50 acres (20 hectares) have now been largely lost to agricultural and commercial development. The house stands in parkland on high ground overlooking a lake and is built in brick in two storeys to a rectangular plan. The centre and oldest part has seven bays and is connected on each side by two bay links to four bay pavilions. The 1750 acre (700 hectare) estate is bordered on three sides by tributaries of the River Thames (the Whitewater, Blackwater and Loddon). Within the grounds is a traditional working farm, a livery facility, a dairy farm, a commercial partridge, pheasant and mixed bird shoot and a range of residential and commercial properties. The livery yard opened in February 2010 and is run by Gavin Crossley, formerly of the Household Cavalry. The Farley Hall Horse Trials became a new fixture in the British Eventing calendar in 2014. The estate is currently owned by the fifth Viscount Bearsted and his family. Lady Bearsted (Dr Caroline Sacks) runs a medical practice from the Hall. References