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RHS Garden Bridgewater

RHS Garden Bridgewater is the Royal Horticultural Society's fifth public display garden. It is located in the village of Worsley in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Gardens Bridgewater Gardens has been created in 154 acres (62 ha) of the former Worsley New Hall estate, with the Bridgewater Canal forming the southern boundary. It is the RHS's first new garden since it acquired Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire in 2001, and was one of Europe's largest gardening projects when under construction. It opened to the public in May of 2021 and since then has led the way in developing a unique blend of heritage landscape assets combined with biodiversity initiatives and underpinned with community based outreach programmes. In 2022 the garden was awarded first place in The European Heritage Garden Network's (EHGN) category of 'Best Contemporary Garden in a Heritage Setting'. Landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith has created the overall plan, in which the walled kitchen garden will be restored, historic features such as the tree-lined Garden Approach recreated, and the lost terraces reworked. Marcus Chilton-Jones was appointed the first curator of the garden in January 2017 with responsibility for overseeing the horticultural evolution of the new site. Currently, the garden curates the national collection of edible rhubarb (Rheum x hybridum) at c. 100 cultivars. Plans are in place to add the national collection of gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) and blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) in the future. Funding The expected total cost of the project was £32.7m, of which the RHS invested £15.7m of its own funds and received (by December 2019) a further £12.7m through grants and fundraising, including a £5m grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation and further donations from Salford City Council. History In May 2022, the visitors' centre The Welcome Building was crowned by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the North West Building of the Year. It was praised for its "sustainable and engaging" design. Television The BBC filmed a four-part series about the construction process at the garden titled The Great Northern Garden Build, which began broadcasting on BBC Two from 10 May 2021, just before the 18 May 2021 opening date. See also List of botanical gardens RHS Garden Harlow Carr RHS Garden Hyde Hall RHS Garden Rosemoor RHS Garden Wisley References External links Media related to RHS Garden Bridgewater at Wikimedia Commons RHS Garden Bridgewater – official site
Leas Lift

The Leas Lift is a grade II* listed funicular railway that carried passengers between the seafront and the promenade in Folkestone, Kent. Originally installed in 1885, it is one of the oldest water lifts in the UK. The lift operates using water and gravity and is controlled from a small cabin at the top of the cliff. It has carried more than 36.4 million people since it opened, in a process that is especially energy efficient. The lift has a very small carbon footprint, as it emits no pollution and recycles all of the water used to drive the cars. In June 1991, the lift was seen in an episode of The Darling Buds of May. In June 2009, Folkestone and Hythe District Council’s lease ran out and it was decided that the lift was too expensive to run. Campaigners subsequently protested against the closure of the lift and in April 2010, it was announced that the lift was to be restored. Restoration works Crofton Consulting was appointed as lead consultant to provide structural engineering design for the restoration. Crofton won the Building Structures award at the ACE Engineering Excellence Awards in May 2011 and won the Restoration award at the ICE Engineering Excellence Awards in June 2011 for its work on the lift. G A Harpers was appointed as the main contractor to carry out the necessary construction work. The renovation involved replacing the mechanical and electrical wiring and ensuring that all necessary safety standards in the two cars, the control systems and stations, were met. There was also a focus on restoring the associated power pumps that control the lift at the top and bottom stations. The wheel bearings on the lift cars were all found to be damaged by corrosion so the wheels were re-machined to provide the correct running profile. Additionally, the corroded steelwork support structures within the buried water storage tanks, which were leaking, were inspected and replaced. The operation of the Folkestone lift was then taken over by The Folkestone Leas Lift Community Interest Company on behalf of the community as a non-profit-making organisation. It opened the attraction as a living museum. In January 2017, the lift was closed again following an HSE inspection, which determined that a secondary fail-safe braking system must be installed before the lift could be re-opened. £80,000 was raised to conduct the preliminary works required to reinstate the lift, including a full engineering survey. A new charity, the Folkestone Leas Lift Company Charity was set up, and with funding from the Radnor Estate and the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, aims to raise funds to help repair the lift, and to create and implement a sustainable long-term plan for its operation. As of May 2025, the charity expects the lift to reopen in early 2026. See also List of funicular railways References External links Leas Lift, a water and gravity powered funicular railway in Folkestone Folkestone Leas Lift Company Charity
Elevador de Leas

O Elevador de Leas (em inglês Leas Lift) é um funicular movida a água que faz a ligação entre a cidade de Folkestone localizada no distrito Shepway de Kent, Inglaterra e a sua praia, ao longo da falésia de "Leas". O funicular foi inaugurado em 1885, sendo um dos mais antigos do Reino Unido a funcionar pelo sistema de contrapeso de água. Referências Ligações externas http://www.leasliftfolkestone.co.uk/ Página oficial
Leas Lift

Leas Lift är en kulturminnesskyddad, vattenbarlastad bergbana i Folkestone i Storbritannien. Den går mellan havsstranden nära hamnen i Folkestone och Leas Promenade på den höga platå, som huvuddelen av staden ligger på. Leas Lift byggdes 1885 för Folkestone Lift Company av Waygood and Co. i Southwark och är baserad på att de två sammankopplade vagnarna rör sig upp och ner med hjälp av barlastat vatten. Detta vatten kom från floden och släpptes ursprungligen ut i havet från vagnen, när denna nått dalstationen. Leas Lift var den tredje bergbanan med vattenbarlast som byggdes i Storbritannien. Dalstationsbyggnaden ritades i så kallad "Domestic Revival-stil" av Folkestone-arkitekten Reginald Pope. Pumphuset uppfördes 1890 i likartad stil, samtidigt med en andra bergbana bredvid den första. Vardera bergbanan hade två vagnar på triangulärt formade ramar på två gjutjärnsräler, sammankopplade med en stålvajer som går runt ett draghjul på bergstationen. Vatten fylls på i den övre vagnens ballasttankar. Med vatten väger den övre vagnen ungefär fem ton. När passagerare embarkerat den nedre vagnen, kontaktade konduktören bromsoperatören, som också svarade för embarkering av den övre vagnen. Vagnen kommer i rörelse, när bromsen frigjorts och ballastvattnet trimmats. När vagnarna nått dal- respektive bergsstationerna, tömdes ursprungligen barlastvattnet genom en dräneringskanal till havet. Från 1890 återcirkulerades vattnet. Leas Lift, med väntrum, pumprum, spår, vagnar, bromshus och maskineri, blev kulturminnesmärke i april 1989. Stängning Den andra bergbanan nedmonterades 1985. Den första bergbanan stängdes i januari 2017 efter krav på att banan måste förses med ett reservbromssystem. De två vagnarna låstes fast vid banans mittpunkt. Den 2018 grundade ideella organisationen Folkestone Leas Lift Community Interest Company arbetar för att finansiera en restaurering och att återöppna banan. Källor The Leas Lift, including waiting rooms, pump room, lower station tanks, track, cars, wheel houses, tank room, upper station tunnel and railings på Historic Englands webbplats Noter
Leaze stone circle

Leaze stone circle is a stone circle located in the parish of St. Breward on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK (grid reference SX13667728). Description The circle stands in enclosed pasture near the buildings of Leaze farm and is composed of sixteen stones, six of which have fallen. It is approximately twenty four metres in diameter and is cut through the centre by a hedge. It has been estimated the circle once comprised twenty two stones. There is one stone positioned outside of the circle along with three dips suggested to have been formed by removed stones. The stones are of squarish granite of approximately 1.22 metres (4.0 ft) in height and around .50 metres (1.6 ft) wide. Rough Tor, Tolborough Tor and Catshole Tor can be seen from the site with Brown Willy obscured behind Garrow Tor. The fragmentary remains of two other stone circles (Emblance Downs stone circles) can be found about 300 metres northwest of Leaze stone circle. Less than 1 kilometre in a west by north-west direction lies the enigmatic enclosure known as King Arthur's Hall. Alignments Alexander Thom proposed a definitely indicated, site to stone, solar alignment at the site. References External links Pastscape - Leaze stone circle Illustrated entry in the Megalithic Portal Illustrated entry in the Modern Antiquarian Map sources for Leaze stone circle
Leazes Park

Leazes Park is an urban park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Grade II listed, it is the city's oldest park, opened in 1873, and lies to the west of the city centre. The park contains a lake above the course of the Lort Burn. It is next to St James' Park and the Royal Victoria Infirmary. Leazes Park is separated from Spital Tongues by Castle Leazes, an area of common land similar to the Town Moor. History The creation of Leazes Park was a drawn out process. In September 1857 3,000 working men petitioned Newcastle Council for ‘ready access to some open ground for the purpose of health and recreation’ and a year later a special committee was set up to try to find a location for a park. Aldermen Harle and Hamond took up the challenge and campaigned for a park and eventually succeeded in having Leazes Park created on a part of the Leazes Town Moor. On 23 December 1873, Leazes Park was officially opened by Alderman Sir Charles Hamond. It became the first public park created on Tyneside. John Fulton, the Town Surveyor, laid out Leazes Park similar to other parks being built in Britain at that time. The layout centres on the lake. The Bandstand was added in 1875 and a balustrade stone terrace in 1879. Later, the whole park was surrounded with metal railings. A second lake was created in 1893 but this was filled in by 1949 and the area used for a bowling green and tennis courts. The grand Jubilee Gates were added in 1896 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria and a Palm House was built. In 1908 a bust of Alderman Sir Charles Hamond was erected (which is also grade II listed) as the centrepiece to the terrace and the park was then complete. The park continued to develop with deer, aviaries, tennis, and croquet until the 1980s when it was in need of refurbishment. The refurbishment became possible when the park was awarded £3.7 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2001. The restoration project was completed in 2004. References External links Official website
Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common

Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common (grid reference SO952187) is a 63.8-hectare (158-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. There are five units of assessment. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS). Location The site is in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is one of a series of unimproved Jurassic limestone grassland area which are located along the Cotswold scarp. It is south of Cheltenham and near the communities of Leckhampton and Charlton Kings, and has a north-facing aspect. The site also includes disused quarry faces, and quarry spoil which has been vegetated. Geology The Leckhampton quarries expose the thickest single cross-section through the Middle Jurassic, Inferior Oolite strata of the area. They are a major research interest, and there are many published accounts of the last 150 years. Strata of some 60 m are exposed, and the large outcrops are of significant importance to those studying palaeontology or sedimentology, and for studying ancient environments generally. Biology The site supports a range of habitats which include unimproved calcareous grassland, woodland and scrub, cliff faces and scree slopes. The grassland is of major importance and it comprises a tall ungrazed sward. This is dominated by tor-grass, upright brome, meadow oat-grass, sweet vernal-grass and quaking grass. It is noted for its range of herbs which include salad burnet, common rock-rose, common bird's-foot-trefoil. The quarry floors support wild thyme, dwarf thistle, yellow-wort and autumn gentian. The site supports many plants which are scarce at a national or county level. These include fly orchid, musk orchid and purple milk-vetch. It is one of a small number of sites which support meadow clary in the county. Shrub areas support nesting birds such as meadow pipit and grasshopper warbler. It is a shelter area for invertebrates and small mammals. There are wooded areas of broad-leaved and coniferous trees including mature beech. These areas support a woodland flora such as ivy broomrape, white helleborine and greater butterfly-orchid. There is a reported population of adder. Land ownership Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common SSSI is owned and managed by Cheltenham Borough Council. See also Devil's Chimney (Gloucestershire) – Rock formation on Leckhampton Hill, south of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England References SSSI Source Natural England SSSI information on the citation Deprecated link archived 14 September 2012 at archive.today Natural England SSSI information on the Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common units External links Natural England (SSSI information)
Park House, Kensington

Park House, at 7–11 Onslow Square, is a detached house in the South Kensington district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London SW7. It is set in one acre (4,000 m2) of land and is shielded by trees from public view. Park House was created from a pair of lodges, Pelham Cottage and Park Cottage built in the 1840s that were merged into a single property in the 1980s. The house was owned by Mark Birley who lived there with his wife Annabel Goldsmith. Goldsmith wrote a memoir, No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years about her time at the house. Goldsmith described her first visit to the house creating a "catch of pure excitement in my throat...I could not believe that such an oasis could exist only a few yards from South Kensington Tube station. In my daze of delight, I knew immediately that I had stumbled upon something magical". The house was sold by the German art historian and industrial heir Gert-Rudolf Flick for £40 million to the businessman Richard Caring in 2017. Flick described Park House as "almost a country house in the middle of London". The house had been on sale for £105 million since September 2013. Caring has submitted proposals to demolish the present house and replace it with an 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m2) six-bedroomed two-storey house with a double-level basement. The new ground floor will have a dining room and a 48 ft (15 m) long drawing room in addition to a family room and a children's study. The planned basement will incorporate a cinema and a 50 ft (15 m) long swimming pool as well as a massage, steam and sauna rooms and a gym. Caring's proposal received 22 letters of objection from local residents. A £235,000 payment for local housing in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea formed part of the conditions for the council's approval of the plans. References
Box Primary School

Box Church of England Primary School, commonly known as Box Primary School, is a state-run primary school in Box, Wiltshire, England that is part of the mosaic partnership trust. The current headteacher is Jo French. History The first school in the village was established in 1708 by the vicar, the Rev. George Millard. In 1710, Lady Rachel Speke (1657–1711), eldest daughter of Sir William Wyndham, left £100 for the school, and other members of the Speke family also made bequests. The funds were intended for "teaching poor children to read and instructing them in the knowledge and practice of the Christian religion, as professed and taught in the Church of England". In April 2024, it became part of the Mosaic Partnership Trust. The school has over 300 years of history and is among the oldest surviving schools in Wiltshire. Building The school has occupied its present Grade II listed Victorian building since 1875. The building was constructed as an elementary church school at a cost of £2,700 and was designed to accommodate 400 pupils. An extension was added in 2005. See also List of oldest schools in Wiltshire List of schools in Wiltshire References External links Official website
Filsham Reedbed

Filsham Reedbed is an 18.5-hectare (46-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. It is owned by Hastings Borough Council and managed by Sussex Wildlife Trust. It is part of Combe Haven Site of Special Scientific Interest. This is one of the largest reedbeds in the county and it also has areas of grazing marsh, swamp and ancient woodland. There is a wide variety of plants and over 1000 species of invertebrates have been recorded. The bird life is also important and diverse. There is access from Reedswood Road and from a footpath alongside Combe Haven river. References
Ladies Mile, Brighton

Ladies Mile (TQ 318 093) is a 13.6-hectare (34-acre) Local Nature Reserve to the east of Patcham, on the northern outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex. The area was designated in 2003 and is owned and managed by Brighton and Hove City Council. Geography Ladies Mile is a remarkable survival of plateau chalk grassland on Downland where almost all such flattish sites have been allocated to modern farming. Grazed chalk grassland is internationally significant and in this area of the world has been created by hundreds of years of sheep farming. Around 80% of chalk grassland in Britain has been lost. Where it has been saved, it is usually on steep slopes that ploughs cannot reach. During the summer months, the grassland of Ladies Mile is rich in flowers and has extensive areas of horseshoe vetch and kidney vetch. Harebell, Sussex rampion flower, rockrose and yellow rattle are enjoyed by locals here and at midsummer there are still good numbers of glowworms. Later in the summer months the violet-blue of devil’s-bit scabious and the powder-blue lesser scabious radiate. There are also areas of scrub and a wood at the southern end. There is access from Ladies Mile Road. History Ladies Mile once was the site of a Bronze Age round houses and burial mounds, Celtic/Roman field systems, a Victorian era ride for women to exercise their horses, and during the Second World War had anti glider trenches. As a result the ancient turf of Ladies Mile was preserved and there are lots of odd linear banks which are surviving fragments of its past. The banks once stretched across the line of the bypass, beyond which one or two more fragments also survive. At the eastern end of the Down, the Bronze Age burial mound is recognisable only by a low, grassy tump. In 2003 Ladies Mile was designated a Local Nature Reserve as a consequence of its chalk grassland and all biodiversity such areas support. Nearby is the National Nature Reserve of Castle Hill. Other chalk grassland LNR around Brighton and Hove include Beacon Hill, Benfield Hill, Bevendean Down and Whitehawk Hill. References
Ledgard Bridge

Ledgard Bridge crosses the River Calder in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1800 as a replacement for an earlier bridge in the same location and is a Grade II listed structure. History The first bridge to cross the River Calder in Mirfield was a wooden structure built in 1303. This was replaced many times, one earlier stone bridge being named as Ledger Bridge on a 1773 map of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The 1800 bridge survived the great flood of 20 September 1946 which caused much damage along the whole valley. See also List of crossings of the River Calder Listed buildings in Mirfield References
Lee Valley Athletics Centre

The Lee Valley Athletics Centre is located at the Lee Valley Leisure Complex formerly known as Picketts Lock in Edmonton, London Borough of Enfield. The centre cost £15m to build, and was officially opened on 16 January 2007 by Minister for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell. The centre is owned and managed by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) The centre is the largest indoor and outdoor athletics facility serving London and South East England. Housing the only indoor 200 metre six lane track in the South of England, it also comprises a 130-metre sprint straight, permanent seating for 500 spectators both inside and out, full jumps and throws capacity, and cutting-edge sports science and physiotherapy suites. The site is open to the general public as well as elite athletes. On 11 September 2014, the centre hosted the Invictus Games. Public transport Rail Ponders End railway station Bus London bus W8, Metroline References External links Lee Valley Athletics Centre
Osterley (stanice metra v Londýně)

Osterley je stanice metra v Londýně, otevřená 25. března 1934. Nahradila nedalekou původní stanici Osterley & Spring Grove, otevřenou 1. května 1883, v letech 1903 – 1905 elektrifikovanou. Autobusové spojení zajišťuje linka H91. Stanice se nachází v tarifní zóně 4 a leží na lince: Piccadilly Line mezi stanicemi Hounslow East a Boston Manor. V minulosti (1934 – 1964) stanice ležela na lince District Line. Externí odkazy Obrázky, zvuky či videa k tématu Osterley na Wikimedia Commons
Osterley (London Underground)

Osterley ist eine oberirdische Station der London Underground im Stadtbezirk London Borough of Hounslow. Sie liegt in der Travelcard-Tarifzone 4 an der Great West Road (A4). Im Jahr 2013 nutzten 2,32 Millionen Fahrgäste diese von der Piccadilly Line bediente Station. Rund ein Kilometer nördlich befindet sich das Herrenhaus Osterley Park, zwei Kilometer im Osten liegt das Sendezentrum von Sky plc. Geschichte Die Eröffnung der Station Osterley & Spring Grove erfolgte am 1. Mai 1883, als die Metropolitan District Railway (MDR; Vorgängergesellschaft der District Line) die Strecke zwischen Acton Town und Hounslow Town in Betrieb nahm. Nach der Eröffnung der Zweigstrecke in Richtung Hounslow Barracks (heute Hounslow West) am 21. Juli 1884 verkehrte von Osterley & Spring Grove aus ein Pendelzug nach Hounslow Town. Dessen Betrieb endete bereits am 31. März 1886, wurde aber am 1. März 1903 wieder aufgenommen. Nach Abschluss der Elektrifizierung am 13. Juni 1905 verkehrten sämtliche Züge nicht mehr direkt nach Hounslow Barracks, sondern wendeten im Kopfbahnhof Hounslow Town, bis zur Wiedereröffnung der direkten Strecke am 2. Mai 1909. Nachdem Züge der Piccadilly Line ab dem 13. März 1933 ebenfalls die Strecke nach Hounslow West befuhren, stieß die Station allmählich an ihre Kapazitätsgrenzen. London Underground beschloss, rund 250 Meter weiter westlich einen Neubau zu errichten. Dieser entstand nach Plänen von Stanley Heaps (unter Anleitung von Charles Holden) und wurde am 25. März 1934 unter dem Namen Osterley eröffnet. Seit dem 9. Oktober 1964 verkehrt nur noch die Piccadilly Line auf dem Abschnitt westlich von Acton Town, da die District Line verkürzt wurde. Die Anlagen am ursprünglichen Standort an der Thornbury Road blieben bis 1957 weitgehend intakt, doch dann wurden die Treppen und die Bahnsteige entfernt. Das Stationsgebäude hingegen blieb erhalten und dient heute als Secondhand-Buchladen. Weblinks Foto der Station Osterley Park & Spring Grove (1932) Foto der Eingangshalle (September 1934) Einzelnachweise