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Hopetown Darlington is a 7.5 acre site encompassing the former Head of Steam (now renamed North Road Station Museum), an exhibition hall for blockbuster exhibitions, a 4D virtual reality time travel ride, an adventure playpark, a café, shop, and events field for festivals and events, as well as onsite partners including the A1 Steam Locomotive ...
John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (25 September 1860 – 29 February 1908) was a British aristocrat and statesman who served as the first governor-general of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1902.
In 1860, the Stockton and Darlington Railway purchased the 'Hope Town Foundry' site to extend its Hopetown Carriage Works and the Kitching business relocated to Whessoe Foundry also in Darlington. [map 2] In 1861, A Kitching was recorded as employing 45 people. [1] The business passed from the Kitchings to their cousin Charles I'Anson.
In 1798 Lord Hopetoun married firstly Elizabeth Hope Vere (or Weir) of Craigiehall, daughter of Charles Hope-Weir.They had no children. After her death in 1801, he married secondly, in 1803, Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn, daughter of John Wedderburn of Ballendean, and granddaughter of Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness. [5]
The principal town is Hopetown (pop. 10,259), which is situated on the Orange River. Other settlements are Strydenburg (pop. 2,987) situated 50 kilometres (30 mi) to the south-west of Hopetown, and Orania (pop. 2,377 at 2021) situated on the Orange River 35 kilometres (22 mi) to the south-east of Hopetown. The remainder of the municipality is ...
Hope was born on 7 September 1704. He was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone. [1] Among his siblings were Lady Sophia Hope (wife of James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater), [2] Lady Henrietta Hope (wife of Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier), [2] Lady Margaret Hope (wife of John Dundas), [2] Hon. Charles Hope-Weir (who married Catherine Weir and Lady Anne Vane ...
From its earliest years, Wesley Chapel was the center of community life in Hopetown. The community was settled during the final years of the eighteenth century; the oldest graves in the church's cemetery date from the 1790s. For decade after decade, the church was the location of social activities, such as quilting bees and fish fries.
Hopetoun possesses a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csb) with warm, relatively dry summers and mild, drizzly wet winters. [12] Average maxima vary from 25.5 °C (77.9 °F) in February to 18.1 °C (64.6 °F) in July, while average minima fluctuate between 15.8 °C (60.4 °F) in February and 7.8 °C (46.0 °F) in July.