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Purwell Ninesprings is a 6.4-hectare (16-acre) nature reserve managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust on the edge of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The reserve is in the flood-plain of the River Purwell. It has open water with water voles and birds such as moorhens, mallards and teals. Other birds include snipe and siskins.
Norton was an ancient parish in the hundred of Cashio. [6]The parish of Norton was included in the Hitchin Poor Law Union from 1835. [7] The south-eastern part of the parish of Norton extended to the edge of the town of Baldock, and in 1880 the Baldock Local Board was given control of the parts of Norton parish where the town's urban area was starting to expand into Norton.
Pirton is a large village and civil parish three miles northwest of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,274. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,274.
His autobiography, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun, was published by Penguin in 2004. [1] He went on to write A Rusty Gun: Facing Up To a Life of Crime in 2010 [ 2 ] after serving at the unique rehabilitation prison HMP Grendon and moving to HMP Blantyre House , prior to being released on 12 May 2010.
The nation’s oldest gun-maker recently announced plans to shutter the factory in the company's original home early next month, ci This small New York village made guns for 200 years. What ...
At the time his father, Anthony Bessemer, operated a type foundry in the village. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The mill-wheel was adapted by his grandfather to power a small foundry. The water-mill was therefore converted to a foundry during the occupancy of the Bessemer family and back to a mill again afterwards. [ 5 ]
The village lies along the valley of a dried-up river bed and is about one mile long. Some of the houses on the High Street date back to the 16th century, but most are 19th and early 20th century. Behind the High Street are two large housing estates built in the 1970s. The village school is a primary and nursery school with over 150 children.
Graveley is a village and civil parish about four miles east of Hitchin and two miles north of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. The population of the parish in the 2011 census was 487. [1] [2] A milestone in the village states that it is 33 miles from London. [3]