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Wentbridge was unusual in that it had parts in three different civil parishes: the entire portion of the village to the north of the river, including the village church, was within the parish of Darrington, whilst south of the river, that part of the village on the west side of the B6474 road was within Thorpe Audlin parish, with buildings on the road's eastern side formerly in North Elmsall ...
The Alderwoods Group formed on January 2, 2002, after the Loewen Group, then the second largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, emerged from bankruptcy. [2] In November 2006, Alderwoods was acquired by Service Corporation International in a US$1.2 billion deal reached in April of the same year. [3] [4]
Stone and inscription. The monument known as Robin Hood's Grave is located in a privately owned woodland, 650 metres from the gatehouse of the former Kirklees Priory. This gatehouse, which is still standing, is where Robin Hood is thought to have been staying at the time of his death. [4] The epitaph on the monument reads: [5]
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
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Since 1928 it has stood at the junction of Archerfield Road and Booker Avenue. Prior to this, it stood 60 metres away in a field then named The Stone Hey, but was moved due to a housing development. [3] Robin Hood's Stone is rectangular and measures about 2 metres high by 0.9 metres wide by 0.4 metres thick.
Historic home, Sycamore St., Decatur, Georgia. Sycamore Street was originally called Covington Road. It was a stagecoach route to Augusta through Covington, Madison and Eatonton. It contains some of the largest homes in Decatur, including the historic High House – the first two-story house built in the city.