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Bransholme is an area and a housing estate on the north side of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The name Bransholme comes from an old Scandinavian word meaning Brand's water meadow ( brand or brandt meant 'wild boar').
Branxholme Castle is a five-storey tower at Branxholme, about 3 miles south-west of Hawick in the Borders region of Scotland.. Image of Branxholm Tower from Robert Naylor and John Naylor, "From John O'Groats to Land's End."
Estate Image Dates Location: Size (units) Notes/Description; 1: Churchill Gardens: 1946–62 built Pimlico area of Westminster. 1,600 Designed by architects Powell and Moya to replace Victorian terraced houses extensively damaged during the Blitz; won RIBA London Architectural Bronze Medal (1950); model for many later projects.
The Bransholme Estate has been built on the former RAF site. [21] The population of the ward in Sutton-on-Hull was 12,881 at the 2001 census. [22] This had dropped slightly to 12,649 by the time of the 2011 census. [1] The Sutton & Wawne Museum, [23] is inside The Old School, formerly the St James' Church of England School until 1977. It is now ...
The novelist Sir Walter Scott, a close friend and relative of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch, chose Branxholme as the setting for his book The Lay of the Last Minstrel.. The castle had been the hereditary seat of the Scotts of Buccleuch since the 15th century, and it was the centre of power in Upper Teviotdale, on one of the main historic routes south towards England.
The site of the Balloon Centre is now part of the Bransholme estate. [18] The Bransholme estate is believed to be the largest Council estate in Yorkshire. [19] The main gates to the base were re-hung at Hull East Park and renovated in 1999 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the site being opened. [18]
Bransholme water works is a surface water storage and pumping station serving the Bransholme and Kingswood estates in Kingston upon Hull, England. The facility was originally built in the late 1960s for both surface and waste water, and included a storage lagoon and sewage works – the sewage works was replaced c. 2000 by a large waste water ...
In the 1970s the estate was extended north of the Foredike into the (former) parish of Wawne, along the east side of the Wawne Road. [27] [30] [map 11] Development of the Bransholme estate continued to 1983 with around 9,000 houses built. [27]