Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website A Vision of Britain through Time. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system , which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a ...
Source: A Vision of Britain through Time [22] Flixton was a remote rural area with few transport links to nearby towns, the rivers Irwell and Mersey for the most part cutting off access to other areas.
20th century map of Stainton, South Lakeland received from the Vision of Britain Website. The name Stainton derives from the old English meaning of stoney farm/settlement. . Stān, meaning "a stone, stone, rock" and tūn meaning "an enclosure, a farmstead, a village, an estat
Great Britain Historical GIS#A Vision of Britain Through Time To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{ R to anchor }} instead .
From time to time, visitors to the museum report an overpowering presence within the control tower, occasionally accompanied by the brief glimpse of an airman dressed in full flying gear. [12] The sound of VHF chatter and the sound of aircraft have also been heard. These strange apparitions are not a new phenomenon.
The village is the site of one of Britain's largest archaeological excavations, [4] that of a large settlement which seems to have been occupied for several centuries until about 800 AD. [5] The settlement flourished during late Roman /early Anglo-Saxon times, but may have been occupied for a considerable length of time before the arrival of ...
Bottesford is a town in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. [1]Historically a village, Bottesford forms a contiguous urban area of Scunthorpe. [2] In the 2001 Census, Bottesford's population was recorded as 11,171, falling to 11,038 at the 2011 census. [3]
It was once called Outwood of Pilkington [3] and is marked as Outwoods on the Yates Map of 1787 [4] and on the later Greenwood [5] and Hennet maps. [ 6 ] Under the Local Government Act 1894 , Outwood was established as a civil parish and became part of the Bury Rural District in the administrative county of Lancashire , England. [ 7 ]