Parkend (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann nam Buailtean) is a hamlet in the Sandwick region of the Isle of Lewis, although like Melbost, it is not a part of the...
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Marybank, Melbost, Newmarket, Newvalley, Parkend, Plasterfield, Sandwick, Steinish Traditional industries on Lewis are crofting, fishing and weaving. Though...
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England Park End, Worcestershire, England Parkend, Gloucestershire, England Parkend railway station Parkend, Lewis, Scotland This disambiguation page lists...
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the Isle of Lewis near Stornoway. The modern area of Holm can be split into two distinct areas - "Holm Village" and "Holm Road with Parkend". Holm is within...
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Ross-shire (section Isle of Lewis)
Bayble Marybank Melbost Newmarket Newvalley North Dell North Tolsta Orinsay Parkend Plasterfield Portnaguran Port of Ness Portvoller Sandwick Shader Shawbost...
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capital of Stornoway, however the district of Point actually starts at the Parkend estate on Stornoway's outskirts. Point is home to around 2,600 people and...
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Ross and Cromarty (section Isle of Lewis)
Bayble Marybank Melbost Newmarket Newvalley North Dell North Tolsta Orinsay Parkend Plasterfield Portnaguran Port of Ness Portvoller Sandwick Shader Shawbost...
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4+1⁄4-mile (6.8 km) long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The route was part of the former...
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was known at the time as Blücher. In 1814 William Stewart was engaged by Parkend Coal Co in the Forest of Dean for the construction of a steam locomotive...
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Kewstoke Kilve Lydbrook Marlborough Monksilver Nailsworth Ogbourne St George Parkend Pillowell HP Pillowell VP Porlock Portbury Portishead Redbrook Redcliff...
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the Inklings, a writers' group that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The Eagle in Cambridge is where Francis Crick interrupted patrons' lunchtime...
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Westminster Bridge. In 2006, British swimmer and environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim the full length of the Thames from...
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85361 533 0 "Lord Ward and Mr Glyn". Railway Record. 8: 192. 1851. Brian Lewis, Brunel's Timber Bridges and Viaducts, Ian Allan Publishing, Hersham, 2007...
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Railway, vol. II: 1863-1921. Paddington: Great Western Railway. p. 428. Lewis, John (2004). Great Western Steam Railmotors and their services. Didcot:...
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Portvoller (category Villages in the Isle of Lewis)
of the Eye Peninsula (which along with Melbost and Parkend makes up Point), on the Isle of Lewis in northwestern Scotland. It is 9 miles (14 kilometres)...
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Newport-on-Tay 780: Hebridean Way: Vatersay – Barra – Eriskay – Uist – Berneray – Lewis and Harris 810: Liverpool – Ainsdale (former Regional Route 81) (out-of-zone...
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broad gauge tracks were squeezed through, and this seems to be a mistake. Lewis observes that "Some structures on the B&GR, including the Stroudwater Canal...
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including one of 40 feet (12.19 m); Cainscross, four spans of 32 feet (9.75 m). Lewis records that there were nineteen timber structures (that is, viaducts and...
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Railway. Oakham: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-38-5. Lewis, Harry (1979). "The new passage railway ferry". Gwent Local History. 47:...
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that they only used their steam engine in very dry seasons, while William Lewis of Brimscombe had between 60 and 80 hp (45 and 60 kW) of water power, and...
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June 1937. col G, p. 11. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) Lewis-Jones, June (2005). Cotswold Villages. Salisbury: Frith. p. [page needed]...
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Six". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 4 October 2024. "Parkend". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2024....
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