• Thumbnail for The Gower Monument
    The Gower Monument is a grade II* listed monument in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Erected in 1888, the monument's centrepiece is a seated bronze...
    6 KB (584 words) - 11:28, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
    Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC (9 January 1758 – 19 July 1833), known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786...
    25 KB (2,219 words) - 14:37, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gower Peninsula
    Gower (Welsh: Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr) is in South West Wales and is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales...
    24 KB (2,583 words) - 11:39, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stratford-upon-Avon
    also features the Gower Monument, a bronze statue of William Shakespeare flanked by four of his most popular character. In the summer the River Avon is...
    91 KB (9,344 words) - 12:55, 11 December 2024
  • Hill overlooking the village of Lilleshall in Shropshire. Commemorating George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, the monument is an ashlar obelisk...
    4 KB (349 words) - 18:05, 18 December 2024
  • The Gower Peninsula (Welsh: Gŵyr) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, contains over twenty villages and communities. Most of the peninsula is a designated...
    27 KB (3,508 words) - 12:58, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Memorials to William Shakespeare
    the bank of the Avon within sight of the church where Shakespeare was buried. The Gower Monument was unveiled in 1888, the work of Lord Ronald Gower....
    19 KB (2,115 words) - 19:34, 10 December 2024
  • system used by the Ordnance Survey. The "List Entry Number" is a unique number assigned to each listed building and scheduled monument by Historic England....
    72 KB (111 words) - 13:07, 9 January 2025
  • Arthur's Stone may refer to: Arthur's Stone, Gower, an archeological site on the Gower Peninsula in Wales Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire, a Neolithic tomb...
    372 bytes (81 words) - 22:31, 13 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Ben Bhraggie
    Ben Bhraggie (redirect from The Mannie)
    Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford and first Duke of Sutherland who became notorious through the part he played in the Highland clearances. Leveson-Gower was...
    9 KB (1,074 words) - 02:14, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swansea Castle
    Swansea Castle (category Execution sites in the United Kingdom)
    Life after the Lords of Gower". City and County of Swansea. Retrieved 3 April 2016. Medieval Secular MonumentsThe Early Castles from the Norman Conquest...
    10 KB (1,111 words) - 16:43, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weobley Castle, Gower
    manor house on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, in the care of Cadw. The castle overlooks Llanrhidian saltmarshes and the Loughor estuary. The existing buildings...
    5 KB (584 words) - 04:20, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gower Gulch (Death Valley)
    became a national monument. The gulch contained mines, camps, and roads during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Gower Gulch passes through...
    3 KB (426 words) - 16:49, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Loughor
    Loughor (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Loughor is part of the built-up area of Gorseinon. The town's name has been called "possibly the oldest name in Gower", dating back to the Roman era. It derives...
    10 KB (1,074 words) - 10:54, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cefn Bryn
    Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula, in the City and County of Swansea. Local people colloquially refer to it as the "backbone of Gower", as it protrudes...
    5 KB (423 words) - 09:25, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lilleshall
    into the hands of the related Leveson-Gower family in the late 17th century. Lilleshall is surrounded by farmland. The village and surrounds were the site...
    7 KB (751 words) - 19:09, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parkmill
    Parkmill (Welsh: Melin y Parc) is a village in the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, midway between the villages of Penmaen and Ilston, about eight miles (13 km)...
    12 KB (1,169 words) - 13:10, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glamorgan
    and the scenic Gower Peninsula. The county had boundaries with Brecknockshire (north), Monmouthshire (east), Carmarthenshire (west), and to the south...
    110 KB (12,353 words) - 07:13, 28 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Confessio Amantis
    Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain...
    28 KB (3,763 words) - 18:29, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swansea
    city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in south-west Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula...
    131 KB (12,197 words) - 13:22, 9 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for English church monuments
    A church monument is an architectural or sculptural memorial to a deceased person or persons, located within a Christian church. It can take various forms...
    15 KB (1,629 words) - 20:42, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Earl of Bridgewater
    Earl of Bridgewater (category Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of England)
    Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, was created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. His second son Lord Francis Leveson-Gower assumed by Royal licence the surname...
    13 KB (1,445 words) - 19:34, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Parc Cwm long cairn
    Coed y Parc Cwm at Parc le Breos, on the Gower Peninsula. A trapezoidal cairn of rubble – the upper part of the cromlech and its earth covering now removed –...
    48 KB (4,951 words) - 07:13, 28 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hollywood Walk of Fame
    annual visitors in 2010. The Walk of Fame runs 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from east to west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Gower Street to the Hollywood and La Brea...
    129 KB (11,417 words) - 19:09, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles Allan Cathcart
    Charles Allan Cathcart (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies)
    commercial treaty with the Emperor of China. Cathcart nominated Captain Erasmus Gower as his preferred captain to carry the embassy but Gower was serving as flag...
    9 KB (745 words) - 19:34, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lady Ottoline Morrell
    being the case and during 1927, the Morrells were compelled to sell the manor house and its estate, and move to more modest quarters in Gower Street...
    20 KB (2,140 words) - 16:15, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Euston Square tube station
    Underground station at the corner of Euston Road and Gower Street, just north of University College London – its main (south) entrance faces the tower of University...
    15 KB (1,489 words) - 09:23, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
    were only three monuments on the first Schedule. These were Plas Newydd megalith, Anglesey, Arthur's Quoit, Gower, Glamorgan and the megalith at Pentre...
    54 KB (7,593 words) - 23:09, 7 November 2024
  • University College School (category Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden)
    also stated that the school would not use corporal punishment. The school opened at 16 Gower Street on 1 November 1830 under the name 'The London University...
    20 KB (2,212 words) - 08:54, 25 October 2024
  • "Brochure by the Turkish Ministry of Religious Affairs" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2007. Gower, Simon Marcus...
    33 KB (1,298 words) - 02:25, 31 December 2024