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Bardon Hill

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Bardon Hill is a 13.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the civil parish of Bardon, east of Coalville in Leicestershire, England. [1]

56 relations: Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Aggregate Industries, Bardon Hill Quarry, Bardon Park Chapel, Bardon, Leicestershire, Beacon Hill, Leicestershire, Beaumanor Hall, Boulder clay, British and Foreign School Society, British Geological Survey, Charnwood Forest, Church of England parish church, Civil parish, Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway, Coalville, Deer park (England), Derbyshire, East Midlands, Elementary Education Act 1870, English China Clays, George Curzon-Howe, 2nd Earl Howe, Granite, Holcim, Igneous rock, John Breedon Everard, John Ellis (businessman), Leicester and Swannington Railway, Leicestershire, Lincoln Cathedral, London Stock Exchange, Malvern Hills, Mercia Mudstone Group, Midland Railway, Montserrat, Nonconformist, Precambrian, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Quakers, Quarry, Quercus robur, Ravenstone, Leicestershire, Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Saint Peter, Shropshire Hills, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Soufrière Hills, South Wales, Stratovolcano, Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire, The Independent, ..., The National Forest (England), The New York Times, Thomas Rossell Potter, Toponymy, Triangulation station, Wales. Expand index (6 more) »

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Louise Theresa Caroline Amelia;; 13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover as spouse of William IV of the United Kingdom.

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Aggregate Industries

Aggregate Industries, a member of LafargeHolcim, is a company based in the United Kingdom with headquarters at Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leicestershire.

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Bardon Hill Quarry

Bardon Hill Quarry is a 58.2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Coalville in Leicestershire.

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Bardon Park Chapel

Bardon Park Chapel is a 300-year-old Christian meeting house at Bardon, Leicestershire, England.

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Bardon, Leicestershire

Bardon is a civil parish and former village in North West Leicestershire about southeast of the centre of Coalville.

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Beacon Hill, Leicestershire

Beacon Hill, near Loughborough, in Leicestershire, England, is a popular country park.

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Beaumanor Hall

Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the small village of Woodhouse on the edge of the Charnwood Forest, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England.

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Boulder clay

Boulder clay, in geology, is a deposit of clay, often full of boulders, which is formed out of the ground moraine material of glaciers and ice-sheets wherever they are found.

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British and Foreign School Society

The British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) offers charitable aid to educational projects in the UK and around the world by funding schools, other charities and educational bodies.

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British Geological Survey

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly-funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.

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Charnwood Forest

Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville.

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Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, the parish – since the 19th century called the ecclesiastical parish (outside meetings of the church) to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway

The Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway was a narrow gauge industrial railway that connected the Cliffe Hill granite quarry to the nearby London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) between Leicester and Coalville.

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Coalville

Coalville is a market town in North West Leicestershire, England, with a population at the 2011 census of 34,575.

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Deer park (England)

In medieval and Early Modern England, a deer park was an enclosed area containing deer.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Elementary Education Act 1870

The Elementary Education Act 1870, commonly known as Forster's Education Act, set the framework for schooling of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales.

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English China Clays

English China Clays PLC, or ECC, was a mining company involved in the extraction of china clay, based in St Austell, Cornwall.

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George Curzon-Howe, 2nd Earl Howe

George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon-Howe, 2nd Earl Howe (16 January 1821 – 4 February 1876) was a British peer and Conservative party politician.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Holcim

Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates company.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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John Breedon Everard

John Breedon Everard (22 September 1844 – 12 September 1923) was an English civil engineer and architect strongly associated with works in Leicestershire, and co-founder of the firm Pick Everard.

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John Ellis (businessman)

John Ellis (1789–1862), of Beaumont Leys and Belgrave Hall in Leicester, was a Quaker, a noted liberal reformer and an accomplished businessman.

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Leicester and Swannington Railway

The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, and sometimes St.

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London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange located in the City of London, England.

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Malvern Hills

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern.

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Mercia Mudstone Group

The Mercia Mudstone Group is an early Triassic lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which is widespread in Britain, especially in the English Midlands – the name is derived from the ancient kingdom of Mercia which corresponds to that area.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Montserrat

Montserrat is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands, which is part of the chain known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies.

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Nonconformist

In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Ida Caroline of Saxe-Meiningen (25 June 1794 – 4 April 1852), was a German princess, a member of the House of Wettin, and by marriage Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Quercus robur

Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.

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Ravenstone, Leicestershire

Ravenstone is a small rural cluster village with a population of 2149, situated just off the A511 road between Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in North West Leicestershire, and within the National Forest, England.

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Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe

Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (11 December 1796 – 12 May 1870), was a British peer and courtier.

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Saint Peter

Saint Peter (Syriac/Aramaic: ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܟܹ݁ܐܦ݂ܵܐ, Shemayon Keppa; שמעון בר יונה; Petros; Petros; Petrus; r. AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Great Church.

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Shropshire Hills

The Shropshire Hills is an upland area and one of the natural regions of England.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Soufrière Hills

The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.

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Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire

Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf (Mynydd Pen-y-fâl or Y Fâl), is a mountain situated north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The National Forest (England)

The National Forest is an environmental project in central England run by The National Forest Company.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomas Rossell Potter

Thomas Rossell Potter (7 January 1799 – 19 April 1873) was a British antiquary.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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Triangulation station

A triangulation station, also known as a triangulation pillar, trigonometrical station, trigonometrical point, trig station, trig beacon, or trig point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardon_Hill

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