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69 relations: Avon (county), Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Avon Fire and Rescue Service, Baron Berkeley, Battle of Worcester, BBC, Bellfounding, Bilbie family, Bristol, Bristol Cathedral, Building regulations in the United Kingdom, Cemetery, Ceremonial counties of England, Charles II of England, Church of England parish church, Civil parish, Cremation, D'Hondt method, Districts of England, England, English Gothic architecture, English Heritage, Environmental health, Escape of Charles II, European Parliament, First-past-the-post voting, Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken, Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, Great Western Ambulance Service, Holy Trinity Church, Abbots Leigh, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Hundred (county division), Hundred of Portbury, Hymn, Hymn tune, Jane Lane, Lady Fisher, John Hughes (1790–1857), Leigh Court, Library, Listed building, Local education authority, Local Government Commission for England (1992), Local government in the United Kingdom, Long Ashton Rural District, Lord of the manor, Member of parliament, Member of the European Parliament, Middle English, Monarch's Way, Non-metropolitan county, ..., North Somerset, North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency), Parliament of the United Kingdom, Party-list proportional representation, Planning permission, Public housing in the United Kingdom, Recycling, Robert Fitzharding, Social services, Somerset, South West England (European Parliament constituency), St Katherine's School, Trading Standards, Unitary authorities of England, United Kingdom constituencies, Victorian restoration, Waste collection, Waste management, Weston-super-Mare. Expand index (19 more) »
Avon (county)
Avon was, from 1974 to 1996, a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in the west of England.
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Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Avon and Somerset Constabulary is the territorial police force in England responsible for policing the county of Somerset and the now-defunct county of Avon, which includes the city and county of Bristol and the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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Avon Fire and Rescue Service
Avon Fire & Rescue Service (AF&RS) is the fire and rescue service covering the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire in South West England.
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Baron Berkeley
The title Baron Berkeley originated as a feudal title and was subsequently created twice in the Peerage of England by writ.
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Battle of Worcester
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 at Worcester, England, and was the final battle of the English Civil War.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bellfounding
Bellfounding is the casting of bells in a foundry for use in churches, clocks, and public buildings.
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Bilbie family
The Bilbie family were bell founders and clockmakers based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon in south-west England from the late 17th century to the early 19th century.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Bristol Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is the Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England.
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Building regulations in the United Kingdom
The UK's Building regulations are statutory instruments that seek to ensure that the policies set out in the relevant legislation are carried out.
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Cemetery
A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
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Ceremonial counties of England
The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed.
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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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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Cremation
Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.
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D'Hondt method
The D'Hondt method or the Jefferson method is a highest averages method for allocating seats, and is thus a type of party-list proportional representation.
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Districts of England
The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Gothic architecture
English Gothic is an architectural style originating in France, before then flourishing in England from about 1180 until about 1520.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.
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Environmental health
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.
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Escape of Charles II
The escape of Charles II from England in 1651 was a key episode in his life.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU).
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First-past-the-post voting
A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.
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Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
"Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken", also called "Zion, or the City of God", is an 18th-century English hymn written by John Newton, who also wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace".
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Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
"italic" (God Save Emperor Francis) is an anthem to Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of the Austrian Empire.
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Great Western Ambulance Service
The Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust (GWAS) was a National Health Service (NHS) trust providing emergency and non-emergency patient transport services to Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, in the south west of England.
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Holy Trinity Church, Abbots Leigh
Holy Trinity Church in Abbots Leigh within the English county of Somerset is a 15th-century Perpendicular Gothic building, restored and partially rebuilt in 1847–48 after a fire.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hundred (county division)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.
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Hundred of Portbury
The Hundred of Portbury is one of the 40 historical Hundreds in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, dating from before the Norman conquest during the Anglo-Saxon era although exact dates are unknown.
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Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.
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Hymn tune
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung.
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Jane Lane, Lady Fisher
Jane Lane (c. 1626 – 9 September 1689) played a heroic role in the Escape of Charles II in 1651.
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John Hughes (1790–1857)
John Hughes (2 January 1790–13 December 1857) was an English author.
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Leigh Court
Leigh Court is a country house which is a Grade II* listed building in Abbots Leigh, Somerset, England.
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Library
A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Local education authority
Local education authorities (LEAs) are the local councils in England and Wales that are responsible for education within their jurisdiction.
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Local Government Commission for England (1992)
The Local Government Commission for England was the body responsible for reviewing the structure of local government in England from 1992 to 2002.
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Local government in the United Kingdom
Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system.
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Long Ashton Rural District
Long Ashton was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974.
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Lord of the manor
In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
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Middle English
Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.
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Monarch's Way
The Monarch's Way is a long-distance footpath in England that approximates the escape route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester.
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Non-metropolitan county
A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county.
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North Somerset
North Somerset is a unitary authority area in England.
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North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
North Somerset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Liam Fox, a Conservative who has served as Secretary of State for International Trade, a new position in the Cabinet, since 13 July 2016.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.
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Party-list proportional representation
Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation (PR) in elections in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through allocations to an electoral list.
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Planning permission
Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.
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Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
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Robert Fitzharding
Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095–1170) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman from Bristol who was granted the feudal barony of Berkeley in Gloucestershire.
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Social services
Social services are a range of public services provided by the government, private, and non-profit organizations.
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Somerset
Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.
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South West England (European Parliament constituency)
South West England is a constituency of the European Parliament.
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St Katherine's School
St Katherine's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the English county of Somerset.
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Trading Standards
In the United Kingdom, Trading Standards are the local authority departments, formerly known as Weights and Measures, that enforce consumer protection legislation.
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Unitary authorities of England
Unitary authorities of England are local authorities that are responsible for the provision of all local government services within a district.
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United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elect one member to a parliament or assembly, with the exception of European Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies which are multi member constituencies.
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Victorian restoration
The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria.
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Waste collection
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management.
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal are all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
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Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare is a seaside town in Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel south west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbots_Leigh
