- The Hoo Peninsula is a peninsula in Kent, England, separating the estuaries of the rivers Thames and Medway. It is dominated by a line of sand and clay hills, surrounded by an extensive area of marshland composed of alluvial silt. The name Hoo is the Old English word for spur of land and features in the Domesday Book as Hoe.[2] There are industrial facilities associated with various energy industries.
- St Mary's Island, is part of the Chatham Maritime development area in Medway, South East England. It is located at the northern end of Chatham, adjacent to Brompton and Gillingham. Once part of the Royal Dockyard, Chatham, the area had consisted of a mixture of sports fields and warehousing during the later years of the Royal Navy's time in occupation.The Romans were the first people to use the Island. They constructed a road through the marshy swamp criss-crossed by tidal channels land, and established a ferry route from the Island to the Hoo Peninsula. The ferry was named 'Prince's Bridge' on early maps, it was used until the final years of the last century.During the Napoleonic Wars, St. Mary's Island was used as a burial ground for the French POW's who died on the prison hulks moored in the Medway. The bodies of the prisoners were exhumed, and then re-interred in the grounds of St George's Church, now the St George's Centre (within the grounds of the Universities at Medway).In 1847, 19 Acres was purchased by the Crown to enlarge the dockyard. Then in 1854, another 185 acres were purchased. This meant the whole of the island was now in the hands of the Crown and the dockyard.Between 1854 and 1856, St Mary's Prison was built on the island. It had approximately 1,700 prisoners and staff of 232 (including 117 armed wardens). The prison was demolished in 1898.
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********Edlesborough is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "Eadwulf's barrow".[3] The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Eddinberge.
- The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin is built on top of a barrow and is a local landmark.[5] In 1975 the ecclesiastical parish merged with that of Eaton Bray, St Mary's was made redundant and since then it has been vested in the Churches Conservation Trust. The earliest parts of the church date from the 13th century. A chantry was added in 1338 and the tower in 1340. The closeness of these construction dates indicates how rich Edlesborough parish was at the time.[citation needed] Much of the church was altered in the 15th century, including the chantry, which has given the church a very 15th century character. On 28 March 1824 the tower was struck by lightning, setting it on fire. The lead of the roof melted, and the molten lead set fire to everything it struck. Villagers fought the fire, which burnt for 12 hours until it was extinguished.
- 英國有保育組織推出創新的保育計劃，讓遊客入住有八百年歷史、位於英格蘭埃德爾斯伯勒（Edlesborough）的聖瑪麗教堂，住宿費將用作保育教堂。遊客得以一嘗在神聖的教堂中，與親朋好友一起玩樂的滋味。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190915/00180_028.html
烏茲河The River Ouse (/ˈuːz/ OOZ) is a river in North Yorkshire, England. Hydrologically, the river is a continuation of the River Ure. The traditional source of the Ouse is in the village of Great Ouseburn,The origin of the name is uncertain. The name was first recorded in about 780 as Usa. It has been speculated that the name is of Romano-British origin, from an assumed word udso-, assumed to be derived from the Indo-European root wed-, meaning "water".[4] Other sources prefer a "Proto-Celtic".It has been suggested that the Ouse was once known as the 'Ure', but there seems to be no supporting evidence for this claim. The suggestion that the name derives from the Romano-British name of the Ure, assumed to be Isurā from the Roman name for Aldborough, and over time evolved into Isis and finally the Saxon Ouse, would go some way to explaining how the little tributary Ouse Gill Beck usurps the name of the much larger River Ure.[6] However the form Ouse is little changed from the eighth century.The York district was settled by Norwegian and Danish people, so parts of the place names could be old Norse. Referring to the etymological dictionary "Etymologisk ordbog", ISBN 82-905-2016-6 dealing with the common Danish and Norwegian languages - roots of words and the original meaning: Os - the mouth of a river. The old Norse wording oss, gradation form ouso.On a avancé que l’Ouse était autrefois dénommée Ure, mais cette allégation n’est appuyée d’aucune preuve. En revanche, on admet généralement une parenté entre Ure et le terme gaulois Isara, qui évolua vers Isure, Isurium, Isis et finalement le toponyme saxon Ouse (en français, une évolution similaire aurait donné Oise). Cela expliquerait aussi pourquoi l'affluent mineur Ouse Gill Beck qui se jette dans l'Ouse à Linton-on-Ouse prend le nom de la rivière dans laquelle il se jette2.
************The River Swale gives its name to the valley through which it flows, Swaledale.The earliest evidence of occupation in the river valley can be dated to the Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages with the discovery of flint tools and arrowheads. Around Harkerside are some small stone circles that date to the Bronze Age and some Iron Age defensive earthworks. Evidence of lead mining has been traced back to Roman times with finds at the Hurst mine.[9] This industry seemed to decline until after the Norse (Danish) invasions of the area. During the major ecclesiastical building of the 12th and 13th centuries, lead became a valuable commodity and mining once again increased in the valley.[10] Evidence of the lead mining can still be seen from the remains of the 18th-century practice of 'hushing' that involved creating turf dams across gills that were then released to wash away topsoil to expose the ore veins.It was part of the Votadini Celtic kingdom of Catraeth,[11] but in the late 6th century the river valley was invaded by Angles who took the settlement at Catraeth (now Catterick). Warriors from the Celtic Gododdin kingdom to the north attempted to dislodge them, but failed to do so at the Battle of Catraeth.[12] The Angles then established themselves at Reeth, Stainton, Grinton Bridge and Fremington. By the mid-9th century the area had been invaded by Norsemen who settled first the lower and then the upper valley. After the Norman invasion, the lands of the valley were given to Alan the Red of Brittany who built the castle at Richmond between 1071 and 1091.[11] It was built on a bluff overlooking the River Swale.In the 7th century, St Paulinus supposedly immersed thousands of people in a baptismal rite at Brompton-on-Swale and further downstream at Brafferton. Because so many had been baptised in this way, 19th-century writers have labelled the Swale as England's River Jordan. Mass baptisms are still carried out in the river around the Catterick Bridge area.
Wellingborough Originally named "Wendelingburgh" (the stronghold of Wændel's people), the Anglo-Saxon settlement is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Wendelburie". The town was granted a royal market charter in 1201 by King John.
River Ure The earliest recorded name of the river is Earp in about 1025, probably an error for Ear ƿ, where ƿ represents the Old English letter wynn or 'w', standing for ƿæter ("water").[1] By 1140 it is recorded as Jor, hence Jervaulx (Jorvale) Abbey, and a little later as Yore. In Tudor times the antiquarians John Leland and William Camden used the modern form of the name.The name probably means "the strong or swift river".[3] This is on the assumption that the Brittonic name of the river was Isurā, because the Roman name for Aldborough was Isurium; intervocalic s is known to have been lost in Brittonic at an early date. This explanation connects the river name with an Indo-European root is- meaning "strong" and the names of the Isar in Germany and the Isère in France.
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151024/00180_017.html英國國會周四投票通過改變議案表決方法，往後有關英格蘭的法案，將先由英格蘭議員組成的委員會表決，再交下議院全體議決，令蘇格蘭議員難以影響英格蘭事務。主張蘇格蘭獨立的蘇格蘭民族黨（SNP）怒斥，他們被貶為二等國會議員。經過激烈辯論，國會以三百一十二票對二百七十票，通過新表決方法。若法案只影響英格蘭，將先由英格蘭議員組成的委員會議決，委員會亦有權否決議案。委員會通過議案後，才先後交上議院及下議院全體表決。新制將會試行一年。下議院領袖紀嘉林稱政治制度從此更為公平，SNP國會議員韋斯赫德指：「蘇格蘭人正張眼看着，氣氛愈來愈陰暗。」在野工黨的影子下議院領袖布賴恩特，指議案分裂國會，甚至會分裂聯合王國。蘇格蘭民族黨早前爭取獨立失敗，為挽蘇格蘭民心，首相卡梅倫宣布向蘇格蘭下放權力，同時強調英格蘭、威爾斯及北愛爾蘭議會亦會獲得同等權力。
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- https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-English-flag-often-have-the-word-England-printed-on-it-I-have-not-seen-this-for-any-other-countries
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- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-describe-the-English-as-descendants-of-Anglo-Saxons-and-not-as-being-Frisians-while-DNA-of-people-tested-in-central-England-are-indistinguishable-from-that-of-Frisians-and-old-Frisian-is-the-most-closely
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