"Grindslow Knoll Grindslow Knoll is a hill in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England. It is joined to Kinder Scout by a high col though from most angles appears as an independent peak. It is the high point at the western side of Grindsbrook Clough. Although the high mass of Kinder Scout blocks views to the north, Grindslow Knoll is an excellent viewpoint stretching over a large portion of the southern Peak District and steep slopes to the Vale of Edale give a great sense of height. There are views of the Nab"
"Grindylow In English folklore, grindylow or grundylow is a creature in the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The name is thought to be connected to Grendel, a name or term used in ""Beowulf"" and in many Old English charters where it is seen in connection with meres, bogs and lakes. Grindylows are said to grab children with their long sinewy arms and drown them if they come too close to the waters edge. Grindylows have been used as a shadowed figure to frighten children away from pools, marshes or ponds where they could drown. Peg Powler and Jenny Greenteeth are"
"Ringland, Norfolk Ringland is a rural village in Norfolk, England, situated in the valley of the River Wensum, approximately north-west of Norwich. Parts of the Wensum valley within Ringland parish constitute a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The village has a population of 260, and it has an area of . The parish church of St Peter's has a 13th-century tower and a 14th-15th century nave and chancel. Some notably hilly terrain (Ringland Hills) lies within the parish to the east of the village and north of the Wensum. The hills are thought to be a glacial terminal moraine, much"
"Ringlestone Ringlestone is a hamlet between Wormshill and Harrietsham in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, falling within the civil parish of Wormshill, it is not to be confused with the Ringlestone suburb of Maidstone. Ringlestone or Rongostone (meaning ""ring of stones"") dates back to before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. At the time of the Domesday Survey, the hamlet was smaller than it is today and yet was still deemed worthy of recording as noted by Edward Hasted in his 18th century survey of Kent: On the summit"
"but, like the mines is no more. Other mines in the area were the Deep Sick Coal Pits. Ringinglow Ringinglow is a village in the western section of Sheffield, England. It is on the western border of Ecclesall Ward, and although it is within the boundary of Sheffield, it is self-contained, being entirely surrounded by open countryside. The village now falls within the Fulwood ward of the City. The village is focussed on the intersections of Fulwood Lane and Sheephill Road (historically this section was known as Houndkirk Road) with Ringinglow Road. The sources of the Porter Brook and Limb"
"The Dingle, Anglesey The Dingle () is a nature reserve found just to the north of Llangefni, Anglesey, north Wales. ""Dingle"" is a common placename in the English language, which means ""steep wooded valley"", which describes it well. However, like many similar English names for natural attractions in Wales, e.g. ""Fairy Glen"", the English name is recent and probably coined as tourism developed. The original Welsh name, still used by locals, is ""Nant y Pandy"" (""Nant"" ""brook"" or ""glen"" + ""fulling mill"": ""Fulling Mill Brook/Glen""), as there used to be a wool processing plant in the valley. The park is"
"similar water spirits. Grindylow In English folklore, grindylow or grundylow is a creature in the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The name is thought to be connected to Grendel, a name or term used in ""Beowulf"" and in many Old English charters where it is seen in connection with meres, bogs and lakes. Grindylows are said to grab children with their long sinewy arms and drown them if they come too close to the waters edge. Grindylows have been used as a shadowed figure to frighten children away from pools, marshes or ponds where they could drown. Peg Powler and"
"Ringinglow Ringinglow is a village in the western section of Sheffield, England. It is on the western border of Ecclesall Ward, and although it is within the boundary of Sheffield, it is self-contained, being entirely surrounded by open countryside. The village now falls within the Fulwood ward of the City. The village is focussed on the intersections of Fulwood Lane and Sheephill Road (historically this section was known as Houndkirk Road) with Ringinglow Road. The sources of the Porter Brook and Limb Brook, both tributaries of the River Sheaf, are near the village. The Norfolk Arms, a pub in the"
"Ringley Ringley is near Kearsley in Greater Manchester, England, on the east bank of the River Irwell. Its Anglican church is St Saviour's. Ringley is linked by road to Stoneclough by the A667 road which crosses the River Irwell on Ringley road bridge which is a short distance upstream from the 17th century Ringley Old Bridge. Ringley is connected to Stoneclough across the River Irwell by Ringley Old Bridge which dates from the 17th century. Nowadays it is only in use for pedestrians and cyclists. Very close to the Ringley side of the bridge are the ancient village stocks. The"
"Minninglow Minninglow (or Minning Low) is a hill in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, located within the White Peak area at grid reference . Within the clump of trees crowning the hill are a Neolithic chambered tomb and two Bronze Age bowl barrows. The chambered tomb (Derbyshire's largest) and barrows are a Scheduled Monument. The chambered tomb comprises an oval cairn of surviving to a height of and containing two complete chambers made of limestone slabs, and at least three other incomplete chambers. The tomb was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1843 and 1851 and was described by"
"king. When young Roger entered the valley and shouted 'Roger was 'ere!', the current Rottentrolls crown him their king. The Rottentrolls include: Their names are all taken from places in Yorkshire. Tim Firth said about how he named the Rottentrolls: ""I put a compass in the OS map of the area, centred on Troller's Ghyll and drew a circle of about 5 cm radius. I then harvested the strangest-sounding villages and geographical features. These then seemed to suggest, bizarrely, the colours of various mad characters. Yockenthwaite would clearly be an idiot because it had a 'k' in it. Sigsworthy Crags"
"Grindleford Grindleford is a village and civil parish in the county of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 909. It lies at an altitude of in the valley of the River Derwent in the Peak District National Park. On the west side of the valley is the high Sir William Hill, and to the south-east lies the gritstone escarpment of Froggatt Edge. Grindleford became a parish in 1987, merging the parishes of Eyam Woodlands, Stoke, Nether Padley and Upper Padley. The nearest city to Grindleford is"
"(hence its name) and would push stones down from the deep sides to people travelling up and down the gorge. Roger and the Rottentrolls is a fictional children's television program which takes the name of its setting from Troller's Gill; however, filming took place at Brimham Rocks, a short distance away. Trollers Gill Troller's Gill is a limestone gorge in North Yorkshire, England, close to the village of Skyreholme and south east of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales (). The gorge, which is in length, is also known as ""Trollerdale"". The gorge is named after the supposed existence of trolls"
"Glenough Glenough (Irish: ""Gleann Achaidh"")(which can be translated into English as the eight glens) is a townland near Rossmore, County Tipperary in Ireland. Glenough consists of many dwellings and farms spread throughout the countryside. Glenough is a hilly area, with its highest point being Ring Hill at 426 metres (1398 feet). Ring Hill forms part of the Slieve Felim mountain range. Due to its elevation, Glenough has been chosen as a site for the erection of wind farms over the past decade. Glenough is very scenic, and hill-walking may be pursued in this area. There are a number of forests"
"Fingringhoe Wick Fingringhoe Wick is a 48.6 hectare nature reserve in Fingringhoe in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust, which runs a visitor centre on the site. It is part of the Colne Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest, Ramsar site and Nature Conservation Review site. These former gravel quarries were the Trust's first reserve, established in 1961. Habitats are the Colne Estuary, gorse heathland, grassland, reedbeds and ponds. There are nearly 200 species of birds and 350 of flowering plants, together with many dragonflies, damselflies and butterflies. The reserve is famous for its 35-plus singing males"
"case. The cat's remains were found during alterations to a chimney breast and were thought to have been placed there for superstitious reasons. Above Wardlow Mires is an unusual large rocky outcrop known as ""Peter's Stone"". The name is believed to come from its resemblance to St. Peter's in Rome. The other more grisly name for Peter's Stone is Gibbet Rock for it was here that Lingard's body was displayed for the entertainment of visitors for several months. Wardlow Wardlow is a parish and linear village in the Derbyshire Dales two miles from Tideswell, Derbyshire, England. The population of the"
"Munros, these are Driesh to the east and Mayar to the west. In April 1998, Angus Council instituted a Ranger Service for the Angus Glens, with two full time rangers, which has its base in Glen Doll. The Forestry Commission has an alpine forest in the Glen. Glen Doll Glen Doll, also sometimes spelt Glendoll, lies within the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, at the top of Glen Clova, in an area of steep hills, corries and Munros. It includes the Corrie Fee Nature Reserve, which has many endangered plants. The nearest town is Kirriemuir. The glen is in the south"
"on the grand scale. There is access from the car park and picnic site about further along the High Peak Trail at grid reference . Minninglow Minninglow (or Minning Low) is a hill in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, located within the White Peak area at grid reference . Within the clump of trees crowning the hill are a Neolithic chambered tomb and two Bronze Age bowl barrows. The chambered tomb (Derbyshire's largest) and barrows are a Scheduled Monument. The chambered tomb comprises an oval cairn of surviving to a height of and containing two complete chambers made"
"the outskirts at Grindells Hut, Italowie Gap, and Arcoona Bluff. There are a number of waterholes, some of which are deep in the ranges and quite reliable, but all of them have been known to dry up in years of extreme drought. The national park is situated south of the dingo fence, meaning it is situated in that area, where dingoes prosecuted and usually rare or absent. Wild dogs and foxes are poisoned regularly in the national park. Among the animals, which are protected in the national park, is the yellow-footed rock wallaby. One problem plaguing the national park (as"
"Brent Knoll Camp Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort at Brent Knoll, from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (No: 24001), and is now in the care of the National Trust. The hill is high dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels and is visible from the M5 motorway. The word 'knoll' usually means a small hill or hill-top. The origin of the name Brent is unclear, but one possibility is from a word meaning ""burnt"" in Old English, suggesting that the settlement was at some time burnt by"
"Many formations have been named, though imagination is required and the correct viewing angle is helpful. Examples include the Sphinx, the Watchdog, the Camel, the Turtle and the Dancing Bear. The area was recognized as being a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1958. The children's television programme ""Roger and the Rottentrolls"" was filmed at Brimham Rocks and the site also features in the Bee Gees' video 'You Win Again'. A scene of series six of ""Knightmare"", another children's programme and adventure game show, saw Brimham Rocks used as a location although only used once. In June 2018 an"
"Riverhill House Riverhill House is a Grade II listed rag-stone Queen Anne manor house located on the southern edge of Sevenoaks in Kent, England. The house and estate, of , are located directly to the south of Knole Park, near to the villages of Sevenoaks Weald and Underriver. The gardens are open to the public from March to September. Originally built on the site of a Tudor farmstead in 1714, Riverhill House and estate were purchased in 1840 by John Rogers. A keen botanist and a contemporary of Charles Darwin, Rogers purchased the property because of its sheltered location and"
"Hanging Wood, South Yorkshire Hanging Wood is also known as Highfields Wood. It is situated between the old Great North Road and the Roman Road, and between the mining villages of Highfields and Woodlands. The Woodlands wildlife park and an ornamental lake, Highfields Lake are features of the wood, as is Woodlands, a former country house, now a social club. Woodlands is an early 20th-century model village, built for the miners at Brodsworth Colliery. Hanging Wood was part of Barnsdale Forest, where the original Robin Hood ballads are set. There is a Robin Hood's stream rises near the Roman Road"
"within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. It also contains the deepest and largest natural lakes in England, Wast Water and Windermere respectively. The Lake District National Park includes all of the central Lake District, though the town of Kendal, some coastal areas, and the Lakeland Peninsulas are outside the park boundary. The area was designated a national park on 9 May 1951 (less than a month after the first UK national park designation — the Peak District). It retained its original boundaries until 2016 when it was extended by 3% in the direction of"
"Camp and evidence of settlement at the base of the hill. Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve The Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve is a national nature reserve (NNR) near Chichester, West Sussex in southern England, and is on part of the South Downs. It covers an area of 160 hectares (400 acres). It is part of the wider Site of Special Scientific Interest at Kingley Vale. The site is managed by Natural England. It has an information centre and a nature trail. There is a large area of grass downland and shrub land with a number of old yew trees."
"Hornsleasow Quarry Hornsleasow Quarry () is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Regionally Important Geological Site (RIGS). The quarry (Snowshill Hill) lies in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and exposes a relatively thick sequence of Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) oolitic limestones, and thin clays of significant importance in correlating similar sequences in north Gloucestershire. The rocks, which belong to the Clypeus Grit, Chipping Norton Formation, Sharps Hill Formation and the Taynton Limetone Formation, are considered to have been"
"for the name ""Ringinglow""—a story also recounted by local historian J. Edward Vickers—that the village got its name after a man lost on the moors in bad weather was saved when he heard the bells of Sheffield parish church 'ringing low' over the moors. Both authors state that this story is a myth. Ringinglow Road was constructed as part of a turnpike road from Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton that opened in 1758. The Grade II listed octagonal former toll house built still stands in the village along with the Norfolk Arms Public House, a coaching inn (also Grade II"
"Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons) The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England. Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN). The project was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area. Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu,"
"it paid six shillings in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, and now it is worth <nowiki>[f]</nowiki>orty shillings. Ulviet held it of king Edward."" Today the hamlet is a collection of cottages and a public house surrounding a former farm, now converted to the Ringlestone Farmhouse Hotel. The Ringlestone Inn, a central feature of the hamlet, is an historic 16th century ale-house. Ringlestone Ringlestone is a hamlet between Wormshill and Harrietsham in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, falling within the civil parish of Wormshill, it is not to be confused with the Ringlestone suburb of Maidstone."
"for farm labourers. The local hundred of Beynhurst has a similar derivation. Billingbear is the north-western portion of Binfield parish, although Billingbear Park, near Shurlock Row, is over the border, in the parish of Waltham St Lawrence. The Stag and Hounds was reportedly used as a hunting lodge by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and an elm tree outside it (the stump of which was finally removed in 2004 – it was ravaged by Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s) was said to mark the centre of Windsor Forest. John Constable spent his honeymoon at the Rectory in 1816 and"
"Ringing rocks Ringing rocks, also known as sonorous rocks or lithophonic rocks, are rocks that resonate like a bell when struck, such as the Musical Stones of Skiddaw in the English Lake District; the stones in Ringing Rocks Park, in Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; the Ringing Rocks of Kiandra, New South Wales; and the Bell Rock Range of Western Australia. Ringing rocks are used in idiophonic musical instruments called lithophones. Several early scientists became interested in the ringing rocks; however, none were able to formulate a credible theory on the ringing ability of the rocks or the formation"
"Grindlow Grindlow is a farming hamlet of a dozen or so houses, that nestles under Hucklow Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District. Although it is a separate civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales District, the Parish Council is joint with Great Hucklow, its near neighbour, and Little Hucklow. The village lies north of the A623 road as it crosses Wardlow Mires. It is a familiar stop for groups of walkers passing through from Foolow, Wardlow and Abney. At its centre lies Grind Low, a small limestone knoll surmounted by a few trees. There are also two Bronze Age burial mounds"
"Englemere Pond Englemere Pond is a local nature reserve near North Ascot in Berkshire. The reserve is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The site is owned by Crown Estate and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council. The nature reserve is situated south of North Ascot and is between Martins Heron railway station and Ascot railway station. The reserve covers an area of . The site features a shallow acidic lake and marsh land. The land for most of its recorded history has been part of a great Royal Hunting Forest that surrounded Windsor Castle. In 1990 the"