"large locked box in which they were stored was not opened for more than 100 years, and stories circulated that they had been ""lost"" or removed. On 4th February 1818, Scott and a small team of military men opened the box, and ""unearthed"" the honours from the Crown Room of Edinburgh Castle. On the 19 August 1818 through Scott's effort, his friend Adam Ferguson was appointed Deputy Keeper of The Scottish Regalia. A grateful Prince Regent granted Scott the title of baronet, and in March 1820 he received the baronetcy in London, becoming Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet. After George's"
"Tillietudlem Tillietudlem is a fictional castle in Walter Scott's 1816 novel ""Old Mortality"", and a modern settlement in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Interest in Scott's novel attracted visitors to its supposed inspiration, Craignethan Castle, and a railway station built nearby was named after the fictional attraction. Houses built near the station developed into the modern hamlet of Tillietudlem. In the Autumn of 1799 the poet Walter Scott made a brief visit to Craignethan Castle, and was enraptured by the scene. When Scott wrote his novel ""Old Mortality"", published in 1816, he set it in South Lanarkshire during the late 17th century"
"SS Sir Walter Scott SS ""Sir Walter Scott"" is a small steamship that has provided pleasure cruises and a ferry service on Loch Katrine in the scenic Trossachs of Scotland for more than a century, and is the only surviving screw steamer in regular passenger service in Scotland. It is named after the writer Walter Scott, who set his 1810 poem Lady of the Lake, and his 1818 novel Rob Roy around Loch Katrine. In 1859 Loch Katrine became Glasgow's main water supply, connected by aqueducts and tunnels to the city more than away through a hilly landscape. The Trossachs"
"Waverley, Dunedin Waverley is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It was named after Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley, first novel in a series known as the Waverley Novels, among the most popular and widely read English-language novels of the 19th century. Waverley is located at the start of the Otago Peninsula, southeast of the city centre, on a rise overlooking the Otago Harbour to the north. The suburb is connected to central Dunedin by several streets of which Larnach Road is the most prominent. This descends from the suburb to link with Marne Street on the"
"during the construction of Larnach Castle. Larnach's intention was to turn the house into a hotel, the Dandie Dinmont Hotel, but these plans never eventuated. The building has been in a state of neglect for many years, but is undergoing a major restoration. Waverley, Dunedin Waverley is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It was named after Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley, first novel in a series known as the Waverley Novels, among the most popular and widely read English-language novels of the 19th century. Waverley is located at the start of the Otago Peninsula, southeast of"
"""Peak-haunting Peveril"" is one of many topical references in ""The Heavy Dragoon Song"" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience (opera). The ""Peveril of the Peak"", named after Walter Scott's Novel is also a famous pub in central Manchester. Peveril of the Peak Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with ""Ivanhoe"", ""Woodstock"" and ""Kenilworth"", this is one of Scott's English novels, with the main action taking place around 1678. Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the"
"and to on 2 June. Opening throughout came on 1 July 1862. The name ""Waverley Route"" first appeared in NBR minute books towards the end of 1862, and headed the first timetable of Hawick-Carlisle services. Although we have no idea how or by whom it was chosen, it was inspired by the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, who lived at Abbotsford House near the route of the line and had taken an active interest in early railways. Scott's portrait often adorned posters and timetables and the Scott Monument in Edinburgh became the route's leitmotif. The first class of locomotive"
"Chesham, Buckinghamshire, the Furthest Station on the Metropolitan Line. The Furthest Station The Furthest Station is the latest novella in the Peter Grant series by English author Ben Aaronovitch. The novella is set after the fifth (Foxglove Summer) but before the sixth (The Hanging Tree) novel in the series. Teaming up with BTP Sergeant Jaget Kumar, his young cousin Abigail Kamara, Inspector Nightingale and Toby the ghost hunting dog, PC Peter Grant tackles the mystery of ghostly encounters on the Metropolitan Line. Weirder still, the witnesses forget about their experiences mere minutes after they've occurred. As the mystery unravels, Grant"
"east of the bridge over the disused railway, and is signposted as a Historic Scotland property open to the public for an admission charge. Tillietudlem lies about west of Crossford on the Corra Mill Road. Crossford itself is on the A72 between Hamilton and Lanark. Tillietudlem Tillietudlem is a fictional castle in Walter Scott's 1816 novel ""Old Mortality"", and a modern settlement in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Interest in Scott's novel attracted visitors to its supposed inspiration, Craignethan Castle, and a railway station built nearby was named after the fictional attraction. Houses built near the station developed into the modern hamlet"
"author Walter Scott, such as Kenilworth and Strathmore. Copp worked in conjunction with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which in 1893 built a train station. Builders were given reduced rates to transport workers and materials to the town site, and new residents were given free trips to move in. The town lies along the former B&O railway corridor (now used by CSX, Amtrak, MARC). It was named for John Work Garrett, who had led the B&O for nearly three decades, including the American Civil War. Copp limited commercial development in the community, and even today there is only one store"
"has it that Otelia and William Mahone traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations from ""Ivanhoe"", a book she was reading written by Sir Walter Scott. From his historical Scottish novels, Otelia chose the place names of Windsor, Waverly and Wakefield. She tapped the Scottish Clan ""McIvor"" for the name of Ivor, a small Southampton County town. When they reached a point in Prince George County not far from the end of the line at Petersburg, the two could not agree. It is said that they invented a new word in honor of their ""dispute"", which"
"Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Beauclerc Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Beauclerc (17 August 1826 – 8 April 1910) was an English building contractor and publisher. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Scott began his profession as a mason, before setting up his own building firm, completing many major architectural projects in the North East of England and notable railway stations in London. His publishing house, Walter Scott Publishing Co. brought classic literature to the masses for a low price. (He is not to be confused with the novelist and Baronet Sir Walter Scott) Scott was born in Abbey"
"fiction. It is mentioned in several Sherlock Holmes novels. In ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", Watson and his companions Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville leave for Dartmoor from Paddington, while in ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", Holmes and Watson leave the station for a train to Boscombe Valley near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The mystery novel ""4.50 From Paddington"" (1957) by Agatha Christie begins with a murder witnessed by a passenger on a train from Paddington. One of The Railway Series books, ""The Eight Famous Engines"", contains a story about Gordon, Duck and a foreign engine debating which station London is. Duck"
"served along the route from Glasgow Queen Street are listed below. Sleeper services to Fort William start, however, at London Euston, calling at Edinburgh Waverley and Queen Street Low Level (to pick up or set down depending on direction). Glenfinnan Viaduct, on the line between Fort William and Mallaig, is a filming location for the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter series of films. Eddie McConnell's poetic documentary ""A Line for All Seasons"" (1970) showcases the line and its history set against the scenery of the western highlands as it changes through the seasons. Corrour station features in ""Trainspotting"" (1996),"
"1889 and is ""named after Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel ""Kenilworth"", a romantic novel set in Elizabethan England. Many of the streets in the neighborhood took their names from this novel and other novels by Scott."" Creston-Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon Creston-Kenilworth is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon, lying between SE 26th Ave. on the west and SE Foster Rd. (to SE 61st Ave.) on the east, and between SE Powell Blvd. on the north and SE Holgate Blvd. on the south. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn to the west, Hosford-Abernethy, and Richmond to the"
"a year later. The Victoria line platforms were opened in 1968. A major expansion to accommodate High Speed 1 at St Pancras opened in November 2009. The station is mentioned in Chapter 2 of E.M. Forster's 1910 novel ""Howards End"", where it suggests ""infinity"" to the eldest Schlegel daughter, Margaret, and contrasted with the ""facile splendours"" of St. Pancras. In the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's 1957 children's book ""The Eight Famous Engines"", Gordon the Big Engine undertakes a journey to London, hoping to reach King's Cross, but ends up at St Pancras instead. King's Cross features in the ""Harry Potter"" books,"
"in part nonsense."" The railway running through Ashby-de-la-Zouch was known as the Ivanhoe line between 1993 and 2005, in reference to the book's setting in the locality. Ivanhoe Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1819 (all first editions carry the date of 1820, however, it was released at the end of December 1819) in three volumes and subtitled ""A Romance"". At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval England. It"
"and Ayr. The journey by railway and ferry via Stranraer to Larne Harbour or since the line closed to the Port of Belfast is much longer. The station features in ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915) by John Buchan. Richard Hannay, fleeing from German secret agents, travels from London St Pancras to Galloway, changing trains at Dumfries. In 1939, T.S. Eliot included Dumfries in his ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"". Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat, speaks with the police at Dumfries Station during the night. Carnation built an evaporated milk factory in Dumfries that opened in 1935, eventually constructing three units producing"
"demolished. On 11 July 1901 a group of inmates from Bideford's local workhouse were carried free of charge to Westward Ho! for an outing. Westward Ho! railway station Westward Ho! railway station was a railway station in North Devon, north-west of Bideford, serving the village of Westward Ho!; a tourist community within the Parish of Bideford. The village name comes from the title of Charles Kingsley's novel ""Westward Ho!"" (1855). The exclamation mark was therefore an intentional part of the station's name; the only station in the United Kingdom bearing an exclamation mark. This was the busiest station on the"
"and ""Mission Impossible"" (1996), and crime drama ""The Shadow Line"" (2011), as well as the site for staged ""flash mobs"" in the film """" (2009), and for a T-Mobile advert. H. G. Wells' 1898 novel ""The War of The Worlds"" included a chaotic rush to board trains at Liverpool Street as the Martian machines overran military defences in the West End, and described the crushing of people under the wheels of the steam engines. The station is the subject of the poem ""Liverpool Street Station"" by John Davidson. Notes Citations Periodicals Books Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also known"
"buffer beams but they have however survived over the course of three decades and are an integral part of the railway's history. In store off-site for a number of years, the frames were returned to public display on the goods platform at Castletown Station during November 2009. The frames have since been sent off Island and are now at the Southwold Railway. Originating from 1894 and named after a character in a novel by Sir Walter Scott, popular at the time, this locomotive was for many years based on the Ramsey Line of the railway and indeed remained in service"
"North British Railway naming their vessels after characters from Sir Walter Scott's novels. An earlier Clyde steamer of the same name was built by Barclay Curle & Co in 1884 for the North British Steam Packet Co. She operated out of Craigendoran until 1896, when she was sold for service on Lough Foyle. Returning to the Clyde in 1899, as ""Duchess of York"" she ran cruises from Glasgow, becoming ""Isle of Cumbrae"" in 1904 and serving Rothesay. From 1916, she was chartered to the Glasgow and South Western Railway and operated between Princes Pier and Dunoon. She did not return"
"situated in Derbyshire. In that novel, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is named as one of the estates Elizabeth Bennet visits before arriving at Pemberley. In the 2005 film adaptation of the novel, Chatsworth House itself represents Pemberley. In one scene characters discuss visits to Matlock and Dovedale. Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel ""Peveril of the Peak"" is partly set in Derbyshire. The events of the play ""Arcadia"", by Tom Stoppard, take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire. Alfreton is mentioned in the novel ""Sons and Lovers"" by D. H. Lawrence, when a character gets a"
"train to Kingston upon Thames. After being given contradictory information by every railway employee they speak to, they eventually bribe a train driver to take his train to their destination. In Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's 1889 novel ""The Wrong Box"", much of the farcical plot revolves around the misdelivery of two boxes at Waterloo station, and the attempts by the various protagonists to retrieve them. In H. G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novel, ""The War of the Worlds"", the little used, and long since vanished, connecting track across the station concourse to Waterloo East station makes an appearance."
"his wife, Otelia Butler Mahone (1837–1911), traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations. Otelia was reading ""Ivanhoe"" by Sir Walter Scott. From his historical Scottish novels, Otelia chose the place names of Wakefield as well as Windsor and Waverly. She tapped the Scottish Clan ""McIvor"" for the name of Ivor, a small town in neighboring Southampton County. As they continued west, they reached a station in Prince George County where they could not agree on a suitable name from the books. Instead, they became creative, and invented a new name in honor of their dispute. This"
"lawyer and novelist Sir Walter Scott, wrote his romantic narrative-poem ""The Bridal of Triermain"" in 1812. In this, Castle Rock appears as the setting for the Enchanted Castle from which the hero, Sir Roland de Vaux of Triermain, must rescue the maiden, Gyneth. Triermain was the name of a fiefdom in the barony of Gilsland in north-east Cumberland; a pele-tower near Birdoswald still bears the name. The association with Walter Scott's poem has sometimes led Castle Rock to be called Castle Rock of Triermain, especially by rock climbers in order to distinguish it from another Castle Rock in Gloucestershire. Climbers"
"Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) is the novelist of the Potteries in Staffordshire, or the ""Five Towns"", (actually six) that now make-up Stoke-on-Trent. Similarly, novelist and poet Walter Scott's (1771-1832) contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland and were some of the most popular in all of Europe during the subsequent century. Scott's novels were influential in recreating a Scottish identity that the upper-class British society could embrace. In American fiction, the concept of American literary regionalism ensures that many genres of novel associated with particular regions often define the reception of the novelists. For example, in writing Western novels, Zane"
"Waverley Novels The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from ""Waverley"", the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words ""by the author of ""Waverley"""" on their title pages. The ""Tales of my Landlord"" sub-series was not advertised as ""by the author of ""Waverley"""" and thus is not always included as part of the Waverley"
"""Severn Valley"" is also used to refer to a fictional location in horror novels based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft. However, this fictional location is based on the Gloucestershire, Vale of Berkeley and Cotswolds regions, some 60 miles (100 km) further south of the real-life Severn Valley. Characters in the interwar novels of Francis Brett Young typically breathe ""the Severnside air"" and wander its pastoral byways (see e.g., _Portrait of a Village_ (1937)). Parke Godwin's King Arthur series (""Firelord, et. al"") puts Camelot in the Severn Valley The Severn Valley Railway has featured in a number of films"
"Peveril of the Peak Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with ""Ivanhoe"", ""Woodstock"" and ""Kenilworth"", this is one of Scott's English novels, with the main action taking place around 1678. Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the ""Popish Plot"" of 1678. Most of the story takes place in Derbyshire, London, and on the Isle of Man. The title refers to Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire. Sir Geoffrey Peveril and Major Bridgenorth had been boys"
"important towns such as Dudley and Walsall, and the opening of the Midland Metro tram line in 1999, which gives a speedy public transport link to Wolverhampton and Birmingham. Captain George Onions VC, British soldier born in Bilston and awarded the Victoria Cross in August 1918. Bilston was the birthplace of the poet Sir Henry Newbolt and Nelson, New Zealand Mayor George Page. John Wilkinson, ""king of the ironmasters"", built a blast furnace in Bilston in 1748. He lived and died in Bradley, Staffordshire. His body was returned to his hometown of Clifton in Cumberland. Hugh Walters lived all his"
"1 July 1885 as Black Flat in the area to the south of the railway line, was renamed 'Glen Waverley' in 1921, and Glen Waverley South in 1963 on the same day Glen Waverley North office (open since 1954) was renamed Glen Waverley (from 1994 The Glen). The name ""Waverley"" was, like the name of the train station in Edinburgh, taken from a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Major development occurred in the 1950s to 1970s with rapid infilling of housing built to a generally high standard on large (typically 800m) blocks. In particular Legend Park Estate was opened by"
"Dedridge is really simple as the streets progress in alphabetical order, starting at Abbotsford Rise and ending at Templar Rise (with the exception of Palmer Rise, which comes between Kenilworth and Mowbray Rises). Dedridge Dedridge is an area in the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located in the south of the town, just south of the Almondvale area, and north of the Murieston area. The area's streets are named after parts, events or characters from the plays of Sir Walter Scott; with the suffix 'Rise' being appended to give street names such as Clement Rise, Crusader"