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* Moor, a word for a fen or marsh, now mostly applied to flat areas of former marshland in Somerset, England
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In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.
The town of Eye derives its name from the Old English word for ' island ' and it is believed that the first settlement on the site would have been almost entirely surrounded by water and marshland formed by the River Dove to the east and south east ; its tributary to the north ; and by the low land, part of which now forms the Town Moor, to the south and west.
It comes from the Malay word bangsa, meaning nation or people, and the Spanish word moro, from the Spanish word for Moor, the Reconquista-period term used for Muslims.
( The Spaniards call the Sultan of Sulu's army as Moros, Spanish for " Moors ", the word Moor was in turn derived from Morocco a North African country adjacent to Spain, and peopled by Muslims which conquered and ruled Spain for 800 years )
Many words are pinned down to specific areas of Yorkshire or specific towns or villages ; one word, lenerky, that means " soft or floppy ", is even ascribed to Grange Moor, a very small village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire near Wakefield between the towns of Barnsley and Huddersfield.
Moor and for
A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.
Bodmin College is a large state comprehensive school for ages 11 – 18 on the outskirts of the town and on the edge of Bodmin Moor.
After a few days in Tangier, Ibn Battuta set out for a trip to the Moor controlled territory of al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula.
He was in time for the bombing of Germany, serving on the Handley Page Halifax with No. 76 Squadron RAF, initially at RAF Breighton and then at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor.
* David Moor ( born 1947 ), British general practitioner who was prosecuted for the euthanasia of a patient
Cinthio's Moor is the model for Shakespeare's Othello, but some researchers believe the poet also took inspiration from the several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England circa 1600.
The area is mostly built up except for a small park on Moor View Terrace however Central Park and Ford Park Cemetery are nearby.
Crow was featured on the Johnny Cash album American III: Solitary Man in the song " Field of Diamonds " as a background vocalist, and also played the accordion for the songs " Wayfaring Stranger " and " Mary of the Wild Moor.
This journey involved a break in Leeds, where a group of sympathetic students and graduates took the fragment to Ilkley Moor for an overnight stay, accompanied by renditions of " On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at ".
After winning the Battle of Edgecote Moor on 26 July 1469, the earl found the Yorkist king deserted by his followers, and brought him to Warwick Castle for " protection ".
Digital switchover takes place in late August for most of the region, with Emley Moor ( the main TV transmitter for West and South Yorkshire ) converting to digital in mid-September 2011.
They were divorced in 2011, and he is now the partner of Alison Seabeck, the Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View.
They then avoided defeat for another week thanks to an 80th minute goal from Morgan Schneiderlin against Burnley which secured them a 1 – 1 draw against the side at Turf Moor.
These gallows were not pulled down for a number of years, which might have prompted the owner to move the pub to its current location at the bottom of Vicars Moor Lane near the end of the 18th century.
The canal was used first to transport lime from Wales for use in Cornish farming, and later to carry copper and granite between the railhead at Liskeard ( from where rail links reached to the Cheesewring on Bodmin Moor ) and the port at Looe.
In Manchester during the 17th century the Kersal Moor Whit races were the great event of the year when large numbers of people turned the area into a giant fairground for several days.
It was not such a surprising request ; de Moor had worked with Hergé since 1951, was responsible for running the Studios Hergé in his absence, adapted the animated film Tintin and the Lake of Sharks into comic-strip form, and worked on the previous book Tintin and the Picaros with Hergé alone.
She stayed for ten days in Northern Moor, a suburb area in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, and the result was The Duchess on the Estate, transmitted on ITV1 on 18 August 2009.
Low Moor was the birthplace of World War II Medal of Honor recipient Jimmie Monteith, for whom Camp Monteith, located in Kosovo, was named.
By the 15th century only Windsor, Leeds, Rockingham and Moor End were kept up as comfortable accommodation ; Nottingham and York formed the backbone for royal authority in the north, and Chester, Gloucester and Bristol forming the equivalents in the west.
Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist the police in their search for the graves, both by then having confessed to the additional murders.
Moor and fen
* Moor: this developed where the peat grew above the reach of the land water which carried the nutrients to the fen.
Moor and marsh
A special position is taken with the " Weißes Moor " ( White bog ), the only bog still existing in quite natural shape in the Schleswig-Holstein marsh land.
North Moor is a nationally important grazing marsh and ditch system on the Somerset Levels and Moors.
Moreton means " Farmstead on the Moor " and " in Marsh " is from henne and mersh meaning a marsh used by birds such as moorhens.
Swarthmoor Village was named after its location on the Swarth Moor, which was formerly a marsh covered moorland.
To the south of the town is Wet Moor a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which is part of the extensive grazing marsh grasslands and ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors.
Spalding Moor was a marsh, dominated by a single hill which consists of Keuper marl ; on the hill a small church was built in the 13th century.
Moor and now
Speaking of his wife, Desdemona, Othello the Moor says, " Her name that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd and black / As mine own face.
Later the road from Tavistock to Princetown was built, as well as the other roads that now cross the Moor.
Jungr used a translation called " Don't leave me now " by Des de Moor.
* Kay Moor, another mining town in the New River Gorge, now abandoned
Those sentenced to death at the castle were usually taken to Lancaster Moor, near where the Ashton Memorial now stands, to be hanged.
Archaeologists discovered that this was a boundary separating houses from a deer park in an area now occupied by Moor Street Station.
* William Wilson Allen, VC ( Rorke's Drift ) lived at Belford Moor, ( now Belford Mains ) as a child.
Until recently it was the second most important railway station in the city, after Birmingham New Street station ; but, after its renovation and changes to services, Birmingham Moor Street ( in terms of passenger usage and facilities ) is now Birmingham's second main central station.
After the battle of Hedgeley Moor, the Lancastrians failed to prevent the Yorkists from concluding peace negotiations with Scotland in 1463, and soon found that their northern base of operations was now threatened.
In 1581, a group of local people acquired lands — now referred to as Box Moor — from the Earl of Leicester to prevent their enclosure.
The look also heralded the return of the On Ilkla Moor Baht ' at tune, which was now noticeably higher in pitch.
The first peated Arran Single Malt ( called Machrie Moor ) is now available since December 8, 2010.
The team of the 1950s revolved around the midfield duo of Jimmy Adamson and Jimmy McIlroy ( a new stand was named after the latter in the 1990s ) and these two were key to the championship-winning team of 1959 – 1960 managed by Potts ( who now gives his name to the road which Turf Moor occupies ).
Alexander Korda's Denham Film Studios, sited between the junction of the Rickmansworth Road ( now the A412 North Orbital road ) and Moor Hall Road towards Harefield, provided some employment.
Downley has a few interesting road names, such as " Bug Alley " which is now Moor Lane, Coffin Lane which is at the end of Moor Lane and leads to Hughenden Church.
In the mid-19th century, watercress was grown at Moor Farm, known locally as " The Bog ", ( now Low Farm ) by Richard Whiting Bradbery, the son of William Bradbery, the first British watercress pioneer who had a large cress farm at West Hyde, Hertfordshire.
Cardinal Wolsey, in his capacity as Abbot of St Albans, held the Manor of le More in the valley, now vanished but superseded by the hill-top mansion of Moor Park, once the residence of Admiral Lord Anson and the Barons Ebury, and now the Golf Club House.
A Gospel mission hall dating from 1888 at Moor End now meets as the Elim Christian Centre in the centre of the village near the large estate area.
The final location of Derby School was in Littleover on Moorway Lane, the site is now occupied by Derby Moor Community Sports College.
At various points within a few miles of the Solway are tracts of moss land, like Craigs Moss, Lochar Moss and Longbridge Moor in the west, and Nutberry Moss in the east, all once under water, but now largely reclaimed.
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