* Holme Lacy College-An agricultural college that was part of the Pershore Group of Colleges ( now Warwickshire College ), but currently belongs to Herefordshire College of Technology ( HCT ).

They also grow to a considerable height and can have very large canopies ; the largest recorded, a tree at Holme Lacy which still partly survives, covered three quarters of an acre and yielded a crop of 5 – 7 tons in 1790.

* The Holme Lacy Perry Pear, that in 1790 was recorded as producing 5 – 7 tons of fruit

* Holme Lacy

The families of Clifford, Giffard and Mortimer figured prominently in the warfare on the Welsh border, and the Talbots, Lacys, Crofts and Scudamores all had important seats in the county, Sir James Scudamore of Holme Lacy being the original of the Sir Scudamore of Spenser's Faerie Queene.

Situated away from the town centre towards the A19 is HMP Holme House, a large Category B local prison for male adult prisoners who are either remanded in custody or convicted.

* Holme Current Head of House – Mr Rob Matthews.

She died just two days after her Liberal Democrat colleague in the House of Lords, Richard Holme.

Heading east as Radcliffe Road with Bassingfield to the right, the £ 25, 000 (£ as of ), dual-carriageway section from Holme House built in 1956 finishes at the start of the Radcliffe on Trent bypass as Grantham Road.

Ouston Moor is in the south-west corner, Newham and Ragworth lie near the south, and Holme House in the south-east.

There are a number of notable buildings in the Abbeystead area: Cawthorne's Endowed School, rebuilt in the 19th century ; Holme Farm opposite, also 19th century ; and Abbeystead House, built in 1886 for the 4th Earl of Sefton.

The lowest point in the UK is Holme Fen, which is 3 metres below sea level.

* National radio is broadcast from Belmont in the south-east, Bilsdale for North Yorkshire, and Holme Moss for South and West Yorkshire.

Holmfirth is a small town located on the A6024 Woodhead Road in the Holme Valley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Centred upon the confluence of the Holme and Ribble rivers, Holmfirth is south of Huddersfield and from Glossop.

The Peak District National Park around Holme Moss is to the south of the town.

Interestingly ancient documents have the town's name spelt ' Holm Frith ' which can be translated as ' Holly Wood ', though the word " Firth " is an old English name meaning ' wood and woodland ' indicating the name means Holme woods.

It is also known as St Benet's at Holme or Hulme.

Although one writer in the seventeenth century described the Fenland as all lying above sea level ( in contrast to the Netherlands ), the area is now home to the lowest land point in the United Kingdom, Holme Fen in Cambridgeshire, at around 2. 75 metres below sea level.

Holme Bank, located nearby ( Ned Lane, BD4 0EH ), was an ancient holding, but the earliest actual record we have discovered so far is from " Bradford Archive " is 1562 ( Reign of Elizabeth I ).

Huddersfield is near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme.

Heworth Holme is a popular open space near Heworth Village.

A pair of black-winged stilts bred at the Wildlife Trust's Holme Dunes in 1987, is raising three young.

Mawson Station is located at Holme Bay in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica, named in January 1930 by Sir Douglas Mawson during the first British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition ( BANZARE ) voyage, aboard Discovery.

Seahenge, which is also known as Holme I, was a prehistoric monument located in the village of Holme-next-the-Sea, near Old Hunstanton in the English county of Norfolk.

One of the most vocal protestors, the Neopagan and conservationist Buster Nolan, informed a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press that " Seahenge has more meaning and power on the beach here at Holme than it does anywhere else … This is 60 grand being spent by archaeologists who are patting each other on the back, telling each other they're doing the right thing.

The island of Lady Holme is named after the chantry that formerly stood there and in former centuries was sometimes called St Mary Holme or just Mary Holme.

The beck is known by various names: Surgill Beck, Holme Beck and Eastburn Beck.

The village has a large health centre on Holme Lane and is only a mile or so from the Airedale NHS Trust hospital at Steeton.

The largest secondary and sixth form college in the area, South Craven School, is located in Cross Hills off Holme Lane, which is the road from Cross Hills to Sutton-in-Craven.

Shortly afterwards the Chedle Holme estate was divided and the part where Hulme Hall is now situated became known as " Holme ", and held by the Vernons.

Holme held the office of Surveyor-General until his death at the age of 71 in the spring of 1695, in Dublin Township, Philadelphia County ( now the Holmesburg section of the city of Philadelphia ).

In 1736, his family moved to Airey Holme farm at Great Ayton, where his father's employer, Thomas Skottowe, paid for him to attend the local school.

A 2008 survey by County Life magazine, which named the show the worst thing about Yorkshire, was disputed by members of the Holme Valley Business Association, who said the show was good for business.

Local residents, led by the Holme Valley Business Association, campaigned for its demolition.

NBC aired the pilot for his situation comedy Call Holme, but it never became a series.

Lord Holme later blamed Owen for the Alliance's failure to make a breakthrough at the 1987 general election, believing that a merged party would have performed much better and possibly gained more votes and seats than Labour.

* Oedipal Dreams-( Beach Holme, 1992 ) ( nominated for a Governor General's Award and featured in the Michael Radford film, " Dancing at the Blue Iguana ")

In the view of James Campbell, had Æthelwold not been killed at the Holme he might have united England in a manner which involved much less warfare than ultimately proved to be the case: " Had it not been for the chances of battle and war Æthelwold might very well have been regarded as one of the greatest figures in our island's story.

" Holme " may have been derived from the Danish word for " water meadow " or " island in the fen ".

The Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre is Britain ’ s centre for water sports and is located in Holme Pierrepont, next to West Bridgford.

The grade two listed mill stands at the junction of Stannington Road and Holme Lane, the earliest written records for a mill on this site date from 1739, at that time it was used for grinding knives.

This is one of three Nottinghamshire adventure bases, with the other two at Holme Pierrepont ( Lakeside ) and Worksop ( Sandhill ), all of which are available for people aged 11 – 19.

** Dave Bett & Michelle Holme for The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story

* Dave Bett & Michelle Holme for The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story ( Bruce Springsteen )

On 6 July 2009, Williams died at the Holme Tower medical centre in Cardiff, after suffering ill health for some time.

The Colne Valley parliamentary constituency still preserves the usage of the Colne Valley name for an administrative entity, although the constituency also includes the Holme Valley, Meltham and some outskirts of Huddersfield.

Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR has been defined by Lord Holme and Richard Watts in The World Business Council for Sustainable Development ’ s publication ‘ Making Good Business Sense ’ as “… the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as the local community and society at large ".

The majority of major national competitions for UK rowing are held at Holme Pierrepont.

The centre is also the base for Holme Pierrepont Running Club who meet on Mondays and Thursdays in the main reception area.

The word " Holme " comes from the Old English and Old Norse words for a small island or low lying land by a river.