middridge造句

• Her sister married Colonel Anthony Byerley of Middridge Grange.
• Middridge Village Hall was originally built as a school for the children of the village and local farming community.
• It is believed that King Charles I of England took refuge in Middridge Grange during the English Civil War.
• Middridge village fete is a yearly event for the local community ( but people come from miles around ).
• Middridge Grange is a Grade II listed building situated just outside the village itself, between Shildon and School Aycliffe.
• Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the Saxons arrived in the area around 500 AD and created several settlements, including Middridge.
• The Middridge fairies ( or faeries ) are, according to legend, very different from the kind, winged fairies of popular culture.
• "' Middridge Quarry "'is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Sedgefield district of County Durham, England.
• Anglo-Saxon Middridge lasted for five hundred years before being destroyed by the Normans during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North.
• However, the current Middridge Grange bears little resemblance to the original manor, much of which was destroyed by fire in the 19th century.
• It is a disused quarry, situated alongside the railway line between Newton Aycliffe and Shildon, 1 km south of the village of Middridge.
• The Byerley Turk, the great stallion owned by the then Captain ( later Colonel ) Robert Byerley, was arguably Middridge's most famous resident.
• The story goes that the fairies chased a traveller, who took refuge in Middridge Grange, getting inside the building just before the pitchfork struck the door.
• The name " Middridge " is derived from its location at that time on the " middle ridge " between Eldon and School Aycliffe ( near the current Aycliffe golf course ).
• Collections include the Yearby hoard of sixteenth and seventeenth century coins, the Thorpe Thewles hoard of Henry II and Henry III silver pennies and the Middridge hoard of Edward I coins.
• These pits were collectively known as Middridge Colliery, and provided employment for hundreds of people in their heyday while producing a combined daily total of 600 tons of coal, before closing in the early 20th century.
• The Byerley Turk was one of the three founding stallions of today's thoroughbred horses and was stood at Middridge Grange, until being moved to Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, when his owner married his cousin, Mary Wharton, in 1692.
• "' 1955-1974 "': The Urban Districts of Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland, the Urban District of Shildon except the part of the Middridge ward transferred to the Rural District of Darlington by the County of Durham ( Parish of Great Aycliffe ) Confirmation Order 1952, and the Rural District of Barnard Castle.
• Sedgefield : Bishop Middleham and Cornforth, Broom, Chilton, Ferryhill, Fishburn and Old Trimdon, Greenfield Middridge, Heighington and Coniscliffe, Hurworth, Middleton St George, Neville and Simpasture, New Trimdon and Trimdon Grange, Sadberge and Whessoe, Sedgefield, Shafto St Marys, Thornley and Wheatley Hill, West, Wingate, Woodham.
• "' 1983-1997 "': The District of Wear Valley wards of Bishop Auckland Town, Cockton Hill, Coundon, Coundon Grange, Escomb, Henknowle, St Helen's, West Auckland, and Woodhouse Close, the District of Teesdale, and the District of Sedgefield wards of Byerley, Middridge, Neville, Shafto, Simpasture, Sunnydale, Thickley, West, and Woodham.