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unusual facts about East Midlands


Fineshade Wood

Fineshade Wood is a large wooded area in the county of Northamptonshire in the English East Midlands region.


Better Choice Parking

BCP also offered advance booking facilities for the on-airport car parks at Luton, East Midlands, Manchester, Cardiff and Southampton.

Carenza Lewis

During part of her time with the RCHME she was seconded to the History Department of the University of Birmingham to research the relationship between settlement and landscape in the East Midlands.

Centre for Research in Social Policy

The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) is a self-funding autonomous research centre based within the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands, England.

David Speedie

He would score 12 goals in 37 league games for the East Midlands side in 1993–94 as they qualified for the playoffs and sealed promotion to the Premier League by defeating local rivals Derby County 2-1 in the playoff final at Wembley Stadium.

Englishcombe

The south eastern boundary of the parish follows the route of the Fosse Way a Roman road that linked Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in South West England to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) in the East Midlands, via Ilchester (Lindinis), Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum).

Foncquevillers

After the war Foncquevillers established a friendship with the English East Midlands cities of Derby and Nottingham which continues today.

Lincoln Theological College

Once Lincoln Theological College had closed, the only Anglican theological college in the East Midlands offering training for those entering stipendiary ministry was St John's College, Nottingham in Bramcote.

Lithuanians in the United Kingdom

Any Place But Home is an anthology edited by Stephan Collishaw, which collates seven personal histories written by Lithuanians who migrated to England's East Midlands in the 1940s.

Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham Information Services

Records of river, drainage and water supply bodies in the East Midlands, including records of the Trent River Catchment Board; Trent River Board; Trent River Authority; Trent Fishery Board; Court of Sewers for the Level of Hatfield Chase; and The Hatfield Chase Corporation; Brigg Court of Lincolnshire Commissioners of Sewers; Trent Navigation Company; Records of the City of Nottingham Water Department; and records from Stoke Bardolph Sewage works and Bulcote Model Farm

Markeaton Park Light Railway

The Markeaton Park Light Railway operates within Markeaton Park adjacent to what remains of Markeaton Village, in Derby in the East Midlands of England.

National Transmission System

For distribution to houses, National Grid plc (this division is based in Northampton) owns the network in North West England, the West Midlands, the East Midlands, the East of England and North London.

Nottingham Concert Band

Part of the musical landscape of the East Midlands since 1991 Nottingham Concert Band began life as Trent Concert Band which in turn arose from the music department of Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University).

Old Leightonians Cricket Club

The club does not compete in league cricket and thus most of its fixtures are friendly matches against a variety of opponents – from teams in the Reading area (including Leighton Park School's 1st XI) through to sides in the club's current touring destinations: the East Midlands, Norfolk and Saumur, France.

Robin Hood Battalion

The regiment was involved in the German Blitz against British cities, the Robin Hoods serving in Derby, East Midlands.


see also

2010 in British radio

27 February - The six stations in the Smooth Radio network stage a "Starlight Supper", en event aimed at raising money for a number of charities: Breast Cancer Care in London, Macmillan Cancer Support in the Northwest, North East and West Midlands, the Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People in the East Midlands and Marie Curie’s Big Build in Glasgow.

Ashop

River Ashop, a river in the Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands of England

Century Digital

Following the sale of Century East Midlands to Chrysalis and the other Century stations to GMG Radio, Century Digital became a GMG brand.

Clayworth

Completed in 1905 by Scottish artist Phoebe Anna Traquair, these are one of only two mural pieces by her outside Scotland, and are the largest mural work in the East Midlands.

Donington Hall

They retained the Hall, which after the Soviet Army ensured a Communist regime in Hungary, became a refugee camp for those who came to the East Midlands.

EMMAN

EMMAN owns and runs a high bandwidth Regional Network whose primary purpose is to deliver connectivity to the Janet network and the Internet for the higher education institutions, further education institutions, specialist colleges and other institutions across the East Midlands region.

The East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network (EMMAN) was established in 1994, initially as a point to point link between The University of Nottingham (UoN) and The Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in order to connect NTU to the Janet network via the SMDS connection at UoN.

Fallomon mac Con Congalt

The remainder of the southern Uí Néill formed the kingdoms of Tethbae, in the north-west midlands, north and west of the River Inny and east of the River Shannon, and Brega in the east midlands, east of the upper part of the River Boyne and its tributary the River Blackwater.

Galaxy Digital

In January 2011, Galaxy Digital on DAB in Leicester and Nottingham was replaced by Heart Digital (a relay of Heart 106.2 from London) - this was as a result of the rebranding of Heart East Midlands as Gem 106.

Metz–Nancy–Lorraine Airport

The airport was a regional hub for DHL from 2000 to 2006, with flights to Toulouse, Nice, Marseilles, Cologne, Brussels, Paris, Vitoria and East-Midlands.

Midland Line

Midland Main Line between London St Pancras station, the East Midlands and Sheffield.

National Grid plc

National Grid Gas plc (formerly Transco) owns and operates the gas transmission network (from terminals to distributors), known as the National Transmission System (NTS), and four distribution networks (from national network to customers): North West of England, East of England (which is split into two areas – East Anglia & East Midlands), West Midlands and London; the distribution networks were former regional divisions of British Gas.

Norton Juxta Twycross

In 1963 Norton Grange and its 12 acre gardens, were purchased for £12,000 by zoologist Molly Badham, who founded Twycross Zoo (at first known as The East Midlands Zoological Society) in the rectory's gardens.

Peterborough Evening Telegraph

East Midlands Newspapers also publishes 11 other titles including the Stamford Mercury and Grantham Journal.

Ross Davenport

On Monday, 27 November 2006 he won the acclaimed BBC East Midlands Sports Personality of the Year - won in 2005 by Derbyshire-born yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur.

Saga 106.6 FM

These included John Peters, who launched Radio Trent (the East Midlands' first commercial radio station in 1975), Amanda Bowman, Tony Lyman, Tim Gough, Steve Merike, Paul Robey, Jeff Cooper, Andy Marriott, Ian Chilvers, Mark Burrows, Ron Coles, Steve Orchard, Tim Rogers, David Lloyd, Ashley Franklin, Peter Quinn, Sheila Tracy, 'Diddy' David Hamilton, Mike Wyer and Erica Hughes.