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unusual facts about Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire



Beverley Folk Festival

The Beverley Folk Festival is a three day celebration of music, workshops, comedy and spoken word that is held in and around Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Boris Leven

As an art director, Leven contributed to The Flying Deuces (1939), Hello Frisco, Hello (1943), Invaders from Mars (1953), The Silver Chalice (1954), and Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973), among others.

Leven began his film career as a sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1933 and moved to 20th Century Fox three years later.

Burton Constable railway station

Burton Constable railway station was a station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway, and served the villages of Marton and Burton Constable in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations

The Kingston Upon Hull Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations (CMRI), which opened in 1992, is a magnetic resonance imaging centre located in the city of Kingston upon Hull (Hull) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK.

Clan Durie

The Duries were granted the estate of Craigluscar which is near Leven, Fife.

Elleker, Western Australia

In 1921, it was renamed Elleker on the recommendation of a former member of the Albany Road Board who lived in the area, after Ellerker in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Ernest Meysey-Thompson

At the 1900 general election, he contested the Buckrose division of the East Riding, where he lost by 91 votes (1.2%) to the Liberal candidate Luke White.

Ewan Cameron

After retirement from Vale of Leven Hospital in 1982, Cameron was invited to become Medical Director and Senior Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute, where he worked closely with Pauling on many research topics.

Finningley

The 2,741 metre long runway, currently the second longest in the north of England, was sufficiently large to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region (as well as Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

George Lauder of The Bass

On 15 August 1583, a Precept was made to George Lauder of the Bass, as son and heir of Robert Lauder of Bass, of a Temple-land in "Lewinsbrig" (Leven's bridge) in Fife, a Temple-land in North Berwick, and a Temple-land in Tyninghame.

HMS Leven

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leven, probably after the River Leven, Fife in Scotland.

Hull and East Riding Hospital

The hospital offers private care to patients from a wide geographic area covering East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.

Hull and Selby Railway

In 1848 a branch line from the Hull & Selby Railway was built from Barlby just to the east of Selby to Market Weighton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Jackie Leven

Leven was credited on the 1997 album Shifting City by John Foxx for the title of an electronic dance track called "Concrete Bulletproof Invisible".

Jeremy Leven

Leven is a practicing clinical psychologist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., which was published in 1982 and filmed as Crazy as Hell in 2002.

John Fryer Thomas Keane

Upon his return he was given into the hands of a private tutor, an elderly parson in a remote part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

John Levén

Europe reunited in 2003, and Levén co-wrote the single "Always the Pretenders" from the 2006 album Secret Society, with Tempest.

Jon Sen

After training at ARTTS International in Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, he became an accomplished documentary editor between 1996 and 2000, editing landmark British documentary series including Secret History, Witness and The Real...

Kirkella, Manitoba

Kirkella was the name of the farm of local pioneer Thomas Watson, which in turn derived its name from Kirk Ella a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Lease of Life

Exterior sequences for Lease of Life were filmed in Beverley (Gilchester) and the nearby village of Lund (Hinton St. John) in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire

Around 1612, it appears that Sir Thomas Gresham owned some of the land, having received it as a gift from Queen Elizabeth I.

Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey (archaic, also referred to as Melsa) was a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1151 by William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle (Count of Aumale), Earl of York and 4th lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Melville family

In the United Kingdom main branch of Melville family is the Leslie-Melville family, Earls of Leven and (since 1690) of Melville as well.

Newland, Kingston upon Hull

Newland is a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, on the A1079 road, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

North Ferriby United A.F.C.

North Ferriby United Association Football Club is an English association football club based in North Ferriby, near Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Painsthorpe Abbey

It was established at Painsthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire by Aelred Carlyle, a friend of Charles Chapman Grafton, Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac and an inspiration for Alfred Hope Patten.

Pickering Park, Kingston upon Hull

Pickering Park is a park in the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull, on the north side of Hessle Road, near Anlaby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Quarter session

In some counties there were multiple Quarter Sessions, quite apart from the urban areas: for example, Yorkshire had its North Riding, West Riding, and East Riding; whilst Northamptonshire's Soke of Peterborough was administered separately.

Red Riding

(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the RidingsNorth, East, and West.

Robert Montgomery Martin

He went on to the Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived in June 1823; he joined the expedition of HMS Leven and HMS Barracouta under William Fitzwilliam Owen, to Delagoa Bay.

Roger of Hoveden

From Hoveden's name and the internal evidence of his work, he is believed to have been a native of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Rowley, Massachusetts

The town was named after Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to non-conformist Puritan beliefs.

Shane Zaza

He went to Headlands School in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire where he first started acting.

Solomon Perel

The Dutch playwright Carl Slotboom wrote a play based on Perel's story titled Du sollst leben (Dutch: Je zult leven; English: Thou Shalt Live), which was first aired in Zevenbergen, Netherlands, on May 4, 2012, which is also Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands.

Sykes Churches Trail

The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere House in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Temple Lushington Moore

He was educated at Glasgow High School, then from 1872 privately by Revd Richard Wilton in Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The Circle, Kingston upon Hull

During the winter the Circle was a rugby union venue for Hull and East Riding RUFC, before its amalgamation with Ionians RUFC to form Hull Ionians, whom now play at Brantingham, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Thomas Zouch

Though Pitt did not manage this, in 1793 he secured Zouch the valuable rectory of Scrayingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, whereupon the benefice of Wycliffe became vacant.

Vixen 101

Vixen 101 (or Vixen 87 as it was originally known) is a community radio organisation based in the town of Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

VU University Medical Center

The reputation of the institution has taken a downfall after reports in the media about the TV program 24 uur: tussen leven en dood (based on 24 Hours in A&E).

William of Pagula

Pagula was probably born near Paull in Yorkshire, and after being confirmed as the parish priest of Winkfield on 5 March 1314 he was ordained on 1 June by Walter Reynolds at Canterbury Cathedral.

Yorkshire Museum of Farming

It was originally designed to house a growing collection of farm machinery that had been donated by various farms from North and East Yorkshire to the East Yorkshire Farm Machinery Preservation Society and stored at Burton Constable.

Zachariah Pearson

Zachariah Pearson (died 1891) was an English shipowner, best known for the gift of land to Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, which was used to establish the City's first public park, later known as Pearson Park.


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