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3 unusual facts about Lode


Baron Fairhaven

He had already been created Baron Fairhaven, of Lode in the County of Cambridge, in 1929, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

Lode, Cambridgeshire

Reach and Burwell follow on from there, completing these group of villages.

William de Lode

His secular name was William Gilbert, and before becoming Prior at Spinney he was a canon at nearby Anglesey Abbey, which is near the village of Lode.


Dartmoor tin-mining

Eluvial deposits—those that had weathered from the lode in the usual way, but had not then been transported by flowing water—were also worked; these tended to be poorer deposits due to the lack of sorting that a stream provides, and they usually did not have such a ready supply of water available to work them.

Fredric Hobbs

In 1978, with Warren Hinckle, Hobbs wrote and illustrated "The Richest Place on Earth," a history of Nevada's Comstock Lode in the 1860s and '70s, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

George Hearst

After spending a cold winter and making meager finds, they moved to Grass Valley on the news of a new lode.

GWR 4000 Class 4003 Lode Star

Lode Star was preserved at the Great Western Museum in Swindon from 1962, and was transferred to the National Railway Museum in York in 1992, where it is a static non-working exhibit.

Lode Craeybeckx

Lode Craeybeckx (24 November 1897 – 25 July 1976) served as Mayor of Antwerp, Belgium from 1947 until his death in 1976, becoming the longest serving mayor of the city in its history.

François Ferdinand Louis Craeybeckx, better known as Lode, was born in Antwerp in 1897.

Middle Level Commissioners

The Middle Level area was protected from the flood waters of the Great Ouse and Nene by two huge barrier banks which stretched from Earith to Salters Lode and from Stanground to Guyhirn.

Mount Gipps Station

In 1883 a boundary rider from Mount Gipps named Charles Rasp who, along six fellow workers, formed the Syndicate of Seven and pegged out the mining claim for the one of the world's richest lode of silver, lead and zinc at Broken Hill in the Barrier Range forming the company Broken Hill Proprietry Limited.

Mount Jumbo

Miners christened a nearby copper mine 'Jumbo Lode' in honor of Barnum and Bailey's most famous attraction Jumbo, the largest elephant in the world, which Barnum acquired in 1882.

Silver lode

Silver lode, deposit of precious metal found as alloy with gold (electrum) and in ores containing sulfur, arsenic, antimony or chlorine; 1859 Comstock Lode in U.S. state of Nevada was largest for its time, but has been eclipsed by 1990 discovery of Cannington Lode in Australian state of Queensland

South Broken Hill, New South Wales

The suburb is located in the City of Broken Hill local government area, separated by the "Line of Lode" from the rest of the city.

St Mary de Lode Church

The word Lode is from the old English word for water course or ferry and in this case it refers to a ferry that once crossed a branch of the River Severn to the west of the church, which no longer exists.

Stanley, Idaho

Captain John Stanley, a Civil War veteran, led a party of prospectors through the area in 1863 (or 1864), but they found little gold and moved on and discovered the Atlanta lode on the south end of the Sawtooths.


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