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5 unusual facts about The Heath


Ballyroan Abbey GAA

This was also a year of great surprise, when they lost to The Heath in a relegation play-off game meaning they would take part at intermediate rather than senior level in 2008.

Clonad GAA

These days, club members interested in football usually play with the neighbouring football clubs at The Heath and Ballyroan.

Denis Lalor

After his senior inter county career ended, Denis continued to play at club level while also serving as a selector with the Laois senior football team under Tom Cribben and also had spells as club manager with Gracefield in Offaly and his home club, The Heath.

With his club The Heath, Denis was the captain in 1993 when they won a memorable Laois Senior Football Championship title.

Pat Roe

He began his club football career with Portlaoise with whom he won minor and under 21 honours but it with his second club The Heath that Roe played a starring role in 1993 when they won a memorable Laois Senior Football Championship title.



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Blackheath railway station

Conversely, in April, on the Sunday of the London Marathon, it is crucial in enabling athletes and their supporters to reach the starting line, as on that day bus services across the heath are usually suspended as roads are closed.

Bovey Heath

The heath was probably created around 4000 years ago through the actions of Bronze Age farmers who would have cleared areas of woodland for grazing and the cultivation of crops.

Circular rampart of Burg

According to the novel marauders and other warring groups passed through the land and plundered the farms of the heath farmers.

Disa stairsii

On Kilimanjaro D. stairsii also grows among the heath along with Erica arborea and Erica rossi, is "small pink flowered" and is hidden by clumps of grasses along with the white flowered Anemone thomsonii.

DSV 78 Hannover

Of the club members to lose their live in the war, Hermann Löns, "The Poet of the Heath", is the best known.

Edward Taylor

In The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 3rd Edition, Paul Lauter, editor Richard Yarborough, et al., 2 vols.

Francis Homfray

He was the third son of Francis Homfray (1674-1736), of Wales, near Rotherham, and Mary Jeston (d.1758) of The Heath, Worcestershire.

Geraint Lloyd Owen

He attended the local school, then Ysgol Tŷ-tan-domen, Bala, and trained as a secondary-school teacher at the Heath College, Cardiff.

Heath Hen

By the late 18th century, the heath hen had a reputation as poor man's food for being so cheap and plentiful; somewhat earlier Thomas L. Winthrop had reported that they lived on the Boston Common (presumably when it was still used to graze cows, etc.) and that servants would sometimes bargain with a new employer for not being given heath hen for food more often than two or three days a week.

Heath Railway

On its southern section between Langenhagen and Bennemühlen the Heath Railway is electrified and forms Line S 4 on the Hanover S-Bahn network.

Hounslow Heath

Various armies used the heath due to its nearness to London, Windsor and Hampton Court.

Interest sensitivity gap

The interest rate sensitivity gap is much less accurate than modern interest rate risk management technology where the impact of a change in the yield curve can be analyzed using the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework based on the work of researchers such as John Hull, Alan White, Robert C. Merton, Robert A. Jarrow and many others.

James Wilmot

He was appointed to a curacy at Kenilworth and later promoted to the position of rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, fifteen miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, where he remained for the rest of his life and served as a Justice of the Peace.

John Cator

Among the earliest commissions was one for architect Michael Searles to design a 14-house crescent, "The Paragon", on the south side of the Heath.

Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve

Also worth visiting are the Emhof in Wilsede, the "Totengrund" part of the heath, the old heathland churches in Egestorf and Undeloh, the nature information centres in Döhle, Niederhaverbeck and Undeloh and the Pietzmoor marsh near Schneverdingen.

Palace of Venaria

The Palace was designed and built from 1675 by Amedeo di Castellamonte, commissioned by duke Charles Emmanuel II, who needed a base for his hunting expeditions in the heathy hill country north of Turin.

Tiptree

Species found on the heath include Cross Leaved Heather Erica tetralix, Bell Heather Erica cinerea and Ling.

Windlesham

In 1911 the village was due to the heath, see Surrey Heath, described as almost entirely modern, in much the same way as Wentworth, Surrey's landscape was tamed approximately at the turn of the 20th century, being naturally heather, gorse and fern and ideal for grass and laid out evergreen trees.