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4 unusual facts about The Moor


The Moor

Personification of the Moors, in their collective role as a medieval political force

The Moor's Last Sigh

The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995.

Set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin, it is the first major work that Rushdie produced after the The Satanic Verses affair, and thus is referential to that circumstance in many ways, especially the isolation of the narrator, as well as the shadow of death that seems constantly to hang over him.

The cover artwork for this book is by Dennis Leigh, more widely known as musician and multi-media artist John Foxx


Moorfoot Building

It is located at the foot of The Moor (a pedestrianised shopping street), close to the Sheffield Inner Ring Road.

Pinstone Street

Pinstone Street connects the two shopping areas of Fargate and The Moor in the centre of the city.


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A229 road

At The Moor the A229 has now taken over the most easterly part of the A265, so that it now joins the A21 north of Hurst Green just south of the East Sussex border, at Cooper's Corner.

Azemmour

Estevanico, also known as Esteban the Moor, who was enslaved and traveled with a Spanish expedition to North America in 15xx.

Betis Church

The Church is dedicated to Saint James (Aramaic Yaʕqov, Greek Ιάκωβος, died 44 AD) or "Saint James the Moor-slayer", was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

Bodmin Moor

The moor has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports about 260 breeding pairs of European Stonechats as well as a wintering population of 10,000 Eurasian Golden Plovers.

Buckland-in-the-Moor

In 1927 The Lord of Buckland Manor, Mr Whitley, learnt that parliament had rejected a proposed revision of the Book of Common Prayer using Jesus' Two Commandments instead of Moses' Ten, at Holy Communion.

Carluke Tigers

The club plays their home games at Hamilton Palace, Hamilton, while training takes place at The Moor Park in Carluke.

Dartmoor

During the Great Thunderstorm of 1638, the Dartmoor town of Widecombe-in-the-moor was even said to have been visited by the Devil.

Flag and coat of arms of Corsica

The Moor's Head is also used on the Coat of Arms of Corsica and on the crest of Clan Borthwick.

Hugh Quarshie

He headed the cast of Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) as Father Gus, and played Aaron the Moor in the BBC Television Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Let's Rock The Moor!

Let's Rock The Moor! is an annual boutique and family-friendly 1980s music festival held in Cookham, Berkshire.

Olive Wharry

Wharry made fellow Suffragette Constance Bryer (1870–1952) an executor of her 1946 will, in which she requested that her body be cremated and her ashes scattered on "the high open spaces of the Moor between Exeter and Whitstone".

Rhabdias bufonis

Besides the common toad from which this roundworm was first described, it has been found in the common spadefoot toad (Pelobates fuscus), the common frog (Rana temporaria), the moor frog (Rana arvalis), the agile frog (Rana dalmatina), the European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), the yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata), water frogs (Pelophylax spp.) and the European green toad (Bufo viridis).

Saint James Matamoros

Saint James the Moor-slayer (Spanish: Santiago Matamoros) is famous Spanish myth.

Sowy River

During 2009 and 2010 work was undertaken to upgrade sluice gates, watercourses and culverts to enable seasonal flooding of Southlake Moor during the winter diverting water from the Sowy River onto the moor.

Tŷ Canol National Nature Reserve

The volcanic rock of the moor of Carnedd Meibion Owain, the mossy boulders and gnarled oaks of Tŷ Canol Wood and the nearby presence of the Pentre Ifan burial chamber contribute to the reserve's prehistoric atmosphere.

Ventongimps Moor

The nationally rare Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura pumilio) is one of the 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly that the ponds on the moor supports.

West Highland Railway

The station at Corrour on the moor is one of the most remote stations in Britain.

West Park, Leeds

The Moor Grange area was used for filming The Beiderbecke Affair, using the Butcher Hill playing fields and the Clayton Grange flats.

Widecombe-in-the-Moor

The village is well known for Widecombe Fair, held annually and celebrated by a folksong of the same name, featuring 'Old Uncle Tom Cobley and All'.

According to local legend, the Great Thunderstorm was caused by the village being visited by the Devil.

Woodhouse Moor

The statue on Monument Moor, on the opposite side of the A660 to the main body of the Moor, is of Henry Rowland Marsden, a Liberal Mayor of Leeds for 1875-6.