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unusual facts about The Valley



Anthony Hawken

Hawken has completed sculptures of Melvyn Bragg, Nicholas Parsons and Norman Lamont and was also responsible for the oversize sculpture of footballer, Sam Bartram which stands outside the ground of Charlton Athletic, The Valley, London.

Scared to Dance

"Into the Valley" became Skids' best-known song, and was adopted and sung by fans of Dunfermline Athletic F.C., the band's local football team, as well as Charlton Athletic F.C. in England whose ground is known as "The Valley".


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Aberford Dykes

The Aberford Dykes are a series of archaeological monuments located around the valley of the Cock Beck, where it runs just north of the village of Aberford on the border between North and West Yorkshire, England.

Aconcagua River

The valley of Aconcagua River was used as route of Transandine Railway on Chilean side.

Barnhartvale, Kamloops

A major road in the area is named after the Robert and Henry Pratt families who occupied the bulk of the valley after 1890.

Bernsbach

The community stretches from the valley of the river Schwarzwasser up to the Spiegelwald (forest) at 728 m above sea level, thereby offering a good view over the Ore Mountain towns of Aue and Schwarzenberg.

Bodfari

The village lies on the A541 road at the point where the road passes through a gap in the Clwydian Hills, the gap being part of the valley of the River Wheeler (Welsh: Afon Chwiler).

Buhl, Haut-Rhin

Buhl is situated in the valley of the Lauch, at the foot of the Vosges Mountains and the Grand Ballon (1424 m) and surrounded by forests whose hills reach altitudes ranging from 395 to 860 metres.

Clyne Valley Country Park

A cycle track crosses the centre of the valley, linking Blackpill on Swansea Bay with the inland village of Gowerton.

Coupe Icare

Coupe Icare (Icarus Cup) is an annual festival of free flight held between Saint-Hilaire (on the border of Chartreuse Mountains) and Lumbin (in the valley of Isère in France).

Culm Valley Light Railway

The valley of the River Culm was an attractive, but remote and declining area in the early nineteenth century, containing the villages of Uffculme, Culmstock and Hemyock.

Cybele

Magna Mater's temple stood high on the slope of the Palatine, overlooking the valley of the Circus Maximus and facing the temple of Ceres on the slopes of the Aventine.

Dunton Green

Dunton Green is a small village (forming a northern suburb of Sevenoaks) and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, lying in the valley of the River Darent, three miles north of Sevenoaks.

Elk Grove, California

The Valley Miwok spoke Plains Miwok, a language of the Miwokan branch of the Utian family of languages.

Emin Valley

Lake Alakol and Lake Sasykkol, situated in the western (Kazakhstan) part of the valley, are the homes of the rare Dalmatian pelican and Relict Gull.

Environmental issues in Brazil

The city of Cubatão, designated by the Brazilian government as an industrial zone due in part to its proximity to the Port of Santos, became known as the “Valley of Death” and “the most polluted place on Earth”.

Fairfield horseshoe

Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.

Fljótsdalshreppur

The village of Fljótsdalshreppur is located close to the glacier of Vatnajökull and to the lake of Lagarfljót, near the valley of Fljótsdalur.

Gotthard railway

What was originally considered the main line continues down the valley of the Ticino, crossing the Italian border and continuing to meet the Italian railway system at Pino on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore.

Hochvogel

Hinterhornbach is the valley settlement on the southern side (in the Tyrol, Austria).

Houghton, Hampshire

Some of the remains of the deer park's boundary embankments (or pale) can still be seen near Black Lake Farm as you cross the valley on foot on the Clarendon Way.

Howell Mountains

Although rhyolitic rocks generally weather to soils that are considered to be nutrient poor, the Howell Mountain American Viticultural Area and other wine appellation districts located on the west slope claim that grape vines planted in these soils are stressed and as a consequence produce wine grapes that are superior in quality for wine making when compared to grapes grown on unstressed vines planted in the richer loams of the valley floor.

Into the Valley

Local legend still persists that the valley mentioned is a reference to the village of High Valleyfield, known locally as "the Valley", a village with a reputation for "mini warfare" between its own residents and those of nearby towns and villages (namely Torryburn, Rosyth, Oakley and Inverkeithing), near Skids' home town of Dunfermline.

Kölnbrein Dam

The water collected above in the Reisseck mountains runs downhill towards the valley of the Möll River.

Lavanttal

Well-known artistic personalities like Christine Lavant, Switbert Lobisser and Gerhart Ellert have done much to promote the culture of the valley.

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Based on sketches made during a visit in 1863, Bierstadt paints the valley from a vantage point just above the Merced River, looking due west with the prospect framed by El Capitan on the right, and Sentinel Rock on the left; the spire of Middle Cathedral Rock is visible in the distance.

Malesco

Malesco is the most populous comune in Val Vigezzo and has a station on the Domodossola–Locarno railway which runs along the valley.

Mist in the Valley

Mist in the Valley is a 1923 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster and James Carew.

Mocheni Valley

Some of the municipalities in the valley are Fierozzo, Frassilongo, Palù del Fersina (in which the majority of people declared themselves members of the Mòcheno linguistic group) and Sant'Orsola Terme.

Mynydd Meio

Its eastern slopes drop away to Cwm yr Aber between Caerphilly and Abertridwr and its western slopes to the valley of the Taf.

Nicola River

The area upstream from Merritt is known as the Upper Nicola, and is home to the famous Douglas Lake Ranch as well as the people of the valley's namesake, Nicola, an important historic chief in early 19th Century British Columbia.

Outer Silver Pit

There is an older theory that the Outer Silver Pit was part of the valley of the great ice-age river Urstrom, during some of the Ice Ages when the Scandinavian ice did not meet the British ice, leaving the North Sea bed with open drainage northwards.

Radovna Valley

It is connected by a road via the Kosmač Pass to the north with nearby Mojstrana and a road leads down the valley towards Bled.

Rainer Stadelmann

He has participated in numerous excavations at Elephantine, Thebes and Dahshur, the latter of which he explored and wrote about the Bent Pyramid and the valley temple of King Sneferu.

Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation

Between July, 1856, when Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Thomas J. Henley, requested official designation of the valley as Nome Cult farm, and the granting of his request in 1858, Round Valley slowly filled with farms and ranches despite its reservation status.

Runfire Cappadocia Ultramarathon

Following the Valley of Pigeons (Güvercinlik Vadisi), Ortahisar, Acıgöl, Damsa Dam, Analipsis Monastery (Yüksekli Kilise), Güzelyurt, Avanos, Ihlara Valley, Mount Hasan and around Lake Tuz before crossing through Çavuşin and the Ürgüp and Göreme valleys, the marathon ends in Üçhisar, where it started.

Shipton-under-Wychwood

Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the Oxfordshire Way footpath, which can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington, or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury.

Signal de Botrange

The average and extreme temperatures are usually lower than at any other place in Belgium: the minimum temperature recorded (-25.6 °C) does not, however, exceed the absolute record (-30.1 °C ), observed in the valley of the Lomme, at Rochefort during a temperature inversion phenomenon.

Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs

The site covers a gorge in the valley of Sleightholme Beck between the hamlet of Sleightholme and the confluence with the River Greta, some 3 km upriver from the village of Bowes.

Sulphur Springs Valley

The southern portion of the valley drains into Mexico through Douglas, ArizonaAgua Prieta, Sonora, and into the Yaqui River.

Toluca Valley

There was some repression of rebellions under later emperor Ahuitzotl but there was no major military activity in the valley again until the Spanish conquest .

Tyalgum, New South Wales

Another major natural feature is the valley environment around the village created by the Border Ranges and Mount Warning.

Underskiddaw

The parish lies immediately to the north of the town of Keswick, and includes the southern and eastern flanks of Skiddaw as well as part of the valley of the rivers Greta and Derwent, and a small part of Bassenthwaite Lake.

Untergruppenbach

Untergruppenbach's name roughly means "below the 'Groppe' (a sort of small fish) stream", referring to a small stream that cuts across the valley in which Untergruppenbach and Obergruppenbach are located.

Val Taleggio

The valley’s river is the Enna which over the course of the centuries has gouged out a spectacular 3 km gorge between San Giovanni Bianco and Taleggio known as the Orrido della Val Taleggio (pictured, right).

Valleyspeak

The term "Valley Girl" and the Valley manner of speech was given a wider circulation with the release of a hit 1982 single by Frank Zappa entitled "Valley Girl", on which Moon Unit Zappa, Frank's then fourteen-year-old daughter, delivered a monologue in "Valley speak" behind the music.

Vartry Reservoir

Between 1862 and 1868 the lower reservoir was formed by constructing an earthen dam across the valley of the River Vartry after a Dublin Water Works Committee was established to develop a new water supply to Dublin and suburbs.

Vipava Valley

Historically, the upper eastern part of the valley, including the town of Vipava and half of the town of Ajdovščina, used to belong to the Duchy of Carniola (specifically, to Inner Carniola), while the lower western part was incorporated in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca and thus to the Austrian Littoral.

Wairau Valley

Wairau Valley is the valley of the Wairau River in Marlborough, New Zealand and also the name of the main settlement in the upper valley.

West Eifel

In the southern parts - in the valley of the Prüm and its tributaries - there is greater settlement and a degree of non-local traffic on the South Eifel Holiday Route (Ferienstraße Südeifel) and the Eifel-Ardennes Green Road (Grüne Straße Eifel-Ardennen).

Yalu River

During the war the valley surrounding the western end of the river also became the focal point of a series of dogfights for air superiority over North Korea, earning the nickname "MiG Alley" in reference to the MiG-15 fighters flown by the combined North Korean, Chinese and Soviet forces.

Zach Mills

In 2007 he appeared in the Hallmark movie The Valley of Light, and that year would also mark his leading role in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which he acted alongside Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.