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8 unusual facts about Woodlands


Catherine Fillol

Catherine Fillol (or Filliol) (c. 1507 - c.1535) was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fillol (1453 - 9 July 1527), of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset, and of Fillol's Hall, Essex.

Charing Cross, Glasgow

Formerly the gateway from the shopping area of Sauchiehall Street to the more prosperous Woodlands area, its architectural qualities were largely razed by the building of the motorway.

Kelvinbridge

Kelvinbridge is also used to refer to the area in the neighbourhood of the bridge, encompassing parts of the districts of Woodside, Woodlands, Kelvinside and Hillhead.

Pieter Swanepoel

He played for Woodlands C.C. in League cricket, opening the bowling in the Priestley Cup final against Pudsey Congs C.C. in 2005.

Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet

His marriage to a member of a great English family — Mary, daughter of Henry Seymour of Woodlands in Dorset — took place in London in 1716, and the romantic story of a courtship interrupted by the purloining of their letters has been preserved by tradition.

The Stand Comedy Club

The Edinburgh venue was established in 1995, in a small bar basement in the city’s Old Town, and the Glasgow venue was opened in 2000 located in the basement of an old secondary school in Woodlands in the West End of the city.

Woodlands, New Zealand

On 7 June 1875, the next section beyond Woodlands was opened to Mataura via Edendale.

Woodlands, South Yorkshire

It was designed and built in the early 20th century by the architect Percy Bond Houfton as tied cottages for the miners of the neighbouring Brodsworth Colliery.


Acacia leiocalyx

Acacia leiocalyx (Black Wattle, Early Flowering Black Wattle, Lamb's Tail Wattle, Curracabah) grows in Queensland, Australia and as far south as Sydney in N.S.W. It is widespread and common in eucalypt woodlands, especially on well-drained, shallow soils.

Adwick le Street

Within the area of the former urban district lies the model village of Woodlands, built for Brodsworth Colliery.

Banksia spinulosa var. collina

It is usually an understory shrub in open forests and woodlands of Eucalyptus.

Banksia spinulosa var. spinulosa

It is typically an understory shrub in open forests and woodlands of Eucalyptus.

Bardney Limewoods

The Bardney Limewoods National Nature Reserve is a collection of small woodlands near Bardney in Lincolnshire.

Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve

The lowveld woodlands harbour purple-crested lourie, emerald cuckoo, red-backed mannikin, golden-tailed woodpecker, gorgeous bushshrike, white-faced owl and a number of raptors like white-backed vulture, gymnogene, black-chested snake eagle, Wahlberg's eagle and long-crested Eagle.

Brachystegia glaucescens

The name is for instance found in a paper concerning the degradation of woodlands by elephant predation and fire in the northern part of the Gonarezhou National Park in SE Zimbabwe.

Carex inops

It can be a dominant species in Rocky Mountain meadows, woodlands in Nebraska, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, and the plains of Saskatchewan.

Ceiba chodatii

The dry chaco where this tree is found has dense spiny woodlands consisting of low trees and an understorey of Aspidosperma, Astronium, Schinopsis, Ceiba, and Bulnesia.

Clydach Gorge

Subsequently considerable parts of the gorge have also been protected for their wildlife and habitats including the Cwm Clydach SSSI, Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve, the Cwm Clydach Woodlands SAC and the Usk Bat Sites SAC which also extends across much of the neighbouring Mynydd Llangatwg.

Coccinia intermedia

Based on the current collections, Coccinia intermedia is likely to occur in the Dahomey Gap region and the Isoberlinia woodlands of West Africa.

Doriemus

Doriemus is now at Living Legends, the International Home of Rest for Champion Horses in Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale, Victoria.

Erik Reece

It includes the work of modern American poets (among them, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Charles Wright) plus that of four classical Chinese poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the United States.

Eriostemon

Eriostemon australasius occurs between Fraser Island and Nowra, and is a shrub of heathlands and low open woodlands.

Fields of Omagh

Fields Of Omagh retired after his second Cox Plate win, and now resides at Living Legends, the International Home of Rest for Champion Horses located in Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale, Victoria, Australia.

Greenstone Ridge Trail

Hikers often look out for signs of the island's megafauna, moose and wolves; although scarce and shy, these animals live all about the scrubby woodlands that adjoin the trail.

H. petiolaris

Hydrangea petiolaris, a species native to the woodlands of Japan, Korea and Sakhalin in easternmost Siberia

Hill Country State Natural Area

The majority of the preserve is covered by Texas Live Oak (Quercus fusiformis) and Ashe Juniper (Juniperus ashei)...commonly called "cedar"... woodlands, Live Oak savannah, Texas Red Oak (Quercus buckleyi) woodlands, and open grasslands composed primarily of Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula and Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium).

Innova

Innova Junior College, a government co-educational 'A'-level preparatory junior college located in Woodlands, Singapore

James Hunter Blair

Having acquired a knowledge of land management while working on one of the Buccleuch estates, he settled permanently at Blairquhan and began a long program of restoration and improvement to the castle and other buildings, and of the estate’s woodlands and grounds.

Jasminum multipartitum

Starry Wild Jasmine is naturally found in the woodlands of the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal, as well as inland as far as Johannesburg.

Live at The Woodlands

Live at The Woodlands is the first live album from Crystal Lewis was released on June 15, 1999.

Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Where Galahs readily occupy cleared and part-cleared land, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo requires extensive woodlands, particularly favouring Callitris, Allocasuarina and Eucalyptus.

Malpas, Newport

The roads in Woodlands are named after World War II generals, e.g. Allenbrooke Avenue, Horrocks Close, Montgomery Road, Robertson Way, Wavell Drive, etc.

Meyer's Parrot

Seeds of the various leguminous trees of the African woodlands are especially favoured, providing their staple food in some areas.

P. esculenta

Psoralea esculenta, an herbaceous perennial plant species native to prairies and dry woodlands of central North America

Potter Hanworth Wood

The wood supports a breeding bird community characteristic of ancient woodlands, including Woodcock, and it also contains a small heronry.

Selkirk—Interlake

In addition to Selkirk, the riding includes the communities of St. Andrews, St. Clements, Rockwood, Woodlands, Brokenhead, Stonewall and the R.M. of Bifrost

Shefford Woodlands

Shefford Woodlands developed where the road linking Hungerford and Wantage (later a turnpike, now the A338) crossed the Roman road of Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester.

Sorbus latifolia

Since it is very fertile and grows true from seed, it has occasionally been able to naturalise in woodlands beyond its origins in the protected Fontainebleau woods, as at Abney Park Cemetery (an early Victorian garden cemetery in Stoke Newington, London).

Stylidium multiscapum

Its typical habitat has been reported as damp sandy soils near creeks or swamps in Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands.

Stylidium semipartitum

Its typical habitat has been reported as either damp sandy soils in eucalypt woodlands, near creeks in the company of Melaleuca species or on sandstone plateaux with Triodia species.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

The Woodlands High School

The Woodlands High School Band was honored by the John Philip Sousa Foundation with the Sudler Flag of Honor in 2003 to recognize its high standards of excellence in its concert activities over several years.

Verticordia insignis

It is found along the Darling Scarp, Northam, and is well distributed in the woodlands and heath surrounding Perth.

White-footed rabbit-rat

The white-footed rabbit-rat (Conilurus albipes) is an extinct species of rodent, which was originally found in woodlands from Adelaide to Sydney, but became restricted to south-eastern Australia.

Wolf: The Journey Home

Marta continues running in the direction she believes will lead back to Pleasant Valley, swimming across Middle Fork River, crossing the nearby highway and railroad tracks, and running through various woodlands in between.

Wolfe's Pond Park

The northern, inland half consists mostly of ponds and woodlands, and the northeastern corner hugs Tottenville High School.

Woodlands Park

Nestled in the Waitakere Ranges, Woodlands Park lies in a valley, bush clad hills separating it from Titirangi (to the north east), Parau and Huia (to the south east) and Laingholm (to the south).

Yellow plum

Ximenia americana, a small sprawling tree of woodlands native to Australia and Asia whose fruits are sometimes called yellow plums


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