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Places to see in ( Burnham on Crouch - UK )

Places to see in ( Burnham on Crouch - UK )

Burnham-on-Crouch is a town and civil parish in the Maldon District of Essex in the East of England. It lies on the north bank of the River Crouch. It is one of Britain's leading places for yachting. The civil parish extends 5 miles (8 km) east of the town to the mouth of the River Crouch. It includes the hamlets of Creeksea and Ostend west of the town, Stoneyhills to the north and Dammer Wick, West Wick and East Wick east of the town.

Historically, it has benefited from its location on the coast – first as a ferry port, :119 later as a fishing port known for its oyster beds, and most recently as a centre for yachting. :132 There are many listed buildings in the town, including the Grade II* listed Royal Corinthian Yacht Club designed in 1931 by the modernist architect Joseph Emberton. The Mangapps Railway Museum is located nearby.

There are many pubs in Burnham-on-Crouch featuring (from top to bottom) New Welcome Sailor, Oyster Smack, The Star, The Queen's Head, The Old White Hart Hotel, The Anchor, The Ship, The Victoria Inn. Takeaways are a feature in Burnham-on-Crouch also, including (from top to bottom) Dhanshiri, Oriental House, Pizza Island (Previously Rocket Pizza), Sauda Village, Spice Fusion, The Polash, Burnham Grill, Curry Cottage. Burnham also features a Co-op supermarket, Tesco Express, Petrol Station, Newsagents

In view of the town's comparatively isolated position – 20 miles from Chelmsford (the nearest large town) – Burnham-on-Crouch railway station represents a vital transport link. The station is situated on a single-line branch from Wickford, which escaped closure in the 1960s by Beeching, as it was used to supply the nearby Bradwell nuclear power station. The branch line was electrified in the 1980s, and provides off-peak services to Wickford with direct services to and from London Liverpool Street during rush hour, thus allowing the town's inclusion in the London commuter belt.

Burnham-on-Crouch holds a bi-annual charity fund-raising pub crawl, an event which first took place in June 2007. Typically more than 100 local people walk through the town in themed fancy dress raising money for The Samaritans. There is both a summer and winter edition of the crawl.

The town has two community-based magazines, the larger of the two is The Burnham on Crouch and Dengie Focus which is delivered to every house and business in Burnham and Southminster and can be picked up from collection points throughout Dengie. The other is the Burnham and Dengie Hundred Review, it is smaller in size, A5 and is delivered free across the Dengie.

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burnham is a self-contained village in the western part of the District. Burnham Park Hall, built 25 years ago, form the social centre of the village. Many local societies, ranging from winemakers to keep-fit, meet here. It is also the home of Burnham Parish Council. The village is an ancient hamlet on the Bath Road, which may have been inhabited even before Roman times. Burnham is mentioned in the Domesday Book and in Medieval times had a market and a fair.



In The High Street are numerous 16th and 17th century buildings. A by-road leads to the 13th-century church with its array of brasses and tombs, some of which date from the 16th century. The oldest part of the building is the tower which is believed to date from about 1200. The remains of the 15th-century screen still bear traces of medieval colouring.

Burnham Abbey, founded in 1266 by Richard, Earl of Cornwall (King John's second son) stands south of the main Bath Road and is closer to Dorney Village than to Burnham. After the Dissolution, the abbey fell into ruins but it has been revived and is now the centre of a community known as 'The Sisters of the Precious Blood'. Lancet windows, early doorways and parts of the Chapter House and cloisters serve as reminders of the older foundation. Indeed, more survives of this abbey than of any other monastic institution in Buckinghamshire.

Close to Burnham Abbey is Huntercombe Manor, which is now a centre for the rehabilitation of young people who have had recourse to drugs. Although mostly of the 19th century, this Grade 1 Listed Building does contain a rather splendid 14th century beamed hall.

Adjacent to Burnham, is Hitcham whose small church has work of many styles and ages from the Norman period onwards. The brick tower is Tudor, the chancel arch is Norman and the chancel is of the 14th century. In the chancel windows is 14th-century glass showing the nine Orders of Angels and the four Evangelists. Nearby are the ancient walls and two huge iron gates which once enclosed the mansion where Sir William Clark entertained Elizabeth I the year before she died.

North of Burnham, past the golf course, is Dorneywood, an estate of 215 acres owned by the National Trust. The house (built in 1920 and containing decorations by Rex Whistler) acts as an official residence for a Minister of the Crown currently the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

Adjoining Dorneywood are Burnham Beeches, the habitat of a wide section of wildlife. The Beeches have long been the rendezvous of artists, poets and country-lovers and Thomas Gray was a frequent visitor during his time at Stoke Poges. Burnham Beeches are a relic of the great primeval forest that covered much of Buckinghamshire and they form the finest woodland tract anywhere near London. In 1878, the woods - 375 acres in all - were saved from despoliation when they were purchased by the City of London and in 1921 Lord Burnham gave the 65 acres of Fleet Wood. With adjacent Dorneywood, Dropmore and Cliveden, there is thus an area of well over 1300 acres here that is preserved as a natural open space for all time.

In 1773, Sheridan brought his young bride to live at East Burnham and here too George Grote produced his first volumes of the History of Greece. He built East Burnham Park out of the profits and in this great house he finished his work and was often visited here by his friend Mendelssohn.

The one-time hamlet of Lent Rise lies to the south-west of Burnham proper, on the borders of Burnham and Taplow. The word 'Lent' comes from the Old English word meaning 'shelter'. Lent Rise was one of the many brick-making areas of South Bucks until this century. The Methodist Church in Eastfield Road (built in 1897) occupies the site where a brickworks once stood. Many of the houses in Lent Rise date from Victorian times and from the beginning of this century shops began to appear. Lent Rise is now a busy community.
Best places to check during saturday evenings check the the ye olde swan pub good for live rock bands and the bee in burnham and if you check one of the oldest pub in burnham check the garibaldi pub since 1762

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Poison Pen: Rita Skeeter, her Quick-Quotes Quill & Journalism Ethics in the Wizarding World

Professor Lola Burnham of the Eastern Illinois University Journalism Department presents Poison Pen: Rita Skeeter, her Quick-Quotes Quill & Journalism Ethics in the Wizarding World. This program was part of Twenty Years of Harry Potter: Celebrating a Phenomenon, at Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University.

20th Century Road Schemes in Bristol | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:02 1 Planning and construction
00:02:05 1.1 Inner Circuit Road (A4044)
00:04:43 1.2 Outer Circuit Road (A4320)
00:07:53 1.3 A38 St James Barton to Cheltenham Road
00:09:12 1.4 M32 (The Parkway)
00:10:22 1.5 A420 Old Market Street and Lawrence Hill
00:10:59 1.6 A4 Bath Road and A37 Wells Road
00:12:04 1.7 A38 Redcliff Hill and Bedminster By-Pass
00:13:48 1.8 A370 Coronation Road/Cumberland Road and Cumberland Basin Interchange
00:16:02 1.8.1 Cumberland Basin Interchange
00:17:39 1.9 A4 The Centre to Hotwell Road
00:18:53 1.10 A4018 Park Street to Queens Road
00:19:19 1.11 A4 (Portway)
00:19:49 1.12 Other routes
00:20:24 2 Cancellation, alteration and extension
00:22:04 2.1 College Green
00:22:50 2.2 Queen Square, Redcliffe Way and The Centre
00:24:57 2.3 Bond Street
00:25:23 2.4 St Philips Causeway
00:26:37 3 Future plans
00:26:47 3.1 Callington Road Link
00:27:23 3.2 Western Harbour
00:27:54 4 See also



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Road building was central to planning policy for much of the 20th century in Bristol, England. The planned road network evolved over time but at its core was a network of concentric ring (or circuit) roads and high-capacity radial roads.
The Inner Circuit Road formed a ring around Bristol's central area and was completed in 1970. The Outer Circuit Road was intended to form an outer ring concentric with this, but the only substantial part to be completed was the 1.3km-long Easton Way. The two ring roads were to be complemented by 8 radial roads, some of which would follow new routes while others would be made by widening existing roads.
These schemes had for the most part been abandoned by the early 1990s, and subsequently much of what was built has been decommissioned.