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San Juan electric tram in Miramar on the Carretera Central, today Ponce de León Avenue. The neighborhood is under the legal jurisdiction of Santurce in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [4] It first appears in the 16th century as a spring that fed water to the Spanish outpost of Old San Juan. During the Battle of San Juan (17 April ...
Steephill is a hamlet near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, previously the location of a Victorian country estate with a castle-style mansion, Steephill Castle, which was demolished to build bungalows in the 1960s. Steephill itself now forms part of the suburban development westward from Ventnor.
While Bonchurch and St Lawrence both have churches dating back to the Norman era, the area in-between that became Ventnor was unremarkable until the 19th century.In Anglo-Saxon times it was known as Holeweia, which by the 12th century had become Holeweye, or hollow way [2] (although possibly the name derived from the Holy Well spring on the downs). [3]
The municipality of San Juan is divided into 18 barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, [ 1 ] and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce).
Ventnor is a small town on Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia. It is the location of the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. It was named after the town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Quite a number of the roads in Ventnor, Phillip Island are named after other towns and villages on the Isle of Wight.
Ventnor City is a city situated on the Jersey Shore on Absecon Island, within Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, on the Atlantic Ocean.As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 9,210, [11] [12] a decrease of 1,440 (−13.5%) from the 2010 census count of 10,650, [21] [22] which in turn reflected a decrease of 2,260 (−17.5%) from the 12,910 counted in the ...
Yarrol Road State School opened on 3 June 1946. In 1948, it became Ventnor State School. It closed in 1960. [5] It was at 1877 Yarrol Road (6] [7] In 1963, local residents made an offer of £150 to purchase the school from the Department of Education and the property was transferred to the Ventnor Progress Association on 15 March 1963.
It opened as Ventnor Town but was renamed in 1923 by the Southern Railway. Built on the former stables of the Steephill Castle estate, the station was inconveniently situated for the town, being some distance west of the town centre and 168 feet above sea level. Consequently, it never lived up to the expectations of the operators and was an ...