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The Leys Institute was founded by the will of William Leys following his death in 1899. William wished to found a library and mechanics institute , but his will did not have enough funds for it. His brother Thomson Wilson Leys negotiated a deal with Auckland City Council that he would contribute half the funds and the council the land for the ...
Convertible husbandry, also known as alternate husbandry or up-and-down husbandry, is a method of farming whereby strips of arable farmland were temporarily converted into grass pasture, known as leys. These remained under grass for up to 10 years before being ploughed under again, while some eventually became permanent pasturage. [1]
Newton Leys within Milton Keynes is a brownfield development and within the Buckinghamshire Council area is greenfield. The full district covers some 104 hectares (260 acres) and comprises development land with housing for up to 1650 homes with employment areas, shops, a school, community facilities, new park, hotel, a care home and leisure ...
Fairford Leys is a mixed use development consisting of 1,900 homes, on the western edge of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.It has a village square hosting a number of traditionally-fronted shops, award-winning hair salon, supermarket, three restaurants, a Post Office, a popular, family-run nursery, an ecumenical church and a community centre. [4]
The Leys and St Faith's Foundation share the motto (In fide fiducia) and coat of arms. [5] Until the 1990s, most classrooms were in converted Victorian houses. Since then, the school has built Ashburton, opened in 1999, a large red-brick building.
A blue plaque marking Watkins' home at Hereford, Herefordshire. Archaeologists and physical Geographers, in general, do not accept Watkins' ideas on leys. [6] At first they regarded the ancient Britons as too primitive to have devised such an arrangement [citation needed], but this is no longer the argument used against the existence of leys.
The Kenyan Constituency Development Fund (CDF) was introduced in 2003 during the Kibaki presidency. The fund was designed to support constituency-level, grass-root development projects. [ 3 ] It was aimed to achieve equitable distribution of development resources across regions and to control imbalances in regional development brought about by ...
Loch Hope is a loch in the Durness parish in Sutherland in the Highland Council Area of northern Scotland. It is located on the A838 main road. The settlements of Hope, Lochside, and Muiseal directly on the loch in addition nearby there's Inverhope, Heilam, Moine House, Alltnacaillich, Strathmore, etc..