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High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England. A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [ 1 ]
Leicestershire districts and boroughs This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. There are 233 civil parishes. Population figures are unavailable for some of the smallest parishes. The districts of Leicester and Oadby and Wigston (Oadby and Wigston) are entirely unparished. Coalville, Hinckley, Loughborough, Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray are ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Saratoga counties), as well as Warren, Washington, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, Fulton, Montgomery, southern Herkimer, and extreme southeastern Hamilton counties in New York state. In these fourteen counties, there are over ...
[6] On 23 July 2007, the Leicester Mercury reported that the latest name change had been the result of a year-long dispute [7] with a local coven of witches, who pointed out that "High Cross Quarter" is the name of a high point or major sabbat in the wiccan calendar, and registered five [8] internet domain names relating to the name. Hammerson ...
Leicester City Centre is Leicester's historical commercial, cultural and transport hub and is home to its central business district. Its inner core is roughly delineated by the A594, Leicester's inner ring road, although the various central campuses of the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Leicester College are adjacent to the inner ring road and could be considered to be a ...
The local architect Henry Goddard added new seating and extended the gallery in 1843, and in 1855–56 he restored the roofs. In 1874–76 Joseph Goddard and Alfred Paget undertook a restoration involving the addition of new windows, building a new nave roof, and removing the gallery. The tower was restored by William Basset-Smith in 1894–95. [1]
The Diocese of Brooklyn was erected by Pope Pius IX in 1853 from territory formerly a part of the Archdiocese of New York. [10] All of Long Island would remain part of the new diocese for the next 104 years. The first Catholic parish in Babylon was St. Joseph, erected in 1877. [11] St. John of God Parish was established in Central Islip in 1895 ...
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