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Map showing the Police areas of the United Kingdom in 2011. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170% Geographic limits: West: 11.0W; East: 2.2E; North: 61.0N; South: 49.0N; Date: 12 October 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData Boundary-Line: All data; Author: Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data ...
Studley itself is mentioned in 1175 and 1196, and it was closely associated with Stanley Abbey, half a mile to the north-west in Bremhill parish, until its dissolution in 1540. [1] The area was anciently part of Chippenham royal forest. The Wiltshire Victoria County History traces the ownership of Studley manor from the 13th century. It was ...
Studley is a large village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. Situated on the western edge of Warwickshire near the border with Worcestershire , it is 3.5 miles (6 km) southeast of Redditch and 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Stratford-upon-Avon .
Studley Royal Park is an estate in North Yorkshire, England. The site has an area of 800 acres (323 ha) [2] and includes an 18th-century landscaped garden; the ruins of Fountains Abbey; Fountains Hall, a Jacobean mansion; and the Victorian St Mary's church, designed by William Burges. Studley Royal House, around which the park and gardens were ...
Horton-cum-Studley has a public house, formerly known as the Kings Arms, now trading as The Otmoor Lodge Hotel Bar Restaurant. It also has a village hall, the Millennium Hall. [7] There is a Studley Women's Institute [8] and a Horton-cum-Studley Tennis Club. [9] There are regular village events held in the Millennium Hall. [10]
Prior to the 1830s, policing in Wiltshire was the responsibility of petty and parish constables, who were supervised by magistrates.This was largely ineffective as they were unpaid and untrained, and so independent and forces made up of private citizens such as the Devizes Prosecution Society emerged, [6] and these did not immediately disappear when professional police forces came into being.
On 1 April 1965, the former Cambridgeshire Constabulary amalgamated with Cambridge City Police (called Cambridge Borough Police until 1951), Isle of Ely Constabulary, Huntingdonshire Constabulary, and the Peterborough Combined Police (created in 1947 from a merger of the Liberty of Peterborough Constabulary and the Peterborough City Police) to form the Mid-Anglia Constabulary, with the same ...
The County Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 93) (also known as the Rural Police Act or the Rural Constabularies Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the Police Acts 1839 to 1893. [2] The Act enabled Justices of the Peace in England and Wales to establish police forces in their