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Game Farm Marsh Wildlife Management Area is a 429-acre (174 ha) Wildlife Management Area in New Kent County, Virginia. It consists entirely of wetland habitat on the northern shore of Chickahominy Lake and can only be accessed by boat.
This map of the Falkland Islands incorporates several elements of map layout: a title, a scale bar, a legend, and an inset map. This is a compromise between the fluid and compartmentalized approaches to layout order, with the non-map elements sitting "on top" of the main map. Here, the top-heavy main map is balanced by the non-map elements below.
The nucleus of the estate was a farm of 100 acres (0.40 km 2), called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e., muddy) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease (1811) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel. [4] Scott renamed it "Abbotsford" after a neighbouring ford used by the monks of Melrose Abbey. [5]
Smailholm Tower, showing the barmkin wall in the foreground. Smailholm Tower was originally built in the 15th century or early 16th century by the Pringle family. [3] This family, originally Hoppringle, who were followers of the Earl of Douglas, held the lands of Smailholm from the early 15th century, and managed part of Ettrick Forest for their feudal superior.
James Ballantyne (15 January 1772 – 26 January 1833) was a Scottish solicitor, editor and publisher who worked for his friend Sir Walter Scott.His brother John Ballantyne (1774–1821) was also with the publishing firm, which is noted for the publication of the Novelist's Library (1820), and many works edited or written by Scott.
Crowdstar's popular zoo game, Zoo Paradise, is holding on strong at over 4.6 million players in the last 30 days. While they don't release things with the rapid speed that Happy Aquarium does, the ...
In 1888 races at Kelso under Jockey Club rules ceased. [2]: 141–142 A paddock stand was erected in 1912. [2]: 132 On 5 April 1913 suffragettes attempted to set fire to the stand but no damage resulted. [6] Among those arrested in connection with the incident were Edith Hudson, Arabella Scott and Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson. [7]
The 44-hectare (109-acre) farm was gifted in 1992 to the National Trust for Scotland by Mrs. Margaret Reid who had run the farm for many years with her late husband James, the last of ten generations of Reids. The Reids, as Lairds of Kittochside, farmed the property over a period of 400 years from 1567 to 1992.