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Ye Olde Murenger House is a 19th-century pub with a mock Tudor front on High Street, Newport, Wales. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It replaced a 17th-century pub, the Fleur de Lys, on the same site. It is named after the medieval job of a murenger, a person who collected tolls for the repair of the town walls, and is Grade II listed due to its historic interest ...
Location of Cocke County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cocke County, Tennessee.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States.
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The corn market was re-purposed as a cinema from 1913: branded as "The Picture House", it operated until 1962. [13] [14] After the area became an urban district in 1894, [15] Newport Urban District Council used the building for official business, [16] but that use ceased when the council moved to council offices at Chetwynd End in the 1960s. [17]
Initially, the new campus housed the Newport Business School and design, film and media elements of the Newport School of Art, Media and Design. On the west side of Allt-yr-yn heights is a Local Nature Reserve containing ancient woodland, meadows and five ponds. Between 1934 and the mid-1960s this was home to open-air swimming baths. [4]
"Ye olde" is a pseudo-Early Modern English phrase originally used to suggest a connection between a place or business and Merry England (or the medieval period). The term dates to 1896 or earlier; [ 1 ] it continues to be used today, albeit now more frequently in an ironically anachronistic and kitsch fashion.
The Great Indian Warpath passed through what is now Newport en route to the ancient Cherokee hunting grounds of northeastern Tennessee. [13] The Warpath crossed the Pigeon River at a point approximately 0.2 miles (0.3 km) east of the McSween Memorial Bridge (US-321), in an area where the river is normally low enough to walk across. [14]