Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Creekmoor is a suburb and electoral ward of Poole in Dorset, England. The ward, which also contains the Waterloo neighbourhood, has a population of 9,470. [ 1 ] Bordered by the Upton Heath Nature Reserve and Upton Country Park, the area is mainly populated by families.
2007 Poole Borough Council election: Creekmoor (3 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Leslie Burden: 1,649 Conservative: John Rampton: 1,503 Conservative: Judy Butt: 1,475 Liberal Democrats: Rory Mackay 788 Liberal Democrats: Keith Bates 757 Liberal Democrats: Andrew May 753 UKIP: John Butler 364 Turnout: 2,556 35.18 Conservative ...
The Creekmoor Light Railway was a small, privately run, 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway. [1] It was situated off Creekmoor Lane, to the north of Poole , [ 2 ] between Broadstone and Fleetsbridge , Dorset , and was operated by a group of local enthusiasts from October 1968, to April 1973.
Poole Quay is a visitor attraction to the south of the town centre lined with a mixture of traditional pubs and listed buildings alongside new bars, redeveloped warehouses and apartment blocks. Once the busy centre of Poole's maritime industry , all port activities moved to Hamworthy in the 1970s as the Quay became increasingly popular with ...
Creekmoor was a halt on the former Southampton and Dorchester Railway opened by the Southern Railway for workers at the adjacent "Oerlikon" munitions factory, later run by Plesseys, now owned by Siemens. The halt was situated ¾ mile south of Broadstone, 1½ miles from Poole town centre and 116 miles 79 chains from London Waterloo.
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital at 79-26 Winchester Boulevard in Queens Village, Queens, New York, United States. It provides inpatient, outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients. The hospital occupies more than 300 acres (121 ha) and includes more than 50 buildings. [1]
As of the census [3] of 2000, there were 211 people, 82 households, and 52 families residing in the city. The population density was 100.8 inhabitants per square mile (38.9/km 2).
Tobacco was extremely important in the early history of the town. Four tobacco warehouses were built in the town in the early 1900s. Tobacco was a cash crop in Creedmoor, and was shipped by railroad to nearby Oxford's Tobacco Research Facility and Durham's thriving smoking tobacco industry, with firms including W. T. Blackwell and Company, American Tobacco Company, and Liggett & Myers.