MARCH 10TH, 2010
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Nursing Homes near Oxford
Oxfordshire
Approximate Population: 143,016
Oxford as an ancient university city is both timeless and modern, its ‘dreaming spires’ and tranquil college quadrangles coexisting with lively arts venues, bustling shops and fashionable restaurants.
You may already be familiar with some of the famous features that make a visit to Oxford unique. The sheer beauty of the city’s colleges and riverside setting; national and international treasures, displayed in a “family” of museums whose scope and scholarship is second to none; literary links and stunning film and TV locations; idyllic days on the river; shops with real character or music and drama ranging from candlelit evensong in college chapels to Shakespeare in the park.
These and other popular ingredients blend with Oxford’s lively mix of restaurants, pubs and theatres give this historic city its alluring vibrant and cosmopolitan buzz.
Well known as it is, Oxford never fails to impress even its most regular visitors with something different, or something new. In amongst the treasures and attractions that are renowned as the oldest, finest or even the only one of their kind, there are always more secrets to discover and more stories to be told.
Nursing Homes near Oxford Oxfordshire
MARCH 10TH, 2010
By ADMINISTRATOR
Tyne and Wear
Approximate Population: 177,739
Sunderland is a city on the north east coast of England in the conurbation area known as Tyne & Wear. The name is reputed to have originated from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning ‘to part’ probably from the valley carved by the river Wear which runs through the middle of the city.
Three settlements originated on the site of the modern city. Monkwearmouth in the north was settled in 674AD when Benedict Biscop was granted land by King Ecgfrith of Northumbria to build St.Peters’ monastery, the first stone building in Northumbria, where the venerable Bede once studied. Bishopswearmouth in the south was founded when Athelstan the Glorious in 930AD gave land to the Bishop of Durham. To the east, at the mouth of the river, lay a small fishing village called Sunderland, which was granted a charter in 1179 by the then Bishop of Durham, Hugh Pudsey. Growing as a port trading coal, by the 14th century ships were being built and salt was being made from which a coal-mining community began to grow.
Sunderland found itself in competition with its’ neighbouring Newcastle which had been given coal-trading rights by Charles I. Resentment grew so when the Civil War began, Sunderland sided with the Parliamentarians, who blockaded the Tyne, crippling Royalist Newcastle’s coal trade which in turn allowed the Sunderland trade to flourish and by the 19th century, the port had grown to absorb the other settlements. Sunderland was the first British town struck with the Indian Cholera epidemic.
Tyne and Wear
