18-628: Amberley may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Amberley, Queensland , near Ipswich, Australia RAAF Base Amberley , a Royal Australian Air Force military airbase United Kingdom [ edit ] Amberley, Gloucestershire , England Amberley, Herefordshire , England Amberley, West Sussex , England Amberley railway station , in West Sussex, England Elsewhere [ edit ] Amberley, New Zealand , in north Canterbury Amberley, Ohio , US,
36-503: A British publishing house Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Amberley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amberley&oldid=1186326498 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
54-428: A campaign tried to prevent the despoliation of Amberley by the erection of pylons and overhead power cables , looking at the financing of the alternative scheme of laying low tension underground cables. Frank Pepper had regular correspondence with Arthur Rackham who had lived nearby, and John Galsworthy from Bury, West Sussex regarding the campaign to save Bury Coombe. Letters between 1926 and 1959 document claims to
72-606: A population of 619 people. There are no schools in Amberley. The nearest primary schools are Amberley District State School in neighbouring Yamanto to the east, Walloon State School in neighbouring Walloon to the north-west and Leichhardt State School in neighbouring Leichhardt to the north-east. The nearest secondary schools are Bremer State High School in Ipswich to the east and Rosewood State High School in Rosewood to
90-640: A village in the Cincinnati metropolitan area Amberley, Ontario , Canada People [ edit ] Amberley (given name) John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842–1876), British politician and writer Viscount Amberley , a courtesy title attached to that of Earl Russell Other [ edit ] Josiah Amberley, the title character in The Adventure of the Retired Colourman by Arthur Conan Doyle Amberley Publishing ,
108-606: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amberley, Queensland Amberley is a suburb in the City of Ipswich , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , Amberley had a population of 619 people. Australia's biggest air force base , the RAAF Base Amberley is situated here and the Bureau of Meteorology has a weather observation station in Amberley. To
126-532: Is fairly sunny, receiving 110.3 clear days. Amberley, West Sussex Amberley is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex , England. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs , 4 miles (6 km) north of Arundel . Its neighbours are Storrington and West Chiltington . The village is noted for its thatched cottages . A house named "The Thatched House"
144-523: Is known for its wildfowl . Amberley Castle is now a hotel. The castle was a fortified manor house next to which is the Norman St Michael's Church. William Champion Streatfeild , who became Bishop of Lewes was vicar of Amberley with Houghton from 1897 to 1902. His daughter, the children's novelist Noel Streatfeild , spent part of her childhood there. These may have been the happiest years of her childhood. Arnold Bennett 's stay in
162-408: Is noted for his rural scenes, many sketched close to Amberley. His monument has a bust on top carved by the sculptor Francis Derwent Wood . Wood's grave is marked with one of his own works, a pietà bas-relief in bronze. Inside the church is a semi-circular stained-glass window to Stott, designed by Robert Anning Bell . Other windows have inscriptions by Eric Gill and his assistant Joseph Cribb . In
180-542: Is one of the village's few non-thatched houses. One of the attractions is Amberley Working Museum . Amberley has a railway station on the Arun Valley Line , with regular services to Bognor Regis , Portsmouth and London . To the north of the village is the tidal plain of the River Arun , known as Amberley Wild Brooks . The wetland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest which floods in winter and
198-561: The Old Toowoomba Road from Ipswich . In 1861, a school commenced at Willowbank on a sheep and cattle station owned by Darby McGrath. McGrath then asked the Queensland Government to take over and donated land for the construction of a new building, resulting in the opening of Warrill Creek State School opened on 22 May 1862 on what is now the south-western part of the RAAF Base Amberley . On 28 January 1888
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#1732764885048216-551: The Staircase has a character named Amberley. Arthur Rackham is commemorated in a wall plaque in the churchyard. The lettercutting is by John Skelton . Rackham and his artist wife Edyth lived at Houghton House on the other side of the valley throughout the 1920s. In 1932, the film The Man from Toronto starring Jessie Matthews and Ian Hunter was filmed here. There is a memorial in the churchyard to Edward Stott ARA who lived in Amberley from 1889 until he died in 1918. He
234-582: The church, south of the chancel arch are 12th or 13th century wall-paintings, depicting scenes from the Passion Cycle. Amberley Working Museum was used as a set location for the James Bond film A View to a Kill as "Mainstrike Mine". The Pepper Papers (1899–1978) give an insight into Amberley's history as a producer of Lime, with 1904 correspondence between Peppers and companies interested in shipping Amberley chalk to North America. In 1929–35,
252-407: The north-east. Amberley has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) with hot humid summers and cool, crisp winters that have a high diurnal range which provide frost in some mornings. Its lowest temperature of -4.9 degrees Celsius occurred on the 8 August 1995, when southern Queensland suffered a severe cold snap . The previous coldest temperature was -4.3 degrees reached on 29 July 1994. The town
270-424: The school lead to the construction of a new school on Rosewood Road further from the base in the late 1970s. On 1 January 2010, the school was again relocated to Deebing Creek Road, Yamanto and renamed Amberley District State School. In December 1867 a United Methodist Free Church was opened at Three-Mile Creek. In the 2016 census , Amberley had a population of 253 people. In the 2021 census , Amberley had
288-472: The school relocated to a new site at Sandridge but it was flooded in 1893 by Warrill Creek. In 1903, it was renamed Amberley State School. This school is one of the oldest state primary schools in Queensland. The outbreak of World War II escalated activity on the air force base and it was decided to close the school at the end of 1941 and it re-opened at the start of 1947. Concerns about aircraft noise at
306-573: The south of Amberley is the Fassifern Valley . The Jeebropilly coal mine is located just to the west of Amberley. Haigslea–Amberley Road runs through from west to south. The suburb is named after Amberley in the United Kingdom . The name was used by James and Martha Collett for their residence in the 1850s as it was their hometown. Previously the area was known as Three-Mile Creek , referring to it being three miles along on
324-556: The village for eight weeks in 1926 is documented in his journals. During May–June 1926, he wrote the last two thirds of The Vanguard in 44 days, noting I have never worked more easily than in the last six weeks . He also met John Cowper Powys who walked over the Downs from Burpham to visit him. Frank Swinnerton lived in Cranleigh and had links with Bennett, subsequently selecting and editing his journals. Swinnerton's 1914 novel On
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