28-516: Westwood may refer to: Companies and brands [ edit ] Westwood, Baillie , 19th-century engineering and shipbuilding company, London Westwood One (1976–2011) , a former American radio network based in New York City Westwood One , an American radio and media broadcasting company Westwood Studios , an American video game developer, defunct since 2003 Westwood,
56-478: A Grade II* listed building . Further work was undertaken in the 1920s under the guidance of Sir Ninian Comper . The church stands high above the main village, and allegedly owes this separation to the Black Death in the fourteenth century (see above). The lychgate is dedicated to the memory of Robert Brooke-Popham . The old rectory is now known as Little Court. Bagborough House was built in 1739 by
84-764: A brand of American manufacturer Ariens Educational institutions [ edit ] Westwood High School (disambiguation) , several schools United States [ edit ] Westwood College , American for-profit college Westwood Regional School District , Bergen County, New Jersey Canada [ edit ] Westwood Elementary School (Prince George) , British Columbia Westwood Elementary School (Coquitlam) , British Columbia Westwood Secondary School (now Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School ), Mississauga, Ontario Other [ edit ] Westwood International School , Gaborone, Botswana Westwood Secondary School , Singapore People [ edit ] Westwood (surname) Baron Westwood ,
112-764: A district of Oldham Westwood, Kent Westwood Cross shopping centre Westwood House , country house near Droitwich, Worcestershire Westwood, Somerset , village in West Bagborough parish Westwood, Southfleet , Kent Westwood, Wiltshire High Westwood , County Durham Low Westwood , County Durham Westwood Heath , Coventry, West Midlands Westwood (Campus) , University of Warwick Westwoodside , North Lincolnshire Stretton Westwood and Bourton Westwood , Shropshire Scotland [ edit ] Westwood, East Kilbride , South Lanarkshire United States [ edit ] Westwood (Uniontown, Alabama) , an 1836 historic district on
140-659: A great ship and is a major attraction for tourists and history lovers. The company was wound up in 1893 and in 1895 Baillie was declared bankrupt. Joseph Westwood continued in business at Napier Yard as Joseph Westwood and Co. There is a large monument to him in Tower Hamlets Cemetery. The Railway footbridge at Wymondham, Norfolk was also built by the company. London Yard was subsequently taken over by Yarrows . 51°29′41″N 0°00′25″W / 51.49468°N 0.00687°W / 51.49468; -0.00687 Westwood, Somerset West Bagborough
168-614: A modification of TCP Westood Westwood , a novel by Stella Gibbons See also [ edit ] West Wood (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Westwood . 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=Westwood&oldid=1255512328 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
196-663: A neighborhood Westwood Hills, Kansas Westwood Lakes, Florida , a census-designated place Westwood Park, San Francisco , a neighborhood Westwoods Trails , a hiking trail system in Connecticut Transportation [ edit ] Westwood station (LIRR) , in Malverne, New York Westwood station (NJ Transit) , in Westwood, New Jersey Westwood Boulevard , Los Angeles, California Westwood/Rancho Park station Westwood/UCLA station ,
224-406: A neighborhood Westwood, Cambria County, Pennsylvania , a census-designated place Westwood, Chester County, Pennsylvania , a census-designated place Westwood (Pittsburgh) , Pennsylvania, a neighborhood West Wood, Utah , a census-designated place Westwood, Bainbridge Island, Washington Westwood, Seattle Westwood (subdivision), Houston Westwood Highlands, San Francisco ,
252-613: A race track in Coquitlam, British Columbia Westwood, St. James-Assiniboia, Winnipeg , Manitoba Port Moody-Westwood , a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam , a federal electoral district in British Columbia England [ edit ] Westwood, Peterborough , Cambridgeshire Westwood, Greater Manchester ,
280-548: A result of a fall in demand due to the financial crisis of 1866, a period of financial stress and reorganisation resulted in Westwood and Baillie acting as managers for the London Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Company Ltd, until they regained control in 1872. For much of its life the company produced iron and steel work for bridges. In 1887 the company made the girders for the Lansdowne Bridge over
308-589: A subway station under construction Other uses [ edit ] Westwood (computer virus) , a minor variant of the Jerusalem virus Westwood Cross , shopping centre in Kent, England Westwood rim , a type of bicycle wheel rim " Sons of Westwood ", fight song of the University of California, Los Angeles TCP Westwood , a congestion avoidance mechanism in data transmission TCP Westwood plus ,
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#1732765953572336-721: A title in the British peerage Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Westwood, Queensland , a town in the Rockhampton Region Westwood, Tasmania Westwood, Western Australia , a locality of the Shire of Woodanilling Canada [ edit ] Westwood, Asphodel-Norwood , Ontario Westwood, Edmonton , a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta Westwood Plateau , an area of Coquitlam, British Columbia Westwood Motorsport Park ,
364-498: A wide range of building techniques and ages. Due to its availability, local red sandstone features heavily in buildings, both ancient and modern. The village has a 16th-century inn (the Rising Sun ), a village hall, and a number of establishments offering accommodation. The origin of the village name is open to some debate and is thought to either come from the name "Begas Barrow" (meaning badger's hill) or from an amalgamation of
392-581: Is a village and civil parish in Somerset , England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Taunton . In 2011, the village had a population of 358. The parish of West Bagborough lies on the south-west slopes of the Quantock Hills within the Quantock Hills A.O.N.B and encompasses the neighbouring hamlets of Shopnoller and Seven Ash . The village has a wide variety of properties, with
420-533: Is certainly of considerable antiquity – a map of 1609 has the legend ‘the way to triscombe stone’ (SRO 1609) – and is very likely to be of prehistoric origin. This is reinforced by its location on the western scarp of the hills, close to the Great Hill and Wills Neck barrow. The parish of West Bagborough was part of the Taunton Deane Hundred . A colourful and often repeated tale relates to
448-458: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Westwood, Baillie Westwood, Baillie and Co was a Victorian engineering and shipbuilding company based at London Yard in Cubitt Town , London . The company was set up in 1856 by Robert Baillie and Joseph Westwood, previously managers of Ditchburn and Mares shipyard. Partly as
476-462: Is one of the few remaining expanses of open moorland in southern Britain. Its archaeological importance lies in the existence of a landscape displaying examples of well-preserved monuments tracing human exploitation of the hills from the Bronze Age onwards, giving insights into changes in the pattern of land use on the hills through time. Wills Neck , a high, broad plateau in the southern region of
504-603: The Indus River , then the longest rigid girder bridge in the world. Work on a more modest scale included a railway footbridge that can still be seen at Romford railway station , and the 1879 swing bridges over the Royal Albert Dock . The company also contributed towards the Attock Khurd Bridge, built in 1880, between what's now called Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province and Pakistani Punjab. It's still in
532-549: The National Register of Historic Places Westwood, California Westwood, Los Angeles , a neighborhood Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Westwood, Indiana Westwood, Iowa Westwood, Kansas Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky Westwood, Jefferson County, Kentucky Westwood, Massachusetts Westwood, Memphis, Tennessee , a neighborhood Westwood, Michigan Westwood, Missouri Westwood, New Jersey Westwood, Cincinnati ,
560-545: The Quantock Hills, between Middle Hill and Bagborough Hill, is the site of several bowl barrows and cairns dating from the Bronze Age . These earthworks are one of the key features of the Quantocks' broader landscape character. Round barrows, locally known as cairns, and constructed as earthen or rubble mounds, are prehistoric funerary monuments dating from the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC) . Triscombe Stone lies on
588-471: The boundary between the parishes of West Bagborough and Over Stowey and the old parish of Crowcombe. The stone also lies at the junction of two important routes across the hills, where the east west road from Triscombe to Cockercombe crosses the north-south track along the western ridge, and commands views west to the Brendon Hills and Exmoor. The stone is not impressive, standing only 0.75m high, but it
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#1732765953572616-411: The church, visible in aerial photographs, in the parklands of Bagborough House may lend credence to this claim. Enclosure of lands within the parish was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1806. In October 2001 a hoard of 4th-century Roman silver was discovered in the village. The 681 coins included two denarii from the early 2nd century and eight miliarense and 671 siliqua all dating from
644-634: The family name "Baga" and the Old English word for hill, "beorg". In either case, by 1086, when the Domesday Book was compiled, the name had become Bageberge. The Domesday book records that Ralph Paynel and a Breton knight, William of Mohun, held the land directly from the crown having replaced Merleswein and Leofric who had held it prior to the conquest. Each man's holdings were valued at 2 pounds and 10 shillings (£2/10/-) and 5 pounds (£5/-) annually. The Quantock Hills, although small in extent,
672-493: The local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also
700-717: The period AD 337 – 367. The majority were struck in the reigns of emperors Constantius II and Julian and derive from a range of mints including Arles and Lyons in France , Trier in Germany and Rome . It became known as the West Bagborough Hoard . The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with
728-399: The relative isolation of village church. This is allegedly due to the Black Death , which having struck the village during the fourteenth century, reduced the population to below one hundred. In an attempt to rid themselves of this plague the villagers, so the story goes, abandoned the original settlement and re-built it further to the east, away from the church. Earthworks to the south-west of
756-515: The responsibility of the council. For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council . Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton (formed on 1 April 2019) and, before this, the district of Taunton Deane (established under the Local Government Act 1972 ). From 1894-1974, for local government purposes, West Bagborough
784-702: Was part of Taunton Rural District . It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The village church of St Pancras , dates from the 15th century, with the north aisle being added in 1839, and further restoration in 1872. It has been designated by English Heritage as
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