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WALLASEY , an See also:urban See also:district in the Wirral See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cheshire, See also:England, 2 m. N.W. of See also:Birkenhead, of which it forms a suburb. Pop. (too') 53,579. The former marshy See also:estuary called Wallasey See also:Pool is occupied by the See also:Great See also:- FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect
Float, forming an immense See also:dock (see BIRKENAEAD). The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Hilary, to which is assigned a See also:foundation in the loth See also:century, was rebuilt in the 18th century, with the exception of the See also:tower bearing the date 1536. It was gutted by See also:fire in 1857, and the whole was again rebuilt in the See also:Early See also:English See also:style. On the See also:shore of the Irish See also:Sea is Leasowe See also:Castle, once known as See also:Mock-See also:Beggar See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, and supposed to have been erected by the earls of See also:Derby in the reign of See also:Elizabeth, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:witness the See also:horse-races held here. Under Wallasey Pool are remains of a submerged See also:forest, in which various See also:animal skeletons have been found.
At the See also:Conquest Wallasey formed See also:part of the possessions of See also:Robert de Rhuddlan, and on his decease became part of the See also:fee of Halton. In the reign of Elizabeth it had a small See also:port, to which there belonged three barques and fourteen men. In 1668 the See also:manor was possessed by the See also:earl of Derby, but various parts after-wards became alienated. For a considerable See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the horse-races held on what was then a See also:common had considerable reputation, but they were discontinued in 176o. At these races the See also:duke of See also:Monmouth, son of See also:Charles II., once rode his own horse and won the See also:plate.
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