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William Shenstone 18th-century English poet and gardener

William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

The Leasowes

The Leasowes is a 57-hectare estate in Halesowen, historically in the county of Shropshire, England, comprising house and gardens. The parkland is now listed Grade I on English Heritage's Register of Parks and Gardens and the home of the Halesowen Golf Club. The name means "rough pasture land".

Richard Jago

Richard Jago was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire. Although his writing was not highly regarded by contemporaries, some of it was sufficiently novel to have several imitators.

Richard Graves 18th-century English minister, poet, and novelist

Richard Graves was an English cleric, poet, and novelist. He is remembered especially for his picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote (1773).

John Scott of Amwell English Quaker poet and writer

John Scott, known as Scott of Amwell, was an English landscape gardener and writer on social matters. He was also the first notable Quaker poet, although in modern times he is remembered for only one anti-militarist poem.

Stonnall Human settlement in England

Stonnall is a large village in Staffordshire, England, close to Shenstone, Brownhills, Walsall Wood and Aldridge. It is divided into Upper Stonnall, Stonnall and Lower Stonnall — Upper Stonnall partly lies in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall; the remainder of the village is in the district of Lichfield.

Shenstone, Staffordshire Human settlement in England

Shenstone is a large village and civil parish in Lichfield, England, located between Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield. The parish also contains the village of Stonnall.

Shenstone railway station

Shenstone railway station is a railway station on Station Road, in the village of Shenstone, in Staffordshire, England. It is situated on the Cross-City Line between Redditch and Lichfield via Birmingham.

Ullenhall Human settlement in England

Ullenhall is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-upon-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, situated about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Henley in Arden and 11.2 miles (18.0 km) west of the county town of Warwick. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 717.

Shenstone Lodge School is a residential special school for children with behaviour or emotional difficulties, in Shenstone, Staffordshire, England, between Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield. It caters for children aged 6-13. It also has a second site in Tipton which caters for children 11-16. It offers day placements and also, where appropriate, home tuition.

Shenstone, Worcestershire Human settlement in England

Shenstone is a village in Worcestershire, England, located near Kidderminster.

PIK-5

The PIK-5 was a training glider produced in Finland in the 1940s, and 1950s, equipping the country's gliding clubs with an aircraft greater in performance than primary gliders but less than competition sailplanes. The aircraft had a pod-and-boom configuration, with a high, strut-braced monoplane wing and a cruciform tail carried at the end of a tailboom that extended from a position high on the aft end of the pod.

Schleicher Ka-4 Rhönlerche II

The Schleicher Ka-4 Rhönlerche II, sometimes called the KA-4 or even K 4, is a West German high-wing, strut-braced, two-seat glider that was designed by Rudolf Kaiser and produced by Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co.

Allen Goodrich Shenstone, was a Canadian physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge. After a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto, he returned to Princeton, where he was a professor in the Department of Physics 1925–62. He chaired the department 1949–60. He worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy. He was awarded the Military Cross for his service in the Royal Engineers in World War I and made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his work as a scientific officer in World War II.

Michael Shenstone

Michael Shenstone was a Canadian diplomat.

The UTG-1 Loudon was an intermediate glider designed and built at the University of Toronto in Canada during the late 1940s.

<i>The Mistress of Shenstone</i> 1921 film by Henry King

The Mistress of Shenstone is a 1921 silent film romance directed by Henry King and starring Pauline Frederick and Roy Stewart based upon the novel by Florence L. Barclay.

Beverley Strahan Shenstone MASc, HonFRAes, FAIAA, AFIAS, FCAISI, HonOSTIV was a Canadian aerodynamicist often credited with developing the aerodynamics of the Supermarine Spitfire elliptical wing. In his later career he established the technical foundation of British commercial airline industry and promoted human powered flight.

Shenstone is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It contains 54 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Shenstone and Stonnall, the area of Little Aston, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include three churches, the isolated tower from a previous church, the rest of which has been demolished, public houses, a bridge, a war memorial, two mileposts, and two pumping stations.

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