Southey ward is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northern part of the city. It covers an area of 4.6 square kilometres and includes the districts of New Parson Cross, Fox Hill, Southey, Wadsley Bridge and part of Old Parson Cross. The population of this ward in 2001 was 20,000 people in 8,600 households. In the 2004 local elections Leigh Michael Bramall, Anthony Damms, and Gillian Furniss—all Labour Party candidates—were returned as councilors for the ward. Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in the north of England. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
Grid reference: SK345915 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK345915_region:GB_scale:25000)Southey is a former village, now a district and housing estate in the northern part of Sheffield. This article is about the map grid references in the UK. For the Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... A housing estate is a medium-to-low density residential area, usually part of a suburb of a town or city in a developed country. ...
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Grid reference: SK333921 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK333921_region:GB_scale:25000) This article is about the map grid references in the UK. For the Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Wadsley Bridge
Grid reference: SK332913 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK332913_region:GB_scale:25000) Wadsley bridge is a former hamlet, now a district of Sheffield. It lies to the west of Southey around what used to be a ford across the River Don. This article is about the map grid references in the UK. For the Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement. ... A ford is a section of water (most commonly a section of a river) that is sufficiently shallow as to be traversable by wading. ... There are at several rivers named Don: Don River, Russia Don River, Toronto River Don, England River Don, Aberdeenshire This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Southey's uncle, the Rev. Herbert Hill, chaplain of the British factory at Lisbon, who had paid for his education at Westminster, determined to send him to Oxford with a view to his taking holy orders, but the news of his escapade at Westminster had preceded him, and he was refused at Christ Church.
Southey's eldest son, Herbert, died in 1816, and a favourite daughter in 1826; Sara Coleridge married in 1829; in 1834 his eldest daughter, Edith, also married; and in the same year Mrs Southey, whose health had long given cause for anxiety, became insane.
Southey, quite early in life, resolved to write a series of epics on the chief religions of the world; it is not surprising that the too ambitious poet failed.
Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate.
He was born in Bristol to Thomas Southey and Margaret Hill and educated at Westminster School (from which he was expelled for writing a magazine article condemning flogging) and Balliol College, Oxford (of his time at Oxford Southey was later to say "All I learnt was a little swimming...
Southey's wife, Edith, was the sister of Coleridge's wife.
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