Heysham
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 2 ′ N , 2 ° 55 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SD415615 | ||
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| Residents | 17,016 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | MORECAMBE | ||
| ZIP code section | LA3 | ||
| prefix | 01523 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Shire county | Lancashire | ||
| District | Lancaster | ||
| British Parliament | Morecambe and Lunesdale | ||
Heysham [ 'hiːʃəm ] is a seaside town near Lancaster in Lancashire in northern England . The place is on Morecambe Bay and belongs to the City of Lancaster .
Heysham is divided into the following three administrative districts: Heysham Central (with 4478 inhabitants), Heysham North (with 5274 inhabitants) and Heysham South (with 7264 inhabitants) (as of 2011). The place Heysham itself has about 6500 inhabitants.
history
Settlement in the Neolithic is evidenced by artifacts such as stone axes and stone hammers that are kept in the Museum of Lancaster. From the findings it is concluded that in Heysham Barrow were, the lost area is regionally The Barrows ( "The Barrow") known. There is Lancashire's only cliff coast with forest, grassland, sandy beaches and deep tidal pools in a confined space.
Tombs carved into the rock in the ruins of St. Patrick's Chapel near St. Peter's Church date back to the 11th century . According to legend, Saint Patrick founded a chapel there, but it was actually only built 300 years after his death.
On the grounds of St. Peter's Church there are remains from the times of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings , including a hogback stone. Heysham is also one of the few sites in the British Isles where a pre-Roman labyrinth has been preserved.
Infrastructure and economy
Heysham has a ferry terminal, opened in 1904, with connections to the Isle of Man , Ireland and the natural gas production facilities in the Eastern Irish Sea and Morecambe Bay .
Heysham Port is the terminus of the Leeds – Morecambe railway line , but is currently (2015) only served by one pair of trains to and from Leeds every day, which connects to the ferry to Douglas on the Isle of Man .
Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 nuclear power stations are located directly on the coast . There is also a transformer station in Heysham , through which the two offshore wind farms Ormonde and Barrow as well as the first expansion phase of the Walney wind farm feed their electricity into the public grid.
Heysham one ending oil - pipeline from Stanlow and a natural gas pipeline from the gas field of Morecambe in the Irish Sea.
Culture
The painter JMW Turner painted pictures of Heysham in 1790.
In 2005 and 2007 Heysham won the Britain in Bloom Prize, awarded annually by the Royal Horticultural Society , for small towns in gold.
gallery
Heysham around 1900
11th century tombs on Morecambe Bay
Old Hall Hotel
Heysham, harbor
Heysham 1 (left) and Heysham 2 nuclear power plants
Web links
- Visit Lancashire: Visit Lancashire: Heysham ( English ) Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- Image of the Hogback from 1912
Individual evidence
- ^ UK Census Data. Heysham Central . Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ UK Census Data. Heysham North . Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ UK Census Data. Heysham South . Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ George Nash: The Heysham labyrinth, Morecambe Bay, northern England . In: Rock Art Research . 25, No. 2, 2008.
- ↑ The Labyrinth . rockartuk.wordpress.com. Accessed December 31, 2014.