Definition & Meaning | English word JACKFIELD
JACKFIELD
Definitions of JACKFIELD
- An array of jacks mounted on a panel, typically in a recording or broadcasting studio, used to route signals to or from multiple devices.
- A village in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6802)
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using JACKFIELD in a Sentence
- It is divided into three parish wards: Coalport & Jackfield (2 councillors), Ironbridge Gorge (3 councillors) and Lightmoor (3 councillors).
- The manufacture of encaustic clay tiles may be seen today at the Jackfield Tile Museum, one of the Ironbridge Gorge museums.
- The Gorge includes a number of settlements important to industrial history and with heritage assets, including Ironbridge, Coalport and Jackfield along the River Severn, and also Coalbrookdale and Broseley.
- In later life Caddick ran a folk club in his home village of Jackfield and, as well as his solo career, was a member of three groups: local band the Jackfield Riverbillies, ceilidh band All Blacked Up and as part of the Anne Lennox Martin Band.
- The first railway in Shropshire and second in Great Britain was built here – by 1605, the lord of the manor of Broseley, James Clifford, had constructed a wooden railway (usually termed a wagonway) from his coal mines to the river at Jackfield.
- Designed by Charles Lynam (1829–1921), an architect from Leek, Staffordshire who specialized in industrial buildings and also worked on Croxden Abbey, Craven Dunnill's Jackfield Works was constructed in the Gothic Revival style with a characteristic 'long and thin' plan, enabling raw clay to enter at one end, and finished products to emerge at the other.
- 23 October – The River Severn ferry at The Tuckies, Jackfield, Shropshire capsizes and 28 workers from Coalport China Works are drowned.
- Preens Eddy is a settlement on the south bank of the River Severn between the Woodbridge Inn, next to Coalport Bridge, and the settlement of The Tuckies on the eastern edge of Jackfield where the Memorial Footbridge crosses the Severn.
- Maw and Company of Jackfield, the Nuway Mat Company of Coalport, Shropshire, and the Arenig Granite Company at Bala.
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