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"Eggesford railway station is a rural station in Devon, England, serving Eggesford, the town of Chulmleigh and surrounding villages. Despite its name, the station is in the neighbouring civil parish of Chawleigh. It is a passing place on the single track Tarka Line north west of Exeter on the way to . History The station was opened by the North Devon Railway on 1 August 1854. The North Devon Railway was required to obtain permission from the landowner, the Earl of Portsmouth, whose country seat was situated within an estate near to the site of the station. It is said that the Earl agreed to the railway being built on his land on the understanding that all trains would stop at the station thus affording easy access to Eggesford House for visiting guests. To this day, all trains continue to stop although the Earl's family have long become extinct. This is possibly more as a result of the station being an exchange point for tokens on the Crediton to Eggesford and Eggesford to Barnstaple Token Block sections. In BR steam days the summer Saturday Atlantic Coast Express, the thirteen coach 11.00 Waterloo to Ilfracombe, made its only stop between Exeter and Barnstaple at Eggesford. A signalbox was in existence at Eggesford until 1987, however the line has since been rationalised and the passing loop automated with the use of spring points. Token exchange is now carried out by the driver in an unmanned hut located on each platform. The conductor/guard is also required to activate the controls of the level crossing at the station. Token release and train signalling is carried out by Crediton signalbox. In the late 1960s, the down platform and buildings were washed away by the flooded River Taw, following torrential rain. However, a replacement structure was built. Services A train to Exmouth All trains on the to service stop at Eggesford. Trains connect with main line services at . There is an hourly service each way for most of the day (Mon-Sat), with most north and south-bound trains scheduled to pass each other here. On Sundays, trains run every two hours in each direction and start/finish at . Community railway The railway between Exeter and Barnstaple is designated as a community railway and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The line is promoted under the "Tarka Line" name. The Eggesford Country House Hotel is included in the Tarka Line rail ale trail. References External links *Video footage of Eggesford station Category:Railway stations in Devon Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Category:Former London and South Western Railway stations Category:Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Category:Industrial archaeological sites in Devon "
"Philip Southcote (1698–1758) created an early example of the English landscape garden at Woburn (sometimes Wooburn) Farm, near Addlestone, Surrey. It was the original ferme ornée ("decorative farm"), a term invented by Stephen Switzer in 1741gardenvisi Life Philip Southcote, a young army captain, was the fourth son of Sir Edward Southcote. Southcote had a long affair with the notorious courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips which started in 1727.John Martin, ‘Southcote, Philip (1697/8–1758)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 25 March 2015 Southcote bought the small property called Woburn Farm in 1735. He married the wealthy Duchess of Cleveland. They wanted a country home and Woburn Farm had 150 acres, 35 acres of which Philip used to create a beautiful garden; the rest was used as a farm. The gardens were contained within a weaving ornamental walk, remains of which can be seen between the Philip Southcote school for children with special needs and Gerry Cottle's Circus headquarters.Philip Southcote School about the grounds shared with St George's College Woburn Farm's grotto and architectural garden follies, arches and gateways, some features designed by William Kent, including the existing rusticated entrance that marks the entrance from the public road, soon attracted stylish visitors who made the serpentine circuit of the garden, passing from feature to feature: "all my design at first was to have a garden on the middle high ground and a walk all round my farm, for convenience as well as pleasure" Southcote wrote . A feature of Woburn Farm was a walk planted with broom, roses, lilac, columbine, peonies and sweet william, which wound its way through the fields, for it remained a working farm . Like William Shenstone's Arcadian garden, the Leasowes, Woburn Farm was highly influential in disseminating the landscape garden; it received an extended description in Thomas Whateley's Observations on modern gardening. In a letter in 1751, Horace Walpole wrote rather peevishly of Capability Brown's landscaping at Warwick Castle, "The castle is enchanting; the view pleased me more than I can express, the river Avon tumbles down a cascade at the foot of it. It is well laid out by one Brown who has set up on a few ideas of Kent and Mr. Southcote." Later in life, summing up his thoughts in his Essay On Modern Gardening, Walpole divided types of gardens in the "modern" naturalistic style into three: "into the garden that connects itself with a park, into the ornamented farm, and into the forest or savage garden". To Southcote, Walpole gives the credit for the idealized farm. . Southcote was a friend of leading writers and gardeners of his day, including Pope, Lord Burlington, Lord Petre, and William Kent. His house is now occupied by St. George's College, and some features survive. Subsequent owners Woburn Park owners included: * 1783 Lord Petre * 1816 Vice Admiral Charles Stirling, listed in deeds as Admiral Stirling but Vice-Admiral * 1834 Lord and Lady King, later Lord (Earl of and Countess of) Lovelace * 1862 Lord (2nd Earl of) Kilmorey References *Christopher Hussey, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750. *Mark Laird, 1999. The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds 1720-1800 (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) University of Pennsylvania *Addlestone Town Trail: Photographs of surviving Georgian entrance lodge and gatepiers *"The English Landscape School" *(Horace Walpole), "Horace Walpole's essay On Modern Gardening: The Ha Ha" *GardenVisit: The Serpentine Style Category:1698 births Category:1758 deaths Category:English gardeners Category:English landscape architects Philip "
"In computing, the attribute domain is the set of values allowed in an attribute.. For example: Rooms in hotel (1-300) Age (1-99) Married (yes or no) Nationality (Nepalese, Indian, American, or British) Colors (Red, Yellow, Green) For the relational model it is a requirement that each part of a tuple be atomic.. The consequence is that each value in the tuple must be of some basic type, like a string or an integer. For the elementary type to be atomic it cannot be broken into more pieces. Alas, the domain is an elementary type, and attribute domain the domain a given attribute belongs to an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity. For example in SQL ,one can create their own domain for an attribute with the command CREATE DOMAIN SSN_TYPE AS CHAR(9) ; The above command says : "Create a datatype SSN_TYPE that is of character type with size 9 " References Category:Type theory Category:Database theory "