Eggborough

Eggborough est un village du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre. Le village est situé à l'intersection des routes A19 et A645, approximativement à sept miles à l'est de Pontefract et sept miles au sud-ouest de Selby. Il se situe également près de l'autoroute M62. Il y a environ 600 foyers et de nombreuses entreprises. La population comptait 2 440 habitants en 2021. Le village est le site d'implantation d'une centrale électrique fonctionnant au charbon, construite dans les années 1960 et contrôlée par British Energy. Ses 4 turbines peuvent produire un total combiné de 1960 mégawatts.

1. La centrale électrique d'Eggborough

La centrale électrique d'Eggborough est l'une des trois centrales (avec celles de Ferrybridge et de Drax) qui s'étendent en ligne à environ 4 miles les unes des autres au nord de l'autoroute M62. Par beau temps, on peut voir les trois centrales du haut de Stoodley Pike, un mont situé à pas moins de 67 miles d'Eggborough, à Todmorden, dans le Yorkshire de l'Ouest. Il y avait auparavant une quatrième centrale au sud de la M62, à Thorpe Marsh, qui est maintenant fermée.

1. Notes et références

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Eggborough is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding. The village is situated at the junction of the A19 and the A645, approximately 7 miles (11 km) east of Pontefract and 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Selby. It is also close to the M62.

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Whitley Bridge railway station

Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles (32 km) east of Leeds. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 1 April 1848, on their line between Wakefield Kirkgate and Goole via Knottingley.

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Eggborough power station

Eggborough power station was a coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, which was capable of co-firing biomass. It was situated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough. The station had a generating capacity of 1,960 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes, equivalent to the area of Leeds and Sheffield. The station, one of the Hinton Heavies, began generating power in 1967, making use of nearby coal reserves. It was built for, and initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. The station closed in September 2018 and demolition works began in 2020, with the eight cooling towers being the first to come down in 2021. The Bunker Bay was demolished on 6 March 2022, the DA Bay on 1 June 2022 and the chimney and boiler house on 24 July 2022. There are plans to replace it with a 2,500 megawatt gas power plant.

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Kellington

Kellington is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Aire. Situated almost equidistant between the towns of Pontefract and Selby, the village dates back to at least the 11th century when it was listed in the Domesday Book (as Chelinctone). The semi-rural community grew in size with the advent of local mining as housing was built to accommodate the workers of nearby Kellingley Colliery. The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Due to its location at the southernmost tip of North Yorkshire, the village is close to the borders of West, East and South Yorkshire. Its proximity to both the A19 and M62 major roads has resulted in a steady population growth, although to a lesser extent than its neighbour, Eggborough. The low-lying ground that separates the village from the River Aire has given rise to a history of flooding the surrounding farmland, most recently in 2000.

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The Red House, Hensall

The Red House is a historic building in Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The house was built in 1854 by William Butterfield, as part of a group with St Paul's Church, Hensall and Hensall Primary School. It was constructed as the vicarage for the church, but later became a private house. Peter Ferriday sees the house as presaging arts and crafts architecture, saying that it "could easily be mistaken for a house by Philip Webb, and challenges the Red House [in Bexleyheath] as the first example of a conscious Victorian return to an honest unpretentious style of house-building". It is a grade II* listed building. The house is built of pinkish-brown brick with a grey slate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and a single-story rear range. The doorway has a pointed fanlight under a pointed arch. The windows are sashes, some tripartite, those in the ground floor under header arches and pointed relieving arches, and there is a half-hipped roof dormer. Inside, there are numerous original features, including the bookshelves and fireplace in the library; fireplace and panelling in the dining room; and the staircase. There are also many original doors and some window shutters.

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