{"id":1049,"date":"2018-07-10T21:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workingwithgold.org.uk\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2018-10-15T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:28:21","slug":"what-is-the-kyrangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/what-is-the-kyrangle\/","title":{"rendered":"What on earth is the Kyrangle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2496.6951585573797!2d-3.4769689844389715!3d50.714367476194276!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x486da3e08e3bf25f%3A0x885b424391caa0b!2sThe+Kyrangle!5e1!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1531246822379\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for asking! When I named the &#8220;Star Spangled Kyrangle&#8221;, I thought it was common knowledge, as it is marked on Google Maps. But it managed to bemuse some local residents who hadn\u2019t heard the name before.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the area of green next to Clyst Heath School, west of the railway line. In times past, the area used to be a quarry and source of red sand.&nbsp;I wonder whether &#8216;Kyrangle&#8217; is a corruption of &#8216;quarry&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what the area looks like on the old OS map from 1873-88 compared with today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.nls.uk\/geo\/explore\/side-by-side\/#zoom=17&amp;lat=50.7154&amp;lon=-3.4745&amp;layers=178&amp;right=osm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1041 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyrangle-quarry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyrangle-quarry.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyrangle-quarry-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyrangle-quarry-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyrangle-quarry-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Thank you for asking! When I named the &#8220;Star Spangled Kyrangle&#8221;, I thought it was common knowledge, as it is marked on Google Maps. But it managed to bemuse some local residents who hadn\u2019t heard the name before. It&#8217;s the area of green next to Clyst Heath School, west of the railway line. In &#8230; <a title=\"What on earth is the Kyrangle?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/what-is-the-kyrangle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What on earth is the Kyrangle?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghastly-geographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}