Yarm School

Yarm School is a co-educational independent school in the Georgian market town of Yarm, England, on the River Tees. The school educates over 1200 pupils and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

History

The earliest traces of the school can be dated to 1590, with the formation of a Free Grammar School by Thomas Conyers, on the site of Yarm Parish Church, to provide education for the poor boys of the town. In 1799, a legacy of £400, by William Chaloner, Esq. provided for the education of eight free boys, known as Chaloner's Scholars. The school remained on this site for nearly 300 years until 1884, when the trustees purchased three acres of land on the Spital road, and erected the present commodious premises, with master's house adjoining. The buildings are in the Domestic Gothic style, and are replete with all the most modern conveniences for the benefit and comfort of the scholars and boarders. These buildings housed the school until 1977, but now are home to Yarm Preparatory School.

Yarm

Coordinates: 54°30′18″N 1°20′53″W / 54.505°N 1.348°W / 54.505; -1.348

Yarm is a small town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Stockton-on-Tees in North East England. The population of the ward in Stockton Unitary Authority was 9,745 at the 2011 census. It is on the south bank of the River Tees and for ceremonial purposes is in the county of North Yorkshire. The bridge at Yarm marked the furthest reach of tidal flow up the River Tees until the opening, in 1995, of the Tees Barrage, which now regulates river flow above Stockton. As the last bridge on the river before the sea, it was superseded by a new toll bridge opened in Stockton in 1771. The oldest part of the town, around the High Street, is situated in a loop of the river and the newer parts of the town extend to the point where the River Leven meets the River Tees.

History

The name of the town is thought to be derived from the Old Norse word yarum meaning an enclosure to catch fish or from the Old English gearum with the same meaning. Yarm was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was originally a chapelry in the Kirklevington parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire; it later became a parish in its own right.

Armidale Airport

Armidale Airport (IATA: ARM, ICAO: YARM) is an airport serving Armidale, a city in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southwest of the town centre, on the New England Highway. The airport is operated by the Armidale Dumaresq Shire Council.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 3,556 ft (1,084 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,738 m × 30 m (5,702 ft × 98 ft) and 09/27 with a grassed gravel surface measuring 1,116 m × 30 m (3,661 ft × 98 ft).

Airlines and destinations

Previous airlines

East-West Airlines operated from Sydney and Brisbane to Armidale from 1949 until 1988 when the routes were taken over by Eastern Australia Airlines (then a subsidiary of Australian Airlines, now a subsidiary of Qantas).

Hazelton Airlines, an affiliate of Ansett Australia, operated between Sydney and Armidale from 1989 until the company collapsed in 2002.

Impulse Airlines operated services to Sydney and Brisbane from 1994 until it was taken over by Qantas in 2001.