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  • Kirkstall Abbey

    Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire.

  • Kirkby Lonsdale

    Kirkby Lonsdale /ˈkɜrbi ˈlɒnzdl/ is a small town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune. Historically in Westmorland, it is situated 13 miles (21 km) south east of Kendal along the A65. The parish ha…

  • KW postcode area

    The KW postcode area or Kirkwall postcode area is a group of postcode districts in the far north-east of Scotland. Though the area includes all of the Orkney Islands and is named after their largest town, the first 14 districts are on the mainland o…

  • Holland Park School

    Holland Park School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in the Holland Park area of the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, England.

  • Henley Business School

    The Henley Business School at the University of Reading is a world-renowned, triple accredited business school. It was formed by merging the previously independent Henley Management College, formerly the Administrative Staff College, with the existi…

  • Borough of Halton

    Halton is a local government district in North West England, with borough status and administered by a unitary authority. It was created in 1974 as a district of Cheshire, and became a unitary authority area on 1 April 1998. It consists of the towns…

  • Grimsthorpe Castle

    Grimsthorpe Castle is a country house in Lincolnshire, England 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of Bourne on the A151. It lies within a 3,000 acre (12 km²) park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland landscaped by Capability Brown. While Grimsthorpe is…

  • Finnieston Crane

    The Finnieston Crane is a disused giant cantilever crane in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is no longer in working order, but is retained as a symbol of the city's engineering heritage.

  • Failsworth

    Failsworth is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is 3.7 miles (6.0 km) east-northeast of Manchester city centre and 2.9 miles (4.7 km) south-southwest of Oldham. Failsworth lies within the orbital M6…

  • Essex Regiment

    The Essex Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army that saw active service from 1881 to 1958, serving in many small conflicts and both the First and Second World Wars. Members of the regiment were recruited from across the county of Ess…

  • Easton Neston

    Easton Neston is a country house near Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, and is part of the Easton Neston parish. It was designed in the Baroque style by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Easton Neston is thought to be the only mansion which was …

  • Duxford Aerodrome

    Duxford Aerodrome (IATA: QFO, ICAO: EGSU) is located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of Cambridge, within the Parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly 1-mile (1.6 km) west of the village.

  • Dalwhinnie distillery

    Dalwhinnie distillery, in the Highland village of Dalwhinnie in Scotland, produces Single malt Scotch whisky classified among the Speyside Single Malts. The distillery was founded with the name of the nearby town Strathspey in the late 1890s. The si…

  • CIS Tower

    The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England. It was completed in 1962 and rises to 387 feet (118 m) in height. The Grade II listed building, which houses the Co-operative Banking Group, is Manchester's second-talles…

  • Chat Moss

    Chat Moss is a large area of peat bog that makes up 30 per cent of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. North of the River Irwell, five miles (8 km) to the west of Manchester, it occupies an area of about 10.6 square miles (27.5 km2)…

  • Broxtowe

    Broxtowe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England, west of the City of Nottingham. It is part of the Greater Nottingham metropolitan area.

  • Boughton House

    Boughton House is a country house about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Kettering off the A43 road near Geddington in Northamptonshire, England, which belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch.

  • Bennachie

    Bennachie (/bɛnəˈx/ ben-ə-KHEE; Scottish Gaelic: Beinn na Cìche) is a range of hills in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has several tops, the highest of which, Oxen Craig, has a height of 528 m (1733 feet).

  • Bealach na Bà

    Bealach na Bà is a historic pass through the mountains of the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands—and the name of a famous twisting, single-track mountain road through the pass and mountains.

  • Battle of the Standard

    The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, in which English forces repelled a Scottish army, took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire. The Scottish forces were led by King David I of …

  • Battle of Sheriffmuir

    The Battle of Sheriffmuir (Scottish Gaelic: 'Blàr Sliabh an t-Siorraim') was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rebellion in England and Scotland.

  • Battle of Deorham

    The Battle of Deorham (or Dyrham) was a decisive military encounter between the West Saxons and the Britons of the West Country in 577. The battle, which was a major victory for the Wessex forces led by Ceawlin and his son, Cuthwine, resulted in the…