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  • M180 motorway

    The M180 is a short but major (25 miles (40 km)) motorway in England from junction 5 on the M18 motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster to a point close to Humberside Airport some 5 miles (8 km) from the ports of Immingham and Grimsby and …

  • Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy

    The Lyme Bay kayaking tragedy was the deaths of four teenagers on a sea kayaking accident in the Lyme Bay area which led to legislation to regulate adventure activities centres working with young people in the UK.

  • Lochinvar

    Lochinvar (or Lan Var) is a loch in the civil parish of Dalry in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is located in the Galloway Hills, around 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of St. John's Town of Dalry. The loch formerly had an island on wh…

  • Loch Shiel

    Loch Shiel (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Seile) is a 19.3 (11.9 miles) km2 freshwater loch, 120 m (393ft) deep, situated 20 (12.4 miles) km west of Fort William in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland.

  • Liberty of Norton Folgate

    Norton Folgate was a liberty within the metropolitan area of London, England, located between the Bishopsgate ward of the City of London to the south, the parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch to the north and the parish of Spitalfields to the east.

  • Lee Valley Park

    Lee Valley Regional Park is a 10,000-acre (40 km2) 26 miles (42 km) long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire from the River Thames to Ware, through areas such as Stratford, C…

  • Kingston College (England)

    Kingston College is a College of Further, Higher and Adult Education based in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England. It has three campuses in the town of Kingston. The main campus is the tallest building in the town and is based on Kingston …

  • Kings Place

    Kings Place is a building in London’s Kings Cross area, providing music and visual arts venues combined with seven floors of office space. It has housed the editorial offices of The Guardian newspaper since December 2008 and is the former headquarte…

  • Huish Park

    Huish Park is a football stadium located in Yeovil, Somerset. The stadium has been home to Yeovil Town F.C. since its completion in 1990, following their relocation from Huish.

  • Highpoint I

    Highpoint I was the first of two apartment blocks erected in the 1930s on one of the highest points in London, England at Highgate.

  • High Holborn

    High Holborn (/ˈhbərn/ HOH-bərn) is a street in Holborn, central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard.

  • Hemerdon Mine

    Hemerdon Mine – now officially known as the Drakelands Mine, and alternatively known as the Hemerdon Ball or Hemerdon Bal Mine – is a historic tungsten and tin mine. It is located 11 km (7 miles) NE of Plymouth, near Plympton, in Devon, England. It …

  • Groombridge Place

    Groombridge Place is a moated manor house in the village of Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It has become a tourist attraction, noted for its formal gardens, vineyards and a bird of prey sanctuary,The Raptor Centre.

  • Liverpool City Region

    The Liverpool City Region is an economic and political area of England centred on Liverpool, which also includes the local authorities of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral. Other, wider, definitions of the city region also exist.

  • Carreras Cigarette Factory

    The Carreras Cigarette Factory is a large Art Deco building in Camden, London in the United Kingdom. It is noted as a striking example of early 20th Century Egyptian Revival architecture. The building was erected in 1926-28 by the Carreras Tobacco C…

  • Granny Takes a Trip

    Granny Takes a Trip was a boutique opened in February 1966 at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. The shop, which was acquired by Freddie Hornik in 1969, remained open until the mid-70s an…

  • Gordon Square

    Gordon Square is in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, London, England (postal district WC1) part of the Bedford Estate. It was developed by master builder Thomas Cubitt in the 1820s, as one of a pair with Tavistock Square, which is a bloc…

  • Glasgow Film Theatre

    The Glasgow Film Theatre or GFT is an independent cinema in Rose Street, (off Sauchiehall Street), Glasgow. GFT is a registered charity. It occupies a purpose-built cinema building, first opened in 1939, and now protected as a category B listed buil…

  • Gigg Lane

    Gigg Lane, also known as the JD Stadium for sponsorship purposes is an all-seater football stadium in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It was built for Bury F.C.

  • German University of Technology in Oman

    The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) is a private university in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman and was established in 2007 in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University in Germany, one of the leading universities of technology in Europe.

  • Frederick Hitch

    Frederick Hitch, VC (29 November 1856 – 6 January 1913) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded …

  • Firth of Tay

    The Firth of Tay /ˈt/ (Scottish Gaelic: Linne Tatha) is a firth in Scotland between the council areas of Fife, Perth and Kinross, the City of Dundee and Angus, into which Scotland's largest river in terms of flow, the River Tay empties.

  • Fenland

    Fenland is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in March, and covers the neighbouring market towns of Chatteris, Whittlesey, and Wisbech, often called the "capital of the fens".

  • Empress State Building

    The Empress State Building is a skyscraper on the West Brompton/Earl's Court border in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was built built between 1958 and 1961 on the site of the former Empress Hall and ice rink as a commercial buildin…

  • Edradour distillery

    Edradour distillery (Scottish Gaelic: Eadar Dhà Dhobhar, "between two rivers") is a Highland single malt whisky distillery based in Pitlochry, Perthshire. Its owners claim it to be the smallest distillery in Scotland, but this title now belongs to S…

  • Eday

    Eday is one of the islands of Orkney, which are located to the north of the Scottish mainland. One of the North Isles, Eday is about 24 kilometres (15 mi) from the Orkney Mainland. With an area of 27 square kilometres (10 sq mi), it is the ninth lar…