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  • Halifax Minster

    Halifax Minster in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, is dedicated to St John the Baptist; three West Yorkshire minsters are at Dewsbury (1993), Halifax (2009) and Leeds (2012).

  • Haig Avenue

    Haig Avenue, known as Merseyrail Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Blowick, Southport, Lancashire, England, that holds 6,008 spectators, with 1,660 seated and 4,440 standing. Since being opened in 1905 it has been t…

  • Gurnos

    Gurnos is a community of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales, United Kingdom. It consists principally of the Gurnos Estate, a large housing estate established by Merthyr Tydfil Council in the early 1950s and expanded over many years. Many of the …

  • Gulliver's Land

    Gulliver's Land is a children's theme park in Milton Keynes, England. It opened in 1999 and is the third park to be opened by Gulliver's. (The other two parks are Gulliver's World and Gulliver's Kingdom). The park is relatively small and is centred …

  • Grovelands Park

    Grovelands Park is a public park in Southgate and Winchmore Hill, London, that originated as a private estate. It is designated as Grade II* Listed, and is included in English Heritage's "at risk" register.

  • Groombridge

    Groombridge is a village of about 1,600 people. It straddles the border between Kent and East Sussex, in England. The nearest large town is Tunbridge Wells, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) away by road.

  • Grimspound

    Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of a set of 24 hut circles surrounded by a low stone wall.

  • Greyfriars, London

    In London, the Greyfriars was a Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London by Newgate in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles. It was the second Franciscan religious house to be founded in…

  • Greenland Dock

    Greenland Dock is the oldest of London's riverside wet docks, located in Rotherhithe in the area of the city now known as Docklands. It used to be part of the Surrey Commercial Docks, most of which have by now been filled in. Greenland Dock is now u…

  • Greenfield Reservoir

    Greenfield Reservoir is a reservoir in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, in the English Peak District. Lying within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, above the village of Green…

  • Grantham Canal

    The Grantham Canal is a canal that runs for 33 miles (53 km) from Grantham, falling through 18 locks to West Bridgford where it joins the River Trent. It was built primarily to allow for the transportation of coal to Grantham.

  • Grafham Water

    Grafham Water (TL 150 680) is a reservoir with a circumference of about 10 miles (16 km). It is located between the villages of Grafham and Perry in the English county of Cambridgeshire (Huntingdonshire District).

  • Gower College Swansea

    Gower College Swansea is the name of the further education college in Swansea, Wales, which was formed on 20 August 2010 from the merger of Gorseinon College and Swansea College Mark Jones, previously Principal of Bridgend College, became Principal …

  • Goodwick

    Goodwick (English /ˈɡʊdɨk/; Welsh: Wdig) is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, immediately west of its twin town of Fishguard. The coasts of Wales were subjected to Norse raids during the Viking Era and, in the latter 10th century, N…

  • Glover's Island

    Originally called Petersham Ait, Glover's Island is situated in Horse Reach on the River Thames, between Richmond Lock and Teddington Lock in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England.

  • Glen Cinema disaster

    The Glen Cinema disaster was caused by a smoking film canister in a cinema in Paisley, Scotland on 31 December 1929. The resulting panic and crush killed 69 children and injured 40; the final death toll was 71. It is considered one of Scotland's wor…

  • Glasney College

    Glasney College (Cornish: Kolji Glasneth) was founded in 1265 at Penryn, Cornwall, England, by Bishop Bronescombe and was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious in…

  • George and Vulture

    The George and Vulture is a pub in London that was built in 1748. There has been an inn on the site, which is off Lombard Street in the historic City of London district, since 1268. It was said to be a meeting place of the notorious Hell-Fire Club a…

  • Geography of the North Sea

    The geography of the North Sea studies coastal and submarine features as well as the people who live on its coasts. It is bounded by the east coasts of England and Scotland to the west and the northern and central European mainland to the east and s…

  • G Force (roller coaster)

    G Force is a roller coaster at Drayton Manor Theme Park, Tamworth, England. It is the only X-Car coaster in the UK and was opened by the band G4 in 2005. The ride is also the third X-Car coaster to be built in the world, the first being the prototyp…

  • Frant

    Frant is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located on the Kentish border, about three miles (5 km) south of Tunbridge Wells. The settlements of Bells Yew Green and Eridge are both located within the pa…

  • Foulis Castle

    Foulis Castle is situated five miles south-west of Alness in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. It is a white washed mansion that incorporates an old tower house with gun loops.