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  • Shebbear, Devon

    Shebbear ( pronounced sheb-beer ) is a village and civil parish in the District of Torridge in Devon, England. It was once itself centre of the Shebbear hundred. It has a population of 858. An electoral ward exists titled Shebbear and Langtree.

  • Shaolin Temple UK

    Shaolin Temple UK is a martial arts school and centre for study of Shaolin culture, in particular Gong Fu-Ch'an, Qigong and Ch'an Buddhist Meditation.

  • Shandy Hall

    Shandy Hall was the home of the Rev. Laurence Sterne, who is famous for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England.

  • Shandon, Edinburgh

    Shandon is an area of Edinburgh within North Merchiston approximately three miles west of the centre of Edinburgh. It is bounded by Slateford Road to the north, Harrison Road to the east, the Union Canal to the south and the Glasgow-Edinburgh Shotts…

  • Shamrock Park

    Shamrock Park is a football stadium in Portadown, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Portadown F.C.. Shamrock Park used to be used for stock-car racing, but this has been discontinued in recent years. The stadium is classed as an all-seater …

  • Sewerby Hall

    Sewerby Hall (also known as Sewerby House) is a Grade I listed Georgian country house set in 50 acres (20 ha) of landscaped gardens in the village of Sewerby, 2 miles (3.2 km) from the seaside town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Eng…

  • Settle Hydro

    Settle Hydro is a micro hydroelectric scheme, owned by the community, in Settle, North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Ribble, at Settle Weir near Bridge End Mill. It uses part of the former mill race.

  • Sempringham Priory

    Sempringham Priory was a priory in Lincolnshire, England, located in the medieval hamlet of Sempringham, to the northwest of Pointon. Today, all that remains of the priory is a marking on the ground where the walls stood and a square, which are iden…

  • Semley

    Semley is a village in Sedgehill and Semley civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset.

  • Seer Green rail crash

    The Seer Green rail crash occurred on the morning of 11 December 1981 near Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, England between two four-car Class 115 units, killing one driver and three passengers.

  • SeOne

    SeOne was a nightclub in London, United Kingdom. It claimed to be London's largest licensed nightclub with a capacity of 3,000 people. It was located on Weston Street underneath the London Bridge transit centre. The licensing authority requiried the…

  • Scorton, Lancashire

    Scorton is a small village near the River Wyre, in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. It is located north of Garstang. The name means "farmstead near a ditch or ravine"

  • Scorrier

    Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, England, UK. It is about 2 miles northeast of the centre of Redruth and 3 miles south-east of the coast at Porthtowan, on the A30 road at the junction of the A3047 road that leads west to Camborne and the B3298 roa…

  • Scilly Isles, Surrey

    The Scilly Isles /sɪl.əlz/ is a double roundabout between the English towns of Esher and Kingston upon Thames (which do not adjoin each other) but which lie on the traditional route of the Portsmouth Road.

  • Schuster Laboratory

    The Schuster Laboratory (also known as the Schuster Building) houses the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. It is located on Brunswick Street, Manchester, within the Engineering and Physical Sciences faculty of the Univ…

  • Sawley Abbey

    Sawley Abbey was an abbey of Cistercian monks in the village of Sawley, Lancashire, in England (and historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Created as a daughter-house of Newminster Abbey, it existed from 1147 until its dissolution in 1536, d…

  • Saunderton railway station

    Saunderton railway station is a railway station on the A4010 road between High Wycombe and Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is near the villages of Bledlow Ridge and Bradenham. Confusingly, the station is about 2.5 miles (4 km) so…

  • Sandown Castle, Kent

    Sandown Castle was an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII in Sandown, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the strategically i…

  • Sandgate Castle

    Sandgate Castle is a coastal castle at Sandgate near Folkestone in Kent. It was originally built as an artillery castle in 1539–1540 by Henry VIII of England as part of his chain of coastal defences in response to the threat of invasion. As these fo…

  • Sanday, Inner Hebrides

    Sanday (Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh) is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is a tidal island linked to its larger neighbour, Canna, via sandbanks at low tide, and also connected to the larger island by a bridge.

  • Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw

    Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist (Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae) monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Reformation. Founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St. Jose…

  • Salwick

    Salwick is a village between Kirkham and Preston in Lancashire, England. The village is largely rural and is an extension of the smaller Clifton to the south. It is in the borough of Fylde, and in the Parliamentary Constituency of Fylde, and forms p…

  • Saltfleetby

    Saltfleetby (pronounced "Sollerby" ) is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is on the coast of the North Sea, approximately 7 miles (11 km) east from Louth and 10 miles (16 km) north from Mablethorpe.…

  • Saltdean United F.C.

    Saltdean United F.C. are a football club based in Saltdean, which is a suburb of Brighton & Hove, England. They play in the Sussex County Football League Division Two.

  • Salford City College

    Salford City College is a further education college based in Salford, England. It opened on 1 January 2009, as the result of a merger between Salford College, Eccles College and Pendleton College to form a 'supercollege'. Salford City College contin…