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Cow Corner

Cow Corner is the north-western end of Worbarrow Bay, a small secluded bay on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset England.

Cove Brook

County Borough of Warley

Warley was a short-lived county borough and civil parish in the geographical county of Worcestershire, England, forming part of the West Midlands conurbation. It was formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with …

Coulby Newham

Coulby Newham is a large housing estate in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, with a resident population of 10,700, measured at 8,967 at the 2011 Census.

Cotton College

Cotton College was a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cotton, near Oakamoor, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It was also known as Saint Wilfrid's College. It closed in 1987 and the site is now derelict.

Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope

The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) was a three-element interferometer for cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB/R) observations at 13 to 17 GHz, based at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. In 1995, it was the first instrument to measur…

Corsewall Lighthouse

Corsewall Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Corsewall Point, Kirkcolm near Stranraer in the region of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. First lit in 1817, it overlooks the North Channel of the Irish Sea.

Corn Exchange, Bedford

Bedford Corn Exchange is located on St Paul's Square in the Castle area of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England.

Cookham Dean

Cookham Dean is a settlement to the west of the village of Cookham in Berkshire, England.

Conwy Valley Railway Museum

The Conwy Valley Railway Museum is located at Betws-y-Coed railway station, Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, on the site of the old railway goods yard.

Conway Park railway station

Conway Park railway station is situated in the town centre of Birkenhead, Wirral, England.

Constitution Street

Constitution Street is a thoroughfare in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. It runs north from the junction of Leith Walk, Great Junction Street and Duke Street to Leith docks.

Conon Bridge railway station

Conon Bridge is a railway station on the Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh Lines, which serves the villages of Conon Bridge and Maryburgh in the Scottish Highlands.

Congleton railway station

Congleton railway station is a mainline station serving the Cheshire town of Congleton.

Colwyn Bay railway station

Colwyn Bay railway station (Welsh: Bae Colwyn) is on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line.

Colwyn

The Borough of Colwyn was one of six districts of the county of Clwyd, north-east Wales, from 1974 to 1996.

Colwich, Staffordshire

Colwich is a civil parish and village in Staffordshire, England. It is situated off the A51 road, about 3 miles (5 km) north west of Rugeley, and 7 miles (11 km) south east of Stafford. It lies principally on the north east bank of the River Trent n…

Collingham, Nottinghamshire

Collingham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England.

College of the Resurrection

The College of the Resurrection, popularly known as Mirfield, is an Anglo-Catholic theological college of the Church of England in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1903, it describes itself as "A Theological College like no other". The …

Coleridge Community College

Coleridge Community College is a secondary academy school with 600 places for children aged 11–16, situated on Radegund Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. The school is now a member of the Parkside Federation along with Parkside Community Col…

Coleg Sir Gâr

Coleg Sir Gâr is a further education college in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with five campuses across the county.

HM Prison Coldingley

HM Prison Coldingley is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Bisley, in Surrey, England.

Coigach

Coigach (Scottish Gaelic: A' Chòigeach) today refers to the peninsula "beyond the big rock" north of Ullapool, in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Until changes in civil registration districts in 1857 the Barony also included Isle…

Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

The Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is a branch of the UK Medical Research Council, based in Cambridge, England. The CBSU is a world-leading centre for cognitive neuroscience, with a mission to improve human health by understanding and enhancing c…

Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

Cockburn Street is a picturesque street in Edinburgh's Old Town, created as a serpentine link from the Royal Mile to Waverley Station in 1856. It is named after the Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure Henry, Lord Cockburn who was influential …

Coatbridge Central railway station

Coatbridge Central railway station is located in the town of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line.

Coalville Town railway station

Coalville Town was a railway station at Coalville in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. It was opened as Long Lane in 1833 and British Railways closed it on 7 September 1964 when passenger services were ended on the line.

Coalisland Canal

Coalisland Canal (sometimes known as The Tyrone Navigation) is a canal in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long. Construction of the canal began in 1733, but progress was slow and it was not officially opened until 178…

Cnoc an Fhreiceadain

Cnoc an Fhreiceadain (Hill of Watching or Watch Hill) is a coastal mountain peak in northern Scotland. It is 307 metres (1,007 ft) high with commanding views along the north coast of Scotland to Orkney in the east to Durness and Arkle in the West.

Cloth Fair

Cloth Fair is a street in the City of London where, in medieval times, merchants gathered to buy and sell material during the Bartholomew Fair. Today, it is a short residential street to the east of Smithfield in the north-western part of the City a…

Clonard Monastery

Clonard Monastery is a Roman Catholic church and monastery, located off the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Clogwyn Du'r Arddu

Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, on the north flank of Snowdon, is considered by many to be one of the best climbing cliffs in Britain. It is north-facing and comparatively remote (700 m or 2,300 ft above sea level). The name is Welsh and probably means "Cliff o…

Cloch

Cloch or Cloch Point (Scottish Gaelic: stone) is a point on the coast of the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

Cleethorpes Pier

Cleethorpes Pier is a pleasure pier in the town of Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. It originally cost £8,000, which was financed by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway).

Claydon railway station

Claydon railway station is a former railway station on the 'Varsity Line' (former Oxford – Cambridge line), that served the village of Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire.

Claremont Landscape Garden

Claremont Landscape Garden, just outside Esher, Surrey, England, is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the English Landscape Garden — still featuring its original 18th century layout.