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  • Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tramway

    The Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tramway was a narrow gauge street tramway between the London and North Western Railway's (LNWR) Wolverton railway works and Wolverton railway station and Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire, two miles to the east, an…

  • Wolverhampton Casuals F.C.

    Wolverhampton Casuals F.C. are a football club based in Wolverhampton, England. They were established in 1899. They have played in the West Midlands (Regional) League since 1982, and in the 1989–90 season they reached the First Round of the FA Vase.…

  • Witton Castle

    Witton Castle is a much-altered 15th-century castle, which is the centrepiece of a holiday and caravan country park at Witton le Wear, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham.

  • Witney and District Museum

    The Witney and District Museum is in the town of Witney, Oxfordshire, England. The museum opened in 1996. It is situated in the centre of Witney, towards the north end of the High Street. It has a spacious ground floor gallery, which houses a long-t…

  • Wisewood

    Wisewood is a suburb of the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England and situated 4.5 km north-west of the city centre. It is a residential suburb consisting almost exclusively of council housing, some of which has been bought by tenants under …

  • Winspit

    Winspit is an old quarry on the cliffs near Worth Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England that is no longer in use.

  • River Bourne, Addlestone

    There are two rivers named Bourne in Surrey which join together at St George's College (Woburn Park) near the Thames. This article refers to the southern branch which runs generally north-eastward and its tributaries.

  • Winchester Cathedral Priory

    Winchester Cathedral Priory was a cathedral monastery attached to Winchester Cathedral, providing the clergy for the church. Cenwealh son of Cynegils is credited with constructing the Old Minster of Winchester in the 640s, and a new bishopric was cr…

  • Winchelsea railway station

    Winchelsea railway station is about 0.62 miles (1 km) from Winchelsea and is actually in the neighbouring parish of Udimore. It is on the Marshlink Line 9.3 miles (15 km) north east of Hastings, and train services are provided by Southern. The stati…

  • Wimborne railway station

    Wimborne was a railway station in Wimborne Minster in the county of Dorset in England. Open from 1 June 1847 to 2 May 1977, it was sited just north of the River Stour in what is still Station Road.

  • Wilpshire

    Wilpshire is a village and civil parish in the county of Lancashire, England. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Blackburn, and forms part of the town's urban area, although it is in the Ribble Valley local government district. In the 2001 United Kin…

  • Willington Quay

    Willington Quay is an area in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear in northern England. It is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, facing Jarrow, and between Wallsend and North Shields. It is served by the Howdon Metro station in …

  • William Girling Reservoir

    The William Girling Reservoir is located in the London Borough of Enfield and is part of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain that supplies London with drinking water. It is named after William Girling OBE, a chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board (MWB)…

  • William Bridges Adams

    William Bridges Adams (1797 – 23 July 1872) was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams Axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and t…

  • Willesden Traction Maintenance Depot

    Willesden TMD is a railway locomotive Traction Maintenance Depot situated in Willesden, north London. The depot is visible from the West Coast Main Line, to the south-east of Willesden Junction, on the way into London's Euston Station.

  • Willersey

    Willersey is a village in Gloucestershire, England, situated close to the boundary with Worcestershire and southwest of Evesham. Although in the County of Gloucestershire it has a Worcestershire postcode (WR12). It is an old village with much charac…

  • Wildernesse School

    The Wildernesse School in Sevenoaks, Kent, England was an 11 to 19 single sex High School for boys. It had Specialist School status for Mathematics and Computing.

  • Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich

    The Widows' Almshouses, also known as the Wilbraham or Wilbraham's Almshouses and as the Widows' Hospital, are former almshouses for six widows in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. They are located at numbers 26–30 on the north side of Welsh Row, on the …

  • Wickham Market Hoard

    The Wickham Market Hoard is a hoard of 840 Iron Age gold staters found in a field at Dallinghoo near Wickham Market, Suffolk, England in March 2008 by car mechanic, Michael Dark using a metal detector. After excavation of the site, a total of 825 co…

  • Whitwell, Hertfordshire

    Whitwell is a village in the parish of St Paul's Walden about six miles south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. Situated on a tableland, a spur of the Chilterns, Whitwell is about 400 feet above sea level.

  • Whittlewood Forest

    Whittlewood Forest is a former medieval hunting forest in the south of the county of Northamptonshire in England. There are tracts of ancient woodland within the forest, and old ditch boundaries can be found at the edges of several of the individual…