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  • White Barrow

    White Barrow is a large Neolithic long barrow situated on a chalk ridge on Salisbury Plain just outside of the village of Tilshead in Wiltshire. It is a scheduled monument, and is owned by the National Trust.

  • Whitchurch, Devon

    Whitchurch is a village and civil parish just to the south-east of the town of Tavistock, Devon, England. It lies in the West Devon local authority area, and within Tavistock Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes.

  • Whitchurch United F.C.

    Whitchurch United F.C. is an English football club based in Whitchurch, Hampshire. The club has senior teams in the Premier Division of the Wessex League and the Under 21 Divivion of the Aldershot District Sunday League and play at Longmeadow.

  • Whitchurch & Tongwynlais

    Whitchurch & Tongwynlais (Welsh: Yr Eglwys Newydd a Thongwynlais) is an electoral ward of Cardiff, Wales. It covers some or all of the following areas: Coryton, Tongwynlais and Whitchurch in the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff North. It is bou…

  • Whitbourne, Herefordshire

    Whitbourne (Anglo-Saxon for "white stream") is a village in Eastern Herefordshire, England on the banks of the River Teme and close to the A44. It is close to Bringsty Common on one side and the border of Worcestershire on the other. Around 400 peop…

  • Whetstone railway station

    Whetstone was a station on the Great Central Railway (GCR), the last main line to be constructed from the north of England to London, which opened in 1899 to serve the Leicestershire village of Whetstone.

  • Wherrytown

    Wherrytown is a small settlement in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Situated on the east side of the Laregan River, between Newlyn and Penzance, and formerly in the civil parish of Madron, it was incorporated into the Borough of Penzance in …

  • Wheatley's Ait

    Wheatley's Ait or Wheatley Eyot is an ait (island) in the River Thames of approximately 8 hectares (20 acres) on the reach above Sunbury Lock, close to the northern side and in the post town Sunbury-on-Thames however in the Borough of Elmbridge in S…

  • Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1,2 & 3 Colliery

    Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1, 2 and 3 colliery (part of Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Company Ltd, the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Company was formed in 1873 when it purchased the New Willey Colliery, which had been sunk in 1871) was a coal mine that wa…

  • Wharfedale Rural District

    Wharfedale was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It comprised the northern side of lower Wharfedale, the lower Washburn Valley and several parishes between Leeds and the River Wharfe.

  • Whale Chine

    Whale Chine is a geological feature near Chale on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight, England (the Back of the Wight). One of a number of such chines on the island created by stream erosion of soft Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks, it is a narro…

  • Weymouth Pier

    Weymouth Pier is a peninsula between Weymouth Harbour and Weymouth Beach, in Dorset, England. It was intended to extend Weymouth's esplanade, and consists of a theatre, Weymouth Pavilion; pleasure pier; car parking and a cross-channel ferry terminal.

  • Wettenhall

    Wettenhall is a village (at SJ624614) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3½ miles to the south west of Winsford and 6 miles to the north west of Crewe. The pari…

  • Westwood Manor

    Westwood Manor is a 15th-century manor house with 16th-century additions and 17th-century plaster-work situated near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. It is the former home of Edgar Lister, a diplomat at the Ottoman court in the early years of t…

  • Westward, Cumbria

    Westward is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Cumbria. It had a population of 814 at the 2001 census. Westward is located on the south side of the Wiza Beck. It is 3.3 miles (5.3km) to the south of the town of Wigton. Admini…

  • Westside, Birmingham

    The Westside is a new name for an area of the city centre of Birmingham, England, which includes many new and planned buildings such as The Cube, Library of Birmingham, the V Building and Regal Tower.

  • Westquarter

    Westquarter is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Polmont and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south-east of the town of Falkirk.

  • Weston-super-Mare Lifeboat Station

    Weston-super-Mare Lifeboat Station is a lifeboat station at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. Split between two sites on Birnbeck Pier and at Knightstone Harbour, it is operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

  • Westhoughton High School

    Westhoughton High School is a community, comprehensive for boys and girls aged 11–16 with 1000 pupils on roll. It is located in the small town of Westhoughton just off Bolton Road, to the west of Bolton, Greater Manchester.

  • Westhill Academy

    Westhill Academy is an Aberdeenshire Council secondary school in Westhill, near Aberdeen, Scotland, serving the Westhill, Elrick and Skene areas of Aberdeenshire as well as some students from Kingswells. School transport, before and after school, is…

  • Western Baths

    The Western Baths Club is a Victorian era private swimming and leisure club founded in 1876. The club remains at its original site at 12 Cranworth Street, Hillhead, Glasgow. The 19th-century baths are protected as a category A listed building.

  • Westende Junior School

    Westende Junior School is a co-educational junior school in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, established in 1974. The school caters for children from the ages of seven to eleven, and there are 229 children on roll (2008/9). The school is near the town…

  • Westbury, Shropshire

    Westbury is a village and parish in Shropshire, England. It lies 8 miles west of the town of Shrewsbury, very close to the Wales-England border. It is located at 135m altitude. It had a population of 1,352 according to the 2011 census. In 2005, West…

  • West Wemyss

    West Wemyss ( listen ) is a village lying on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. According to the 2007 population estimate, the village has a population of 237. The village was granted burgh of barony status in 1511, bearing th…

  • West Webburn River

    The West Webburn is a stream on Dartmoor in Devon in south-west England. It rises on the eastern side of the moors flowing off the east side of Hameldown ridge. Its source is extremely close to Grimspound Bronze Age settlement and it was probably th…

  • West Waterloo Dock

    West Waterloo Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the northern dock system in Vauxhall and connected to Princes Half Tide Dock to the south.