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  • Seaforth House

    Seaforth House was a mansion in Seaforth, Merseyside England built in 1813 for Sir John Gladstone, father of William Ewart Gladstone who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times.

  • Seaford Museum

    The Seaford Museum of Local History was established at its present site in 1979. It contains objects, archives and displays relating to the local history of the Seaford area.

  • Seafield Park

    Seafield Park is a football ground in Grantown-on-Spey, Highland. It is home stadium of Highland Football League side, Strathspey Thistle

  • Seafield Convent Grammar School

    The Seafield Convent of the Sacred Heart of Mary (1908–1976) was a Roman Catholic convent school for girls run by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary founded in Bootle, England, in 1872. The school soon moved to Siefield House in Seaforth, whi…

  • Scraesdon Fort

    Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, Plymouth docks from enemy naval attack.

  • Scout Hall

    Scout Hall (also known as Scote Hall) at Shibden near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, was built in 1681 for John Mitchell (1659–1696), who had inherited great wealth as a silk merchant. Mitchell was castigated by the preacher Oliver Heywood for hi…

  • Scottish Poetry Library

    The Scottish Poetry Library was founded in 1984 by the poet Tessa Ransford. It originally had two staff members, including Scottish poet, Tom Hubbard, and 300 books, but has since expanded considerably to containing 30,000 items of Scottish and inte…

  • Scott & Hodgson Ltd

    Scott & Hodgson Ltd, was a manufacturer of stationary steam engines in Guide Bridge, Greater Manchester. For instance, in 1914, they supplied an inverted vertical compound engine with Corliss valve gear to Hardman and Ingham's Diamond Rope Works, Ro…

  • Scotstoun Primary School

    Scotstoun Primary School is a primary school built by Renfrew Landward School Board in 1905 on Earlbank Avenue. The building differs from those built by the Glasgow School Board in many respects, notably in the inclusion of its distinctive towers. T…

  • Scolty Hill

    Scolty Hill is a small hill south of the Deeside town, Banchory. Its best known feature is the 20m tall tower monument, built in 1840 as a memorial to General Burnett who fought alongside Wellington. The tower was restored in 1992 and a viewing plat…

  • School of Education (UWE)

    The Department of Education (formerly the School of Education) at the University of the West of England is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Its origins lie in teacher training colleges at Redland and St Matthias which became pa…

  • Scholes, Holme Valley

    Scholes is a Pennine hilltop village, situated 1 mile (2 km) to the southeast and above Holmfirth, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Huddersfield, in the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,990. The name Scholes may have ori…

  • Scandinavian Kitchen

    Scandinavian Kitchen is London’s first Scandinavian delicatessen and grocery store. It is located at 61 Great Titchfield Street. Their menu is based on the smorgasbord and the Danish smorrebrod (open sandwich) and draws on the Scandinavian tradition…

  • Scalan

    The Scalan was once a seminary and was one of the few places in Scotland where the Roman Catholic faith was kept alive during the troubled times of the 18th century.

  • Saxby, Lincolnshire

    Saxby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 9 miles (14 km) north from Lincoln and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east from the A15 road. According to the 2001 census the village had a population of …

  • Saxby All Saints

    Saxby All Saints is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 6 miles (9.7 km) north from Brigg and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west from Barton upon Humber.

  • Sauchen

    Sauchen is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that lies 3 miles west of Dunecht and 10 miles west of Aberdeen.

  • Satley

    Satley is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, with a population of 292 in 2001. It is situated six miles to the south of Consett on the B6296 road near the A68. The village of Satley lies in a narrow valley between Lanchester and T…

  • Sarre Windmill

    Sarre Windmill is a Grade II listed smock mill in Sarre, Kent, England that was built in 1820, and is now a commercially working windmill that has been restored and is open to the public.

  • Sardis Road

    Sardis Road is a rugby union stadium situated in Pontypridd, Wales. It is home to the Principality Premiership team, Pontypridd RFC and previously the Celtic Warriors, the now defunct regional rugby union team.

  • Sandy Bay, Devon

    Sandy Bay is a secluded bay with a sand beach, about 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) long, in Exmouth, Devon, England. It is a sandy beach with rock pools at one end, backed by high cliffs. It is part of a long strip of sand which is connected to the beach…

  • Sandwick, Shetland

    Sandwick (Old Norse: Sandvik "Sandy Bay") is a township in the Shetland Islands, situated 13 miles south of Lerwick in the South Mainland. It comprises a number of distinct settlements in very close proximity to each other, each remaining distinct t…