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  • Alleyn's School

    Alleyn's School is an independent, co-educational day school situated in Dulwich, south London, England. It is a registered charity and was originally part of the Alleyn's College of God's Gift charitable foundation, which also included James Allen'…

  • A13 road (England)

    The A13 is a major road in England linking Central London with east London and south Essex. Its route is similar to that of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, and runs the entire length of the northern Thames Gateway area, terminating on the …

  • 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster

    The Morecambe Bay cockling 'disaster' (Chinese: 拾貝慘案 Shi bèi cǎn'àn, "Cockle tragedy") occurred on the evening of 5 February 2004 at Morecambe Bay in North West England, when at least 21 illegal alien Chinese Coolie cockle laborers were drowned by a…

  • Wye Valley

    The Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an internationally important protected landscape straddling the border between England and Wales.

  • Wirral Line

    The Wirral Line is one of two commuter railway lines operated by Merseyrail and centred on Merseyside, England, the other being the Northern Line.

  • West Kennet Long Barrow

    The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb or barrow, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire, England.

  • Adelphi Theatre

    The Adelphi Theatre /əˈdɛlfi/ is a London West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site. The theatre has specialised in comedy and musical theatre, and today it is a receiving hous…

  • The George Inn, Southwark

    The George, or George Inn, is a public house established in the medieval period on Borough High Street in Southwark, London. Currently owned and leased by the National Trust, it is located on the south side of the River Thames near London Bridge. It…

  • The American Adventure Theme Park

    The American Adventure (at one time briefly known as American Adventure World) was a theme park in Derbyshire, England, quite close to both Nottingham and Derby on the edge of Ilkeston. The park for many years had a number of large white-knuckle att…

  • Saw – The Ride

    Saw – The Ride is a custom Euro-Fighter roller coaster in the Thorpe Park theme park in the United Kingdom. It is themed around the Saw horror film franchise.

  • Royal Norfolk Regiment

    The Royal Norfolk Regiment, originally formed as the Norfolk Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The Norfolk Regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as the county regiment of Norfolk.

  • Rita (roller coaster)

    Rita (formerly known as Rita: Queen of Speed) is an Intamin accelerator coaster located in the Dark Forest area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. Open since 2005, it accelerates to 61.1 mph in 2.5 seconds. The ride is loosely based on drag …

  • Raby Castle

    Raby Castle (grid reference NZ12912177) is near Staindrop in County Durham, England, in 200 acres (810,000 m2) of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of …

  • Quarry Bank Mill

    Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry.

  • NP postcode area

    The NP postcode area, also known as the Newport postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Newport, Wales. The NP7, NP16 and NP25 districts extend across the border into England.

  • Hirta

    Hirta (Scottish Gaelic: Hiort) is the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland.

  • Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash

    The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was (and as of March 2015 remains) the worst peacetime rail crash in the United Kingdom: a multiple train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station, in London, on the morning of 8 October 1952. An express train …

  • Gateshead International Stadium

    Gateshead International Stadium is a multi-purpose, all-seater arena in the Old Fold area of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Originally known as the Gateshead Youth Stadium, the venue was built in 1955 at a cost of £30,000. It has since been exte…

  • East Bowling

    East Bowling is an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England located to the south of Bradford city centre. It forms the eastern half of the historic township and manor of Bowling. Bowling became a ward of the newly created Borough of Bradford in 184…

  • Divis Tower

    Divis Tower is a 61-metre (200 ft) tall tower in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 20 floors tall, it was built in 1966 as part of the now-demolished Divis Flats complex. It is named after the nearby Divis Mountain. The complex of 850 flats, housing 2,400 …

  • London County Hall

    County Hall (sometimes called London County Hall, LCH) is a building in Lambeth, London, which was the headquarters of London County Council and later the Greater London Council (GLC). The building is on the South Bank of the River Thames, just nort…

  • Conservative Campaign Headquarters

    Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), formerly known as Conservative Central Office (CCO)[not in citation given] is the headquarters of the British Conservative Party, housing its central staff and committee members.

  • Clwyd

    Clwyd (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈklʊɨd]) is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east, bordering England with Cheshire to its east, Shropshire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Gwynedd to its immediate west and Powys to the sou…

  • Chorley F.C.

    Chorley Football Club are a football club from Chorley, Lancashire, England. They were founded as a rugby union club in 1875 but switched to football in 1883. They have reached the FA Cup second round twice in 1986–87 and 1990–91. Their best perform…

  • Bruce Castle

    Bruce Castle (formerly the Lordship House) is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Believed to stand on the site of an e…

  • Brindleyplace

    Brindleyplace is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the Westside district of Birmingham, England. It is often written erroneously as Brindley Place, the name of the street (in turn named after the 18th century canal engineer James Brindley)…