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  • Virkie

    Virkie is the most southerly district of Shetland, other than Fair Isle and is best defined as the area south of the Ward Hill in Dunrossness, also locally referred to as "below da hill" (below the hill), or "da laich Ness" (the low headland).

  • Victoria Road, Cambridge

    Victoria Road is a major road in the north of Cambridge, England. The road is designated the A1134. At the western end, the road links with Histon Road (B1049, leading north out of Cambridge towards the large village of Histon, on the other side of …

  • Victoria Park, Millbridge, Plymouth

    Victoria Park in Millbridge in Plymouth is a small recreational area. It extends at the eastern end from the bowling green beneath what was once a railway viaduct to what is now the merging of Molesworth Road and Eldad Hill, and which once was a tol…

  • Victoria Hall, Sheffield

    Victoria Hall is a Methodist place of worship situated on Norfolk Street in Sheffield city centre. It is the most important Methodist building in Sheffield and it is a Grade II listed building. It is a large many roomed building which stands between…

  • Victoria Bridge, Datchet

    Victoria Bridge is a road bridge running North/South between Datchet and Windsor, Berkshire, England. It crosses the River Thames on the reach between Old Windsor Lock and Romney Lock.

  • Viaduct Quarry

    Viaduct Quarry (grid reference ST621443) is a 0.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984.

  • Vere Street, Westminster

    Vere Street is a street off Oxford Street, in central London, England. It is a continuation of Welbeck Street. It is named after a family name of the area's owners at the time of its construction, the Earls of Oxford. It is best known for the Marybo…

  • Vera MacLeavy

    Vera Alice MacLeavy (née Black) (25 September 1919 – 20 July 2008) was librarian of Bethlehem Teacher Training College in Malvern, Jamaica from 1954 to 1972 and archivist of the Moravian Church in Jamaica from 1957 to 1986.

  • Veensgarth

    Veensgarth (Old Norse: Vikingsgarðr, Viking farm, or Vingarðr, Meadow Farm), is a village in the Tingwall valley west of Lerwick in Shetland. It includes the Vallafield housing estate. Veensgarth is also within the parish of Tingwall, and is situate…

  • Ve Skerries

    Ve Skerries (Baylish island), (Old Norse: Vestan sker, West Skerries), are a group of low skerries 3 miles north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland.

  • Vasa Loch

    Vasa Loch is a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands. (Ordnance, 2002) This water body has been shown on early maps of the island in a very similar shape and size to its current geometry, separated from the North Sea by a narrow …

  • Varteg railway station

    Varteg railway station was a railway station which served the village of Varteg, in the county of Monmouthshire, on the Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway. Built by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) as an expansion to meet the Great Western Ra…

  • Vale of Kent

    The Vale of Kent, located in Kent, England, is the name given to the broad clay vale between the Greensand Ridge and the High Weald.

  • Uxenden Hall

    Uxenden Hall or Uxendon Hall was an English manor house near Harrow-on-the-Hill. In the sixteenth century it was inhabited by the family of Jerome Bellamy.

  • Uttoxeter Canal

    The Uttoxeter Canal  pronounced (listen)  was a thirteen-mile extension of the Caldon Canal running from Froghall as far as Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It was authorised in 1797, but did not open until 1811. With the exception of the first …

  • Utterby Halt railway station

    Utterby Halt was a railway halt on the East Lincolnshire Railway which served the village of Utterby in Lincolnshire between 1905 and 1961. The station, which opened as part of a new motor train service between Grimsby and Louth, is reputed to be ha…

  • Ushaw Moor railway station

    Ushaw Moor railway station, was a station on the Deerness Valley Railway, south of the village of Ushaw Moor in County Durham, was opened on 1 September 1884 by the North Eastern Railway.

  • Urquhart Priory

    Urquhart Priory was a Benedictine monastic community in Moray. It was founded by King David I of Scotland in 1136 as a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in the aftermath of the defeat of King Óengus of Moray. It remained a dependency of Dunfermline, and by …

  • Urmston Urban District

    Urmston Urban District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England which covered the modern-day district of Urmston.

  • Upwood Meadows

    Upwood Meadows are owned and managed as a nature reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Formerly jointly managed with Natural England.