Control of the National Grid (Great Britain)
Control of the United Kingdom's high-voltage power transmission network (the "National Grid"), is exercised from the National Grid Control Centre.
Bagshot is a small town in the southeast of England. It is situated in the northwest corner of Surrey within the county's Surrey Heath council district, close to the border with Berkshire, and is also in the diocese of Guildford. In the past, Bagshot served as an important staging post between London, Southampton and the West Country. Evidence of this can be seen in some of the original coaching inns that are still there today.
Population: 5,364
Latitude: 51° 21' 38.48" N
Longitude: 0° 41' 16.87" E
Control of the United Kingdom's high-voltage power transmission network (the "National Grid"), is exercised from the National Grid Control Centre.
Basingstoke Town Football Club is an English football club based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The club are currently members of the Conference South, the sixth highest tier of the English league system, and play at the Camrose ground.
Thatched House Lodge is a Grade II-listed building and privately-owned royal residence in Richmond Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in London, England. Since 1963 Thatched House Lodge has been the residence of Princess Alexandra, T…
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is a Royal Borough of Berkshire, in South East England.
Newark Priory is a ruined priory on an island surrounded by the River Wey and its moat-like channel the Abbey Stream near the southern boundary of the village of Pyrford in Surrey, England
The 284 miles (457 km) A30 road from London to Land's End, used to provide the most direct route from London to the south west; nowadays the M3 motorway and A303 road performs this function for much of the route and only parts of A30 now retain trun…
Calleva, formally Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates"), was an Iron Age oppidum and subsequently a town in the Roman province of Britannia and the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe. Its ruins are now known as Silchester Roman Town and…
The Southall rail crash was an accident on the British railway system that occurred on 19 September 1997, on the Great Western Main Line at Southall, west London, in which an InterCity 125 (also called a High Speed Train) failed to stop at a red (da…
Elmbridge is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England.
The 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash was an air show accident involving a de Havilland DH.110 that killed 29 spectators, the pilot John Derry and the onboard flight test observer Anthony Richards. The DH.110, a prototype, was being demonstrated…
The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in south east England and one of two major tributaries in Surrey. It begins as two branches rising outside the county which join at Tilford between Guildford and Farnham. Once combined the flow is eas…
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 – 23 April 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher who died during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, Middlesex, England.
A national archive(s) is a central archives maintained by a nation.
The Royal Grammar School (originally "The Free School"), commonly known as the RGS, is a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey. The school dates its founding to the death of Robert Beckingham in 1509 who left provisi…
The Slough Trading Estate founded in Slough, Berkshire in 1920, was an early business park in the United Kingdom. According to the estate's owners and operators, SEGRO (formerly Slough Estates plc), Slough Trading Estate consists of 486 acres (1.97 …
The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO) was the national archive service of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form …
Epsom Downs is a Grade 1 racecourse near Epsom, Surrey, England. The "Downs" referred to in the name are part of the North Downs. The course, which has a crowd capacity of 120,000, is best known for hosting the Epsom Derby, the United Kingdom's prem…
Colossus is a roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, and the park's first major attraction. It was built by Swiss manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil. Tussauds designer John Ward…