Wycombe, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is 29 miles (47 km) westnorthwest of Charing Cross in London; this information is also engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town. According to the 2011 census High Wycombe has a population of 120,256 making it the second largest town in the county of Buckinghamshire after Milton Keynes. The High Wycombe Urban Area, the conurbation of which the town is the largest component, has a population of 133,204.
Population: 80,357
Latitude: 51° 37' 44.65" N
Longitude: 0° 44' 57.62" E
Osterley is a London Underground station in Osterley in west London. The station is on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line, between Boston Manor and Hounslow East. The station is located on Great West Road (A4) close to the National Trust-own…
Opal Irene Whiteley (December 11, 1897—February 16, 1992) was an American nature writer and diarist whose childhood journal was first published in 1920 as The Story of Opal in serialized form in the Atlantic Monthly, then later that same year as a b…
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Highpoint I was the first of two apartment blocks erected in the 1930s on one of the highest points in London, England at Highgate.
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The Goring Hotel /ˈɡɔərɪŋ/ is a luxury 5-star hotel in London, England.
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The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) is a private university in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman and was established in 2007 in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University in Germany, one of the leading universities of technology in Europe.
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Penn is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Beaconsfield and 4 miles (6.4 km) east of High Wycombe. The parish, containing Penn village and the hamlets of Penn Street,…
The British Library of Political and Economic Science is the main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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