A hook is a tool consisting of a length of material that contains a portion that is curved or indented, so that this portion can be used to hold another object.
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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.
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 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…
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 Deanery and Deanery Garden is a garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, with a house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, in Sonning, Berkshire, England.
The Devil's Punch Bowl is a large natural amphitheatre and beauty spot near Hindhead, Surrey, in England, and is the source of many stories about the area.
Reading School is a grammar school with academy status for boys, located in the English town of Reading. It traces its history back to the school of Reading Abbey, making it one of the oldest schools in England.
Watership Down is a hill, or down, at Ecchinswell in the civil parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green in the English county of Hampshire. It rises fairly steeply on its northern flank (the scarp side), but to the south the slope is much …
Bordon and Longmoor Military Camps are British Army training camps and training area on the A3 road between Liss and Liphook in Hampshire, England.
The Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut, commonly referred to as Deepcut Barracks, is the headquarters of the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) of the British Army and the Defence School of Logistics.
Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet.
Amelia Sach (1873 – 3 February 1903) and Annie Walters (1869 – 3 February 1903) were two British murderers better known as the Finchley baby farmers.
The River Tillingbourne (also known as the Tilling Bourne) runs along the south side of the North Downs and joins the River Wey at Guildford. Its source is near Tilling Springs to the north of Leith Hill at grid reference TQ143437 and it runs throug…
Reading Blue Coat School is a boys' independent school (and co-educational in the 6th form) in Holme Park in the village of Sonning, in the English county of Berkshire, to the east of the town of Reading.
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Baxi is part of BDR Thermea, one of Europe's largest manufacturers and distributors of domestic and commercial water and space heating systems.
Twyford is a large village and civil parish in the English Royal county of Berkshire with a population of about 7,000 people. It is in the Thames Valley at grid reference SU794752 on the A4 between Reading and Maidenhead, close to Henley-on-Thames a…