Rayleigh /ˈreɪliː/ is a market town and civil parish in the District of Rochford in Essex, England, located between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea. It lies 32 miles (51 km) to the east of central London. It had a population of 30,196 in 2001, increasing to 32,150 at the census 2011.
Population: 30,196
Latitude: 51° 35' 8.56" N
Longitude: 0° 36' 16.52" E
Camberwell College of Arts (formerly known as Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts) is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost art and design institutions. It is located in Ca…
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is a bell foundry in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The foundry's main business is the bellfounding and manufacture of church bells and their…
Whipps Cross University Hospital is an NHS-run university hospital in Whipps Cross, Waltham Forest, London, United Kingdom which housed London's first hyperbaric unit.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre.
Shoreditch High Street is a railway station in Shoreditch, in the East End of London. The station is located on Bethnal Green Road close to Shoreditch High Street and is served by London Overground services running on the extended East London Line u…
The "Second Great Fire of London" is a name used at the time to refer to one of the most destructive air raids of the London Blitz, over the night of 29/30 December 1940. Between 6 pm and the early hours of the morning, more than 24,000 high explosi…
SS Princess Alice , formerly PS Bute, was a passenger paddle steamer.
The London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Smithfield, London dating back to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square. The Charterhouse began as (and takes its name from) a Carthusian priory, founded …
Ilford railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line serving the town of Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. It is approximately 7 miles (11 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Manor Park and Se…
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College is a secondary school with academy status located in New Cross. The school was formerly a Grammar school, then a comprehensive City Technology College and now an Academy operating between two sites near New Cross…
The Steelyard, from the Middle Low German Stalhof / Dutch Staalhof, was the main trading base (kontor) of the Hanseatic League in London.
Broad Street was a major terminal station in the City of London, adjacent to Liverpool Street station.
Basildon was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The West India Docks are a series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs in London, the first of which opened in 1802. The docks closed to commercial traffic in 1980 and the Canary Wharf development was built on the site.
St Dunstan's, Stepney is an Anglican Church which stands on a site which has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.
The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, sometimes abbreviated to Great St Bart's, is an Anglican church in West Smithfield within the City of London.
Shoreditch was a London Underground station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London that was opened by the East London Railway in 1876. It was permanently closed in 2006 and replaced by Shoreditch High Street station.
The Royal Docks comprise three docks in east London - the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock. They are more correctly called the Royal Group of Docks to distinguish them from the Royal Dockyards, Royal being due to…