Bovingdon is a large village in Hertfordshire, England, four miles southwest of Hemel Hempstead, and it is a civil parish within the local authority area of Dacorum. It forms the largest part of the ward of Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield, which had a population of 3,819 at the 2001 census.
Population: 4,698
Latitude: 51° 43' 23.23" N
Longitude: 0° 32' 12.12" E
The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage, (ERIH), set in 175 acres (0.71 km2) of parkland and containing 21 buildings of major historical importance, mixes history, science, and attractiv…
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a closed, historic cemetery located in the East End of London. The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966. It is now a nature reserve, and other land has been added to the park, including "Scrapyard Mea…
The Tottenham Outrage is the name given to an armed robbery and double murder which took place in Tottenham, Middlesex and Walthamstow, Essex, on 23 January 1909, which was carried out by two anarchists, Paul Helfeld and Jacob Lepidus (sometimes spe…
Tiger Tiger is a chain of British nightclubs owned by Novus Leisure. The chain has seven branches, located in Cardiff, Leeds, Portsmouth, Manchester, Newcastle and two venues in London.
The Heart Hospital is a specialist cardiac hospital located in London, United Kingdom.
The Grove is a large hotel in Hertfordshire, England, with its own 300–acre (1.2 km²) private park next to the River Gade and the Grand Union Canal.
St. Mary Aldermanbury was a church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181 and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Rebuilt in Portland stone by Christopher Wren, it was again gutted by the Blitz in 1940, leaving only the walls stand…
St Helen's Bishopsgate is a large conservative evangelical Anglican church located off Bishopsgate in London.
St Anne's Limehouse is a Hawksmoor Anglican Church in Limehouse, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; now a historic National Trust property open to the public. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut…
Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. Only the street facade survives today. It was built for The 3rd Duke of Schomberg, a Huguenot general in the service of the British Crown. I…
Ruislip Woods is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and national nature reserve covering 726 acres (294 ha) in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
The Royal Artillery Memorial is a stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, dedicated to casualties in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in the First World War. The memorial was designed by Charles Jagger and Lionel Pearson, and features a giant s…
The Lee Navigation is a canalised river incorporating the River Lea (also called the River Lee).
Plantation Place is one of the largest office developments in the City of London, the primary financial district of London, taking its name from a previous Plantation House, once the world's recognised centre of the tea trade.
Nag's Head is a locality within the Holloway area of the London Borough of Islington.
The London Film Museum, founded and created by Jonathan Sands in February 2008, is a museum dedicated to the British film industry.
Kingsland Road is the name of a road, part of the A10, in the London Borough of Hackney in England. It runs from the junction with Old Street and Hackney Road (the section of the A10 south of this is Shoreditch High Street) north to the junction wit…