Maidenhead is a large affluent town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies south of the River Thames (although at Maidenhead the river runs north-south so the town is in fact on its west bank). The town has a population of 67,404. Its urban area (including the suburban villages of Bray, Holyport, Pinkneys Green, Taplow (Buckinghamshire) Cox Green and Woodlands Park) has a population of approximately 85,000. The mainline railway station was set to be the terminus of the Crossrail line until the announcement was made that Reading was to be the new terminus.
Population: 59,463
Latitude: 51° 31' 22.04" N
Longitude: 0° 43' 11.50" E
Richmond upon Thames College (formerly Twickenham College of Technology) is a College of General Further and Higher Education located on a single site in Twickenham. It provides education and training to 16-18 year olds and adults from across Richmo…
The Queen's Chapel is a chapel in central London, England, that was designed by Inigo Jones and built between 1623 and 1625 as an external adjunct to St. James's Palace for Roman Catholic queen Henrietta Maria.
The Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, London, was first established in 1925 and opened by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1933.
The Oriental Club in London is a traditional private members' club established in 1824 that now admits both gentlemen and ladies to membership.
Marylebone Road (/ˈmɑrlɨbən/ MAR-li-bən) is an important thoroughfare in central London, within the City of Westminster. It runs east-west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington.
Maida Vale is a London Underground station in Maida Vale in inner north-west London.
The London Library is one of the world's largest independent lending libraries, and one of the UK's leading literary institutions. It was founded in 1841 on the initiative of Thomas Carlyle, who was dissatisfied with some of the policies at the Brit…
This is a list of public art in the City of London, including statues, busts, commemorative plaques and other memorials.
The Lady Eleanor Holles School (often abbreviated to LEH or LEHS) is an independent day school for girls in Hampton, London, England.
The King Alfred School is a co-educational independent school in Hampstead in North West London.
The Isokon building on Lawn Road, Hampstead, London, is a concrete block of 34 flats designed by architect Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard. They opened on 9 July 1934 as an experiment in minimalist urban living. Most of the flats had very …
The India Office Records are a very large collection of documents relating to the administration of India from 1600 to 1947, the period spanning Company and British rule in India.
Hounslow West is a London Underground station in Hounslow of the London Borough of Hounslow, West London. It is located on Bath Road (A3006) about 600m from its junction with A4 Great West Road and Great South West Road (A30).
Holborn Viaduct was a railway station in London which was opened in 1874 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway as a new terminus to alleviate increasing usage of the nearby Ludgate Hill station.
Heathrow Terminal 4 is a railway station serving London Heathrow Terminal 4 at London Heathrow Airport.
Grim's Dyke (sometimes called Graeme's Dyke until late 1891) is the name of a house and estate located in Harrow Weald, in northwest London, England, built from 1870 to 1872 by Richard Norman Shaw, and named after the nearby pre-historic earthwork k…
Dollis Hill is a London Underground station at Dollis Hill near to Willesden and Gladstone Park of the London Borough of Brent.
Deepcut is a 20th-century military village in Surrey Heath, Surrey, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Camberley, its post town and only town in the borough — it was from 1866 until 1894 part of Frimley, before which it was part of Ash. Deepcut is connec…