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Atlas: natureAcross the UK11 min

Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend. The Reading…

Atlas: natureGlasgow7 min

Eurovision Dance Contest 2008

The Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 was the second and final edition of the Eurovision Dance Contest, held on 6 September 2008 at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and presented by Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman. It was…

Atlas: natureLondon12 min

Richmond Park

Richmond Park, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is the largest of London's Royal Parks and is of national and international importance for wildlife conservation. It was created by Charles I in the 17th century as a deer park.…

Atlas: natureAcross the UK9 min

The Solent

The Solent is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth lie inland of its shores. It is about 20 mi long and varies in width between 2+1/2 and, although the Hurst…

Atlas: natureAcross the UK12 min

Trent and Mersey Canal

The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93+1/2 mi canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and…

Atlas: natureEdinburgh13 min

Calton Hill

Calton Hill (; Cnoc Coilltinn) is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and…

Atlas: natureLondon10 min

Bartholomew Fair (play)

Bartholomew Fair is a Jacobean comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men company. Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicœne, or the Silent…

Atlas: natureLondon2 min

Regent's Park tube station

Regent's Park is a London Underground station. It is 175 m south of Regent's Park. The station is on the Bakerloo line, between Baker Street and Oxford Circus stations. Its access is on Marylebone Road, within Park Crescent. It is the…

Atlas: natureCambridge9 min

King's College Chapel, Cambridge

King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture and features the world's largest fan vault. The Chapel was built in…

Atlas: natureAcross the UK13 min

Eday

Eday (, Aidee) is one of the islands of Orkney, which are located to the north of the Scottish mainland. One of the North Isles, Eday is about 24 km from the Orkney Mainland. With an area of 27 km2, it is the ninth-largest island of the…

Atlas: natureAcross the UK10 min

Edgeley Park

Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, Stockport County Football Club moved in by 1902, a year before the rugby club went defunct. Sale Sharks Rugby Union…

Atlas: natureEdinburgh12 min

Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo (Sù Dhùn Èideann), formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an 82 acre non-profit zoological park in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh, Scotland.