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Loch Katrine (; Loch Ceiteirein or Loch Ceathairne) is a freshwater loch in the Trossachs area of the Scottish Highlands, east of Loch Lomond within the Stirling council area. It mostly lies within the historic and registration county of…
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London founded in 1759 that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal…
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro) is a national park in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was established in 1952 and includes most of the coast of the county, the upper reaches of Milford…
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, occurred on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright, while the death…
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in…
The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway, situated in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway, run by volunteers from The Middleton Railway Trust Ltd. since 1960.
Longbridge is an area in the south-west of Birmingham, England, located near the border with Worcestershire, the county it was historically in.
The River Severn (; Afon Hafren,) is the longest river in Great Britain, with a length of 220 mi. It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, with an average flow rate of 107 m3/s at…
The River Thames, or simply the Thames , known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 mi, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the…
The River Bann (from An Bhanna, meaning "the goddess"; Ulster-Scots: Bann Wattèr) is the longest river in Northern Ireland, its length, Upper and Lower Bann combined, being 129 km (80 mi). The total length of the River Bann, including its…
The River Avon is in the south of England, rising in Wiltshire, flowing through that county's city of Salisbury and then west Hampshire, before reaching the English Channel through Christchurch Harbour in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and…
The Bakerloo line is a London Underground line which runs between in suburban north-west London and in south London, via the West End. Printed in brown on the Tube map, it serves 25 stations, 15 of which are underground, over 14.4 mi. It…