Skegness
Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is 47 mi east of Lincoln and 25 mi north-east of Boston. With a population of 21,128 as…
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Harwell is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about 2 mi west of Didcot, 6 mi east of Wantage and 13 mi south of Oxford, England. The parish measures about 3.5 mi north – south, and almost 2 mi east – west at its widest…
Concert for Diana
Concert for Diana was a benefit concert held at the then newly built Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday. 31 August that year brought the…
Clydebank
Clydebank (Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling and Milton beyond) to the west, and the Yoker and Drumchapel…
Ullapool
Ullapool (; Ulapul) is a village and port located in the civil parish of Lochbroom in the county of Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands. It is located around 45 mi northwest of Inverness. According to the Scottish Government in 2016, the…
Buckie
Buckie (Bucaidh) is a burgh town (defined as such in 1888) on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the largest town in the county until the administrative area was abolished in 1975. The town is the…
Canning Town station
Canning Town is an interchange station located in Canning Town, London. It provides Jubilee line services of the London Underground, and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). The station is designed as an intermodal metro and bus station,…
International Whaling Commission
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a specialised regional fishery management organisation, established under the terms of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) to "provide for the proper…
Giant's Causeway
The Giant's Causeway (Clochán an Aifir or Clochán na bhFomhórach) is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption, part of the North Atlantic Igneous Province active in the…
Sellafield
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.…
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse is a public school (English private boarding and day school) for pupils aged 13–18, located in the market town of Godalming, in Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in…
Victoria Embankment
Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment (the other sections are the Albert and Chelsea Embankments). It is partly a road and river-walk along the north bank of the River Thames in London, England. Built in the 1860s, it runs…