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Atlas: places and cultureAcross the UK12 min

Coventry Building Society Arena

The Coventry Building Society Arena (often shortened to the CBS Arena or just simply Coventry Arena, and formerly known as the Ricoh Arena) is a complex in Coventry, West Midlands, England. It includes a 32,609-seater stadium which is curre

Atlas: places and cultureManchester10 min

Hyde Road (stadium)

Hyde Road was a football stadium in West Gorton, Manchester, England. It was home to Manchester City F.C. and their predecessors from its construction in 1887 until 1923, when the club moved to Maine Road. It was named after Hyde Road, a ro

Atlas: places and cultureLondon11 min

British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, stylized entirely in lowercase) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibite

Atlas: places and cultureBelfast4 min

Ravenhill Stadium

Ravenhill Stadium (known as the Affidea Stadium for sponsorship reasons from July 2025, formerly known as the Kingspan Stadium) is a rugby stadium located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home of Ulster Rugby. With the opening of a n

Atlas: places and cultureLiverpool6 min

Stanley Park Stadium

Stanley Park was a proposed football stadium in Stanley Park, Liverpool. If built, it would have become home to the Liverpool Football Club. It would have replaced their current stadium at Anfield. The stadium had a planned capacity of 60,0

Atlas: places and cultureAcross the UK12 min

Clan Buchanan

Clan Buchanan (Na Cananaich) is a Highlands Scottish Clan whose origins are said to lie in the 1225 grant of lands on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond to clergyman Sir Absalon of Buchanan by the Earl of Lennox. The name is said to deri

Atlas: places and cultureLondon11 min

Bupa

British United Provident Association Limited, trading as Bupa , is a British multinational health insurance and healthcare company with over 43 million customers worldwide. Bupa's origins and global headquarters are in the United Kingdom.

Atlas: places and cultureLondon13 min

Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by actor/manager Sir Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre). Located on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, it was designed c. 1898 by W. G. R. Sprague, the

Atlas: places and cultureEdinburgh12 min

Rockstar North

Rockstar North (Rockstar Games UK Limited; formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The studio is best known for creating the Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto series, inc

Atlas: places and cultureLondon12 min

Royal Mint

The Royal Mint Limited is the United Kingdom's official maker of British coins. It is currently located in Llantrisant, Wales, where it moved in 1968. The Royal Mint is a limited company that is wholly owned by His Majesty's Treasury and i

Atlas: places and cultureLondon11 min

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state

Atlas: places and cultureAcross the UK5 min

Polish Air Force Memorial

The Polish Air Force Memorial (informally Polish War Memorial) is a war memorial in West London, England in memory of airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force as part of the Polish contribution to World War II. Over 18,000 men a