Holy Trinity Church Marylebone

Detail InformationEdit Holy Trinity Church Marylebone, Westminster, London is a former Anglican church, built in 1828 by Sir John Soane. In 1818 parliament passed an act setting aside one million pounds to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon. This is one of the so-called “Waterloo churches” that were built with the money. It has an external […]

Yarmouth

Yarmouth is a port and civil parish in the western part of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of mainland England. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river (there is also an Eastern Yar on the island). Yarmouth is a crossing point for The […]

St George in the East

Detail InformationEdit St George in the East is an Anglican Church and one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, built from 1714 to 1729, with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament. The church was hit by a bomb during the Second World war Blitz on London’s docklands in May 1941. The original interior was […]

North West Leicestershire

North West Leicestershire is a local government district in Leicestershire, England. Its main towns are Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Coalville. The district contains East Midlands Airport, which operates flights to the rest of Britain and to various places in Europe. It is also notable as the location of Castle Donington and Donington Park, a grand-prix circuit and […]

Walmer Castle

Detail InformationEdit Walmer Castle was built by Henry VIII in 1539–1540 as an artillery fortress to counter the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain. It was part of his programme to create a chain of coastal defences along England’s coast known as the Device Forts or as Henrician Castles. It was one of […]

Banqueting House

Detail InformationEdit The Banqueting House is the grandest and best known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting house, and the only remaining component of the Palace of Whitehall. The building is important in the history of English architecture as the first building to be completed in the neo-classical style which was to transform English […]

Yeovil

Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 27,949 at the 2001 census, although the wider urban area had a population of 42,140. The town lies within the local district of South Somerset and the Yeovil parliamentary constituency. Yeovil Country Park, which includes Ninesprings, is one […]

Basingstoke

Basingstoke is a town in northeast Hampshire, in south central England. It lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon. It is 48 miles (77km) southwest of London, 30 miles (48km) northeast of Southampton, 16 miles (26km) southwest of Reading and 19 miles (31km) northeast of the county town, Winchester.It is part […]

Llanarmon Dyffryn-Ceiriog

Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It lies on the Ceiriog River and is at the end of the B4500 road, five miles south-west of Glyn Ceiriog and ten miles north-west of Oswestry. It is within the Ceiriog Valley ward, Clwyd South National Assembly for Wales constituency and Clwyd South […]

Abbeyhill

As with many other city suburbs, the area has varying definitions. Generally it may be taken to mean the part of town lying between Holyrood Park to the south, Meadowbank to the east; Calton Hill and Leith to the north; and the yards of Waverley Station to the west. It is in the locale of […]