Geography & Environment Category
Lough Neagh
The largest freshwater lake in the UK, indeed the British Isles, is Lough Neagh (“lokh nay”) in…
Glacial Erratics
We are told that the last Ice Age (the Younger Dryas) ended around 12,000 years ago, with…
London’s 35 Bridges
Some of London’s 35 bridges are pedestrian-only and some are for trains, but the vast majority date…
Port Talbot
Generations of the Talbot family owned an estate in Margam on the South Wales coast. In 1836…
The Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands
There are hundreds of islands, reefs, sea-stacks and islets around the Scottish coastline. Some have a long…
Henges
3,000-4,000 years ago, henges were all the rage across Britain (and elsewhere too). A henge is an…
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), born in London, had a glittering, award-winning career as an Architect for the…
Bridleways and Footpaths
A bridleway is a public right of way for travel on foot, on horseback or by bicycle and,…
Dartmoor and Exmoor
Of the UK’s 15 National Parks, Dartmoor is the 9th largest, with 368 sq.miles, while its neighbour,…
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (as opposed to Staffordshire’s market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme) is England’s northernmost city by a tiny fraction…
Portmeirion
The unique village of Portmeirion at the foot of Snowdonia has no full-time residents and is purely…
Dover
The Romans called it ‘Dubris’ and the Saxons named England’s closest transit point to Europe ‘Dofras’. The…