Geography & Environment Category
Sandringham Estate
While the Crown owns thousands of properties in the UK, just a few are registered to Queen…
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (IoW) is a diamond-shaped island two miles off England’s south coast and is…
The Oak
Two types of oak tree are native to the UK ~ the English and the sessile. Others…
Moles
There are two schools of thought about our estimated 41,400,000 moles and their underground activities. One is…
DEFRA
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is only the 10th biggest UK government department…
Belfast
The city of Belfast, Northern Ireland’s capital, has endured its fair share of bombings, both during WW2…
Liverpool
‘Port of Departure (or Arrival):Liverpool‘ appears in many a search for records of family ancestors, since Liverpool’s…
Hampton Court Palace
King Henry VIII (1491-1547) owned dozens of castles, mansions and palaces. One that remains today is the…
British Antarctic Territory
Britain’s two tallest mountains by far ~ Mount Hope (10,627ft.) and Mount Jackson (10,446ft.) ~ sit within…
North York Moors
Designated a National Park in 1952, the North York Moors comprise 355,000 acres of rural land with…
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
Northumbrian Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-83) entered landscape gardening with an enthusiasm and vision that propelled him to…
David Bellamy, environmentalist
Dr David Bellamy, OBE (1933-2019) grew up in London but moved to Durham in 1960, where he…