The English Channel
The English Channel was formed by catastrophic flooding from the direction of the North Sea. This occurred anything from 10,000BC to 3,800BC […]
Read MoreThe English Channel was formed by catastrophic flooding from the direction of the North Sea. This occurred anything from 10,000BC to 3,800BC […]
Read MoreThe Norfolk Broads comprise an area of rivers, dykes, streams and lakes in the easternmost part of England. The city of Norwich […]
Read MoreIn 1800, Britain and Ireland passed the Acts of Union which abolished the Irish Parliament and put Irish MPs and Lords into […]
Read MoreOur most famous and oldest chalk-cut hill figure is the White Horse near Uffington. Unlike later equine hill figures, this one is […]
Read MoreBirmingham is our second biggest city and is geographically just below the centre. It sits on a plateau which was once heavily […]
Read MoreSpaghetti Junction is the nickname for the world’s most complicated motorway intersection. Its official name is the Gravelly Hill Interchange and it […]
Read MoreThe National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty was formed as a charity in 1895. It is considered globally […]
Read MoreMany householders would like to be able to grow their own fruit and vegetables, but their gardens are too small or non-existent. […]
Read MoreThe River Severn is Britain’s longest river and one of the most turbulent, with a tidal range of 40ft. and flow of […]
Read MoreThe country was first divided up into regions, called ‘shires’, in the eighth or ninth centuries. Each shire had a ‘shire reeve’ […]
Read MoreThe land mass of the UK is 60,000,000 acres but only one-tenth of this is available for housing, shops and businesses. With […]
Read MoreThe ‘Angel of the North‘ is a monumental red-rust steel sculpture in Gateshead, adjacent to the A1. Prior to its installation in […]
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