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Coddington Vineyard is a well established English vineyard, having been planted mainly in 1985. It is situated a few miles west of the Malvern Hills in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Seventeenth-century farm with threshing barn and cider mill. Gardens include woodland, pool and stream. Two-a... |
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Bluewater Shopping Centre is a mall in the south east of London. Situated on a 240-acre (97 ha) plot in a former chalk quarry, the centre has a sales floor area of 154,000 m2 over two levels, making it the fourth-largest shopping centre in the UK. The floor plan is a triangular shape with 330 stores... |
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The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its... |
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Waddesdon Manor was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to display his outstanding collection of art treasures and to entertain the fashionable world. The 45 rooms on view combine the highest quality French furniture and de... |
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Blenheim Palace was constructed between 1708 and 1722 and is located in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It was built for John Churchill(1680-1722), the First Duke of Marlborough. Blenheim Palace is also well known as the birthplace of the 20th century statesman Winston Churchill. It is built in th... |
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St. Mary's Church is a very typical early-1800s style church with a complete view of Bryanston Square. It is a contemporary, charismatic church in the heart of London. The Church Commissioner’s had it built between 1823-24 to designed by Robert Smirke to seal off the view from the bottom end ... |
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Borough Market is a wholesale and retail food market in Southwark, Central London, England. It is one of the largest food markets in London, and sells a large variety of foods from all over the world. Although Borough Market is open on Thursdays and Fridays, it is Saturday when it really comes alive... |
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The Millennium Dome, colloquially referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. Located in East London's gritty Docklands region on t... |
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Somerset House, London, was originally a Tudor palace built in 1547 for Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. Somerset was brother of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII. One of the reasons for Somerset's unpopularity and eventual downfall was his liking for ambitious and expensive building proj... |
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Hyde Park, together with Kensington Gardens, which adjoin it on the west, forms the largest open space in London. One of the largest parks in central London, this Royal Park covers 350 acres with the adjacent Kensington Gardens adding another 275 acres.
Originally belonging to Westminster Abbey, it... |
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St Mary's, a contemporary, charismatic church in the heart of London. ... |
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The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames in London, England. The entire structure is 135 metres tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 metres. The structure was designed by the architectural team of David Marks and Julia Barfield, husband and wife. Construct... |
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Trinity Buoy Wharf, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is the site of London's only lighthouse, by the confluence of the River Thames and Bow Creek, at Leamouth. Trinity Buoy Wharf, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is the site of London's only lighthouse, by the confluence of t... |
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Leake Street, also known as the "Banksy tunnel", is a road in Lambeth, London. It is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station. A disused road tunnel in south London has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Bank... |
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A beautiful church in a stunning position at the heart of Blackheath, All Saints Blackheath was designed by Benjamin Ferrey, the Hampshire-born student of architect Augustus Pugin.
The church is particularly pleasing for its position on the Heath, distinct from the surrounding buildings, and also f... |
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St. Pancras Station is voted the world's most romantic railway station. London's beautiful and historic London St. Pancras Station was built in 1868. St Pancras International is a railway station terminus celebrated for its Victorian architecture. The station recently underwent some renova... |
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The Hungerford Bridge crosses the River Thames in London, and lies between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. It is a steel truss railway bridge—sometimes known as the Charing Cross Bridge—flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foun... |
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Westminster Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames between Westminster and Lambeth in London. First built in 1750 and later rebuilt to accommodate traffic in 1862, Westminster Bridge is a busy tourist hotspot, mainly because it offers unrivalled views of the Palace of Westmin... |
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The Palace of Westminster is the assembly place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Palace of Westminster is an iconic structure which represents the oldest democracy of the world. In the middle of the 11th century, King Edward ... |
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Canary Wharf is a major business district located in Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres – along with the traditional City of London – and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest, One Canada Square. C... |
