A little country with an illustrious history, England’s dynamic cities, sleepy villages, lush green moorlands and craggy coastlines create a rich cultural and natural landscape. Explore England’s northern and southern counties, rural shires, medieval towns and major cities, using our map of Engla...
England is known the world over for looking like a Christmas card or something from The Hobbit. And it’s not a false image: you just have to look past the large towns and cities of the country to discover it. These are England’s small towns and village
Topics discussed include ways in which American college towns might offer a model to imprint higher education into rural places; need of creating a road map for rural community colleges to embed educational imprints into community; and use of college town characteristics.Almond, Dev...
The UK might not be the biggest of countries but it definitely punches above its weight in terms of stunning landscapes and breath-taking scenery. As you can see from the UK National Parks map the parks are located across England, Wales and Scotland. Each park has its own character, unique...
The larger towns and industrial villages—such as Blyth,Cramlington,Bedlington, and Ashington—are found in the south and east,Alnwickand Berwick-upon-Tweed are the principal towns of the northeast, and the sparsely populated fells are served by the small market towns of Wooler, Rothbury, and Be...
There is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization.…It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes. It has a flavour of its own. Moreover it is continuous, it stretches into the future and...
Towns, villages, and country houses were their prominent features; troops were hardly seen in them save in some fortresses on the edge of the hills and in a chain of forts built in the 4th century to defend the south and southeast coast, the so-called Saxon Shore. The uplands of Wales...
towns and industrial villages—such as Blyth, Cramlington, Bedlington, and Ashington—are found in the south and east, Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed are the principal towns of the northeast, and the sparsely populated fells are served by the small market towns of Wooler, Rothbury, and ...
The remainder of the area, including the Lagan valley, has accents derived from England, more particularly from Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and southern Lancashire, as well as the West Country counties of Gloucestershire, Avon, Somerset, and Devon. The towns show more of a mixture ...
Devon, administrative, geographic, and historic county of England. It forms part of the South West (or Cornish) Peninsula of Great Britain and is bounded to the west by Cornwall and to the east by Dorset and Somerset. The Bristol Channel lies to the nort