andScotland—as well as the northern portion of the island ofIreland. The name Britain is sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole. The capital isLondon, which is among the world’s leading commercial, financial, and cultural centres. Other major cities includeBirmingham,Liverp...
The private houses consisted either of a row of rooms with a corridor along them and perhaps one or two additional rooms at one or both ends, or of three such units, ranged around three sides of a large square open court or garden. Except in the chartered towns, they were detached house...
Birmingham, second largest city of the United Kingdom and a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands metropolitan county. It lies near the geographic center of England, at the crossing points of the national railway and motorway systems. Learn more abou
(Birmingham) conurbation and Greater Bristol uses the route. Cheltenham has a renowned girls’ public (private) school and an important college of education. Area administrative county, 1,024 square miles (2,653 square km); geographic county, 1,216 square miles (3,150 square km). Pop. (...
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after the visit of QueenVictoriain 1838, the resort town became known asRoyal Leamington Spa. During the 18th and 19th centuries the construction of canals and, later, railwaysspurredthe development of Birmingham and Coventry as industrial centres with important metallurgical and machinery-manufacturing...
Early settlement wassparsein the remote and heavily wooded countryside until Saxon colonists penetrated the river valleys. Birmingham originated as a small Saxon settlement near a crossing of the River Rea, though it long remained but a minor town. Dudley and its castle dominated the remote and ...
Guinea-Bissau has a generally tropical climate influenced by theintertropical convergence zone(ITCZ), a belt of converging trade winds that circles the Earth near the Equator. There are two pronounced seasons: the hot, rainy season, which usually lasts from June to November, and the hot, dry ...
Staffordshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county in the Midlands of west-central England. It extends north from the West Midlands metropolitan county (centred on Birmingham) and is bordered by Shropshire to the west, Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire to the northeast, Warwickshire to...