Arundel Castle - Norman splendour in West Sussex
Arundel Castle is an imposing restored medieval castle in a delightful setting in West Sussex. It occupies a defensive site on a prominent hill overlooking the River Arun and the South Downs.
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Tintagel - the breathtaking home of the legendary King Arthur
Tintagel Castle is a now-ruined medieval-era creation located on the small peninsula of Tintagel Island, in north Cornwall. Its location is famed as the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, and the 13th-century castle that stood here was built several centuries after his supposed reign, in honour of the mythic British hero king.
James Young - Scotland's pioneering oil baron
Perhaps surprisingly, Scotland was once the largest producer of refined oil in the world, and it even boasted the world's first commercial oil refinery - in Bathgate, West Lothian.
The original model village built in Beaconsfield
Bekonscot model village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, is the oldest original model village in the world. First created in the 1920's by local resident Roland Callingham, it portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930's. Not originally designed as a commercial enterprise, Bekonscot became an 'accidental' visitor attraction through press and public interest, and has been visited by more than 14,000,000 people.
Franklin's tragic search for the Northwest Passage
Two well-equipped British ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, left England in 1845 to search for the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Ocean. But their expedition was ill-fated, and they were last seen in 1848, and all evidence of them vanished for nearly 170 years.
The British Census
Every ten years since 1801 details of people living in the United Kingdom are collected by the government in order to gather demographic information, calculate resource allocation and monitor changes in the nation’s population.
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