Abbeys and priories in England - Abbeys and priories in England Abbeys and priories in England is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other religious house in England. See also: List of abbeys and priories Abbeys and priories in Scotland Abbeys and priories in Wales Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England, Dissolution of the Monasteries Historic houses in England, Stately home UK topics Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bedfordshire 2 Berkshire 3 Cambridgeshire 4 Cheshire 5 Co. Durham 6 Cumbria 7 Derbyshire 8 Devon 9 Dorset 10 East Riding of Yorkshire 11 East Sussex 12 Essex 13 Gloucestershire 14 Greater London 15 Herefordshire 16 Hertfordshire 17 Kent 18 Lancashire 19 Leicestershire 20.
Abbeys and priories in Scotland - Abbeys and priories in Scotland Abbeys and priories in Scotland is a link page to any abbey, priory or other religious house in Scotland See also: List of abbeys and priories, Abbeys and priories in England, Abbeys and priories in Wales, Dissolution of the Monasteries, List of castles, List of museums, List of historic houses Sort into regions: Arbroath Abbey (Tironensian) Ross Priory, Loch Lomond Scone Abbey Edinburgh Holyrood Abbey Fife Balmerino Abbey Dunfermline Abbey Lindores Abbey Highland Beauly Priory Scottish Borders Abbey St. Bathans Dryburgh Abbey Jedburgh Abbey Kelso Abbey Melrose Abbey Stirling Inchmahome Priory, Lake Menteith.
Abbeys and priories in Wales - Abbeys and priories in Wales Abbeys and priories in Wales is a link page for any abbey, priory or other religious house in Wales. See: List of abbeys and priories, Abbeys and priories in England, Abbeys and priories in Scotland, Dissolution of the Monasteries, List of castles, List of museums, List of historic houses Tintern Abbey Cymer Abbey Llanthony Abbey Neath Abbey Penrhys Abbey St. Dogmaels Abbey Strata Florida Abbey Valle Crucis Abbey Carmarthenshire Tally Abbey Clwyd Basingwerk Abbey (Cistercian) Pembrokeshire Haverfordwest Abbey.
Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland - Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland is a link page for any abbey, priory or other religious house in Northern Ireland See also: Abbeys and priories in England County Antrim Bonamargy Friary, Ballycastle.
List of abbeys and priories - List of abbeys and priories List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. See: List of museums, List of castles, List of historic houses Abbeys and priories in Austria Heiligenkreuz Abbey Abbeys and priories in France Abbey of St. Gildas, Vannes, Brittany Abbey of Saint-Médard, Soissons Citeaux Abbey, Dijon Clairvaux Abbey Cluny Fontevrault Abbey Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris Saint Denis Basilica, Paris Saint Jean Des Vignes Abbey, Soissons Sainte Geneviève Abbey, Paris Vézelay Abbeys and priories in Germany Abbey of Corvey Frauenburg Abbey of Fulda Marienburg Quedlinburg Abbey Abbeys and priories in Italy Abbey of Sant'Antimo, Montalcino Monte Cassino Monticelli Abbey Abbeys and priories in the Netherlands Abbey of Thorn Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland Abbeys.
Historic houses in England - Historic houses in England Historic houses in England is a link page for any stately home or historic house in England. See also: Historic houses in Wales, Historic houses in Scotland, Historic houses in Northern Ireland, Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland, List of Conservation topics, List of museums, List of abbeys and priories, List of castles, National Trust Properties in England, English Heritage Properties in England, UK topics Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bedfordshire 2 Berkshire 3 Buckinghamshire 4 Cheshire 5 Derbyshire 6 Devon 7 East Riding of Yorkshire 8 East Sussex 9 Greater Manchester 10 Kent 11 Lancashire 12 Lincolnshire 13 Norfolk 14 Northamptonshire 15 Northumberland 16 North Yorkshire 17 Oxfordshire 18 Staffordshire 19 South Yorkshire 20 Suffolk 21 Warwckshire 22 West Sussex 23 West.
English Heritage Properties in England - English Heritage Properties in England English Heritage Properties in England is in link page for any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage. See: List of historic houses, List of museums, List of abbeys and priories, List of castles, List of Conservation topics, UK topics Bedfordshire Bushmead Priory De Grey Mausoleum Houghton House Wrest Park Gardens Berkshire Donnington Castle Cambridgeshire Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum Duxford Chapel Flag Fen excavations Isleham Priory Church Longthorpe Tower Cheshire Beeston Castle Chester Castle: Agricola Tower and Castle Walls Chester Roman Amphitheatre Sandbach Crosses County Durham Auckland Castle Deer House Barnard Castle Bowes Castle Derwentcote Steel Furnace Egglestone Abbey Finchale Priory Wolsingham Village Cornwall Ballowall Barrow Carn Euny Ancient Village Chysauster Ancient Village Dupath.
Castles in England - Castles in England Castles in England is a link page for any castle in England. See: List of castles, List of historic houses, List of museums, List of abbeys and priories, Castles in Scotland, Castles in Wales, Castles in Northern Ireland Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Berkshire 2 Cambridgeshire 3 Cheshire 4 Co. Durham 5 Cornwall 6 Cumbria 7 Derbyshire 8 Devon 9 Dorset 10 East Riding of Yorkshire 11 East Sussex 12 Essex 13 Gloucestershire 14 Greater London 15 Hampshire 16 Herefordshire 17 Hertfordshire 18 Isle of Wight 19 Isles of Scilly 20 Kent 21 Lancashire 22 Leicestershire 23 Lincolnshire 24 Norfolk 25 Northumberland 26 North Yorkshire 27 Nottinghamshire 28 Oxfordshire 29 Shropshire 30 Somerset 31 South Yorkshire 32 Staffordshire 33 Suffolk 34 Surrey 35 Tyne.
National Trust Properties in England - National Trust Properties in England National Trust Properties in England is a link page for any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of the National Trust in England. See: National Trust Properties in Wales, National Trust Properties in Northern Ireland, National Trust for Scotland, List of historic houses, List of abbeys and priories, List of castles, List of museums, List of Conservation topics Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bedfordshire 2 Berkshire 3 Bristol 4 Buckinghamshire 5 Cambridgeshire 6 Cheshire 7 Cornwall 8 Cumbria 9 Derbyshire 10 Devon 11 Dorset 12 Essex 13 Gloucestershire 14 Greater Manchester 15 Hampshire 16 Herefordshire 17 Hertfordshire 18 Isle of Wight 19 Kent 20 Lancashire 21 Leicestershire 22 Lincolnshire 23 Merseyside 24 Greater London 25 Norfolk 26.
Historic houses in Wales - for any stately home or historic house in Wales. See: Historic houses in England, Historic houses in Scotland, Historic houses in Northern Ireland, Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland, List of castles, List of abbeys and priories, List of museums, National Trust Properties in Wales, Cadw Clwyd Gwynedd.
Historic houses in Scotland - for any stately home or historic house in Scotland. See: Historic houses in England, Historic houses in Wales, Historic houses in Northern Ireland, Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland, List of castles, List of abbeys and priories, List of museums Dumfries and Galloway Edinburgh Scottish Borders Abbotsford - home of Sir Walter Scott Bowhill House - home of Dukes of Buccleuch Manderston Mary Queen of Scots House, Jedburgh Mellerstain House Monteviot House, Jedburgh Traquair House.
English Heritage - best known role is that it is the steward of a large number of significant sites in England, from Stonehenge to the world's earliest Iron Bridge. However it has major responsibilities in conservation, giving advice, registering and protecting the built environment. By caring for the built environment, English Heritage complements the work of English Nature which aims to protect the natural environment. It is possible for members of the public to join English Heritage: membership confers benefits (such as free admission to properties) but does not give the member a say in the running of the organization, which is a direct result of government policy. English Heritage describes itself in these terms: "English Heritage is the Government's statutory adviser on the historic environment. Officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments.
Environment and Heritage Service - United Kingdom Government's conservation agency for Northern Ireland. Unlike the equivalent bodies in England, Scotland and Wales, it aims to promote and conserve both the natural environment and the built environment and to promote their appreciation by present and future generations. Northern Ireland has nine AONBs (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 47 National Nature Reserves, 43 SACs (Special Area of Conservation) and ten SPAs (Special Protection Area. Equivalent Bodies in other parts of the United Kingdom English Nature and English Heritage Scottish Natural Heritage and Historic Scotland Countryside Council for Wales and CADW See: List of Conservation topics, Conservation in the United Kingdom, List of castles, List of abbeys and priories, List of museums, List of historic houses.
Abbey - Abbot or an Abbess, who serve as the spiritual father or mother of the community. A priory only differed from an abbey in that the superior bore the name of prior instead of abbot. Priories were originally offshoots from the larger abbeys, to the abbots of which they continued subordinate; however, the actual distinction between abbeys and priories was lost by the Renaissance. The earliest known Christian monastic communities (see Monasticism) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common centre, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement. Such communities were not an invention of Christianity. The example had been already set in part by the Essenes in Judea and perhaps by the.
Conservation in the United Kingdom - of devolved government for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and of evolving regional government for England, the responsibilities for environment and conservation have become more complicated. Legislation Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 1) Covering Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2 2) Covering only Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) 3 3) Covering only England and Wales 4 4) Covering only England 5 5) Covering only Wales 6 6) Covering only Scotland 7 7) Covering only Northern Ireland 8 See also 1) Covering Great Britain and Northern Ireland a) Conservation designations Area of Archaeological Importance Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Article Four Direction Biosphere Reserves in the United Kingdom Conservation Area Green Belt Nitrate Vulnerable Zone National Nature Reserve Ramsar Sites Site of Special Scientific Interest Special Protection.
List of reference tables - List of astronomical topics Asteroids Constellation listing List of constellations by area List of Lunar craters List of meteor showers List of stars List of nearest stars List of brightest stars List of mnemonics for star classification List of semiregular variable stars List of telescope types List of largest optical refracting telescopes List of largest optical reflecting telescopes Moons of the solar system Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys Timeline of cosmic microwave background astronomy Timeline of cosmology Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure Timeline of planetary exploration Timeline of solar astronomy Timeline of solar system astronomy Timeline of stellar astronomy Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology Timeline of the Big Bang Timeline of knowledge about the interstellar and intergalactic medium Timeline of the.
List of historic houses - stately home or historic house. See: List of museums, List of castles, List of abbeys and priories Historic houses in France Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland Historic houses in the United Kingdom Historic houses in England Historic houses in Northern Ireland Historic houses in Scotland Historic houses in Wales Historic houses in the United States Historic houses in Massachusetts Historic houses in North Carolina Historic houses in Virginia.
List of famous sites - Famous Sites by Country Famous Sites by Category The following are lists of specific places taken from the [[List of reference tables]. List of abbeys and priories: Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland List of botanical gardens List of buildings List of castles List of famous cemeteries List of gardens List of historic houses List of museums List of museum ships List of popular tourist regions List of Japanese landmarks List of reservoirs and dams List of skyscrapers List of spa towns List of United States military bases List of walls List of waterfalls List of World Heritage Sites List of zoos.
List of United Kingdom-related topics - Politics 21 Religions of the United Kingdom 22 Science and Technology 23 Sports and Games 24 Transportation in the United Kingdom 25 Youth Organisations 26 Miscellaneous 27 See also United Kingdom main page Demographics of the United Kingdom Population of England - historical estimates Nations and states of the British Isles England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Isle of Man Channel Isles Historical states of the British Isles Kingdom of Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain (when England & Scotland merged in 1707); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (when Great Britain and Ireland merged in 1801) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the modern state nominally known as the United Kingdom Heptarchy States in Medieval Britain United Kingdom overseas territories Anguilla Bermuda British Antarctic Territory British.
List of buildings - Kong Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany Beaulieu Palace, Essex, England, United Kingdom Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, India BT Tower, London, United Kingdom Bucharest Mall, Bucharest, Romania Buckingham Palace, London Bulguksa, North Gyeongsang, South Korea Caguas Tower, Caguas, Puerto Rico Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, Russia Central Plaza, Hong Kong Centre Point, London The Chrysler Building, New York, New York, United States City Gate, Ramat-Gan, Israel Coit Tower, San Francisco, California, USA Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany Colón Theater, Buenos Aires, Argentina The Colosseum, Rome, Italy Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt, Germany Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands Crystal Palace, London, United Kingdom CN Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada DG Bank building, Berlin, Germany Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel Donglin Temple, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China Dubai Land,.
