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1 | Lindisfarne FeatureType : isle Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 55.6713 / -1.7955 | The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic Christianity (...) | |
2 | Horsham FeatureType : city Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 51.0618 / -0.3289 | Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester (...) | |
3 | Stonyhurst College FeatureType : edu Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 53.8471 / -2.4713 | Stonyhurst College is a coeducational Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. The school has been fully co-educational since 1999 (...) | |
4 | University of London FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.5211 / -0.1289 | The University of London (abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a collegiate federal research university located in London, England. As of October 2018, the university contains 18 member institutions (...) | |
5 | Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall FeatureType : edu Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 53.847 / -2.472 | Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall (commonly known as S.M.H.) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. It is an independent co-educational Catholic school, for ages 3-13, founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). It is primarily a day school but has some boarders (...) | |
6 | Ribble Valley FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 164 Lat/Lng : 53.9024 / -2.4162 | Ribble Valley is a local government district with borough status within the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. The total population of the non-metropolitan district at the 2011 Census was 57,132. Its council is based in Clitheroe. Other places include Whalley, Longridge and Ribchester (...) | |
7 | Stonyhurst FeatureType : null Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 53.846 / -2.474 | Stonyhurst is the name of a rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. It is centred on Stonyhurst College, occupying the great house, its preparatory school Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall and the parish church, St Peter's. (...) | |
8 | Oxford Archaeology FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 51.7476 / -1.2764 | Oxford Archaeology (OA, trading name of Oxford Archaeology Limited) is one of the largest and longest-established independent archaeology and heritage practices in Europe, operating from three permanent offices in Oxford, Lancaster and Cambridge, and working across the UK (...) | |
9 | Great Mitton FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 53.8461 / -2.4351 | Great Mitton is a village and a civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England.Great Mitton http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Greatmitton It is separated from the civil parish of Little Mitton by the River Ribble, both lie about three miles from the town of Clitheroe (...) | |
10 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 53.48 / -2.26 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford is centred on the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. The diocese was founded in 1850 as one of the first post-Reformation Catholic dioceses in Great Britain. Since 1911 it has formed part of the Province of Liverpool (...) | |
11 | River Hodder FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 53.8333 / -2.4167 | The River Hodder is a river in Lancashire, England. The river is a County Biological Heritage Site. It rises on White Hill and flows for approximately 23 miles to the River Ribble, of which it is the largest tributary (...) | |
12 | Old Windsor FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 51.46 / -0.586 | Old Windsor is a large village and civil parish, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It is bound by the River Thames to the east and Windsor Great Park to the west. (...) | |
13 | Rainhill FeatureType : null Elevation : 64 Lat/Lng : 53.4157 / -2.7625 | Rainhill is a large village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically part of Lancashire, Rainhill was formerly a township within the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot, (...) | |
14 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 50.799 / -1.091 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth is a Latin Church Roman Catholic diocese that covers the Channel Islands as well as parts of England (Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and parts of Berkshire, Dorset and Oxfordshire) (...) | |
15 | Rossall School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 53.8957 / -3.0424 | Rossall School is a British, fee paying co-educational, independent school, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Rossall was founded in 1844 by St Vincent Beechey as a sister school to Marlborough College which had been founded the previous year (...) | |
16 | Beaumont College FeatureType : edu Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 51.449 / -0.575 | Beaumont College was a Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England. In 1967 the school closed. The property was later used as a training centre, a conference centre and a hotel. The preparatory school for boys aged 3–13, St John's Beaumont, continues. (...) | |
17 | Libraries and collections of Stonyhurst College FeatureType : null Elevation : 117 Lat/Lng : 53.847 / -2.472 | The Jesuit origins of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, have enabled it to amass a large collection of books, a number of which concern recusant history, whilst artefacts from all over the world have been donated to the school by Jesuit missionaries and alumni (...) | |
18 | Heythrop College, University of London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 51.4992 / -0.1904 | Heythrop College, University of London, is a public university and the specialist philosophy and theology college of the University of London located in Kensington in London and is the oldest constituent college of the federal University of London, being founded in 1614 by the Society of Jesus (...) | |
19 | Llanfechain FeatureType : null Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 52.7749 / -3.2101 | Llanfechain is a small village and community in Powys, Wales, between Llanfyllin and Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain on the B4393 road. Historically it was part of Montgomeryshire. Afon Cain runs through the village. It has a population of less than 500. (...) | |
20 | Chipping, Lancashire FeatureType : null Elevation : 126 Lat/Lng : 53.8867 / -2.5735 | Chipping is a village and civil parish of the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,046, falling slightly to 1,043 at the 2011 Census (...) | |
21 | Longton, Lancashire FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 53.729 / -2.797 | Longton is a village and civil parish in the west of the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, England. It is about 4 miles to the south west of Preston. The population of the civil parish, which also includes the village of New Longton, was 5,500 at the 2001 Census increasing to 7,652 at the 2011 (...) | |
22 | Newton-in-Bowland FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 53.947 / -2.461 | Newton or Newton-in-Bowland is a village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district, in the county of Lancashire, England, formerly known as Newton-on-Hodder. The civil parish had a population of 237 in 2001, according to the United Kingdom Census, increasing to 315 at the 2011 Census (...) | |
23 | Catholic University School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 53.3354 / -6.256 | Catholic University School (C.U.S.) is a private school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. The school was established by Bartholomew Woodlock and Cardinal John Henry Newman as a preparatory school for the Catholic University of Ireland (...) | |
24 | Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley FeatureType : null Elevation : 186 Lat/Lng : 53.8541 / -2.4889 | Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley is a civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England, just west of Clitheroe. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,307, an increase from 1,249 in 2001 (...) | |
25 | Mount St Mary's College FeatureType : edu Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 53.3043 / -1.3158 | Mount St Mary's College is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, near Sheffield, England. It was founded in 1842 as 'The College of the Immaculate Conception at Spinkhill' by Fr Randal Lythgoe, the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus (...) | |
26 | Powis Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 52.6506 / -3.1583 | Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales. It is known for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives obtained them during their service with the British East India Company (...) | |
27 | Longridge Fell FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 347 Lat/Lng : 53.8643 / -2.5193 | Longridge Fell is the most southerly fell in England, near the town of Longridge, Lancashire.(14 December 2011), , Longridge News, accessed 14 November 2014 It lies at the southern end of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (...) | |
28 | Bowland-with-Leagram FeatureType : null Elevation : 164 Lat/Lng : 53.9011 / -2.5536 | Bowland-with-Leagram is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, covering part of the Forest of Bowland. According to the census, the parish had a population of 181 in 1951, 128 in 2001 and 169 at the Census 2011 (...) | |
29 | Hurst Green, Lancashire FeatureType : null Elevation : 103 Lat/Lng : 53.836 / -2.48 | Hurst Green is a small village in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, connected in its history to the Jesuit school, Stonyhurst College. The village is from Longridge and from Clitheroe, and is close to the River Ribble, near its junction with the River Hodder. (...) | |
30 | Birkdale School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 53.3745 / -1.5048 | Birkdale School is a Christian independent school for boys aged 4–18 in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire in England, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Since 1995 girls have been admitted to the Sixth Form. (...) | |
31 | No. 23 Coombe Road FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 22.2669 / 114.1681 | No. 23 Coombe Road is the designation of a historical building on Coombe Road, The Peak, Hong Kong. It was called Stonyhurst when first built in 1887, changed its name to Glen Iris and is now known as Carrick. It is one of the oldest surviving European houses on the Peak (...) | |
32 | St John's Beaumont School FeatureType : edu Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 51.4444 / -0.5775 | St John's Beaumont School is an independent day and boarding Jesuit preparatory school, and is for boys aged 3 to 13 years old. from Independent Schools Council, retrieved 25 July 2017 It is situated between Englefield Green and Old Windsor on Priest's Hill, with the school building in Surrey and (...) | |
33 | Badge Court FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 52.3268 / -2.1387 | Badge Court is an estate in Worcestershire, England. Originally known as Batchcott, the home's most famous occupant was Helena Wintour, daughter of Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Wintour. The house was originally occupied by "an Earl of Shrewsbury" (...) | |