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1 | Tower of London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.5081 / -0.0761 | The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of (...) | |
2 | Baynard's Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 51.5114 / -0.0986 | Baynard's Castle refers to buildings on two neighbouring sites in the City of London, between where Blackfriars station and St Paul's Cathedral now stand. The first was a Norman fortification constructed by Ralph Baynard and demolished by King John in 1213 (...) | |
3 | Baynard Castle, Cottingham FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 53.7829 / -0.4216 | Baynard Castle was a moated castle built in the 12th and 13th centuries in the village of Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was referred to by terms including the 'castle at Cottingham' or 'Stuteville's castle', the term Baynard Castle is common in 19th-century references and later. (...) | |
4 | Castle Baynard FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 51.5131 / -0.1047 | Castle Baynard is one of the 25 wards of the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London. (...) | |
5 | Queen Victoria Street, London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 51.512 / -0.0999 | Queen Victoria Street, named after the British monarch who reigned from 1837 to 1901, is a street in London which runs east by north from its junction with New Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment in the Castle Baynard ward of the City of London, along a section that divides the wards of Queenhithe (...) | |
6 | Bayswater FeatureType : null Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 51.5095 / -0.193 | Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London. It is a built-up district located west-north-west of Charing Cross, bordering the north of Kensington Gardens and having a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre (...) | |
7 | Alnwick Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 55.416 / -1.707 | Alnwick Castle is a castle and country house in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland. It is the seat of His Grace The 12th Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest and renovated and remodelled a number of times (...) | |
8 | Essex FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 51.75 / 0.5833 | Essex is a county in south-east England, north-east of London. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and London to the south-west (...) | |
9 | City of London FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 51.5157 / -0.0921 | The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the agglomeration has since grown far beyond the City's (...) | |
10 | Smyrna, Delaware FeatureType : city Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 39.2997 / -75.6047 | Smyrna is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2010, the population of the town is 10,023 (...) | |
11 | Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 53.7806 / -0.4154 | Cottingham is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England with average affluence. It lies just north-west of the city of Kingston upon Hull, and from the city centre, and is part of the Hull urban area (...) | |
12 | Great Fire of London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 51.5157 / -0.0921 | The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666.All dates are given according to the Julian calendar (...) | |
13 | Little Dunmow FeatureType : null Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 51.8706 / 0.4045 | Little Dunmow is a village situated in rural Essex, England, in the vale of the River Chelmer about east-southeast of the town of Great Dunmow. It can be reached from the Dunmow South exit of the A120 by following the road towards Braintree (B1256) for 3.2 km before turning right for the village (...) | |
14 | Baynard House, London FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 51.5119 / -0.1012 | Baynard House is a brutalist office block in Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars in the City of London, occupied by BT Group. It was built on the site of Baynard's Castle. Most of the land under it is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. From 1982 to 1997 it housed the BT Museum. (...) | |
15 | Montfichet's Tower FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 51.5136 / -0.1014 | Montfichet's Tower (also known as Montfichet's Castle and/or spelt Mountfitchet's or Mountfiquit's) was a Norman fortress on Ludgate Hill in London, between where St Paul's Cathedral and City Thameslink railway station now stand (...) | |
16 | Blagdon FeatureType : null Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 51.3269 / -2.7169 | Blagdon is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Somerset, within the unitary authority of North Somerset, in England. It is located in the Mendip Hills, a recognised Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. According to the 2001 census it has a population of 1,116 (...) | |
17 | St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.5123 / -0.1014 | St. Andrew-by-the-WardrobePrior to the King's wardrobe moving to the adjacent area it was known as St Andrew by Castle Baynard- "The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922 is a Church of England church located on Queen Victoria Street, London in the City of London, (...) | |
18 | St Benet's, Paul's Wharf FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 51.5117 / -0.0993 | The Church of St Benet Paul's Wharf is a Welsh Anglican church in the City of London. Since 1556, it has also been the official church of the College of Arms in which many officers of arms have been buried. In 1666 it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, after which it was rebuilt and merged (...) | |
19 | Queenhithe FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 51.511 / -0.097 | Queenhithe is a small and ancient ward of the City of London, situated by the River Thames and to the south of St. Paul's Cathedral. The Millennium Bridge crosses into the City at Queenhithe. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock and a minor street, which runs along that (...) | |
20 | John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 51.8891 / 0.865 | John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (also Fitzwalter or Fitz Wauter) (c. 1315–18 October 1361) was a member of the early-14th-century English baronage and a prominent Essex landowner. The FitzWalter family was of a noble and ancient lineage, with connections to the de Clare family, who had arrived (...) | |
21 | Farringdon, London FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.5209 / -0.1037 | Farringdon is a locality in Central London and the collective name for the wards of Farringdon Within and Farringdon Without in the City of London respectively. (...) | |
22 | Bread Street FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 51.5144 / -0.0966 | Bread Street is one of the 25 wards of the City of London the name deriving from its principal street, which was anciently the City's bread market; for by the records it appears as that in 1302:30 Edw. I. Court Rolls "the bakers of London were ordered to sell no bread at their houses but in the open (...) | |
23 | Wilmington State Parks FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 39.755 / -75.55 | Wilmington State Parks is a state park located in Wilmington, Delaware. Open year round, the park is approximately of land mostly situated along the Brandywine Creek. The state park is made up of a group of smaller parks that are administratively managed as a single unit (...) | |
24 | St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.5125 / -0.0975 | St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street was a church in Castle Baynard ward of the City of London, England, located on the corner of Old Fish Street and Old Change,Jeffery, Paul. The city churches of Sir Christopher Wren, Hambledon Press, 1996 on land now covered by post-War development (...) | |
25 | Butley Priory FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 52.091 / 1.465 | Butley Priory, sometimes called Butley Abbey, was a religious house of Canons regular (Augustinians, Black canons) in Butley, Suffolk, dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.R.J. Day, 'Butley Priory, in the Hundred of Loes', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History Vol (...) | |
26 | St Faith under St Paul's FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 51.5128 / -0.0961 | St Faith under St Paul’s in Castle Baynard Ward was an unusual parish within the City of London.The parish also extended into Farringdon Within “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C.: New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 It had been physically removed in 1256"The London Encyclopaedia" (...) | |
27 | St Gregory by St Paul's FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 51.5128 / -0.0961 | St Gregory's by St Paul's was a parish church in the Castle Baynard ward of the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not replaced. It was built against the walls of St Paul's Cathedral. (...) | |