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Northstowe is a new town in Cambridgeshire, England, forecast to have 24,400 residents in 10,000 homes. On 1 April 2021 Northstowe became a civil parish formed from Longstanton and Oakington and Westwick, with the first town council elected on 6 May of that year. [ 2]
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame.
51.58°N 0.49°E. / 51.58; 0.49. Basildon ( / ˈbæzɪldən / BAZ-il-dən) is a town in the borough of the same name, in the county of Essex, England. It had a recorded population of 115,955 at the 2021 census. [1] In 1931, the town had a population of 1,159. [2] It lies 26 miles (42 km) east of Central London, [3] 11 miles (18 km) south of the ...
Brentwood is a town in Essex, England, in the London commuter belt 20 miles (30 km) north-east of Charing Cross and close to the M25 motorway. The population of the built-up area was 55,340 in 2021. [1] Brentwood is a town with a shopping area along the High Street, a Roman road which became one of the main roads between London and East Anglia ...
Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. It lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset– Devon border. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 3,671.
List of cities in the United Kingdom. Examples of major urban areas in the United Kingdom; Liverpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne; and London. This is a list of cities in the United Kingdom that are officially designated as such as of 12 November 2022. [ 1][ 2] It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or ...
54.90°N 1.52°W. / 54.90; -1.52. Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended. It is located between Chester-le-Street, Gateshead and South ...
Todmorden ( / ˈtɒdmərdən / TOD-mər-dən; locally / ˈtɒdmɔːrdən, ˈtɒdmərdən, ˈtɔːmdɪn /) [1] [2] is a market town and civil parish [3] in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is 17 miles (27 kilometres) north-east of Manchester, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Burnley and 9 miles (14 km) west of Halifax.