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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.
The United Kingdom is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.With a total area of approximately 244,376 square kilometres (94,354 sq mi), [a] [1] the UK occupies the major part of the British Isles archipelago and includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland and many smaller surrounding islands. [3]
v. t. e. BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local and regional television, radio, web, and teletext services in England, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. It is one of the BBC's four "nations" – the others being BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Northern Ireland, and BBC Scotland. [2] The division is made up of 12 regions.
Also shown is the one city in a UK Crown Dependency, Douglas in the Isle of Man. (For cities in UK Overseas Territories, see below.) 32 cities have a Lord Provost (in Scotland) or a Lord Mayor (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), see List of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom.
Brentwood was the location of Warley Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, from 1853 to 2001. A British East India Company elephant training school was based in Brentwood and this remained an active army base as a depot for the Essex Regiment until 1959, [ 6 ] when much of the site was redeveloped as the European headquarters for the Ford Motor Company .
BBC Elstree Centre. / 51.6597°N 0.2747°W / 51.6597; -0.2747. The BBC Elstree Centre, sometimes referred to as the BBC Elstree Studios, [ 1] is a television production facility, currently owned by the BBC. The complex is located between Eldon Avenue and Clarendon Road in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. This site was the first of ...
Wogan House is a building in central London owned by Abrdn and currently on long-term lease to the BBC. [1] It is located on the junction of Gildea Street and Great Portland Street adjacent to the BBC's headquarters, Broadcasting House. Originally named Western House, on 16 November 2016 the building was renamed Wogan House after the Irish ...
UK. England. East Sussex. 51°03′58″N 0°19′48″E. / 51.066°N 0.330°E / 51.066; 0.330. Wadhurst is a market town in East Sussex, England. It is the centre of the civil parish of Wadhurst, which also includes the hamlets of Cousley Wood and Tidebrook. Wadhurst is twinned with Aubers in France.