England is a nation in Britain, the most populous part of the United Kingdom. It derives from the Angles and Saxon kingdoms that arise in the Dark Ages after the collapse of Roman Britain.
England is the birthplace of the English language that the British Empire spreads throughout the world. It is the heartland of the Industrial Revolution.
Regions[]
Northumbria (North of England)[]
- Includes the counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham.
Midlands (aka Mercia)[]
- The West Midlands includes Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
- The East Midlands includes Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Huntington and Northamptonshire.
East Anglia (East England)[]
- Includes Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Wessex (Southwest England)[]
Home Counties (Southeast England)[]
- Includes Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Berkshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex and Kent.
London[]
- Considered its own region; includes the old county of Middlesex.
Places of Interest[]
North[]
Blackburn, Lancastershire
Chapel of the Green Knight (Eddisbury)
Corbenek
Fountains Abbey [Friar Tuck]
Joyeuse Garde [Bamburgh]
Loxley
Macclesfield [Ian Curtis]
Manchester
Newcastle
Castle Pendragon
Scarborough
Traprain Law [King Lot]
Whitby [Lucy Westenra]
Wold Newton
Midlands[]
Blue Boar Inn
Burton
Coventry (Middlemarch)
The Floss
Gotham
Grantham [Margaret Thatcher]
Hayslope [Adam Bede]
Leicester
Lincoln
Ludlow [A.E. Housman]
Newark, Nottinghamshire [Lemuel Gulliver]
The Rabbithole
Raveloe [Silas Marner]
Stratford-Upon-Avon
Thornfield Hall [Edward Rochester]
Topping Abbey [Daniel Deronda]
Wragby Hall [Lady Chatterley]
East[]
Colcester (Camulodunum)
Hell Hall [Cruella de Ville]
Howard's End
Norwich
Sandringham [Diana Spencer]
Greater London[]
Mortlake [John Dee]
Ordnance House [Renfield]
Southwest[]
Almesbury [Guinivere]
Athelney
Avebury
Bath (Aqua Sulis)
The Beanstalk
Bristol [Blackbeard]
Camelot (Cadbury)
Camlann
Castle Dore [King Mark]
Castle of Maidens (Winterborn Monkton)
Cerne Abbas
Devizes [The Moonrakers]
Dorcester (Casterbridge)
Land's End
Manderley [Max de Winter]
Marlott (Marnhull) [Tess Durbeyfield]
Mells Manor [Jack Horner]
Morrois Forest [Tristan]
Ottery St. Catchpole [Ron Weasley]
Penzance
Porlock
Portishead
St. Ives
St. Just in Roseland [Joseph of Arimithea]
Uffington
Wayland's Smithy
Southeast[]
Bagshot Heath
Banbury Cross
Cliveden
Dymchurch [Rev. Christopher Syn]
Epping Forest [Dick Turpin]
Herne's Oak
Hundred Acre Wood
Iping [Invisible Man]
Lympne [Doctor Cavor]
Midwich
Pook Hill
Romney March [The Scarecrow]
Runnymede
St. George's Hill
St. Mary Mead [Miss Marple]
Satis House [Miss Havisham]
Slough [Wernham-Hogg]
The 39 Steps
Toad Hall
Watership Down
Winchester
External Link[]
Wikipedia: England