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(Earth Views): England London Kingston housing estate snow on ground footprints recycling boxes waiting for collection bare patches kept snow free by cars now driven away in morning during cold snap January 2007 suburban urban landscape mono 1 DHD.jpg
D=2007/01/29 [Jan 29, 2007]; S=2MB, 3072x2304; T=JPEG image [MIME:image/jpeg];
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  • england = .uk, Inglaterra, Angleterre, Inghilterra, Albion, 英国, Royaume-Uni, UK, 51st State = Member of the UK (United Kingdom) and thus the EU (European Union). Adjective "English" or sometimes "British" or "Brit" or "pom" or "tommy" or "limey".
  • england london = Londres, Londra, Londyn, 伦敦, 倫敦, Londinium = Administrative and legislative and commercial capital of England and the UK. London has many famous landmarks and much history and influence. One of the world's financial centres originally in the City of London ("The Square Mile") and now also Docklands to the east. Founded as Londinium by the Romans in around 50AD, but the name is thought to be pre-Roman. Visit the UK Parliament, or 10 Downing Street, or the Mayor's site for goverment; or maybe the Science Museum, the Museum of London and the London Eye for illumination. The locals are sometimes known as "Londoners".
  • england london kingston = Kingston-upon-Thames = The Royal (London) Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. According to the BBC Web site: "Kingston is the oldest of the four royal boroughs in England and Wales. Seven Anglo-Saxon kings were crowned here and the Coronation Stone, which now sits outside the Guildhall, marks this with a silver penny denoting the reign of each of the kings... For the most part this is white, owner-occupied, commuter suburbia."

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A selection of places and sights from around the Earth, catalogued by location, including views and scenery natural and artificial, rural and urban, ugly and beautiful.

This should help give you a feel of what particular parts of the world are like.

See also Aloha Earth to zoom in on on a map of the Earth to locate exhibits, and our travel section.

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ThumbnailHas location information snow falling and on ground in morning during cold snap January 2007 suburban garden Kingston London England mono 1 JR.jpg (Natural Science)

  • snow = neve, Schnee, nieve, niege

ThumbnailHas location information England London Waterloo to Holborn Circus walk on sunny April morning 32 Ely Place church of St Etheldreda DHD.jpg (Earth Views)

  • england = .uk, Inglaterra, Angleterre, Inghilterra, Albion, 英国, Royaume-Uni, UK, 51st State
  • england london = Londres, Londra, Londyn, 伦敦, 倫敦, Londinium

You might like to look at some of the history of St Etheldreda's church here; to quote:

Ely Place commemorates a London palace of the Bishops of Ely, the earliest record[s] are from 1286 when the bishop was John de Kirkby. When he died in 1290, he [bequeathed] a messuage and adjoining tenements to his successor. The will refers to the property as in the parish of St Andrew near Holborn. Kirkby's successor was Wm du Luda, who held the see between 1290 and 1298. It is believed that the chapel on the ground left by Kirkby during this time. The garden at Ely was noted for its strawberrys, as recorded in Shakespeare's Richard III, where the Duke of Gloster says, "My Lord of Ely when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there, I do beseech you send for some of them." The gardens [of] the bishop sloped down to the River Fleet; and probably Plum Tree Court, Saffron Hill and Vine Street derive [their] name from them. Saffron Hill - once a liberty or area free from jurisdiction of the county sheriffs and magistrates, and the haunt of undesirable characters. It is the background for much of Oliver Twist.

The thoroughfare known as Ely Place is unique in several respects. The gate is closed nightly at 10, and up to 1939 from that hour until 6am one of the three watchmen, on duty in turn, paraded round the cul-de-sac calling out the hours. At one time the weather was also announced. Next to the chapel is St Audrey's House. St Audrey was a popular name for St Etheldreda, who died of a tumour to in the throat caused by the early love of necklaces. At the fair at Ely, necklaces and lace were sold as St Audrey's. From this was derived the word tawdry, "You promised ma a tawdry-lace and a pair of sweet gloves." Winter's Tale.

 


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