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5 days ago · Greater London, 8,173,941. London, city, capital of the United Kingdom. It is among the oldest of the world’s great cities—its history spanning nearly two millennia—and one of the most cosmopolitan. By far Britain’s largest metropolis, it is also the country’s economic, transportation, and cultural center. Learn more about London.
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2 days ago · The oldest town hall, which was built as a chapel for pilgrims, is Dover Town Hall, thought to have been completed in around 1203, while the oldest purpose-built town hall is Bury St Edmunds Guildhall, which dates back to around 1220. The tallest town hall is Manchester Town Hall with a clock tower which rises to 280 feet (85 m).
3 days ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
4 days ago · Yorkshire, historic county of England, in the north-central part of the country between the Pennines and the North Sea. Yorkshire is England’s largest historical county. It comprises four broad belts each stretching from north to south: the high Pennine moorlands in the west, dissected by the Yorkshire Dales; the central lowlands—including ...
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3 days ago · Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, England. Crowland. Abbey in Crowland, Lincolnshire, England. Large churches, abbeys, and monasteries attest to the prosperity medieval Lincolnshire derived from its agriculture. Its towns, particularly Lincoln and Stamford, thrived on the medieval woolen trade, and wool was a major export of the port of Boston.
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2 days ago · The oldest settlements in Sialk to date to around 6000–5500 BC. [45] [46] The Sialk ziggurat was built around 3000 BC. This is the largest dolmen in France, and perhaps the world; the overall length of the dolmen is 23 m (75 ft), with the internal chamber at over 18 m (59 ft) in length and at least 3 m (9.8 ft) high.
2 days ago · The east wing of the present Town Hall, designed by E. W. Godwin, was built in 1861–4; the west wing, added in 1889–92, was designed by A. W. Jeffrey and M. H. Holding, the restorers of Castle Ashby. The public library was housed here with the museum, until 1883; the borough records are now preserved here.
