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- *[[Stone, Staffordshire|Stone]] ...of [[Tipton]] is still a major transport route. Charles Dickens in ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1841), described how the area's local factory chimneys ''14 KB (2,054 words) - 17:49, 3 July 2022
- ...nd [[East Sheen]], a royal park grazed by herds of deer. Close by are the Old Deer Park, Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens and Wimbledon Common. [[Wimbledon Co ...tradition, of other tenth-century Kings of the English too. The coronation stone still stands in Kingston. During the reign of Ethelred the Unready, Thorkel34 KB (5,328 words) - 17:09, 19 January 2021
- ...t open plain with few trees in which are found ancient remains such as the stone circles at [[Stonehenge]] and [[Avebury]], and countless prehistoric barrow ...s the border, has, like Salisbury Plain, yielded much Stone Age and Bronze Age archaeology. The Marlborough Downs are part of the North Wessex Downs AONB13 KB (1,870 words) - 13:20, 20 August 2020
- ...nny|Callan]] and [[Knocktopher]] areas. It forms the uppermost part of the Old Red Sandstone and is the distinctive Upper Devonian–Lower Carbonifero |title=New perspectives on the old red sandstone47 KB (6,906 words) - 10:14, 16 February 2019
- ...opook and Monelly. Skirk, near Borris-in-Ossory, has a Bronze Age standing stone and ring fort. The body of Cashel Man indicates that ritual killing took pl The next stage is known as the pre-Christian Celtic Iron Age. For the first time iron appeared in Ireland, as factions fought bloody bat16 KB (2,332 words) - 09:56, 22 June 2017
- *Old Mill *Old Pallas16 KB (2,356 words) - 16:24, 31 January 2018
- ...vidence of a temporary settlement as no structures were found at the site. Stone axes, arrow heads and blades were discovered which date to between 6,800 - ...at Dowris, Whigsborough near Birr. It is the largest collection of Bronze Age objects ever found in Ireland.<ref>http://irishartsreview.com/irisartsrevi118 KB (2,691 words) - 14:19, 26 June 2017
- ...sh; and date from the Neolithic period or earlier. Remains from the Bronze Age period are far more widespread.<ref name=StoutWex/> Early Irish tribes form ...not all, of the county was covered with the ice sheet during the last Ice age. As the ice retreated, County Wexford would have been one of the first area27 KB (4,024 words) - 20:58, 25 June 2017
- The city began as two separate burghs: [[Old Aberdeen]] at the mouth of the river Don; and New Aberdeen, a fishing and t The city was first incorporated in 1891. Although Old Aberdeen still has a separate charter and history, it and New Aberdeen are51 KB (7,818 words) - 20:24, 20 July 2017
- ...frontier fortifications. It is also very close to the historic fort of [[Old Oswestry]].<ref name=gallery>[http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlexq.ht ...t in that it proved the advanced state of English gardening habits in that age, in comparison with the known contemporary practices of France and Flanders11 KB (1,779 words) - 19:26, 29 June 2015
- Bronze Age fishermen settled around the fertile estuary of the [[River Usk]] and later ...or new town. The city can sometimes be found labelled as Newport-on-Usk on old maps. The original Welsh-language name for the city, ''Casnewydd-ar-Wysg''14 KB (2,169 words) - 14:28, 12 January 2021
- ....angus.gov.uk/history/features/2004-08-oldarbroath.htm |title=A glimpse of old Arbroath |accessdate=2007-01-06 |publisher=Angus Council }}</ref> ...ettlement of the area now occupied by the town that dates back to the Iron Age. The town, however, was founded in 1178 with the creation of Arbroath Abbe18 KB (2,717 words) - 17:38, 29 January 2016
- ...he coast of the [[Firth of Clyde]], in [[Ayrshire]]. It is however a very old new town: in the 12th century Irvine was Scotland's military capital and h ...he area in the mesolithic). Numerous ancient sites pepper the region. Iron Age Hill forts are abundant.10 KB (1,676 words) - 12:35, 9 August 2019
- The village has two public houses, The Old Plough, and the 17th-century Blue Ball Inn. A curious sculpted stone stands in the churchyard, at the west end of the church, close to the tower2 KB (281 words) - 23:22, 27 February 2018
- Chepstow is most notable for its castle, the oldest surviving stone castle in Britain, and for Chepstow Racecourse which hosts the Welsh Grand ...y about the 14th century had become known in English as Chepstow, from the old English ''ceap / chepe stowe'' meaning market place. The Welsh name for th19 KB (3,086 words) - 09:14, 8 April 2017
- ...ic name possibly meaning "breast-like hill" from ''mamm'' ("breast"). The Old English name ''Mameceaster'' derives from the same root, with ''ceaster'' m Iron Age tribes had a stronghold in the locality at a sandstone outcrop on which Man62 KB (9,049 words) - 15:49, 1 October 2017
- ...project was built by the Cluny family in 1877 to replace the town's first stone harbour in Nether Buckie which was constructed in 1857 a mere mile or so to ...acquired through Royal favour a footing in the district at a still earlier age when the greater part from the Deveron to the Spey was embraced in the Fore21 KB (3,393 words) - 15:04, 6 January 2015
- * The Quelm Stone, a standing stone * Bronze Age round barrow at Bill Hill.9 KB (1,426 words) - 12:27, 9 August 2019
- The village of [[Old Windsor]], just over two miles to the south, predates what is now called Wi ...laeolithic hand-axes, neolithic flint picks, Bronze Age swords and an Iron Age brooch. Although Roman remains are few, there is ample evidence of Anglo-Sa12 KB (1,924 words) - 14:51, 10 January 2020
- ...l in particular);<ref>Dyer ''ibid'', p 23</ref> [[Waulud's Bank]] is stone-age henge dating from around 3000 BC. The Romans established a town at [[Dunst ...and Art Gallery and contains formal gardens. The park is located between ''Old Bedford Road'' and the A6, ''New Bedford Road'' and is within walking dista14 KB (2,215 words) - 12:51, 27 January 2016
