Warwick Castle from the bridge over the River Avon, Warwick, Warwickshire, UK. Author: DeFacto.
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View of the port town of Greenock from Auchmountain Road. It was bombed in WW 2 and may have been nuked in if the Cold War went hot. Auothor: Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer).
A Wikipedia map of Cambridgeshire county and it's districts (1974-1995). Attribution: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right.
Aerial view of the Brent Cross interchange, facing north. This once innovative 1965 motorway interchange and may have been nuked in if the Cold War went hot. Author:Isochrone.
A dark seam of coal is clearly visible on the sides of Doultons Clay Pit, in Saltwells Wood to the south of Netherton. Attribution: Brian Clift.
Overview[]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) and colloquially Great Britain (GB) or simply Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy.
The United Kingdom is a developed country and has the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest economy by purchasing power parity.
There is a lot of confusion about the terms United Kingdom and Great Britain. This is unnecessary because UK is short for 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.' Hence Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales; the United Kingdom of these plus Northern Ireland.
It is worth noting, if you want to avoid confusion with the residents, that neither the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm) nor the Isle of Man are part of either of the above entities!
History[]
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Economy[]
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Defence[]
The UK is part of NATO.
Health care[]
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Transport[]
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Hotels and lodging[]
- Jesmond Dene Hotel 27 Argyle Street London, WC1H 8EP Phone: +44 207 837 4654, Fax: +44 207 833 1633]
- Vacapedia.com - Thousands of holiday homes in England
- Lincoln House Hotel: A 3 star accommodation in the heart of central London
- Hotel Victoria Gt. Yarmounth Kings Road, Great Yarmouth, tel. +44(0)1493 843872
- Excelsior Hotel London 42 Argyle Square, WC1H 8AL, tel. +44 (0)207 837 0571, fax. +44 (0)207 713 5835
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- Discount City Hotels 5th floor, Cygnet House, 12-14 Sydenham Road, Croydon CR9 2ET, ENGLAND, UK, Phone: +44 2086803001, Fax: +44 2086037321
Attractions[]
Shopping[]
Maps and transportation[]
Getting to United Kingdom[]
Exploring United Kingdom[]
Practical information and resources[]
A narrowboat of the London Waterbus Company on the Regent's Canal in London, UK Date 10 August 2009 Source Own work Author Cnbrb.
- About-Britain.com guide A thematic guide to Britain for visitors ; useful ideas tips and background information for anyone planning to discover the United Kingdom as a tourist or visitor, or even as a student.
Restaurants[]
Text with links to user-reviews on other pages[]
Nightlife[]
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Photo gallery[]
Edinburgh Castle dominates the Old Town. Author: Kim Traynor.
Arriva Trains Wales 150229 leaves Cardiff Queen Street railway station for Rhymney. Source: Own work by mattbuck.
Willowholme Drive, Belfast. Author: Albert Bridge.
An Arial view of Manchester. Author Daniel Nisbet from Manchester, United Kingdom.
Cycleways in Roundabout in Stevenage. Author: Traveler100.
Pedestrianised Town Centre in Stevenage. Author: Traveler100.
High Street in the Old Town in Stevenage. Author: Traveler100.
A view along Fore Street, St Austell. Author: Mr Eugene Birchall.
The Church of St James the Great in Morpeth was built by the architect Benjamin Ferrey during 1846. Author: Tzdelski13.
Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Author: Chris Wood (User:chris_j_wood).
An aerial view of Cambridge. Author: Cmglee.
The UK's local government district councils of 1972-1995.
Everything else[]
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Also see[]
- 1951 Anglo-Irish air defence treaty
- The Troubles of Ireland
- Gloria (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- "Beasts of England"
- 18 inch Mark XVI torpedo
- 18 inch Mark XVII torpedo
- 1950 United Kingdom general election
- 1950-1954 Commonwealth 21 inch torpedo project
- 1950–1953 Korean War
- 1974 Flixborough (UK) chemical exploitation
- 1982 Falklands War\Guerra de las Malvinas
- 1985–86 Westland affair
- 2000-2010 United Kingdom fuel pricing protests
- 21 inch Mark 20 Bidder torpedo
- 21 inch Mark 21 Pentane torpedo
- 21 inch Mark 23 Grog torpedo
- 21 inch Mark VIII Torpedo
- 21 inch Mark XI torpedo
- AI.24 Foxhunter Radar
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Anglo/French Inter-connector, et all.
- April 2018 United Kingdom heat wave (Wikipedia nearly wiped it).
- Ariel 1
- Arundel
- Astra 1A
- Atomic arsenals
- London, UK
- London:Airports
- Birmingham
- Sheffield
- The UK's "Motorway Dark Ages"
- Baa, Baa, Black sheep variations
- BAE Hawk T1 trainer
- Blairisum and Blairites
- Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile
- Blue Streak missile/rocket
- Blue Vixen Radar
- Bribery Act 2010 (UK)
- Britain's Associated Television company (ATV)
- British Indian Ocean Territories
- British Rail Class 35 diesel locomotive
- British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive
- British Rail Class 73 Electric Locomotive
- British railways and tramways from 1945 to 1990
- British Virgin Islands
- Britten-Norman Islander
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Chalk River nuclear accident
- Chapelcross nuclear power station partial meltdown
- Claudine (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Commissioner of Supply (Scottish job)
- Comparable Engines Corp.
- Confidence-and-supply agreement
- Crown Dependencies
- De Havilland Sea Venom\Aquilon
- De Havilland Venom
- DEFCON 1
- Dr Richard Beeching recommended the closure of small little-used country stations
- England
- English county by size
- English ethnic origins
- Enid (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Estelle (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Eunice (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom
- Eurosceptics
- Eurosceptics and "Little Englanders"
- Federation of the West Indies
- Ferranti
- Folland Midge
- GEC
- George Matthews
- Gloria (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Greenham Air Base
- HAL Ajeet
- Hawker Hurricane
- Hawker Siddeley Harrier
- British Hong Kong
- House of Lords
- How to say "Polaris"
- Ingrid (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT)
- Islington set
- June 24th, 2017, UK parliament cyber-attack
- Lord Louis Mountbatten's very British coup
- Mallard
- Mark 24 Tigerfish torpedo
- Millicent (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Mullard OC170 germanium PNP alloy junction transistor
- Northern Ireland
- Notable UK locomotives and trains 1945 to 1990
- Notable UK railway lines 1945 to 1990
- Notable UK stations 1945 to 1990
- Odette (faked planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Offical Green Papers (UK\EU\the Commonwealth\USA)
- Offical White Papers (UK\USA\Australia\Canada)
- Operation Stack (Brexit, trucking) and Operation Broc (Brexit, trucking)
- Operation Yellowhammer (UK)
- Panavia Tornado ADV
- Perfidious Albion
- Peter Fryer
- Plessey SL201 integrated circuit
- Polish 18 inch torpedo (1945)
- Proctor (British\American job)
- Procurator fiscal
- Prospero X-3
- RAF Akrotiri
- RAF Brize Norton
- RAF Chilmark and Chilmark village
- RAF Croughton
- RAF Fylingdales
- RAF Kinloss
- RAF Longsparrow (faked airfield)
- RAF Molesworth
- RAF Smallcart (faked airfield)
- RAF Spadeadam
- RAF Upper Heyford
- RAF Warboys
- RAF Woodbridge
- Republic of Rhodesia
- Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine
- Scotland
- Short Belfast
- Short SC.1
- The UK government's Beeching Cuts program
- Skynet IV\Skynet 4 (AKA: The "Zircon spy satellite")
- Smethwick West to South Ruislip- was Lord Beaching right or even to blame after all?
- Some interesting historical facts
- Sound bites
- Spearfish torpedo
- SSI small-scale integration and MSI medium-scale integration integrated circuits (1964-71)
- Sting Ray torpedo
- Suez crisis
- Supermarine Spitfire
- The "1970 Barbiturates Crisis"
- The "Glow in the Dark" battalions
- The 'Tamworth Triangle'
- The Beeching Axe
- The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
- The Five Eyes
- The logic behind the 1972, 74, 83 and 84 list of 106 Soviet nuking targets in the UK
- The number of British expats in the EU and Switzerland (2014-2016)
- The number of EU and Swiss expats in the UK (2014-2018)
- The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the UK
- The start of American space travel
- The Troubles of Ireland
- The week of war policy
- Greater London Council
- Greater London
- West Bromwich
- West Midlands
- West Malling
- Manchester
- Liverpool
- Cardiff
- Belfast
- Glasgow
- Southall
- Southampton
- The Windscale reactor fire and 5 Sellafield incidents
- The woman who fell in love with a nuke!
- Thornhill (Southampton)
- Turbo-Union RB199 aircraft turbofan jet engine
- UK atomic war attack predictions and civil defence plans
- UK criminals killed on 'doomsday' 1983 (1983 doomsday)
- UK General Staff 'A' Vehicles
- UK international radio reception on a Tescos Rad-108 Radio (August 2020)
- UK OTL atomic reactors in 1962
- UK wartime regional seats of government
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdoms of England and Scotland
- Victoria (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Vincent (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Wales
- Wartime Broadcasting Service
- Was the Right Honourable Lord Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell a Nazi?
- Westland Whirlwind
- Westland Whirlwind (helicopter)
- Yorkshire
- ZN414 integrated circuit
- "Beasts of England"
- 17 popular UK Cold War era geopolitical myths and false beliefs
- 18 inch Mark XVI torpedo
- 18 inch Mark XVII torpedo
- 1950 United Kingdom general election
- 1950-1954 Commonwealth 21 inch torpedo project
- 1950–1953 Korean War
- 1951 Anglo-Irish air defence treaty
- 1974 Flixborough (UK) chemical exploitation
- 1982 Falklands War\Guerra de las Malvinas
- 1985–86 Westland affair
- 2000-2010 United Kingdom fuel pricing protests
- 21 inch Mark 20 Bidder torpedo
- 21 inch Mark 21 Pentane torpedo
- 21 inch Mark 23 Grog torpedo
- 21 inch Mark VIII Torpedo
- 21 inch Mark XI torpedo
- AI.24 Foxhunter Radar
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Anglo/French Inter-connector, et all.
- April 2018 United Kingdom heat wave (Wikipedia nearly wiped it).
- Ariel 1
- Arundel
- Astra 1A
- Atomic arsenals
- Baa, Baa, Black sheep variations
- BAE Hawk T1 trainer
- Blairisum and Blairites
- Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile
- Blue Streak missile/rocket
- Blue Vixen Radar
- Bribery Act 2010 (UK)
- Britain's Associated Television company (ATV)
- Britain's Greatest Invention (or English hubris)
- British Indian Ocean Territories
- British Rail Class 35 diesel locomotive
- British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive
- British Rail Class 73 Electric Locomotive
- British railways and tramways from 1945 to 1990
- British Virgin Islands
- Britten-Norman Islander
- Carbine, Machine, 9mm, Sten, Mk. I#
- Carbine, Machine, 9mm, Sten, Mk. II
- Carbine, Machine, 9mm, Sten, Mk. III
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Chalk River nuclear accident
- Chapelcross nuclear power station partial meltdown
- Claudine (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Commissioner of Supply (Scottish job)
- Comparable Engines Corp.
- Confidence-and-supply agreement
- Crown Dependencies
- De Havilland Sea Venom\Aquilon
- De Havilland Venom
- DEFCON 1
- Dr Richard Beeching recommended the closure of small little-used country stations
- Edinburgh
- England
- English county by size
- English ethnic origins
- Enid (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Estelle (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Eunice (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom
- Eurosceptics
- Eurosceptics and "Little Englanders"
- Federation of the West Indies
- Ferranti
- Folland Midge
- GEC
- Greater London Council
- Greater Manchester
- Greater London
- George Matthews
- Gloria (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Greenham Air Base
- HAL Ajeet
- Hawker Hurricane
- Hawker Siddeley Harrier
- British Hong Kong
- House of Lords
- How to say "Polaris"
- Ingrid (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT)
- Islington set
- Jebel Akhdar War
- June 24th, 2017, UK parliament cyber-attack
- Lord Louis Mountbatten's very British coup
- Mallard
- Mark 24 Tigerfish torpedo
- Millicent (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Mullard OC170 germanium PNP alloy junction transistor
- Northern Ireland
- Notable UK locomotives and trains 1945 to 1990
- Notable UK railway lines 1945 to 1990
- Notable UK stations 1945 to 1990
- Odette (faked planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Offical Green Papers (UK\EU\the Commonwealth\USA)
- Offical White Papers (UK\USA\Australia\Canada)
- Operation Stack (Brexit, trucking) and Operation Broc (Brexit, trucking)
- Operation Yellowhammer (UK)
- Panavia Tornado ADV
- Perfidious Albion
- Peter Fryer
- Plessey SL201 integrated circuit
- Polish 18 inch torpedo (1945)
- Proctor (British\American job)
- Procurator fiscal
- Prospero X-3
- RAF Akrotiri
- RAF Brize Norton
- RAF Chilmark and Chilmark village
- RAF Croughton
- RAF Fylingdales
- RAF Kinloss
- RAF Longsparrow (faked airfield)
- RAF Molesworth
- RAF Smallcart (faked airfield)
- RAF Spadeadam
- RAF Upper Heyford
- RAF Warboys
- RAF Woodbridge
- Republic of Rhodesia
- Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine
- Scotland
- Short Belfast
- Short SC.1
- Skynet IV\Skynet 4 (AKA: The "Zircon spy satellite")
- Smethwick West to South Ruislip- was Lord Beaching right or even to blame after all?
- Some interesting historical facts
- Sound bites
- Spearfish torpedo
- SSI small-scale integration and MSI medium-scale integration integrated circuits (1964-71)
- Sting Ray torpedo
- Suez crisis
- Supermarine Spitfire
- The "1970 Barbiturates Crisis"
- The "Glow in the Dark" battalions
- The 'Tamworth Triangle'
- The Beeching Axe
- The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
- The Five Eyes
- The logic behind the 1972, 74, 83 and 84 list of 106 Soviet nuking targets in the UK
- The number of British expats in the EU and Switzerland (2014-2016)
- The number of EU and Swiss expats in the UK (2014-2018)
- The probable 1981 nuking pattern for the UK.
- The start of American space travel
- The Troubles of Ireland
- The week of war policy
- The Windscale reactor fire and 5 Sellafield incidents
- The woman who fell in love with a nuke!
- Thornhill (Southampton)
- Turbo-Union RB199 aircraft turbofan jet engine
- UK atomic war attack predictions and civil defence plans
- UK criminals killed on 'doomsday' 1983 (1983 doomsday)
- UK General Staff 'A' Vehicles
- UK international radio reception on a Tescos Rad-108 Radio (August 2020)
- UK OTL atomic reactors in 1962
- UK wartime regional seats of government
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdoms of England and Scotland
- Vickers Type 559
- Victoria (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Vincent (planned 21 inch torpedo)
- Wales
- Warship Class
- Wartime Broadcasting Service
- Was the Right Honourable Lord Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell a Nazi?
- Westland Whirlwind
- Westland Whirlwind (helicopter)
- Yorkshire
- ZN414 integrated circuit
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