Landmarks
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A royal home since 1689, Queen Victoria’s birthplace, and still a working residence for the Prince and Princess of Wales — here’s the deep history and everything you need to plan a visit.
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The working office and London residence of the monarch since 1837, and the backdrop to the Changing the Guard — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit.
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The oldest of Wiltshire’s eight chalk horses, redesigned from scratch in 1778 by a steward some branded a vandal, and now made not of chalk at all but of painted concrete.
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Britain’s largest chalk hill figure, believed ancient for centuries, until sediment analysis in 2021 quietly rewrote his entire history by about two thousand years.
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Britain’s longest show cave, discovered by a Cambridge student following the sound of an underground waterfall, and not fully opened up until Cornish tin miners finished the job seventy years later.
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England’s most powerful waterfall, still slowly eating its way upstream through 700 metres of gorge it has carved since the last Ice Age.
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A 110-metre chalk horse that’s been maintained by local hands for roughly a hundred generations, older than the coins that first depicted its stylised shape.
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A 70-metre wall of white limestone carved by a waterfall that vanished thousands of years ago and, for a few hours in 2015, briefly came back.
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A hill that was once a genuine island, crowned by a roofless tower, said to hide the gateway to the Celtic underworld and the resting place of a king who may never have existed.
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A 200-tonne steel figure that half the country hated before it went up, built on the site of a coal mine, that ended up saving Gateshead’s cultural reputation.