Landmarks
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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.
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The last home of Wales’s most famous poet, perched on a cliff over the Tâf estuary — and the clifftop shed where he wrote until the day he left for New York and never came back.
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The London Eye’s history from a rejected millennium design to London’s most-visited paid attraction, plus verified 2026 ticket prices, hours and how to visit.
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The bell that gave its name to a whole tower — its buried history, its stranger secrets, and everything you need to climb the 334 steps to see it up close