England and the English |
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You can click on the map or use the text menu on the right to zoom in on your area of
interest at county level and from there you can select the district or
borough where we list the local towns and villages, and then down to parish
level many with links to their own websites. On the way you can view photographs, maps, get details of local
events and attractions and an increasing amount of historical and geographical detail.
This section of the British Towns and Villages Network
is dedicated to the English and the counties of England, since is was designed to present the cities, towns and
villages in the setting of their counties. Hence, county by county, it touches
the ways of life, history, geography and communities therein. |
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The urban and densely populated areas of England have now been separated from their old counties and
boroughs to form new Unitary Authorities
. These areas govern themselves under Parliament. It is likely that over the
coming years we will see an expansion of this type of two-tier government.
In a similar manner
London has been divided up into the new London Boroughs.
Visitors to the UK should note that the City of London and
London are two different places. The City being a very small
area within the conurbation of the whole made up of all the London Boroughs and the City of
Westminster
News about England from the BBC
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Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
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Riot police and Rangers fans clash in Manchester, after a big screen showing the Uefa Cup final breaks down.
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A 19-year-old man is charged with the murder of 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen in a bakery in south-east London.
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West Midlands Police and prosecutors are to apologise for accusing the makers of a Channel 4 show of distortion.
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A man is found guilty of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a car roof top box in the couple's garden.
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Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe aims to win his freedom by claiming his human rights have been breached.
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An 18-year-old man is charged with murdering Steven Bigby in London's Oxford Street.
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A hole is ripped into the stern of a £300m luxury British cruise liner as it crashes while docking in Malta.
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A man's body may have been carried for about 100 miles - hidden inside a truckload of waste for recycling.
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This green and pleasant land
The English scene is one of variety that is exhibited not only by the
country as a whole but also by nearly every county within it, albeit
one that is coming under the increasing pressures of development. However
one may still find areas of uniform pastoral scenery. There is scarcely a
county which does not exhibit startling changes of scene, of people and of
occupation. From the densely populated areas in the south east to the wilds
of Dartmoor or the North Yorkshire Moors, the topographic desert of the
Fens, the hills of central England and the mountains of Cumbria the country
is a natural patchwork, one that is perhaps its greatest asset.
Visitors and Tourists
If you are taking your holiday or vacation in England you will find
details of attractions and events throughout this website. As you move
around the site you will discover that we display smaller attractions and
events as you zoom in to local level. Hence you will find "County
Shows" at county level and "Church Fetes" and local fairs at district level.
Organisers of events and owners of attractions of any size are free to
submit to us providing they have a website we can link to.
