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Forest of Dean Coalfield

The Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire contains one of the smaller coalfields in the British Isles which for hundreds of years was regulated by a system of freemining.

Forglen House

Mansion house that forms the centrepiece of the Forglen estate in the parish of Forglen, northwest of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.

Fortescue Conspiracy

Attempt in 1558 to foretell the duration of the the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Four Feather Falls

Children's' television show about a cowboy with magic guns, the third puppet television show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, and the first to use an early version of Anderson's Supermarionation puppetry.

Frank Harris Fulford

Canadian-born entrepreneur, art collector and businessman

Frank Matcham

English theatre architect and designer, responsible for the design and construction of more than ninety theatres and the redesign and refurbishment of a further eighty throughout the United Kingdom.

Frankpledge

System of joint suretyship common in England throughout the Early and High Middle Ages.

Frederic Leighton

English painter, knighted in 1878.

Frederic W. H. Myers

English poet, classics scholar, and founder member of the Society for Psychical Research.

Frederick Becker

Industrialist with worldwide interests in the manufacture of pulp and paper, owner of Ellon Castle estate from 1919–1929.