Customs port in North West England, created on 1 January 1894 and closed in 1982.
Porte-cochère
From the French meaning "coach door", also known as a coach gate or carriage porch, a covered porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building that gives access to a vehicle while providing arriving and departing occupants with protection from the elements.
Porticus
Side chamber typically added to the north and south sides of early Christian churches to give the building an overall cruciform plan.
Portwey Hospital
Grade II listed former workhouse and hospital in Weymouth, Dorset, redeveloped in the early 1990s for residential use.
Posset
Drink made from milk curdled by the addition of an acidic liquid such as wine or ale, which evolved into an early form of trifle.
Potovens pottery
Hamlet on the Wakefield Outwood, now known as Wrenthorpe, where small pot works were built.
Potts of Leeds
Company founded in 1833 in Leeds, England to make domestic timepieces , which expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.
Power-loom riots
Rioting by hand loom weavers in 1826 in Lancashire, England, protesting against the introduction of the much more efficient power looms.
Powerdrive
Three-wheeled microcar produced from 1955 until 1957.
Powis Almshouses
Almshouses in Chepstow paid for by a bequest from Thomas Powis in 1716, intended to house six poor men and six poor women.
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