Group formed around a number of wealthy and influential English women during the mid-18th century, to debate literature and the arts, and support female education and writing.
Board schools
Schools set up in England and Wales following the passing of the 1870 Education Act, providing state-funded education for five to ten-year-olds.
Bog body
Human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
Boggart Hole Clough
Large woodland area and country park in Greater Manchester, what remains of an ancient woodland.
Boids
Computational model of flocking produced by the computer graphics expert Craig Reynolds in 1986.
Bolton and Leigh Railway
Lancashire's first public railway, promoted as a mineral line in connection with William Hulton's coal pits to the west of his estate at Over Hulton.
Bolton Percy Gatehouse
15th-century building in the village of Bolton Percy near York, the entrance to a courtyard of buildings that included the village rectory.
Bond Bug
The Bond Bug is a small British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile, built from 1970 to 1974 by the Reliant Motor Company. Based on a modified version of the Reliant Robin chassis, with mechanical components from the Reliant Regal, its distinctive feature is its bright tangerine wedge-shaped body.
Boobrie
Shapeshifting entity of the lochs of the west coast of Scotland
Boothstown Mines Rescue Station
Mines rescue station serving the collieries of the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners on the Lancashire Coalfield, opened in 1933.
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