Geography (344 pages found in this category)


Rivington Reservoirs

The Rivington Reservoir Chain, or Rivington Pike Scheme, was built for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks between 1850 and 1857 by Thomas Hawksley.

Rivington Unitarian Chapel

Active place of Unitarian worship in Rivington, Lancashire whose congregation dates from 1662 but the stone not built until 1703.

Rockingham Mausoleum

Monument commissioned by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the second Marquess of Rockingham in 1783.

Rockingham Works

Redirected to Swinton Pottery.

Round Foundry

Engineering works off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds in Yorkshire, built for Fenton, Murray and Wood.

Roundwood

Roundwood is a wooded peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall, where there is evidence of occupation and settlement since at least the Iron Age.

Saddleworth

Civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, in Yorkshire until government reorganisation in 1974.

Salamanca

Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.

Sale Water Park

Parkland including a large artificial lake created by gravel extraction, a wildlife reserve, and part of the surrounding area's flood defences.

Salford Docks

Redirected to Salford Quays.