Generated by All in One SEO Pro v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site.A modern, freely available encyclopedia ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://engole.info/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Welcome to Engole](https://engole.info/) - Modern, freely available encyclopedia - [Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross](https://engole.info/ride-a-cock-horse-to-banbury-cross/) - English nursery rhyme, the earliest known version of which appears in 1784. - [Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance](https://engole.info/mr-humphreys-and-his-inheritance/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about a strange maze and temple on a recently inherited estate in Wiltshire. - [The Man in the Moone](https://engole.info/the-man-in-the-moone/) - Novel by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a "voyage of utopian discovery". - [Servant's Magazine](https://engole.info/servants-magazine/) - Published monthly in England from 1838 until 1869. Priced at one penny, its mission was to provide "improving reading for servant girls". - [The Butterfly (magazine)](https://engole.info/the-butterfly-magazine/) - Literary magazine published from 1893 until 1900, with a gap from 1894 to 1899. - [Lancashire and Cheshire Coalfield](https://engole.info/lancashire-and-cheshire-coalfield/) - One of the most important British coalfields. formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period. - [The Schoolgirl](https://engole.info/the-schoolgirl/) - Story paper for girls published from 1922 until 1940. - [John Nevison](https://engole.info/john-nevison/) - One of Britain's most notorious highwaymen, executed on 4 May 1684. - [The Diary of Mr Poynter](https://engole.info/the-diary-of-mr-poynter/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1919, about an apparently possessed scrap of chintz, said to be a memorial to the hair of a 17th-century nobleman. - [Howley Hall](https://engole.info/howley-hall/) - Ruined Elizabethan country house in Morley, West Yorkshire, designated a scheduled monument in 1997. - [The English Review](https://engole.info/the-english-review/) - Literary magazine published from 1908 until 1937. - [Rhubarb Triangle](https://engole.info/rhubarb-triangle/) - Forced rhubarb growing area in West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell. - [Mines rescue](https://engole.info/mines-rescue/) - Specialised job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines because of accidents, roof falls or floods and disasters such as explosions caused by firedamp. - [Chorlton Poor Law Union](https://engole.info/chorlton-poor-law-union/) - Founded in January 1837, representing 12 parishes in south Manchester. - [Hartley Bank Colliery](https://engole.info/hartley-bank-colliery/) - Former colliery in Netherton, West Yorkshire, opened in 1841 and closed in 1968. - [DRK (car)](https://engole.info/drk-car/) - Three-wheeled kit car produced by DRK Kits of Ellesmere Port, England - [Walter Arnold](https://engole.info/walter-arnold/) - First person in the UK to be fined for speeding. - [Buttock Mail](https://engole.info/buttock-mail/) - Fine payable to the ecclesiastical courts for the crime of fornication, as an alternative to a session on the stool of repentance. - [Mermaid of Zennor](https://engole.info/mermaid-of-zennor/) - Mermaid who enticed a chorister from the local parish church to live with her in the sea. - [Bell-cote](https://engole.info/bell-cote/) - Shelter containing one or more bells. - [Grade I listed buildings in South Derbyshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-south-derbyshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in South Derbyshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in North East Derbyshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-north-east-derbyshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district council of North East Derbyshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in High Peak](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-high-peak/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Erewash](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-erewash/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Erewash, Derbyshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire Dales](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-derbyshire-dales/) - Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire Dales. - [Grade I listed buildings in City of Derby](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-city-of-derby/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of Derby City Council. - [Grade I listed buildings in Chesterfield](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-chesterfield/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Bolsover](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-bolsover/) - Grade 1 listed buildings in the district council of Bolsover. - [Grade I listed buildings in Amber Valley](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-amber-valley/) - Grade I listed buildings in Amber Valley. - [Fantasia Mathematica](https://engole.info/fantasia-mathematica/) - Anthology of stories, humour, poems, etc. on mathematical topics, published in 1958. - [Grade I listed buildings in Wyre](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-wyre/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Wyre, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in West Lancashire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-west-lancashire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of West Lancashire, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in South Ribble](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-south-ribble/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of South Ribble, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Ribble Valley](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-ribble-valley/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Ribble Valley, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Preston](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-preston/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Preston, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Pendle](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-pendle/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Pendle, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Lancaster](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-lancaster/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Lancaster, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Hyndburn](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-hyndburn/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Hyndburn, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Fylde](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-fylde/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Fylde, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Chorley](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-chorley/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Burnley](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-burnley/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Burnley, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Blackburn with Darwen](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-blackburn-with-darwen/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen, in Lancashire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Blackpool](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-blackpool/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of Blackpool, in Lancashire. - [Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin](https://engole.info/chantry-chapel-of-st-mary-the-virgin/) - Usually known as Wakefield Chantry Chapel, part of the medieval bridge over the River Calder in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. - [Cheshire cat](https://engole.info/cheshire-cat/) - Fictional character that appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). - [Sebastian Pether](https://engole.info/sebastian-pether/) - English landscape painter (1790–1844) who specialised in moonlight views and nocturnal conflagarations. - [Day and Night](https://engole.info/day-and-night-2/) - Woodcut by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, created in 1938, one of his most popular prints. - [Myrmecoleon](https://engole.info/myrmecoleon/) - Usually considered to be a mythical creature of legend, it has also been identified as a rock hyrax. - [Twelve Stories and a Dream](https://engole.info/twelve-stories-and-a-dream/) - Collection of 13 short stories by H. G. Wells, first published in 1903. - [Frank Harris Fulford](https://engole.info/frank-harris-fulford/) - Canadian-born entrepreneur, art collector and businessman - [Calder and Hebble Navigation](https://engole.info/calder-and-hebble-navigation/) - Constructed between 1758 and 1834, the navigation makes the River Calder navigable between Sowerby Bridge and Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. - [Dream (Escher)](https://engole.info/dream-escher/) - Woodcut by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, created in 1935. - [Relativity (Escher)](https://engole.info/relativity-escher/) - Lithograph by the Dutch Artist M. C. Escher, created in 1953. - [St Mark's Church, Worsley](https://engole.info/st-marks-church-worsley/) - Active Anglican parish church in Worsley, Greater Manchester with an unusual thirteen-striking clock - [Grade I listed buildings in Denbighshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-denbighshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in Denbighshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Tyne and Wear](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-tyne-and-wear/) - Grade I listed buildings in Tyne and Wear. - [Grade I listed buildings in Sunderland](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-sunderland/) - Grade I listed buildings in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. - [All Saints Church, Odell](https://engole.info/all-saints-church-odell/) - Grade I listed active Anglican church in the Bedfordshire village of Odell. - [Grade I listed buildings in Nottinghamshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-nottinghamshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, split into the seven district councils plus the unitary authority of City of Nottingham. - [Oculus](https://engole.info/oculus/) - Round window in a wall, or an opening in the top of a dome. - [St Kenneth's Chapel](https://engole.info/st-kenneths-chapel/) - Ruined chapel and Scheduled Monument on the island of Inch Kenneth in Argyle and Bute, Scotland. - [Four Feather Falls](https://engole.info/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. - [Grade I listed buildings in Melton](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-melton/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Melton, Leicestershire. - [Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary](https://engole.info/mary-mary-quite-contrary/) - English nursery rhyme that may be about Queen Mary I. - [Grade I listed buildings in Stockton-on-Tees](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-stockton-on-tees/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. - [Grade I listed buildings in Broxtowe](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-broxtowe/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire. - [Portwey Hospital](https://engole.info/portwey-hospital/) - Grade II listed former workhouse and hospital in Weymouth, Dorset, redeveloped in the early 1990s for residential use. - [Grade I listed buildings in Gateshead](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-gateshead/) - Grade I listed buildings in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. - [Greystead Bridge](https://engole.info/greystead-bridge/) - Grade II pedestrian suspension bridge across the River North Tyne at Greystead, Northumberland, built in 1862. - [Grade I listed buildings in South Tyneside](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-south-tyneside/) - Grade I listed buildings in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear. - [Grade I listed buildings in North Tyneside](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-north-tyneside/) - Grade I listed buildings in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear. - [Sale, Greater Manchester](https://engole.info/sale-greater-manchester/) - One of the four major urban areas in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester. - [Ingham Colliery](https://engole.info/ingham-colliery/) - Former colliery to the north of the village of Thornhill in West Yorkshire. - [To a Louse](https://engole.info/to-a-louse/) - Poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, first published in 1786. - [Mariana](https://engole.info/mariana/) - Painting by the Pre-Raphealite John Everett Millais, depicting a character from William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. - [Ambulatory](https://engole.info/ambulatory/) - General term for a covered walkway, and more specifically for the walkway linking the two chancel aisles behind the high altar. - [Grade I listed buildings in City of Nottingham](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-city-of-nottingham/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. - [Windsor witches](https://engole.info/windsor-witches/) - Four women from Windsor executed for witchcraft in 1579. - [There Was a Crooked Man](https://engole.info/there-was-a-crooked-man/) - English nursery rhyme that first appeared in print in 1842. - [Piece Hall](https://engole.info/piece-hall/) - Rare example of a largely intact exchange for trading woollen and worsted cloth pieces - [Holloway Brooch](https://engole.info/holloway-brooch/) - Awarded to women imprisoned in Holloway for militant suffragette activity, by the Women's Social and Political Union. - [Church of St. Philip and St James, Alderley Edge](https://engole.info/church-of-st-philip-and-st-james-alderley-edge/) - Active Anglican church in the village of Alderley Edge, Cheshire. - [Lucarne](https://engole.info/lucarne/) - Small gabled opening in a roof or spire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Charnwood](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-charnwood/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Charnwood, Leicestershire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Blaby](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-blaby/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Blaby, Leicestershire. - [Narthex](https://engole.info/narthex/) - Vestibule before the main entrance to a Christian church, less sacred than the church proper. - [John Blenkinsop](https://engole.info/john-blenkinsop/) - Mining engineer at Charles Brandling’s Middleton Collieries who patented a rack and pinion system for a steam locomotive and commissioned the first practical railway locomotive from Fenton, Murray and Wood’s Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds in 1811. - [Brig o' Doon](https://engole.info/brig-o-doon/) - Late medieval bridge in Ayrshire, Scotland, best known as the setting for the final verse of Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter. - [Chorlton Library](https://engole.info/chorlton-library/) - Built in 1914, one of the 660 libraries funded in Britain by the Scottish-American steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. - [The Penny Magazine](https://engole.info/the-penny-magazine/) - Illustrated British magazine aimed at a working-class readership, published from 1832 until 1845. - [Ascending and Descending](https://engole.info/ascending-and-descending/) - Lithograph created by the Dutch Artist M. C. Escher in 1960, one of his depictions of impossible buildings. - [Waterfall (Escher)](https://engole.info/waterfall-escher/) - Lithograph by M. C. Escher, depicting an impossible perpetual motion machine. - [Belvedere](https://engole.info/belvedere/) - Lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, created in 1958. - [Alice Nutter](https://engole.info/alice-nutter/) - One of the 11 men and women found guilty of causing harm by witchcraft in the Pendle witch trials of 1612, unique among the accused in being a respectable wealthy widow. - [As I was going to St. Ives](https://engole.info/as-i-was-going-to-st-ives/) - Nursery rhyme in the form of a puzzle, to which the correct answer is open to debate. - [Dun (fortification)](https://engole.info/dun-fortification/) - Scottish and Irish Gaelic word for a small fortress, or fortified dwelling place. - [Penrose triangle](https://engole.info/penrose-triangle/) - Visual representation of a triangular frame that could not exist in three-dimensional space. - [Penrose staircase](https://engole.info/penrose-staircase/) - Impossible figure based on a staircase in the form of a continuous loop that seems to rise endlessly. - [A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery](https://engole.info/a-philosopher-lecturing-on-the-orrery/) - 1766 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, depicting a lecturer giving a demonstration of an orrery. - [Burial Act 1852](https://engole.info/burial-act-1852/) - Act of parliament to prohibit burials in the metropolis of London. - [Sanctuary ring](https://engole.info/sanctuary-ring/) - Church door ornamentation, the grasping of which granted sanctuary to fugitives. - [Astley and Bedford Mosses](https://engole.info/astley-and-bedford-mosses/) - Areas of peat bog south of the Bridgewater Canal and north of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Astley and Bedford, Leigh, England. - [Grade I listed buildings in Halton](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-halton/) - Grade I listed buildings in the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Warrington](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-warrington/) - Grade I listed buildings in the borough of Warrington, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. - [Grade I Listed Buildings in Cheshire East](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-cheshire-east/) - Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire East, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. - [Perranarworthal](https://engole.info/perranarworthal/) - Mostly rural parish in West Cornwall. - [Keuper Marl](https://engole.info/keuper-marl/) - Now deprecated term for multiple layers of mudstone and siltstone that occur beneath parts of the English Midlands and beyond. - [Concealed shoes](https://engole.info/concealed-shoes/) - Shoes hidden in the fabric of a building that may have been concealed as charms to protect the occupants of the building against evil influences such as demons, ghosts and witches - [Autointoxication](https://engole.info/autointoxication/) - Outmoded view that ill health can be caused by toxins generated in the gut. - [King's Evil](https://engole.info/kings-evil/) - Name given in medieval times to scrofula, a swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck caused by tuberculosis. - [Grade I listed buildings in Tunbridge Wells](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-tunbridge-wells/) - Grade I listed buildings in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. - [Extrasensory perception](https://engole.info/extrasensory-perception/) - Supposed ability to recieve information about the world independently of the use of the recognised senses. - [Grade I listed buildings in Thanet](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-thanet/) - Grade I listed buildings in Thanet, Kent. - [Grade I listed buildings in Kent](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-kent/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Kent. - [Satire on False Perspective](https://engole.info/satire-on-false-perspective/) - Work by the English artist and printmaker William Hogarth (1697–1764). - [Grade I listed buildings in Dartford](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-dartford/) - Grade I listed buildings in Dartford, Kent. - [Grade I listed buildings in Gravesham](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-gravesham/) - Grade I listed buildings in Gravesham, Kent. - [St Margaret's Church, Horsmonden](https://engole.info/st-margarets-church-horsmonden/) - Grade I listed Anglican church in Horsmonden, Kent. - [Church of St Margaret, Darenth](https://engole.info/church-of-st-margaret-darenth/) - Active Anglican Church in the village of Darenth, Kent, believed to be the sixth oldest in the UK. - [All Saint’s Church, Ledsham](https://engole.info/all-saints-church-ledsham/) - Active Anglican church in Ledsham, West Yorkshire, possibly the oldest extant building in the county. - [Hollingbourne Manor](https://engole.info/hollingbourne-manor/) - Grade I listed manor house in the village of Hollingbourne, Kent, built in about 1570. - [Eye (mezzotint)](https://engole.info/eye-mezzotint/) - Mezzotint by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first published in 1946. - [Drawing Hands](https://engole.info/drawing-hands/) - Lithograph by M. C. Escher, created in 1948. - [Three Spheres II](https://engole.info/three-spheres-ii/) - Lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first published in 1946. - [Hand with Reflecting Globe](https://engole.info/hand-with-reflecting-globe/) - Lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first published in 1935. - [Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis](https://engole.info/janet-douglas-lady-glamis/) - Scottish aristocrat executed in 1537 for treason. Modern day academics highlight that earlier accounts declaring she was tried for witchcraft are inaccurate. - [Mark Sheridan](https://engole.info/mark-sheridan/) - English music-hall comedian and singer, whose recording popularised the song "I do like to be beside the Seaside". - [The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper](https://engole.info/the-queer-story-of-brownlows-newspaper/) - Short story by H. G. Wells in which the protagonist receives a newspaper printed forty years in the future. - [Greyfriars Bobby](https://engole.info/greyfriars-bobby/) - Skye Terrier who supposedly spent fourteen years guarding the grave of his owner in 19th-century Edinburgh, until his own death on 14 January 1872. - [Henley Bridge](https://engole.info/henley-bridge/) - Grade I listed road bridge over the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames, between Oxfordshire and Berkshire. - [Pearson's Magazine](https://engole.info/pearsons-magazine/) - Monthly publication founded by Cyril Arthur Pearson, published 1896–1939, the first British periodical to include a crossword. - [Grade I listed buildings in North West Leicestershire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-north-west-leicestershire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire. - [English Mechanic](https://engole.info/english-mechanic/) - UK's first kit car, 1900. - [The Apparition of Mrs. Veal](https://engole.info/the-apparition-of-mrs-veal/) - Account of a ghostly visitation said to have occurred in Canterbury in 1705. - [The Bottle Conjuror](https://engole.info/the-bottle-conjuror/) - 18th-century hoax featuring an acrobat inserting his body into an empty wine bottle. - [Jack Sprat](https://engole.info/jack-sprat/) - English nursery rhyme first recorded in the form we know it today in 1670. - [The Burning Giraffe](https://engole.info/the-burning-giraffe/) - Oil painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, created in 1937. - [Bile Beans](https://engole.info/bile-beans/) - Laxative and tonic - [Grade I listed buildings in Sefton](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-sefton/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside. - [Grade I listed buildings in Sheffield](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-sheffield/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Doncaster](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-doncaster/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Barnsley](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-barnsley/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Rotherham](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-rotherham/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire. - [Hey Diddle Diddle](https://engole.info/hey-diddle-diddle/) - Best-known nonsense verse in the English language, which gave rise to the phrase "over the moon". - [John Henry Mole](https://engole.info/john-henry-mole/) - English artist (1814–1886) who became a professional miniature painter in 1835, later focusing on landscapes and portraits of children. - [Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-lancashire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, split into the fourteen authorities making up the county. - [All Saints' Church, Urmston](https://engole.info/all-saints-church-urmston/) - Grade I listed Roman Catholic Church in Urmston, Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Isle of Wight](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-isle-of-wight/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county and unitary authority of Isle of Wight. - [Grade I listed buildings in Rutland](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-rutland/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county and unitary authority of Rutland. - [Grade I listed buildings in Wigan](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-wigan/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Trafford](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-trafford/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Tameside](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-tameside/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Salford](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-salford/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Stockport](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-stockport/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Rochdale](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-rochdale/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Manchester](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-manchester/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Bury](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-bury/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Bolton](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-bolton/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester. - [St Thomas of Canterbury, Newport, Isle of Wight](https://engole.info/st-thomas-of-canterbury-newport-isle-of-wight/) - Catholic church in Newport, Isle of Wight, the first Catholic church to be built following the Catholic Relief Act 1791. - [Patrick Milne of Crimonmogate](https://engole.info/patrick-milne-of-crimonmogate/) - Wealthy Scottish merchant, politician, and landowner who commissioned Aberdeen architects to design two houses - [John Smith, architect](https://engole.info/john-smith-architect/) - Scottish architect who contributed significantly to the architecture of Aberdeen - [Rumpelstiltskin](https://engole.info/rumpelstiltskin/) - Fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, telling of an imp able to spin straw into gold, and the price he demands for his service - [Corpse road](https://engole.info/corpse-road/) - Roads that once provided the means of transporting the dead to churchyards for burial. - [Seely wights](https://engole.info/seely-wights/) - Fairy-like creatures at the centre of a shamanistic Scottish cult that existed in the 16th century. Members claimed to be able to enter into a trance which allowed them to fly out at night on swallows, and join with the seely wights. - [Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1908)](https://engole.info/gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may-1908/) - Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), the first of two paintings he produced with the same title. - [Jean Weir](https://engole.info/jean-weir/) - Scottish woman tried for witchcraft and incest, executed on 12 April 1670. - [Incest Act 1567](https://engole.info/incest-act-1567/) - Act of the Parliament of Scotland, the basis of incest laws in that country to the present day. - [Off the Dole](https://engole.info/off-the-dole/) - 1935 British film starring George as an unemployed man forced to become a private detective when his dole money is stopped, because he has not been looking for work. - [Witch-Finding](https://engole.info/witch-finding/) - Methods used to identify witches, once believed to provide sufficient evidence to achieve a conviction in a court of law. - [Jamie Fleeman](https://engole.info/jamie-fleeman/) - Probably the last Scottish family jester, better known as "the Laird of Udny's Fool" or "the Laird of Udny's Fule" - [Trafford Park](https://engole.info/trafford-park/) - First planned industrial estate in the world, and still the largest in Europe. - [National Covenant (1638)](https://engole.info/national-covenant-1638/) - Document signed in Scotland in 1638, in response to King Charles I's attempt to unify the Churches of England and Scotland. - [Acoustic mirror](https://engole.info/acoustic-mirror/) - Early method of detecting approaching aircraft, superseded by radar in the 1930s. - [Sound mirror](https://engole.info/sound-mirror/) - Redirected to Acoustic mirror. - [Saddleworth](https://engole.info/saddleworth/) - Civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, in Yorkshire until government reorganisation in 1974. - [Cornice](https://engole.info/cornice/) - Horizontal moulding crowning a building or part of a building, such as over a door or window, or at the junction of an interior wall and ceiling. - [Hermia and Lysander](https://engole.info/hermia-and-lysander/) - Watercolour painting created in 1870 by British illustrator and miniature portrait painter John Simmons. - [A Winter Scene with Skaters Near a Castle](https://engole.info/a-winter-scene-with-skaters-near-a-castle/) - Oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634). - [Stretford Library](https://engole.info/stretford-library/) - Opened in 1940 and badly damaged a month later during the Manchester Blitz. Rebuilt in 1953, and now a Local Heritage Asset. - [Listed building](https://engole.info/listed-building/) - Structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. - [Circe](https://engole.info/circe/) - Two oil on canvas sketches by the English artist John William Waterhouse - [Astley](https://engole.info/astley/) - Village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, formerly a coal-mining area, but now part of a commuter belt for the nearby city of Manchester. - [Doctrine of signatures](https://engole.info/doctrine-of-signatures/) - Observation that the form of a medicinal plant in some way resembles the organ or disease it can be used to treat. - [Historic Environment Scotland](https://engole.info/historic-environment-scotland/) - Executive non-departmental public body responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland's historic environment. - [Nostell Colliery](https://engole.info/nostell-colliery/) - Former colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, about four and a half miles south east of Wakefield, on the Nostell Priory estate. - [St James and St Paul, Marton](https://engole.info/st-james-and-st-paul-marton/) - Grade I listed active Anglican church in the Cheshire village of Marton, founded in 1343, and possibly the oldest church building of its type still in use today. - [The Unwelcome Companion: A Street Scene in Cairo](https://engole.info/the-unwelcome-companion-a-street-scene-in-cairo/) - Early painting by John William Waterhouse, predating his adoption of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood‘s style and subject matter from the 1880s. - [Unitary authority](https://engole.info/unitary-authority/) - Local government administrative unit in the UK. - [The Diverting History of John Gilpin](https://engole.info/the-diverting-history-of-john-gilpin/) - Comic poem by the English poet William Cowper, first published in 1782. - [Fachan](https://engole.info/fachan/) - Monstrous creature of the Scottish Highlands. - [The Political Register](https://engole.info/the-political-register/) - Radical newspaper founded by William Cobbett in 1802, and published weekly until his death in 1835. - [Crewe's Act 1782](https://engole.info/crewes-act-1782/) - Act of Parliament to disenfranchise all government officials involved in the collection or management of statutory duties. - [The Orphan (painting)](https://engole.info/the-orphan-painting/) - 1834 genre painting by the Scottish artist William Allan, a lament for the loss of his friend Sir Walter Scott. - [Enid Blyton](https://engole.info/enid-blyton/) - English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. - [Church of St Edward the Confessor, Romford](https://engole.info/church-of-st-edward-the-confessor-romford/) - Place of worship in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering, an Anglican church in the Diocese of Chelmsford - [Witches of Belvoir](https://engole.info/witches-of-belvoir/) - Mother and her two daughters executed for witchcraft at Lincoln in 1619 - [Manchester Blitz](https://engole.info/manchester-blitz/) - Heavy bombing of the city of Manchester and its surrounding areas in North West England during the Second World War by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. - [Stretford Public Hall](https://engole.info/stretford-public-hall/) - Stretford Public Hall, built in 1878 by John Rylands. - [John Rylands](https://engole.info/john-rylands/) - 19th-century English entrepreneur and philanthropist - [The Life and Death of Harriett Frean](https://engole.info/the-life-and-death-of-harriett-frean/) - Novel by the English author May Sinclair (1836–1946) an account of the life of a female raised to be the perfect Vicorian woman. - [Select Conversations with an Uncle](https://engole.info/select-conversations-with-an-uncle/) - Collection of 12 humorous conversations between George and his uncle, and two reminiscences, by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. - [Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff](https://engole.info/predictions-of-isaac-bickerstaff/) - Pseudonym used by the satirist Jonathan Swift in a hoax predicting the "infallible" death of John Partridge, a well-known 18th-century astrologer and almanac maker, on 29 March 1708. - [Amenity society](https://engole.info/amenity-society/) - Organisation tasked with monitoring the planning and development of listed structures. - [My Second Sermon](https://engole.info/my-second-sermon/) - Fancy picture by the English artist John Everett Millais, created in 1864, depicting a young girl who has fallen asleep while listening to a church sermon. - [Magee Marshall & Company](https://engole.info/magee-marshall-company/) - Magee Marshall & Company operated from the Crown Brewery in Bolton from 1888 until 1958 - [Municipal Borough of Leigh](https://engole.info/municipal-borough-of-leigh/) - Local government district in Lancashire, England, created in 1899 and abolished in 1974. - [The Daily News (London)](https://engole.info/the-daily-news-london/) - Liberal UK national daily newspaper founded by Charles Dickens, published from 1846 until 1930. - [St Lawrence, Denton](https://engole.info/st-lawrence-denton/) - Grade II* listed church in Denton, Greater Manchester, one of only 29 surviving timber-framed churches in England. - [Ferry Bridge](https://engole.info/ferry-bridge/) - Historically important crossing over the River Aire in North Yorkshire, designed by John Carr. - [Tickle Cock Bridge](https://engole.info/tickle-cock-bridge/) - Pedestrian underpass in Castleford, England, under a railway line originally built by the York and North Midland Railway between York and Normanton. - [Lever Park, Rivington](https://engole.info/lever-park-rivington/) - Grade II listed country park between Rivington ‌in Lancashire and Horwich in Greater Manchester. - [Number Seven, Queer Street](https://engole.info/number-seven-queer-street/) - Collection of supernatural detective short stories by the English writer and illustrator Margery Lawrence (1889–1969), first published in 1945. - [The Country of the Blind and Other Stories](https://engole.info/the-country-of-the-blind-and-other-stories/) - Collection of 33 short stories by H. G. Wells, first published in 1911. - [Tales of Space and Time](https://engole.info/tales-of-space-and-time/) - Collection of three short stories and two novellas by H. G. Wells, first published in 1899. - [The Stolen Body](https://engole.info/the-stolen-body/) - Short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1898, about two paranormal researchers one of whom loses his body to an evil spirit. - [Jack Be Nimble](https://engole.info/jack-be-nimble/) - Nursery rhyme first published in 1844. - [Protocols of the Elders of Zion](https://engole.info/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion/) - Antisemitic hoax and forgery, arguably the most damaging fraud in human history. - [Grade I listed buildings in Hertfordshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-hertfordshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in Hertfordshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Welwyn Hatfield](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-welwyn-hatfield/) - Grade I listed buildings in Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Three Rivers](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-three-rivers/) - Grade I listed buildings in Three Rivers, Hertfordshire. - [Million Lottery](https://engole.info/million-lottery/) - First English state lottery, launched in 1694 to help finance King William's War with France. - [Grade I listed buildings in Broxbourne](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-broxbourne/) - Grade I listed buildings in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Hertsmere](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-hertsmere/) - Grade I listed buildings in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Stevenage](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-stevenage/) - Grade I listed buildings in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Watford](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-watford/) - Grade I listed buildings in Watford, Hertfordshire. - [Nantwich Workhouse](https://engole.info/nantwich-workhouse/) - Grade II listed building and former workhouse in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, built in 1779–1780 to accommodate up to 350 paupers. - [Kemerton Court](https://engole.info/kemerton-court/) - Grade II* listed manor house in the village of Kemerton, Worcestershire. - [Tonbridge Castle](https://engole.info/tonbridge-castle/) - Early Norman castle in Tonbridge, Kent. - [Margaret Gere](https://engole.info/margaret-gere/) - English artist (1878–1965) who often worked in tempera on portraits, still lifes and narrative scenes. - [Church of St Peter, Reighton](https://engole.info/church-of-st-peter-reighton/) - Grade II* listed Anglican church in Reighton, North Yorkshire, parts of which date from the 12th century. - [St Martin's Church, Ashton upon Mersey](https://engole.info/st-martins-church-ashton-upon-mersey/) - Grade II* listed church in Sale, Greater Manchester. - [Kneeler](https://engole.info/kneeler/) - Masonry at the foot of a gable. Also the piece of furniture used for resting in a kneeling position during Christian prayer. - [Chancel](https://engole.info/chancel/) - Part of a church containing the altar, used by the officiating clergy. - [Eleanor Cobham](https://engole.info/eleanor-cobham/) - English noblewoman forcibly divorced from her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy. - [Margery Jourdemayne](https://engole.info/margery-jourdemayne/) - English woman burnt at the stake for heretical witchcraft in 1441. - [Ryhope Engines Museum](https://engole.info/ryhope-engines-museum/) - Former water pumping station in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. - [Charles March Gere](https://engole.info/charles-march-gere/) - English painter, book illustrator, and stained glass and embroidery designer (1869–1957). - [Household Words](https://engole.info/household-words/) - Weekly literary magazine "conducted" by Charles Dickens, published from 1850 to 1859. - [Once a Week (magazine)](https://engole.info/once-a-week-magazine/) - British weekly illustrated literary magazine published from 1859 to 1880. - [Bakewell Bridge](https://engole.info/bakewell-bridge/) - 14th-century bridge over the River Wye in Bakewell, Derbyshire. - [Claude Duval](https://engole.info/claude-duval/) - Highwayman who, according to popular legend, showed courtesy to his victims and chivalry to their womenfolk, thus spawning the myth of the romantic highwayman. - [Claude Duval (painting)](https://engole.info/claude-duval-painting/) - History painting by William Frith, created in 1860, depicting the gentleman highwayman Claude Duval holding up a coach. - [Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-derbyshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, split into the eight district councils and one unitary authority. - [The Grand Old Duke of York](https://engole.info/the-grand-old-duke-of-york/) - English nursery rhyme the lyrics of which have become proverbial for futile action. - [Stretford](https://engole.info/stretford/) - One of the four major urban areas in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester. - [Grade I listed buildings in Luton](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-luton/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of Luton, Bedfordshire. - [Mines and Collieries Act 1842](https://engole.info/mines-and-collieries-act-1842/) - Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting all females and boys under ten years of age from working underground in coal mines. - [Bolton and Leigh Railway](https://engole.info/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. - [Christopher Saxton](https://engole.info/christopher-saxton/) - English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales. - [John Atkinson Grimshaw](https://engole.info/john-atkinson-grimshaw/) - English landscape painter best known for his depictions of moonlight urban scenes and damp, autumnal lanes often featuring a lonely house and a single figure. - [Wainhouse Tower](https://engole.info/wainhouse-tower/) - Landmark folly and Grade II* listed building in King Cross, Halifax, West Yorkshire. - [The Door in the Wall and Other Stories](https://engole.info/the-door-in-the-wall-and-other-stories/) - Collection of eight short stories by H. G. Wells, first published in 1911. - [Inchcape](https://engole.info/inchcape/) - Reef about eleven miles (18 km) off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, near Dundee and Fife, occupied by the Bell Rock Lighthouse. - [Grade I listed buildings in Harborough](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-harborough/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Harborough, Leicestershire. - [Newgate calendar](https://engole.info/newgate-calendar/) - Genre of publications chronicling the crimes and punishments of notorious criminals. - [The Victory of Faith (painting)](https://engole.info/the-victory-of-faith-painting/) - Painting by the Irish artist Saint George Hare, depicting two sleeping nude women, apparently Christian martyrs, sentenced to be devoured by beasts. - [Doggerel](https://engole.info/doggerel/) - Clumsy and awkward verse often employed for comic effect. - [Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert](https://engole.info/lady-rachel-workman-macrobert/) - Geologist, cattle breeder, an active feminist and creator of the MacRobert Trust, a charity that supports the RAF and others - [Grade I listed buildings in Gedling](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-gedling/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Gedling, Nottinghamshire. - [Certain Personal Matters](https://engole.info/certain-personal-matters/) - Collection of 39 mainly humorous essays and articles by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. - [Act of Supremacy 1534](https://engole.info/act-of-supremacy-1534/) - Act of Parliament acknowledging King Henry VIII as the supreme leader of the Church of England. - [Skyhooks (Trafford Park)](https://engole.info/skyhooks-trafford-park/) - Pair of 18-metre high statues at the northern entrance to Trafford Park, erected in 1995 to mark the area's regeneration. - [Grade I listed buildings in Wigan](https://engole.info/__trashed/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester. - [Penny reading](https://engole.info/penny-reading/) - Form of popular entertainment that arose in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. - [Barn Hill Meadows](https://engole.info/barn-hill-meadows/) - Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest In the East Riding of Yorkshire. - [Allard Specials](https://engole.info/allard-specials/) - Series of one-off competition cars produced between 1934 and 1939 - [The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James](https://engole.info/the-collected-ghost-stories-of-m-r-james/) - Collection of all but four of the ghost stories written by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1931. - [Corn Exchange, Fakenham](https://engole.info/corn-exchange-fakenham/) - Grade II listed former corn exchange in Fakenham, Norfolk, now used as a cinema. - [Cornish tin stamps](https://engole.info/cornish-tin-stamps/) - Large machines for crushing tin and copper ore. - [Glen Loy Aqueduct](https://engole.info/glen-loy-aqueduct/) - Category A designated aqueduct carrying the Caledonian Canal over the River Loy in Inverness-shire, Scotland. - [The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke](https://engole.info/the-fairy-fellers-master-stroke/) - Painting by the English artist Richard Dadd (1817–1886), considered to be his masterpiece. - [William Hulton](https://engole.info/william-hulton/) - Landowner who lived at Hulton Hall in Lancashire, notorious for his part in the Peterloo Massacre. - [Zong Massacre](https://engole.info/zong-massacre/) - Massacre of more than 130 African slaves, thrown overboard when the ship carrying them ran out of drinking water. - [Barfoot Aqueduct](https://engole.info/barfoot-aqueduct/) - Grade II designated aqueduct carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the River Mersey at Stretford, Greater Manchester. - [Lady Godiva's Prayer](https://engole.info/lady-godivas-prayer/) - History painting by Edwin Landseer, completed in 1865, depicting Lady Godiva preparing for her apocryphal ride through Coventry. - [History painting](https://engole.info/history-painting/) - Artistic genre characterised by its depiction of a moment in a story usually taken from Greek or Roman mythology, or the Bible, in an elevated and morally edifying manner. - [Robert Kirk](https://engole.info/robert-kirk/) - Church of Scotland minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist - [Montezuma's Daughter](https://engole.info/montezumas-daughter/) - Novel by H. Rider Haggard published in 1893, the last of his best work. - [Turlington's Balsam](https://engole.info/turlingtons-balsam/) - Patent medicine developed by English merchant Robert Turlington in 1744 - [The Laboratory (painting)](https://engole.info/the-laboratory-painting/) - Painting by John Collier (1850–1934), depicting a young woman acquirig poison from an alchemist. - [The Storm (1704)](https://engole.info/the-storm-1704/) - Account by Daniel Defoe of the great storm of 1703, the first work of modern journalism - [Blackstone Edge](https://engole.info/blackstone-edge/) - Gritstone escarpment in the South Pennines rising to 1,549 feet (472 m) above sea level - [Bubble Act 1720](https://engole.info/bubble-act-1720/) - Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to prohibit the formation of new joint-stock companies unless approved by royal charter - [Summis desiderantes affectibus](https://engole.info/summis-desiderantes-affectibus/) - Papal bull regarding witchcraft issued by Pope Innocent VIII on 5 December 1484. - [Cymon and Iphigenia (painting)](https://engole.info/cymon-and-iphigenia-painting/) - Undated oil on canvas painting by the English artist Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton - [The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania](https://engole.info/the-quarrel-of-oberon-and-titania/) - Oil on canvas painting by the Scottish artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton - [Grim Tales](https://engole.info/grim-tales/) - Collection of short stories by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1893. - [Blue men of the Minch](https://engole.info/blue-men-of-the-minch/) - Mythological creatures who seek out sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink. - [Education Act 1496](https://engole.info/education-act-1496/) - Act of the Scottish Parliament to make education mandatory for the eldest sons of barons and freeholders. - [Clock Tower, Clevedon](https://engole.info/clock-tower-clevedon/) - Presented to the town in 1898 by Sir Edmund Elton, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. - [Clifton Aqueduct](https://engole.info/clifton-aqueduct/) - Grade II listed aqueduct in Clifton, Greater Manchester, crossing the River Irwell on the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal. - [Prestolee Aqueduct](https://engole.info/prestolee-aqueduct/) - Grade II listed aqueduct in Prestolee, Kearsley, Greater Manchester, crossing the River Irwell on the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal. - [Stanley Ferry Aqueduct](https://engole.info/stanley-ferry-aqueduct/) - World's largest cast-iron aqueduct when it was built between 1837 and 1839. - [Barton Swing Aqueduct](https://engole.info/barton-swing-aqueduct/) - First and only swing aqueduct in the world, carrying the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894. - [Barton Aqueduct](https://engole.info/barton-aqueduct/) - Designed by James Brindley and opened in 1761, carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the River Irwell at Barton-upon-Irwell. - [Worthington Hall, Wigan](https://engole.info/worthington-hall-wigan/) - Elizabethan farmhouse in Wigan - [Renishaw Hall](https://engole.info/renishaw-hall/) - Country house to the west of Renishaw village in Derbyshire England, home to the Sitwell family since the early 17th century. - [The Plattner Story and Others](https://engole.info/the-plattner-story-and-others/) - Collection of 17 short stories by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. - [Alice Glaston](https://engole.info/alice-glaston/) - Probably the youngest female to be legally executed in England, in 1546. - [Hush-a-bye Baby](https://engole.info/hush-a-bye-baby/) - Perhaps the best-known English lullaby, the earliest known version of which was published in about 1765. - [Burying in Woollens Acts](https://engole.info/burying-in-woollens-acts/) - Law to support the domestic woollen trade - [The Lancashire Witches](https://engole.info/the-lancashire-witches/) - Novel by William Harrison Ainsworth, first published in 1848. Based on the true story of the Pendle witches, it is the only one of his forty novels that has never been out of print. - [Mystery at Witchend](https://engole.info/mystery-at-witchend/) - First in Malcolm Saville's series of Lone Pine books, chiefly concerned with the setting up of the Lone Pine Club. - [The Apple](https://engole.info/the-apple/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1896, about a schoolmaster who comes into possession of an apple from the Tree of Knowledge. - [Wallsuches Bleachworks](https://engole.info/wallsuches-bleachworks/) - Bleachworks that takes its name from an area of Horwich in Greater Manchester, England. The area is notable for the bleachworks started by Thomas Ridgway. - [Babes in the Wood](https://engole.info/babes-in-the-wood/) - English fairy tale and pantomime subject, about two young children abandoned in the wood by their wicked uncle, in an attempt to steal their inheritance. - [Barbed Wire Act 1893](https://engole.info/barbed-wire-act-1893/) - Act of the UK Parliament to prohibit the use of barbed wire where it might pose a danger to those using the highway. - [Sacristy](https://engole.info/sacristy/) - Room in Christian churches for the storage of liturgical vestments, sacred vessels and parish records. - [Sophie's World](https://engole.info/sophies-world/) - Book by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, following the events in the life of a teenage girl's introduction to philosophical thinking and the history of philosophy. - [Crewe Chronicle](https://engole.info/crewe-chronicle/) - UK weekly newspaper first published on 21 March 1874. - [The North Briton](https://engole.info/the-north-briton/) - Political weekly newspaper published between 1762 and 1771, notorious for one issue that resulted in charges of seditious libel against John Wilkes. - [Westminster Gazette](https://engole.info/westminster-gazette/) - London Liberal evening newspaper published from 1896 until 1928, distinctive for its green newsprint - [Ballingdon Hall](https://engole.info/ballingdon-hall/) - 16th-century Grade II* listed manor house in Sudbury, Suffolk, which came to national attention when it was towed from its original site in 1972. - [Small-Scale Experimental Machine](https://engole.info/small-scale-experimental-machine/) - World’s first electronic stored-program computer; ran its first program on 21 June 1948. - [St Piran's Church, Perranarworthal](https://engole.info/st-pirans-church-perranarworthal/) - Active Anglican church in Perranarworthal, dedicated to Cornwall's patron saint. - [Graveyard poets](https://engole.info/graveyard-poets/) - Term applied to those 18th-century poets who wrote melancholy, reflective works, often set in graveyards, on the theme of human mortality. - [The Golden Stairs](https://engole.info/the-golden-stairs/) - One of the best-known paintings by Edward Burne Jones (1833–1898). - [Witches at their Incantations](https://engole.info/witches-at-their-incantations/) - Painting by the Italian Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, completed in about 1646. - [The Piazza at Havanna](https://engole.info/the-piazza-at-havanna/) - Painting by the French-born British artist Dominic Serres, depicting a scene from the British occupation of Havana in 1762. - [Manchester Madonna](https://engole.info/manchester-madonna/) - Unfinished tempera on panel painting by Michelangelo. - [The Love Potion](https://engole.info/the-love-potion/) - Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903. - [The Incubus Leaving Two Young Women](https://engole.info/the-incubus-leaving-two-young-women/) - Oil painting by the Swiss-born Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, c. 1794, like much of his work exploring the relationship between sex and fear. - [Yard with Lunatics](https://engole.info/yard-with-lunatics/) - Small oil-on-tinplate painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, produced between 1793 and 1794. - [The Enigma of Hitler](https://engole.info/the-enigma-of-hitler/) - Painting by Salvador Dalí created in 1939, "celebrating" the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. - [Girls Running, Walberswick Pier](https://engole.info/girls-running-walberswick-pier/) - Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942) - [A Balloon Site, Coventry](https://engole.info/a-balloon-site-coventry/) - Oil on canvas painting by Laura Knight, portraying a group of people – mainly women – launching a barrage balloon. - [The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches](https://engole.info/the-night-hag-visiting-lapland-witches/) - Oil painting by Henry Fuseli, illustrating a passage from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. - [The Singing Butler](https://engole.info/the-singing-butler/) - Painting by the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano (1951–2025), reproductions of which make it the best-selling art print in the UK. - [The Awakening Conscience](https://engole.info/the-awakening-conscience/) - Created by the English artist William Holman Hunt in 1853, the painting was for a time the most talked about of the century. - [The Alchymist](https://engole.info/the-alchymist/) - Oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, first exhibited in 1771. - [The Death of Cardinal Beaufort (1399–1447)](https://engole.info/the-death-of-cardinal-beaufort-1399-1447/) - Oil painting by Joshua Reynolds, illustrating a scene from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II. - [The Day Dream](https://engole.info/the-day-dream/) - Oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which he considered to among the best of his work. - [Allegory of Fortune](https://engole.info/allegory-of-fortune/) - Oil painting on canvas that was created around 1658 or 1659 by the Italian baroque painter Salvator Rosa - [Hadleigh Castle (painting)](https://engole.info/hadleigh-castle-painting/) - Painting by John Constable. - [Medea (Sandys painting)](https://engole.info/medea-sandys-painting/) - 1868 oil painting by Frederick Sandys, controversially rejected for display in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition that year. - [Clustering illusion](https://engole.info/clustering-illusion/) - Tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable "streaks" or "clusters" arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random. - [Chatterton Massacre](https://engole.info/chatterton-massacre/) - Massacre of at least six protesters on 26 April 1826 by British soldiers, on the third and penultimate day of the Lancashire Rising. - [Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP)](https://engole.info/electronic-voice-phenomenon-evp/) - Sounds found on electronic devices, interpreted by some to be spirit voices, and by sceptics to be voices from radio or TV transmissions. - [Stories of Men and Women in Love](https://engole.info/stories-of-men-and-women-in-love/) - Collection of four novels by H. G. Wells (1866–1946), published in 1933. - [Beware the Cat](https://engole.info/beware-the-cat/) - First English novel, an anti-Catholic satire published in 1570 - [Keep the Home Guard Turning](https://engole.info/keep-the-home-guard-turning/) - Comedy novel by Compton Mackenzie (1833–1972, portraying the exploits of the Home Guard on the fictional island of Todday during the Second World War. - [Witch Wood](https://engole.info/witch-wood/) - Historical novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. - [Ballet Shoes (novel)](https://engole.info/ballet-shoes-novel/) - One of the first career novels, written by the English author Noel Streatfeild and published in 1936. - [The Green Child](https://engole.info/the-green-child/) - Only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read, based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit. - [The Monarch of the Glen (novel)](https://engole.info/the-monarch-of-the-glen-novel/) - Comedy novel by Compton Mackenzie (1833–1972), portraying life in the fictional Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle during the 1930s. - [Whisky Galore (novel)](https://engole.info/whisky-galore-novel/) - Novel by Compton Mackenzie based on the real-life 1941 sinking of a ship carrying a large quantity of whisky, and the local residents' attempts to recover it and hide it from the authorities. - [Guy Fawkes (novel)](https://engole.info/guy-fawkes-novel/) - First of Ainsworth's seven Lancashire novels, first published in serialised form in 1840 and then as a three-volume set in 1841, based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. - [The Tower of London (novel)](https://engole.info/the-tower-of-london-novel/) - Novel by the English author William Harrison Ainsworth, first published in 1840, centred on the events following the death of King Edward VI and the subsequent nine-day reign of Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England. - [Kidnapped](https://engole.info/kidnapped/) - Historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. - [Northgate, Chester](https://engole.info/northgate-chester/) - Archway in Chester, Cheshire, carrying the city walls over Northgate Street. - [Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa](https://engole.info/holy-trinity-church-leamington-spa/) - Grade II listed active Anglican church in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. - [Astrological medicine](https://engole.info/astrological-medicine/) - Use of medicinal plants according to the movement of the heavenly bodies - [Cucking Stool](https://engole.info/cucking-stool/) - Chair used as a punishment for those accused of offences such as drunkenness, sexual impropriety or dishonest trading. - [Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Holman Hunt)](https://engole.info/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-holman-hunt/) - Oil painting by William Holman Hunt, depicting a story in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. - [The Magic Shop](https://engole.info/the-magic-shop/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1903, about a visit by a young boy and his father to a shop selling disturbingly realistic magical illusions. - [Huskar Pit disaster](https://engole.info/huskar-pit-disaster/) - Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream. - [The Flashman Papers](https://engole.info/the-flashman-papers/) - Series of novels and short stories by George MacDonald Fraser, about a cowardly British soldier who had been the school bully in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's Schooldays. - [Grade I listed buildings in Liverpool](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-liverpool/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Liverpool in Merseyside. - [The Coral Island](https://engole.info/the-coral-island/) - Novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. one of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes. - [Osculum infame](https://engole.info/osculum-infame/) - Ritual of a witch paying homage to the Devil by kissing his genitals, anus or feet. . - [The Tale of Peter Rabbit](https://engole.info/the-tale-of-peter-rabbit/) - Children’s book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, following the mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. - [The Story of Miss Moppet](https://engole.info/the-story-of-miss-moppet/) - Children’s story about teasing, featuring a kitten and a mouse. Written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, it was published by Frederick Warne & Sons for the 1906 Christmas season. - [Dancing mania](https://engole.info/dancing-mania/) - Social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time. - [David Gregory](https://engole.info/david-gregory/) - Scottish physician and inventor accused of witchcraft - [William Mumler](https://engole.info/william-mumler/) - American amateur photographer, the first to make a lucrative business out of spirit photography. - [Queen Eleanor (painting)](https://engole.info/queen-eleanor-painting/) - 1858 oil painting by Frederick Sandys, depicting Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine on her way to kill her husband's mistress. - [The Case of Lady Camber](https://engole.info/the-case-of-lady-camber/) - Play by the English writer Horace Annesley Vachell, first performed in 1915. - [Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907](https://engole.info/deceased-wifes-sisters-marriage-act-1907/) - Act of Parliament making it legal for the first time in the United Kingdom for a man to marry his dead wife's sister. - [Denby Grange](https://engole.info/denby-grange/) - Estate and mansion in Whitley Upper, between Huddersfield and Wakefield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seat of the lister Kaye baronets. - [Whole trial and examination of Mrs. Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth](https://engole.info/whole-trial-and-examination-of-mrs-mary-hicks-and-her-daughter-elizabeth/) - Pamphlet purporting to tell the story of Mary Hicks, executed for witchcraft in 1716. - [Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable](https://engole.info/jinney-bingham-mother-damnable/) - 17th-century woman also known as Mother Red Cap and the Shrew of Kentish Town, suspected of being a witch, a murderer and poisoner. - [Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball](https://engole.info/preparing-for-a-fancy-dress-ball/) - Oil on canvas painting by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1853. - [The Nightmare](https://engole.info/the-nightmare/) - Oil painting by Henry Fuseli, depicting an incubus crouched on a sleeping woman, painted in 1781 - [Agnes Sampson](https://engole.info/agnes-sampson/) - Scottish midwife, cunning woman and healer; central figure in the North Berwick witch trials. - [Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet](https://engole.info/sir-john-brunner-1st-baronet/) - British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond. - [Grade I listed buildings in Hartlepool](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-hartlepool/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Hartlepool, County Durham. - [Grade I listed buildings in Rushcliffe](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-rushcliffe/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in City of Leicester](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-city-of-leicester/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of City of Leicester, Leicestershire. - [Robert Southey](https://engole.info/robert-southey/) - English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - [James Burton](https://engole.info/james-burton/) - 19th-century owner of several cotton mills in Tyldesley and Hindsford - [Thirty Strange Stories](https://engole.info/thirty-strange-stories/) - Collection of 30 short stories by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. - [Samlesbury witches](https://engole.info/samlesbury-witches/) - Three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury accused by a 14-year-old girl of practising witchcraft - [Witch ball](https://engole.info/witch-ball/) - Glass ball coated with a reflecting material, used to ward off the evil eye of a passing witch. - [The Fair Toxophilites](https://engole.info/the-fair-toxophilites/) - 1872 painting by William Powell Frith, depicting his three daughters practising archery. - [The Country Choristers](https://engole.info/the-country-choristers/) - 1812 genre painting by the English artist Edward Bird, depicting "the essential God-fearing decency of the English working man and woman". - [The Departure to London](https://engole.info/the-departure-to-london/) - 1815 genre painting by the English artist Edward Bird. - [Ordsall Hall](https://engole.info/ordsall-hall/) - Large former manor house in the City of Salford, now a museum - [Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494](https://engole.info/vagabonds-and-beggars-act-1494/) - Act of Parliament intended to suppress beggars and itinerant vagabonds. - [Grade I listed buildings in Central Bedfordshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-central-bedfordshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of Central Bedford, Bedfordshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-bedfordshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, split into the three unitary authorities. - [Fetch](https://engole.info/fetch/) - Apparition in the form of a living person - [St Mark's Eve](https://engole.info/st-marks-eve/) - Day before the Feast Day of St Mark, 25 April, when watchers could see the wraiths of those destined to die during the year. - [Wraith](https://engole.info/wraith/) - Spectral appearance of someone still alive, usually considered to be a sign of that person's imminent death. - [Act of Six Articles 1539](https://engole.info/act-of-six-articles-1539/) - Act of Parliament introduced to curb excessive Protestant reform and to impose religious conformity. - [Taxation Act 1722](https://engole.info/taxation-act-1722/) - Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, imposing a tax on the estates of all Catholics to reimburse the government for the expenses of suppressing recent conspiracies. - [Barton Aqueduct Pocket Park](https://engole.info/barton-aqueduct-pocket-park/) - Small park in Barton upon Irwell, Greater Manchester. - [Pocket park](https://engole.info/pocket-park/) - Small area of green space within an urban environment, accessible and open to the general public. - [The Scots Magazine](https://engole.info/the-scots-magazine/) - Claimed to be the oldest magazine in the world still in publication, first published in 1739. - [Loch of Kinnordy](https://engole.info/loch-of-kinnordy/) - Site of Special Scientific Interest in Angus, Scotland. - [Frederick Hudson](https://engole.info/frederick-hudson/) - Victorian-era spirit photographer, well-known for faking his photographs by using double exposures and other tricks. - [Rudge (cyclecar)](https://engole.info/rudge-cyclecar/) - Cyclecar produced by the Coventry-based bicycle manufacturer Rudge-Whitworth between 1912 and 1913. - [John Stearne](https://engole.info/john-stearne/) - Associate of the self-styled Witchfinder General, believed to have been responsible for the conviction and execution of 300 witches between 1644 and 1646. - [Special Roads Act 1949](https://engole.info/special-roads-act-1949/) - Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed for the construction of roads reserved for special classes of traffic, the forerunner of motorways. - [Tavern clock](https://engole.info/tavern-clock/) - Weight-driven wall clock with a large wooden, painted or lacquered dial, commonly installed in taverns and coaching inns. - [Stoll Picture Productions](https://engole.info/stoll-picture-productions/) - British film production and distribution company of the silent era, founded in 1920 by Oswald Stoll. - [Ballechin Wood](https://engole.info/ballechin-wood/) - Part of a large coniferous forest in North East Perth and Kinross, probably best remembered today as the site of the most haunted house in Scotland. - [Woolton pie](https://engole.info/woolton-pie/) - Vegetable pie introduced during the meat rationing in Britain during the Second World War. - [Pennard Castle](https://engole.info/pennard-castle/) - Early 12th century Welsh castle. - [Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797](https://engole.info/duties-on-clocks-and-watches-act-1797/) - Act of the Parliament of Great Britain imposing a tax on the ownership of clocks and watches. - [Dunoon Pier](https://engole.info/dunoon-pier/) - Best surviving example of a timber ferry pier in Scotland, completed broadly in its current form in 1895. - [Dado](https://engole.info/dado/) - Architectural term for the lower part of an internal wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board. - [Bressumer](https://engole.info/bressumer/) - Horizontal load-bearing timber beam. - [Tympanum (architecture)](https://engole.info/tympanum-architecture/) - Area above the lintel of a dorway or the base of a pediment, often richly decorated. - [Linenfold](https://engole.info/linenfold/) - Style of relief carving used to decorate wood panelling, resembling linen with vertical loose folds. - [Piepowder court](https://engole.info/piepowder-court/) - Courts attached to fairs and markets, to settle disputes between the itinerant merchants. - [Prebend](https://engole.info/prebend/) - Form of benefice used to provide a fixed and independent income to those members of a cathedral's chapter known as prebendaries. - [Highfields, Buerton](https://engole.info/highfields-buerton/) - Small Grade I listed country house in the civil parish of Buerton, Cheshire. - [Doddington Hall](https://engole.info/doddington-hall/) - 18th-century Grade I listed country house in Doddington, Cheshire. - [Dorfold Hall](https://engole.info/dorfold-hall/) - Grade I listed Jacobean mansion house in Acton, Cheshire. - [Letters patent](https://engole.info/letters-patent/) - Official letters or instructions issued by or on behalf of the Crown. - [Aedicule](https://engole.info/aedicule/) - Framing of a door, window or other opening to a building. - [Frieze](https://engole.info/frieze/) - Horizontal central band of an entablature, known as a pulvinated frieze if it has a convex profile. - [Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-shropshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, split into the two unitary authorities making up the county. - [Emily Addis Fawcett](https://engole.info/emily-addis-fawcett/) - English sculptor (1852–1947). - [Pediment](https://engole.info/pediment/) - Low-pitched gable above a portico or façade. - [David Scougall](https://engole.info/david-scougall/) - Scottish portrait painter (c. 1630 – 1685), the eldest of the Scougall family of portrait painters. - [The Holborn Monthly Magazine](https://engole.info/the-holborn-monthly-magazine/) - Short-lived women's magazine published from April 1903 until April 1904. - [Early Closing Association](https://engole.info/early-closing-association/) - 19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons. - [Piscina](https://engole.info/piscina/) - Small basin in a Christian church used to clean the priest's hands and the sacred vessels used at Mass. - [Curate's egg](https://engole.info/curates-egg/) - English language idiom used in reference to something that is partly good and partly bad. - [Bawbee](https://engole.info/bawbee/) - Scottish coin minted from 1538, equivalent to an English halfpenny. - [Sandbach Crosses](https://engole.info/sandbach-crosses/) - Two early 9th-century stone Anglo-Saxon crosses in the market place of Sandbach, Cheshire. - [Catechumen](https://engole.info/catechumens/) - Someone undergoing instruction in preparation for their baptism into the Christian church. - [Eleanor Stewart](https://engole.info/eleanor-stewart/) - Scottish trade unionist and political activist (born 1889). - [Cist](https://engole.info/cist/) - Prehistoric chamber used to contain the bodies of the dead. - [Transept](https://engole.info/transept/) - Part of a Christian church crossing the area between the nave and the chancel, forming a characteristic cruciform shape. - [How Do You View?](https://engole.info/how-do-you-view/) - British television's first comedy series, broadcast between 1949 and 1952. - [The Happy Turning](https://engole.info/the-happy-turning/) - Collection of nine cheerfully optimistic essays written by H. G. Wells, published in 1945, describing his dreamworld. - [Wayde's Essence](https://engole.info/waydes-essence/) - Short story by H. G. Wells, about a prominent politician who learns that the drug he has been taking for the last 17 years to dispel all self-doubt is in reality distilled water. - [Chanters Colliery](https://engole.info/chanters-colliery/) - Former colliery in Hindsford, Atherton where coal was mined from 1854 until 1966. - [Presbytery](https://engole.info/presbytery/) - Part of the chancel in a Christian church housing the altar, or a residence for Roman Catholic priests. - [Picquot ware](https://engole.info/picquot-ware/) - Type of tableware made from a magnesium-aluminium alloy called magnailium. - [Merkin](https://engole.info/merkin/) - Pubic wig, originally used to cover syphilitic pustules and gonorrheal warts in the genital area. - [Henry Fuseli](https://engole.info/henry-fuseli/) - Swiss-born British Romantic artist (1741–1825), who established a reputation for his paintings depicting the horrifying and fantastic. - [Sample size fallacy](https://engole.info/sample-size-fallacy/) - Failure to consider sample size when estimating the probability of obtaining a particular value drawn from a known population. - [Barratry](https://engole.info/barratry/) - English common law crime of excessive litigation, particularly for the purposes of profit or harassment. - [The Vote (newspaper)](https://engole.info/the-vote-newspaper/) - Suffragette newspaper published from 1909 until 1933. - [Allard Clipper](https://engole.info/allard-clipper/) - Three-wheeled microcar produced from 1953 until 1955. - [Fernley Observatory](https://engole.info/fernley-observatory/) - Victorian astronomical observatory in Hesketh Park, Southport. - [Scott Sociable](https://engole.info/scott-sociable/) - British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile produced from 1921 to 1925 by the Scott Autocar Company, unusual for its offset front wheel. - [White Barrow](https://engole.info/white-barrow/) - Neolithic long barrow on Salisbury Plain. - [Militia Ordinance](https://engole.info/militia-ordinance/) - Act of Parliament passed in 1642 allowing parliament to appoint military commanders without the king's approval. - [The Empire of the Ants](https://engole.info/the-empire-of-the-ants/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1905, about a plague of large intelligent ants, which pose a threat to mankind's continued existence. - [Hagioscope](https://engole.info/hagioscope/) - Obliquely cut opening in the chancel wall of a Christian church, allowing celebrants in the side chapels to suspend their own services when the parish priest at the high altar reached the point of consecrating the eucharist. - [The Ladies Mercury](https://engole.info/the-ladies-mercury/) - First English periodical targeted specifically at women, published in 1693. - [Nave](https://engole.info/nave/) - Central part of a church, used by the laiety. - [The Obliterated Man](https://engole.info/the-obliterated-man/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a shy young man who becomes a drama critic, and the effect that decision has on his personality. - [Anne Bonny](https://engole.info/anne-bonny/) - Female pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the 18th century. - [Cannel](https://engole.info/cannel/) - A type of bituminous coal - [Screaming skull](https://engole.info/screaming-skull/) - Human skull that emits blood-curdling screams when anyone attempts to move it - [Chaddock Pit](https://engole.info/chaddock-pit/) - Pit sunk in about 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal. - [Pall Mall Budget](https://engole.info/pall-mall-budget/) - Weekly magazine published in London from 1868 until 1920 - [A Catastrophe](https://engole.info/a-catastrophe/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895 about a struggling shopkeeper saved from bankruptcy by an unexpected legacy. - [Cheshire acre](https://engole.info/cheshire-acre/) - Historical measure of area used in Cheshire and South Lancashire - [Ethel Beatty](https://engole.info/ethel-beatty/) - Socialite and member of the aristocracy - [The Monthly Packet](https://engole.info/the-monthly-packet/) - Monthly magazine aimed at young women between 15 and 25, published from 1851 until 1899. - [Mathematical fallacy](https://engole.info/mathematical-fallacy/) - Series of steps which is seemingly correct but contains a flawed argument, or a spurious proof of an obvious contradiction such as that 1 = 2. Mathematical fallacies differ from simple mistakes in that there is an element of concealment in the presentation of the proof. - [Pedrail Wheel](https://engole.info/pedrail-wheel/) - Type of all-terrain wheel developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Bramah Joseph Diplock. - [A Vision of Judgement](https://engole.info/a-vision-of-judgement/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1899, about the Biblical day of judgement. - [Chambers Book of Days](https://engole.info/chambers-book-of-days/) - Last major work produced by the Scottish writer and publisher Robert Chambers (1802–1871) - [A Little Bit of Cucumber](https://engole.info/a-little-bit-of-cucumber/) - Comedic music hall-song first performed by Harry Champion in 1915, about the types of food preferred by the cockney working classes. - [Rag pudding](https://engole.info/rag-pudding/) - Savoury dish once popular in the mill towns of northwest England. - [Piano nobile](https://engole.info/piano-nobile/) - Main floor of a Palladian or Georgian building. - [Bond Bug](https://engole.info/bond-bug/) - Bright tangerine wedge-shaped three-wheeler made by Reliant from 1970 until 1974. - [De heretico comburendo](https://engole.info/de-heretico-comburendo/) - Law passed in 1401 during the reign of King Henry IV, allowing heretics to be burned alive. - [Frederic Leighton](https://engole.info/frederic-leighton/) - English painter, knighted in 1878. - [Brick tax](https://engole.info/brick-tax/) - Tax on bricks introduced in Great Britain in 1784 to help pay for the American War of Independence. - [Number of the beast](https://engole.info/number-of-the-beast/) - Hideous beast whose number is 666, introduced in the Book of Revelation, which many have seen as a description of the end of the world. - [Margaret Aitken, the great witch of Balwearie](https://engole.info/margaret-aitken-the-great-witch-of-balwearie/) - Pivotal figure in the great Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597. - [Samuel Linley](https://engole.info/samuel-linley/) - Oboist, singer and junior naval officer. A member of the musically talented Linley family fathered by Thomas Linley, Samuel first performed on stage in 1766. - [Monastic grange](https://engole.info/monastic-grange/) - Monastic granges were outlying landholdings held by monasteries independent of the manorial system - [Thomas Medland](https://engole.info/thomas-medland/) - English engraver, draughtsman and painter (c. 1765 – 1833). - [Tapputi](https://engole.info/tapputi/) - Babylonian chemist and a royal perfume maker. - [Bedford Colliery explosion](https://engole.info/bedford-colliery-disaster/) - Explosion of firedamp on Friday 13 August 1886 which caused the deaths of 38 miners at Bedford No. 2 Pit in Leigh, on the Lancashire Coalfield. - [Witchcraft Act 1735](https://engole.info/witchcraft-act-1735/) - Sometimes dated 1736, an Act of Parliament that repealed the statutes concerning witchcraft throughout Great Britain, including Scotland. - [Evelyn Manesta](https://engole.info/evelyn-manesta/) - Alias used by one of the three suffragettes arrested for damaging with hammers the glass of thirteen pictures in Manchester Art Gallery on 3 April 1913. - [Socage](https://engole.info/socage/) - Form of tenure under English feudal property law. - [Scoot-Mobile](https://engole.info/scoot-mobile/) - Three-wheeled motor vehicle the prototype for which was produced in 1947. The body was a modified aircraft fuel tank, and the wheels also came from an aircraft. - [But and ben](https://engole.info/but-and-ben/) - Scots term describing a two-roomed cottage - [Evil eye](https://engole.info/evil-eye/) - Belief that certain people can inflict disease or death simply by a glance. - [Stimson Sting](https://engole.info/stimson-sting/) - Three-wheeled motor vehicle designed by Barry Stimson, introduced into the UK in 2002, and produced until 2007. - [Harper Runabout](https://engole.info/harper-runabout/) - Three-wheeled motor vehicle manufactured in Manchester, England from 1921 until 1926 - [Fuji Cabin](https://engole.info/fuji-cabin/) - Three-wheeled microcar produced by Fuji Toshuda Motors of Tokyo, Japan, from 1957 until 1958. - [Warrington Perambulating Library](https://engole.info/warrington-perambulating-library/) - One of the earliest mobile libraries in the UK. - [Zitiron](https://engole.info/zitiron/) - Mythological creature with an upper body in the form of an armed knight, fused with the tail of a fish - [Stimson Storm](https://engole.info/stimson-storm/) - Three-wheeled motor vehicle designed by Barry Stimson and offered for sale as a kit car. - [Stimson Safari Six](https://engole.info/stimson-safari-six/) - Mini-based six-wheeled pickup motor vehicle designed by Barry Stimson. - [Belfry](https://engole.info/belfry/) - Structure in which bells are hung. - [Civil parish](https://engole.info/civil-parish/) - Smallest administrative unit in England. - [Sir Alexander MacRobert](https://engole.info/sir-alexander-macrobert/) - Self-made millionaire from Aberdeen. - [The Plattner Story](https://engole.info/the-plattner-story/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1896, about a chemistry teacher who causes an explosion that propels him into another world. - [Checker shadow illusion](https://engole.info/checker-shadow-illusion/) - Perceptual illusion demonstrating that the visual system uses context as well as physical luminance to determine the lightness or darkness of an object. - [Arkley S/SS](https://engole.info/arkley-ss/) - Re-bodied Austin Healey Sprite/MG Midget, launched in 1971 by John Britten Garages of Arkley, Hertfordshire. - [North Berwick witch trials](https://engole.info/north-berwick-witch-trials/) - Series of Scottish witch trials held between 1590 and 1593. - [Harrington Hall](https://engole.info/harrington-hall/) - Grade I listed country house in Harrington, Lincolnshire. - [Thornhill, Derbyshire](https://engole.info/thornhill-derbyshire/) - Village and civil parish in the district of High Peak, Derbyshire. - [The Screwtape Letters](https://engole.info/the-screwtape-letters/) - 1942 novel by C. S. Lewis, in the form of a series of letters between a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew Wormwood, who is tasked with securing the damnation of a British man known only as the patient. - [Morgan le Fay (painting)](https://engole.info/morgan-le-fay-painting/) - 1864 Pre-Raphaelite painting by Frederick Sandys, depicting the legendary witch and jealous half-sister of King Arthur. - [Nyetimber Mill](https://engole.info/nyetimber-mill/) - Grade II listed former windmill in Pagham, Sussex, now part of a retirement complex. - [Hidden Masters](https://engole.info/hidden-masters/) - Esoteric brotherhood of superhuman beings in the Tibetan Himalayas who, it is claimed, watch over the welfare of humanity. - [Holne Woodlands](https://engole.info/holne-woodlands/) - Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within the Dartmoor National Park, Devon. - [Statute of Silence 1581](https://engole.info/statute-of-silence-1581/) - Act of Parliament introducing a series of increasingly gruesome punishments for speaking or publishing anything that Queen Elizabeth I did not wish to hear. - [Quoin](https://engole.info/quoin/) - Any external angle or corner of a structure - [Electrum](https://engole.info/electrum/) - Naturally occurring amalgam of gold and silver used in the production of early coins. - [Lych gate](https://engole.info/lych-gate/) - Roofed-over gateway into a churchyard - [Manchester Ship Canal](https://engole.info/manchester-ship-canal/) - 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea - [Delves Hall](https://engole.info/delves-hall/) - Grade I listed tower house in Doddington Park, Cheshire. - [Whirligig (TV series)](https://engole.info/whirligig-tv-series/) - BBC television programme for children broadcast from 1950 until 1956. - [Ragged school](https://engole.info/ragged-school/) - School that provided free education to destitute children in 19th-century Britain. - [Lancashire Rising 1826](https://engole.info/lancashire-rising-1826/) - Protests by hand loom weavers in 1826 in Lancashire, prompted by the economic hardship resulting from a slump in the textile industry, and focused on the destruction of the much more efficient power looms. - [Warburton Toll Bridge](https://engole.info/warburton-toll-bridge/) - Privately owned statutory tolled undertaking which incorporates a public highway road length, one of the few remaining pre-motorway toll bridges in the UK. - [Winstanley Hall](https://engole.info/winstanley-hall/) - Grade II* listed manor house in Wigan, Greater Manchester. - [Noon Hill](https://engole.info/noon-hill/) - Area of the West Pennine Moors in North West England. At its summit is a Bronze Age burial mound. - [Ledston](https://engole.info/ledston/) - Rural village in the City of Leeds district of West Yorkshire. - [Pearson & Cox](https://engole.info/pearson-cox/) - British manufacturer of steam and petrol-powered vehicles active from 1908 until 1916 - [Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928](https://engole.info/representation-of-the-people-equal-franchise-act-1928/) - Act of the UK Parliament that gave equal voting rights to men and women. - [Mary Bateman](https://engole.info/mary-bateman/) - Poisoner and thief whose most audacious hoax was The Prophet Hen of Leeds. - [Liverpool Road railway station warehouse](https://engole.info/liverpool-road-railway-station-warehouse/) - Grade I listed warehouse, part of the Liverpool Road railway station complex. - [Kaye's Mineral Line](https://engole.info/kayes-mineral-line/) - Standard gauge mineral line built to serve the pits owned by the Lister Kayes of Denby Grange in West Yorkshire. - [Whipping Tom](https://engole.info/whipping-tom/) - Name given to two sex offenders, one in London and the other in the nearby village of Hackney, active in 1681 and 1712 respectively. - [Epworth Rectory](https://engole.info/epworth-rectory/) - Site of supposed paranormal events that occurred in 1716. - [Britannia (cyclecar)](https://engole.info/britannia-automobile/) - Cyclecar produced from 1913 to 1914. - [H. G. Wells bibliography](https://engole.info/h-g-wells-bibliography/) - List of publications written by H. G. Wells during the more than fifty years of his literary career. - [Witch trials in early modern Scotland](https://engole.info/witch-trials-in-early-modern-scotland/) - Judicial proceedings in Scotland between the early 16th century and the mid-18th century concerned with crimes of witchcraft, part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe. - [Flapper](https://engole.info/flapper/) - Term used to describe a sub-culture of young women in the aftermath of the First World War, intent on pleasure and flouting conventional standards of behaviour. - [Roy of the Rovers](https://engole.info/roy-of-the-rovers/) - British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers. - [Witch's familiar](https://engole.info/witchs-familiar/) - Demonic spirit who attends upon a witch, possessing magical powers that can be used for good or evil. Often taking the form of a small animal such as a cat. - [Hulme Arch Bridge](https://engole.info/hulme-arch-bridge/) - Bridge in Hulme, Manchester, England, supporting Stretford Road as it passes over Princess Road, part of the regeneration of that area of Manchester. - [Women's Suffrage Journal](https://engole.info/womens-suffrage-journal/) - Magazine founded by Lydia Becker and Jessie Boucherett in 1870, focusing on news of events affecting women's lives. - [The Yellow Book](https://engole.info/the-yellow-book/) - Short-lived but influential quarterly illustrated magazine published in London from 1894 to 1897. - [The Queen (magazine)](https://engole.info/the-queen-magazine/) - Weekly illustrated society magazine founded in 1861. Following a series of mergers over the years it survives in the form of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar. - [The Idler](https://engole.info/the-idler/) - Illustrated monthly magazine published in London from 1892 until 1911. - [The Car Illustrated](https://engole.info/the-car-illustrated/) - British weekly automobile magazine founded in 1902. - [The Burlington Magazine](https://engole.info/the-burlington-magazine/) - Monthly publication covering the fine and decorative arts, the longest running art journal in the English language. - [Home Chimes](https://engole.info/home-chimes/) - British magazine published from 1884 until 1894, precursor to popular fiction magazines. - [Gentleman's Journal](https://engole.info/gentlemans-journal/) - Published between 1692 and 1694, precursor to the modern magazine. - [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal](https://engole.info/chamberss-edinburgh-journal/) - Weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. - [Bentley's Miscellany](https://engole.info/bentleys-miscellany/) - Illustrated monthly magazine published from 1837 until 1868. - [Buckland B3](https://engole.info/buckland-b3/) - Three-wheeler car designed and built by Dick Buckland from 1985 until 1999. - [Cockatrice](https://engole.info/cockatrice/) - Mythical heraldic beast hatched from a rooster's egg hatched by a toad, said to be able to kill with its stare. - [Joseph Neil Paton](https://engole.info/joseph-neil-paton/) - Damask designer and antiquarian with large collection containing witchcraft objects, including the skull of Lilias Adie. Father of the artist Joseph Noel Paton. - [Grade I listed buildings in East Riding of Yorkshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-east-riding-of-yorkshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in East Riding of Yorkshire. - [Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse](https://engole.info/esther-kenworthy-waterhouse/) - English artist, specialist in flower painting; her husband was fellow artist John William Waterhouse - [Manchester Martyrs](https://engole.info/manchester-martyrs/) - Three men executed for the murder of a police officer in Manchester, England, in 1867. - [Elland flags](https://engole.info/elland-flags/) - Sandstones interbedded with mudstones and siltstones in the Lower Coal Measures of West Yorkshire, once extensively quarried. - [Church of St Mary the Virgin, Weston-on-Trent](https://engole.info/church-of-st-mary-the-virgin-weston-on-trent/) - Active Anglican church in the village of Weston-on-Trent, now used only as a Festival Church. - [Manchester Royal Exchange](https://engole.info/manchester-royal-exchange/) - Former cotton exchange damaged by two bombs, now comprising a theatre and shopping centre. - [The Lady of Shalott](https://engole.info/the-lady-of-shalott/) - Oil painting by English artist John William Waterhouse; the first in his trilogy featuring The Lady of Shalott - [Arthur John Lewis Gordon](https://engole.info/arthur-john-lewis-gordon/) - Diplomat, artist and collector; owner of Ellon Castle from 1880s. - [Rivington Reservoirs](https://engole.info/rivington-reservoirs/) - Built for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks between 1850 and 1857 by Thomas Hawksley - [Act of Uniformity 1558](https://engole.info/act-of-uniformity-1558/) - One of the Acts of Parliament collectively known as the Elizabethan Religious Settlement. It introduced a Common Book of Prayer, and obliged everyone to attend their parish church every Sunday and on holy days. Those who refused were known as recusants. - [John Kincaid, witch finder](https://engole.info/john-kincaid-witch-finder/) - Professional witch-finder or pricker of witches based in Tranent, East Lothian. - [Paignton Windmill](https://engole.info/paignton-windmill/) - Late 18th-century Grade II listed windmill in Paignton, Devon, partially ruinous but with planning permission to be converted into a single residence. - [Edgeworth Manor](https://engole.info/edgeworth-manor/) - Grade II* listed country house in the village of Edgeworth, Gloucestershire. - [Pittenweem witches](https://engole.info/pittenweem-witches/) - Five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704 - [Sicilian Baroque](https://engole.info/sicilian-baroque/) - Distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries that has given the island a unique architectural identity. - [Tree of Jesse](https://engole.info/tree-of-jesse/) - Artistic depiction of Jesus's family tree, establishing him as a descendent of King David, and therefore the rightful Messiah. - [Ogee](https://engole.info/ogee/) - Architectural or design element consisting of a continuous double curve, S-shaped in cross section. - [Prebendaries' Plot](https://engole.info/prebendaries-plot/) - Unsuccessful attempt by religious conservatives in 1543 to oust Thomas Cranmer from his office of Archbishop of Canterbury. - [Freeth's Coffee House](https://engole.info/freeths-coffee-house/) - Popular name for the Leicester Arms in Birmingham, which operated from 1736 until 1832, one of the most celebrated taverns of Georgian England. - [Aumbry](https://engole.info/aumbry/) - Cupboard or recessed cabinet in the wall of a Christian church, used for storing holy oils or the reserved sacrament. - [Consanguinity](https://engole.info/consanguinity/) - Relationship between individuals descended from common ancestors. - [William Wailes](https://engole.info/william-wailes/) - English 19th-century stained-glass artist, one of the most accomplished of his generation. - [Guy Fawkes Day](https://engole.info/guy-fawkes-day/) - Annual celebration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. - [Rhenish Tower, Lynmouth](https://engole.info/rhenish-tower-lynmouth/) - Grade II listed folly built on the sea front at Lynmouth, Devon in about 1860. - [Anne Askew](https://engole.info/anne-askew/) - English writer and Protestant martyr, burnt to death in 1546. - [Jougs](https://engole.info/jougs/) - Metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland. - [Careening](https://engole.info/careening/) - Method of exposing the hull of a ship for cleaning or repair by laying it on its side. - [Death of Kevin Gately](https://engole.info/death-of-kevin-gately/) - Student who died as the result of a head injury received in the Red Lion Square disorders in London in 1974 - [St Matthew's, Stretford](https://engole.info/st-matthews-stretford/) - Active Anglican church in Stretford, Greater Manchester, built in 1841–1842. - [St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh](https://engole.info/st-mary-the-virgins-church-leigh/) - Ancient parish church that served six townships. - [Eliza Armstrong](https://engole.info/eliza-armstrong/) - Young girl at the centre of a major prostitution scandal in 1885 that led to the age of consent for females being raised from 13 to 16. - [Autoped](https://engole.info/autoped/) - One of the earliest motorised scooters. - [Hogarth's Act 1735](https://engole.info/hogarths-act-1735/) - Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to give copyright protections to the producers of engravings. - [Benefit of Clergy Act 1575](https://engole.info/benefit-of-clergy-act-1575/) - Act of Parliament that removed the right of those charged with rape or burglary to claim benefit of clergy, and so to be tried in an ecclesiastical court. - [Jack Bologna](https://engole.info/jack-bologna/) - Italian actor and dancer who did much to popularise the role of Harlequin in Georgian pantomimes. - [Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act 1864](https://engole.info/metropolitan-houseless-poor-act-1864/) - Short-term piece of legislation that imposed a legal obligation on Poor Law unions in London to provide temporary accommodation for "destitute wayfarers, wanderers, and foundlings". - [The Book of Curses](https://engole.info/the-book-of-curses/) - Essay by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about Professor Gargoyle's regret for the decline in swearing. - [Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800](https://engole.info/making-of-bread-etc-act-1800/) - An Act of Parliament tp prohibit millers from producing any flour other than wholemeal - [Privacy policy](https://engole.info/privacy-policy/) - GDPR privacy policy - [Amy Robsart (painting)](https://engole.info/amy-robsart-painting/) - Painting by the British artist William Frederick Yeames, depicting the suspicious death of Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. - [Punishment of Incest Act 1908](https://engole.info/punishment-of-incest-act-1908/) - Act of Parliament making it illegal for the first time in England and Wales for a man to engage in sexual intercourse with any female he knew to be his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister, or mother. - [Helen Duncan](https://engole.info/helen-duncan/) - Last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735, in 1944. - [Pagan Federation](https://engole.info/pagan-federation/) - Organisation founded in 1971 to raise public awareness of paganism, and eliminate discrimination against pagans. - [Caphouse Colliery](https://engole.info/caphouse-colliery/) - Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England. - [Saltford Manor House](https://engole.info/saltford-manor-house/) - Grade II* listed house in Saltford, Somerset, thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited private residence in England. - [Inland Revenue Act 1880](https://engole.info/inland-revenue-act-1880/) - Act of Parliament to repeal the duties on Malt, to grant and alter certain duties of the Inland Revenue, and to amend the Laws in relation to certain other duties. - [Artificial Scotoma](https://engole.info/artificial-scotoma/) - Perceptual illusion in which an artificial blind spot is filled in by a twinkling background. - [Hagstone](https://engole.info/hagstone/) - Pebble pierced by a naturally occurring hole, believed to possess magical properties. - [Horace Henry Cauty](https://engole.info/horace-henry-cauty/) - English painter of genre, landscape and historical scenes (c. 1846 –1909). - [London Mercury](https://engole.info/london-mercury/) - Monthly literary magazine published from 1919 until 1939. - [Cat Sith](https://engole.info/cat-sith/) - Fairy cat of the Highlands of Scotland, black and as large as a dog. - [Psyche Entering Cupid's Garden](https://engole.info/psyche-entering-cupids-garden/) - Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), depicting Psyche attempting to catch a glimpse of her secretive lover - [Padderbury Top](https://engole.info/padderbury-top/) - Small Iron Age hillfort in Cornwall. - [Judy (satirical magazine)](https://engole.info/judy-satirical-magazine/) - British satirical magazine published from 1867 until 1907. - [Ophelia](https://engole.info/ophelia/) - Series of three paintings by John William Waterhouse, reflecting his interpretation of Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's Hamlet - [Shoddy and mungo](https://engole.info/shoddy-and-mungo/) - Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire. - [Peristyle](https://engole.info/peristyle/) - Range of columns surrounding an architectural feature. - [Black Drop](https://engole.info/black-drop/) - Tincture of opium consisting of opium, verjuce, spices and sugar. - [Sedilia](https://engole.info/sedilia/) - Seats for the officiating clergy found on the south side of an altar. - [Church of St Lawrence, Hatfield](https://engole.info/church-of-st-lawrence-hatfield/) - Active Anglican church in Hatfield, South Yorkshire. - [Duntrune Castle](https://engole.info/duntrune-castle/) - 17th-century Grade B listed building on the shore of Loch Crinan, Argyll and Bute, in the west of Scotland. - [Emery GT](https://engole.info/emery-gt/) - First Hillman Imp-based kit car. - [The Tale of Benjamin Bunny](https://engole.info/the-tale-of-benjamin-bunny/) - Children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1904. A sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), it tells of Peter's return to Mr. McGregor's garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his earlier adventure. - [Salford Quays](https://engole.info/salford-quays/) - Salford Quays, once the site of Manchester Docks, became one of the largest urban regeneration projects in the United Kingdom after the docks closed in 1982 - [Grange Ash Colliery](https://engole.info/grange-ash-colliery/) - Colliery that operated between 1871 and 1966, south of the A642 road east of Grange Moor crossroads. - [Cailleach](https://engole.info/cailleach/) - Ancient Celtic hag goddess who in her various guises shaped the land, controlled the forces of nature, and was responsible for the harsh nature of winter. - [The Schoolgirls' Own](https://engole.info/schoolgirls-own/) - British weekly story paper aimed at girls, published from 1921 until 1936. - [The Danaides](https://engole.info/the-danaides/) - Oil on canvas painting by John William Waterhouse, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1906. - [Roger Hampson](https://engole.info/roger-hampson/) - Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford. - [Insolvent Debtors (England) Act 1813](https://engole.info/insolvent-debtors-england-act-1813/) - Act passed by the United Kingdom Parliament in 1813, in response to the demands on the prison system imposed by the numbers of those being incarcerated for debt, and some concern for their plight. - [Mathematical Bridge](https://engole.info/mathematical-bridge/) - Footbridge across the River Cam in Cambridge, England, connecting two parts of Queens' College, built using seven shorter lengths of straight timber to form an arch. - [Emley Moor Colliery](https://engole.info/emley-moor-colliery/) - Emley Moor Colliery refers to several sinkings and drift mines over a large area of Emley, towards the television mast, between Flockton to the north and particularly towards Skelmanthorpe to the south - [Lindow Woman](https://engole.info/lindow-woman/) - Partial remains of a female bog body discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, Cheshire in 1983. - [Larmar](https://engole.info/larmar/) - World's narrowest car, manufactured from 1946 until 1951. - [Broadspeed GT 2+2](https://engole.info/broadspeed-gt-22/) - Mini-based fastback-styled motor vehicle - [Halifax Gibbet](https://engole.info/halifax-gibbet/) - Early guillotine, or decapitating machine, used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was probably installed during the 16th century as an alternative to beheading by axe or sword. - [The Great Stone, Stretford](https://engole.info/the-great-stone-stretford/) - Grade II listed structure in Stretford, Greater Manchester, probably the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft. - [Stimson Scorcher](https://engole.info/stimson-scorcher/) - Three-wheeled motor vehicle from Barrie Stimson - [Thomas Tyldesley](https://engole.info/thomas-tyldesley/) - Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War. - [Inchdrewer Castle](https://engole.info/inchdrewer-castle/) - 16th-century tower house in the parish of Banff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland - [Katherine Harley](https://engole.info/katherine-harley/) - Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women's suffrage was held. - [Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Master of Glamis (born 1821)](https://engole.info/thomas-lyon-bowes-master-of-glamis-born-1821/) - Child rumoured to have been born horribly deformed and raised secretly in Glamis Castle, the Monster of Glamis - [The Siren](https://engole.info/the-siren/) - Painting by John William Waterhouse - [The Magic Circle](https://engole.info/the-magic-circle/) - Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, one of his earliest depictions of a classical sorceress. - [The Enchanted Garden](https://engole.info/the-enchanted-garden/) - Oil painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a story in Boccaccio's Decameron. - [Sleep and his Half-Brother Death](https://engole.info/sleep-and-his-half-brother-death/) - Oil on canvas painting completed by John William Waterhouse in 1874 - [Penelope and the Suitors](https://engole.info/penelope-and-the-suitors/) - Oil on canvas painting by the English artist John William Waterhouse, commissioned by the Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1912 - [Pandora (painting)](https://engole.info/pandora-painting/) - Painting by John William Waterhouse. - [Mariana in the South](https://engole.info/mariana-in-the-south/) - Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). - [Mariamne](https://engole.info/mariamne/) - Oil painting by John William Waterhouse - [Destiny (painting)](https://engole.info/destiny-painting/) - Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), his contribution to the Artists' War Fund in support of British troops fighting in the Boer War. - [Consulting the Oracle](https://engole.info/consulting-the-oracle/) - Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, depicting a classical sorceress - [Cleopatra (painting)](https://engole.info/cleopatra-painting/) - Painting by John William Waterhouse. - [Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses](https://engole.info/circe-offering-the-cup-to-ulysses/) - Oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse, created in 1891. - [The Bouquet](https://engole.info/the-bouquet/) - Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), one of his series of "flower women" created between 1908 and 1914. - [Quatermass and the Pit](https://engole.info/quatermass-and-the-pit/) - British television science-fiction serial from the BBC, broadcast in 1958/1959. - [Spectre of Newby Church](https://engole.info/spectre-of-newby-church/) - One of the most famous spirit photographs ever taken. - [Aisle (architecture)](https://engole.info/aisle-architecture/) - Part of a church on either side of the nave or choir, separated from them by arcades, colonnades or piers. More generally, a passageway between seats in an auditorium, shelves in a supermarket and so on. - [Apse](https://engole.info/apse/) - Semicircular or polygonal termination of the chancel, which is typically situated at the eastern end of a Christian church. - [The Gentleman's Magazine](https://engole.info/the-gentlemans-magazine/) - Monthly compendium of the best news, essays and information from the daily and weekly newspapers, published from 1731 until 1914. - [Cheshire Plain](https://engole.info/cheshire-plain/) - Relatively flat expanse of lowland in North West England, the surface expression of the Cheshire Basin, an area of sedimentary rocks overlain by Mercia Mudstones laid down about 250 million years ago. - [Lady Lovibond](https://engole.info/lady-lovibond/) - Perhaps the best-known of the ghost ships that reportedly haunt British waters. - [Commonwealth (Adultery) Act 1650](https://engole.info/commonwealth-adultery-act-1650/) - Act passed by the Rump Parliament in 1650 making fornication, adultery and incest secular offences. - [Crantara](https://engole.info/crantara/) - Fiery cross used by Scottish Highlanders to rally their clans to battle. - [Stretford Memorial Hospital](https://engole.info/stretford-memorial-hospital/) - Former hospital in Stretford, Greater Manchester. - [St Clement's Church, York](https://engole.info/st-clements-church-york/) - Active Anglican church in York, England, built between 1872 and 1874. - [Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868](https://engole.info/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868/) - Act of Parliament that put an end to public executions for murder in the United Kingdom. - [Arthington Priory](https://engole.info/arthington-priory/) - Nunnery founded in the mid-12th century that was home to a community of about ten nuns in Yorkshire - [Pen-y-Crug](https://engole.info/pen-y-crug/) - Multivallate Iron Age hillfort in the Brecon Beacons, Powys. - [Lytham Pier](https://engole.info/lytham-pier/) - Pleasure and working pier opened in the seaside town of Lytham, Lancashire, England in 1865, demolished in 1960. - [Bessie Wentworth](https://engole.info/bessie-wentworth/) - English music-hall singer and comic entertainer, 1873–1901, best known for her coon songs. - [Meriel Talbot](https://engole.info/meriel-talbot/) - British public servant and women's welfare worker, (1866–1956). - [Rivington Hall](https://engole.info/rivington-hall/) - Grade II* listed former manor house in Rivington, Lancashire - [My First Sermon](https://engole.info/my-first-sermon/) - Fancy picture by the English artist John Everett Millais, created in 1863, depicting a young girl listening intently to a church sermon for the first time. - [Nuckelavee](https://engole.info/nuckelavee/) - Horse-like demon from Orcadian mythology that shares some of the characteristics of humans. - [Samuel Bamford](https://engole.info/samuel-bamford/) - English radical and writer, born in Middleton, Lancashire. - [Cookie policy (UK)](https://engole.info/cookie-policy-uk/) - GDPR cookie policy - [Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-cheshire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, split into the four unitary authorities making up the county. - [Grade I listed buildings in Telford and Wrekin](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-telford-and-wrekin/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire. - [Grade I listed buildings in County Durham](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-county-durham/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of County Durham, split into the four unitary authorities making up the county. - [Grade I listed buildings in Darlington](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-darlington/) - Grade I listed buildings in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham. - [Worsley dry docks](https://engole.info/worsley-dry-docks/) - Earliest surviving example of a dry dock on Britain's canals. - [Southey and Gotleigh Moors](https://engole.info/southey-and-gotleigh-moors/) - Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Blackdown Hills in Devon/Somerset. - [The Country of the Blind](https://engole.info/the-country-of-the-blind/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1904, about the accidental discovery of a latter-day utopia where all the inhabitants are blind. - [Mise-en-page](https://engole.info/mise-en-page/) - Term used to describe the physical layout of a page or manuscript, features such as indentation, columns, margins, font and so on. - [Outwood Viaduct](https://engole.info/outwood-viaduct/) - Grade II listed railway viaduct crossing the River Irwell in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. - [Ornithomancy](https://engole.info/ornithomancy/) - Method of divination that uses the behaviour of birds to predict the future. - [Thorley Wash](https://engole.info/thorley-wash/) - Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Bishop's Stortford, in Hertfordshire. - [Voussoir](https://engole.info/voussoir/) - Wedge-shaped stone or brick that in combination with others forms an arch. - [Hamlet (place)](https://engole.info/hamlet-place/) - Rural settlement smaller than a village. - [Mosley Common](https://engole.info/mosley-common/) - Suburb of Tyldesley in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester. - [Yale (mythical creature)](https://engole.info/yale-mythical-creature/) - Heraldic beast whose meaning is "proud defence". Although it has never been identified with a living or extinct creature, it may be based on descriptions of Indian water buffalos. - [Six Acts](https://engole.info/six-acts/) - Six Acts of Parliament introduced in the aftermath of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, intended to quash any further protests in support of parliamentary reform. - [Tyldesley](https://engole.info/tyldesley/) - Former industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester. - [New Hall moat](https://engole.info/new-hall-moat/) - Scheduled monument in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England, which comprises a moat and an island platform on which a modern house has been built. - [Rococo](https://engole.info/rococo/) - Extravagently ornate and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration. - [Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood](https://engole.info/pre-raphaelite-brotherhood/) - Group of English artists formed in 1848 to counter what they saw as the corrupting influence of the late-Renaissance painter Raphael. - [Mary Taylor](https://engole.info/mary-taylor/) - Early advocate for women's rights, born in Gomersal in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, (1817–1893). - [Misericord](https://engole.info/misericord/) - Wooden ledge on the underside of a folding seat in a church, intended to support a member of the congregation while standing. - [Dunham Castle](https://engole.info/dunham-castle/) - Early medieval moated motte and bailey castle just to the northwest of present-day Dunham Massey Hall in Greater Manchester, England. - [Ullerwood Castle](https://engole.info/ullerwood-castle/) - Early medieval fortification, possibly a shell keep, in Ringway, Greater Manchester, England. - [The Triumphs of a Taxidermist](https://engole.info/the-triumphs-of-a-taxidermist/) - Humorous short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894. - [Otley Road drill hall, Skipton](https://engole.info/otley-road-drill-hall-skipton/) - Former drill hall in Skipton, North Yorkshire, now converted into office accommodation. - [Hulme Barracks](https://engole.info/hulme-barracks/) - Former cavalry barracks in Hulme, Manchester, now converted into flats. - [Chapel of ease](https://engole.info/chapel-of-ease/) - Church subordinate to a parish church serving an area known as a chapelry, for the convenience of those parishioners who would find it difficult to attend services at the parish church. - [Black Friday (1910)](https://engole.info/black-friday-1910/) - Suffragette demonstration - [The National Review](https://engole.info/the-national-review/) - Right-wing British magazine founded in 1883. - [Sweeney Todd](https://engole.info/sweeney-todd/) - Fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847). - [William Waterhouse](https://engole.info/william-waterhouse/) - English artist; father of John William Waterhouse - [Manchester Coalfield](https://engole.info/manchester-coalfield/) - Part of the Lancashire Coalfield. Some easily accessible seams were worked on a small scale from the Middle Ages, and extensively from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the last quarter of the 20th century. - [Yew Tree Colliery](https://engole.info/yew-tree-colliery/) - Former coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1845 in Tyldesley, which was then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. - [The All-Pervading](https://engole.info/the-all-pervading/) - Painting by the English artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), depicting what he described as "the immeasurable expanse". - [Champagne Charlie (song)](https://engole.info/champagne-charlie-song/) - Best-known of the songs sung by the music hall artist George Leybourne (1842–1884). - [My Word, You Do Look Queer](https://engole.info/my-word-you-do-look-queer/) - Comic monologue by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston, first performed by Ernest Hastings in 1922 and revived by Stanley Holloway in 1938. - [Harry Liston](https://engole.info/harry-liston/) - English comedian and actor. - [Scottish poorhouse](https://engole.info/scottish-poorhouse/) - Scottish institution, occasionally referred to as a workhouse, provided accommodation for the destitute and poor. - [Town's Hospital](https://engole.info/towns-hospital/) - Poorhouse in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1731 - [John Frederick Bateman](https://engole.info/john-frederick-bateman/) - English civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. - [Newes from Scotland](https://engole.info/newes-from-scotland/) - 1591 pamphlet describing the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland, detailing the confessions given by the accused witches before King James VI. - [Cistercian ware](https://engole.info/cistercian-ware/) - Type of earthenware pottery manufactured in England in the 16th and 17th centuries - [Atherton Urban District](https://engole.info/atherton-urban-district/) - Atherton was from 1894 to 1974 a local government district in Lancashire, England that was abolished In 1974 - [Through a Window](https://engole.info/through-a-window/) - Short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894, a precursor to the sub-genre of thriller in which a crippled or bed-ridden hero, after observing the world through a window, is suddenly confronted by a killer. - [Astley and Tyldesley Collieries](https://engole.info/astley-and-tyldesley-collieries/) - Colliery company formed in 1900, became part of Manchester Collieries in 1929, and some of its collieries were nationalised in 1947. - [Haruspicy](https://engole.info/haruspicy/) - Method of divination based on examination of the entrails of slaughtered animals, particularly the liver. - [Local Nature Reserve](https://engole.info/local-nature-reserve/) - Statutory designation allowing principal local authorities to protect areas containing wildlife or geological features of particular local interest. - [Sabrina (actor)](https://engole.info/sabrina-actor/) - 1950s English glamour model who went on to have a minor film career, best known for her hourglass figure - [Almshouse](https://engole.info/almshouse/) - Charitable foundation established to provide for the poor. - [Restoration style](https://engole.info/restoration-style/) - Architectural style popular during the reign of King Charles II of England (1660–1685) - [Rivington Pike](https://engole.info/rivington-pike/) - Hill summit on Winter Hill, part of the West Pennine Moors, overlooking the village of Rivington in Lancashire, England. - [Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick](https://engole.info/eleanor-mildred-sidgwick/) - Physics researcher, activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research. - [Westhoughton Mill](https://engole.info/westhoughton-mill/) - Former cotton mill built in 1804, the target of a Luddite attack in 1812. - [Robert Tatton](https://engole.info/robert-tatton/) - Member of the Tatton family who unsuccessfully defended his family home, Wythenshawe Hall, against a siege by Parliamentary forces in the winter of 1643/44. - [Violet Alford](https://engole.info/violet-alford/) - Internationally recognised authority on folk dancing and its related music and folk customs. - [Penny dreadful](https://engole.info/penny-dreadful/) - Cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century, typically a story published in weekly parts, each costing a penny. - [Hanging Bridge](https://engole.info/hanging-bridge/) - Medieval structure spanning the Hanging Ditch, which connected the rivers Irk and Irwell in Manchester, England, part of the city's medieval defences. - [Cantlop Bridge](https://engole.info/cantlop-bridge/) - Only surviving Telford-approved cast-iron bridge in Shropshire. - [The Daily Courant](https://engole.info/the-daily-courant/) - First British daily newspaper, first published on 11 March 1702. - [Ancoats Hall](https://engole.info/ancoats-hall/) - Post-medieval country house built in 1609 in Ancoats, Manchester by Oswald Mosley, a member of the family who were Lords of the Manor of Manchester. - [St George's Church, Tyldesley](https://engole.info/st-georges-church-tyldesley/) - Waterloo church dedicated to St George, completed in 1825 to serve the growing township of Tyldesley cum Shakerley. - [Donner Party](https://engole.info/donner-party/) - Group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, where some of them resorted to cannibalism to survive. - [Sunbeam Tiger](https://engole.info/sunbeam-tiger/) - High-performance V8 version of the British Rootes Group’s Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed in part by the American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby and produced from 1964 until 1967. - [Samuel Johnson](https://engole.info/samuel-johnson/) - 18th-century English writer, critic, editor and lexicographer whose Dictionary of the English Language had far-reaching effects on the development of Modern English. - [Resurrectionists](https://engole.info/resurrectionists/) - Those who exhumed the bodies of the recently deceased during the 18th and 19th centuries to provide cadavers to anatomists for their research. - [Cock Lane ghost](https://engole.info/cock-lane-ghost/) - Ghost alleged to have haunted a lodging in Cock Lane, London - [Blackbeard](https://engole.info/blackbeard/) - English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of America during the early 18th century. - [Coterel Gang](https://engole.info/coterel-gang/) - 14th-century armed group that flourished in the North Midlands of England, led by James Coterel. - [Supermarionation](https://engole.info/supermarionation/) - Style of puppetry created in the 1960s and used extensively in the action-adventure puppet series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson - [Peterloo Massacre](https://engole.info/peterloo-massacre/) - Cavalry charge on 16 August 1819 into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 gathered at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England to demand the reform of parliamentary representation - [1996 Manchester bombing](https://engole.info/1996-manchester-bombing/) - Attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Saturday 15 June 1996, when they detonated a 15,000 kg bomb in the centre of Manchester, England - [Colonel John Gordon](https://engole.info/colonel-john-gordon/) - Daubed as "The richest commoner in Scotland", Colonel John Gordon owned estates on mainland Scotland and purchased several Scottish islands - [Alison Pearson, witch](https://engole.info/alison-pearson-witch/) - Scottish woman found guilty of sorcery, witchcraft and invoking the spirits of the Devil in 1588, then strangled and burned. - [Belle Vue Zoological Gardens](https://engole.info/belle-vue-zoological-gardens/) - Large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, opened in 1836. - [Workhouse](https://engole.info/workhouse/) - Establishment where the destitute in England and Wales received board and lodging in return for work. - [Cotswold Olimpick Games](https://engole.info/cotswold-olimpick-games/) - Annual public celebration of games and sports that probably began in 1612 - [Wife selling](https://engole.info/wife-selling/) - Informal form of divorce that began in England some time during the 17th century - [Pail closet](https://engole.info/pail-closet/) - Small outhouse containing a seat underneath which was a bucket into which the user would defecate. The buckets were regularly removed and emptied by the local authority. - [Nathaniel Butter](https://engole.info/nathaniel-butter/) - Early publisher of news in England, 1583–1664. - [Victoria Arches](https://engole.info/victoria-arches/) - Series of bricked-up arches in an embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester that served as business premises, landing stages for steam packet riverboats and as air-raid shelters - [The Sleeping Girl of Turville](https://engole.info/the-sleeping-girl-of-turville/) - Girl who fell into a deep sleep from which she could not be roused for nine years - [William Calcraft](https://engole.info/william-calcraft/) - 19th-century English hangman, one of the most prolific British executioners. - [Scuttlers](https://engole.info/scuttlers/) - Members of neighbourhood-based youth gangs formed in working-class areas of Manchester, Salford, and the surrounding townships during the late 19th century - [Black cat](https://engole.info/black-cat/) - Folk beliefs surrounding black cats. - [ELIZA](https://engole.info/eliza/) - Early natural language processing computer program. - [Leighth Feight](https://engole.info/leighth-feight/) - Clash between Chartists and police in Leigh, Lancashire in August 1839. - [Malkin Tower](https://engole.info/malkin-tower/) - Home of Elizabeth Southerns, also known as Demdike, and her granddaughter Alizon Device, two of the chief protagonists in the Lancashire witch trials of 1612. - [Isobel Gowdie](https://engole.info/isobel-gowdie/) - Scottish woman accused of witchcraft in 1662 and probably executed, whose detailed testimony provides one of the most comprehensive insights into European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts. - [Moors murders](https://engole.info/moors-murders/) - Series of child murders carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965 in Greater Manchester - [Cottingley Fairies](https://engole.info/cottingley-fairies/) - The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. - [Stephen Potter bibliography](https://engole.info/stephen-potter-bibliography/) - Works of Stephen Potter (1900–1969) listed in order of their date of first publication. - [Juliana Horatia Ewing bibliography](https://engole.info/juliana-horatia-ewing-bibliography/) - Books written by Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885) listed in order of their date of first publication. - [Compton Mackenzie bibliography](https://engole.info/compton-mackenzie-bibliography/) - Books written by Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) listed in order of their date of first publication. - [On the Choice of a Wife](https://engole.info/on-the-choice-of-a-wife/) - Essay by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, offering advice to young men on choosing a wife. - [Matthew Hopkins](https://engole.info/matthew-hopkins/) - English witch-hunter who claimed to hold the office of Witchfinder General, although that title was never bestowed by Parliament. - [Hanged, drawn and quartered](https://engole.info/hanged-drawn-and-quartered/) - Statutory penalty in England from 1352 for men convicted of high treason, not repealed until 1870. - [Udny Mort House](https://engole.info/udny-mort-house/) - Category B listed building in the old kirkyard at Udny Green, Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland, built in 1832 to house corpses - [William Harrison Ainsworth bibliography](https://engole.info/william-harrison-ainsworth-bibliography/) - Works of William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) listed in order of their date of first publication - [Mary Pownall Bromet](https://engole.info/mary-pownall-bromet/) - Sculptor born in 1862 Leigh, Lancashire, where her father, James Pownall, was a silk manufacturer. - [Gas Light](https://engole.info/gas-light/) - 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton that gave rise to the term “gaslighting”, a form of psychological abuse - [John Wyndham bibliography](https://engole.info/john-wyndham-bibliography/) - Works by John Wyndham (1903–1969) listed in order of their date of first publication. - [Boids](https://engole.info/boids/) - Computational model of flocking developed by the computer graphics specialist Craig Reynolds in 1986. - [Housing Act 1930](https://engole.info/housing-act-1930/) - Act of Parliament making it easier for local authorities to clear slums, and obliging them to rehome the tenants of such areas. - [Anatomy Act 1832](https://engole.info/anatomy-act-1832/) - Act of Parliament intended to increase the number or corpses available for dissection by medical students. - [Papists Act 1722](https://engole.info/papists-act-1722/) - [pimage}https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Coat_of_arms_of_Great_Britain_%281714%E2%80%931801%29.svg/960px-Coat_of_arms_of_Great_Britain_%281714%E2%80%931801%29.svg.png[/pimage]Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all Catholics who refused to accept the monarch as the supreme head of the church in England to register themselves and their estates with the authorities. - [Martin's Close](https://engole.info/martins-close/) - Ghost story by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911. It centres on the trial of the local squire about 200 years earlier, accused of murdering a young woman who several witnesses claimed to have seen after her death. - [William Holman Hunt](https://engole.info/william-holman-hunt/) - English painter (1827–1910), one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. - [The Rose Garden](https://engole.info/the-rose-garden/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about a spirit released by the removal of a post during the construction of a rose garden. - [More Ghost Stories](https://engole.info/more-ghost-stories/) - Collection of seven short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911. - [Heath](https://engole.info/heath/) - Village in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, noted for its ancient common and the number of "mansions" around it. - [Chiltern Hundreds](https://engole.info/chiltern-hundreds/) - Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a procedural device allowing members of parliament to resign before a general election. - [C. F. Varley](https://engole.info/c-f-varley/) - Pioneering English telegraph engineer and electrician, and an investigator into spiritualism. - [Aberford](https://engole.info/aberford/) - Rural village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, a historic settlement in the ancient Kingdom of Elmet. - [Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge](https://engole.info/society-for-the-diffusion-of-useful-knowledge/) - Society founded in London in 1826 to publish cheap and accessible works on scientific and artistic subjects. - [West Bretton](https://engole.info/west-bretton/) - Village and civil parish in the Wakefield District of West Yorkshire. - [The Grisly Folk](https://engole.info/the-grisly-folk/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1921, speculating about the early encounters between Neanderthals and modern man. - [The Land Ironclads](https://engole.info/the-land-ironclads/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1903, anticipating the impact of the tank in trench warfare. - [The Valley of Spiders](https://engole.info/the-valley-of-spiders/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1903, about three men who are attacked by giant spiders while pursuing a half-caste girl through a desolate valley. - [Cloister](https://engole.info/cloister/) - Covered walkway usually set out in the form of a square. - [Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857](https://engole.info/manchester-art-treasures-exhibition-1857/) - Exhibition of fine art art held in Manchester in 1857, the largest art exhibition ever in the UK. - [Flockton](https://engole.info/flockton/) - Rural village stretched out along the Barnsley to Huddersfield road in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, taking its name from a Viking settler. - [Taxes on knowledge](https://engole.info/taxes-on-knowledge/) - Long-running campaign against duties on newspapers, their advertising content and the paper they were printed on. - [How They Met Themselves](https://engole.info/how-they-met-themselves/) - Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles. - [Bookland](https://engole.info/bookland/) - One of the three major types of land ownership in Anglo-Saxon England. Also an informal name given to the prefix of an ISBN. - [The Sphere](https://engole.info/the-sphere/) - British weekly illustrated newspaper published from 1900 to 1964. - [The Extinction of Man](https://engole.info/the-extinction-of-man/) - Pessimistic essay by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about some of the ways humanity could become extinct. - [Mind at the End of Its Tether](https://engole.info/mind-at-the-end-of-its-tether/) - Last publication by the English author H. G. Wells, a darkly pessimistic prediction about the future extinction of the human race. - [Count Magnus](https://engole.info/count-magnus/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about the death of a travelogue writer who inadvertently releases two demons from the sarcophagus of Count Magnus. - [Lost Hearts](https://engole.info/lost-hearts/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a man who believes that he can obtain magical powers by consuming the hearts of three people under the age of twenty-one. - [Number 13 (short story)](https://engole.info/number-13-short-story/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about a hotel room that only exists during the hours of darkness. - [Aberford Railway](https://engole.info/aberford-railway/) - Private railway connecting Garforth to Aberford in West Yorkshire, closed in 1924. - [A School Story](https://engole.info/a-school-story/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about the mysterious disappearance of a school teacher. - [Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery](https://engole.info/eilean-mor-lighthouse-mystery/) - Unexplained disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in December 1900. - [Cockersand Abbey](https://engole.info/cockersand-abbey/) - Founded as a hermitage before 1184, the remains of which are now a scheduled monument. - [Manchester Tart](https://engole.info/manchester-tart/) - Variation on a Victorian recipe for Manchester pudding, first recorded by Mrs Beeton. - [Emley](https://engole.info/emley/) - Rural village in the South Pennine fringe, midway between Hudddersfield and Wakefield. - [Marion Wallace Dunlop](https://engole.info/marion-wallace-dunlop/) - Scottish artist and the first suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909. - [Heath Hall](https://engole.info/heath-hall/) - Country mansion on Heath Common, near Wakefield in West Yorkshire - [The Treasure of Abbot Thomas](https://engole.info/the-treasure-of-abbot-thomas/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about a treasure guarded by creatures of the night. - [The Mezzotint](https://engole.info/the-mezzotint/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about an engraving that changes every time it is looked at. - [Odic Force](https://engole.info/odic-force/) - Fundamental force in nature claimed to have been discovered by Carl von Reichenbach in the mid-19th century, but now widely recognised as pseudoscience. - [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary](https://engole.info/ghost-stories-of-an-antiquary/) - Collection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904. - [Carnon River](https://engole.info/carnon-river/) - Heavily polluted river in West Cornwall, draining the historic mining area of Gwennap. - [St Peter's Church, Tollerton](https://engole.info/st-peters-church-tollerton/) - Active Anglican church in the parish of Tollerton, Nottinghamshire, founded c. 13th century. - [Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book](https://engole.info/canon-alberics-scrap-book/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a demon depicted in a picture coming to life. - [Stocks](https://engole.info/stocks/) - Device used to publicly humiliate those found guilty of minor offences. - [Monday's Child](https://engole.info/mondays-child/) - Nursery rhyme supposed to foretell a child's character or future from their day of birth. - [Flannan Isle](https://engole.info/flannan-isle/) - Ballad by the English poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, an imaginative account of the unexplained disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in December 1900. - [Ashlar](https://engole.info/ashlar/) - Masonry of squared and finely cut or worked stone, commonly used for the facing of a building. - [Devoran](https://engole.info/devoran/) - Rural village in West Cornwall. - [Stephen Potter](https://engole.info/stephen-potter/) - English writer (1900–1969) best known for his parodies of self-help books. He is remembered particularly for popularising gamemanship, the art of using dubious although not illegal tactics to gain an advantage. - [Mancunian Film Corporation](https://engole.info/mancunian-film-corporation/) - British film production company founded in 1934, notable for establishing the only feature film studio outside of Greater London. - [By the Shortest of Heads](https://engole.info/by-the-shortest-of-heads/) - 1915 British film starring a ten-year-old George Formby, now considered to be lost. - [Brochan Lom](https://engole.info/brochan-lom/) - Scottish Gaelic nonsense song about porridge. - [Oxford Martyrs](https://engole.info/oxford-martyrs/) - Three prominent Protestant clergymen burned alive in 1555-1556 for heresy during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. - [The College of Psychic Studies](https://engole.info/the-college-of-psychic-studies/) - Educational charity founded in 1884, offering training in mediumship and various divinatory tools. - [River Kennall](https://engole.info/river-kennall/) - River in south-west Cornwall. - [A Mermaid](https://engole.info/a-mermaid/) - Painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1900, now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts. - [Lindow Moss](https://engole.info/lindow-moss/) - Raised peat bog in Cheshire, best known for the discovery of the preserved bog body of Lindow Man in 1984. - [Witch bottle](https://engole.info/witch-bottle/) - Bottles or jars used in counterspells to reverse a curse imposed by a witch. - [Miss Winchelsea's Heart](https://engole.info/miss-winchelseas-heart/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898, about a snobbish young woman's rejection of a young man's advances because of what she perceives to be his absurd surname, Snooks. - [The Rajah's Treasure](https://engole.info/the-rajahs-treasure/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1896, about a rajah who is murdered by his heir, for an unexpected treasure trove. - [The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes](https://engole.info/the-remarkable-case-of-davidsons-eyes/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1895, about a researcher who, after stooping between the poles of a large electromagnet, becomes temporarily blind to the world around him, seeing only an island beach. - [The Reconciliation](https://engole.info/the-reconciliation/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1895, about two men who attempt a reconciliation culminating in the death of one of them. - [St Anne's, Denton](https://engole.info/st-annes-denton/) - Active Anglican church in Denton, Greater Manchester, a designated Grade I listed building completed in 1882. - [Robert Keyes](https://engole.info/robert-keyes/) - One of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. - [Rockingham Mausoleum](https://engole.info/rockingham-mausoleum/) - Monument commissioned by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the second Marquess of Rockingham in 1783. - [Hoober Stand](https://engole.info/hoober-stand/) - Monumental tower in the form of a tapering pyramid topped with a hexagonal lantern, named for the ancient wood in which it was erected. - [Swinton Pottery](https://engole.info/swinton-pottery/) - Founded in 1745 and renamed the Rockingham Works in 1826, the company produced fine porcelainware until 1842. - [Janet Horne](https://engole.info/janet-horne/) - Alleged name of the last person to be executed for witchcraft in the British Isles, in 1727. - [Elsecar](https://engole.info/elsecar/) - Former mining village in South Yorkshire, six miles north of Rotherham and six south of Barnsley. - [Gwennap](https://engole.info/gwennap/) - Hamlet and civil parish in West Cornwall. - [Keppel's Column](https://engole.info/keppels-column/) - One of several follies and monuments erected on the Wentworth Park Estate in South Yorkshire. - [Hugh Tremenheere](https://engole.info/hugh-tremenheere/) - Career civil servant and inspector of schools, and from 1843 to 1859 the first inspector of mines. - [Pilkington's Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles](https://engole.info/pilkingtons-lancastrian-pottery-tiles/) - Former manufacturer of tiles, vases and bowls established in 1892, best remembered for their fine glazes such as Royal Lancastrian. - [William James Neatby](https://engole.info/william-james-neatby/) - Ceramic designer and artist born in Barnsley, Yorkshire - [Pollock and the Porroh Man](https://engole.info/pollock-and-the-porroh-man/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a murdered witch-doctor whose severed head haunts the man responsible for his death. - [Perran Foundry](https://engole.info/perran-foundry/) - Cornish foundry established in 1791 to supply steam-engine pumps and heavy machinery to mines, waterworks and ironworks. - [Wee Willie Winkie](https://engole.info/wee-willie-winkie/) - Nursery rhyme about the best-known of the British sleep spirits - [Tam o' Shanter](https://engole.info/tam-o-shanter/) - Narrative poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, first published in 1791 - [Ellenbrook](https://engole.info/ellenbrook/) - Residential suburb of Worsley in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England - [St Mary the Virgin's Church, Ellenbrook](https://engole.info/st-mary-the-virgins-church-ellenbrook/) - Active Anglican church of ancient foundation - [The Hammerpond Park Burglary](https://engole.info/the-hammerpond-park-burglary/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1894, about a burglary that begins badly but is eventually successfully concluded. - [Burmantofts Pottery](https://engole.info/burmantofts-pottery/) - Major producer of decorated tiles and architectural ceramics in Yorkshire. - [The Lost Inheritance](https://engole.info/the-lost-inheritance/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1896, about the lost will left by a rich uncle. - [Banshee](https://engole.info/banshee/) - Female spirit in Irish and Scottish folklore whose wailing voice is heard before the death of a member of the family to which she is attached. - [Robert Huskisson, artist](https://engole.info/robert-huskisson-artist/) - British portrait painter particularly recognised for his fairy paintings. - [John Simmons, artist](https://engole.info/john-simmons-artist/) - British painter recognised as a specialist in painting female fairies, frequently nude. - [National schools](https://engole.info/national-schools/) - Schools set up by Anglican clergy and their local supporters, initially run by single teachers using the monitorial system. - [James Sharples](https://engole.info/james-sharples/) - Blacksmith and self-taught artist whose major work, The Forge, was completed in 1847. - [The Flying Man](https://engole.info/the-flying-man/) - Short story written by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a British soldier who, trapped on a ledge, improvises a parachute to escape. - [Fairy painting](https://engole.info/fairy-painting/) - Genre of art and illustration featuring small imaginary human-like creatures with magical powers, often with wings. - [Exeter Cathedral astronomical clock](https://engole.info/exeter-cathedral-astronomical-clock/) - Clock showing the time and phases of the moon, the oldest parts of which date to 1484. - [Harlequinade](https://engole.info/harlequinade/) - British comic theatrical genre developed in England between the 17th and mid-19th centuries - [New Manchester](https://engole.info/new-manchester/) - Formerly isolated mining community at the extreme eastern end of the Tyldesley township. - [Bagpuss](https://engole.info/bagpuss/) - Children's television series about a young Victorian girl called Emily, her shop, and her magical saggy old cloth cat, Bagpuss - [Herbert Campbell](https://engole.info/herbert-campbell/) - English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era. - [The Treasure in the Forest](https://engole.info/the-treasure-in-the-forest/) - Short story written by H. G. Wells and published in 1897, about the fate of two men who steal a treasure map from a Chinaman. - [Great Pilgrimage](https://engole.info/great-pilgrimage/) - March in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women. - [St Stephen's Church, Astley](https://engole.info/st-stephens-church-astley/) - Parish church in Astley, Greater Manchester, built in 1968 after its predecessor was destroyed by arson. - [Anglezarke](https://engole.info/anglezarke/) - Sparsely populated civil parish near Chorley in Lancashire with no village, just scattered farms and the hamlet of White Coppice. - [Albert Pierrepoint](https://engole.info/albert-pierrepoint/) - English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956 - [St John the Baptist's Church, Atherton](https://engole.info/st-john-the-baptists-church-atherton/) - Anglican parish Church in Atherton, Greater Manchester designed by Paley and Ausin and completed in 1896 - [Great Gold Robbery](https://engole.info/great-gold-robbery/) - 1855 robbery of a shipment of gold bullion and coins, stolen from a train in transit between London Bridge and Folkestone, on its way to Paris - [Chowbent Chapel](https://engole.info/chowbent-chapel/) - Active Unitarian place of worship in Atherton, Greater Manchester that was built in 1721. - [St John's Church, Mosley Common](https://engole.info/st-johns-church-mosley-common/) - Active church in Mosley Common that was built in 1886. - [Jean Lyon, Countess of Angus](https://engole.info/jean-lyon-countess-of-angus/) - Scottish countess named in North Berwick witch trials as consulting with witches - [Answer to Prayer](https://engole.info/answer-to-prayer/) - Short story by H. G. Wells published in 1937, the last he ever wrote - [Standedge crossings](https://engole.info/standedge-crossings/) - Major Pennine crossing point for more than 2,000 years - [Grange Moor](https://engole.info/grange-moor/) - Tract of moorland more than 700 feet above sea level gave its name to this Yorkshire village. - [Holmes Chapel](https://engole.info/holmes-chapel/) - Built-up area and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East. - [King of the cats](https://engole.info/king-of-the-cats/) - Folk-tales about the king of a society of talking cats - [Mine boat](https://engole.info/mine-boat/) - Boat built to transport coal from the Duke of Bridgewater's pits in Worsley - [The Ash-tree](https://engole.info/the-ash-tree/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, published in 1904, about the vengeance of a witch against her accuser. - [Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad](https://engole.info/oh-whistle-and-ill-come-to-you-my-lad/) - Ghost story by M. R. James published in 1904, about a mysterious whistle found on a beach in Suffolk. - [Turton Tower](https://engole.info/turton-tower/) - Former manor house incorporating a pele tower in Turton, Lancashire - [Ellon Castle and gardens](https://engole.info/ellon-castle-and-gardens/) - Historic ruined castle remains, formerly Fortalice of Ardgith, focal point within a formal walled garden in Ellon - [Jack Sheppard](https://engole.info/jack-sheppard/) - Notorious thief in early 18th-century London, wildly popular with the poorer classes - [Hylas and the Nymphs](https://engole.info/hylas-and-the-nymphs/) - Oil on canvas painting by John William Waterhouse exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897. - [Pierre Adolphe Valette](https://engole.info/pierre-adolphe-valette/) - French Impressionist painter who taught at Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920 - [Gunpowder Plot](https://engole.info/gunpowder-plot/) - Attempt in 1605 to assassinate King James I and re-establish a Catholic monarchy by blowing up the House of Lords. - [Newgate novel](https://engole.info/newgate-novel/) - Early form of sensation literature, drawing its inspiration from the Newgate Calendar, first published in 1773 and containing biographies of famous criminals. - [George Tutill](https://engole.info/george-tutill-2/) - Artist and entrepreneur who started a business at the age of 20, manufacturing banners and regalia. - [The Moth](https://engole.info/the-moth/) - Short story by H. G. Wells about a deadly rivalry between two entomologists, resulting in the death of one and the insanity of the other - [Hulme Hall](https://engole.info/hulme-hall/) - Former half-timbered manor house on the banks of the River Irwell in Manchester, demolished in about 1840. - [William Harrison Ainsworth](https://engole.info/william-harrison-ainsworth/) - English historical novelist, at one time considered a rival to Charles Dickens. - [Cottonopolis](https://engole.info/cottonopolis/) - Nickname given to Manchester, England, 19th-century international centre of the cotton and textile trade - [Margaret Henderson, Lady Pittadro](https://engole.info/margaret-henderson-lady-pittadro/) - Member of the Scottish elite who was accused then incarcerated for witchcraft in 1649, but died before her case went to trial - [Mr. Brisher's Treasure](https://engole.info/mr-brishers-treasure/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1899, a morality tale of greed and hypocrisy. - [Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies](https://engole.info/harriss-list-of-covent-garden-ladies/) - Annual directory of prostitutes working in Georgian London, published from 1757 until 1795. - [The Thing in No. 7](https://engole.info/the-thing-in-no-7/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about the thing that one of a group of friends encounters after taking shelter in an empty house. - [Imperial War Museum North](https://engole.info/imperial-war-museum-north/) - Museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society. - [Herring girls](https://engole.info/herring-girls/) - Women and girls who travelled down the east coast of the UK from Scotland following the herring fleet, to gut and pack fish - [Henry Garnet](https://engole.info/henry-garnet/) - English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. - [Minsden Chapel](https://engole.info/minsden-chapel/) - Grade II listed ruined 14th-century chapel near Preston, Hertfordshire, reputedly haunted. - [Lupset Hall](https://engole.info/lupset-hall/) - Small country house built in Lupset, West Riding of Yorkshire in1716, as a gentleman's residence for Richard Witton. - [Bolton Percy Gatehouse](https://engole.info/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. - [Walton Hall, Derbyshire](https://engole.info/walton-hall-derbyshire/) - Grade II* listed country house in the village of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, built in 1723. - [West Pier Public Convenience](https://engole.info/west-pier-public-convenience/) - Category A designated public convenience in Rothesay, opened in 1900. - [Ledston Hall](https://engole.info/ledston-hall/) - Grade I listed former country house in West Yorkshire, now divided into residences. - [A Neighbour's Landmark](https://engole.info/a-neighbours-landmark/) - Ghost story by M. R. James published in 1925, about the disappearance of a woman who steals her neighbour's property by removing a cursed landmark. - [Married Women's Property Act 1870](https://engole.info/married-womens-property-act-1870/) - Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of money they earned and to inherit property. - [A Warning to the Curious](https://engole.info/a-warning-to-the-curious/) - Horror story by M. R. James first published in 1925, about the events following the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon crown. - [Rytecraft Scootacar](https://engole.info/rytecraft-scootacar/) - Fairground dodgem car converted to road use by the British Motorboat Manufacturing Company, produced from 1934 until 1940. - [St Ann's, Stretford](https://engole.info/st-anns-stretford/) - Active Roman Catholic church in Stretford, Greater Manchester, a designated Grade II listed building completed in 1867. - [Stretford process](https://engole.info/stretford-process/) - Process developed during the late 1950s to remove hydrogen sulfide from town gas. It was the first liquid phase oxidation process for converting H2S into sulfur to gain widespread commercial acceptance. - [A Vignette](https://engole.info/a-vignette/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1936, about a semi-autobiographical episode in James's early life. - [Combination Acts](https://engole.info/combination-acts/) - Acts of Parliament passed by the Tory government of William Pitt the Younger in response to its fear of unrest or revolution among the working classes. They banned workers from combining to form trade unions and prevented them from striking, calling for shorter hours or increased pay. - [Contagious Diseases Acts](https://engole.info/contagious-diseases-acts/) - Series of UK Acts of Parliament to control women engaged in prostitution, in an attempt to contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among the UK's soldiers and sailors. - [Molly Leigh (witch)](https://engole.info/molly-leigh-witch/) - Woman accused by her local rector of being a witch, but never formally charged as such. - [New Lester Colliery](https://engole.info/new-lester-colliery/) - Colliery on the Manchester Coalfield opened after 1872 by James and William Roscoe in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England. - [Peel Hall, Cheshire](https://engole.info/peel-hall-cheshire/) - Jacobean-style Grade II* listed building in Cheshire, built in 1637. - [Peel Trident](https://engole.info/peel-trident/) - Three-wheeled car first produced by the Peel Engineering Co from 1965–1966 and latterly by Peel Engineering Ltd from 2011 - [St Paul's Church, Peel](https://engole.info/st-pauls-church-peel/) - Active Anglican parish church in Little Hulton, Greater Manchester, built between 1874 and 1876. - [The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral](https://engole.info/the-stalls-of-barchester-cathedral/) - Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1910. - [The Uncommon Prayer-Book](https://engole.info/the-uncommon-prayer-book/) - Horror story by M. R. James published in 1925, about the theft of a number of prayer-books repeatedly found to be open at a particular psalm, despite being stored in a locked and disused church. - [The Haunted Dolls' House](https://engole.info/the-haunted-dolls-house/) - Horror story by M. R. James published in 1925, about the contents of a doll's house that come to life. - [1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak](https://engole.info/1964-aberdeen-typhoid-outbreak/) - Typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen, Scotland traced to contaminated corned beef from Argentina. - [A Thin Ghost and Others](https://engole.info/a-thin-ghost-and-others/) - Collection of five short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1919. - [A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories](https://engole.info/a-warning-to-the-curious-and-other-ghost-stories/) - Collection of six short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1925. - [Grade I listed buildings in Bedford](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-bedford/) - Grade I listed buildings in the unitary authority of Bedford, Bedfordshire. - [Towneley Hall](https://engole.info/towneley-hall/) - Grade I listed building in Burnley, Lancashire, housing the borough's art gallery and museum. - [Lancet window](https://engole.info/lancet-window/) - Tall, narrow window typically associated with the Gothic architectural style. - [Window tax](https://engole.info/window-tax/) - Tax based on the number of windows a property had, widely but erroneously believed to have resulted in many windows being bricked up. - [Rats](https://engole.info/rats/) - Ghost story by M. R. James first published in 1929, about a locked room containing the remains of a gibbeted former owner. - [Chapman](https://engole.info/chapman/) - Itinerant peddler or hawker - [Sarah Chapman](https://engole.info/sarah-chapman/) - One of the leaders of the matchgirls' strike of 1888. - [Grade I listed buildings in Leicestershire](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-leicestershire/) - Grade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, split into the seven district councils plus the unitary authority of City of Leicester. - [Lock hospital](https://engole.info/lock-hospital/) - Establishment that specialised in the treatment of venereal disease. - [Emily Duval](https://engole.info/emily-duval/) - Suffragette, imprisoned and force-fed after going on hunger strike. - [Significant Form](https://engole.info/significant-form/) - Once fashionable term characterising the properties that distinguish a work of art from other class of object. - [George Parker (astrologer)](https://engole.info/george-parker-astrologer/) - English astrologer and almanac maker (1654–1743) - [Elliott O'Donnell](https://engole.info/elliott-odonnell/) - English author (1872–1965) known primarily for his books about ghosts. English author (1872–1965) known primarily for his books about ghosts. - [Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company](https://engole.info/dot-cycle-and-motor-manufacturing-company/) - British motorcycle manufacturer established in 1902. - [Wilderhope Manor](https://engole.info/wilderhope-manor/) - 16th-century manor house in Longville in the Dale, Shropshire, now owned by the National Trust and used as a youth hostel since 1937. - [Andrew Bell (engraver)](https://engole.info/andrew-bell-engraver/) - Scottish engraver and co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica - [The Unlucky Theatre](https://engole.info/the-unlucky-theatre/) - Ghost story about a haunted theatre by the English writer Elliott O'Donnell, first published in 1959. - [Richard Dadd](https://engole.info/richard-dadd/) - English painter of the Victorian era , noted for his depiction of fairies and other supernatural subjects. Most were completed while he was an inmate of Bedlam and Broadmoor lunatic asylums. - [Roman numerals](https://engole.info/roman-numerals/) - System of using letters to represent numbers, an idea that was developed by the Phoenicians two thousand years before the founding of the city of Rome. - [Mary Lakeland](https://engole.info/mary-lakeland/) - English woman executed for witchcraft in Ipswich in 1645, one of the few people in England to have been executed by burning after a conviction of witchcraft. - [St Michael and All Angels Church, Thornhill](https://engole.info/st-michael-and-all-angels-church-thornhill/) - Active Anglican church in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, Grade I listed. - [The Wizard (Comic)](https://engole.info/the-wizard-comic/) - Weekly British story paper published from 1922 until 1963, relaunched in 1970 for a further 435 issues. - [Albert Henry Collings](https://engole.info/albert-henry-collings/) - English lithographer and painter (1868–1947), best known for his portraits, nudes and landscapes. - [An Episode of Cathedral History](https://engole.info/an-episode-of-cathedral-history/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1914, about a demon that escapes frpm a hidden tomb in the fictional Southminster Cathedral. - [Sandridge Park](https://engole.info/sandridge-park/) - Grade II* country house overlooking the River Dart in Devon, designed by John Nash and built in 1805. - [St Antony of Padua](https://engole.info/st-antony-of-padua/) - Tin tabernacle in the Trafford Park industrial estate in Manchester. - [Jonet Rendall, witch](https://engole.info/jonet-rendall-witch/) - Orcadian woman executed for witchcraft in 1629. - [Peter Brook (painter)](https://engole.info/peter-brook-painter/) - English landscape artist (1927–2009), best known for his scenes of the Pennines. - [Elizabeth Mary Watt](https://engole.info/elizabeth-mary-watt/) - Scottish painter and decorator of pottery (1886–1954). - [Two Doctors](https://engole.info/two-doctors/) - Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1919, about the mysterious death of one of the two doctors practising medicine in Islington during the early 18th century. - [Witch mark](https://engole.info/witch-mark/) - Symbols or patterns scratched on the walls and thresholds of buildings to protect them from witchcraft or evil spirits. - [Great Boys Colliery](https://engole.info/great-boys-colliery/) - Former coal mine in Tyldesley, Lancashire - [Kames Castle](https://engole.info/kames-castle/) - 16th-century tower house on the Scottish Isle of Bute. - [Joan Wytte](https://engole.info/joan-wytte/) - Alleged Cornish witch whose skeleton was put on public display. - [Sally the Dunstable Witch](https://engole.info/sally-the-dunstable-witch/) - 19th-century hoax to shame the rector into repairing his church. - [Category A listed buildings in Ayrshire](https://engole.info/category-a-listed-buildings-in-ayrshire/) - Category A listed buildings in the historic and registration county of Ayrshire in south-west Scotland. - [Category A listed buildings in South Ayrshire](https://engole.info/category-a-listed-buildings-in-south-ayrshire/) - Category A listed buildings in the unitary authority of South Ayrshire, in south-west Scotland. - [Friars Head](https://engole.info/friars-head/) - Grade II* listed house near the village of Winterburn in North Yorkshire. - [Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells](https://engole.info/church-of-holy-trinity-hotwells/) - Grade II* listed active Anglican church in Hotwells, Bristol, built in 1829. - [Heywood's Bank](https://engole.info/heywoods-bank/) - Private banking firm established in Manchester by members of the Heywood family, operational from 1788 until 1874, when it was acquired by the Manchester & Salford Bank. - [Worsley Navigable Levels](https://engole.info/worsley-navigable-levels/) - Extensive network of underground canals that drained the Duke of Bridgewater's coal pits emerge into the open at the Delph in Worsley, Greater Manchester. - [Hob Moor](https://engole.info/hob-moor/) - Local nature reserve and ancient common - [Adelaide Claxton](https://engole.info/adelaide-claxton/) - English painter and illustrator who developed a popular line of ghost paintings during the 1870s - [Grade I listed buildings in Hinckley and Bosworth](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-hinckley-and-bosworth/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire. - [Worsley New Hall](https://engole.info/worsley-new-hall/) - Worsley's third manor house, built in 1846 to designs by Edward Blore for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere - [St Mary's Church, Akenham](https://engole.info/st-marys-church-akenham/) - Redundant Grade II* listed Anglican church near Ipswich, Suffolk, said to have been built over the resting place of the Devil according to legend. - [Euphame MacCalzean](https://engole.info/euphame-maccalzean/) - Wealthy Scottish heiress and member of the gentry convicted of witchcraft. A key figure in the North Berwick witchcraft trials of 1590-1591. - [RHS Garden Bridgewater](https://engole.info/rhs-garden-bridgewater/) - Royal Horticultural Society garden in Worsley, in the City of Salford - [Grade I listed buildings in Oadby and Wigston](https://engole.info/grade-i-listed-buildings-in-oadby-and-wigston/) - Grade I listed buildings in the district of Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire. - [The Cone](https://engole.info/the-cone/) - Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about one man's revenge on an artist he suspects is having an affair with his wife. - [James Humphreys (pornographer)](https://engole.info/james-humphreys-pornographer/) - English business and criminal who ran a chain of adult book shops and strip clubs in London. He was able to operate his business by bribing serving police officers. - [Long Barrow at All Cannings](https://engole.info/long-barrow-at-all-cannings/) - Modern long barrow and place of druid worship near Devizes, Wiltshire. - [Winter Hill Trespass](https://engole.info/winter-hill-trespass/) - 1896 protest organised when the landowner Colonel Ainsworth closed a track leading to Winter Hill, denying the right of access to the local population. - [Winter Hill](https://engole.info/winter-hill/) - High point of Rivington Moor, which has been the site of mining, a mass trespass, aeroplane disasters and murder, is 1496 feet above sea levelHigh point of Rivington Moor in the West Pennine Moors is 1,496 feet high and has been the site of mining, a mass trespass, aeroplane disasters and murder. - [Andrew Knowles & Sons](https://engole.info/andrew-knowles-sons/) - Coal mining company that operated on the Manchester Coalfield in and around Clifton, in the historic county of Lancashire - [Bedford Hall](https://engole.info/bedford-hall/) - Late-medieval house in Bedford, Leigh near the edge of Chat Moss. - [Priest hole](https://engole.info/priest-hole/) - Secret hiding places in the homes of prominent Catholics to hide priests from persecution. - [Guy Fawkes](https://engole.info/guy-fawkes/) - Member of the group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. - [Elizabeth Francis, witch](https://engole.info/elizabeth-francis-witch/) - English woman tried three times for witchcraft, hanged in 1579 for bewitchment and murder by witchcraft. - [Society for Psychical Research](https://engole.info/society-for-psychical-research/) - Registered charity founded in 1882 to conduct scientific investigations into psychic and paranormal phenomena. - [Walkden Gardens](https://engole.info/walkden-gardens/) - Public green space in Sale, Greater Manchester. - [Rivington Gardens](https://engole.info/rivington-gardens/) - Gardens covering 45 acres of the steep west-facing slopes of Rivington Moor at the edge of the West Pennine Moors in Lancashire - [Bedford Colliery](https://engole.info/bedford-colliery/) - Colliery in Leigh sunk by John Speakman at Wood End Farm in the northeast part of Bedford in 1875. - [Arcade](https://engole.info/arcade/) - Series of arches carried on piers, columns or pilasters. Also used to denote a covered avenue with shops on one or both sides. - [Minster](https://engole.info/minster/) - Churches originally founded in Anglo-Saxon times, and a term revived for some large parish churches. - [Leeds Pottery](https://engole.info/leeds-pottery/) - Pottery established in 1770 in Hunslet, South Leeds notable for intricate pierced creamware known as Leedsware. - [Scrying](https://engole.info/scrying/) - Form of divination in which the diviner gazes into a reflective surface, in which visions appear. - [St John's Church, Bellerby](https://engole.info/st-johns-church-bellerby/) - Active Anglican church in the village of Bellerby, North Yorkshire. - [Church of All Saints, Houghton Conquest](https://engole.info/church-of-all-saints-houghton-conquest/) - Grade I listed active Anglican church in the village of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire. - [Electricity Sub-Station, Runcorn](https://engole.info/electricity-sub-station-runcorn/) - Former hearse house converted into an electricity sub-station. ## Categories - 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