28 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General
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Sheffield is a
city in
South Yorkshire , England, situated 29 miles (47 km) south of
Leeds and 32 miles (51 km) east of
Manchester . The city is the administrative centre of the
City of Sheffield . It is
historically part of the
West Riding of Yorkshire . It is the largest settlement in South Yorkshire, and the third largest in
Northern England .
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27 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General
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Byram Arcade © flickr.com – Tony Hisgett/cc-by-2.0
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Huddersfield is a
town in the
Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees ,
West Yorkshire , England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district, in the foothills of the
Pennines . The
River Holme ‘s confluence into the similar-sized
Colne is to the south of the town centre, which then flows into the
Calder in the north-eastern outskirts of the town.
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27 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General , London , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks , Sport
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Trooping the Colour – Horse Guards Parade © Corporal Paul Shaw/MOD/OGL v1.0
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The social season, or Season, refers to the traditional annual period in the spring and summer when it is customary for members of the
social elite to hold
balls ,
dinner parties and
charity events. Until the
First World War , it was also the appropriate time to reside in the city (generally meaning
London in
Great Britain and
Dublin in
Ireland ) rather than in the country in order to attend such events.
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26 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General
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Northallerton is a
market town and
civil parish in
North Yorkshire , England. It is near the
River Wiske in the
Vale of Mowbray and had a population of 16,832 in 2011. Northallerton is an administrative centre for
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and
North Yorkshire Council . Northallerton was an important stopping point for
coaches on the road between
Edinburgh and
London until the arrival of the railway.
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25 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General
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Town centre on a sunny market day © Jonosunde/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Barnsley is a
market town in
South Yorkshire , England. It is the main settlement of the
Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. The town’s population was 71,422 in 2021, while the wider borough had a population of 244,600 in the 2021 census.
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24 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General
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Wakefield is a
cathedral city in
West Yorkshire , England located on the
River Calder . The city had a population of 109,766 in the
2021 census , up from 99,251 in the
2011 census . The city is the administrative centre of the wider
Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield , which had a 2024 population of 367,666, the
27th most populous district in England. It is part of the
West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the
Yorkshire and the Humber region.
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23 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General , Bon voyage
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Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine official
regions of England at the first level of
ITL for
statistical purposes. It is one of the three regions covering
Northern England , alongside the
North West England and
North East England regions, and covers the historic and cultural
Yorkshire area.
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4 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General
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Newark Market Place and Town Hall © geograph.org.uk – Stephen McKay/cc-by-sa-2.0
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Newark-on-Trent or Newark is a
market town and
civil parish in the
Newark and Sherwood district in
Nottinghamshire , England. It is on the
River Trent , and was historically a major
inland port . The
A1 road bypasses the town on the line of the ancient
Great North Road . The town’s origins are likely to be
Roman , as it lies on a major Roman road, the
Fosse Way . It grew up around
Newark Castle ,
St Mary Magdalene church and later developed as a centre for the wool and cloth trades.
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1 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Category: General , House of the Month , London
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Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage
pumping station designed by the architect
Charles Henry Driver for the
Metropolitan Board of Works ‘s chief engineer
Sir Joseph Bazalgette . It is located at
Crossness Sewage Treatment Works , at the eastern end of the
Southern Outfall Sewer and the
Ridgeway path in the
London Borough of Bexley . Constructed between 1859 and 1865 by
William Webster , as part of Bazalgette’s redevelopment of the
London sewerage system , it features spectacular ornamental cast ironwork, described by architectural historian
Nikolaus Pevsner as “a masterpiece of engineering – a Victorian cathedral of ironwork”. It was decommissioned in 1956. Subsequently the building has been extensively restored and was opened to the public in 2016.
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