Penweathers Mission Church formerly stood in the meadow beside the railway embankment, and opposite the cottage on the sharp bend in Penweathers Lane (the site today is heavily tree-covered). A small ...

From Hugus (see links), head south-west to the staggered road junction and turn right towards Chacewater. About halfway along, on the left (southern side) is Billy Bray's 'Three-Eyes' Chapel. It was ...

Chacewater (Kerley Hill) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is shown on mid-Victorian maps at the far end of Trelawney Road, a left-hand turn when going up Kerley Hill from Chacewater. Today it is marked as ...

Chacewater Reading Room is in the centre of Chacewater, on the north side of Fore Street, twenty metres west of the Station Road junction. The foundation stone was laid in 1893 by Mr J Passmore ...

White Rose Bible Christian Chapel (First Site) and Sunday school is found when heading towards Chacewater from the west, and taking the difficult right-hand turn back on itself (High Street) up the ...

Skinners Bottom Primitive Methodist Chapel (and Sunday School) (Second Site) sits further down the lane from the first site (see links), when heading down the right-hand track at the staggered ...

The concept of a preserved river valley park was first presented to the city of Edmonton, Alberta, in 1907 by landscape architect Frederick Gage Todd. Prior to that the river valley had been developed ...

While the Anglo-Saxon kings of England had the Witenagemot (or Witan) council to advise them on major decisions, the old system was swept away by the Norman conquerors of 1066. William I brought the ...

The 'Three Kingdoms' period of Chinese history was triggered by a mixture of factors. Not least of these was increasing levels of control by the imperial court's eunuchs, but Late Han China was in ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...