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England is closer than any other part of mainland Britain to the European continent. It is separated from France (Hauts-de-France) by a 21-mile (34 km) [108] sea gap, though the two countries are connected by the Channel Tunnel near Folkestone. [109] England also has shores on the Irish Sea, North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales.
The Acts of Union 1707 declared that the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland were "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [p] [22] The term "United Kingdom" has occasionally been used as a description for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although its official name from 1707 to 1800 was simply "Great Britain". [23]
Glastonbury Tor is a tor near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building. [2] The site is managed by the National Trust and has been designated a scheduled monument.
London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [36] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.
But Richard III's nephew John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, hatched another attempt the following year. Using a peasant boy named Lambert Simnel , who posed as Edward, Earl of Warwick (the real Warwick was locked up in the Tower of London), he led an army of 2,000 German mercenaries paid for by Margaret of Burgundy into England.
Londres, Catamarca, Argentina, formally "San Juan de la Ribera de Londres" or "Londres de la Nueva Inglaterra" Londres, Lot-et-Garonne, a former commune of France, now part of Puymiclan; Nueva Londres, a town in the Caaguazú department of Paraguay
Cuartel del Retiro c. 1880, built on the land belonging to the Real Asiento de Inglaterra. After the Treaty of Utrecht, Spain granted the Asiento de Negros to Great Britain. [3] The Real Asiento de Inglaterra of the South Sea Company was established in Buenos Aires around 1713, during the reign of Philip V of Spain and Anne, Queen of Great ...