Month: June 2022

Buckingham Palace is one of the most important buildings in London. Its a royal residence that has been the UK’s ‘working’ palace since 1705. The palace has 775 rooms; 188 are designated as staff bedrooms, 92 offices, 52 are royal and guest bedrooms, 19 are staterooms, and a grand total of 78 of these rooms are bathrooms.Queen Victoria was the first English royal to live at Buckingham Palace.The palace is full of masterworks of art, some of which you’ll definitely recognize and also serves as the official residence and administrative headquarters for the monarch of the United kingdom.

Sherwood forest is a royal forest in Nottingham shire,England, famous because of its historic association with the legend of robin hood. The area has been wooded since the end of the Last Glacial Period.In the Northern ‘High Forest’ the rather diminutive collection of rivers draining the Sherwood Sand stones: Rain worth Water, The River Maun, the River Medan and the Poulter; cross the Sherwood Sand stones flowing into one another to form the Idle River in the Hatfield District to the north of the 13th century Forest.

Over 900 trees in Sherwood forest are  600 years old or more.There are 1500 species of beetle and 200 types of spiders found in Sherwood Forest. The Major Oak may in fact be three or four trees which fused together centuries ago and not a single tree.

 

 

Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years.The building of Hadrian’s Wall probably began that year, and took at least six years to complete . The original plan was for a wall of stone or turf, with a guarded gate every mile and two observation towers in between, and fronted by a wide, deep ditch.Hadrian’s Wall was 80 Roman miles or 117.5 km (73.0 mi) long; its width and height varied according to the construction materials available nearby.Hadrian’s Wall was 80 Roman miles or 117.5 km (73.0 mi) long; its width and height varied according to the construction materials available nearby.

 Hadrian’s Wall is best known for his literary pursuits, his substantial building projects throughout the Roman Empire, and, especially, Hadrian’s Wall in northern Britain. It’s the best known and the best preserved frontier of the Roman Empire. When Hadrian’s men set out to construct it they were faced with a relentlessly challenging and variable landscape to conquer.

Stonehenge is a famous landmark which is located in Wiltshire, England. It is believed that it was built about 4000 years ago. Stonehenge began about 5,000 years ago as a simple earthwork enclosure where prehistoric people buried their cremated dead.Some of the stones were brought from nearly 200 miles away. Scientists think that the stones were a way to tell the time of year and that nobody knows for sure how the stones were moved to Stonehenge.

The small and large rocks form a circle and it is believed that at certain times of the year the stars and sun line up with parts of the circle.Another theory is that the Irish sea Glacier brought the stones close to Stonehenge. Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most famous prehistoric monument that was built  built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC.