Hundreds of miles to the north, the route back to England through the `` Furious Overfall '' was again filling with ice.

Caving in the north of England, an area that is also popular for pit cave | pothole exploring

Potholing refers to the act of exploring potholes, a word originating in the north of England for predominantly vertical caves.

Childe's Tomb is a reconstructed granite cross on the south-east edge of Foxtor Mires, about 500 metres north of Fox Tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England at.

Defoe began his campaign in The Review and other pamphlets aimed at English opinion, claiming that it would end the threat from the north, gaining for the Treasury an " inexhaustible treasury of men ", a valuable new market increasing the power of England.

B. Priestley had written about England north of the Trent, sparking an interest in reportage.

St Albans is in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles ( 35 km ) north of London, beside the site of a Catuvellauni settlement and the Roman town of Verulamium and on the River Ver.

Hertfordshire is located immediately to the north of Greater London and is part of the East of England Government Office Region.

* 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

* 1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.

John was in England for much longer periods than his predecessors, which made his rule more personal than that of previous kings, particularly in previously ignored areas such as the north.

Many of the disaffected barons came from the north of England ; that faction was often labelled by contemporaries and historians as " the Northerners ".

Within a few months of John's return, rebel barons in the north and east of England were organising resistance to his rule.

By the end of the summer the rebels had regained the south-east of England and parts of the north.

Returning to England, Kenyon joined the archaeological couple Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler on their excavation of the Romano-British settlement of Verulamium ( St Albans ), 20 miles north of London.

In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.

In 1069 the exiles returned to England, to join a spreading revolt in the north.

In 1091, however, William Rufus confiscated Edgar Ætheling's lands in England, and Edgar fled north to Scotland.

* New England ( medieval ), an area on the north coast of the Black Sea said to have been colonised by Anglo-Saxons in the 11th century

The Mortimer Lords of March would take all of southern and western England and the Percys would take the north of England.

It's only once he arrived in Newcastle that he felt he had returned to a civilized part of the world and the inhabitable face of the Earth, Scotland and the far north of England being " wild, bare and never visited by the sun in winter ".

In the north of England, Seabrook Potato Crisps are popular, but they are much less common in the south.

Padstow () is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

This goose breeds north of the timberline in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and the northeastern tip of Siberia, and winters in warm parts of North America from southwestern British Columbia through parts of the United States to Mexico.

It is normally considered by ornithologists to be most likely to be the bar-headed goose ( Anser indicus ), a migratory bird that is commonly found in winter in the north of the subcontinent.

According to Chinese tradition, in the early time of his captivity, Su Wu was so deprived of food that he only survived in the cold north lands by eating his coverings, then enduring long years of servitude herding sheep, before managing to return home, after deceiving his captors with a story about his having sent a message back to China by means of tying a letter on the leg of a wild goose.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

It was thickly settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid out into pig-infested streets, mostly around the Battery, going bravely north to Wall Street, but giving up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem Heights.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

True, there had been raids on Naples -- but Naples was pretty far north on the opposite coast.

The trade in a few commodities noted above was to grow in volume as a result of changes both north and south of the 49th parallel.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

The Mahayana that developed in the north was a religion of idolatry and coarse magic, that made the world into a huge magical garden.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

* In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo ; Oropus also had a sacred spring.

While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.