| Geography |
Highest mountain. Scafell Pike in Cumbria 3210 feet. |
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Largest lake. Windemere 16.2 sq miles. |
| Geography |
The French port of Calais remained in English hands until 1558. |
| Geography |
Longest river within boundary of England - River Thames 215 miles in length. |
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Lowest point in England. Bed of Lake Windermere 94 feet below sea level. |
| Geography |
Waterfall with the longest drop - Caldron Snout, County Durham 197.6 feet. |
| Population |
London 7,172,091 |
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Birmingham 970,892 |
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Liverpool 469,017 |
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Leeds 443,247 |
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Sheffield 439,866 |
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Bristol 420,556 |
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Manchester 394,269 |
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Leicester 330,574 |
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Coventry 303,475 |
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Bradford 293,717 |
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Stoke-on-Trent 259,252 |
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Wolverhampton 251,462 |
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Nottingham 249,584 |
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Plymouth 243,795 |
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Southampton 234,224 |
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Reading 232,662 |
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Derby 229,407 |
| Trivia |
St Paul's Cathedral in London survived the Blitz during WWII despite tens of thousands of tons of German bombs falling all around. |
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In 1666 the City of London was almost wiped off the map during the Great Fire. 88 Churches alone were burned to the ground after the four day inferno. |
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Berkshire was first registered as a County in 860AD and was called Beaurrucsir. |
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There is a greater number of Rolls Royce vehicles per capita in Hong Kong than in England. |
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English alphabet. |
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Fuel consumption of the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 at full power - 6 inches per gallon. |
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The term "the whole nine yards" came from WWII Hurricane fighter pilots. The length of the ammunition belts in each cannon was 27 feet. Firing continuously at a German aircraft coined the phrase "I gave him the whole nine yards". |
| Trivia |
32% of women and 54% of men surveyed using an Internet Dating service admitted they were already married. |
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A law was passed in England during the reign of Edward I that made burning coal an offence punishable by death. |
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The original London Bridge was made of wood and was pulled down by Saxon sailors in 1014. |
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Queen Berengaria, the wife of Richard "Lion Heart" never set foot on English soil during her 8 year reign. |
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Smallest pub. The Nutshell, Bury St Edmonds - 15ft x 7ft 6in. |
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Highest pub. Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire - 1732 feet above sea level. (UK record) |
| Weather |
Sunniest month. 383.9 hours Eastbourne July 1911. |
| Weather |
Dullest month. 0.0 hours at Westminster December 1890. |
| Weather |
Wettest day. 11 inches Martinstown Dorset, 18 July 1955. |
| Weather |
Highest wind gust at low level site, 118 mph Gwennap Head Cornwall, December 15th 1979. |
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Hottest. 38.5C Brogdale, Kent. August 10th 2003. |
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Coldest -26.1C Newport, Shropshire. January 10th 1982. |
