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The forty days of fasting and self-denial before Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday, and still widely observed in Britain as a secular…

Britain's outdoor public swimming pools — mostly built in the 1930s in art deco style, largely closed in the 1980s, and now…

School crossing patrols who stop traffic outside schools with a large circular sign on a pole, wearing high-visibility coats and legally empowered…

The capital of England and the United Kingdom: a city of nine million people, two thousand years of history, and thirty-two boroughs…

A mountainous national park in Cumbria containing England's highest peaks and deepest lakes, and the landscape that produced English Romantic poetry.

Nessie: the creature said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, sustaining a tourist industry despite a complete absence of evidence.

London's subway system, universally called the Tube: eleven lines, 272 stations, the oldest underground railway in the world.

The three gold lions on a red field: the royal arms of England since the twelfth century, worn today on the England…