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Великобритания

Великобрита́ния , или Соединённое Короле́вство , полная официальная форма — Соединённое Короле́вство Великобрита́нии и Се́верной Ирла́ндии , — островное государство на северо-западе от континентальной Европы. Единое Королевство Великобритания образовалось в 1707 году вследствие политического объединения королевств Шотландии и Англии; но ещё ранее, в 1603 году, король Шотландии Яков VI унаследовал престолы Англии и Ирландии в порядке личной унии . В 1800 году Королевство Великобритания и Королевство Ирландия объединились, образовав Соединённое Королевство Великобритании и Ирландии, которое после отделения от него в 1922 году Ирландского Свободного государства стало именоваться Соединённым Королевством Великобритании и Северной Ирландии. Великобритания — одно из крупнейших государств Европы, ядерная держава с 1952 года , постоянный член Совета Безопасности ООН, бывшая метрополия Британской империи; британский монарх также является главой 15 иных независимых государств и главой Содружества. Бывший центр мировой империи, Великобритания и сейчас играет важную роль в международных делах. Английский язык стал вторым языком во многих странах мира; он преобладает в интернете и других международных средствах связи. Экономика Великобритании — девятая в мире по уровню развития; военный бюджет страны — один из самых высоких в мире. Форма правления — парламентарная монархия. Форма государственного устройства — квази-унитарное государство, где с конца XX века три из четырёх составляющих стран обладают правами ограниченной автономии. Столица — город Лондон, один из крупнейших городов Европы и финансово-экономических центров мира. Официальные языки: по всей стране — английский; также официально признаны валлийский в Уэльсе; гэльский и скотс в Шотландии; корнский в Корнуолле ; ирландский в Северной Ирландии.

Vestry House Museum

Лондон

Vestry House Museum is a history museum in Walthamstow, focusing on the heritage of the local area. The collection includes various artifacts dating from the Victorian Era to the 20th Century including numerous archived documents and photographs.Vestry House was originally built as a workhouse and was later used as a police station and also as private housing . The building became a museum in 1931.On permanent display in the museum is the Bremer Car, the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine, which was built by Frederick Bremer in a workshop at the back of his family home in Connaught Road, Walthamstow. The car first ran in 1892 and was donated to the museum by Bremer in 1933.

Museum of Royal Worcester

Вустер (значения)

The Museum of Royal Worcester is a ceramics museum located in the Royal Worcester porcelain factory's former site in Worcester, England.

Anglesey Abbey

Ист-Кембриджшир

Anglesey Abbey is a National Trust property in the village of Lode, 5 1⁄2 miles northeast of Cambridge, England. The property includes a country house, built on the remains of a priory, 98 acres of gardens and landscaped grounds, and a working mill. The priory was closed in 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and a Jacobean-style house was built on the site of the ruins in about 1600. Owners down the centuries included Thomas Hobson and his Parker descendants, and three local clergymen. The last private owner was Lord Fairhaven who lived in the house from 1926 to 1966. He made extensive additions to the house to accommodate his collection of furniture, art, books and objets d'art, and landscaped the grounds. When he died he left the house and its contents to the National Trust.

Auckland Castle

Bishop Auckland

Auckland Castle, which is also known as Auckland Palace and to people that live locally as the Bishop's Castle or Bishop's Palace, is located in the town of Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. In 1832, this castle replaced Durham Castle as the official residence of the Bishops of Durham. It is now a tourist attraction but still houses the Bishop's offices; the Castle is a Grade I listed historic site.

Bedford Hospital

Бедфорд

Bedford Hospital is a 400-bed district general hospital located in the English town of Bedford, serving north and mid Bedfordshire run by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Charles Dickens Museum

Лондон

The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in Holborn, London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 to December 1839.

Clandon Park House

Гилфорд

Clandon Park House is an early 18th-century grade I listed Palladian mansion in West Clandon, near Guildford in Surrey.It stands in the south east corner of Clandon Park, a 220-hectare agricultural parkland estate which has been the seat of the Earls of Onslow for over two centuries. The house and gardens were given to the National Trust in 1956, but the park remains in private ownership. Some of the house's contents have also been acquired by the Trust in lieu of estate duty.Construction of the house, designed by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni, began about 1730, and the interiors were finished by continental sculptors and plasterers in the 1740s. It replaced an Elizabethan house. The park was landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in 1781, and there are two formal gardens on either side of the house. Nearby is a Māori meeting house, one of only four outside New Zealand, that was brought to England in the late 19th century. After being transferred to the National Trust, the house underwent restoration before it was opened to the public, and later became a wedding venue and filming location for period dramas. The house was badly damaged by fire in April 2015, probably caused by an electrical fault in the basement, leaving it "essentially a shell", with only one room, the Speaker's Parlour, intact. Thousands of historic artefacts, paintings, and items of furniture were lost in what has been described as a national tragedy. In January 2016, the National Trust announced that some of the principal rooms on the ground floor would be fully restored to the original 18th-century designs, and upper floors will be used for exhibitions and events.

County Hall, Northampton

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County Hall is a municipal facility on George Row in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Dr Johnson's House

Сити (Лондон)

Dr Johnson's House is a writer's house museum in London in the former home of the 18th-century English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. The house is a Grade I listed building.