England

Oh! England, my Lionheart,
I'm in your garden, fading fast in your arms.

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England is the lion's share of the United Kingdom.

We currently live in England (in Wolverhampton) and, in the past, we lived in Sheffield and in Southampton.

Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.

Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing

In the orchard, my English rose,

Or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home.

Cities

Flapping umbrellas fill the lanes—

My London Bridge in rain again.

• Birmingham
• Coventry
• Liverpool
• London
• Manchester
• Sheffield
• Southampton
• Wolverhampton

Towns

• Luton
• Shrewsbury
• Stafford
• Stourbridge

Villages

• Hambledon
• Tettenhall

Other places

• The Isle of Wight

History

See the History of the British people.

Gallery

This is a gallery of various locations and times featuring some aspects of our years living in England.

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  A Queen's Guard in post at Windsor.
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  A tree lashed by the wind in Cornwall.
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  The ruins of Nettley abbey.
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  A path of water in Cornwall.
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  Fabrice in Portsmouth's castle.
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  View of Portmoush and its Spinnaker from the castle.
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  The river Itchen nearby home.
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  Pendennis Castle.
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  Visiting a spot from the English Heritage.
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  Mediterranean lookalike in the South coast of England.
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  In the Windsor garden.
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  Cookham church.
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  On the terrace of Osborne house.
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  The Thames when not in London.
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  Fabrice and our car in Exeter.
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  Julio and Guille waiting outside the Isle of Wight royal garden.
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  A huge tree in the park.
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  Cornwall.
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  Stourhead
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  and its famous lake.
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  Cornwall,
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  near Tintagel,
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  Remain of a castle from the Arthurian legend.
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  Elena and Guille in the Isle of Wight.
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  Arundel castle
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  A beach of giant stones.
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  Fields in Hambledon (in 2010).
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  Sport in Cambridge.
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  Peeble beach in Calshot.
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  Wild poney in the New Forest.
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  The Victory in Portsmouth.
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  The Cathedral Cavern in Cumbria, August (2017).
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  Narrow-boating on the Droitwich canal.
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  Julia in the British fields.
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  A river bridge.
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  Chester cathedral.
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  The Severn in Shrewsbury.
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  Street food on Liverpool's pier head waterfront, March (2018).
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  Liverpool street.
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  Manchester street.
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  The Wightwick manor in Wolverhampton (28 April (2018)).
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  A bridge to a pathway in a Wolverhampton canal, id.
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  Stokesay Castle, in Shropshire, May 2019.
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  The Iron bridge in Ironbridge.
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  Hardwick Hall, the mansion of Besse, August 2019.
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  Blackpool's waterfront, August 2019.
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  Blackpool as seen from its tower: the best beach in England.
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  Aston Hall near Birmingham, a Jacobean prodigy house with much history, August 2019.
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  The Essex bridge (not in Essex) at dusk, January 2020.
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  Breedon on the Hill with its Anglo-Saxon treasures in the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, January 2020.
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  A typical English church (this one is where Newton was baptized, in Woolsthorpe).
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  Caer Caradoc, one of the Shropshire Hills, March (2020).
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  Fields in Hambledon (in 2020).
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  The cathedral of Salisbury, one of the homes of the Magna Carta, on 12 April (2022).
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  The stonehouses of Bradford on Avon on 13 April (2022).
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  The Palladian architecture of Bath, on 14 April (2022).
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  Bristol's coloured houses overlooking the docks.
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  York's Minster, on 20 December (2022).
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  Light in a vain attempt to dry the Yorkshire Dales, on 21 December (2022).
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  Munchian scream carved on the sand stones of the Kinver Edge.
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  A wall of Beeston castle overlooking the Cheshire plain, on 14 January (2023).
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  In Tettenhall near the end of our stay in England, on 9 December (2023).