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Events On This Day In History
Article by Thomas Nugent, with 60347 words, 2,172 images and viewed 10,931 times.
Updated 5 days ago.
Events On This Day In History
Introduction
Every day there are anniversaries of events that have taken place throughout Britain and Ireland over the years. Sometimes Geograph has displayed a picture marking a particular anniversary as ‘Picture of The Day’.
This article is intended to use Geograph ...
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Architectural features illustrated
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 6166 words, 899 images and viewed 2,978 times.
Updated 6 days ago.
Architectural features illustrated
Definitions from various sources primarily Wikipedia
All images used and reusable under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2024
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3969 words, 2,668 images and viewed 5,174 times.
Updated 27 days ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Descriptive words on OS maps
Article by David Hawgood, with 20261 words, 1,721 images and viewed 25,032 times.
Updated 30 days ago.
This is a work in progress. Through the Geograph discussion forum we are collecting examples of as many descriptive words as possible used on Ordnance Survey maps, and we want examples of others. We have also worked through OS Mastermap Real World Object Catalogue . This lists anything which can be ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4024 words, 2,600 images and viewed 2,942 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Reid
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2016
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4076 words, 2,609 images and viewed 2,591 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AlastairG
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2015
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4260 words, 2,667 images and viewed 2,918 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam C Snape to Alan Richards
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2014
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4245 words, 2,675 images and viewed 2,923 times.
Updated 1 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to alistairG
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4524 words, 2,827 images and viewed 3,453 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A Thomas to Albert Bridge
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 3,093 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2010
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4565 words, 2,621 images and viewed 2,890 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2009
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4667 words, 2,575 images and viewed 2,616 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2007
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4054 words, 2,208 images and viewed 2,582 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A Holmes to Alan Walker
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Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2006
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 2783 words, 1,454 images and viewed 2,128 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Aaron Thomas to Andrew Longton
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2023
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3950 words, 2,632 images and viewed 2,877 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to AJD
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2022
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3897 words, 2,620 images and viewed 3,199 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2021
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3946 words, 2,642 images and viewed 2,690 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2020
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3979 words, 2,603 images and viewed 2,445 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AJD
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2019
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4102 words, 2,679 images and viewed 3,119 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Hughes
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2018
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4156 words, 2,698 images and viewed 1,975 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan O'Dowd
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Maundy money and Maundy Thursday
Article by Philip Halling, with 756 words, 69 images and viewed 1,641 times.
Updated 10 months ago.
Dating back to the thirteenth century every year at Easter the British monarch presents special 'Maundy money' to local pensioners in a UK cathedral or abbey. Maundy Money is specially minted money and presented to an equal number of men and woman dependent on the monarch’s age, for example, when ...
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The Long Winter 1962-3
Article by Julian Paren, with 673 words, 79 images and viewed 1,826 times.
Updated 13 months ago.
The Long Winter 1962-63
Introduction
The introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse to a Guardian pamphlet with the title The Long Winter 1962-63 (price 6d) says
BY any standard the winter of 1962-3 was one of the hardest Great Britain has ever had. It has been reckoned that in the Midlands, which didn’t ...
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Crop Plants on Geograph
Article by M J Richardson, with 1223 words, 269 images and viewed 883 times.
Updated 28 months ago.
Crop plants on Geograph
A large number of Geograph images depict many different crops, often incidentally as part of the landscape, and often in various stages of growth. Descriptions vary, and the crop may or may not be identified in the description. This article illustrates from Geograph images ...
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Watermills
Article by John M, with 24335 words, 1,451 images and viewed 19,296 times.
Updated 40 months ago.
The article is open for collective editing.
Introduction
Watermills in various forms were introduced into Britain and Ireland in the late Roman and early medieval period. Numbers grew through the Medieval Period and at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 there were around 6500 in England alone. ...
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WW1 Great War Centenary - Auxiliary Hospitals
Article by John M, with 13227 words, 786 images and viewed 44,472 times.
Updated 67 months ago.
AUXILIARY HOSPITALS IN THE UK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
4134493 The British Red Cross WW1 Centenary Project are collecting memories and records for their work during the Great War. The Geograph Project can supplement this by providing a record of the surviving buildings that were used during this ...