Oliver Road George V Postbox, Brentwood. Nearby: Long Ridings; Roundwood Avenue & Roundwood Avenue George V Postbox. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.635773&lng=0.334553&miles=5 #PostBoxes #England #Brentwood #HolidayIdeas
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Frog Sculpture, Gallowstree Island, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Nearby: George V Post Box (1901-1936), Westlands; Newcastle Lodge. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=53.006903&lng=-2.252859&miles=5 #PublicArt #England #NewcastleUnderLyme #HolidayIdeas
Haydon Hill, Hertsmere. Nearby: Church of St James; Bushey Museum. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.641978&lng=-0.370401&miles=5 #LocalHistory #England #Hertsmere #HolidayIdeas
Abbey Road George V Postbox, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Nearby: Town Quay & Abbey Road George V Postbox; Stone Monument, Barking Town Quay. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.534312&lng=0.073889&miles=5 #PostBoxes #England #HolidayIdeas
Church in Gallen, Offaly. 200 decorated slabs were discovered during this excavation and are described by Kendrick (1939, 1-20). Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=53.264764&lng=-7.823904&miles=5 #LocalHistory #Ireland #Offaly #HolidayIdeas
Maplin lighthouse monument and Star Inn at Burnham quay, Maldon. Nearby: War Memorial; The Star Hotel. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.625127&lng=0.816794&miles=5 #LocalHistory #England #Maldon #HolidayIdeas
Victorian Postbox, Ashford. Nearby: Victorian postbox on Brook Street; Woodchurch Museum. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.073227&lng=0.738306&miles=5 #PostBoxes #England #Ashford #HolidayIdeas
Cairn On Gelligaer Common, Merthyr Tydfil. Find somewhere you’ve never heard of. You might find something brilliant. The map is free. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.721053&lng=-3.307188&miles=5 #HiddenGems #HolidayIdeas #Wales #MerthyrTydfil
Holt Island Nature Reserve, Huntingdonshire. Find somewhere you’ve never heard of. You might find something brilliant. The map is free. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=52.325555&lng=-0.078781&miles=5 #HiddenGems #HolidayIdeas #England #Huntingdonshire
Cow Dub. Cow Dub sits on Leck Fell, home to the Three Counties System. This 90-kilometer cave network spans Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire. It is currently the longest cave system in the UK. Please share https://discoveralone.com/?lat=54.219493&lng=-2.499929&miles=5 #Waterfalls #England
Ham Hill Stone Circle, Somerset. Find the story and nearby places. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=50.951209&lng=-2.744431&miles=5 #HiddenGems #England #Somerset #HolidayIdeas
Longships, Cornwall. Find the story and nearby places. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=50.066868&lng=-5.746860&miles=5 #Lighthouses #England #Cornwall #HolidayIdeas
South Ness, Shetland Islands. The RMS Oceanic, once the largest ship in the world, ran aground on the Shaalds of Foula in 1914. This wreck occurred near South Ness, where a 20th-century lighthouse now stands. Please share https://discoveralone.com/?lat=60.112348&lng=-2.064044&miles=5 #Lighthouses
The Cairn, Dumfries and Galloway. In Whithorn, St. Ninian built the Candida Casa in 397. It was Scotland's first Christian building. The nearby Cairn stands on this historic coast. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=54.696507&lng=-4.359277&miles=5 #Lighthouses #Scotland
Mol Eire. In Ballantrushal, locals say Clach an Trushal marks the site of the last battle between the Macaulay and Morrison clans. The 5.8-metre stone is actually the sole survivor of a 5,000-year-old circle. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=58.402688&lng=-6.489199&miles=5 #Beaches
The River Tyne empties into the North Sea near Belhaven, just west of Tyne Sands. It rises in the Moorfoot Hills near Tynehead and flows approximately 30 miles northeast to reach this East Lothian coastline. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=56.010336&lng=-2.583873&miles=5 #Beaches
Rockliffe. From this shore, you can walk to Rough Island across the mudflats at low tide. The 20-acre island is home to nesting oystercatchers and ringed plovers, which locals advise avoiding in May and June. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=54.863544&lng=-3.795315&miles=5 #Beaches
Rubha Reidh, Highland. Find the story and nearby places. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=57.858759&lng=-5.811774&miles=5 #Lighthouses #Scotland #Highland #HolidayIdeas
Harmby Waterfall, North Yorkshire. Harmby Beck flows over this falls in a wooded gorge on the village's east side. The name Harmby comes from Old Norse, meaning Hjarni's village. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=54.303739&lng=-1.804801&miles=5 #Waterfalls #England
Little Roar. In St Leonards, locals say the name Silverhill comes from Roman coins spilling during a journey to nearby iron works. This legend explains the suburb's name, just north of Little Roar Gill. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=50.877790&lng=0.561851&miles=5 #Waterfalls
Lumsdale Falls, Derbyshire Dales. Bone Mill, located in this gorge, dates back to the 16th century. It ground animal bones for fertilizer until the 1920s. The name Lumsdale likely means valley of chimneys. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=53.141891&lng=-1.533067&miles=5 #Waterfalls
Fladda, Argyll and Bute. Built in 1860 by David A. and Thomas Stevenson, this 13-metre tower stands on a flat islet. Its keeper's house now shelters a large colony of terns. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=56.248266&lng=-5.680486&miles=5 #Lighthouses #Scotland
How Beck waterfall, Cumberland. Find the story and nearby places. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=54.442278&lng=-3.207927&miles=5 #Waterfalls #England #Cumberland #HolidayIdeas
Esk Falls, Cumberland. Find the story and nearby places. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=54.422883&lng=-3.193924&miles=5 #Waterfalls #England #Cumberland #HolidayIdeas
Lumb Hole Waterfall, Calderdale. In nearby Hardcastle Crags, Sylvia Plath wrote a poem titled after the valley. It appeared in her 1960 debut collection, The Colossus and Other Poems. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=53.778661&lng=-2.013317&miles=5 #Waterfalls #England
Week Copse, Basingstoke and Deane. In nearby Upper Wootton, locals say King Stephen stormed the Castle of the Wood in 1147. The site is now an overgrown ring motte called Woodgarston Castle. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.291089&lng=-1.202622&miles=5 #HiddenGems #England
Paull Lighthouse. Fort Paull, just up the coast, was built in 1861 as a Palmerston Fort. It originally held nineteen 64-pounder guns. The site was disarmed in 1914 because it sat too close to Hull. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=53.718957&lng=-0.234466&miles=5 #Lighthouses #England
Towan, Cornwall. The wreck post overlooking Towan Beach was erected by the coastguard service to practice ship rescue. A breeches buoy was connected to its top and down to the sand below. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=50.158527&lng=-4.982629&miles=5 #Beaches #England
Lumb Hole Falls, Calderdale. In nearby Heptonstall, a 590-foot pitch pine trestle bridge was completed in 1901. It caught fire from locomotive sparks in 1906 but reopened the next day. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=53.779018&lng=-2.013016&miles=5 #Waterfalls #England
Heir Island, Cork. The bridge you see connects Heir Island to the mainland. Locals say the poet Thomas Moore died in a shipwreck here in 1833. Please share: https://discoveralone.com/?lat=51.494278&lng=-9.439634&miles=5 #HiddenGems #Ireland #Cork #HolidayIdeas