A Glance at World Heritage

United Kingdom- England

Where are we?

Where is Northill Lower School?

Northill is a small village situated in Bedfordshire (a county in the east of England). We are 5 miles from Biggleswade and 50 miles from London.

Northill:

Northill is an ancient parish in the Wixamtree Hundred|. It was the site of a collegiate church from 1404 to 1547. The village lies in the middle of the parish with Budna to the north-west, Thorncote Green to the north, Hatch and Brook End to the north-east, Lower Caldecote to the east, Upper Caldecote to the south-east and Ickwell to the south.

English Heritage:

The children of Northill Lower School have researched British Monuments and have selected those that they feel represents the United Kingdom the best.

London:

Buckingham Palace Buckingham House was purchased in 1761 by George III for his wife. It has since been home to many British Monarchs.

The palace we see today was completed by 1914 just before the outbreak of the First World War. All previous tenants of the palace has carried out refurbishments/building work.

London:

London Eye: London Eye took more than a year and a half to build. People can look over the hole of London while they are on the London Eye. It takes about one hour to go round. The reason why it takes so long is because people can get off and on, while the wheel is still moving so it does not need to keep stopping.London Eye is one of popular place in London. London is the capital city of England.

Wiltshire-England:

Stonehenge is probably the most important prehistoric monument in the whole of Britain and has attracted visitors from earliest times. It stands as a timeless monument to the people who built it.

The Stonehenge that we see today is the final stage that was completed about 3500 years ago,

• Stonehenge was constructed in three phases.• It has been estimated that the three phases of the construction required

more than thirty million hours of labour.• Speculation on the reason it was built range from human sacrifice to

astronomy.

Stonehenge:

English/Scottish Borders:Hadrian’s Wall

Constructed over a period of six or seven years from AD 122, Hadrian's Wall was an unprecedented monument in its time – and it is still an impressive structure today.

The wall was built by a Roman Emperor who came to Britain. The Roman Emperor at the time was called Hadrian. He came to England tosee why his army was not winning the war with the Scots. In AD 122 he toldhis men to built a long wall from one side of England to the other. This wallwould keep out the Scots.

Gateshead- North England

Angel of the NorthThe Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, which is located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It is a steel sculpture of an angel, 20 metres tall, with wings measuring 54 metres across

Northill and Surrounding Areas

Shuttleworth College and Northill Church

Saint Mary's church is built of ironstone and Totternhoe clunch. The church dates, essentially, to the 14th century, though Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in the Bedfordshire volume of his Buildings of England comments: "all too drastically restored".

Joseph Shuttleworth hailed from Hartsholm Hall in Lincolnshire. In 1872 he purchased the Old Warden Estate from 3rd Baron Ongley for £150,000 plus a further £15,000 for timber.. When Joseph bought the Old Warden Estate he almost immediately pulled down the existing house in Old Warden Park and had a new one built by the Duke of Bedford's favourite architect Henry Clutton. The work took three years from 1875 to 1878 and the finished article resembled 17th century Gawthorpe Hall, home of the Lancashire branch of the Shuttleworth family.

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