Search Results

The family were recusant Catholics, and there are two priest-holes concealed in the house. Queen Elizabeth came to stay here in 1561.

Said to have the largest number of priest holes of any building in England, the hall is now owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Constant removal of salt and pumping of brine from the underground salt mines left great underground holes, which then filled with water.

The Black Rabbit 1898 Overlooking the pretty Arun near Arundel, the Black Rabbit was first licensed in 1804; at that time it was a popular watering-hole for workers digging a new cut of

The volume of Raleigh's 'History of the World' has a hole burnt through 104 pages, supposedly caused by the poet Matthew Prior who fell asleep with an unguarded candle nearby.

The Victorians firmly established Criccieth as a rather genteel watering hole for the holidaying classes, and its architecture certainly reflects this to this day.

James III inherited his father's passion for heavy ordnance and commissioned the construction of Mons Meg, a brute of a weapon for its time that made a great hole in James's defence budget as well as anything

is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'.

The Turkey Cock c1965 This village watering hole on the road to neighbouring Widford prided itself on being 'the world's most exclusive pub', as evidenced by the signs proclaiming 'No teenager

One of the attractions at Embleton is its golf course, once only 9 holes but now the full 18.

In the 1930s an excavation in the local churchyard unearthed a mass grave in which many of the skulls had a single bullet hole in the forehead – this macabre discovery was dated to the Civil

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

Glorious views across the Severn Vale to the Malvern Hills add to the charms of The Rising Sun, which has long been a favourite watering hole for the racing fraternity.

Before that, the area was called the 'dawb holes'; clay was taken from here to make local bricks. At the time of our picture, it was newly laid out and paved.

The history of Hutton-Le-Hole is recalled in the fascinating Folk Museum established in 1964. Piped water came to the village in 1892 after an outbreak of typhus.

Bore holes were sunk, and during one of these operations salt was struck at a depth of 400 ft.

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

Being on the junction of the coast and beach road, it provides a convenient watering-hole for tourists.

The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

This sounds very attractive, but any attackers reaching this point would be caught in a vicious crossfire from murder holes. The gatehouse was also defended by two portcullises and two doors.

The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends. The oldest building in the village, Ingleborough Hall, is now an education centre.

Next door is the Esplanade Hotel, which from its inception proved an extremely popular watering hole that would soon become the spiritual home of the Barbarians rugby side.

Stair Hole (bottom right) and the contorted strata behind its breach in the seaward ridge show the forces generated by a collision of the Earth's tectonic plates.