Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/April 2010

... that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate (pictured) as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland"?
... that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing, West Sussex, have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?
... that The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting?
... that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University, during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?
... that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
... that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season, every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?

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