Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/February 2007

...that Old St. Paul's Cathedral (pictured) in the City of London had one of the tallest spires in the world at 149 metres (489 feet) and was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666?
... that in 1916 Charles Leach, the British Liberal Member of Parliament for Colne Valley, became the only MP ever to be disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886?
...that the earliest ballads referencing Robin Hood's Merry Men give names to only three members of the group, Little John, Much the Miller's Son, and Will Scarlet?
...that The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain was found at Aveline's Hole one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England?
...that a road in Charlcombe, Somerset, England is closed for two months every spring to allow frogs and toads to cross safely?

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