St Kea Mission Church sits on the site of St Kea Old Church (see links), which had deteriorated to such a poor condition by 1802 that it had to be demolished. Following that a poor house was built on ...

The Cucuteni-Tripolye culture flourished between about 5200-3000 BC. At its apogee between about 4000-3500 BC, its people had ...

Stratford Seventh-Day Adventist Church is on the southern side of Janson Road, about halfway down from the junction with Leytonstone Road. The building was erected in 1898 as the church hall for the ...

Penweathers Mission Church formerly stood in the meadow beside the railway embankment, and opposite the cottage on the sharp bend in Penweathers Lane (the site today is heavily tree-covered). A small ...

From Hugus (see links), head south-west to the staggered road junction and turn right towards Chacewater. About halfway along, on the left (southern side) is Billy Bray's 'Three-Eyes' Chapel. It was ...

Chacewater (Kerley Hill) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is shown on mid-Victorian maps at the far end of Trelawney Road, a left-hand turn when going up Kerley Hill from Chacewater. Today it is marked as ...

The 'Three Kingdoms' period of Chinese history was triggered by a mixture of factors. Not least of these was increasing levels of control by the imperial court's eunuchs, but Late Han China was in ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

The Hatti were quite possibly an aboriginal people in the central Anatolian area of the ancient Near East. They were therefore related to the region's Neolithic Farmers of the Pottery Neolithic and ...

Ancient Syria was much larger than its modern counterpart, being bordered by the Taurus Mountains in the north, the Upper Euphrates to the north-east, and the Syrian Desert to the south-east. The name ...