England Facts - Part 1

Interesting facts about towns, villages, and attractions in England. Please add yours. We will then integrate them throughout the site when enough facts are in.

Lincoln Cathedral was once the tallest building in the world.

Standing at a height of 525 feet tall, Lincoln Cathedral was once officially the tallest building in the world for over 200 years, from 1311 (when the central tower was raised, surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza which had held the record for almost 4000 years), until 1549 when the spire was blown down in a storm. Even though the spire never got put back up again, the cathedral kept the title of world's tallest building until 1884 when the Washington Monument was erected in Washington D.C at a height of 555ft.
Today, Lincoln Cathedral still holds the record of having the tallest medieval tower in Europe at 271 ft tall.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex, has the longest pleasure pier in the world.

It is an astonishing 1.33 miles long and was first built in 1830.

Hi Victor

Not when, but where? I'm of the opinion it is Oxford, in dear old England!

Framlingham church in Framlingham, Suffolk is the mortuary chapel of the Dukes of Norfolk from Tudor times.

It was rebuild to be such after Henry VIII demolished the priory at Thetford which upto then held the tombs of the Howard family.

In the tomb at Framlingham of the Third Duke of Norfolk and his wife lays a third person, a man believed to be the Dukes father removed from Thetford at the time of the demolish.