Culture
*  Principal universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College.

Famous people:
writers - William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, William Golding, J R R Tolkien
artists - Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, J M W Turner, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore
composers - Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell
scientists - Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Ernest Rutherford
philosophers - Bertrand Russell

Cuisine: roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, fish and chips, afternoon tea.

World Heritage sites: Stonehenge, Tower of London, Canterbury Cathedral.