A general history of Uffington village in Oxfordshire. The prehistoric "Uffington White Horse’ on the hill, St. George and the Dragon and the origins of the famous novel, "Tom Brown’s Schooldays’.

Fifteen interesting historical railway facts that will appeal to all lovers of the railways, and those that travel on them.

On the evening of the 9th July 1864, the chief clerk of a firm of London bankers boarded a train at Fenchurch Street station, sadly he was never to reach his destination.
Thomas Briggs became the first person to be brutally murdered on Britain’s railways.