Billingsgate is a ward in the City of London (London, England), located on the bank of the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. It was originally the City's water gate. In 1699, Billingsgate Fish Market was established at Billingsgate Wharf. In the 19th century, Billingsgate was the largest fish market in the world. It was redesigned several times before being moved to a building complex on the Isle of Dogs in Poplar in 1982.
The Bight of Benin, or Bay of Benin, is a bight in the Gulf of Guinea on the coast of western Africa. It was historically known as the Slave Coast, as it was used extensively for slave trading, which expanded significantly with European colonization and the European slave trade.
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Biddeford is a port town on the River Torridge in Devon, England.
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Bevis Marks Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the UK in continuous use. It is located in Aldgate, in the City of London (London, England). The synagogue was built in 1701 and is affiliated with the historic Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities in London.
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Bethnal Green Road is a road running through Bethnal Green, in the Borough of Tower Hamlets (London, England).
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Bethnal Green is an area in the Modern borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. In the 19th century, Bethnal Green became one of the poorest slums in London and its western end was the site of some of Jack the Ripper's crimes.
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Berwick-upon-Tweed, or Berwick, is the northernmost town in England and is located in Northumberland, England, 4 km south of the Scottish border. It is located at the mouth of the River Tweed.
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Berners Street is a street in the City of Westminster (London, England). It was first a residential street developed by William Berners in the mid-18thcentury and was later commercialized.
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Bermuda, historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles, is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands. It had no Indigenous population when it was discovered in the early 1500s by Spanish explorers, and it was settled by the English in the early seventeenth century.
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