The Great Hall was built by William II between 1097-1099 in an attempt to impress his subjects. It originally housed both chambers of parilament (commons and lords) and personal rooms for the royals, but in the 1500's the royals moved into a new palace. The hall or palace (Westminster Palace) was gutted and redesigned multiple times, with the new palace being built between 1840 and 1870, with only the Great Hall remaining from the original building. A fire destroyed most of the original palace in 1834 which is why it was rebuilt.

The Essex marshes are salt marshes that are located all down the coast of Essex. There are several marinas located in the marshes, but for the most part, they are fairly unpopulated mud flats at low tide popular only with bird watchers. The rector of East Mersea in 1880 wrote "A more desolate region can scarce be conceived and yet it is not without beauty". In Bleak House, Dickens includes the marshes in the list of places that fog is hanging over: "Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights..."

In Brick Lane, when Nazneen is looking for her daughter during a disturbance, she passes Whitechapel Road right before seeing that the police have blocked off the street that she needs to go through in order to find her daughter. Whitechapel Road is a major street in the East End of London which is heavily populated and includes a prominent shopping district.

The River Wye is the fourth longest river in the UK. For much of its length, the river forms part of the border between England and Wales. The lower part, the Wye Valley, is known for its natural beauty. William Wordsworth's poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"(1798) essentially describes revisiting the banks of Wye in 1738. The location in the title, Tintern Abbey, lies in the Wye Valley on the west bank of the River Wye. 

Holborn is an area of London particularly connected to the legal profession. Dickens utilized the location in his novel Bleak House to describe " a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill".

St James's Park is a 57 acre park in the City of Westminster. It is part of a continuous chain of parks that is near Buckingham Palace, which is to the west of St James's Park. It also has a small little lake in the center of it, containing two islands. It originally was closed to the public, at one point being grazing ground for cattle. A couple centuries later, the ground was opened to the public when the Buckingham House was expanded to create the palace. (wiki)

Osborn Street, once known as "Dirty Lane", used to be part of Brick Lane. It begins at Whitechapel Road, and ends at a crossroads section that includes streets such as Wentworth, Old Montague, and Brick Lane itself.

The Barton Cottage is where the Dashwood girls, Mrs.Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, were invited to live after they were dismissed from their previous home.  The cottage is located in Mr. Middleton's property.  The Barton Cottage was described to be small, compact and pratical. The building was described as regualr, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted and the walls did not have honeysuckle. The cottage contained two sitting rooms which were about 16 feet squared.

The family of Dashwoods were established in the land of Sussex for a fair amount of time.  The estate was large and had a respectable mannor at the center of the property. The history of possesion in the book Sense and Sensibility begins with a single bachelor who invites his nephew, Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor, to live with him. Mr. Henry Dashwood was in two marriages which produced a total of 4 children. In the first marriage was a male and the second 3 girls. Legally, John Dashwood, the son was entitled to all of the inheritance of Norland Park. Mr.