100+ British Sports and Icons Given To the World
I have also added a list of the many Sports and Games given to the world by us here in the UK and also the many British Icons recognised around the world.
It always amazes me that from a country the size of Great Britain we have given the World so many Sports and games.
Cricket
England Football Team
Portsmouth F. C. ( My Favorite Football Club - Pompey )
Sheffield F.C 1857 ( The Oldest Football Club In The World )
Wembley Stadium and Football Association ( Home of Football )
Wimbledon Tennis Championship ( Home of Tennis )
Saint Andrews ( Home Of Golf )
Lords Cricket Ground ( Home of Cricket )
The Jockey Club ( Home of Horse Racing )
Sebastian Coe
Steve Ovett
Steven Redgrave
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
David Beckham
George Best
Lester Piggett
Lewis Hamilton
Ian Botham
W.G.Grace
Andrew Flintoff
The England 1966 World Cup Winning Football Team
Speedway
Football / Soccer
English Premier League
American Football - Adapted from English Rugby
Rugby League
Rugby Union
Billiards
Snooker
Croquet
Curling
The Boat Race
Squash
Bowls
Tennis
Badminton
Table Tennis
Rounders
Softball
Baseball - Adapted from Rounders and Softball
Modern Olympic Games Held from 1846 Village of Wenlock by Dr. William Penny Brookes
Horse Racing
Polo
Show Jumpingarts
Modern Archery
Bar Billiards
Shove A Ha'penny
Golf
Skittles
Yachting and Sailing
Bobsleigh
Skeleton
Real Tennis
Hovercraft Racing
Field Hockey
Ten Pin
Darts
Boxing
Bowls
Pigeon Racing
Greyhound Racing
Stag Hunting
Fox Hunting
Otter Hunting
Angling
Formula One ( The First Ever Formula One race was Held in England in 1948 )
Boccia
A to Z British Games and Icons
British Games
Card Sharp
Ludo
Bingo
Cribbage
Crossword Puzzles
Jigsaw Puzzles
Reversi
Anexation
Snakes and ladders
Quoits
Shove Ha'penny
Shoffe Groat
Aunt Sally
Ringing The Bull
Slide thrift
Rings
Caves
3 Mens Morris
Jenga
Shut the box
Bowls
Bagatelle
Stoolball
Bat and Ball
Pitch Penny
Toad in Hole
English Morris Dancing
The Valentine Card
William Wordsworth
Oxford University 1096
Cambridge University 1209
Haggis - A Dish first seen in a English Receipe Book from 1615 and loved by the Scots
London Hansom Black Cab
First British canal in AD50
Double Decker Buses ( Routemasters )
History of British Post Box
Histoy of British Telephone Box
Cludge Molliers
English Folk Songs
We British Invented the Fizz and Sparkle in Champagne
Scottish, Irish and English Kilts
History of London Stock Exchange
History of English Sterling Silver and Gold Hallmarks 1300 to present
English Language
English Peoples
British Peoples
Welsh Peoples
Irish Peoples
Scottish Peoples
Union Jack
A Compleat Angler by Charles Cotton and Izaac Walton
The Magna Carta
The Doomsday Book
Anglo Saxon Chronicles
English Jury Service
The English Sherriff
The King James Bible
Beowulf
BagPipes
Tower of London's Beefeaters or Yeoman of the Guard
Saint Georges Day Englands Patron Saint
Saint Andrews Day Scotlands Patron Saint
Saint Patrick's Day Ireland's Patron Saint ( Saint Patrick was an Englishman )
Saint Davids Day Welsh Patron Saint
Listing of All Other British Saints
The City of London ( survey found that over 350 languages are spoken in London Schools )
British Telephone Box
Augustus Pugin
Sir Charles Barry
Sir Christopher Wren ( I am a direct descendent )
Carnaby Street
The Iconic English Pub
Houses of Parliament and Big ben
Number 10 Downing Street
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
Oxford Street
Regent Street
Mayfair
London Theatreland
The London Eye
Madame Tussaud Waxworks Museum
Tower Of London
Windsor Castle
Whitechapel ( aka Where Jack The Ripper Killed. aka Mr Tumblety was the Ripper )
Please click here for A to Z Iconic British Buildings and Places
1) King Alfred The Great
2) Boudeca, Queen Chief of the Iceni Tribe
3) King Edward the Confessor ( I am Related to )
4) Queen Elizabeth the 1st
5) Queen Victoria
6) Queen Elizabeth the 2nd.
7) William Shakespeare
8) Charles Dickens
9) Agatha Christie ( Author of Miss Marple and Poiret )
10) J.K Rowling ( Author of the Harry Potter Books )
11) Sir Terry Pratchett ( Author of the Disc World Books )
12) James Herbert ( Horror Story writer of many novels including The Rats )
13) Sir Christopher Wren ( I am related to )
13b) Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel
13c) James Watt ( Inventor of the Steam Engine )
13d) George Stevenson ( Inventor of the Steam Train )
13e) Sir Isaac Newton
13f) Charles Darwin
14) Rudyard Kipling ( Author of the Jungle Book )
14b) H.G. Wells ( Author of The Time Traveller )
14c) Arthur Conan Doyle ( Author of Sherlock Holmes )
14d) Bram Stoker ( Author of Count Dracula )
14e) Mary Shelley ( Author of Frakenstein )
14) Sir Walter Raleigh
15) Sir Francis Drake
16) Duke Of Marlborough
17) Admiral Lord Nelson
18) Duke of Wellington
19) Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
20) Robert Walpole, 1st. Earl of Orford ( Regarded as the first Prime Minister in the modern sense );
21) William The Pit The Younger ( introduced the first Income tax )
22) Charles Grey, The Earl Grey ( restriction of employment of children; reform of the poor Laws, abolition of Slavery )
23) Sir Robert Peel ( Created the first National Police Force )
24) Edward Smith -Stanley, The Earl Derby. ( Father of the Conservative party ).
25) Benjamin Disraeli ( Queen Victoria's favorite Prime Minister )
26) Sir Winston Churchill ( Saviour of the world by defeating Hitler, Mussolini and Japanese Emporer )
27) Lady Margarat Thatcher ( First female prime minister and creator of Privatisation ).
28) The 1966 England World Cup Winning Team
29) The Portsmouth F.Cup Winning Team from 2008
30) Sir Ian Botham
31) David Beckham
32) Lord Sebastian Coe
33) Steve Ovett
34) Virginia Wade
35) David Bedford
36) Johnny Wilkinson
37) Torvil and Dean
38) Jennifer Ennis
39) Dame Kelly Holmes
40) Freddie Mercury
41) Elton John
42) Queen
43) Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO )
44) The Beatles
45) Annie Lennox
45b) Pink Floyd
45c) Genesis
46d) The Spice girls
46) Tom Baker
47) Lord Olivier
48) Sir Roger Moore
49) Cary Grant
50) Peter Davidson
51) John Pertwee
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The Chinese call Britain 'The Island of Hero's' which I think sums up what we British are all about. We British are inquisitive and competitive and are always looking over the horizon to the next adventure and discovery.
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