page_title: List of cultural icons of England
section_title: Miscellaneous
hierarchical_section_title: List of cultural icons of England / Miscellaneous
caption_attribution_description: English: Typical London red telephone boxes. In Tower Hill, London, immediately to the west of the Tower of London (near what was then the taxi rank for Tower Millenium Pier). The area was extensively redeveloped and pedestrianised in 2003 and these phone boxes have since been removed. Dansk: De berømte, røde telefonbokse i London Deutsch: Die berühmten roten Telefonzellen in London
context_page_description: This list of cultural icons of England is a list of people and things from any period which are independently considered to be cultural icons characteristic of England.
context_section_description: King Arthur, central figure in the legends making up the so-called Matter of Britain.
  Bank of England, established 1694.
  Bayeux Tapestry, final and best known work of Anglo-Saxon art, made in England in the 1070s but held in a French museum.
  Betty's Tea Room in Harrogate, traditional tea rooms dating from 1919.
  Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by Paul Cummins, with setting by Tom Piper; an installation at the Tower of London July–November 2014 commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.
  The neighbourhood "bobby" on the beat, dating from the 19th century.
  Coldstream Guards and Trooping the Colour.
  English eccentricity, some historical examples of which are documented in John Timbs' English Eccentrics and Eccentricities (1866).
  The English garden,  a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century.
  English local government, originating from the municipal reform of the 19th century.
  English sense of humour.
  Fox hunting, of 16th century origin; and the 2005 ban (Hunting Act 2004).
  Hedges.
  Music hall, a theatrical entertainment popular from the early Victorian era until 1960; popularly revived on television by the BBC's The Good Old Days.
  Ordnance Survey maps; work commenced in 1791.
  Oxbridge, a portmanteau word blending Oxford University and Cambridge University, used to refer to the two collectively in contrast to other universities.
  Pantomime, a type of musical comedy stage production for family entertainment, developed in England by "father of English pantomime" John Rich (1692–1761).
  The Parish church, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.
  The public house, or Pub. The great diarist Samuel Pepys (1603–1733) described the pub as the heart of England.
  Punch and Judy, traditional, popular puppet show, associated with seaside culture.
  Queuing, the practice (once archetypally English) of waiting in line for one's turn to be attended to or to proceed.
  Red pillar boxes (in use since 1852).
  The Red telephone box, dating from 1924.
  The Scout movement, created in 1907 by Lord Baden-Powell.
  The seaside pleasure pier, first built in England in the early 19th century.
  Stiff upper lip, a display of fortitude in the face of adversity, or an exercise of self-restraint in the expression of emotion; exemplified in Rudyard Kipling's poem "If—".
  The Sutton Hoo helmet, excavated in 1939 from a (c. 7th century) ship-burial and prompting comparisons with the world described in the heroic Old English poem Beowulf.
  The London Tube Map, designed originally in 1931 by Harry Beck (1902–1974).
  English weather.
  The White Cliffs of Dover; of symbolic significance because they face Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened, and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard; because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before the advent of air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first or last sight of England for travellers.
caption: Red telephone boxes
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