Interesting factoids (well, perhaps just to me, as I live about 10 minutes walk away) - Lincoln Cathedral (photo in the article) was for several hundred years

Interesting factoids (well, perhaps just to me, as I live about 10 minutes walk away) - Lincoln Cathedral (photo in the article) was for several hundred years the tallest building on Earth, and even now the tallest point (given that it's on a hill) looking east until you get to the Urals.