Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/November 2006

... that Fowlsheugh cliffs (pictured) attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?
...that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of a artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
...that Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth—her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?
...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?