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Epping Forest

Epping Forest, an ancient wood-pasture in Essex and northeast London, is managed by the City of London Corporation as Conservators under the Epping Forest Act 1878; it is an SSSI and SAC of 1,630.74 ha with 55,000 veteran pollards.

Equestrian Club

نادي الفروسية (Equestrian Club): Arabic name for equestrian clubs, chiefly the Saudi club founded in Riyadh in 1965, renamed نادي سباقات الخيل in 2020, organizer of the $20 million Saudi Cup; also clubs in Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and North Africa.

Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow

Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow: 1844 bronze by Baron Marochetti of Wellington on Copenhagen, Category A listed, famous for the traffic cone placed on its head since the 1980s.

er-Ruweihi

er-Ruweihi (Al-Ruwayha) is an ancient fort in Jordan, catalogued in Pleiades (697746) and Barrington Atlas 71 B4 at about 30.85 N, 35.92 E, mapped 30 BC-AD 640; distinct from same-named ruins in Ma'an and Syria.

Erding

Erding, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on the Sempt river; a 13th-century town whose Altenerding-Klettham row-grave cemetery (about 2,400 graves, 480-720 AD) and Carolingian royal court make it central to early medieval Bavarian archaeology.

Erechtheion (ρέχθειον)

Erechtheion (Ερέχθειον), also Erechtheum: Ionic temple on the Athenian Acropolis, built 421–406 BC by Mnesikles for Athena and Poseidon, with the six-Caryatid south porch and north porch over Poseidon's trident marks.

Ergitium

Ergitium (also Egritio, Ergicum) was a minor Daunian road station in northern Apulia between Teanum Apulum and Sipontum, on the Tabula Peutingeriana and in the Ravenna Cosmography; tentatively located near San Severo or west of Rignano Garganico.

Erlebnisbahnhof - Stazione d'avventura

Erlebnisbahnhof - Stazione d'avventura, the Naturns adventure train station in Staben, South Tyrol: volunteer-run railway theme park on the former Schnalsthal station, opened 2005, with an 800 m garden railway, draisine rides, and Rhaetian Railway post wagons. Distinct from the Erlebnisbahnhof Brittnau-Wikon in Switzerland.

Ermelo

Ermelo, municipality in Gelderland on the Veluwe, Netherlands. Known for two Roman marching camps (Leuvenum, Indianenbos), 46 prehistoric burial mounds, and a Frankish row graveyard excavated in 1933.

Ermin Street

Ermin Street (Margary road 41) is the Roman road from Silchester via Speen and Cirencester toward Gloucester, a military supply route built soon after the AD 43 conquest, distinct from London-York Ermine Street.

Ermine Street

Ermine Street: Roman road from London (Londinium) via Lincoln (Lindum) to York (Eboracum), built AD 43-45, Margary route 2b; largely followed today by the A10 and A1 Great North Road.

Ermitage Casino

Ermitage Casino (Casino Ermitage, Ermitage Games) was a casino on Blvd. Enrique Sánchez Alonso in Tres Ríos, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, opened July 2007 with slots, bingo, and a sportsbook; its listing is now marked closed.

Ernaginum

Ernaginum (Ἐρνάγινον), also Ernagina, was a Roman road vicus at Saint-Gabriel near Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône, at the junction of the Via Aurelia, Via Domitia, and Via Agrippa, occupied from the 6th century BC to Late Antiquity.

Ernodorum

Ernodorum, an ancient Gallic road station attested in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana, located near Saint-Ambroix-sur-Arnon, France, at the Arnon crossing between Avaricum and Argentomagus.

Ernolatia

Ernolatia, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana, placed at Sankt Pankraz or Dirnbach in Upper Austria between Tutastione and Gabromagi on the Pyhrn route to Ovilavis (Wels).

Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region

Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region (Ore Mountains), a transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site since 6 July 2019 with 22 component parts in Saxony and Czechia, preserving 800 years of silver, tin, cobalt, and uranium mining heritage.

Es Trepucó

Es Trepucó (Trepucó) is a large Talayotic settlement near Maó, Menorca, with a cyclopean wall, a 26 m talayot, and a 4.80 m taula; first scientifically excavated on the island by Margaret Murray in 1930 and part of Talayotic Menorca World Heritage.

Ešasurra

Ešasurra, "House of the Womb", was the temple of the goddess Išḫara in the Šuanna quarter of Babylon, identified with excavated Temple Z; attested in Neo-Babylonian prebend texts such as BM 77521.

ESCAPE (Malaysia)

ESCAPE is a Malaysian nature-based adventure theme park chain by Sim Leisure Group (SGX-listed), founded by Sim Choo Kheng. Flagship ESCAPE Penang opened 2012 in Teluk Bahang, holding four Guinness World Records including the 1,111 m longest tube water slide.

Esgair Perfedd marching camp

Esgair Perfedd marching camp: Roman temporary camp in the Elan Valley, Powys, Wales, near Rhayader. 270 by 235 m earthwork, about 6.2 ha, discovered 1966, housing roughly 4,000 men, probably AD 74-80.

ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture and Extermination

ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, Buenos Aires: memorial in the former Navy School of Mechanics Officers' Quarters where over 5,000 were detained, tortured, and murdered (1976–1983); UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023, criterion (vi).

Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve

The Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera da Serra do Espinhaço) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Brazil, designated in 2005 and covering the Espinhaço mountain chain in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Esplanade

An esplanade, also called a paseo marítimo, is a long, level open space for walking, typically along a waterfront or in front of a prominent building.

Essequibo (protected area)

Essequibo (protected area) covers FEOW freshwater ecoregion 310, the Essequibo River basin in Guyana and southeastern Venezuela, its 58 endemic fish species, its Amazon corridor link via the Rupununi, and protected areas including Iwokrama, Kaieteur, Kanuku, and Kanashen.

Estadi de la FAF

Estadi de la FAF, also known as Nou Estadi a Encamp, is a football stadium in Encamp, Andorra, the national stadium of Andorra, inaugurated in 2025.

Estel Roman Quarry

Estel Roman Quarry (carrière de l'Estel), Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France: ancient limestone quarry on the Gardon that supplied the Pont du Gard's dressed stone in the mid-1st century AD; excavated since 1992, Monument Historique 1998.

Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark

Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark (Geopark Estrela), designated 2020 in east central Portugal around Serra da Estrela, covers 221,600 ha with 147 geosites, Neoproterozoic-to-Pleistocene geology, and a Last Glacial Maximum ice field of about 66 km2.

Estuaire du Rio Del Rey

Estuaire du Rio Del Rey: a 165,000-hectare transboundary Ramsar wetland in Cameroon's Southwest Region on the Gulf of Guinea, designated 20 May 2010, holding about 10% of West African mangroves and habitat for the giant frog and manatee.

Estuarine conservation area

An estuarine conservation area is a legally protected estuary, or part of one, managed to conserve habitats, water quality, and the fish and wildlife that depend on it.

Etangs de la Champagne humide

Etangs de la Champagne humide, Ramsar site no. 514 (designated 5 April 1991), the largest Ramsar wetland of metropolitan France at 255,800 ha across Aube, Marne, and Haute-Marne, with over 400 medieval fish ponds, four reservoir lakes, and nearly 150,000 wintering waterbirds.