Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands. Manx trading vessels engaged in the eighteenth-century smuggling trade maintained commercial links with Dutch ports, and the Netherlands featured in the broader network of European trade that connected the Isle of Man with Continental markets.
Ballamoore is an estate in the Isle of Man associated with the Moore family, one of the Island's most prominent families. George Moore, a merchant of Peel who served as Speaker of the House of Keys, was knighted in 1781; the Moores of Ballamoore played significant roles in Manx governance, commerce, and public life over several centuries.
Ballasalla is a village in the parish of Malew in the south of the Isle of Man, situated on the Silverburn river. It is the location of Rushen Abbey, the medieval Cistercian monastery that was the most important religious house on the Island, and has long served as a crossing point on routes between Castletown and Douglas.
Ballig Well is a holy well in the parish of Onchan on the Isle of Man. It was traditionally said to rise and fall with the tide, a phenomenon attributed to magical or supernatural causes, and was classed alongside other wells on the Island believed to possess similar tidal properties.
Barbados is a Caribbean island that was a British colony from the seventeenth century. It featured in the Atlantic trading networks that connected the Isle of Man with the wider British colonial world, and Manx people had commercial and occasionally personal connections with the West Indian sugar islands.
Barcelona is a major port city on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. It formed part of the extensive European trading network with which the Isle of Man had connections during the eighteenth century, when Manx vessels and merchants traded across the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds.
Bemahague is an estate in the parish of Onchan on the Isle of Man, historically associated with the Christian family. It served as a seat of one branch of the Christians, one of the Island's most important families, whose members included William Christian (Illiam Dhone) and numerous holders of public office.
Bergen is a port city on the west coast of Norway. As the Isle of Man was part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles from the ninth to the thirteenth century, Norwegian ports such as Bergen were connected to the Island through the Norse maritime world and its trading and political networks.
Bishopscourt is the historic residence of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, situated in the parish of Kirk Michael. It has served as the episcopal seat since the medieval period and is particularly associated with Bishop Thomas Wilson (1698-1755), whose long incumbency and reforming zeal left a lasting mark on Manx religious and social life.
Blair Castle is the ancestral seat of the Murray family, Dukes of Atholl, located in Perthshire, Scotland. The Dukes of Atholl held the Lordship of Mann from 1736 until the Revestment of 1765, inheriting the title through the female line of the Stanleys, and Blair Castle served as their principal residence during this period.
Bolton is a town in Lancashire, England where James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was executed on 15 October 1651. The 1644 storming of Bolton by Rupert's forces killed an estimated 1,600 people and Derby led the infantry assault. Bolton was chosen specifically as the place of execution because of that massacre. The people of Bolton refused to strike a nail into the scaffold. The scaffold itself was built partly from timber brought from the ruins of the Earl's own house, Lathom House, which had been destroyed in the fighting in the civil wars.
Boston is a major port city in Massachusetts on the east coast of the United States. Manx sailors and emigrants passed through Boston during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Manx people were present in the New England states from at least the time of the American Revolution.
Bosworth Field in Leicestershire is the site of the 1485 battle in which Richard III was defeated and killed by the forces of Henry Tudor. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, whose family held the Lordship of Mann, played a decisive role in the battle by throwing his support behind Henry Tudor at the critical moment.
Bridge House is a historic property at the harbour mouth in Castletown on the Isle of Man. Built by the Quayle family from the third quarter of the eighteenth century, it was the home of George Quayle (1757-1835), who added a boathouse and dock to house his yacht Peggy, a unique survival of eighteenth-century maritime craftsmanship. The complex was opened as the Nautical Museum in 1951 and is now managed by Manx National Heritage.
Carlisle is a city in Cumberland in north-west England. As the principal town of the county nearest to the Isle of Man on the English side, it was closely connected to the Island's administrative and commercial affairs, particularly during and after the Revestment period when Cumberland-based customs officials such as Charles Lutwidge operated between the two jurisdictions.
Castle Rushen is a medieval castle in Castletown, one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe. It served as the seat of government for the Lords of Mann and the residence of the Governor, and was the principal garrison of the Island. William Christian (Illiam Dhone) was held and tried within its walls before his execution at nearby Hango Hill in 1663.
Castletown is a town in the south of the Isle of Man that served as the Island's capital until 1869. Dominated by Castle Rushen, it was the centre of Manx government and administration under the Lords of Mann and through the early post-Revestment period, and is the location of Bridge House and the Nautical Museum.
Chibbyr Feeayr ("Cold Well") is a holy well in the parish of Malew, part of the tradition of sacred wells found across the Isle of Man. Holy wells were visited for healing, divination, and devotion, and many retained their associations with folk religion well into the modern period.
Cleveland is a city in north-east Ohio, United States, known as the "Manx Capital of America". From the 1820s onwards, large numbers of Manx emigrants settled in the Cleveland area and the surrounding Western Reserve, with the population of Manx origin estimated at 25,000 to 30,000 by the mid-twentieth century. It is the headquarters of the North American Manx Association, founded there in 1928.
Conquet is a port town on the western tip of Brittany, France. Its inclusion in a Manx heritage context relates to the maritime connections between the Isle of Man and the French Atlantic coast, particularly during the period of conflict and trade in the eighteenth century.
Cottage Grove Lake is a locality in Ohio associated with early Manx settlement in the Western Reserve region. Manx emigrants began arriving in north-east Ohio from the 1820s, establishing farming communities across the area that maintained close ties with the Island and with the larger Manx community in nearby Cleveland.
Cregneash is a small village in the parish of Rushen at the southern tip of the Isle of Man. It is preserved as a living museum of traditional Manx crofting life by Manx National Heritage, with its thatched cottages and smallholdings representing the pattern of rural existence that persisted on the Island into the twentieth century.
Cronk y Voddy is the site of Manannan's Chair (Stoyly Manannan or Manachan), a large eroded rampart in the parish of German, on the Staarvey Road between Lhergydhoo and Knocksharry. Within it stands an earthen mound in the form of a seat, from which the legendary Manannan Mac Lir is said to have dispensed the law; a tradition also held that this mythical king of the Island was buried within.
Cumberland is a historic county in north-west England bordering the Irish Sea. It was closely connected to the Isle of Man through trade, customs enforcement, and family ties; Whitehaven in Cumberland was the base of the Lutwidge family and a principal port for the customs sloops that patrolled the Irish Sea, and many Manx people maintained links with Cumberland communities.
Derby Fort is a fortification on the Langness peninsula near Derbyhaven, named after the Stanley Earls of Derby who held the Lordship of Mann. It formed part of the Island's coastal defence system and was garrisoned by both the Lord's forces and, after the Revestment, by British troops.