Elderbank, on The Crofts, began as a small house built on land bought in 1855 by Flaxney Stowell, whose family lived here for close to a hundred years before selling in 1949. A piece of inscribed timber found in the house records that it was built in 1839 and extended in 1909, when it gained a second floor and its address changed from Arbory Street to The Crofts. Its most striking surviving features are the entrance hall, staircase and landing, with carved hardwood newels, handrails and panelling that a conservation survey judged the finest part of the property. Together with its neighbours Westwood and Crofton, Elderbank forms a group of houses considered to give this stretch of The Crofts its distinctive character within the Castletown Conservation Area.

Ellan Vannin is a Registered Building on The Quay, entered on the Protected Buildings Register in 1984, standing in the row of harbourside houses beside the former (Baillie Scott-designed) police station and directly across from Castle Rushen. Local history of Castletown's inns records that a house on the Quay once traded as the Ellan Vannin Arms, in the row flanked by the police station and the old Steam Packet Company office, though it is not certain this is the same building as the present-day dwelling of that name.

Ellerslie Farm's outbuildings stand at Ellerslie, in the parish of Marown near Crosby. The locality is historically associated with lead mining: in the nineteenth century, the entrepreneur George Dumbell operated the Mona Mine at Ellerslie, Crosby, placing the mine engineer Richard Rowe in charge of the works. Available sources do not establish whether the surviving farm outbuildings are connected to this mining operation, and no further verified detail about the buildings themselves was found online.

The Engine Shed at Banks Circus comprises two rubble-stone locomotive buildings dating from the 1890s, still in working use as the Isle of Man Railway's main workshop. Between them, the shed and its single-road workshop can house up to seventeen steam locomotives at once, and the building retains overhead lifting gear, beam engines and wheel lathes from its working life, with a blacksmith's shop added as recently as 2001. It remains a genuine working railway shed rather than a museum piece, central to keeping the island's steam fleet running.

England is the largest constituent country of the United Kingdom and the suzerain power that exercised overlordship of the Isle of Man. The relationship between the English Crown and the Island shaped Manx history profoundly, from the medieval transfer of the Lordship to the English Stanleys in 1405, through the Revestment of 1765, to the continuing constitutional relationship as a Crown Dependency. The terms of the holding were feudal and were recited for centuries. The Island was granted with the patronage of the bishopric and all its ecclesiastical benefices, as fully as any former lord or king of Man had held them, to be holden by homage and by the service of rendering to the King and his successors at their coronations two falcons. The English claim was asserted step by step. King John took Reginald, King of Mann, under his protection in 1205 and took his homage for the Island and the out Isles. Edwin of Northumbria had wrested it from the Scots as early as 625. Edward I heard the Waldeboef claim as lord paramount over the King of Scotland, and the Manx chronologies say he took the Island under his protection in 1290 and assumed it as his own in 1307. Henry IV granted it to Sir John Stanley and his heirs after Scrope's attainder. The Manx never accepted that the relation was simple. The Island's writers insist that when it passed to the kings of England no rights of Holy Mother Church went with it, and yet the Crown afterwards presumed to give or sell the patronage of the bishopric, and Henry VIII and Elizabeth seized the lands and revenues of Rushen Abbey. Sir James Gell as Attorney-General had to answer an opinion of the English Law Officers that the Insular Legislature could not legislate on a matter affecting Crown rights without an Act of the Imperial Parliament, and he answered it with the precedents.

Erin Brae on Queens Promenade began as a private residence before later becoming a guest house; it operates today as Kings' House, a historic guest house on the promenade. Specific construction-date and architectural detail could not be independently confirmed from a reliable source, so this entry is kept brief.

The Fairy Bridge crosses the Santon Burn on the A5 road between Douglas and Castletown/the airport, on the parish boundary between Santon and Malew. Manx tradition holds that it is unlucky not to greet the 'Little People' (Mooinjer Veggey) when crossing, and buses on the route make an announcement asking passengers to say 'Hello Fairies'. The custom was first recorded in an 1816 guidebook describing the nearby original Ballalona bridge, also known as the 'Devil's Bridge', and TT/Manx Grand Prix competitors still visit before racing.

Falcon Cliff was built as a residence to a design by architect John Robinson for John Stanway Jackson, manager of the Bank of Mona, who acquired the plot in a lottery when the old Castle Mona estate was broken up and sold. After Jackson relocated in 1855, the house passed to a Mrs Okell, and by 1877 it had been converted into a hotel, with its grounds later developed into a popular entertainment venue that for a time included a large dance-hall pavilion (demolished in the 1890s once the rival Derby Castle and Palace company took control). To overcome its clifftop position, a funicular cliff railway was built in 1887 to link the hotel with the promenade below; it was dismantled in 1896 and re-erected at Port Soderick, and a second, differently aligned railway served the hotel from 1927 until the hotel's closure around 1990. Rather than being demolished, the former hotel was carefully restored and now serves as offices.

Farm Hill Manor on Farmhill Lane, Douglas, is listed as having special architectural or historical interest on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings register. No further verifiable historical detail about the manor's construction date, builders, or early occupants could be confirmed.

No verifiable history beyond its listing as a farmhouse and barn at the Glashen Farm complex, Ballasalla, Malew, was found in available sources.

Former county of colonial Virginia, created in 1772 and extending westwards into territory which included much of present-day Kentucky. Fincastle County was created from Botetourt County as settlement and surveying moved further west. William Preston served as county surveyor. Under Virginia law, surveys intended to establish legal title had to be carried out by the official county surveyor or by deputies appointed under his authority. The county consequently appears frequently in the surviving records of western land claims. In 1773 Hancock Taylor, a deputy surveyor, was already working in Kentucky. John Floyd was appointed deputy surveyor on 2 March 1774, and William Russell on 2 August. Their surveys were entered in the Fincastle County books and later formed the basis of numerous Kentucky land titles. In January 1775 the freeholders of Fincastle produced one of the strongest colonial declarations of resistance to Parliamentary authority. The committee which prepared the resolutions was chaired by William Christian, brother-in-law of Patrick Henry. The address declared that the settlers would never surrender their liberties "to any power on earth, but at the expense of our lives" and condemned the extension of "the hand of unlimited power" over the colonies. The Fincastle address was dated 20 January 1775. Fincastle County was short-lived. Its records nevertheless preserve a large part of the early documentary history of western Virginia and Kentucky immediately before the American Revolution.

This fog horn station at the Point of Ayre, Cranstal, was part of the warning system that helped guide shipping around the treacherous sandbanks at the Isle of Man's northern tip. Like fog signals at many British and Manx lighthouse stations, it was decommissioned, in this case in August 2005, once modern GPS and shipping guidance systems made audible fog signals largely unnecessary for navigation.

A former banqueting house stands among the historic farm buildings at Ballamoar Farm on the Patrick Road, just outside Patrick village. Beyond its inclusion on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list, no further verifiable detail about the structure's construction date, builder, or original use could be confirmed online.

This former customs office (later used as social security offices) on The Quay is registered for its architectural or historic interest. No further documented history beyond the registration itself was found.

This former Doctor's House stood at Strang, near Braddan, on the site long associated with the Island's hospital and infirmary buildings, including the former Ballamona Hospital (opened 1868 as the Isle of Man Lunatic Asylum) and the neighbouring Braddan Poor Home, later Mannin Infirmary. The specific building known as the Doctor's House is included on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list, but no independently verifiable history particular to this house itself was found.

This Athol Street building began life in 1841 as a hall for the Oddfellows friendly society, its front distinguished by large square Corinthian columns supporting a portico beneath a balustraded roofline. It was then run for some years as a theatre, under the management of Mr James Rogers of the Hanley theatrical circuit, before being taken over in 1860 to serve as the Island's principal courthouse, also hosting sittings of Tynwald and the House of Keys before those bodies moved to Prospect Hill. It also functioned as a police station and, until the 1970s, held juvenile offenders in cells on its top floor under conditions later remembered as Victorian in character. The courthouse function moved to a new building on Buck's Road in 1996, and the old building has since been redeveloped as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, with its historic facade retained.

The Old House of Keys on Parliament Square housed the lower chamber of the Manx Parliament for more than two centuries. Bishop Wilson built a meeting house on the site around 1706, combining a small assembly room where the Keys sat with a library above funded by the Academic Fund Trustees, but by 1813 the Duke of Atholl described the structure as 'in the most ruinous condition'. Declared dangerous in 1817, the Keys temporarily moved to the George Inn while Thomas Brine, the newly appointed Clerk of Works, rebuilt the meeting house on the same site to a reduced plan that preserved the original window arches. After the House of Keys relocated to Douglas, the building was sold to Dumbell's Bank in 1877 and continued in banking use until the 1990s, when Manx National Heritage acquired and restored it as a museum of the Island's legislative history.

This is the boathouse of Port Erin's RNLI lifeboat station, on Breakwater Road. The RNLI approved a station for Port Erin in 1882 after local requests, and it formally opened in 1883, its first lifeboat, the Ann and Mary of Manchester, funded by a legacy from Richard Roberts of Blackley, Manchester, and blessed by the Lieutenant Governor before her first launch. An initial boathouse went up in 1884, with a slipway added in 1900 to ease launches. The building seen today dates from 1925, the same year a motor-powered lifeboat arrived at the station, and it is noted for having the steepest boathouse slipway of any RNLI station, at a 1-in-4 gradient. It was extended in 1996 and its slipway remodelled again in 2006 to accommodate a newer Atlantic-class inshore lifeboat.

This building was constructed in 1890 as the Methodist New Connexion chapel on Derby Road, designed by J.W. Firth of Oldham and built by William Kelly of Douglas in a Gothic style faced with Glenfaba brick relieved by Ruabon brick and terracotta, with stone tracery windows and a spire, seating around 500 worshippers. The chapel closed in 1914 and was sold to St Thomas's Church for use as a church hall, later becoming a Red Cross centre that operated until 2008. In July 2011 the Manx National Youth Band purchased the building, converting the ground floor into a permanent rehearsal venue with the upper floor made available to other musical and cultural groups.

This North Quay building was for decades the home of Newson Trading, an outdoor clothing and workwear retailer that traded from the site for around 61 years before finally closing its quayside doors in October 2016 and relocating further into town on Strand Street. The shop was a long-familiar fixture of the North Quay for generations of Douglas shoppers before the move brought its long quayside chapter to a close.

This former keeper's cottage sits high on Douglas Head, one of the Isle of Man's most dramatic coastal viewpoints. An earlier lighthouse on the headland dated from 1832, and after the Northern Lighthouse Board took over the station a new lighthouse was built in 1892; an additional keeper's dwelling, engine room and fog signal turret were added around this period. By the late nineteenth century Douglas had become a popular holiday resort and the lighthouse itself drew so many visitors that keepers had to restrict public viewing to set hours around the middle of the day so they could still carry out their duties. The keeper's cottages were later sold off and are now in private ownership.

Fox Cottage stands within the Bishopscourt estate at Kirk Michael, the historic seat of the Bishops of Sodor and Man. Beyond its listing on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings register as a cottage, no verifiable historical detail specific to Fox Cottage itself could be found online.

Built in 1886 as the terminus of the narrow-gauge Foxdale Railway, a branch line constructed to serve the district's rich lead, zinc and silver mines, the station closed in 1940 as the mining industry collapsed. The building later served as headquarters for the Manx Flux & Mica Company and as a community centre before reopening in 2004 as the Foxdale Heritage Centre, telling the story of the village and its thirteen nearby mines.

France is the country across the English Channel from Britain. The wars with France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries directly affected the Isle of Man, prompting the raising of the Royal Manx Fencibles and volunteer corps for the Island's defence, and driving significant military activity in Manx waters. The Island was named in an Anglo-French treaty long before that. The truce between France and England of 1389 included the Isle of Man by name, and it was signed for the Island twice over, by Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, as its sovereign in the Scottish interest, and by William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, as the King of Man whom England recognised. The French claim stayed in the royal style for centuries. Manx patents of the eighteenth century still open with the King as George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith. The wars reached individual Manx families. Lieutenant John Frissell, son of the High Bailiff of the same name, was wounded in the battle of the first of June 1794, and afterwards married a French marchioness and settled in France. Two of his brothers were also in the navy. Captain John Quilliam steered the Victory into action at Trafalgar. The Island's own forces were organised in battalions under Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Shaw as Major Commandant, and Major Taubman pressed the Home Office to date the Fencibles' commission from August 1798.

The Gaiety Theatre opened on 16 July 1900 to a design by the celebrated theatre architect Frank Matcham, and is regarded as one of his finest surviving works. The site had first been developed in 1893 as a theatre called The Marina, designed by John Rennison for a consortium including tramway pioneer Thomas Lightfoot; the consortium went bankrupt within six months and the building was bought at auction and renamed The Pavilion. In December 1899 the Palace and Derby Castle Company commissioned Matcham to remodel the narrow shell of The Pavilion into an opera house and theatre, which reopened as the Gaiety and could seat nearly 2,000 people. It enjoyed particular success in the Edwardian era up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and the theatre has since undergone extensive restoration works to return it to its original condition.