Rushen Camp was a civilian internment camp in the south of the Isle of Man used during the Second World War. It was one of several camps established on the Island to intern enemy aliens, alongside Mooragh Camp in Ramsey and the earlier Knockaloe camp from the First World War.

The Saddle, a long-standing Ramsey inn, has stood near St Paul's Church since at least 1852, according to local historical accounts. It was noted for an unusual feature: a public right-of-way once ran directly through the building, entering at the front door, passing the bar, and exiting at the back. Historical photographs place it beside St Paul's Church in the Market Place area, and it is recorded on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list as a former public house.

Salisbury House stands on Victoria Street, a thoroughfare laid out around 1880 as a modern street of shops and hotels, according to Brown's 1900 Guide to the Isle of Man. No further verifiable historical detail specific to this building could be confirmed.

Santon Parish Church on Church Road is dedicated to St Sanctain and stands on the site of an ancient chapel believed to date back some 1,500 years, making it one of the oldest recorded places of Christian worship in the parish. For a period during the seventeenth century the dedication was mistakenly recorded as "St Ann," an error that was only officially corrected back to St Sanctain in 1891. The church remains the principal place of worship for the small rural parish of Santon.

The Santon Parish War Memorial on Church Road commemorates the parish's war dead. No further verifiable detail about its unveiling date, form, or the names recorded on it could be found online beyond its register listing.

Sarah's Cottage is a right-turning bend, just past Glen Helen, at a small stone cottage sitting on the outside of the curve halfway up Creg Willey's Hill. It is named after 'Sarah,' who is recorded as having lived there around 1900 and served refreshments to travellers on the road.

Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, that served as the principal base of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet during both World Wars. Manx people served in the Royal Navy and other services at Scapa Flow, and the Island's maritime connections extended to this strategically vital anchorage.

Scarlett House and its grounds lie on the Scarlett peninsula just south of Castletown, an area otherwise known for its distinctive volcanic and limestone geology along the coast. No further verifiable, address-specific history of the house itself could be confirmed from available sources beyond its registered status.

Ramsey Grammar School.

This former parochial or central school building, at Dreemskerry in the parish of Maughold, was registered as a protected building in September 2002. Beyond its official listing as a former school, no further published history of the building has been found.

Scotland has had a close and complex relationship with the Isle of Man throughout history. The Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles was ceded to Scotland by the Treaty of Perth in 1266, and the Scottish Crown held sovereignty over the Island until the English took control in the fourteenth century. The Murray Dukes of Atholl, who held the Lordship from 1736, were a Scottish family. The Manx succession lists mark the change plainly. After Magnus the Second comes Alexander King of Scots, and the antiquaries note that in 1266 the kingdom of the Isles was translated by reason of Alexander, who had got the Western Isles into his hands and brought the Isle of Man under his dominion as one of that number. The contest that followed ran for eighty years. Edward I took the Island from the Scots in the 1290s and assumed it as his own in 1307. Robert Bruce landed at Ramsey and took Castle Rushen, holding it for six months against Duncan Macdougal, and granted the Island to his nephew Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray. William Montacute drove the Scots out again by force of arms. The Island was still being claimed from both directions in 1389, when the truce between France and England was signed for it both by Randolph as its sovereign in the Scottish interest and by Montacute as the King of Man whom England recognised. When Mary of the Manx royal line sought the Island she was told she must lay her claim before the King of Scots, and her grandson had to bring it before the King of England as lord paramount over the King of Scotland. The Scottish connection reached into the church as well. The see of Sodor and Man was held in succession by Gilbert, a Scot, then Bernard, a Scot, then Thomas, a Scot, who sat fourteen years and died in September 1348.

The building at 7 John Street, now home to Scott's Bistro, sits just behind Douglas Town Hall and has been described locally as one of the oldest surviving buildings in Douglas. Beyond this, no further verifiable detail about its construction date or original occupants could be confirmed.

Seacliff (recorded in some sources as "Sea Cliffe") is a house on Ballure Road, Ramsey, confirmed as one of the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings. No further verifiable historical detail about this specific property was found online.

This Victorian signal box at Douglas station was built in 1892 and originally stood at the station throat between the carriage shed and workshops, fitted with a 36-lever frame made by Dutton & Co. of Worcester whose distinctive "drink-handle" lever design is now unique among survivors of its type. It went out of routine use in 1970 and was fully decommissioned by 1979-80, then physically relocated in 1998 to make way for the new transport headquarters and bus garages built on the site as Banks Circus. It is largely unused today but is opened occasionally during transport festivals, staffed by volunteers who keep its mechanical signalling equipment demonstrable to visitors.

Signpost Corner is a right-hand turn on the Hillberry Road section of the A18, around the 36.7-mile mark. It was historically a signal station, where an observer telephoned ahead to the TT Grandstand when a rider passed, triggering a light on the pit scoreboard to warn crews that their rider was about to arrive for a fuel or tyre stop.

This is the retained frontage of the former Strand Cinema on Strand Street, Douglas's main shopping street. The Strand Cinema opened in 1913 and was the first purpose-built cinema on the Isle of Man. The building behind the facade was demolished in 1998, but the historic street frontage was preserved and now stands as the visible remnant of the Island's earliest dedicated picture house.

Wooded hill above Ramsey, traditionally identified with Scacafell, the site of Godred Crovan's victory in 1079. According to the Chronicle of Mann, Godred Crovan made three attempts to conquer the Island. On the first two he was defeated. On the third he landed again at Ramsey and concealed three hundred men in ambush on Scacafell, identified by later writers with Sky Hill. The Manx army drew up against him. When fighting began, the concealed force descended from the hill and attacked the Manx from the rear while Godred's main body pressed them from the front. The Manx were defeated and Godred took control of the Island. Later accounts placed the battle in 1079 and treated it as the beginning of the dynasty which ruled Mann and much of the Hebrides for almost two centuries. The Chronicle records that Godred subsequently divided the Island between his followers and the native Manx. Sky Hill remained wooded in later descriptions, which helped explain the Chronicle's account of the ambush. Nineteenth-century writers used both forms, Scacafell and Sky Hill, when identifying the battlefield above Ramsey.

The Smokehouse at 5-6 Mill Road, Peel, corresponds to the register entry for the former premises of T Moore & Sons, also known as 'The Kepperyard' (a kipper yard), registered as a protected building on 23 August 1989. This reflects Peel's long-standing kipper-curing industry, historically one of the town's defining trades, though no further specific building history beyond the registration was found.

Snaefell is the highest point on the Isle of Man, rising to 2,036 feet. Its name derives from the Norse for "snow mountain", reflecting the Island's Norse heritage. Watch and ward was kept continuously on its summit, day and night, winter and summer, and if danger appeared, the beacon was set on fire to alert the Island's inhabitants.

A zinc, lead and silver mine on the slopes of Snaefell, worked from 1856 to 1908 as part of the Great Laxey mining empire, reaching a depth of over 1,180 feet. It is remembered above all for the Isle of Man's worst mining disaster: on 10 May 1897 an underground fire, started by a miner's candle left against timbering, filled the workings with carbon monoxide and killed twenty men. Mine captain John Kewley was decorated for his rescue efforts.

Snugborough is a dip in the road roughly 2.4 miles from the TT Grandstand, on the approach into Union Mills. Before later course changes it was the site of a fast, tricky right-hander of the same name, one of the small technical tests riders faced in the opening miles of the lap.

Solomons Corner stands where The Quay meets Quay Lane in Castletown's harbourside. According to local historian William Henry Cooper's account, the building was occupied by the Manx Steam Trading Company as a warehouse operation before it was sold to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1912, a sale that included the cargo steamer Tyrconnel, which continued sailing under Captain Willie Collister until his retirement in 1930. The corner building is a reminder of Castletown's working harbour trade in the age of steam shipping.

South Barrule is a prominent hill in the south of the Isle of Man, rising to 1,585 feet. Its name derives from the Norse Varda-fjall, Beacon fell, indicating its use as a beacon station in the Norse signal system. The summit is crowned by a large Iron Age hillfort, one of the most significant prehistoric monuments on the Island. It is a watershed as well as a beacon. The Water of Castletown springs from South Barrule, and the older topographers list part of the hill among the mountains of the parish of Patrick, with Dalby, Slieau Whallian, Cronk ny Slieau and part of Archallagan. It has its own piece of folklore. When a man remembered as Dollin the Blackguard was helping himself by night to a fat wether on South Barrule, a voice out of the darkness advised him in Manx to take two sheep, and promised not to tell the Coroner.

Spain is a country in south-western Europe. Its connection to the Isle of Man includes the broader European trading networks in which Manx merchants participated, and the military conflicts of the early modern period in which the Island's strategic position in the Irish Sea was of significance.

Spanish Head is a dramatic promontory on the south-western coast of the Isle of Man, rising sheer from the sea about 6 km south-west of Port St Mary, opposite the Calf of Man. A persistent local legend claims the headland is named for a wrecked ship of the Spanish Armada, but no wreck evidence exists and the Armada's route never came near the Irish Sea; Kneen's 1925 Place-Names of the Isle of Man (the standard Manx toponymy reference) and Mate's 1902 guide both simply record the name as 'Kioney Spaainey' (with an older map form 'Esparolet'/'Spaloret') and treat the Armada story as unverified tradition, without offering a firm alternative etymology.