Naval battle of 21 October 1805 with a direct Manx connection through Captain John Quilliam. Quilliam was born in the south of the Isle of Man in 1771. A. W. Moore’s account of his naval career records that he first came prominently to notice at the Battle of Camperdown, where Admiral Duncan promoted him to lieutenant. At Copenhagen in 1801 Quilliam served in a shallow-draught frigate operating close beneath the Danish batteries. After the officers senior to him were killed, he was left in command. Moore repeated the later story that Nelson came aboard during the action, asked how things were going and received Quilliam’s characteristically brief reply: “middlin’”. Nelson subsequently appointed him first lieutenant of HMS Victory. At Trafalgar Quilliam therefore served aboard Nelson’s flagship during the action in which the combined French and Spanish fleet was defeated. Moore wrote that Quilliam helped steer the Victory into battle. The precise details of his role have been treated differently in later accounts, but his service aboard the flagship at Trafalgar is firmly established in the Manx biographical tradition.

Naval battle of 21 October 1805 with a direct Manx connection through Captain John Quilliam. Quilliam was born in the south of the Isle of Man in 1771. A. W. Moore’s account of his naval career records that he first came prominently to notice at the Battle of Camperdown, where Admiral Duncan promoted him to lieutenant. At Copenhagen in 1801 Quilliam served in a shallow-draught frigate operating close beneath the Danish batteries. After the officers senior to him were killed, he was left in command. Moore repeated the later story that Nelson came aboard during the action, asked how things were going and received Quilliam’s characteristically brief reply: “middlin’”. Nelson subsequently appointed him first lieutenant of HMS Victory. At Trafalgar Quilliam therefore served aboard Nelson’s flagship during the action in which the combined French and Spanish fleet was defeated. Moore wrote that Quilliam helped steer the Victory into battle. The precise details of his role have been treated differently in later accounts, but his service aboard the flagship at Trafalgar is firmly established in the Manx biographical tradition.

Beach Cottage stands on Ballure Road, Ramsey, in a stretch of coastline near a secluded sandy beach and close to the Ballure Walk, Lhergy Frissel and Claughbane Walk footpaths. Beyond confirming its address and Registered Building status, no verifiable historical detail about this specific cottage was found online.

Beaconsfield Tower forms part of a house and tower complex on Jurby Road, Ramsey, now used as an assisted-living/residential care facility known as Beaconsfield Towers. Beyond its Registered Buildings listing, no verifiable construction date or further specific history could be confirmed online.

Beckwith's was a lead mine in Glen Rushen, opened in 1831 after a lump of lead was found in a hay cart's track, and worked by the Isle of Man Mining Company until 1879. It struggled throughout with severe underground flooding, especially when sinking its engine shaft. Ruined engine houses, a chimney and other mine buildings still stand beside the Glen Rushen road, part of the wider Manx Mining Trail through the valley.

Bedstead Corner is a left-hander on Bemahague Road around the 36.9-mile point, marked by a pedestrian overbridge. The surrounding stretch between Signpost Corner and Governor's Bridge was largely rural farmland until housing and infrastructure development changed the area between roughly 1990 and 2015, and the road surface here has since been resurfaced.

Historic house and estate in Onchan. The evidence pack for Bemahague is comparatively thin. Most of the nineteenth-century references relate to Joseph Jefferson, who was living there while serving as Treasurer of the Manx Society. The Society's membership lists repeatedly give his address as Bemahague, Conchan. In the first volume of the Manx Society publications he appears both in the list of members and as one of the officers responsible for receiving subscriptions. Later volumes continue to identify him with the house. The surviving references therefore establish Bemahague as the residence of Joseph Jefferson during the early years of the Manx Society, but the present evidence pack does not provide enough reliable material for a fuller architectural or estate history.

Norwegian royal and ecclesiastical centre with direct connections to the medieval Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. The Chronicle of Mann and related Norwegian material repeatedly place Bergen within the political world to which the Manx kings belonged. In 1230 King Håkon IV gathered forces for an expedition to the western seas after conflict among the rulers of the Hebrides. Olave, King of Mann, was described as remaining loyal to Håkon while other western rulers opposed him. The connection became especially clear in 1263. After reports of Scottish pressure in the Hebrides, Håkon ordered troops and provisions to assemble at Bergen. He arrived there in the spring, held a general council near the city at Baeka and prepared the fleet which sailed west against Scotland. Prince Magnus asked to command the expedition in Håkon's place, but the king replied that he was older and had greater knowledge of the western lands; Magnus was left with authority to govern Norway during his absence. Mann was still part of the Norwegian sphere during that expedition. Håkon died in Orkney after the campaign, and his remains were subsequently carried back to Norway. Bergen also appears in the ecclesiastical history of the Manx diocese. A note to the Chronicle records that the marriage of King Harald of Mann to Cecilia, the widow of Gregor Anderson, was celebrated at Bergen in 1248. Following the death of Bishop Simon, Laurence, Archdeacon of Mann, travelled to Norway after being elected bishop by the Manx chapter. A later agreement concerning the Hebrides and Mann was negotiated at Bergen in 1423 and recorded in a document dated 1426, long after direct Norwegian rule over Mann had ended.

Billown, near Castletown, is one of the most important Neolithic landscapes in the British Isles, brought to light after flint finds in 1995 led to long-running excavations by Bournemouth University. The site includes a stone circle, numerous standing stones, round barrows, a causewayed enclosure, a small ditch-and-bank 'mini-henge', cremation pits and a possible cursus monument, with finds including Ronaldsway-style pottery jars. Coordinates given are approximate (Billown estate area).

Birkin's Bend is named after racer Archie Birkin, who was killed here during early-morning practice for the 1927 Isle of Man TT when he swerved to avoid a fish van being driven on what were then still open public roads. Birkin, aged 22 and brother of the celebrated 'Bentley Boy' Tim Birkin, died from the crash, and the tragedy directly prompted organisers to close the public roads for all TT and Manx Grand Prix practice sessions from 1928 onward - a safety reform still in force today. The bend itself is no longer clearly identifiable owing to later roadway changes.

Historic residence of the Bishops of Sodor and Man, in the west of the Isle of Man. Bishopscourt appears repeatedly in nineteenth-century government and ecclesiastical correspondence as the working residence of the Bishop. In March 1825 Bishop George Murray wrote from Bishopscourt in connection with affidavits surrounding the long-running disputes of his episcopate. Later that year, during the disturbances over the potato tithe, he again wrote from Bishopscourt to warn that the laws were being set aside and that the military force of seventy men was insufficient to preserve the peace. The house also received official and clerical visitors. In September 1823 the Bishop of Chester and Dr Gardner were making a tour of the Island and were due to dine at Bishopscourt before leaving the following day. Bishop Murray’s successor, Bishop William Ward, wrote from Bishopscourt in November 1828 after his first weeks on the Island. His correspondence criticised the Duke of Atholl’s seizure of tithes and commented on drunkenness among the population. Older tradition attached the central tower of Bishopscourt to King Orry. By the late nineteenth century that identification was already being treated cautiously. Spencer Walpole noted that the tower was called King Orry’s Tower, but also observed that modern criticism had thrown doubt on several places traditionally connected with Godred Crovan. Bishopscourt was also used for ecclesiastical hearings. During Bishop Thomas Wilson’s episcopate a dispute involving Mrs Puller and Archdeacon Horrobin was formally heard there after she had been refused Communion.

Bishopscourt has served as the Episcopal residence for the Diocese of Sodor and Man for centuries, with its oldest surviving fabric, a defensive tower, dating from the late 14th century; documentary evidence places bishops here from at least 1315, and the death of Bishop Simon nearby in 1247 hints the site may have been in use even earlier. Bishop Wilson found the property largely ruinous on his arrival in 1698 and rebuilt it, and further repairs followed under Bishop Crigan a century later. Bishop Murray brought in architect Thomas Brine in the early 19th century to remodel the kitchen, restore the battlements and add a Georgian Gothic chapel, which Bishop Powys then replaced with a Victorian chapel in 1858; a serious fire in 1893 destroyed the central range, which Bishop Straton had rebuilt into essentially the house seen today. The chapel served as the diocese's pro-cathedral from 1895 until the estate was sold out of church ownership in 1979, ending over seven centuries of episcopal association, and it remains in private hands.

Black Dub, between roughly 8.8 and 9.3 miles, takes its name from a dark, boggy patch of ground next to the adjacent river valley ('dub' being a Manx/Scots dialect word for a pool or puddle). On the course it is a left-then-right sequence followed by a long sweeping left-hander carrying riders on from Laurel Bank into Glen Helen, and it is now a restricted, non-viewing area for spectators.

Castle and principal seat of the Dukes of Atholl at Blair Atholl in Perthshire. The present evidence pack contains little material directly concerned with the castle itself. Its clearest historical reference places Blair Castle close to the fighting which followed the Revolution of 1688. In July 1689 the Jacobite force under John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, and the government army under Major-General Hugh Mackay confronted one another in the country around Blair Atholl. Dundee's men occupied the area around Blair, while Mackay advanced north with a larger force. On 27 July the two sides fought at the pass of Killiecrankie, between Pitlochry and Blair Castle. The Jacobites won the battle, although Dundee was killed. For Manx history Blair Castle is principally relevant through the Murray Dukes of Atholl, who inherited the Lordship of Mann in the eighteenth century and retained extensive Manx interests after Revestment. The current evidence pack does not support a fuller account of the castle's architecture or its later development.

Lancashire town where James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby and Lord of Man, was executed in October 1651. Derby was captured after the Royalist defeat at Worcester and tried by court martial at Chester. He argued that he had been granted quarter for his life and that the Act of 12 August 1651 under which he was prosecuted did not extend to the Isle of Man. His objection was rejected. The court sentenced him to death by beheading at Bolton. The surviving account gives 16 October as the date fixed by the sentence, although the execution took place on 15 October. Derby was deeply concerned by the choice of Bolton. In a final petition to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons, he offered to surrender the Isle of Man to whatever representatives Parliament appointed and asked for mercy. If his life could not be spared, he asked at least for the place of execution to be changed. He believed death at Bolton would make his execution appear to be punishment for the bloodshed when Royalist troops had stormed the town in 1644, responsibility for which he denied. The later Stanley account describes the people of Bolton as responding to his execution with sympathy rather than hostility.

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. One Manx ship was built there. George Moore of Peel, the merchant whose letter books are the fullest record of the Island's pre-Revestment trade, had shares in a number of ventures, but his chief interest lay in two vessels: the Peggy, of a hundred and fifty tons burthen, of which he owned five-eighths, and the Lilly, of a hundred and twenty tons, newly built to his order at Boston. Both were snows, the two-masted ships popular at that period and almost identical with the brig.

Site of the battle of 22 August 1485, closely connected with the Stanley family who then held the Lordship of Man. Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, and his brother Sir William Stanley entered the campaign while Richard III and Henry Tudor contested the English crown. The Stanley forces remained separate during much of the battle rather than committing themselves immediately to either side. When Richard attempted a direct attack on Henry Tudor, Sir William Stanley intervened with his troops. Richard was killed and Henry won the battle. Later Stanley family histories credited Thomas Stanley with placing the dead king's crown on Henry's head after the fighting. Thomas Stanley was subsequently created Earl of Derby by Henry VII. The Lordship of Man remained with the Stanley family, and his descendants governed the Island for more than a century and a half. Bosworth continued to matter within the family's own political memory. A seventeenth-century account of James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, records that opponents at Charles I's court invoked the action of his ancestor at Bosworth when casting doubt upon James's loyalty. The argument was that Lord Stanley had abandoned a reigning king when the crown itself was at stake. The same family tradition remained visible at Lathom, where nineteenth-century editors noted older memories of the Stanleys' actions at Bosworth and Flodden.

Bradda Head is a rugged headland rising 116 metres (382 ft) above Port Erin Bay on the island's south-west coast, its old copper-mine workings still visible on the hillside. On its summit stands Milner's Tower, built in 1871 in memory of William Milner, a manufacturer of fire-resistant safes and local philanthropist; the tower is famously built in the shape of a key and lock, a form only fully apparent from above.

Copper and lead have been worked at Bradda Head, above Port Erin, since at least the mid-17th century, the earliest period for which primary sources give a documented reference (widely repeated online claims of Bronze Age or medieval working are not supported by Manx Notebook's primary sources). Industrial-era mining in the North and South Bradda workings drove shafts horizontally and below sea level through the 18th and 19th centuries under operators including the South Manx Mining Company (1850-63) and the Bradda Mining Company Limited, which ceased work in 1884.

River Dhoo, second heavy-braking point.

This small office stands near the main gate of Braddan Cemetery, the burial ground opened off Braddan Road after the Braddan Burial Ground Act of 1848 allowed the parish to acquire new land once the old Kirk Braddan churchyard filled up; the cemetery was later extended in 1898 and 1938 and is now the largest on the Island. The office building is recorded as an early commission of the architect and designer Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, who went on to become one of the most influential figures of the Arts and Crafts movement both on the Isle of Man and internationally. The cemetery itself also holds a chapel with a Baillie Scott-designed east window and is the resting place of the celebrated Manx designer Archibald Knox.

Old Kirk Braddan stands on a site associated with Christian worship for around fourteen centuries, with fragments from an early Celtic keeill (chapel) on the site dated to around 400 AD. The present building was largely rebuilt in 1777 after the earlier church was reported unsafe and too small for the parish, though surveys have shown that much of the surviving fabric, including the walls, dates from the twelfth century. Unusually, it escaped Victorian restoration and still retains its original box pews, gallery and three-decker pulpit. Its churchyard holds a notable collection of ancient Celtic crosses, and the church served as Douglas's parish church until a new church was built nearby in 1876.

Braeside, on King Edward Road in Onchan, is registered on the Isle of Man's Protected Buildings Register (registered 11 September 1989) with the description 'House (Knox)'. Beyond its listing as a registered house, no further verifiable history of the building's construction, design, or occupants was found.

Brandish Corner, around the 35.4-mile mark on the A18, is named after Walter Brandish, who crashed and broke his leg in the right-hand gutter here while trying to pass a competitor during practice for the 1923 Isle of Man TT. The road through the corner has been significantly widened and improved in more recent years.

Brandywell is a left-hand curve on the A18 Mountain Road near its junction with the B10, around the 31.65-mile mark. The name is said to come from a nearby well historically used by shepherds when branding and sorting sheep grazing the mountain. A stone shelter and an Isle of Man Department of Transport weather station stand at the corner today.