'Wonders' of England

[TheEuropeanHistoryNerd]

Alright so i'm doing a 769-1453 run as a Viking who conquered Brittany, messed up cause gavelkind, lost Denmark got England then lost Brittany. What 'Wonders' Should I build? I want a few of them to be more historical (Note this is my eventual goal to build them they are expensive but I have about 600 years left on my run so I have time)

England

Buckingham Palace (Middlesex)
Canterbury Cathedral (Kent)
University of Oxford (Oxford)
University of Cambridge (Cambridge)
Hadrians Wall (Cumbria)
Hadrians Wall (Northumbria)
York Minster (York)
Windsor Castle (Surrey) (I chose surrey because its close to where Berkshire is an Berkshire overlaps with Oxford and I think University of Oxford is more important)
Great Yarmouth Harbour (Norfolk)

Wales
Caernarfon Castle (Gwynedd)

Ireland
Dublin Castle (Dublin)

Scotland
Bell Rock Lighthouse (Fife)



Customs:
Statue of Good King Henry (Essex)

Any other suggestions would be welcome ^_^

Specifically i'm looking for a good Garden, Library, and Mausoleum location. I also would like it if any Brits could give their opinion on what they think is the most important locations.

 

[Shadoon4]

Salisbury Cathedral I hear is VERY important to the Sarum rites (whatever those are)

 

[Rubidium]

Libraries as we currently think of them were extremely uncommon in the Middle Ages; books were expensive, and in Western Europe would mostly either be a few books housed in a monastery/cathedral/university or (especially towards the end of the period) the private collection of some rich dude (either a major noble or, later, an extremely successful merchant in some place like London). Either way, they were generally chained to the shelf, and not freely circulating.

If you are ok with swapping out the University in Oxford (tough, I know), the university's library, the Bodleian Library is one of the most famous in the world, although it didn't really take off until the very end of the period and a little bit after.

Another option would be Jarrow, which I believe is in Durham in-game, although I'd have to double-check. It's a monastery, but it was famously home to the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede, who presumably used its records to help write his history and other works. Almost any major monastery would have some sort of book collection, but Bede is a significant literary/scholarly figure in his own right, both now and then.

 

[TheEuropeanHistoryNerd]

No Salisbury Cathedral because Stonehenge, I don't want to move Oxford and I think Jarrow is in Tyne and Wear which would fall under Northumbria (I think) buuut if I subjugate the Scots then I don't need Hadrians Wall

 

[FifthMonarchy]

Best would be a priapic chalk figure like the Cerne Abbas Giant; the wonder is how he's kept it up so long.

 

[TheEuropeanHistoryNerd]

Unfortunately there aren't any 'happy' Chalk men wonders