Westminster Abbey
The Tower
Big Ben

John Bull

These are British Icons which happen to be in England (with the possible exception of the Tower of London which has been hijacked by the British lot), they are not English! Especially not John Soddin' Bull.

The fells of Cumbria, the Dales of Yorkshire and the Peak District, the big skies of East Anglia and the gentle undulations of the South Downs, that's England. Maggie Holland got it right in my opinion.

Whilst we are on the subject, what are our American and overseas catters favourite English accents?

I love the New York accent, but don't care too much for the deep south accent unless it's being sung when it becomes something different.